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PepsiCo just announced earnings, and proposed a devastating strategy outlook for both the company and its employees.
It announced that it will cut about 3% of its workforce, or 8,700 employees.
Among its other ideas intended to please investors was a $500-600 million increase in advertising and marketing.
Those cuts are being made as part of a plan to increase productivity ahead of many obstacles it expects to face this year. Specifically, it believes it will spend money on advertising and suffer from continued high commodities prices and rising costs of pensions,
Fourth quarter operating EPS beat expectations, coming in at $1.15 versus an estimated $1.12.
Here's the full release explaining those decisions:
PepsiCo Announces Strategic Investments to Drive Growth
NEW YORK, Feb. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
- Plans to increase advertising and marketing support behind its global brands by $500-$600 million in 2012, with particular focus on North America; going forward, it expects to maintain or increase that rate of support as a percentage of revenues
- Multi-year productivity program expected to generate $1.5 billion of incremental cost savings by 2014 through optimization of operating practices and organization structure, including a reduction in force of about 8,700 employees, about 3 percent of global workforce
- Company targets high-single-digit core constant currency* EPS growth for 2013 and beyond after a transition year in 2012, in which it expects core constant currency EPS to decrease by 5%
- Announces plan to increase returns to shareholders in the form of higher dividends and share repurchases in 2012
PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) announced today a series of strategic investment and productivity initiatives to deliver top-tier, sustainable long-term growth for its shareholders. These decisions are based on a comprehensive review by the Company's management of its portfolio, brands, costs, organization and capital structure. As a result of its review, the Company reaffirmed its commitment to an integrated food and beverage portfolio through a one-company platform.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111212/NY20842LOGO )
"In a volatile global environment over the past five years, PepsiCo has delivered double-digit compound annual growth in core net revenue, 8% compound annual growth in core EPS, and returned about $30 billion to shareholders in the form of dividends and share repurchases," said PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi. "Our goal is to continue on that earnings trajectory over the next 5 to 10 years, fully recognizing that we need to make changes in how we operate to address the challenges we identified in the review process. 2012 will be a transition year, in which we will be taking the appropriate steps to build a stronger, more successful company going forward."
James Schiro, PepsiCo's presiding director, said: "The Board of Directors has been engaged throughout the review process. We are fully aligned with and supportive of management with respect to both the strategic direction of the Company and also the initiatives being announced today."
Senior executives will share details of the Company's strategies at an investor meeting at 8 a.m. (EST) today. The meeting, including a slide presentation, will be webcast live on the Company's website at www.pepsico.com/investors.
Key Initiatives
The Company reaffirmed the underlying strength of its integrated food and beverage portfolio -- and concluded that PepsiCo offers the most compelling value to shareholders as one company.
Beginning in 2012, PepsiCo is undertaking a number of key actions to further strengthen the Company and enhance shareholder value. The Company said it plans to:
- Significantly increase investments in its iconic brands and in bringing innovation to market. Advertising and marketing spending will increase by $500-$600 million in 2012, the majority in North America. Going forward, it expects to maintain or increase that rate of support as a percentage of revenues.To drive efficiencies, it will reduce the number of agency partners and also take steps to leverage the global scale of its top brand platforms. The brand investments are expected to drive topline growth and enable greater price realization;
- Implement a three-year productivity program that is expected to generate over $500 million in incremental cost savings in 2012, further incremental reductions in the cost base of about $500 million in 2013, and an additional $500 million in 2014. The productivity savings will span every aspect of the business: leveraging new technologies and processes across operations, go-to-market and information systems; heightened focus on best practice sharing across the globe; consolidating manufacturing, warehouse and sales facilities; and implementing simplified organization structures, with wider spans of control and fewer layers of management. This effort includes headcount reductions of about 8,700 employees across 30 countries, about 3% of the Company's global workforce. The productivity programs will enhance the Company's cost-competitiveness as well as provide a source of funding for future brand-building and innovation initiatives.
