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Mayra Montero is a writer beloved by both the public and critics. Her book La Última Noche Que Pasé Contigo will soon appear in the U.S. as The Last Night I Spent With You, and The Messenger was released here this spring.
Born in Havana, Cuba in 1952, Montero was educated at a Catholic nun's school before the revolution. Her father, a well-known television writer and actor, moved the family to Puerto Rico after the revolution. Montero studied journalism in Mexico and Puerto Rico and worked as a correspondent in Central America and the Carribean. These skills have helped form her fiction writing—from the journalistic techniques her protagonist uses to uncover the mystery surrounding her birth in The Messenger to researching the voodoo religion in Haiti for The Red of Your Shadow.
Both Mayra Montero and novelist José Manuel Prieto left Cuba at a young age and have developed their styles away from the island. Mayra Montero settled in Puerto Rico and José Manuel Prieto lives in Mexico City. BOMB brought the two of them together for this exchange via e-mail.
José Manuel Prieto Not long ago, during a radio interview, I was asked whether I feel that my writing is in a direct dialogue with the Cuban literary tradition. I didn't know how to respond, because I had never asked myself the question. You are also a Cuban writer who not only writes from outside Cuba but developed as a writer outside of Cuba. Do you feel that in your writing you have established a kind of dialogue with the Cuban literary tradition?
Mayra Montero I must admit that I've never looked at it from that perspective. And I think that if I did at this moment, my answer would be no. Of course, I have many very close friends who are Cuban writers both on and off the island, but I've lived outside of Cuba for 27 years. And it's one thing to live in exile in Miami, or Madrid or Stockholm, but it is very different to leave when you are very young and grow up in Puerto Rico, which is also very Caribbean in its outlook and characteristics (for obvious reasons). I have integrated myself into Puerto Rican society, most of the time I feel more like a Puerto Rican, and perhaps the question should be whether I am in a dialogue with Puerto Rican literature. But if by dialogue one means having similar preoccupations, resemblances, thematic or stylistic affinities, even then I don't think one can speak of a dialogue in my case. I absolutely have a very close relationship, a fraternal one, with the writers of Puerto Rico, but as you know my writing has touched upon subjects that have nothing to do with the island—but rather with Haiti, the Dominican Republic, with voodoo, or with opera—and I have maintained a style and conserved a language that is quite different from the one cultivated by the writers of my generation.
JP Being in a dialogue with tradition also means, I believe, having a writer who is a point of reference, whether it is Alejo Carpentier or Lezama Lima, a writer whose echo can be found in your work, whether stylistically or thematically. Can we talk a little bit about that?
MM I wouldn't necessarily call him a point of reference, but someone who I've always considered an influence in my decision to be a writer is actually Alejo Carpentier. I've said in other interviews that El Siglo de las Luces (Explosion in a Cathedral) is my bedside reading—by which I mean that it is a novel I always return to, reread, and which is totally familiar to me.
JP When you say that perhaps you are more in a dialogue with Puerto Rican literature, what authors and books are you thinking of?
MM I don't think I said that I was in a dialogue with Puerto Rican literature. What I meant was that if I were to be in a dialogue with one literary tradition, it would have to be with the one from this country, because this is where I live and this is where, to a great extent, I developed as a writer. But as I said before, I don't share thematic or stylistic characteristics with my Puerto Rican colleagues. Yes, many of them, like Luis Rafael Sánchez, Rosario Ferré, Magali Gracia Ramis, Ana Lydia Vega and Olga Nolla are my close friends. We don't have literary gatherings here, but we get together for coffee, for dinner, in small groups. I can understand the idea of a "dialogue" as an identification with something. But I don't think that geographic origins define that identification. I could feel for example a strong identification with a novel by Jaime Bayly, who is Peruvian. Or I could identify with many works of Javier Marías. As to gender—there is no reason why I should identify more closely with literature written by women. There can be certain points of departure from, or convergence to, or complicities with a novel written by a woman, but the same thing can happen with something written by a man. In general, I don't think too much about these things. I write the way I write, about whatever interests me, as best as I can, and once it's done, I don't know if it's possible to figure out whether I'm having a dialogue with someone.
JP Mayra, just yesterday I read your article "La Habana en el Espejo" (Havana in the Mirror) in the anthology Cuba: voces para cerrar un siglo (Cuba: voices to close a century). Tell me a little bit about this article, which tells of your childhood in Cuba.
MM I've also just reread it, because I wrote it months ago, in Atlanta, and it was already fading in my memory. I think it is a somewhat bitter article, but maybe that is my reaction to an imposed anxiety, to this obsession we Cubans have with explaining our exile, taking it apart and eating, sleeping and breathing with this torment. We're not the only exiles in the world, but I do think we are the ones who derive the most pleasure from the slightest sensation of what it means to live outside of our country. I know that it is sad and painful, and I have suffered as we all have. But in the end we also have to pay some attention to the place we live in—don't you think?—and to the problems that surround us. I think it would be unforgivably selfish for me to be completely consumed and obsessed by the Cuban dilemma, and turn my back on the issue of Puerto Rican political prisoners (most of whom have fortunately been released) or the terrible problem of the little island of Vieques. The world is large, but not so distant from us as we sometimes imagine it. And remember, I wasn't a privileged child in Cuba—you can see that in the book. When I was 17, I was kicked out of the college preparatory school because we were leaving. My family's situation was terrible: my parents couldn't work, we lived out of the generosity of our extended family. I didn't travel around, I didn't have any privileges, I was never a Young Communist or even a Pioneer. In other words, I had a terrible time throughout my adolescence. My father was sanctioned for his television and radio scripts, and then I had an awful time trying to make my way when I got to Puerto Rico. But I don't spend my time showing off my Cuban-ness or my troubles; in fact, this is the first time I've spoken of the situation in my family. Or have you, or anyone else, heard me speak of the hunger, the shortage of clothes, of medicine, of everything?
I'm sure I have suffered much more and experienced much more poverty than many of those who go around today feeling sorry for themselves. But no one has ever heard me complain at conferences, or found these laments in my books. One should be more modest, and less arrogant than that.
JP You were a journalist in Puerto Rico for 22 years and also worked as a correspondent in different Caribbean nations. How much of this experience has translated into your novels?
MM I started as a sports columnist in a San Juan newspaper. When I was 20, I covered baseball games for the paper El Nuevo Día. Then I worked at different magazines and papers where I did everything and anything: interviews, features, human interest stories. Then one day I went to El Mundo, the oldest paper in Puerto Rico and became a columnist and correspondent for Central America and the Caribbean. I had the chance to cover elections, coup d'états, revolutionary victories (like the one in Nicaragua), until finally I became an editorial writer for the paper. That is where I became a real journalist and it's a vocation I never turned my back on. I think journalism is excellent training for anyone who wants to become a writer. It has given me flexibility, ease in front of the blank page and something more important: it has allowed me to approach literature from a journalistic point of view. When the time comes to research the subjects of my books, it is much easier because I have that journalistic training. When it comes time to write, I also feel that I maintain an economy of language which is the result of journalistic practice. Now I have a Sunday column in El Nuevo Día, where I began as a sportswriter, and I cannot imagine not writing for newspapers. I often collaborate with El País and ABC in Spain, and my columns appear in Revista Rumbo, a magazine in the Dominican Republic.
JP The themes of Haiti and of Afro-Caribbean religions are very present in most of your books.
I would like to hear what you think of voodoo and Santería and how they fit together with the Caribbean culture and personality.
MM In the '80s, my contact with the Haitian community in Puerto Rico—which was made up for the most part of university professors and researchers—opened my eyes to a world I knew nothing about; the voodoo religion. Because of my Cuban origins, I had experienced Afro-Caribbean religions, especially Santería, and I knew quite a bit about most of the orishas, or gods of the Yoruba tradition. Some of the voodoo gods corresponded to the orishas that I already knew. Through voodoo, I discovered a religion and a pantheon of fascinating gods. I became friendly with several anthropologists, traveled many times to the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and visited the huts of the Haitian laborers who work (and suffer), harvesting sugar cane in the Dominican Republic. It's a terrible migration with many depressing aspects. I made a novel, from these experiences, Del Rojo de su Sombra (The Red of Your Shadow). Voodoo in Haiti and Santería in Cuba are part of the identity of the peoples of those two countries. They are at the origin of an important aspect, perhaps the most beautiful and sublime aspect, of our "mestization." People often ask me if I practice these religions and I tell them that I respect them profoundly and have a great aesthetic, even philosophic affinity, with these magicoreligious systems. That is why I have an altar in my house, a syncretic altar within a syncretic system; because on that altar, voodoo gods cohabit with gods from Santería and Madonnas, and catholic saints. This wonderful mixture is what we are, what gives us depth and spirituality as a people.
JP Before the novel you just spoke of, Del Rojo de su Sombra, you published an erotic novel that caused a great stir in Puerto Rico.
MM Yes, that was La Última noche que Pasé Contigo, which will be coming out in English in March next year. When I began writing it, I started with a simple subject, and I didn't know that it would be an erotic novel. What I had was a middle-aged couple who, after celebrating their daughter's wedding, decide to go on a Caribbean cruise. Once they are on the ship, the couple's story begins taking on erotic contours. They each remember, with a certain nostalgia, past peccadilloes and infidelities. But they also become involved in new adventures, both on and off the boat. When I saw that the tone of the novel was actually quite lustful, I decided to send it to an annual literary contest of erotic fiction held by Tusquets in Barcelona. The book was a finalist, and has subsequently been translated into several languages. The title, as you know, is from a famous bolero, and the melodies of the bolero, which to me is a very sensual music, run through the whole novel.
JP I am intrigued by the subjects of your books. They are "difficult" subjects, by which I mean dense, heavy. They aren't about cooking, or stories of sexual initiation, themes that seem to have become stereotypes of Latin American women's writing.
MM My first novel was published by Anagrama in 1987. It was a finalist for the Premio Herralde. The subject of that novel came from my contacts with exiled Haitians. The novel, entitled La Trenza de la Hermosa Luna (The Braid of the Lovely Moon) is about the friendship between two men, a "houngan" or voodoo priest and a humble sailor, who, after many years, meet in Port-au-Prince during the days of the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier. Perhaps I can't speak of cooking, since I don't cook. And sexual initiation, well, the two protagonists of La Última Noche que Pasé Contigo are long past initiation, since they are middle aged.
JP I also enjoy the way you weave scientific subjects into your novels. In your fourth novel, Tú, la Oscuridad (In the Palm of Darkness), the protagonist is a herpetologist, a specialist in reptiles and amphibians. In that same novel there is a botanist who is searching for a lost cactus.
MM I have always said that I am a frustrated biologist. A few years ago I read an article about the decline of amphibians and reptiles in the New York Times Magazine. I developed an interest in the subject and contacted several Puerto Rican herpetologists who confirmed that, in fact, several species of small frogs have disappeared from Puerto Rico. That's how I got the idea for a novel about a North American herpetologist who goes to Haiti in search of a frog that is thought to be almost extinct. Once he is in Haiti, the herpetologist meets a Haitian guide, and the novel becomes an exploration of the relationship between these two men and the adventures they experience in the crazy Haitian geography, which is full of dangers and frustrations. The novel (In the Palm of Darkness) was published in English by HarperCollins. The "biological" theme is still present in my writing. This month, the publisher Tusquets will publish a collection of erotic stories relating to Christmas. There is a story of mine in the collection, "Dorso de Diamante" ("Diamondback"), in which one of the protagonists is an entomologist. I did some research and a Puerto Rican entomologist helped me with the facts surrounding the diamondback moth, which is a real insect.
JP Most of your novels take place in Haiti or Santo Domingo. In La Última Noche, the action occurs on several Caribbean islands, especially Saint Thomas, Martinique and Guadeloupe.
MM Yes, I think it is my most "pan-Caribbean" novel. The notion of the "island which repeats itself" is very deeply rooted in this novel, as is the notion of "connected islands" and of sensualities connected by the sea, which is our Caribbean Sea.
JP It's curious then that your most recent novel, The Messenger, is set in Cuba. You've come full circle.
MM The subject is one which I've been mulling over for years. In 1920, Enrico Caruso came to Havana for a series of performances. As he sang, on the afternoon of June 13th (his last performance in Havana before moving on to Santa Clara and Cienfuegos in the central province of Cuba), a bomb went off in the theater. Caruso ran out into the adjacent streets, still dressed as Radames, the Egyptian warrior in the opera Aida. I took this anecdote and built a story around it—which has since turned out to be not so fictional after all—in which Caruso is helped by a Cuban woman, a mestiza who is half mulatto and half Chinese. They fall in love and she bears him a daughter. After the novel was published I started to hear rumors that, in fact, Caruso had fallen in love with a Cuban woman in those months he spent in Cuba. A film version of this novel, which is called Como un Mensajero Tuyo (the title is taken from a poem by Giuseppe Ungaretti), will come out next year.
JP Do you think that this is a good moment for Latin American literature in the United States? What do Latin American writers have to say to the American reader?
MM Our literature has always been there, but it has not been well distributed, and there was less interest than there is now in developing a deeper sense of our culture. There has been a confluence of circumstances leading to a renaissance of interest in our music, our art, and of course, our literature. This interest is related to the phenomenon of migration and the great growth of the Latin American community in the United States. Many North American readers have discovered Hispano-American writers by chance…and that discovery has led them to take notice of the richness of our culture and customs. They read one book, and are attracted to the world that it reveals to them, and so they buy another book by the same author.
JP Do you see eroticism as a good hook for these readers?
MM I think eroticism is a good hook—and a good alibi—which allows us, as writers, to develop the personality and psychology of our characters. That is the main difference between eroticism and pornography. Pornography, generally, is extremely boring. Eroticism perturbs us, makes us face forgotten feelings, reveals a courage and series of sensations that we didn't even know were in us.
JP On a different subject, what have you read by Günter Grass? What was your reaction to the news, by which I mean, do you feel that he was a well-chosen Nobel? And I would also like to know, can you see a Latin American prospect for the prize?
MM When the Puerto Rican papers called to get my reaction, I told them that, unfortunately, the only novel by Grass I had read was The Tin Drum, which as you know is a wonderful book. But I have read much of his journalistic prose, which I love. And I feel that we, his readers, have received a prize, the prize of his verticality and lucidity. In terms of another Latin American Nobel, there is a long "waiting list," as you know. I think Vargas Llosa deserves it, as does Carlos Fuentes, certainly, and Augusto Monterroso, though I don't even know if he's a candidate.
JP Mayra, I've never been to Puerto Rico…what is your life like there?
MM I think that it is very full, because I can't imagine living anywhere else. I live in a place that I love, and I feel very involved with this island. This is where I enjoy writing, and even though they say that a writer's homeland is his childhood, for me a homeland is a place in which I feel strong and centered enough to sit down and write a story. Sometimes when we go to a restaurant in the mountains to have dinner, my husband and I stop at a point where you can see the two seas: to the left the Caribbean, perfectly smooth, and to the right, the Atlantic, all rough and choppy. At those moments, with the two seas strangely bathed by the same light, that unique perpendicular light that you find only in the Antilles, tell me, where else would I want to be? What sight could surpass that wonder?
Translated from the Spanish by Marina Harss.
Originally published in
Featuring interviews with Ruben Ortiz, Juan Manuel Echavarria, Susan Baca, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Jose Cura, Adelia Prado, Ernesto Neto, Mayra Montero, Claribel Alegria, Francisco Toledo, and Juan Formell.
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Kingston Boosts 2010 Share of Key Memory Market
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
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Fountain Valley-based memory products maker Kingston Technology Co. claimed half of the market last year for the most common memory used in computers.
Kingston's shares of sales of dynamic random access memory—chips mounted on circuit boards that boost computer performance—rose from 39% in 2009 to 50% last year, according to market tracker DRAMeXchange.
Total DRAM sales last year were $9.5 billion, putting Kingston's stake of the market at $4.8 billion.
Kingston had total 2010 sales of $6.5 billion, up from $4.1 billion in 2009.
The company also makes flash memory products, including thumb drives and storage cards for cameras, cell phones and computers.
"Our company was able to take advantage of an improving global economy as well as catch some lucky breaks to achieve our best sales year ever in 2010," said David Sun, Kingston cofounder and operations chief.
The computer memory market saw a rebound in 2010 as prices for memory chips rose following a slump.
DRAM sales rose 54% last year, according to DRAMeXchange.
Kingston grabbed the lion's share of the market's growth as its DRAM sales rose 95% last year, or nearly twice as fast as the overall market.
Taiwan's Adata Technology Co. ranked a distant No. 2 after Kingston. It saw its DRAM market share drop to 7.9% last year from 8.5% in 2009.
China's Ramaxel Technology Ltd. ranked third at 7.7%.
Kingston is likely to hold its DRAM lead but is bracing for more tempered growth this year.
The company expects a "solid" year with some new products but is "extremely unlikely to meet the same sort of revenue" as 2010, said Mark Leathem, vice president of corporate marketing.
2011 is shaping up different as manufacturers deal with rising costs and other challenges stemming from the Japan earthquake and tsunami in March.


