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Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world's top 100 universities. The University has 40 000 students and 7 600 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.
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- General Electric Co. Ltd. (Research Laboratories)
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Shalu Bhatti
Mar 12, 2019
It is a fact that safety is the most important thing in any environment, be it at home or at work. If you are looking for some health and safety tips for your workplace, then you must continue reading to know the essentials.
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- Author Unknown
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"Tullahought", a parish, in the barony of Kells, county of Kilkenny, and province of Leinster, 5 miles (N.) from Carrick-on-Suir, on the road to Kilkenny; containing 1538 inhabitants. This parish is situated on the small river Lingam, which here separates the counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary, and the provinces of Leinster and Munster. It comprises 4364 statute acres; the substratum consists chiefly of a slaty argillite. Near Kilmacoliver is an extensive quarry of slate of superior quality, called the Ormond Quarry, in which about 150 persons are generally employed; the slates have an extensive sale in this and the adjoining counties, being considered nearly equal to the Welsh slated in colour and lightenss; the quantity annually raised is considerable, and the works have been extended to a depth of 120 feet. Kilmacoliver is the residence of Danl. Osborne, Esq. It is a rectory, in the diocese of Ossory, entirely impropriate in the Marquess of Ormonde. In the R. C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Killamery; the chapel, a modern structure, is at Kilmacoliver. About 100 children are educated in two private schools. At Lamogue are some remains of an ancient church.
[From A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837)]
Church Records
Civil Parish: Tullahought. RC Parish: Windgap (Killamery).
Earliest Records: b. Aug 1822; m. Sep 1822.
Cross reference to Family History Library microfilm (double-check with the Library)
Civil Roman Catholic Time FHLC parish parish period number Tullaghought Windgap 1822-1882 0926205 Note: Windgap was formed from Dunnamaggin R.C. parish.
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The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.
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Historical Geography
Townlands (1851)Parish Townland Acres Diocese Tullahought Ballynalinagh 536 Ossory Tullahought Baunfree 230 Ossory Tullahought Baunreagh 153 Ossory Tullahought Birchwood 176 Ossory Tullahought Bregaun 243 Ossory Tullahought Corragaun (Morris) 144 Ossory Tullahought Corragaun (Reade) 63 Ossory Tullahought Curraghnadimpaun 168 Ossory Tullahought Cussan 288 Ossory Tullahought Garranhalloo 194 Ossory Tullahought Glencommaun 227 Ossory Tullahought Gortnaglogh 189 Ossory Tullahought Inchanaglogh 133 Ossory Tullahought Kilmacoliver 347 Ossory Tullahought Knickeen 142 Ossory Tullahought Knockglass 29 Ossory Tullahought Knockroe 189 Ossory Tullahought Lamoge 468 Ossory Tullahought Meallaghmore 209 Ossory Tullahought Pollrone 253 Ossory Tullahought Tullahought 211 Ossory
The civil parish of Tullahought contained the following townlands:
- Ballynalinagh (Tullahought).
- Baunfree (Tullahought).
- Baunreagh (Tullahought).
- Birchwood (Tullahought).
- Bregaun (Tullahought).
- Corragaun (Morris) (Tullahought).
- Corragaun (Reade) (Tullahought).
- Curraghnadimpaun (Tullahought).
- Cussan (Tullahought).
- Garranhalloo (Tullahought).
- Glencommaun (Tullahought).
- Gortnaglogh (Tullahought).
- Inchanaglogh (Tullahought).
- Kilmacoliver (Tullahought).
- Knickeen (Tullahought).
- Knockglass (Tullahought).
- Knockroe (Tullahought).
- Lamoge (Tullahought).
- Meallaghmore (Tullahought).
- Pollrone (Tullahought).
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At the AAUS business meeting that took place at the ASN convention in New York City earlier this month, the winners of the AAUS Book and Article Prizes were announced.
For this round of prizes, monographs, articles, and book-length translations published in 2016 and 2017 were eligible.
The Book Prize Committee, consisting of Andriy Danylenko, George Liber, and Maxim Tarnawsky, named Lynne Viola the winner for her book Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine (Oxford University Press, 2017).
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Lynne Viola's Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in
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Ukraine. She writes (on p. 175): "The materials under investigation also
demonstrate some of the Ukrainian specificities of the terror. Ukraine's status
as borderland with a diverse ethnic population and the heritage--real and
imagined--of Ukrainian nationalism, made it an especially dangerous zone of
terror." She places the terror of the 1930s within an all-Soviet context while
firmly anchoring it in Ukrainian specifics. Viola richly deserves the
distinction of the best book in Ukrainian studies in 2017.
The Article Prize Committee, consisting of Yuliya Ladygina, Olena Nikolayenko, and Christine Worobec, named Heather Coleman the winner for her article "History, Faith, and Regional Identity in Nineteenth-Century Kyiv" (Harvard Ukrainian Studies, vol. 34).
The Translation Prize Committee did not name a winner and has extended the call for submissions. Please contact the committee members, Reilly Costigan-Humes [reilly.costigan.humes@gmail.
