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Happy anniversary, Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth!
The 40-year-old Oscar-winning actress and the 45-year-old talent agent are celebrating five years of marriage.
Witherspoon posted on her Instagram page Saturday a black and white photo of her and Toth sitting on a couch together with her hand covering his.
"Happy anniversary to my sweet husband!" she wrote. "I love you, JT! #5years."
Witherspoon and Toth two wed on March 26, 2011 at her ranch in Ojai, Calif. in front of family and friends, including Gwyneth Paltrow and then-husband Chris Martin, Sacha Baron Cohen and Robert Downey Jr. with wife Susan Downey and Tobey Maguire. Witherspoon and Toth share a 3-year-old son, Tennessee James.
"Every day, I'm so thankful to have this amazing man as my partner," the actress wrote on Facebook last year. "I would not be where I am in this life if I didn't have his constant encouragement and complete support. He changes diapers, makes carpool runs and always has time to give me a much needed pep talk...(He makes a really good latte too!)"
Witherspoon had also commemorated her and Toth's fourth wedding anniversary with a sweet Instagram photo and message.
Witherspoon credits Toth with helping to inspire her to take the next step in her Hollywood career: Producing.
"He said, 'You should produce movies. You read more books than anybody I know. You should just buy some of them and turn them into films,'" Witherspoon quoted Toth as saying, in an interview with Harper's Bazaar posted in January.
The actress' production company, Pacific Standard, helped make her 2014 film Wild, which earned her an Oscar nomination, Gone Girl, which garnered Rosamund Pike a nod, and the comedy Hot Pursuit, which featured Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara. Witherspoon is also co-producing her new HBO comedy series Big Little Lies, which also stars Nicole Kidman, Alexander Skarsgård and her Wild co-star Laura Dern and is set to premiere in 2017.
Witherspoon's former company, Type A Films, co-produced the big-screen and straight-to-video sequels to her hit film Legally Blonde.
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Advantages of Regular Chiropractic Care
Many people think that chiropractic care is also a technique that is meant for the sick and the injured patients. The truth is chiropractic care is a healthy routine that should be practiced from time to time. Regular chiropractic care is important for maintaining health and also managing musculoskeletal pain and injuries in patients. This is why it is always advisable to visit a chiropractor from time to time. Just like regular massage chiropractic care by an expert is necessary and it is therapeutic. If you start going for regular chiropractic care, you will identify the many benefits of the practice.
Reasons for regular chiropractic care
Maintain a good posture
Maintaining a good posture is an important activity that everyone should practice. Unfortunately, many people struggle with poor posture due to poor sitting posture. Long hours sitting on the chair makes the back and the neck stiff. It is important to get an expert who will able to help you correct and improve posture.
If you are struggling with poor posture, a chiropractor will help you straighten your back and neck posture, and you will regain back your posture. With a good posture, you will not only look good, but you will also feel good.
Relieving stress
Relieving stress is one of the important benefits if chiropractic care. When stressed due to fatigue or mental stress, it is important to look for a way to relieve the stress. Most of the people who complain about stress say that they feel tension at the back.
The work of a chiropractor is to help ease tension at the back. Easing the tension in the back muscle is a good way to release and manage stress. Chiropractic care that is meant to ease stress is therapeutic and leaves the body feeling relaxed.
Improve immune and sleep
People suffering from a weak immune and poor sleep patterns can benefit from the services of a chiropractor. A chiropractor works by manipulating the spine to gain various benefits in the body. The spine is the center of various neurons including those responsible for boosting the immune. By manipulating the spine, the body is encouraged to send messages to various parts of the body and boost the immune.
Apart from boosting immune, chiropractic care can also encourage better sleep. This is due to the effects that chiropractic care has in relieving tension. When the body is less tense, then the body is relaxed and thus better sleep.


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Race, Health and Inequality: Producing an HIV Epidemic in the Shadow of the Capitol
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Race, Health and Inequality: Producing an HIV Epidemic in the Shadow of the Capitol
Racial health disparities are among the most intransigent and enduring markers of inequality in the United States. Blacks in the U.S. have higher rates of illness and death compared to other race/ethnic groups, and these disparities have persisted for decades. Drawing on life history and key informant interviews as well as a variety of contemporary and archival sources, my book will examine the unique configuration of social-structural and demographic processes which came together to produce disproportionate and persistent health vulnerability for African Americans.
Specifically focusing on the case of the Washington D.C. HIV epidemic, the book will explore the combined and contingent roles of migration, racial residential segregation, concentrated poverty, drug epidemics, the War on Drugs, and mass incarceration in shaping individual HIV vulnerability. Respondent life histories are woven throughout the book to illustrate how these larger social structural processes came to shape their individual choices, HIV acquisition, and their lives following diagnosis as they transitioned to older ages.
While much of the book focuses on one setting - Washington DC – and one disease – HIV/AIDS – the book also explores the extent to which the ubiquity of many of these processes, and the consequent institutionalized structures of inequality they set in place, may also underlie the production of racial health disparities in other parts of the U.S.


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Maharashtra Board class XII results 2017: Girls outshine boys with passing percentage of 93.2The overall pass percentage in Maharashtra stood at 89.50. A total of 14,29,478 students appeared for the exam this year and of them 12,79,406 passed
India TV News Desk New Delhi May 30, 2017 14:29 IST
The results for the class XII examinations of the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) were declared today.With a passing percentage of 93.20, the girls outperformed boys in these exams. The passing percentage of boys stood at 86.65.