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The West End is turning into the latest front in the turf wars over residential land in Vancouver.
As city planners opt for allowing higher-density to deal with soaring prices for single-family homes, their solution can threaten existing, affordable housing that residents have come to love.
In the West End there has been a slew of recent, dizzying land sales, and some of the priciest new condo towers are going up there.
At the north end of the Burrard Bridge, eight brightly painted, Victorian-era homes sit in front of a seven-storey low-rise built in the 1980s. Together, they are known as the Pacific Heights Housing Co-op. Among its 200 residents who live in 91 units are 30 families with children. The co-op includes one of the largest stocks of three-bedroom units in the West End, according to Vancouver-West End MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert, who described it as a "model of affordable and community living."
It's a place where sense of community is very much alive, says co-op member Zak Mathis.
"Where else can you have your neighbour knock on your door, asking to get the ladders because another neighbour's dog is on the roof and they aren't home?" he asked.
For years, the co-op's property had been valued in the mid $20-million range, but in 2016, it skyrocketed 95 per cent from $26 million to $51 million.
"It was shocking," said Jon Breisnes, another resident. "A lot of our more experienced members said, 'That's got to be a mistake.'"
If not, they want to know if this new assessment is a foreboding sign the co-op could eventually lose its lease with the city, which expires in 9 years. For now, it at least means an accompanying hike in property taxes that will cost each unit an additional $75 a month. Unlike homeowners, co-op members don't have equity in a property that is going up in tandem, said Mathis.
As a first response, the co-op is asking B.C. Assessment for an appeal. It is also taking its concerns about the future to the City and will meet with councillors Geoff Meggs and Raymond Louie on Monday.
The trigger for the higher assessment seems to be the co-op's prime location at the very bottom corner of the West End Community Plan's Burrard corridor, which runs one block wide down Burrard, from Haro to Pacific Streets, and specifically allows for taller, residential towers.
The idea was for shiny, new buildings with much higher density allowances to sit on the outside edges of the West End on Burrard and Georgia streets, leaving laneway housing, townhouses and other infill residences to be sprinkled behind existing buildings in the West End.
And so, a few blocks from the co-op, some of Vancouver's most architecturally striking, high-end condos with all the fixings are in progress. Reliance and The Jim Pattison Group is building One Burrard Place, a 53-storey residence with concierge service for luxury buyers. Westbank's Vancouver House on Howe Street will be a twisting, 59-storey building. And Grosvenor Canada is applying to rezone the site of the old Il Giardino restaurant on Hornby Street for a 39-storey residence.
More recently, there has been another string of land sales in the West End that have been attracting attention for achieving even higher prices than were paid for the above projects. Some haven't closed yet, but real estate industry sources say a set of buildings on Alberni at Nicola sold for $160 million, about twice what they sold for in 2014; and, two buildings on Nelson Street assessed at $16 million went for $60 million. Two weeks ago, the buildings at 1070 and 1080 Barclay Street, assessed at $19.8 million in 2016, were sold to local developer Bosa Properties for $58.5 million.
For all these properties, there is a stipulation within the community plan that 25 per cent of any new developments are set aside for social housing.
Still, it's no wonder the co-op's assessment has jumped by so much.
Jason Grant, regional assessor with B.C. Assessment, wasn't able to speak about this specific case, but generally put it this way: "Assessments reflect the factors that purchasers and vendors consider in arriving at the negotiated price for a particular property. If zoning changes are one of the factors being considered by market participants then it is likely they will also influence the assessments."
The city, however, maintains that even when a property falls within the Burrard Corridor, "rezoning is not an assured right," according to assistant director of planning Kevin McNaney. He said there are a slew of considerations each time that are analyzed by city staff and put in front of council and public hearing.
For now, Breisnes and some other residents are encouraged that city councillors were willing to meet promptly. Recent news that the city is proposing to offer up to 23 mostly vacant sites for building social housing — provided the federal government will pitch in money to build them — is also heartening, he said.
"If something happened to this co-op, we would survive. (Many of us) could go elsewhere, maybe into the (Fraser) Valley, wherever we needed to go," said Breisnes. "But we do have a swath of different members who would be affected much worse. There are seniors and others who are in care suites. They live in adapted units."
About a third of the co-op's members pay a subsidized rate.
Mathis conceded it's no surprise prices are increasing downtown.
"It's the density. I guess that's understandable. There's only so much land," he said.
"But it's also a great model here that already works," he added, looking around a courtyard where, during a span of 10 minutes, one neighbour stopped with a message about a borrowed vacuum cleaner, and another neighbour walked into another's unit to pick up the dog for a walk.
Other co-op members, who declined to speak on the record, see the new assessment as writing on the wall. They fear the worse of the many market forces circling the co-op's coveted location, one block from the beach and a short walk downtown.