Congratulations to the winners!


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Le Roman Arabe (1834–2004) [The Arabic Novel]
by Kadhim Jihad Hassan
Actes Sud, Paris 2006,
pp400, ISBN 2742754598, €29
A Journey into the Arabic Novel
With his latest work, Le roman arabe [The Arabic Novel], published in April 2006, Kadhim Jihad Hassan guides us on a great journey through the history of the Arabic novel. He adopts an approach that is less concerned with literary criticism and more focused on the development of the narrative genre in Arabic literature since 1834, that is with Takhlis al-ibriz ila talkhis Bariz [A Paris Profile]* by Rifa'ah al-Tahtawi (d.1873). He also analyses the most important works, and offers an objective insight into his subject. This type of approach makes Le roman arabe accessible both to a larger, outside-the-university-campus readership and to the non-Arabic speaking general reader.
Kadhim Jihad Hassan is a highly respected poet, literary translator and academic, both in the Arab world and France. Born in southern Iraq in 1955, he has lived in Paris since 1976, teaching at the Sorbonne, and now at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations there. He has translated, for instance, Arthur Rimbaud's collected works, and works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jean Genet, Juan Goytisolo and Philippe Jaccottet into Arabic. He also accomplished, together with an introductory study, the acclaimed first free-verse translation into Arabic of Dante's Divine Comedy (UNESCO, Paris, & Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, Beirut, 2003).
His style is clear and elegant, while the structure of Le roman arabe enables the reader to browse from page to page according to a geographical area, theme or period of time. It is divided into chapters, first according to defining moments in the history of the Arabic novel, which include the pioneer historical novels of Lebanese journalist and writer Jurji Zaydan (1861-1914) and a study of Mohammed Hussain Haykal's Zeinab which many call the first real Arab novel.
Then Le roman arabe is arranged according to country, including novels from all over the Arab world – those by authors from countries with long and famous literary traditions, such as Egypt, mentioning here only a few, such as, of course, Naguib Mahfouz and Yusuf Idris, Abdel Rhahman al-Shawaqqi, Yahia Haqqi, and the later authors Gamal el-Ghitani, Mohamed el-Bisatie and Edwar al-Kharrat, as well as Latifa al-Zayat and Radwa Ashour. From Syria authors such as Halim Barakat, Hanna Mina, Haidar Haidar and Ulfat Idilbi; and from Lebanon, Rachid el-Daif, Hanan al-Shaykh, Elias Khoury, Hoda Barakat and Hassan Daoud.
And there are many novels mentioned from countries whose literature is less known (to me!) despite the number of prolific authors, such as Iraq (including Ghaeb Tu'mah Farman, Fuad al-Takarli, Fahdil al-Azzawi, Alia Mamduh, Selim Matar) and Palestine (including Ghassan Kana-fani, Sahar Khalifa, Emile Habiby, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Liana Badr, Yahya Yakhlif, Ibrahim Nasrallah).
And he has not forgotten authors from emerging literary scenes in the Arab world, either, in this way giving his readers an exciting opportunity to discover contemporary literary production in the Gulf countries, Yemen or Libya, about which most of us are still very much in the dark.
Le roman arabe is also a valuable contribution to the research in the French-speaking world as this is the first work published in French entirely dedicated to the Arabic novel. Of course, much has been written in Molière's language about Arabic novels, but these essays have so far not exceeded more than a couple of chapters in works outlining Arabic literature in general, such as in A la Découverte de la Littérature Arabe, du VIe siècle à nos jours by Katia Zakharia and Heidi Toëlle (Flammarion, Paris 2003). Besides its privileged position within French research into Arabic literature, Le roman arabe is also the first book to delineate the major factors making up the development of the Arabic novel, and more importantly one which analyses the works in their wider historical and socio-political contexts, taking into consideration influences in authors' lives that are important to the development of their themes and styles.
His talent at not only summarising the story, settings and message of a novel but also evoking the atmosphere and sensation a native Arabic speaker might feel when reading a novel in its original language – standard or colloquial Arabic – makes this book both interesting and entertaining for the general reader. Kadhim Jihad Hassan dedicates sometimes up to several pages on discussion of a single novel. For instance, his commentary on Taha Husayn's Al-Ayyam [The Days] is exhaustive and includes biographical elements that influenced Taha Husayn's work, such as his being blind or his studies at Cairo's Al-Azhar University. He also explains how Taha Husayn wrote the narrative as if he was talking to his eldest daughter, and referred to himself as a third person, calling himself sahibuna (our friend), while referring to his wife as al-sawt al-'adhab (the soft voice). By translating the meaning of key expressions used in the novels, Kadhim Jihad Hassan ensures that even readers with sporadic or no knowledge of Arabic can appreciate the quality of artistic expression in the original language.