The overall pass percentage in Maharashtra stood at 89.50.The results for all the nine divisions - Pune, Mumbai, Nagpur, Nashik, Amravati, Aurangabad, Kolhapur, Latur and Konkan - were simultaneously declared.
14,29,478 students appeared for the exam this year and of them 12,79,406 passed, he said. Konkan division scored highest passing percentage with 95.20 whereas Mumbai was lowest with 88.21, the official added.
Students can check their Class 12 Maharashtra Boards results on mahresult.nic.in by following these steps:
- Log on to official website mahresult.nic.in
- Click on the result tab
- Click on the link flashing Class XII Higher Secondary Certificate HSC results 2017
- Enter your Hall Ticket No and other details in the fields provided
- Click on View Result
- Download the Maharashtra HSC Results 2017 and take a printout for future reference
After the announcement of 12th results, those candidates who have doubt for paper correction they can apply for re-correction or revaluation or for recounting exam papers, the Maharashtra 12th Results 2017 of re-correction or revaluation and recounting results will be released in 10-20 days.
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Oh, now that's persistence. I just think it's really cool that you do this. I don't do it myself but read about it a couple of years ago and finally ran into you who does it. If I ever start doing it, I think I will set up an account on geocaching and share with you. Here's to many good finds for you.
There wasn't anything too exciting in this one, Judy. My dad and I went to find it mainly because my uncle had hid at almost a year ago and no one had found it yet. We ALMOST gave up as it was nearly 300 feet from the coordinates. I did rescue some travel bugs though. You can add me on geocaching.com as a friend if you would like - pez84
Wow, I never have actually encountered a real life person who geocaches. What did you find? This layout is beautiful too. :)
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In the sequel to THE ROSE AND THE DRAGON, Happily Ever After appears in sight for everyone in the House of Andrus. As Dominic puts into motion his plans to transform his family into law-abiding citizens, brother Kit flaunts Imperial law to openly declare his love for Miranda Wilson. Son and heir Niki prepares for his long-awaited marriage to his beloved Ardala.
Then tragedy strikes as old nemesis Detective Ceran Synubis arrests Kit, Dom, and Niki, and takes Miranda into protective custody. In the clutches of an alien justice system where a man is guilty unless he can prove otherwise, Miranda is forced to be the Prosecution's chief witness in a trial where the truth will convict the man she loves of a crime he didn't commit, unless a miracle, or a long-hidden secret, can save him...
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"…if you're the Rose, Randa, then I'm the Dragon," Kit's green eyes stared into hers as he lifted her fingers and kissed them. "And this Dragon loves you very, very much..."
Miranda was smiling as she came completely awake. Yawning, she flung both arms outward, one hand striking cool, firm flesh which reacted by pressing against her open palm. Strong arms encircled her waist. She opened her eyes and stared directly into Kit's.
"Good morning, lovely lady." He sounded much too chipper for someone just awakened, with none of that just-barely-conscious laziness. The hoarse edges in Kitten Andrus' voice were natural, and so sexy it give Miranda inner shivers, especially when hearing it after coming out of such an arousing dream.
"'Morning…" she mumbled, before asking suspiciously, "How long have you been awake?"
"Couple of hours, I suppose." His reply was careless as he reached out and brushed the tousled blonde hair back from her forehead. "Long enough to give me plenty of time to lie here and watching you sleep. Mmm. Tasty sight."
"Oh, please!" She looked away, embarrassed at the affection behind the words despite his ironic tone. "I'm sure that was a pleasure. Me, lying here with my mouth wide open. Snoring, drooling…"
"True, but it was a very ladylike little snore," he corrected, eyes twinkling. "And the drooling? Only a drop or two." He caught her by the shoulder, turning her to face him again, and kissed her. "Good morning, Randa, m'darling."
For just a moment, Miranda didn't move. Having Kit openly express his love for her was so new it still shocked her. Every time it happened, which was becoming more and more frequently, she was startled into immobility with the surprise of it, as well as that sudden flood of warm, almost devastating love it always brought with it.
They say there's someone for every one but I had to come to another planet to find mine. I still can't believe this man loves me! The moment was broken as she put her arms around his neck and returned the kiss, snuggling closer to him, resting her head against his chest. His skin was cool, body temperature much lower than a Terran's, his heartbeat, though loud and clear against her ear and faster than her own, came from the right side of that broad, curly-haired chest.
My darling, darling extra-terrestrial!
"You were smiling," her own private E.T. began.
"I was dreaming," she told him, and smiled again.
"About what?"
"Unh-uh, that'd be telling." She twisted around to look up at him, grinning. "Maybe I don't want you to know about my dreams. That's pretty personal, you know."
"Oh?" He raised one dark brow inquisitively.
"I might have been dreaming about my secret lover."
"Hm." Both brows dipped into a black V over those green eyes. "Is that supposed to make me jealous? Of someone lurking only in your brain? At least I hope that's the only place he's lurking."


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I know this has been mentioned before, but couldn't the original topic. But was the Network like the CIA and FBI in one? For being so-called top secret. Nancy Drew knows about it and I don't think she's ever worked for them!And when they went aboard, they had something in England. I would say the UK, but I know they split like last year. Frank and Joe have gone against the agency before, and then it seemed like it was written out?


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HackIllinois 2014 was my first Hackathon ever, and boy was it an experience. It was a lot of fun, and our team was able to make something really neat: the nextWAVE.
nextWAVE solves the 'problem' of not knowing how long to microwave your food. We built an Android app that allows you to scan barcodes, and look up cook times in a Firebase Database. The app can be launched using an NFC tag. Then, the app can turn on the microwave via wifi using a Spark Core Microcontroller. While your food is cooking, the cook time is displayed on a Pebble Smartwatch App. Finally, when the food is done cooking, it will open itself and play "Funky Town".