- Improve its net return on invested capital by at least 50 basis points annually beginning in 2013 through increased focus on capital spending and working capital management. As an example, in 2012 we will be reducing capital expenditures by 10% versus 2011. The emphasis is on systematically improving the efficiency of the existing asset base; and
- Enhance returns to shareholders in 2012 through both a 4% increase in its annual dividend beginning with the June 2012 dividend payment, and also the execution of a share repurchase program this year of at least $3 billion.
2012: A Transition Year, with Accelerated Productivity, Stepped-Up Brand Investment, and High Commodity Costs
"As we implement our strategic priorities in 2012, we've had to make some tough decisions," said Chief Financial Officer Hugh Johnston. "As a result, 2012 will be a year of transition, one in which we will make the right investments to position PepsiCo properly to achieve long-term high-single-digit core constant currency EPS growth."
For 2012, the Company is targeting mid-single-digit core constant currency net revenue growth, in-line with its long-term target. It expects a decline in core constant currency EPS of approximately 5 percent from its fiscal 2011 core EPS of $4.40, reflecting a combination of strategic and macroeconomic factors, primarily:
- Marketplace Investments: In 2012, the Company will step-up its strategic brand investments by $500-$600 million, particularly in North American beverages and food -- the benefits from which will be increasingly seen in the second half of 2012 and into 2013. Further, the Company anticipates a larger increase in consumer-facing spending through marketing efficiency initiatives. Additionally, incremental investments in routes and display racks will total about $100 million in 2012.
- Commodities: The Company anticipates a second consecutive year of global commodity cost inflation that is well above historic levels. In a different economic climate the Company would likely offset these additional costs through increased pricing. However, it does not anticipate that it can pass through all of the higher commodity costs to its consumers in 2012 given the continuing challenges that consumers are facing, particularly in the developed economies.
- Pension/Interest/Taxes: Additionally, the Company expects higher pension costs as a result of a lower discount rate, higher net interest expense as it increases indebtedness and also terms-out debt in a low interest rate environment, and a core tax rate of approximately 27%, about 50 basis points higher than in 2011.
- Productivity: Partially offsetting these additional costs, major productivity initiatives are expected to result in about a $500 million incremental reduction in operating expenses in 2012.
Based on the current forex market consensus, foreign exchange translation would have a three percentage point unfavorable impact on the Company's full-year core EPS growth in 2012.
The following table presents the key elements explaining the difference between the Company's long-term core constant currency EPS growth target and its 2012 core constant currency EPS growth target:
Long-Term Core EPS Growth Target (CC)
Increased Marketplace Investments
Excess Commodity Inflation
Higher Pension Costs
Higher Interest and Taxes
Incremental Productivity
2012 Core EPS Growth Target (CC)
On a reported basis, the Company's results will reflect charges from its three-year productivity program, primarily severance costs associated with workforce reductions. In the fourth quarter of 2011, the Company incurred pre-tax non-core restructuring charges of $383 million, and it anticipates additional charges of approximately $425 million in 2012 and another $100 million from 2013 through 2015.
The Company is targeting about $8 billion in cash flow from operating activities and more than $6 billion in management operating cash flow (excluding certain items) in 2012, which will include the favorable impacts of a 10% reduction in capital expenditures and incremental working capital efficiency. The Company also expects to make a pre-tax discretionary pension and retiree medical contribution of $1 billion in 2012.
Dividend Increase/Higher Share Repurchases
Reflecting the Company's commitment to return capital to shareholders and confidence in its long-term growth targets, PepsiCo today announced that it will raise the annualized common stock dividend, effective with the dividend payable in June 2012, by 4 percent to $2.15 per share, the 40th consecutive year of dividend growth. The Company anticipates increasing share repurchases in 2012 by at least $3 billion, which will be financed by operating cash flow and additional debt.
Long-Term Financial Targets
PepsiCo provided its long-term target of mid-single-digit constant currency net revenue growth. It also announced that it is targeting long-term core constant currency operating profit growth of 6-7%, and long-term high-single-digit core constant currency EPS growth after a transition year in 2012, driven by positive returns from executing its strategic initiatives.