Academic readers, on the other hand, can appreciate his references to literary theories that have not yet benefited from much international circulation, such as theories argued by French scholar Luc Deheuvels in relation to al-Din wal-'ilm wal-mal aw al-mudun al-thalatha [Religion, Science and Money or Three Cities] by Farah Antun, or Qawarib Jabaliyyah [Mountain Boats] by Yemeni author Wajdi al-Ahdal. Finally, Le roman arabe contains an index of the works cited, with their original titles in Arabic as well as their meaning in French, and, if a novel has been translated, their published title in French. A separate index of authors mentioned is also included.
Le roman arabe has been acclaimed in reviews in France and the Arab world as an important contribution to widening understanding of the Arab literary heritage, and is praised for its meticulous and exemplary research.
As the author points out in his conclusion, Le roman arabe focuses exclusively on novels from the Arab world written in Arabic – du monde arabe et en langue arabe – which means the many works written in French or English by Arab authors are not within his remit. However, Kadhim Jihad Hassan has succeeded in writing the perfect guide to the Arab novel in Arabic. And to read this guide is to get to know the literary heritage of the Arab world as well as its newest literary trends.
* Takhlis al-ibriz ila talkhis Bariz by Rifa'ah al-Tahtawi is available in English as An Imam in Paris: Al-Tahtawi's Visit to France (1826-31) translated by Daniel Newman
NOTE: In Banipal's 3-part feature on Iraqi authors, Banipal 17 included an article by Kadhim Jihad Hassan on Iraqi literature, and Banipal 19 his article on the pioneer modern Iraqi poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab.
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in the Panama Canal, was administered by the
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, so
the two scientists, Robin Foster, then at
the University of Chicago, and Stephen P.
Hubbell, then at the University of Iowa, approached
the institute's director, Ira Rubinoff, and
proposed mapping and measuring every tree
every five years to monitor population changes
and to test conflicting theories about diversity
in tropical forests. Their audacity lay in
their asking to bar all other scientific inquiries
from their plot, to prevent tiny seedlings
from being squashed by scholarly boots.
...New technologies speed, simplify and expand
the work at the plots. Census takers can find
their way in the forest with global positioning
devices and access and enter information on
their personal digital assistants. Canopy
towers, photos from airplanes and satellites,
and DNA analysis are other tools now being
tapped by plot researchers.
At some camps, however, ...Scientists make
do without electricity, wash their clothes
in rivers and cook over open fires.
...At other plots, stretched around the Equator
like a belt, plot science takes on Indiana
Jones dimensions. Deep in the forest, scientists
can encounter tropical diseases, toxic ant
bites, spitting cobras, smugglers and armed
insurgents. ...
Corneille E. N. Ewango, monitoring the 100-acre
Ituri Forest plot established in 1994 in Congo,
received the Goldman Environmental Prize last
year for hiding data on 600 species and 380,000
trees during a civil war. He himself hid in
the forest for three months rather than desert
his post. "Though my country has the
largest forest in Africa, it is one of the
least known. We don't have so much research
in botany in the Congo, except what we are
doing," he explained when the prize was
...Scientists estimate that tropical forests
cover only 6 percent of the planet, less than
half of what they once occupied. ...1.2 percent
of the remaining area disappearing every year....
11 January 2006. Deep-rooted plants have much
greater impact on climate than experts thought.
By Robert Sanders, Media Relations
BERKELEY - Trees,
particularly those with deep roots, contribute
to the Earth's climate much more than scientists
thought, according to a new study by biologists
and climatologists from the University of
California, Berkeley. While scientists studying
global climate change recognize the importance
of vegetation in removing carbon dioxide from
the atmosphere and in local cooling through
transpiration, they have assumed a simple
model of plants sucking water out of the soil
and spewing water vapor into the atmosphere.
The new study in the Amazonian forest shows
that trees use water in a much more complex
way: The tap roots transfer rainwater from
the surface to reservoirs deep underground
and redistribute water upwards after the rains
to keep the top layers moist, thereby accentuating
both carbon uptake and localized atmospheric
cooling during dry periods.
The researchers estimate this effect increases
photosynthesis and the evaporation of water
from plants, called transpiration, by 40
percent in the dry season, when photosynthesis
otherwise would be limited. ...said co-author
Todd Dawson, professor of integrative biology
at UC Berkeley... "Because this has
not been considered until now, people have
likely underestimated the amount of carbon
taken up by the Amazon and underestimated
the impact of Amazonian deforestation on
24 May 2005. To
Save Its Canal, Panama Fights for Its Forests.