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by Beth Buczynski: Reducing home energy consumption can be as simple as programming your thermostat to raise or reduce the indoor temperature depending on the time of day, and your normal routine. But for Tony Fadell, a former Apple employee who had a hand in designing the iPod, that simple functionality just wasn't enough.In late 2011, Fadell returned to the technology market with Nest, a smart thermostat that learns about one's behaviors, preferences and surroundings to create a custom heating and cooling schedule. According to the developer, Nest's intuition comes from a combination of sensors, algorithms, machine learning, and cloud computing. Within a week, it's able to learn your personal schedule, automatically turning down heating or cooling when you're away, cutting energy costs by up to 50 percent. No other "smart meter" or programmable thermostat does that.
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Wondering what it would be like to see the Nest in action? You're in luck. The company recently announced that the thermostat will be available for purchase and hands on demonstrations at over 500 Lowe's Home Improvement stores across the nation. The stores will feature Nest in their new in-store Innovation merchandising displays, as well as online. This partnership puts Nest within reach of millions of mainstream consumers, and allows them to get installation advice from Lowe's customer service reps.
And there's more than ever to see. Just last month, we reported on Nest's latest round of high tech upgrades, including an expanded energy history view—this time a full 10 days—available as a Web application and via both Android and iPhone smartphones; access to Airwave, a new and exclusive energy-saving feature which sucks every last breath of cold air from your air conditioning system; and Wifi connectivity.


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Cat Marnell has cleaned up her act in time for the January publication of her memoir, "How To Murder Your Life."
At xoJane.com — where Marnell has returned as a contributing editor — the formerly hard-partying, drug-abusing beauty editor, now 34, is working with the staff and attending editorial meetings.
"Before when she was at xoJane, she was buying drugs on the phone from under her desk in an open office setting," one source said. "Now she's coming in from Spin class — this is the healthier version of Cat."
When Cat quit xoJane in 2012, she said she "couldn't spend another summer meeting deadlines behind a computer at night when I could be on the rooftop of Le Bain looking for shooting stars and smoking angel dust."
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Most of us really only see our armpits while putting on deodorant or while shaving in the shower if that's your thing, but that hasn't stopped thousands of people from using the space as a canvas for tattoos, which—as Elle UK reports—are being showcased all over Instagram.
Armpit tats aren't exactly an entirely new concept—few designs on social media seem to be rib-cage tats that merely extend upward into the armpit region, and it's not unusual for someone who opts for ink sleeves to extend the ink toward their underarm—but now, the fold of skin is being using as its own centerpiece.
A search of the hashtag "#armpit tattoos" on Instagram yields more than 7,000 results. According to HuffPost UK, who spoke with a tattoo artist, the area can be one of the most sensitive — and painful — parts of the body to ink. Yet, it seems that intricate floral designs are particularly popular when it comes to underarm ink, but some have chosen other scenes from nature, like spiderwebs, birds, and even strawberries. And, hey, if you're looking for subtlety, hiding a tat right under your arm might be the perfect spot. Check out some armpit tattoo inspiration, below:
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By Chris Wright
"It's guy love between two guys"
Roma icon Francesco Totti is currently in the process of celebrating his 20th year in Serie A after making his Giallorosso debut way back in the primordial ooze of 1993 after coming on as a substitute against Brescia.
Since then, one-club stalwart Totti has made a record 641 appearances for Roma, scoring a record 270 goals and also winning the World Cup with the Azzurri in 2006.
Several Italian footballing dignitaries have paid their respects to Totti over the past few days, though none were more heartfelt than the open tribute long-time friend Gigi Buffon sent to news agency ANSA:
"Dear Francesco, you have made Italian football history. Twenty years in Serie A, what an achievement… I still have the image of your first goal in my mind, it was a Roma-Foggia tie.
"We're friends, you know how much I care about you. We started together with the U15 side, we had some splendid years together in the national team and we continue to meet as opponents in Serie A.
"You often score against me (10 times to be precise, that's how many goals you have netted) like a champion who has forgotten our friendship…
"Then, at the final whistle, there are smiles between us again, like when I saved a penalty that I feared you would chip – it saddened me that was you.
"We are from a fortunate generation. It's true that every season after the age of 30 is worth seven, but you seem to go back in time instead of ageing.
"You've written the history of Italian football, with the present and the future – you are a player who can not be doubted.
"And, for me, you'll always be an Azzurro. An embrace from your friend, Gigi."
Awwww, how sweet. Heroes, the pair of 'em.