About PepsiCo
In its global portfolio of food and beverage brands, PepsiCo has 22 different brands that generate more than $1 billion each in annual retail sales. Our main businesses also make hundreds of other enjoyable foods and beverages that are respected household names throughout the world. With net revenues of over $65 billion, PepsiCo's people are united by our unique commitment to sustainable growth by investing in a healthier future for people and our planet, which we believe also means a more successful future for PepsiCo. We call this commitment Performance with Purpose: PepsiCo's promise to provide a wide range of foods and beverages for local tastes; to find innovative ways to minimize our impact on the environment, including by conserving energy and water usage, and reducing packaging volume; to provide a great workplace for our associates; and to respect, support, and invest in the local communities where we operate. For more information, please visit www.pepsico.com.
Cautionary Statement
Statements in this communication that are "forward-looking statements," including PepsiCo's 2012 guidance and long-term growth targets, are based on currently available information, operating plans and projections about future events and trends. Terminology such as "believe," "expect," "intend," "estimate," "project," "anticipate," "will" or similar statements or variations of such terms are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain such terms. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those predicted in such forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: changes in demand for PepsiCo's products, as a result of changes in consumer preferences and tastes or otherwise; PepsiCo's ability to compete effectively; unfavorable economic conditions in the countries in which PepsiCo operates; damage to PepsiCo's reputation; PepsiCo's ability to grow its business in developing and emerging markets or unstable political conditions, civil unrest or other developments and risks in the countries where PepsiCo operates; trade consolidation or the loss of any key customer; changes in the legal and regulatory environment; PepsiCo's ability to build and sustain proper information technology infrastructure, successfully implement its ongoing business transformation initiative or outsource certain functions effectively; fluctuations in foreign exchange rates; increased costs, disruption of supply or shortages of raw materials and other supplies; disruption of PepsiCo's supply chain; climate change, or legal, regulatory or market measures to address climate change; PepsiCo's ability to hire or retain key employees or a highly skilled and diverse workforce; failure to successfully renew collective bargaining agreements or strikes or work stoppages; failure to successfully complete or integrate acquisitions and joint ventures into PepsiCo's existing operations; failure to successfully implement PepsiCo's global operating model; failure to realize anticipated benefits from our productivity plan; any downgrade of our credit ratings; and any infringement of or challenge to PepsiCo's intellectual property rights.
For additional information on these and other factors that could cause PepsiCo's actual results to materially differ from those set forth herein, please see PepsiCo's filings with the SEC, including its most recent annual report on Form 10-K and subsequent reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. PepsiCo undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Miscellaneous Disclosures
In discussing financial results and guidance, the Company may refer to certain non-GAAP measures. Reconciliations of any such non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable financial measures in accordance with GAAP can be found in the attached exhibits, as well as on the Company's website at www.pepsico.com in the "Investors" section under "Investor Presentations." Our non-GAAP measures exclude from reported results those items that management believes are not indicative of our ongoing performance and how management evaluates our operating results and trends.
Core: Core results are non-GAAP financial measures which exclude certain items from our historical results. In 2006, core results exclude certain tax adjustments and restructuring and impairment charges. In 2011, core results exclude the commodity mark-to-market net impact included in corporate unallocated expenses, restructuring charges, an extra week of results, as well as merger and integration costs and certain inventory fair value adjustments in connection with our acquisitions of The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. (PBG), PepsiAmericas, Inc. (PAS) and WBD. With respect to our 2012 and longer-term guidance, our core results exclude the commodity mark-to-market net impact included in corporate unallocated expenses, merger and integration charges, restructuring and impairment charges, and the impact of certain hedging contracts in connection with our acquisitions of PBG and PAS. For more details and reconciliations of our 2011 core results and 2012 and beyond core and core constant currency guidance, see "Reconciliation of GAAP and Non-GAAP Information" in the exhibits attached hereto.
Constant currency: Financial results assuming constant foreign currency exchange rates used for translation based on the rates in effect for the comparable prior-year period. In order to compute our constant currency results, we multiply or divide, as appropriate, our current year U.S. dollar results by the current year average foreign exchange rates and then multiply or divide, as appropriate, those amounts by the prior year average foreign exchange rates.