NY Times. By CORNELIA DEAN. Excerpt:
MIRAFLORES, Panama - A freighter slides
slowly into the first of the Miraflores
Locks, red, orange and white cargo containers
stacked six or seven high on its deck. Gates
swing shut and the lock begins to drain,
water flowing into the lock below. A few
minutes later, when the water levels are
equal, gates at the other end of the lock
swing open, and the ship moves into the
next chamber. Once again, water drains,
gates open and the ship and its tons of
cargo head out to the Pacific Ocean. Something
else is moving, too - about 26 million gallons
of water, the amount that drains from the
Pedro Miguel and Miraflores Locks each time
a ship goes through them to or from the
Pacific. ...The water comes from Gatún
Lake, one of the largest artificial lakes
in the world, created during construction
of the canal. The canal depends on the lake
and its water, and they in turn depend on
the health of the surrounding watershed
forest. But in the last few decades, half
of it has been lost to logging and slash-and-burn
agriculture. ...The Panama Canal Authority
and an array of scientists are working together
to study Gatún Lake's hydrology,
to restore its watershed and to teach the
people who live there the importance of
preserving it. ...Water per se is not its
problem. The Chagres drains a tropical jungle
where it rains 10 feet or more each year
- about three times as much as it rains
in Seattle or New York, and in theory more
than enough to keep the locks operating
at capacity. But the rain does not fall
steadily year-round. Most of it comes from
May to December, in brief but intense downpours.
An inch in an hour is ordinary, and six
inches in a day is hardly unheard of. Rain
falls so heavily in Panama that early canal
builders described storms as turning the
air to water. On forested slopes, much of
this water soaks into the ground and feeds
slowly into watershed streams and then into
Gatún Lake. But deforested slopes
cannot absorb heavy rains. Floods of water
run off into the lake, overflow Gatún
Dam and run out to sea - useless for lockage.
Meanwhile, eroded sediment ends up on the
lake bottom, reducing its storage capacity.
...Despite the building of a railroad across
the isthmus in the 19th century, the completion
of the canal in 1914 and the military buildups
of World Wars I and II, the watershed forest
was more or less intact until about 1950,
Dr. Heckadon said in an interview. ..."Pretty
soon we ended up with 3,000 kilometers of
trails built by loggers and followed by
cattlemen and slash-and-burn farmers,"
Dr. Heckadon said. In the Chagres basin
and in the watershed on the other side of
the canal, thousands of acres fell to their
machetes and chain saws. ...Panamanians
were such assiduous practitioners of slash-and-burn
agriculture that some here began to joke
bitterly that they must be born with machetes
in their hands. Deforestation peaked in
the 1980's, said Dr. Robert F. Stallard,
a geologist at the Smithsonian research
institute in Panama who studies the hydrology
of the watershed. By 2000, when Dr. Heckadon
and his colleagues completed a study using
satellite imagery and ground surveys, they
found 53 percent of the watershed forest
had been lost. ...efforts are also under
way to restore damaged landscapes. A.C.P.
has begun a program called the Native Species
Reforestation Project - a cooperative arrangement
with the Smithsonian, the Yale University
School of Forestry, the International Development
Center at the Kennedy School at Harvard
and other universities and agencies to study
ways to protect the canal watershed and
restore its native vegetation. The scientists
are learning as they go, because little
is known about reforesting tropical rain
forests, said Dr. Mark S. Ashton, a professor
of forest ecology at Yale.
(Photo Kathryn Cook/Associated Press)
The water to operate Panama Canal locks
like Miraflores flows down from Gatún
Lake, which depends on the health of the
surrounding watershed forest.
8 March 2005. STEALING
FROM THE RAINFOREST. Ecologist
Dan Nepstad of the Woods Hole Research Center
is engaged in an activity that might seem
crazy for someone who cares about forests
as much as he does. For the past two years,
this veteran of tropical forest research
has been stealing the rain over two and
half acres of forest in the eastern Amazon.
February 2005. American Forests - http://www.americanforests.org/ -
Planting trees to help the environment.
27 July 2004. NASA RELEASE : 04-242 NASA
Plays Key Role In Largest Environmental Experiment In History Researchers from around the globe participating in the world's largest environmental science experiment, the Large-Scale Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), will, fittingly, convene in Brazil this week. From July 27-29, some 800 researchers will attend the Third International Scientific Conference of the LBA in Brasilia, Brazil, to discuss key findings on how the world's largest rainforest impacts the ecological health of Amazonia and the world. Never before has so much information about the Amazon been assembled for presentation at once. LBA is partly funded by NASA. Also, scores of projects that feed the Amazon experiment depend heavily on NASA's vast expertise in satellite information, computer modeling, and providing infrastructure for large-scale field campaigns. The overall experiment concentrates on how the Amazon forest and land use changes within the region affect the atmosphere, and regional and global climate. ... In the Amazon, deforestation, selective logging, fires and forest re-growth all play major roles in the carbon balance. In the Brazilian Amazon region alone, annual clear-cutting and burning of forests cover about 20,000 square kilometers (7,700 square miles or about the area of New Jersey). NASA data products from various instruments on the Landsat series of satellites have documented the history of deforestation in the Amazon since the 1970s. ... Burning practices to clear fields for farming often result in fires spreading to adjacent forests. These large fires create air pollution and can contribute to respiratory problems in people. Thick smoke has forced airports to close, and has caused
highway accidents. ...