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No one is calling it a whopper, but the tale of a blue marlin that supposedly capsized a boat off the Boynton Beach Inlet has left a few raised eyebrows.
Five men were rescued Saturday morning by a nearby catamaran and all were unhurt. They told their rescuers their 31-foot pleasure craft sank when the big fish pulled the vessel backward and caused it to take on water before it sank.
The U.S. Coast Guard picked the men up from the catamaran's crew and identified the survivors as Gordon Morrison, Dan and Kevin McWhorter, Nick Veselica and Max McKelvy. The agency did not release ages of addresses for the men and is not investigating the circumstances of their sinking, a spokesman said.
But local captains and seasoned seafarers said a marlin — or any other fish for that matter — could not sink a boat. The cause is more likely human error while trying to catch a game fish that is not an everyday find, they said.
Three of the fishermen could not be reached for comment Monday, and Veselica and Kevin McWhorter declined to comment when reached by phone.
"The fish itself is attached to a fishing rod. It's not going to pull a boat under," said Robert "Fly" Navarro, tournament director for the Blue Marlin World Cup based in West Palm Beach. "A blue marlin is not going to attack the boat and say, 'Oh my God, this boat is causing me pain.'"
Saturday's seas were choppy and the National Weather Service had issued a small craft advisory at the time the fishermen got into trouble off the Boynton Beach Inlet. Winds were forecast at 20 to 33 knots — 23 to 38 mph — with waves of 7 feet or greater. The advisory covered the area between the Jupiter Inlet south to Deerfield Beach and was in effect from 1 a.m. Saturday to 10 a.m. Sunday.
Navarro and other captains believe the fishermen may have tried to drive the boat in reverse to keep the marlin from breaking off the line. Big waves could have then broken onto the back of the boat, flooding it with enough force and weight to submerge it, said Bouncer Smith, a charter sportfishing captain in Miami Beach.
The marlin shouldn't get the blame for sinking the boat, he said.
"It would more than likely be caused because the marlin distracted the fishermen and they were paying more attention to the marlin than the waves," Smith said. "It could happen in the blink of an eye."
Another possible scenario: If the fish was already dead and it was being dragged onto the boat, the fishermen could have miscalculated the weight of the marlin and the crew, causing the small vessel to flip, Navarro said.
Navarro said blue marlin off South Florida's coast could average 100 to 300 pounds. But it's also the height of sailfish season, and smaller, more plentiful fish could have easily been mistaken for a marlin.
Gary Bacon, a Deerfield Beach charter fishing captain, had a slightly different take on what could have played out. The fishermen were probably equipped to catch sailfish and didn't expect a bigger blue marlin to bite, he said.
When they encountered the bigger catch, they wanted to make sure they reeled it in and likely backed up for it without realizing their vessel's pumping system couldn't keep up.
"Those guys were more likely sailfishing and a blue marlin jumped on the them," he said. "If you're not paying attention to the fish, not realizing the pump can't keep up, you can sink real fast. It only takes one wave to sink it."
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Nowadays, wellness doesn't just mean exercising routinely and eating healthy – it's so much more of a total-body experience. With so many of us spending our working adult lives in an office, it's easy for our self-care to fall by the wayside as we focus on our careers, even if we have the best intentions to not let that happen. This can affect wellbeing and for people with MS, may affect symptoms. Try incorporating small tricks into your everyday routine at work, and you may be surprised with what can develop into a long-term routine.
Rest your eyes
To keep from straining your eyes from staring at a screen all day, practice the 20-20-20 rule: every 20 minutes, take a break for 20 seconds by looking at an object 20 feet (6 meters) away.
To make it happen: Keep an ongoing reminder to take a break. Web browser extensions like Eye Care for Google Chrome are discreet, with a small pop-up in the corner of your screen as your alarm1.
Play ball at your desk
If you wear high heels on the regular, your entire skeleton can be affected, given that your feet are the foundation of your body. If you sit for the majority of the work day, give your feet an even bigger break with a mini-massage.
To make it happen: Keep a small ball (such as a tennis ball) in your desk drawer. When you're sitting, slip out of your heels and roll one foot at a time on the ball to alleviate pressure on your feet2.
Drink more water
While this isn't a groundbreaking tip, we'd be remiss not to include. Dehydration can lead to you feeling tired and having a lower brain function. It has also been linked to improving moods: mild dehydration can make you irritable, so for the sake of your inter-office relationships, keep the water coming.
To make it happen: Get your co-workers on board, and keep a chart visible where you can all keep track of how many glasses you have per day. Having a buddy to remind you to go to the water cooler makes it easier to stick with it!
Move as much as possible
Sitting all day long has been proven bad for your health – even if you exercise regularly. The key is to keeping your blood flowing – at work, that can be as simple as standing when you get a chance and taking a quick lap around the office once every hour.
To make it happen: This goes hand-in-hand with drinking more water, as you may find yourself getting up more to use the restroom. Get into a routine of refilling your water every time you use the restroom to keep the cycle going all day long. If you're on the phone a lot and have access to a headpiece, take the opportunity to walk around while listening2.
While the jury is out on how long it takes to form a habit – science says anywhere from twenty-one to 254 days – performing these small actions daily while at your job may help lead to some long-term healthy habits3.
Visit the Living Like You social channels to join the discussion and get the latest updates.


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The holiday season is upon us and provides a time for us to all look inward and appreciate what we have. While it's easy to get caught up in the things we don't have or focusing on what we can't do, take a moment to truly take inventory of what you do have and what you can do.
I am the first person to aspire to and want to inspire others to achieve massive success and accomplishments, but that doesn't mean we can't appreciate where we are and how far we've come. Look behind you; reflect on the past year. What all have you accomplished? What have you learned? Who have you met? What relationships have you developed?
I would hazard to guess 2014 has been a remarkable year for you when you truly take time to appreciate even the smallest wins. There are so many people in this world who would love be have the job you have, the home you have and the opportunities you have.
There are people today praying for what you already have.
It costs nothing to be grateful and will do wonders for your physical, emotional, spiritual and psychological wellbeing. So, how do you develop an attitude of gratitude?
First, make a list of the things you do have:
- Your family and loved ones
- Your friends
- Your business relationships
- Your job
- Your clients or customers
- Your health
- Your home
- Opportunity
The list goes on and on. Think of the little things, the ones you literally take for granted every day. Do you have hot water? Do you realize how many people in this world don't? Or, better yet, how many don't have clean water?Do you have an air conditioner in summer?
Just the other day a friend of mine pointed out the things we basically take for granted every day, the richest people in the world didn't or couldn't own just 50 years ago: microwave ovens; unlimited access to millions of dollars worth of books and data whether at your local library or on the internet; world class healthcare; and more.
Stop focusing on what you don't have and look for a moment at what you do have. Take a moment to be proud of your accomplishments, achievements and accolades. Be grateful.
Develop an attitude of gratitude and begin to see the abundance already in your life. Happiness is found inside, not outside.
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Sheetz Adopts EMV Upgrades on the Forecourt
ALTOONA, Pa. — Sheetz Inc. will implement forecourt EMV upgrades across its entire convenience store network.
The retailer will use Gilbarco Veeder-Root's FlexPay IV CRIND payment terminals and other dispenser technologies to standardize its network infrastructure, protect customers from counterfeit card fraud and boost in-store business.
"The Gilbarco FlexPay IV platform provides the flexibility and payment security our customers demand, so we are making it standard across our network," said Ryan Sheetz, vice president of brand strategies. "These upgrades will also help us provide our customers with the most convenient forecourt experience possible because they can use their mobile-based payment and loyalty cards when they fill up at a Sheetz location."
Sheetz will include Gilbarco's contactless payment module, 2D scanner and Applause media system on large color screens as part of its FlexPay IV CRIND fuel dispenser upgrades for EMV.
These enhancements will help cultivate loyal customers with multiple payment options, easier loyalty card scanning and entertaining advertisements that appear during the fueling process.
FlexPay IV supports EMV, NFC, mobile wallets, encryption, 2D barcode scanning and future PCI regulatory changes. It also offers remote management capabilities like Gilbarco's Insite360 Encore for increased security control, easier asset management, remote maintenance and performance monitoring.
"Sheetz is a long-established leader and innovator in the industry. We continue to see leading retailers like Sheetz not only move forward with their EMV upgrades, but also leverage the upgrades to improve other elements of their businesses, beyond security," said Mark Williams, vice president of marketing, Gilbarco. "By deploying our EMV technology and improving customers' shopping experiences with convenient and engaging dispenser enhancements, Sheetz will be able to keep customers safe from credit card fraud while encouraging them to go into the store."
Altoona-based Sheetz operates more than 540 c-stores throughout Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and North Carolina.