Management operating cash flow: Net cash provided by operating activities less capital spending plus sales of property, plant and equipment. This non-GAAP financial measure is our primary measure used to monitor cash flow performance. See the attached exhibits for a reconciliation of this measure to the most directly comparable financial measure in accordance with GAAP (operating cash flow).
Management operating cash flow, excluding certain items: Management operating cash flow, excluding: (1) discretionary pension and retiree medical contributions, (2) restructuring payments, (3) merger and integration payments in connection with our PBG, PAS and WBD acquisitions, (4) capital investments related to the bottling integration, and (5) the tax impacts associated with each of these items, as applicable. See the attached exhibits for a reconciliation of this non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable financial measure in accordance with GAAP (operating cash flow).
Reconciliation of GAAP and Non-GAAP Information
Diluted EPS Reconciliation (5-Year CAGR)
Year Ended 12/30/06
Year Ended12/31/11
Reported Diluted EPS
$ 3.34
$ 4.03
53rd Week
Mark-to-Market Net Losses
Merger and Integration Charges
Restructuring and Impairment Charges
Inventory Fair Value Adjustments
Tax Benefits
Core Diluted EPS
$ 3.01
$ 4.40
Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities Reconciliation (in billions)
Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities
~$ 7.8
Net Capital Spending
Management Operating Cash Flow
Payments Related to Restructuring Charges (after-tax)
Discretionary Pension and Retiree Medical Contributions (after-tax)
Capital Investments Related to the PBG/PAS Integration
Management Operating Cash Flow Excluding above Items
~$ 6.1*
*Does not sum due to rounding.
Reconciliation of GAAP and Non-GAAP Information(cont.)(unaudited)
Core results and core constant currency results are non-GAAP financial measures as they exclude certain items noted below. However, we believe investors should consider these measures as they are more indicative of our ongoing performance and with how management evaluates our operational results and trends.
53rd week impact
In 2011, we had an additional week of results (53rd week). Our fiscal year ends on the last Saturday of each December, resulting in an additional week of results every five or six years. The 53rd week increased net revenue by $623 million and operating profit by $109 million in the year ended December 31, 2011.
Commodity mark-to-market net impact
In the year ended December 31, 2011, we recognized $102 million of mark-to-market net losses on commodity hedges in corporate unallocated expenses. In the year ended December 30, 2006, we recognized $18 million of mark-to-market net losses on commodity hedges in corporate unallocated expenses. We centrally manage commodity derivatives on behalf of our divisions. Certain of these commodity derivatives do not qualify for hedge accounting treatment and are marked to market with the resulting gains and losses recognized in corporate unallocated expenses. These gains and losses are subsequently reflected in division results when the divisions take delivery of the underlying commodity.
Merger and integration charges
In the year ended December 31, 2011, we incurred merger and integration charges of $329 million related to our acquisitions of PBG, PAS and WBD, including $112 million recorded in the PAB segment, $123 million recorded in the Europe segment, $78 million recorded in corporate unallocated expenses and $16 million recorded in interest expense. These charges also include closing costs and advisory fees related to our acquisition of WBD.
Restructuring charges
In the year ended December 31, 2011, we incurred charges of $383 million in conjunction with our multi-year productivity plan (Productivity Plan), including $76 million recorded in the FLNA segment, $18 million recorded in the QFNA segment, $48 million recorded in the LAF segment, $81 million recorded in the PAB segment, $77 million recorded in the Europe segment, $9 million recorded in the AMEA segment and $74 million recorded in corporate unallocated expenses. The Productivity Plan includes actions in all segments of our business that we believe will strengthen our complementary food, snack and beverage businesses through a new integrated operating model designed to streamline our organization, accelerate information sharing, facilitate timely decision-making and drive operational productivity. In the year ended December 30, 2006, we recorded restructuring and impairment charges of $67 million in conjunction with consolidating the manufacturing network at Frito-Lay.
Inventory fair value adjustments
In the year ended December 31, 2011, we recorded $46 million of incremental costs in cost of sales related to fair value adjustments to the acquired inventory included in WBD's balance sheet at the acquisition date and hedging contracts included in PBG's and PAS's balance sheets at the acquisition date.