You can view all the source code here and see a video of the working microwave here.
Team Brady Rocks built nextWAVE in 36 hours.
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Special thanks to Isaac DuPree for designing the logo.
EDIT: I wanted to make the video easier to find. Thanks for all the views, folks!
EDIT AGAIN: We've been featured on Hack A Day, which is amazing and Break.com for some reason. We'd like to thank everyone for all the views, all the support, and all the suggestions. We'd especially like to thank Spark, our microcontroller platform, and Firebase, our database platform, from whom we won an Honorable Mention at HackIllinois.
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Michelle Malkin has the full story of how Palin's e-mail got hacked. Basically, the little goober exploited the forget your password feature of Yahoo mail which asked questions about Palin which were all common knowledge. Hopefully this exposure will get them to change their security.
Anywho, I like this quote from the "hacker":
I read though the emails… ALL OF THEM… before I posted, and what I concluded was anticlimactic, there was nothing there, nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped, all I saw was personal stuff, some clerical stuff from when she was governor…. And pictures of her family
Wow. Nothing incriminating. Maybe because you're actually the amoral scumbag and not her?
Anyway, look like the dork is the son of a Tennessee state rep (Democrat, of course).
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Finishing up the nine-game road trip and being the last time the Amazin's will have to use the designated hitter (until of course the world series ;-)), the Mets hit early and often despite a bad start by Johan Santana and an iffy ninth to complete the sweep of the Tampa Bay Rays by a score of 9-6.
Johan Santana was on the hill to get the sweep for New York, going toe-to-toe with 2011 AL Rookie of the Year Jeremy Hellickson. Coming off a bruiser of an outing against the cross-town rival Yankees, Santana had another rough outing. The two-time Cy Young award winner allowed three runs in the second in the form of a Matt Joyce 2-run double and an Elliot Johnson RBI single. The Rays would tack on another run in the next frame on a double by Ben Zobrist to tie up the game at four a piece. After loading the bases, Santana would be relieved with no outs in the sixth for Jon Rauch who would get him out of the inning unscathed. Santana would finish the evening with 5+ innings pitched, allowing four earned runs on six hits and four walks while punching out six.
The Mets bats continued to dismantle one of the best pitching staffs in baseball today, scoring in each of the first four innings to force Hellickson's ERA to rise faster than the number of Jon Rauch's followers on Twitter.
Kirk Nieuwenhuis got the ball rolling with a solo shot in the first. Then, –one of the most unlikely sources– Jason Bay hit a jack of his own in the following frame to make it a 2-0 lead. Down 3-2, Lucas Duda hit a long fly ball to score Jordany Valdespin and tie the game up. The resurgent Ike Davis continued his turnaround, having a good at-bat before chopping one through the hole and over Carlos Pena to score David Wright and hand the Mets a 4-3 lead.
Continuing the theme of two-out hitting, the Mets had six straight batters reach base and tallied four times to put New York in the driver's seat. Quintanilla started it off with a knock, which was followed by Kirk's second home run of the ballgame. Then with two on, Lucas Duda hit a bases clearing double to dead center to make it an 8-4 ballgame.
From here Santana bared down to put together two hitless innings before being relieved by Rauch in the sixth. Rauch promptly struck out the first two batters to face him and got Elliot Johnson to ground out to end the threat.
Fast forward to the ninth. After Ike Davis drove home Wright to make it 9-4, Miguel Batista came on to pitch the bottom half of the innings, and when I say pitched, I use that term lightly. After getting his first man out, Batista walked two and gave up an RBI single before being taken out for Frank Francisco, who now entered in a save situation. Quintanilla tried to do too much and ended up with getting nobody out and letting a run score to make it 9-6.
After Francisco punched out BJ Upton and walked Hideki Matsui walked on the tight strikezone by Laz Diaz to load the bases with two out, Ben Zobrist –already with two doubles on the day– stepped in. On the seventh pitch of the at-bat, on a 3-2 count, Francisco struck out Zobrist on a called 87-mph splitter to end the ballgame.
Hero Of The Game:
Kirk Nieuwenhuis, for his two home runs on the day that proved to be the difference in this game.
-Santana picked up his fourth win of the year to improve to 4-3. Of course the day Santana doesn't have it, his team picks up a win for him.
-With 3 RBIs, Lucas Duda now leads the team with 40 RBIs on the season.
-Wright hit his 21st double, part of his three-hit game to boost his average to .358 on the year.
-Ike Davis is looking much better at the plate as he not only had a two hit game, but drove in another two runs and boosted his average to .188
-Everyone in the lineup had a hit today except for Daniel Murphy, who continues to struggle mightily.
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Hey there! Okay, so sorry for being a bit lame as of late. Totally was MIA here on the blog yesterday (well, I guess technically my Friday late night post ended in the wee hours of Saturday morning) and then things were kind of touch and go towards the end of last week.
I was just feeling pretty tired and run down and things came to a nice crashing halt yesterday. So what has my exciting, living it up twenty-something lifestyle kept be busy doing the past two days? A whole lotta nothing exciting…namely sleeping. I can usually get a good sense of how I'm doing/feeling by my workouts and on Saturday I had wanted to do a harder workout and get in more miles than ended up happening.
But it was one of those times when the first five minutes feel like a sucker punch to the face, the first mile passes and you just tell yourself you'll get into the 'groove' and feel better as you keep going. That does happen a lot, I mean I do always tell people the hardest part of working out is usually getting going and the first few steps. That five minute benchmark is a funny one, before that you can feel like death but then 5:01 ticks by and you say, 'Hey this isn't so bad.'