9 June 2004. NASA RELEASE : 04-183. NASA
Data Shows Deforestation Affects Climate In
The Amazon. (alternative address here)
NASA satellite data are giving scientists insight into how large-scale deforestation in the Amazon Basin in South America is affecting regional climate. Researchers found during the Amazon dry season last August, there was a distinct pattern of higher rainfall and warmer temperatures over deforested regions. ... The study is in a recent American Meteorological Society Journal of Climate. Lead authors, Andrew Negri and Robert Adler, are research meteorologists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, Md. ... "In deforested areas, the land heats up faster and reaches a higher temperature, leading to localized upward motions that enhance the formation of clouds and ultimately produce more rainfall," Negri said.
November 1998. Tropical
Deforestation. NASA Earth Science Enterprise
Series, Fact Sheet: FS-1998-11-120-GSFC [2.5MB
PDF] The clearing
of tropical forests across the Earth has been
occuring on a large scale basis for many centuries.
This process, known as deforestation, involves
the cutting down, burning, and damaging of
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US food group Hillshire Brands has outlined improved sales and earnings forecasts after a "strong" third quarter.
The Jimmy Dean meats owner now expects its annual sales to increase at a rate "in the low single digits". When the company reported its second-quarter results in February, it forecast sales to grow "slightly".
Hillshire forecast its adjusted diluted earnings per share for the year would be "at the high end of the previously provided range". In August, Hillshire had estimated its earnings would fall in a range of being flat year-on-year to down at a mid-single digit rate.
The new forecasts, issued on Monday as Hillshire gave its results for the third quarter to 29 May, sent its shares up in New York. The stock closed up over 3.4% on Monday and rose another 1.2% on Tuesday.
Hillshire booked adjusted income from continuing operations of US$57m for its fiscal third quarter. The result compared to $43m a year earlier. Adjusted operating income rose from $72m in last year's third quarter to $92m.
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Raises Sales Guidance, Expects EPS at High End of Range
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Hillshire Brands Company (NYSE: HSH) today reported results for the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal year 2014.
- Third quarter net sales grew 3.4% to $955 million
- Adjusted1 operating income grew 34.8% to $97 million; reported operating income grew 18.3% to $76 million
- Adjusted diluted EPS grew 31.4% to $0.46; reported diluted EPS unchanged at $0.34
- Fiscal 2014 sales growth expected to be in low single digits and adjusted diluted EPS at the high end of the guidance range
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"The tremendous progress we have made in strengthening our brands and reducing costs is unmistakable. Despite an unusually inflationary input cost environment, we meaningfully improved our core business fundamentals and have increased our operating margins. Underlying this performance is the work we have done to improve our capabilities in areas like innovation, pricing analytics and marketing, as well as our robust productivity programs," said Sean Connolly, president and CEO of The Hillshire Brands Company.
"In addition to our base business momentum, we are beginning to leverage our balance sheet for additional value creation, with a focus on acquisitions. Overall, while I am pleased by another strong quarter, I am most encouraged that we have validated our original investment thesis and are well positioned to deliver strong returns over the long run," added Connolly.
Discussion of Continuing Operations Results
Net sales of $955 million were up 3.4% versus the prior year's third quarter as positive price/mix in both the Retail and Foodservice/Other segments more than offset volume declines resulting largely from pricing actions. The company estimates the later timing of Easter negatively impacted net sales growth by approximately 130 basis points.
Adjusted operating income of $97 million increased 34.8%, and reported operating income increased 18.3% to $76 million primarily behind higher sales and non-input cost favorability. As a percent of net sales, adjusted operating income was 10.1%.
On a year-to-date basis, net sales of $3.0 billion were up 2.1% versus the prior-year period as positive price/mix more than offset volume declines. Adjusted operating income of $312 million increased 3.9% as cost efficiencies and positive mix more than offset under-recovery of input cost inflation via pricing; reported operating income decreased 0.5% to $247 million. As a percent of net sales, adjusted operating income was 10.3%.
Retail net sales were up 3.2% in the quarter versus the prior year as favorable price/mix more than offset volume declines, which were largely the result of pricing actions. Sales growth was supported by a strong MAP rate of 4.2% of total company net sales. Operating segment income increased 19.9% versus the prior year as increased sales and cost efficiencies more than offset higher input costs.
Led by Delights breakfast sandwiches, Jimmy Dean continued to post strong volume and sales growth in the quarter. The acceptance of the new products that extend Jimmy Dean beyond breakfast has also been positive. Hillshire Farm lunchmeat has continued to perform well behind strong advertising and new products. Aidells posted double-digit volume and sales growth as both smoked sausage and meatballs maintained strong momentum.
Net sales increased 4.0% as commodity-driven pricing and favorable mix offset volume declines. Excluding commodity meat sales, net sales increased 5.3%. Operating segment income increased 9.6% versus the prior year behind increased sales and continued cost management.
Sales in the convenience store channel grew despite weather-related traffic declines. Bakery products, including the Bistro brand and Luxe Layer pies, continued to gain market share through increased distribution.
Excluding significant items, corporate expenses for the quarter totaled $5 million, benefiting from cost favorability, timing of expenses, and $1 million of favorable mark-to-market gains.