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BOGOF's outed
When purchasing, price alone does not necessarily constitute value.
For example, in addition to the points made in the BOGOF (Buy One Get One Free) article around inefficiencies in the supply chain, bulk buying can often result in waste for the purchaser, particularly if the items have a shelf life, use-by-date or the item itself becomes obsolete before it can be used. Here the original purchase does not deliver the perceived value.
Bulk buying can also lead to higher costs especially in storage costs or in tying cash up making it difficult to purchase other needed items or having to take out loans where interest is payable to make these purchases.
As stated in the article above rapid fluctuation in demand can cause serious problems for the supply chain often resulting in higher costs. These higher costs are either as a result of the supply chain having to pay premium prices to obtain the necessary goods or services in order to respond to the demand or the costs are higher as the supply chain has to incur additional costs, e.g. having to pay premium overtime rates or the cost of maintaining high inventory levels.
Demand management and forecasting is therefore a key supply chain activity. In an industrial environment it is normal for purchasers to provide the supply chain with forecasts of their requirements, especially for bespoke items, allowing the supply chain to plan in advance. A consumer does not provide the supermarket a forecast of future needs but the retail industry will analyse the buying patterns of individuals in order to forecast future demand.
Talking point
- When making a purchase do we understand who we are buying for and what their needs and values are?
- When making a purchase, other than the customer, what or who may influence our development of the specification?
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Park Forest police officer Craig Taylor left the Markham court house Tuesday morning holding his wife's hand and without talking to the media.
He pleaded not guilty to wreckless conduct charges in the death of 95-year-old John Wrana.
Wrana's step-daughter, Sharon Mangerson, who was also in the courtroom was a little emotional after seeing officer Taylor for the first time, "I think it's a terrible tragedy everywhere."
It happened July 26th of last year at the Victory Center Retirement Home.
Wrana – a World War II veteran became belligerent after refusing medical treatment for a urinary tract infection and was reportedly threatening other residents and being combative with paramedics.
When Park Forest police arrived, Wrana was brandishing a knife and a 2-foot-long metal shoehorn that some officers thought was a machete.
The scene commander fired a taser but missed.
That's when prosecutors says Officer Taylor fired five shotgun bean bag rounds. Four hit Wrana in the stomach and one in the head.
Wrana later died at the hospital of internal bleeding.
Taylor's attorney describe his client as a good officer who's not some cowboy, with an impecable record who has the support of his department.
But Mangerson and her attorney feel someone has to be held accountable for her step-father's death.


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"It's irresponsible," said Texas Medical Association President C. Bruce Malone, MD.
Rather than seizing the opportunity to use leftover war money to scrap the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula that cuts physician payments and threatens to drive them out of the Medicare program, Congress did what it has done for 10 years – opt for a short term solution. It stopped the 27.4-percent cut scheduled for March 1 and froze fees at current levels for the rest of the year, meaning it will have to consider the issue again by December and that a permanent fix – if it ever happens – will be even more expensive. The fee freeze is part of compromise legislation extending payroll tax cuts and unemployment insurance.
"Congress keeps calling it a 'Doc fix,' but they haven't done anything to fix it," said Dr. Malone. "Congress missed a great opportunity to solve the broken SGR formula once and for all."
The cost of this short-term patch is offset through reductions in several health care programs, including Medicaid disproportionate share payments to hospitals, Medicare bad debt payments to hospitals, federal Medicaid payments to Louisiana because of Hurricane Katrina, and the prevention fund created by the Affordable Care Act. Using savings from other health programs is not a good solution, Dr. Malone said, calling it a "Congressional shell game."
TMA, the American Medical Association, and others urged Congress to use money from Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) – projected spending not needed as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan wind down – to help pay for ensuring access to health care for the military and seniors. Doing so would allow Congress to "immediately repeal the SGR and to establish a pathway toward a truly sustainable physician payment system that focuses on improving quality and value for our nation's Medicare beneficiaries," they said in a letter to the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee.
"Using the OCO funds was the only solution Congress had to get rid of the SGR debt once and for all," Dr. Malone said. "The OCO funds were probably our only chance to repeal it. Congress showed their cards. They really don't care about doctors or Medicare patients. If they did they would have used the OCO funds. It's irresponsible. Now we are back in the cycle of one short term delay after another with no solution in sight. As a result, we all suffer – Medicare patients, physicians, our practices, and our employees. "
AMA President Peter Carmel, MD, said the AMA is "deeply disappointed that Congress chose to just do another patch – kicking the can, growing the problem and missing a clear opportunity to protect access to care for patients. Shortly after the coming elections, access to care for seniors and military will again be threatened by an even larger cut, and members of Congress will need to take swift action to end the broken formula." He added that "people outside of Washington question the logic of spending nearly $20 billion to postpone one cut for a higher cut next year, while increasing the cost of a permanent solution by about another $25 billion."
Susan L. Turney, MD, president and chief executive officer of the Medical Group Management Association, said Congress had chosen "political expediency over patients." She said physician practices "now face a mounting 35-percent payment threat from Medicare in 2013, and Congress has dug itself a $400 billion hole. Group practices are telling us that this congressional decision exacerbates an already unhealthy environment that limits their ability to plan for the future and balance their practice's fiscal health with their desire to continue to serve Medicare beneficiaries."
TMA is working for patients and physicians to create a Medicare system that is fair to all and preserves access to care. Visit TMA's Medicare Meltdown Action Center to see what TMA is doing. And, to illustrate the impact Medicare fee cuts could have on patients in terms even a child can understand, TMA produced the "Grandma & the Big, Bad SGR" video. Feel free to share it with your members of Congress, colleagues, friends, family, patients, and staff.
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1. "Salvation," 1.18
An angry resident of The Glades who calls himself "The Savior" (guest star Christopher Redman) embarks on a kidnapping and killing spree to punish those he believes have wronged his neighborhood. To make things worse, he claims he was inspired by Arrow's vigilantism. Oliver is horrified by this statement and vows to stop "The Savior," but his manhunt in intensified after Thea comes to him in tears and tells him Roy (guest star Colton Haynes) has been kidnapped. Meanwhile, Laurel is surprised when her father starts to believe her mother's (guest star Alex Kingston) claim that Sara is still alive.


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Title 40
53.41 Test conditions.§ 53.41 Test conditions.
(a) Set-up and start-up of all test samplers shall be in strict accordance with the operating instructions specified in the manual referred to in § 53.4(b)(3).
(b) If the internal surface or surfaces of the candidate method's sampler inlet on which the particles removed by the inlet are collected is a dry surface (i.e., not normally coated with oil or grease), those surfaces shall be cleaned prior to conducting wind tunnel tests with solid particles.
(c) Once the test sampler or samplers have been set up and the performance tests started, manual adjustment shall be permitted only between test points for the sampling effectiveness and 50 percent cutpoint tests or between test days for the precision and flow rate stability tests. The manual adjustments and any periodic maintenance shall be limited to only those procedures prescribed in the manual referred to in § 53.4(b)(3). The submitted records shall show clearly when any manual adjustment or periodic maintenance was made and shall describe the operations performed.
(d) If a test sampler malfunctions during any of the sampling effectiveness and 50 percent cutpoint tests, that test run shall be repeated. If a test sampler malfunctions during any of the precision and flow rate stability tests, that day's test shall be repeated. A detailed explanation of all malfunctions and the remedial actions taken shall be submitted to EPA with the application.


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The discovery was made with the same DNA-hunting "virus chip" used to confirm the identity of the SARS virus three years ago.
While the genetics of prostate cancer are complex, one of the first genes implicated in the disease was RNASEL, a gene that serves as an important defense against viruses. Given the anti-viral role of this gene, some scientists have speculated that a virus could be involved in some types of prostate cancers in men with mutated RNASEL genes.
In the new study, the researchers discovered the novel virus far more often in human prostate tumors with two copies of the RNASEL gene mutation than in those with at least one normal copy.
"This is a virus that has never been seen in humans before," said Eric Klein, MD, a collaborator in the research and head of urologic oncology at the Glickman Urologic Institute of Cleveland Clinic. "This is consistent with previous epidemiologic and genetic research that has suggested that prostate cancer may result from chronic inflammation, perhaps as a response to infection."
"The power of the virus chip resides in its ability to simultaneously screen for all viruses, without preconceptions or bias," said Joe DeRisi, PhD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at UCSF who developed the chip with colleagues in his lab. "In the case of these prostate tissues, no one would have suspected a virus of this class." DeRisi is a UCSF associate professor of biochemistry and co-leader of the study with Don Ganem, MD, also an HHMI investigator at UCSF and a professor of microbiology and immunology.
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The adventure, starring Paul McGann as the Doctor, is being aired as part of the network's ongoing series Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited marking the show's 50th anniversary, and will be broadcast following a documentary at 8pm ET/PT in which current showrunner Steven Moffat and Daphne Ashbrook, who played Dr Grace Holloway, and Yee Jee Tso, who was Chang Lee, are among those examining what made the Eighth Doctor unique. They also discuss a new take on the Doctor's old enemy the Master, played in this story by Eric Roberts.
Co-produced by the BBC, Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox, and the American network Fox, the story, written by Matthew Jacobs and directed by Geoffrey Sax, was filmed in Canada and received its world premiere in the country on 12th May 1996, subsequently being shown in the USA two days later and in the UK on 27th May, where a dedication to Jon Pertwee was added at the end, following his death exactly a week earlier.
Intended as a pilot to revive the show after it ended in 1989, it saw the Seventh Doctor, as played by Sylvester McCoy, regenerate into the Eighth. In the story, the Master attempts to take the Doctor's remaining regenerations, plunging the Earth into chaos.
Despite impressive ratings in the UK though, the American networks didn't warm to it and options weren't taken up, with the show plunged back into the wilderness - as far as the TV version was concerned - until the BBC announced in September 2003 that it would be returning.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti As the world commemorated the one-year anniversary of the tragic earthquake in Haiti on Wednesday, an organization founded by a local church brought an estimated 40,000 Haitians together to celebrate their faith.
The group Churches Helping Churches organized the service in Port-au-Prince. The website for the group says about 40,000 people attended.
As CBS 2's Susanna Song reported last month, Rolling Meadows-based Harvest Bible Fellowship spearheaded the international group last year after the earthquake ravaged Haiti. The program raised nearly $3 million for relief there.
Thirty-eight churches jumped on board the project, and they decided to organize a memorial service in Port-au-Prince on the one-year anniversary of the earthquake Wednesday.
The service was held in front of the Palais Nationale, which was ruined by the earthquake. But, Churches Helping Churches emphasized, the purpose of the service was "not to mourn, but to celebrate."
"They came to remember those who are gone. They came to be renewed in their faith. They came to rejoice in the hope they have in Christ, by worshipping with fellow brothers and sisters," the Churches Helping Churches website said.
The group's leaders said they are "truly blessed" to work with leaders of faith in Haiti.
"We have great hope for Haiti, because God has a great love for this place and these people," Churches Helping Churches said.