But after three miles rolled by and that would usually be the end of my warm-up I knew there wasn't going to be a tempo effort in me for the day. I finished somewhere over 8 miles, did some arm weights, lunges, and called it a day. I just felt zapped and tired and hoped that a little extra rest day would leave me feeling fresher by the morning. I slothed around and made good friends with my pillow. If competitive sleeping were a real sport, then sign me up! So basically foodage and nappage. I know how to do my Saturdays up in full party fashion, right? Sad when I'm about as wild as the geriatric ward.
Well, today I'm still feeling in my little tired funk…but not as bad. It doesn't really make total make sense, I was hoping I'd feel better and maybe that tempo would happen. I'm not gonna lie, I still feel guilty 'skipping' a hard workout even though I'm not actually training for a race. It's still hard for me to cut myself a break and not feel like I'm just a complaining slacker. But being that those 'easy' 8 miles felt way harder than they should have I tried to tell myself that my legs felt like lead bricks and forcing a workout wasn't smart, being that I knew it would have ended pretty ugly.
So I'm hoping that the old bod just needed some extra R and R and should be back to full strength soon. I don't know if I'm a little sick or something. I put in my 8 miles and change, then some core and abs. And just laying low for the rest of the night.
Funny as it sounds, as long as I'm able to still get my run in I feel partially okay with just being a slug for the rest of the day. I figure I earned my right to be lazy. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather be out and doing something fun with my friends or family but this weekend was going to be low-key whether I liked it or not. That's okay, there were plenty of other blogs I could read where people were doing much more thrilling endeavors so I can vicariously live through them. There was also plenty of action to read about happening on the track at USA Nat's. And if I watched a bunch of awesome athletes busting their @$$es, that's gotta count for some kind of extra workout. I sweat just as much as I raised fork to lips as they did on the bell lap, right? Sure, Cait, whatever your irrational mind wants to fool you into thinking.
Well, all this tying is just a bit too much exertion for me, so I'll be off. Sorry this is both a boring post and somewhat one with me just complaining. Something I really don't like to do all that much of. I know there are days or stretches that we feel run down, and a few days ago the topic of denying that you're sick was raised at Shut Up and Run. I think lots of us do that, or we don't like to admit we're tired; sometimes I think we do it to fool no one other than ourselves. I don't think I'm alone in feeling that niggling 'guilt' if we don't do a workout the way we had planned it to be and opt for an easy run instead. Or even take a rest day completely. In our sport we are constantly navigating the fine line between doing enough but not too much. Recognizing 'normal' pain of exertion versus the different pain of a potential injury. Being smart enough to back off when you should but being gritty enough to not back off and push to the finish if you're just feeling the muscle burn of a hard race or workout.
So admitting to ourselves that we are sick or overly tired makes us feel lazy or like a complainer. But really it shouldn't, I think that's why having a coach or an outside person can help. They can be the one who 'gives you permission' to cut yourself some slack if it's obvious you need it. It doesn't make you a weak person and in the long run it's for the better. So I'm hoping my few low-key days will leave me feeling a little fresher in the upcoming week and I'll be able to get that dang tempo done so I won't have it weighing on my conscious. And I mean I did still put in some miles. 🙂
1) What did you do this weekend? I'm sure even those at the Sun River Retirement Community must have outdone me this time. 🙂
2) Do you know the 'guilt' I'm talking about?
3) Did you have a race this weekend? Time to bust out the bragging…let's hear it and don't be shy!


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Taylor Tomasi & Johnathan "Chase" Hill
Text by Allison Hatfield
A decade in New York City can change a person. People grow; preferences shift. And when fashion is your line of work, the evolution can be magnified. Which is why when Taylor Tomasi began planning her wedding, she ran into some challenges. What plays in Dallas wasn't necessarily going to win her vote.
Piles of crystals, a forest of flowers, showy decor in every inch of a room—none of it appealed to the Teen Vogue accessories director. "My whole outlook on design is 'keep it simple,'" she explains. "Dallas tends to be 'bigger is better,' but we didn't want that. My aesthetics have changed so much since I left, and I wanted to make sure that really came through."
But first came love.
For Taylor and her now husband, Johnathan "Chase" Hill, the road to the altar began in 1993, when both were attending Highland Park High School and were far too young to be called a couple. She had just finished eighth grade; he was a grade ahead. They didn't start dating until Chase was a senior bound for New York City. Taylor followed him to the Pratt Institute, where they both got a degree in industrial design. It would be nearly 10 years from that point before Chase would ask Taylor to marry him: he pulled out a ring while they were in a taxi crossing the Williamsburg Bridge to their home in Manhattan.
Then came marriage.
Taylor worked with Todd Event Design to get the look she wanted. Initial ideas were rejected. "They wanted to go with 'A Perfect Pair' and put a pear on everybody's plate. They wanted to hang chandeliers in the trees—and that's so not us," she says. Eventually, however, the design team pulled back enough to suit Taylor's tastes.
"We went with a Gatsby theme—very 1920s, very sweet, nothing overdone or over the top, not too fussy but very romantic," Taylor says. "We tried to make it really us."
And it was simply beautiful.
The event took place on May 17, 2008, beginning at 6 in the evening. After the ceremony at Highland Park Presbyterian Church, the celebration moved to the Nasher Sculpture Center garden, where two long tables were set up on the lawn. Little round white lights strung tree to tree created a glowy atmosphere and a soft mood (tip of the hat to Chase, who worked at the time as a lighting designer). Small arrangements of pink and white ranunculus and peonies ran down the middle of the tables. The food was as understated as the rest of the affair—Wolfgang Puck-created Caprese salad and steak. Plus a gorgeous cake by Le Gateau.