Tax adjustments
In the year ended December 30, 2006, we recorded non-cash tax benefits of $602 million, substantially all of which related to the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS's) examination of our consolidated income tax returns for the years 1998 through 2002. In 2006, PBG also recorded non-cash tax benefits in connection with the IRS's examination of certain of their consolidated income tax returns. We recorded our share of $18 million of these tax benefits in bottling equity income.
Reconciliation of GAAP and Non-GAAP Information (cont.)(unaudited)
Management operating cash flow
Additionally, management operating cash flow is the primary measure management uses to monitor cash flow performance. This is not a measure defined by GAAP. Since net capital spending is essential to our product innovation initiatives and maintaining our operational capabilities, we believe that it is a recurring and necessary use of cash. As such, we believe investors should also consider net capital spending when evaluating our cash from operating activities.
2012 and beyond guidance
Our 2012 core tax rate guidance, our 2012 core constant currency EPS guidance and our long-term core constant currency operating profit and EPS growth targets exclude the commodity mark-to-market net impact included in corporate unallocated expenses, merger and integration charges, and restructuring and impairment charges. In addition, our 2012 core constant currency net revenue and EPS guidance and our long-term constant currency net revenue and core constant currency operating profit and EPS growth targets exclude the impact of foreign exchange. We are not able to reconcile our full-year projected 2012 core tax rate to our full-year projected 2012 reported tax rate or our full-year projected 2012 core constant currency EPS growth or our long-term core constant currency operating profit and EPS growth targets to our full-year projected 2012 and long-term reported results because we are unable to predict the 2012 and long-term impact of foreign exchange or the mark-to-market net gains or losses on commodity hedges due to the unpredictability of future changes in foreign exchange rates and commodity prices. In addition, we are unable to reconcile our full-year projected 2012 core constant currency net revenue growth and long-term core constant currency net revenue growth target to our full-year projected 2012 and long-term reported net revenue growth because we are unable to predict the 2012 and long-term impact of foreign exchange due to the unpredictability of future changes in foreign exchange rates. Therefore, we are unable to provide a reconciliation of these measures.
* Please refer to the Glossary for definitions of core and constant currency. Core results and constant currency results are non-GAAP financial measures that exclude certain items. Please refer to "Reconciliation of GAAP and non-GAAP information" in the attached exhibits for a description of these items.
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All applications need a way or warning users that something is about to happen, or that something has happened. If you're working in a word-processing application and you try to exit the application without saving your work, you'll get a message advising that you'll lose your data if you don't save it, and are given the opportunity of canceling the action in order to save the file. Computers and software in particular can be frustrating enough as it is from time to time, without this added layer of program safety. Luckily, XUL is able to provide this same safety net, with the inclusion in its syntax of dialog boxes. Of course, you'll need more than just the code that draws the box on the screen to make dialog boxes a barrier between yourself and application misery, but initially, we'll look at the code needed to render them.
The dialog element is used in place of the window element:<dialog id="mydialog"
there.is.only.xul" buttons="accept,cancel">
<dialogheader title="Warning"/>
<description>The action you have selected will render your
computer completely inoperable. Do you wish to continue?
As you can see, the XUL namespace still needs to be included. For scripting purposes, the id attribute is also recommended. The dialogheader is used to give the dialog box a separate heading, into which a title and description can be placed. The title is styled automatically to be bold and colored and gives an indication as to the function of the dialog box, whether this be information, a warning, or just a few words of wisdom.
Dialogs need to be opened using a chrome URL from within Mozilla, which means that in order for Mozilla to know about them, an RDF file needs to contain references to them. Save the above file in the content directory used for the wizard example and update the existing contents.rdf file with the following bag and description:RDF:Bag about="urn:mozilla:package:root">
<RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:mozilla:package:mydialog2″/>
<RDF:Description about="urn:mozilla:package:mydialog2″
As before, this will not be recognized by Mozilla until the existing chrome.rdf file has been deleted and regenerated in the Mozilla chrome directory. Now open the dialog using the normal chrome syntax (chrome://filename/content/). The dialog should open, and will have the header, the message and the specified buttons.