Capital Allocation
On April 21, 2014, the Company announced a definitive agreement to acquire Van's Natural Foods. Van's is a leading better-for-you food brand that offers multiple product lines in frozen breakfast and snack foods. The company expects the transaction to close in May 2014, pending regulatory clearance, with a total purchase price of $165 million in cash.
The company now expects full-year sales growth in the low single digits and adjusted diluted EPS to be at the high end of the previously provided range. In the fourth quarter, the company expects margins to be lower than those achieved year to date given sharply higher input costs and planned investments in merchandising to support the important grilling season.
Corporate expenses are now expected to be between $40-$45 million, excluding significant items and mark-to-market adjustments. The company continues to expect an adjusted effective tax rate of 35-36% and continues to expect net interest expense of approximately $40 million.
The Hillshire Brands Company's review of its third quarter fiscal year 2014 results will be broadcast live via the Internet today at 9:30 a.m. CDT. The live webcast, together with the slides reviewed during the webcast, can be accessed in the Investor Relations section on www.hillshirebrands.com. For people who are unable to listen to the webcast live, a recording will be available on the website at 2:00 p.m. CDT on the day of the webcast until November 6, 2014.
Original source: Hillshire Brands
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For Summer Ramadan, Faithful Go Nearly 17 Hours Daily Without Food, Drink
By Sameea Kamal, The Hartford Courant
Hena Zakir is training to be an EMT: checking vital signs, running medical tests, talking to patients and assessing them for trauma – all the while, going nearly 17 hours without food.
And Tuesday was just Day 1 of her 30-day Ramadan fast.
Zakir is Muslim. Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, requires the faithful to abstain from food and drink, along with sexual activity and habits like smoking, from sunrise to sunset each day.
The Islamic calendar is based on the lunar cycle, which varies from the solar calendar. That means the start date of Ramadan moves up roughly 11 days each year, so while about a dozen years ago it was in December -- when sunset, when fasters can eat again, is before 5 p.m. -- it's now in the summer, where the sun doesn't set till about 8:30 p.m.
There are about 6 million Muslims in the U.S. and almost 2,000 mosques, Muslim schools and Islamic centers, according to the Council of American-Islamic Relations. A 2007 Pew Research Center survey found that 77 percent of all U.S. Muslims said fasting during Ramadan is "very important."
For Zakir, it's a time of gratitude, and empathizing with the poor.
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David Gibson reports at RNS: The nuns are back on the bus, this time riding for immigration reform. My story is here, but just as interesting is that they seem to be drawing support from their erstwhile antagonists, the bishops. … Continue reading
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Pacem In Terris 97: A Cautionary Note
Does this cautionary note ring true, do you think? Read it: 97. It is worth noting, however, that these minority groups, in reaction, perhaps, to the enforced hardships of their present situation, or to historical circumstances, frequently tend to magnify … Continue reading
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A Few Space Things
Another Carnival of Space, the 303rd, is up. They linked my post on planets from last week. I've been keeping up with the Astronomy Picture of the Day. I hope you have that site bookmarked for a daily read. I've … Continue reading
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Firstly, it contains Gluconolactone and Lactobionic Acid to gently, yet effectively exfoliate dry, rough skin. This blend will also even out skin tone and improve rough texture while reducing fine lines and wrinkles. Furthermore, it contains Tocopheryl Acetate, a powerful antioxidant that provides protection against free-radicals and environmental damages. Lastly, Meadowfoam Seed Oil will sufficiently moisturise your skin, leaving it soft and healthy.
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In his Apostolic Letter: Tertio Millennio Adveniente, of November 14, 1994, Bl. John Paul notes that: Time is indeed fulfilled by the very fact that God, in the Incarnation, came down into human history….and….In Jesus Christ, the Word made flesh, time becomes a dimension of God, who is Himself eternal. With the coming of Christ there begin "the last days"….the "last hour"…and the time of the Church, which will last until the Parousia. From this relationship of God with time there arises the duty to sanctify time. [paras.9, 10]
It is the eve of Palm Sunday/Passion Sunday, the threshold of the holiest week of the year, the week wherein Christ Jesus Incarnate will institute the essential food for our journey through time, the source of all we need to sanctify time, His very self in the Holy Eucharist, leaving us Himself also in the sacramental priesthood so we are never orphans, never deprived of the Sacred Food of His very self; then will come the day when to the last drop of His Blood He will pour Himself out in His redemptive love for us, opening the treasury of divine mercy, transforming the terror of death into the gateway of eternal life for when He arises all will be well, time will have achieved its purpose, namely to be the ocean upon which we travel in the bark of Peter from the shores of our created beginning, to the other side where He awaits us with His, the Father's, the Holy Spirit's everlasting embrace of love.