Guests danced well into the night. A DJ friend flown in from New York made sure of that. And when it came time to say goodnight, Taylor and Chase departed in a vintage taxi on loan from a McKinney man, neither gold-hatted nor high-bouncing but lovers all the same.
Ceremony Site: Highland Park Presbyterian Church
Photographer: Stephen Karlisch Photography
Bridal Gown Designer: J. Mendel; Alexander McQueen
Hair & Makeup: Tanya Carpenter & Michael Flores/Michael Flores Salon
Flowers: Todd Event Design
Reception Venue: Nasher Sculpture Center Garden
Cake: La Gateau
Caterer: Wolfgang Puck
Videographer: Dean Markham
Entertainment: The Haywire Band; Matt Creed
Planner/Designer: Todd Event Design
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A difficult third quarter at PepsiCo, Inc., particularly the company's Americas Beverages business, makes clear why the company is intently focused on improving results in what is the largest division at the company in its current reporting structure.
By most measures, Pepsi Americas Beverages was the worst performing unit at PepsiCo during the quarter ended Sept. 8. Volume for the segment fell 3%, while the remainder of PepsiCo's divisions achieved positive volume growth, save Europe, off 1%. Net revenue, down 6% on a core basis, was worse than five of the six other segments. Core operating profit, down 15%, underperformed every other PepsiCo segment — Frito-Lay North America, Latin American Foods, Quaker Foods North America, Europe and Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA).
Overall, operating income for the Americas Beverages division was $837 million in the third quarter ended Sept. 8, while revenues were $5,530 million.
The lower operating profit was attributed principally to higher commodity costs as well as elevated advertising and marketing expense. The impact of the higher costs was partly blunted by favorable effective net pricing and savings resulting from productivity initiatives, the company said. Costing the segment 2 percentage points in operating profit performance was a refranchising of the division's Mexican beverage business.
The revenue decline represented a reversal from the second quarter when net revenue was higher, bolstered by strong pricing and good performance in small format and wholesale club channels. At the time, PepsiCo leadership was upbeat about its strategies.
"We remain highly disciplined in the execution of our price pack and channel strategies, and as a result, we are seeing very good performance in the immediate consumption packages, which led to strong net revenue growth in the C-store channel and we are seeing good, stable value per share performance relative to our primary competitor in measured channels," said Indra Nooyi, chairman and chief executive officer, after the second-quarter results were issued.
The performance arc of a vaunted new product, largely mirrors how the division has done overall as 2012 has progressed. The Next brand was introduced in March, described by Pepsi as "a game-changer in the cola category," the first product "to deliver real cola taste with 60% less sugar than Pepsi-Cola."
In a spring conference call, Ms. Nooyi described Pepsi Next as "off to a strong start."
As the year has progressed, enthusiasm about the brand showed some signs of waning. In June, Al Carey, c.e.o. of Pepsi Beverages Americas said he felt "pretty good" about Pepsi Next, noting that it was ahead of goal a couple months after the launch, accounting for just under 1% of the entire carbonated soft drink business.
"Trial and repeat are tracking a little bit ahead of the test market," he said, speaking at the Deutsche Bank Global Consumer Conference. "We have kind of round two of advertising and campaign that starts in July 1. So I feel very good about this product. It tastes very much like regular Pepsi. And some people say, well, you launched the Pepsi Edge 10 years ago. It was a mid-calorie cola. Why is this different? Because of the taste. It's significantly different and I'm a regular Pepsi drinker."
Expectations were tamped down just a bit further in July after second-quarter earnings were issued.
"We have Pepsi Next in the marketplace that is delivering about what we expected," Ms. Nooyi said. "(We are) very happy with it, and in the just recent few weeks we've just launched a new TV campaign and also two new flavors of the product. So let's say (we are) cautiously optimistic on that brand."
By the time the third-quarter earnings were issued last week, the Next brand barely merited a mention, listed passingly, if optimistically, among a series of new products Ms. Nooyi said have continued to "steadily build" in recent months.
Still, the carbonated soft drink business has had several bright spots in 2012. At the Deutsche Bank conference, Mr. Carey highlighted Mountain Dew for its promise.
"Mountain Dew is a brand that has probably got significantly more potential than anything in the shop," he said. "It stands for exhilaration and it is the theme is it is what we do and it's brought to life through action sports. This brand is all about young men between 16 and 32, 34, and it's a lifestyle product."
Targeting this demographic with a campaign featuring celebrities popular with teens, Mr. Carey said Mountain Dew has been positioned as "the safe energy drink and it plays in that space."
In the period leading up to his presentation, Mountain Dew sales were up 6%, which Mr. Carey described as a "big number."
More broadly, Ms. Nooyi was positive about the carbonated drink business after their third quarter results were issued.
"Based on the IRI all-channel data, we gained both value and volume share in the quarter," she said. "So, even with higher pricing at retail, we grew our volume share. Our brand equity scores are strong, and our brand-building investments are working."
On the other hand, the noncarbonated business, which had been the stronger piece of the Pepsi beverage portfolio in recent years, did not do well.
"Our noncarbonated beverage performance in North America was more challenged, driven by three factors," Ms. Nooyi said. "First, we cleaned up our juice portfolio by pulling out of unprofitable juice drinks. Second, we made deliberate decisions not to compete in case-pack water at unprofitable pricing levels. And third, Gatorade's performance was off this quarter, which is really a function of competitive pricing actions and an inventory outage at one of our major accounts. Q4 is off to a good start, and we expect the business to be positive for Q4."