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Loco Letters # 6
Dear Make-up Companies,
I love to wear make-up. There, I've said it, and lots of women would agree with me, I'm sure.
This letter is just a general observation for you all. I'm not singling any specific one of you out, as for myself, I use make-up products from several companies, every day.
My question is…why do you feel you need to discontinue parts of your product line, from time to time? Let's take, for example, eye-liners. You develop an awesome eye-liner. It sells all across the U.S. and possibly more countries, around the globe. It has sold very well for years. There is loyalty from the consumers of this particular eye-liner.
Then, one day, it is nowhere to be found; no stores have it for sale, anymore.
Why would you cancel a very popular product? Why would you not even give a warning, that it soon would be gone? Is that any way to treat your customers?
We then have to go through a process of finding another eye-liner that we like. We already know whatever we find, won't be as good as the old one was. What we do, is buy another one from your product line. We try it…reject it. Then, we buy one from another company…try it, reject it. On and on it goes, until we finally settle for one, because, hey…we 'need' some eye-liner.
Then, maybe years later, the original company advertises that they have their awesome eye-liner, again. We get all excited that, yay, our old favorite is back. But, we look at the package. It says 'new and improved formula'. It promises to be everything the old one was, and more.
So, we buy it, try it, and…what a letdown. It's not that it's bad, just different, and not in a good way. It has not been improved at all, and it isn't the old stand-by, either.
I'm sure there will be plenty of buyers of this 'new' one, and possibly will become their favorite. They never used the first one, though.
Meanwhile, we are left disappointed with the quality, and regret all the money we've wasted, trying different ones. We even do a small rant, in our minds, every time we put on eye-liner, from whichever company we buy it from. You know how it goes…"Why? Just, why did you do it?"
I'd really like an explanation.
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The Attorney General and the United States Ambassador today launched the new Manual for Investigation and Criminal Procedure on Wildlife Crimes at a formal public event at the Attorney General's Office in Maputo. The manual was developed, with support from the United States through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), as a training tool and reference for investigators and prosecutors on how to successfully prosecute organized crime cases involving wildlife trafficking. The population of Mozambique's wildlife, especially elephant and rhinos, has decreased significantly due to poaching and wildlife trafficking. Over the past 50 years, Mozambique's elephant population decreased from 50,000 to less than 10,000, and rhinos are extinct.
The purpose of the legal manual and training is to improve support for personnel dedicated to investigating and prosecuting organized crime cases with a focus on wildlife trafficking. The first training on the use of this legal handbook took place at Gorongosa National Park on September 17, 2018, and two more trainings will be held for prosecutors, investigators, and wildlife law enforcement officers in the provinces of Niassa and Gaza.
The Mozambique Attorney General's Office and its Central Anti-Corruption Office are long-time U.S. Government partners. In 2017, the U.S. Mission, through USAID, entered into an agreement with the Attorney General's Office to implement the milestone-based two-year Wildlife Crime Prosecution Support Program.Distributed by APO Group on behalf of U.S. Embassy in Mozambique.
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National membership campaign launches just one day after a momentum building midterm election.
BALTIMORE (November 7, 2018) – Just one day after the 2018 midterm elections, NAACP, the nation's foremost civil rights organization, continues the momentum by launching an ALL IN national membership campaign aimed at mobilizing NAACP units to increase their membership at least 20 percent by its 110th Founders Day observance on February 12, 2019.
The ALL IN campaign charges NAACP units to reach into their communities to activate new members to join the NAACP. The charge is simple: recruit new members, retain returning members and engage all members. The message of the ALL IN national membership campaign is built on this premise: Every generation has its moment. This is ours. This is the moment for the NAACP.
"The current civil rights climate of the nation is unlike those of previous generations," said Derrick Johnson, NAACP president and CEO, "We have seen a dramatic rise in discriminatory practices and policies. Policies, that threaten civil rights advancements for which we have fought hard. In the face of these overt threats to our rights, our nation is in the middle of a civil rights surge, people of all ages resisting oppression and threats to our rights. The NAACP is in a unique position and will lead the national discourse regarding threats to our civil rights."
"As NAACP members, we have taken up the call to defend civil rights," said Andrea Brown Gee, NAACP Vice President of Membership Services and Training, "NAACP exists to advocate for social justice and equality and will continue to lead. In order to be the strongest voice against the threats, we must have a strong and large membership base. By prioritizing the member, we prioritize the community."
The ALL IN campaign is a national membership campaign; that will launch November 7, 2018. The campaign will include three phases with a concentrated focus in each phase. The campaign will offer incentives to the Units who participate and increase their membership totals by a minimum of 20 percent and to those units who meet and exceed the goal. Prizes will be based on the size and category of the Units.


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Sunday, December 3, 2017
Samuel Adams Old Fezziwig Ale (2017 re-review to BJCP specs)
2015 BJCP Category: 30C Winter Seasonal Beer (base style: brown ale)
AROMA: Cinnamon and ginger are prominent and create for an aroma similar to snickerdoodle cookies. Orange peel can be found in the background and offers contrast. Base brown malt is present, but has little distinctiveness of its own (not that it really needs it). No hops. No esters. 10/12
APPEARANCE: Beautiful chestnut/mahogany hue (22-27 SRM). Chill haze eventually clears. Large tan foam retains and laces well. 3/3
FLAVOR: Spices are the most prominent component of the palette with ginger and cinnamon working well together. Orange peel offers an interesting contrast and mostly stays in the background. The brown ale base style comes through in the form of lightly browned and slightly sweet malt. Hops do not stand out, but do not not need to since spices do most of the bittering. Overall, palette is well-balanced and delectable. 17/20
MOUTHFEEL: Medium-full body; medium carbonation. Texture is soft and smooth. Spices and malts linger for a spicy/starchy aftertaste, though it is easily tolerable. Feels a bit stronger than 5.9% ABV; but with no alcohol warmth or flavor. Ideal accompaniment to a Christmas meal. 4/5
OVERALL IMPRESSION: One of the best mass market Christmas beers that exemplifies the style well. A fun holiday brew. 9/10
See my 2008 original review here: http://www.chadzbeerreviews.com/2011/01/samuel-adams-winter-classics-variety.html
See my 2011 re-review here: http://www.chadzbeerreviews.com/2011/01/samuel-adams-winter-classics-variety.html


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Way back in October 2008, we reported about a cell phone that featured a built-in mini projector. The cell phone was showcased by Japan's biggest mobile carrier, NTT Docomo, as a prototype. But today, the same carrier announced [JP] that such a spectacular handset will finally go on sale in Japan this Friday.
If you're an avid MobileCrunch reader, you'll remember we covered the Sharp SH-06C in November as part of Docomo's winter line-up of new cell phones.
Since then, Sharp has changed the name (from SH-05C to SH-06) and finalized the spec sheet.
The handset will come with the following features:
- DLP projector featuring 9 lumens brightness and 640×360 resolution
- 3.7-inch touchscreen with 480×854 resolution
- 5.1ch Dolby Mobile sound support
- 5.3MP CMOS camera with AF
- OneSeg digital TV tuner
- Blu-ray recorder connectivity
- microSDHC slot (16GB max)
- Bluetooth
- e-wallet function
- size: 119×59×15.7mm
- weight: 137g