Click one of the buttons to test that they will actually do something, and once again, Mozilla quits abruptly. You'll also notice that instead of being a separate dialog box, Mozilla has opened it as if it were a window. Both of these things are caused by not calling the dialog from another file, which we can fix easily enough by creating a window that calls the dialog. Create the following file and save it in your chrome folder:
<?xml version="1.0″?>
title="Dialog test"
function openD() {
"chrome", "dialog");
</script> <button id="button1″ label="Napalm my C: drive!"
For this to work properly, it will need to be added to the RDF file and opened with a chrome URL in the normal way. As you can see, you simply add a click event to the button, which calls the function residing within the script tags. This function contains a simple method with some parameters specifying the full chrome URL of the window to open, that it is a chrome file and that it is a dialog.
When the button file is opened with a chrome URL from Mozilla, you can click the button, and your dialog box will appear in a window of its own. Clicking the ok or cancel buttons (which both do exactly the same thing, as we haven't scripted these) will close the dialog, but Mozilla itself will remain open. You could do the same thing for the wizard example to prevent Mozilla from closing, and also to give it its own window.
{mospagebreak title=Buttons, JavaScript, and XPCOM}
XUL does not give you as many different built-in buttons as other, more powerful programming languages such as Visual Basic or C, but you have to remember that XUL is just a mark-up language. Other buttons you can use are the help and disclosure buttons, which can be used by adding them to the comma delimited list in the dialog tag. Unlike the ok and cancel buttons, these will not do anything without adding scripts for them, but there are built-in methods (ondialoghelp and ondialogdisclosure) that will let you do this easily.
Programmers that have used .NET, for example, to inherit the functionality of pre-existing classes will feel right at home here. The object model used by Mozilla is XPCOM, which stands for cross platform component object model. In order to open and save files, for example, you will need to create an instance of a component that is able to access the required functions by implementing the correct interface, which will form the basis of the next example and will draw upon some of the elements we have already worked with.
You should only need a basic window to test the functionality of the file interface needed to produce an open file dialog. The window won't actually open or save any files because this requires more components and interfaces and is beyond the scope of this article, but the code will demonstrate how to create a standard dialog box that people can use to select files for opening. The following window, which will need to be described by a contents.rdf and accessed through Mozilla should be enough:<?xml version="1.0″?>
title="Opening and Saving Files" width="500″ height="300″
<menubar id="mainmenu" grippyhidden="true">
<menu id="file" label="File" accesskey="f">
<menupopup id="filepop">
<menuitem label="Open" accesskey="o" />
<menuitem label="Save" accesskey="s"/>
<menuitem label="Exit" accesskey="e"
{mospagebreak title=The nsIFilePicker interface}
The code needed to open the dialog box that you use to select which file to open is implemented using the nsIFilePicker interface. The file open dialog will be opened when the Open button on the menu is selected, so it will need to go into a function, which will be called when the Open button is selected. Add anoncommand="openDialog();"call to the open menu element. JavaScript would normally go into a file of its own, but for this example it can sit in the XUL file. Add the opening script tag and begin the function:<script>
function openDialog() {
The first line of the code inside the function sets a variable to hold the filePicker interface:
var nsIFilePicker = Components.interfaces.nsIFilePicker;
You then set a second variable to hold the component and request an instance of the interface:
var fileChooser =
Next you set a variable that initializes the open file dialog, and pass it parameters that specify its type, its title and its mode:
fileChooser.init(window, "Select a File to open",
Finally, you create a variable that calls the show() method of the open file dialog, which is what displays the box on screen:
var fileBox = fileChooser.show();
Don't forget to add the closing curly brace to signify the end of the function. The code required to create the Save As dialog box is extremely similar. Create the following function and note that the only differences are the title and mode of the initialization variable:
function saveDialog() {
var nsIFilePicker = Components.interfaces.nsIFilePicker;
var fileChooser =
fileChooser.init(window, "Select a Location to save",
var fileBox = fileChooser.show();
Close off the script tag and save the file as opensave.xul in the same location as the rdf file describing it. Open the file from inside Mozilla using its chrome url and you should get your simple menu bar and simple menu. Selecting the Open will open the Select a File to open dialog box, and selecting Save will open the Select a Location to save dialog box. The functionality to actually open or save files requires far more code and won't be discussed here. Once you're done, choose close on your menu and Mozilla should exit.