Mr. Carey tagged Gatorade as the "big drag in Q3." He said the brand already has begun to show signs of revival in the fourth quarter, driven by a three-prong strategy of main-taining a reasonable everyday low price, effective advertising and product news.
"We have plans next year for improved product news on the base Gatorade business that I think will add some growth," he said.
Ms. Nooyi also was optimistic about Gatorade, suggesting a significant part of the weakness was "an inventory problem at a certain customer." She remained steadfast in her commitment to the company's strategy for building the brand.
"As we go into Q4, we are already into positive territory and again what we want to make sure in Gatorade is that we don't make the mistakes that we made in the 2004, 2005, 2006 time frame where we grew it as a general hydration product as opposed to a sports nutrition product," she said. "Because if we go back to that strategy of just selling it as an everyman's hydration, and just another beverage, we are again renting volume. We've been there, done that. So we want to make sure we're going after the active, going after the athlete, sustaining our pricing and flanking our core Gatorade product with innovation."
Tingyi partnership poised for flight
PURCHASE, N.Y. – An upbeat outlook for PepsiCo's new strategic beverage alliance in China was voiced by Indra Nooyi, chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo, Inc., in a conference call with investment analysts.
Ms. Nooyi spoke Oct. 17 in a call following the release of third quarter financial results. In March, PepsiCo completed the transaction forming an alliance with Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holding Corp., a leading food and beverage company in China. Under the deal, Tingyi's beverage subsidiary – Tingyi-Asahi Beverages Holding Co Ltd. (TAB) has become PepsiCo's franchise bottler in China. The country is expected to become the world's largest beverage market by 2015.
In the call, Ms. Nooyi said the Tingyi integration is "substantially complete" and that volume growth has grown steadily since June.
Still, Ms. Nooyi said the fastest growth is still to come.
"We haven't yet started to reap the benefits of the increased Tingyi manufacturing footprint because we haven't yet pulled the cold fill lines in the new Tingyi plant," she said. "So, the benefits you are seeing now is just a benefit from our own brand equity."
The potential for the partnership is extraordinary, Ms. Nooyi said.
"The alliance between PepsiCo and Tingyi creates the largest beverage company in China with a 1.5 to 1.6 relative market share versus the next largest competitor," she said. "Between us, we will basically cover the entire country and have over 70 plants (versus 20 before the alliance) between the two of us in China. So, I think 2013 and forward this business is going to look very, very good."
More generally, Ms. Nooyi said she is optimistic about the business outlook for China. Responding to a question, she said she has been there three times this year and would be returning still again this month. The slowdown in economic growth is a significant issue in the country but should not be overblown, Ms. Nooyi said.
"From a consumer product perspective, especially on small ticket items which are very basic food and beverage products, you don't really see the impact in our categories," she said. "And, in every city that I have been in China, and I've crisscrossed the country, there is buoyancy. There is a certain optimism in the country. Of course, everybody would like the growth to go back to 9% or 10% in China, but at 7.8%, I still think China is performing at the peak of its game versus all the other countries in the region, or in the world today."
Beverage still tops at Pepsi…barely
While it has not grown as quickly as its food business, the importance of beverages globally at PepsiCo remains considerable. In the company's 2011 annual report, Indra Nooyi, chairman and chief executive officer, noted that drinks accounted for about 52% of sales in 2011 and are a "highly profitable" part of what PepsiCo, Inc. does.
"Our goal is to grow our developed market beverage business while building on promising gains in emerging and developing markets," she said. "We intend to continue to invest in and strengthen our most powerful and iconic beverage brands."
The company's brands include Pepsi, Gatorade, Mountain Dew, Diet Pepsi, Aquafina, 7UP (outside the U.S.), Diet Mountain Dew, Tropicana Pure Premium, Sierra Mist and Mirinda, and Pepsi Americas makes, markets, sells and distributes these brands as beverage concentrates, fountain syrups and finished goods, operating either independently or through contract manufacturers.
Also independently or through contract manufacturers, Pepsi makes, markets and sells ready- to-drink tea, coffee and water products through joint ventures with Unilever (under the Lipton brand name) and Starbucks. The company licenses the Aquafina water brand to its independent bottlers. Finally, the company manufactures and distributes certain brands licensed from Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc., including Dr Pepper and Crush. The company operates its own bottling plants and distribution facilities. In February 2010, the company acquired its anchor bottlers, The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. and PepsiAmericas, Inc.
Even as the division has struggled, Pepsi Americas Beverages is the largest segment at the company, accounting for 34% of revenues in 2011 (Frito-Lay North America and Europe rank second, accounting for 20% of revenues each), 30% of operating profit (Frito-Lay is more profitable, 33%), 43% of assets (Europe is second, 25%) and 30% of capital spending (Asia, Middle East & Africa is second, at 21%).
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December 12, 2012
Very recently I started working at a grocery store, and when I was hired, I was told I could wear my lip rings to work, since another girl was allowed to wear hers. Within two days of starting the job, I was informed that a customer had called and complained about my piercings. I was told that I needed to get retainers for my lip or else take them out completely. Though I was upset, I bought the retainers for work.
I came to work the next day with the retainers in, and the other girl with piercings was already there, and, much to my disbelief, was still wearing hers as if nothing had occurred the prior day. Slightly upset, I shrugged it off, convincing myself it was simply because she had to go buy retainers. I wore the retainers for the next three days (never once seeing the other girl wear retainers herself), only to discover that my lip had swollen due to a reaction with the material used to make the retainers. I talked to my employer about it, and I was told I could replace them with studs to avoid having another reaction.