I will admit when the proclamation of the prologue of St. John's Gospel was part of the end sequence of ever Holy Mass I never really understood why – now I do and admit I wish we would have it restored so that, as we all would genuflect, as we in those former days at the words: Et Verbum caro factum est……. we would grasp anew the splendour, the grace-gift, the purpose of our existence in the mystery of chronological time, transformed, indeed taken up into the mystery of the Trinity by Jesus Incarnate so that, in reality, we live no longer bound by chronological time but in the freedom of kyros [ in Greek Kairos] : that is the Lord's time for as the Church wisely proclaims each Christmas 'this IS the night/day' – and each Easter 'this IS the night/day', indeed both solemnities are celebrated in the 'this is' for 8 days reminding us that time is in large part a great mystery as St. Peter teaches us speaking of the reality of a thousand as one and one as a thousand. [cf. 2 Pt. 3:8]
v. 14: And the word became flesh and dwelt among us….
Each of we human beings one way or another dwells amongst the 'us' of the human family.
We are created because two of us, hopefully in a committed union of love, knowingly or not, making the gift of self to other also make a gift of the necessary matter within which God breathes His very self, creating each one of us by a choice which is His choosing "I" that I should have existence in His image and likeness, an existence whose immediate and ultimate purpose is communion of love with Him, indeed in Him and through Him and for Him.
The 'for Him' is because while not a necessity as in we human beings have a necessity for air, water, food, etc., His being infinite of infinite Love, chooses not simply to create us as beings who are beloved but makes it that our loving Him becomes our very joy.
He dwells among us appearing as an ordinary baby, born of a woman, going through all the realities of human life, growth, development.
God journeying in time as we do from infant to toddler to child to juvenile to adulthood.
More, He dwells among us as, like each of us, needing air, water, food, clothing, shelter, companionship, not exempting Himself from poverty or cold, vulnerability or heartache, loneliness, betrayal, pain or even death.
Do you dwell among us as a homeless person with nowhere to lay your head, orphan, with a single parent or widowed mother, fleeing as a refugee, as one who labours with your hands or is engaged in intellectual work, a person enduring temptation or doubt, hunger, thirst, rejection, abandonment, being arrested, accused, tortured, betrayed, convicted, executed?
He has dwelt among us, indeed dwells among us in every reality/experience of every human being.
v.14:….and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
St. John is writing down his account of the life, teachings, sufferings, death, resurrection of Jesus towards the end of his own life, in his old age when he himself, one who had so loved and been faithful to Jesus, was about to cross the threshold, to arrive at the far shores of time and through death meet again, this time never to be departed from, the One Who loved/loves him and whom He loved/loves.
The glory, St. John refers to here is both that manifested in miracles, such as at the wedding feast in Cana, and a reference to the glorious beauty of the risen Jesus, also, more than any of the evangelists, St. John give us the most extensive teachings and prayers of Jesus in relation to His Father, as shall be meditated upon further on the deeper we go into the Gospel.
For now, in an age when the greatest distortion of truth is relativism, in an age when countless people declare either no need of nor belief in God, how urgently we Christians need to pray, in particularly during Holy Week, that ever human being will come to know, listen to, follow, embrace the One who not only 'dwelt' among us but through the Church, the Eucharist in particular, still dwells among us.
Thus we truly sanctify time!


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Nannaku Prematho Hindi Dubbed Watch Online Full Movie (2016)
Nannaku Prematho is a 2016 Telugu action family drama film written and directed by Sukumar and produced by B. V. S. N. Prasad under Sri Venkateswara Cine Chitra, Bhogavalli Bapineedu, and Reliance Entertainment. The crossover cinema set up in London features NTR and Rakul Preet Singh in the lead roles while Jagapati Babu and Rajendra Prasad played crucial supporting roles. Nannaku Prematho marks the 25th film of Rama Rao Jr. as an actor.
Nannaku Prematho Hindi Dubbed Watch Online Full Movie (2016)
|IMDB Rating: 8.4/10 from 4,378 votes
|Released: 2016 / Nannaku Prematho (Hindi Dubbed)
|Genres: Action | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
|Director: Sukumar
|Language: Hindi Dubbed
|Stars: Junior N.T.R., Rakul Preet Singh, Jagapathi Babu
|Synopsis: Abhi (Jr NTR) takes up a mission to bring down multi-billionaire Krishna Murthy (Jagapathi Babu) to ground zero as he cheated his father Prasad (Rajendra Prasad). Abhi's father wants to take revenge on Krishna Murthy before he dies, so he plans a mind game to fulfill his father's final wish. Rest is about the mind games between Abhi and Krishna Murthy.
|Plot: Abhiram (Jr. NTR), the youngest son of London-based Subramanyam (Rajendra Prasad), quits his job and starts his own company, KMC Pipes, and Canals. He comes to know that his father is suffering from pancreatic cancer and has roughly a month or more to live. Subramanyam reveals his name as Ramesh Chandra Prasad, one of London's richest entrepreneurs, who lost all his wealth because of a cunning man, Krishnamurthy Kautilya, who made his empire cheating Ramesh Chandra. He was then forced to change his name to Subramanyam and got rich again after years of work. Subramanyam requests his 3 sons to take revenge on his behalf. His son lies to him that he has filed a lawsuit against Krishnamurthy in order to pacify him.