{mospagebreak title=The keyset element}
One final thing you can use in the example is the keyset element. The keyset element is used to specify a key combination that someone using the application can press to select menuitems without having to navigate the menus. The keyset element contains its children, individual key elements that define the keyboard shortcuts. The key elements need an id attribute which ties in with an attribute used on the menuitem they are a shortcut for, a modifiers attribute which specifies which special key should be pressed, a key attribute which specifies the keyboard key used in conjunction with the special key, and an event that calls whichever function they should be associated with. For this example, you can use the following keyset:
<key id="openKey" modifiers="control" key="O"
<key id="saveKey" modifiers="control" key="S"
<key id="exitKey" modifiers="control" key="E"
You'll need to associate each of the keys to their respective menuitems, so add a key="openKey" attribute to the open menuitem, a key="saveKey" attribute to the save menuitem and a key="exitKey" attribute to the exit menuitem. Now save the file and access it again via Mozilla, and press Ctrl + o to bring up the open dialog. If you expand the menu yourself, you'll see that Mozilla has added explanatory text to the relevant menuitems to advise of the keyboard shortcuts that can be used.
This article has given an introduction to the object model used by XUL and has provided a basic example of the combination of Mozilla components and interfaces that make up the abstraction layer. There is far, far more you can do using a combination of JavaScript and the XPCOM elements, anything in fact that any full-fledged application programming language can achieve.


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My background roots me in Catholicism., so Christian terms like "Reign of God" and "paschal lamb" reverberate with meaning for me, but Buddhist, Muslim, or Native American terms less so.
Still, I like to step out of the Christian envelope and get a larger viewpoint. Seen from outside, the only-through-Jesus preaching of Christians appears cramped.
It imagines the mysterious Source of everything that is or could be as an individual humanlike person, a "He." Christian teaching claims that a man called Jesus differs from the rest of creation in being the only son of God.
It's useful to distinguish between religion and spirituality. Religions are various ways of being spiritual, various brands, usually with particular beliefs and practices. The problem develops when we insist that our brand is better than your brand—"we have God's exclusive revelation and God's son."
But this image contrasts with the historical Jesus discovered by scripture scholars. I have more respect for the Jesus who actually lived as a Palestinian Jew two thousand years ago than for the God-image. One of the compliments for God Is Not Three Gods in the Sky that pleases me most is this from a friend: "I like Jesus a whole lot better since reading Jeanette's book!"
Jesus of Nazareth didn't think he was God and didn't claim he was dying to save others. He said nothing about abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, or creation spirituality.
At the same time that shrill Islamic extremists and Christian right wingers are competing for dominance, a quiet revolution is brewing.
Underneath the din simmers an alternative way of being spiritual that includes people of religion as well as atheists. We hear that atheists are more unpopular than gays, but the ones I know think more deeply about spiritual matters than do many Christians. They are reflective people likely to care about feeding, housing, clothing, educating and providing health care for all.
And they make sacrifices for their spiritual convictions, bringing on the condemnation of religionists because they don't conform. They have a strong sense of right and wrong. They take risks for peace and justice, volunteer in homeless shelters, and speak truth that is unwelcome to powerful people.
For me the most exciting spiritual thoughts come from scientists. Einstein is one. He did not believe in a personal God but in "something eternal that lies beyond the hand of fate and of all human delusions."
I like the way Einstein fused science with religion by saying that "a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe." He famously stated, "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."
Oxford professor Richard Dawkins forcefully argues the atheist position in The God Delusion. Interviewed in Time magazine, he said "we need to work on" questions about "the purpose of existence and whether God exists."