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Senior goalkeeper Scott Sutarik
The Liberty Flames men's soccer team will host the Howard Bison at Osborne Stadium, Tuesday. Match time is scheduled for 6 p.m.
How to Follow the Flames A free live video stream courtesy of the Liberty Flames Sports Network and the Big South Network will be available by clicking the appropriate link on the schedule/results panel under men's soccer on LibertyFlames.com. Live stats powered by StatBroadcast will also be available for the contest by clicking the appropriate link on the men's soccer schedule/results panel of LibertyFlames.com. A Look at Liberty Liberty, 4-1-1, fell for the first time in 2014, Saturday. Despite the Flames taking an early 1-0 advantage, the No. 25 Davidson Wildcats used two second half goals to defeat Liberty 2-1, Saturday at Osborne Stadium. It was also the first time, Liberty, which is second in the Big South Conference in goals scored, did not net two or more goals in a contest this season. The Flames were ranked 10th in the latest South Regional Poll. Eight of the 10 teams ranked in the regional poll also appear in the national poll. Liberty enters the week having outscored its opponents, 15-7. The Flames lead the Big South Conference in goals per game with a 2.50 average and are second in goals allowed with a 1.12 goals per game average. Liberty ranks 14th nationally in goals scored. Four different Flames have netted two goals apiece, while 10 different Liberty players have scored at least one goal in 2014. With his second goal of the year on Saturday, Bay Kurtz is tied with Khalil Karl for the team lead in points with five. Tim Harbison and Sachem Wilson have also netted two goals apiece. Jovanni Chavez and Troy Reeves lead the Flames with two assists apiece. Goalkeeper Scott Sutarik has posted a 1.12 goals-against average and recorded one shutout this season. Sutarik recorded a season-high six saves against Davidson, Saturday. Liberty alumnus Jeff Alder is in his 14th season at the helm of the Flames. Liberty has posted a 131-93-23 mark during his tenure.
A Look at Howard The Bison, 0-8-1, enter Tuesday's contest after tying at VMI, 2-2, Saturday. All eight of Howard's contests have been on the road this season. Head coach Phillip Gyau is in his first season heading his alma mater. Liberty and Howard will meet for the seventh straight season, Tuesday night. The all-time series between the two schools is tied at 6-6. However, the Flames have won all six matches between the two teams since the series resumed in 2008, including a 3-0 victory over Howard at Osborne Stadium last season.
Regional Ranking The Flames were ranked among the NSCAA South Region's top teams in the latest regional rankings. Liberty was listed 10th in the region. Arguably the toughest region in the country, the South Region has eight teams ranked nationally this week. North Carolina heads the South regional poll and is ranked No.1 in the national poll.
Spreading the Wealth Liberty has had 10 players score at least one goal this season. The Flames have outscored their opponents, 15-7, so far in 2014. In addition, six different Flames have netted their first goal in a Liberty uniform this season. Freshmen Alan Arellano, Jovanni Chavez, Bay Kurtz and Troy Reeves along with transfer Khalil Karl and junior defender Jamie Foxwell have all scored the first goal of their collegiate careers.
The 1st of 4 Davidson was the first of four teams currently ranked nationally that the Flames will host this season. The Wildcats were ranked No. 25 by SoccerAmerica. Later this season, the Flames will host American and Coastal Carolina, ranked No. 12 and No. 18, respectively, by the NSCAA and Campbell which was listed No. 25 in the TopDrawerSoccer.com poll.
Flames News and Notes • Tuesday's match will be the Flames' third home contest of the year. Liberty is 1-1 at Osborne Stadium this season. • Newcomers continue to make their mark. The Flames have had seven players see significant minutes in five or more matches that were not on the roster last season. • Liberty saw back-to-back matches go to overtime, Sept. 7 and 12. The Flames played their first overtime contest of the season at Marshall, finishing with a 2-2 tie on Sept. 7, before defeating Robert Morris in their next match, 2-1, Sept.12. It is the first time since Nov. 2 and 6, 2012 that the Flames have had back-to-back contests go past regulation. • Goalkeeper Scott Sutarik has amassed 17 shutouts during his career. The senior ranks fourth on the program's all-time list. He needs two more to tie Dean Short for third place. • Sutarik enters the week with a career 0.94 goals-against average. He ranks third on the program's all-time list. Assistant Coach Andrew Madero tops the list with a 0.52 goals-against average. Madero played for the Flames from 2008-09. • Midfielder and team captain Tim Harbison netted two goals for the Flames at VMI on Sept. 2, the first multi-goal game by a Liberty player in 2014 and the second of the junior's career. • Harbison will be making his 45th consecutive start, Tuesday night. The junior has been among Liberty's starting 11 in every game of his Flames' career.
A Look Ahead Liberty will open Big South Conference play, Saturday. The Flames will travel to Rock Hill, S.C. for a conference match against the Winthrop Eagles. The Eagles entered the week with a 5-2 record. Match time at Eagle Field is scheduled for 2 p.m.
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This years round three draw of the Carabao Cup was held in China, untelevised at 4am London time.
Chelsea have been drawn against Championship side Nottingham Forest, the match will be played the week of September 18 at Stamford Bridge.
The blues last met Nottingham Forest ten years ago in the FA Cup, goals came from Andriy Shevchenko, Didier Drogba and a young John Mikel Obi to earn us a 3-0 victory.
#CarabaoCup: Round Three Draw 🏆@ChelseaFC v @NFFC pic.twitter.com/1ToZHiDEKr
— Carabao Cup (@Carabao_Cup) August 24, 2017
The draw for the Carabao Cup Third Round, in full:
West Bromwich Albion vs. Manchester City
Everton vs. Sunderland
Leicester City vs. Liverpool
Manchester United vs. Burton Albion
Brentford vs. Norwich City
Wolverhampton Wanderers vs. Bristol Rovers
Burnley vs. Leeds United
Arsenal vs. Doncaster Rovers
Bristol City vs. Stoke City
Reading vs. Swansea City
Aston Villa vs. Middlesbrough
CHELSEA vs. Nottingham Forest
West Ham United vs. Bolton Wanderers
Crystal Palace vs. Huddersfield Town
Tottenham Hotspur vs. Barnsley OR Derby County
AFC Bournemouth vs. Brighton & Hove Albion


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Motorola makes fun of getting #iLost
Now, you are making fun of the problems that Apple iOS 6 users have been having with the new Apple mapping application. Right on your Google+ and Twitter page, you show the Motorola DROID RAZR M getting directions to 315 East 15th Street in Manhattan while the new mapping application on iOS 6 shows an address in Brooklyn on the new Apple iPhone 5. You guys are like the Raptors in Jurassic Park, always testing for weaknesses. No one looking for Manhattan wants to end up in Brooklyn! Replace Brooklyn with the Bronx and you could have Bonfire of the Vanities.
While we don't take sides here, we have to say, well played Motorola, well played.
source: Motorola (1), (2) via AndroidCentral