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All right folks, time for another chance to snag a killer book. Crimespree, in conjunction with Friday Reads Facebook page, is giving each and every one of you a chance to receive THE SEVEN WONDERS by Steven Saylor or THE KEY by Simon Toyne.
An enthralling prequel to Steven Saylor's bestselling Roma Sub Rosa series of mysteries set in the Ancient World
The year is 92 B.C. Gordianus has just turned eighteen and is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime: a far-flung journey to see the Seven Wonders of the World. Gordianus is not yet called "the Finder"—but at each of the Seven Wonders, the wide-eyed young Roman encounters a mystery to challenge the powers of deduction.
Accompanying Gordianus on his travels is his tutor, Antipater of Sidon, the world's most celebrated poet. But there is more to the apparently harmless old poet than meets the eye. Before they leave home, Antipater fakes his own death and travels under an assumed identity. Looming in the background are the first rumblings of a political upheaval that will shake the entire Roman world.
Teacher and pupil journey to the fabled cities of Greece and Asia Minor, and then to Babylon and Egypt. They attend the Olympic Games, take part in exotic festivals, and marvel at the most spectacular constructions ever devised by mankind. Along the way they encounter murder, witchcraft and ghostly hauntings. Traveling the world for the first time, Gordianus discovers that amorous exploration goes hand-in-hand with crime-solving. The mysteries of love are the true wonders of the world, and at the end of the journey, an Eighth Wonder awaits him in Alexandria. Her name is Bethesda.
STEVEN SAYLOR is the author of EMPIRE: THE NOVEL OF IMPERIAL ROME (2010), a follow-up to the international bestseller ROMA: THE NOVEL OF ANCIENT ROME (2007). These two epic novels comprise a multi-generational saga that spans the first 1200 years of the city, from Iron Age trading post to the height of empire under Hadrian.
Steven is also the author of the ROMA SUB ROSA® series of historical mysteries featuring Gordianus the Finder and set in the ancient Rome of Cicero, Caesar, and Cleopatra. The novels, in chronological order, are: ROMAN BLOOD (1991), ARMS OF NEMESIS (1992), CATILINA'S RIDDLE (1994), THE VENUS THROW (1995), A MURDER ON THE APPIAN WAY (1996), RUBICON (1999), LAST SEEN IN MASSILIA (2000), A MIST OF PROPHECIES (2002), THE JUDGMENT OF CAESAR (2004), and THE TRIUMPH OF CAESAR (2008). Steven is now at work on the next volume in the series, a prequel that will take the young Gordianus to the Seven Wonders of the World.
Steven's short stories about Gordianus have appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and in several original anthologies. The first, "A Will Is a Way," won the 1993 Robert L. Fish Award from the Mystery Writers of America, given each year for the best debut short story in the mystery genre. All the Gordianus short stories have been collected in two volumes, THE HOUSE OF THE VESTALS (1997) and A GLADIATOR DIES ONLY ONCE (2005). "The Eagle and the Rabbit," a short story about Rome v. Carthage (outside the Roma Sub Rosa series), appeared in the 2010 anthology WARRIORS.
Outside the Roman books are two novels set in Steven's native Texas. A TWIST AT THE END (2000) is based on America's first recorded serial murders, which terrorized Austin, Texas in 1885. The chief protagonist is young Will Porter, who later became famous as O. Henry. HAVE YOU SEEN DAWN? (2003) is a contemporary thriller set in a small Texas town not unlike the one where Steven grew up. Be sure to visit him on Facebook.
A woman must fulfill an enigmatic prophecy involving a nefarious religious order and a highly secretive Vatican-like city in this electrifying follow-up to the acclaimed debut thriller Sanctus. The prophecy has been revealed but the battle has only just begun . . .
With the prophecy seemingly fulfilled and the Sancti all but destroyed-Liv Adamsen returns to America. But she is unable to recall the events that unfolded within the ancient walls of the religious enclave known as the Citadel. Why can't she remember? Why does she feel like she is possessed by an otherworldly entity? Why can only she hear a word whispered repeatedely-KuShiKaam-the key? And what does it mean?
Liv is eventually reunited and falls more deeply in love with the mysterious Gabriel, a warrior for a group working to bring down the Sancti forever. Together they uncover a revelation dating back to the creation of man, exposing yet more secrets from Citadel.
Back in Ruin, the Citadel is gripped by a spreading plague. Few Sancti have survived. Enlisting the help of a network of Vatican spies who have monitored the World for millennia-the Sancti are determined to reclaim the Sacrament and their power.
Before it's too late, Liv and Gabriel must elude capture and journey to the place where all life began . . . the wellspring of humanity that holds answers-and the key-to mankind's survival.
Simon Toyne
Simon Toyne has worked in British tele-vision for twenty years. He was the writer, director, and producer of several award-winning shows, one of which won a BAFTA. He lives in England with his wife and family. The Key is the second volume of the Ruin trilogy. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
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