Last week, however, is when everything began to go downhill. I got my septum pierced, and was genuinely excited about it. I felt beautiful and happy, and was so content with myself. I realized I needed to tuck it in for work, and so I did for the first couple of days. After about four days of tucking it in and removing it (I was pierced with a 14g horseshoe), my nose got really sore. I decided to leave it out the next day for work, and told my boss that I would gladly put it back in the next day. She looked a bit worried, but agreed anyways.
The very next day, I was called into the front office to be informed, once again, I had received customer complaints about my piercings. I apologized for the trouble I had caused, assuming they would just tell me to tuck in my septum piercing next time. Boy, was I wrong. Both managers came into the office and sat down with me, and told me that I was either to completely remove all my piercings and be allowed, not only to keep my current job, but to potentially become full-time and get trained for another higher-paid position, or I could keep them and be "terminated."
I fought back tears as I sadly and angrily agreed to remove them, as I desperately need the job at this time. I cried as I went home and removed them, angry that the $110 I had spent on making myself feel beautiful just went down the drain. I'm back to square one, avoiding mirrors and anything that reminded me of how ugly and plain I feet without my piercings. I went to work the next day, only to be told by my colleagues and co-workers that, though I had to remove all of my piercings to keep my job, the other female with face piercings was still allowed to wear hers. My heart shattered in my chest, and I began crying against my will, though I tried to withhold it.
The manager on duty at the time, upset with the racial favoritism shown towards the other employee, went to the head manager to discuss it with him. She came back a few minutes later, even more upset than when she went in, and informed me that, when she had asked him why the other girl could keep her piercings when I had to remove mine, he had told her not to say anything about it. I am genuinely angry at the discrimination I had been presented with, not only over my piercings but also because of my race.
The above picture was taken the day after I got my septum pierced, one week before being forced to remove it. I had my piercings because they made me feel beautiful, because I struggle every day with my self-image, oftentimes hating myself so much that I'd rather just curl up and die. I didn't feel that way with my piercings, but now that I have been forced to remove them, I'm back to that all over again. I am disgusted with the way the situation was handled, and any suggestions or similar stories would be welcomed with open arms.
Some people are born with tragedy in their souls.
11:31 am
May 24, 2012
Forced is a very strong word!
I am sorry you are going through this and perhaps there is a different path for you. Every single one of us have been met with resistance and part of continuing on with visible mods is having the fortitude to deal with the situation…. sometimes that means money in savings, sometimes that means higher education, sometimes that means armor for protection, sometimes that means a stronger community, you get my point here. It takes a huge amount of perseverance (amongst other things) to live the life you desire. YOU CAN DO IT!!
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8:06 pm
December 12, 2012
I guess in my immense frustration I just felt like I was forced to remove them. But thanks for that, you're right. There will be a lot of persecution I will face, I just have to learn to tolerate it and rise above it. Besides, I have plenty of canvas for hidden tattoos until then
Some people are born with tragedy in their souls.
I think you should make a detailed record of the discrimination and if it continues as it has I think you might have grounds for a lawsuit. I'm not a lawyer, but if the policy is not enforced on everyone then either the policy itself or those who enforce it are discriminating.
In your case, the racial aspect gives the suit more weight in court, as there are already laws on the books preventing racial discrimination everywhere in the US. This is not about your religious beliefs anymore…or it's not ONLY about them anymore. This is a fight that might be worth winning.
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Lapse of Assault Weapons Ban Causing Guns It Didn't Ban to Flood the Streets!
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The big front page story on CNN.com yesterday was a story saying Florida cops are having to deal more assault weapons and tries to link it to the lapse of the assault weapons ban. The problem is, the reporter keep referring to the criminals having fully-automatic weapons that were smuggled in from former Soviet bloc countries, i.e., actual assault weapons, which as you all know has nothing to do the assault weapons ban which only banned certain types of semi-automatic weapons, i.e., not assault weapons.
Now, police officers having to deal with smuggled AK-47s is certainly a story, but the reporters made this one complete crap by trying to tie that in with a bill that absolutely nothing to do with anything else mentioned in the story. I know it's kind of confusing (it's like a bill that makes jay walking a felony being called the "Anti-Pedophile Bill" and when you strike it down every proclaims "Now pedophiles are going to flood the streets!"), but it says this article was written by Susan Candiotti with Patrick Oppmann, Rich Phillips, and Ann O'Neill contributing, and we're supposed to believe that of the four of them reporting on a story about the so-called assault weapons ban, none of them new it had nothing to do with automatic weapons. That's makes them all either extremely ignorant of the agenda they were pushing or extremely dishonest.
I don't even know how to pester these people into writing a correction -- or just not writing crap -- but if I did, I would. Maybe we should pass a five day waiting period on writing ignorant, agenda-driven stories about guns so people have time to think about what they're doing. If a waiting period on buying firearms isn't unconstitutional, then a waiting period on speech certainly isn't. Let's see if after five days the reporters still believe they want to be that dishonest and stupid.
A lot of people are pointing out this quote from the story:
Designed to shoot from the hip, fully automatic assault rifles such as the AK-47 can spray at a rate of up to 600 rounds a minute.
Now, I've never fired a fully-automatic weapon (they were $25 to rent at a range I've gone to at Idaho; who has that kind of money), but is it even possible to fire a fully-auto assault rifle without bracing it against your shoulder? I'm looking at you, veterans; do something useful for once and answer my question.