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Hi everyone. It's Saturday again and that means it's time for the
Share It One More Time Party and Features
This is my favorite day of the week when I can see what you all have been doing this week and bring to link up. I always find so many wonderful projects and recipes here. I have a to do list from these parties a mile long now how about you? This week Tammy is hosting so I am going to turn it over to her.
How have you all been? By the looks of last weeks party you all have been pretty busy! Did you all see the amazing post that Cathy was inspired by and how she was so inspired she "tweaked" it up a bit, while being inspired by Sweet Inspirations by JP Designs party link. Do you know about our new feature? If not let me fill you in. Every Thursday we will be doing a special feature called
We thought it would be fun to feature one of you and share with you how we were inspired by it. Do you ever see something that was linked up at a party and want to make it, but you want to make it your own? This is the reason we all link up to inspire and share with others...right? Do you ever wonder if anyone that actually takes what you have shared and loved it so much they made one of their own? That is exactly what we will be doing every Thursday, we will be "Tweaking it" up a bit and sharing how you inspired us! If you would like to see what inspired Cathy you can check that out here. I already have my inspiration picked out from last weeks party and I can't wait to share it on Thursday with you all! I can't wait to see what you all have to share this week!
Here is what I have been up to last week if you missed it...I shared a quick and easy way to decorate with ceramic knobs
Cathy and I both participated in a Junk revision challenge sharing our outdoor projects.
I created a dual Fire Pit and Garden Feature and Cathy created an amazing Welcome sign for her front porch.
and here are some great features of what some of you have been up to...
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Worthing Court shared her Amazing Fireplace Makeover. Love all that she did...she also shares a before picture. Be sure to stop by and see all that was done to create this beauty.
Purple Hues and Me shared her beautiful flowers....are you ready for this??? Made with Hot Glue. Gail has to be the most talented crafter ever... she really does craft some amazing projects like this one. Here is just one of them!
All Things Heart and Home share her beautiful Master Bathroom Renovation... I just love everything about this Master bathroom from the gorgeous window to the bathtub and the beautiful chandelier.
Simply Vintageous Shared her French Romantic Dresser this is such a beautiful piece inside and out!
A Proverbs 31 Wife shared How to Make Crepe cones...Oh my! Now this is right up my alley, ice cream and crepes. Oh... I can just taste this now! This is one that I will make for sure.
What's for Dinner this weekend...Need an Idea?
We always have some great recipes shared each week, I thought I would pull together a few to help you out this weekend when your trying to decide "What's for Dinner" . Doesn't this look delicious? Guess what we are having this weekend? Who needs a menu planning service... when it's all right here... shared at Share it One More Time Party.
A Crock Pot Chicken Fajita Recipe shared by My Heavenly Recipes
Healthy and Fresh Taco Salad by The Classy Chapter
Creamed Corn Corn Bread by Anna's Entitled Life
Blackberry Sangria by Pink Heels Pink Truck
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LA MIRADA, Calif. & BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The CENIC Christine Haska Distinguished Service Award, established in 2018, honors an individual who has provided extraordinary leadership and service to the CENIC community and its partners. This year the inaugural award is being given to David Lassner, President of the University of Hawai'i, for his extensive work in research and education technology.
Over the last three decades, Lassner has led projects to connect the University of Hawai'i (UH) system and critical global scientific instruments in Hawai'i. He has also led efforts to connect community anchor institutions throughout Hawai'i and the Pacific Islands to UH, the mainland United States, and nations throughout the Asia-Pacific region. His work has helped advance science and education, preserve environmental and cultural resources, connect communities, and enrich myriad lives throughout the Pacific Islands.
"David Lassner's vision, leadership, and championing of connectivity for the Pacific Islands has spanned decades. During that time, he worked to overcome complex economic and geographic challenges to advanced networking. His gentle guidance, tenacity, and vision have inspired much of the remarkable progress in the Asia-Pacific region, especially in the Pacific Islands. His skillful leadership has been inspirational to all of us who work in the R&E community," said Louis Fox, President and CEO of CENIC.
Lassner joined UH in 1977 and held a series of technical, management, and executive positions. He was Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for many years. In 2013, Lassner was named president of the University of Hawai'i. He is also a member of the UH cooperating graduate faculty, and has taught classes in information and computer science, business administration, communication, and education.
Lassner has led numerous networking and research projects over the years. He is the principal investigator (PI) for both the Maui High Performance Computing Center and for the Pacific Disaster Center. He has been an active National Science Foundation PI for almost 20 years, beginning with his leadership of the Hawai'i Education and Research Network (HERN), a demonstration project to apply networking technologies in K-12 schools and higher education in the 1990s. HERN was followed by major networking projects to keep Hawai'i connected to its national and global counterparts and promote outreach into the Pacific Islands. Lassner was also PI for several major Department of Commerce projects that brought fiber optic cabling and gigabit-speed networks to public schools, public libraries, and UH sites throughout the state.
In his role as UH CIO, he was responsible for designing, implementing, and directing a new integrated organization to support academic computing, administrative computing, distributed learning technologies, and voice, data, and video telecommunications. Under his leadership, UH Information Technology Services (ITS) provided comprehensive technology support for the statewide needs of ten campuses, including its flagship research university, UH Manoa, along with five education centers and dozens of research facilities on six islands. Lassner led an effort to provision multiple 10 Gbps connections to every community college in Hawai'i. With his IT team, he worked to establish direct fiber connections with gigabit connectivity to every public school and every public library in Hawai'i, and with 10 Gbps connectivity to all of the state's education centers.
Outside the university, Lassner has had numerous active leadership roles in a number of local, national, and international organizations. He served on the boards of Hawai'i's High Technology Development Corporation and Public Broadcasting Service affiliate and he chaired the state's Broadband Task Force. Lassner also served on the board of Internet2 and was a co-founder and board member of the Kuali Foundation; as a founding steering committee member and chair of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education's (WICHE) Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) cooperative; and as chair of the boards of the Pacific Telecommunications Council and of EDUCAUSE, the major professional association for IT in higher education. He now serves as a WICHE commissioner, on the board of the National Association of System Heads, and on the board of the East West Center, as well as on the boards of Aloha United Way and Blood Bank of Hawai'i.
Garret Yoshimi, Chief Information Officer at UH, knows firsthand the tremendous impact of Lassner's lifetime of work. "David Lassner has been a leader in the development and maturation of national and regional R&E networks," said Yoshimi. "His persistence and energy in promoting effective collaboration among diverse agendas has earned the respect of leaders in diverse communities. While his efforts are rooted in advanced technologies, he always looks for practical benefits for education, research, and socio-economic development. In recent years, with his elevation to President of the University of Hawai'i, David has continued to support conversations between and among his peers both nationally and internationally, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region."
Lassner has been involved with two key projects that are critical to the future of the Asia-Pacific region. He has served as PI since the inception of the Pacific Islands Research and Education Network (PIREN), which provides domestic support (with CENIC's assistance) for Australia's Academic and Research Network's (AARNet) 2 x 100 Gbps links, as well as critical connectivity to major astronomy sites at Mauna Kea and Haleakala. Through PIREN, Lassner and UH have been champions of bringing high-speed R&E networking to the Pacific Islands.
The second project is a direct result of Lassner's vision for PIREN: the creation of an international R&E exchange point for the Pacific Islands on Guam. Now a reality thanks to a collaboration of many R&E networks, led by UH, CENIC, AARNET, the University of Guam, and other regional R&E operators, the Guam Open Research & Education eXchange (GOREX) connects Guam to the University of Hawai'i and CENIC via a new SEA-US fiber-optic submarine cable. In addition to connecting to Guam at 100 Gpbs, GOREX will provide an open exchange point for Pacific regional research and education operators to strategically interconnect high capacity circuits at Guam, to share trans-Pacific routes and capacity to maximize high-capacity network efficiency and resiliency for mutual benefit. GOREX also helps support collaboration among many Pacific Island nations, with regional research and educational network operators, to support global reach and access.
"We can now conduct research at complex levels, not just for the sciences, but in other fields as well," said UOG President Robert Underwood. "Think about the issues that we discuss as a society and how we make many decisions with limited data. GOREX gives our students and faculty the tools to truly exchange and analyze large amounts of data in any number of fields with other institutions all over the world. And as a university, it is our responsibility to report our findings back to the community. That's the impact."
Established in 2018, the CENIC Distinguished Service Award recognizes extraordinary individual service to the CENIC community and its partners and is named in honor of Dr. Christine Haska (1951-2017). Dr. Haska was a treasured member of the CENIC community, and led a life dedicated to bettering our world. She had a long career in higher education and in 2002 joined the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California, where she served as the Vice President of Information Resources and as the Chief Information Officer. She played a vital role in establishing both NPS and the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center as CENIC members. Retiring from NPS in 2013, Dr. Haska went on to successfully lead an initiative to connect the major health care institutions in Monterey to the CENIC network.
Dr. Haska was well known by her family, colleagues, and friends as an exuberant personality with boundless energy and wide-ranging interests. She brought foresight, grace, and an innovative spirit to all her work, and remains an inspiration to colleagues working in research and education institutions across the nation.
The CENIC awards are presented each year at CENIC's annual conference to highlight exemplary innovations that leverage ultra-high bandwidth networking, particularly innovations that have the potential to transform how instruction and research are conducted and further the deployment of broadband in underserved areas. The CENIC conference will be held March 5 – 7, 2018, in Monterey, California.
About CENIC: www.cenic.org
CENIC connects California to the world — advancing education and research statewide by providing the world-class network essential for innovation, collaboration, and economic growth. This nonprofit organization operates the California Research and Education Network (CalREN), a high-capacity network designed to meet the unique requirements of over 20 million users, including the vast majority of K-20 students together with educators, researchers, and individuals at other vital public-serving institutions. CENIC's Charter Associates are part of the world's largest education system; they include the California K-12 system, California Community Colleges, the California State University system, California's public libraries, the University of California system, Stanford, Caltech, the Naval Postgraduate School, and USC. CENIC also provides connectivity to leading-edge institutions and industry research organizations around the world, serving the public as a catalyst for a vibrant California.


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Wendy's to Sell Bakery Business, 640 Restaurants
Wendy's Co. announced plans Wednesday to sell off its Ohio bun-making business this month, while the burger chain provided greater detail about plans to sell off more than 600 of its company-owned restaurants to franchisees.
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The company also reported profit that narrowly topped Wall Street expectations for the first quarter, through sales fell below expectations amid fewer stores.
Shares of Wendy's, up about 31% in the last year, gained 5.3% in morning trading to $10.98.
Like many other restaurant chains, including McDonald's Corp. and Burger King Worldwide Inc., Wendy's has been selling off its company-owned restaurants to franchisees to ensure a more predictable cash flow and higher margins.
Wendy's said it now plans to sell 380 restaurants in 2015 and 260 restaurants in 2016. It had said earlier this year that it planned to sell 500 restaurants to franchisees.
Wendy's is aiming to own just 5% of its stores by mid-2016, an effort the company expects will result in $400 million to $475 million in pretax cash proceeds and reduce its future spending.
Meanwhile, Wendy's expects the sale of its Zanesville, Ohio, bakery business to close this month, a move Wendy's said would give it more sourcing flexibility and eliminate some spending. The bakery supplies sandwich buns to thousands of Wendy's restaurants and, to a lesser extent, outside parties. The business brought in about $61.8 million in sales in 2014.
Overall for the first quarter, Wendy's reported a profit of $27.5 million, or seven cents a share, compared with a profit of $46.3 million, or 12 cents a share, a year earlier.
Excluding special items, per-share earnings were six cents.
Revenue fell 10.9% to $466.2 million, weighed by ownership of fewer stores.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters forecast earnings of 5 cents a share and $475.6 million in revenue.
Same-restaurant sales grew 2.6% for North American company-operated locations and 3.4% for franchised sites. Systemwide, same-restaurant sales were up 3.2%, above the 2.5% growth Consensus Metrix had forecast.
Restaurant margin at company-operated stores in North America was 14.7%, up from 13.1% in the prior-year period.
For 2015, the company reaffirmed its earnings outlook but said it now expects same-store sales growth of 2.5% to 3%, compared with its previous outlook for 3% growth.
The company said it expects to update its guidance on June 3.