Do you think these reporters use action movies as a research tool?
Consensus seems to be that while fully automatic rifles can be fired from the hip, it only works as inaccurate suppressive fire and aren't what they're "designed" for. Also, with 30-rd magazines, it won't last very long at that rate of fire (which is why suppressive fire is more seen with belt fed machine guns).
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A TRAINING company has moved into a new facility after seeing its portfolio and turnover grow.
KF Training, which was launched by Kelly Lee in 2011 after years of working for training companies in the North East, has re-located from premises in Easington to a state-of-the-art building in Peterlee.
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KF Training started with one office in the Easington Business Centre and with sustained, targeted growth over the last three years has now brought all 35 staff together to work in one central location.
Managing Director Kelly Lee said "Since launching the business three years ago, things have gone from strength to strength. I launched with one contract and now we work with over one hundred companies across the region. Each year our workforce has grown and our turnover has increased year on year by 50 per cent.
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Converts a time value to a structure. These are versions of _gmtime32, _gmtime64 with security enhancements as described in Security Enhancements in the CRT.
errno_t _gmtime_s( struct tm* _tm, const __time_t* time ); errno_t _gmtime32_s( struct tm* _tm, const __time32_t* time ); errno_t _gmtime64_s( struct tm* _tm, const __time64_t* time );
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Ever since I can remember i've always loved the beach. every year at the end of august we would go to myrtle beach, s.c., and spend a whole week there. our hotel was right on the beach and i would fall asleep every night with the patio door open, listening to the waves roll in.
it is so incredibly peaceful to just sit there and watch the waves and look out into the seemingly everlasting ocean. the water is beautiful. the color, the sound, the sand, the smell...its gorgeous.
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Cross my heart, we did not buy this! So why is it in the house?
Well, b/c the mater was attempting to corner the VA market in brass candlesticks. After negotiating $10 for 14 of them, she saw more in a basket. It was near the end of the day, so the gal said, "Give me a dollar, and take the whole thing."
So, after having spent a good 10 hrs stopping at one sale after another, eating weird Chinese food at a mall, and sundaes @ a frozen kustard stand, we unpacked, and the little hussy had included all kinds of weird, unsalable things in the basket. Of which Ms Chicken is prime exhibit #1. Do you want to hear about the chipped statuette of a person of unresolved gender preference? Or perhaps the bookend depicting equine/canine inappropriate behavior?
What I'd like to know is:
- Who came up with these ideas?
- Who bought them in the first place?
- How the heck do we get rid of them?
At any rate, we did get a whole lot of good stuff. Brass candlesticks, natch. A parisian dress pour moi. Several books we hadn't read. Lots of canisters for all the bizarre non-flour flour substitiutes the gluten-intolerant require.
And three copies of a CD by an obsure Bluegrass band. WTF?
Next stop, Rio Mall… but first a quick trip to the dump, in the dead of night.


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U.S. mediators authorized a landmark change in labor law effectively aimed at making it easier for unions to organize at airlines and railroads, a step expected to be challenged in court.
The National Mediation Board decision was widely expected after the Obama administration gave the three-member panel a Democratic majority last year. Unions are staunch Democratic supporters.
The change reverses decades of practice under the Railway Labor Act and currently resonates most forcefully with airlines. Big unions representing thousands of flight attendants and certain ground workers said they plan to test the measure soon at Delta Air Lines , the world's largest carrier that is mostly non-union.
Other airlines potentially affected include JetBlue Airways and AirTran Holdings Inc .
Union leaders said the change will lead to fairer elections because it will now prohibit companies from counting as 'no' votes those not casting ballots in a representation election.
"The old rules encouraged a climate of voter suppression because companies could prevent unions from forming by encouraging workers to simply sit out the election," said Edward Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO.
Major passenger and cargo airlines represented by the Air Transport Association trade group said the NMB decision is substantively flawed and plan to overturn it in court.
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Airlines expected to participate in the legal action include Delta, AirTran, United Airlines, a unit of UAL Corp , JetBlue and FedEx Corp. (Reuters)


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SquareTrade report reveals where most iPhones meet their demise
Date: Tuesday, January 15th, 2013, 08:19
Category: iPhone, News
Well, at least now you know where not to take your iPhone.
Per a study published last October by third-party warranty company SquareTrade and The Mac Observer, most damage (51 percent) to an iPhone reportedly occurs in an owner's home. Of the areas in the home, kitchens are the most likely location for an iPhone to die due to their usually hard floors, heavy traffic, and the abundance of foods and liquids that the device can encounter. It's also likely that usage models play a role, as many iPhone owners like to listen to music or podcasts while cooking, or look up recipes on the fly.
The living room (18 percent), bathroom (16 percent), and driveway (10 percent) are the next most-likely locations for an accident while the bedroom at 8 percent rounds out the top five "danger zones."
Some interesting statistics on exactly how iPhones die are also available. A surprisingly low 5 percent of iPhone owners have accidentally washed their iPhone in the washing machine, 9 percent have dropped it in a (hopefully clean) toilet, and 6 percent have left the phone on top of a car and then driven off.
When it comes to iPhones damaged by liquids, 43 percent of liquid damaged phones met their end due to water, 19 percent encountered soda, 12 percent drowned in a farewell pool of beer, and another 12 percent went out thanks to coffee or tea.
Finally, most accidents overall are the fault of the owner, and not a careless child, friend, or coworker. In all, 69 percent of accidents are caused by the owner.
If you have your own tale as to where and how you accidentally destroyed your iPhone, please let us know in the comments.