Asked if the answer to the questions could be God, he said
there could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding."That's God," answered Francis Collins, a genome scientist and Christian convert.
Beautiful. This is my idea of God. I don't believe God is an individual person or set of persons, and neither did the premier Catholic thinker of the twentieth century, Karl Rahner. He emphasized that God cannot be merely an individual alongside other individuals.
The ideas of great Christian thinkers resemble those of other spiritualities. This would become clear if we had informed discussions about God in public discourse.
Atheists and Mother Teresa
What have atheists, Mother Teresa, and fundamentalists held in common? They've been stuck on the same impossible interpretation of religious language.
Before anyone has heart failure, I hasten to say that I admired Mother Teresa lavishly for the unbelievable depth of her self-sacrifice. But she disappointed me when she fought for regressive and repressive religiosity.
I was reminded of that part of her history by atheist Christopher Hitchens in Newsweek. The author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, he reports that Mother Teresa "violently opposed" the reforms of Vatican II and comments, "What could be a clearer indication of a deep need to suppress all doubt, both in herself and others?"
He correctly analyzes the reason for her agony of doubt:
It is the inevitable result of a dogma that asks people to believe impossible things and then makes them feel abject and guilty when their innate reason rebels.Right on. But Christopher Hitchens, wait! Don't assume the same of all religious people. In an excellent Washington Post review of God Is Not Great, Stephen Prothero wrote that Hitchens'belligerent atheism "assumes a childish definition of religion and then criticizes religious people for believing such foolery."
Again, right on! Describing naïvete in religious people, Hitchens exposes his own naïvete by assuming that the empty and literal belief of his description captures all religion and spirituality. As Prothero comments,
If this is religion, then by all means we should have less of it . . . I have never encountered a book whose author is so fundamentally unacquainted with its subject.While irrelevant dogmas and religious rules dominate the airwaves, deep and pure experience with inner divinity flourishes under the surface. I invite atheists and religious literalists alike to give less attention to the Three Guys in the Sky and more to authentic spirituality radiating from within.
Dear Mother Teresa! How I wish she had been able to get past the external deity, the idol, the god, the "He," the man-like being out there somewhere. And how I wish the same for atheists and all religious people!
Mystics, atheists, & Mother Teresa, August 29, 2008
The news that Mother Teresa doubted the existence of God gave atheists grist for their mill. But I insist that atheists and many Christians share an image of God that leads both groups astray and cannot be sustained in deep reflection—an external deity, a humanlike individual, a separate being. Theist belief in such a god is rightly denigrated by atheists.
Mystics, who experience what is called God more closely than the rest of us, tell us that It is not to be described as any thing or any person. I've not seen a better description of It than the one Huston Smith passes on from the yogas of Hinduism. He writes that the "only literally accurate description of the Unsearchable" is to say, "not this . . . not this," of everything in the universe. "What remains will be God."
This realization is common among mystic seers, whatever their tradition. In Christianity, apophatic mysticism says God is no thing and every thing. The Tao de Ching begins with the words, "The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao." In other words, It's unknowable, indescribable. Those who experience It and try to find words for It fail, but they can't stop trying.
Mystics experience this mysterious something, but they are conditioned by background, by language and culture. So Christian mystics usually begin with the Jesus image but their meditation transcends this image.
Thomas Merton converted from communism to Catholicism and became a Trappist monk. Toward the end of his life he also became a Zen Buddhist, like Thich Nhât Hanh mingling Buddhism with Christianity. In one of Merton's works on Zen Buddhism, he expressed astonishment that he had more in common with Zen Buddhists than with members of his own religion. Since Merton, Catholic monastics follow his example of merging traditions.
I wish Mother Teresa had strayed from literal Christian belief. She would not have written, "Jesus has a very special love for you," and then been assailed with "darkness," "loneliness," and "torture" when she looked for God. She would have known that a human figure can lead us to what we call God, but cannot be It.
What I wish for theists like Mother Teresa I also wish for atheists—the direct experience of the something that is the Ground and Source of all that is or could be. I finish with a mystic's statement I like very much: "It is best to have an intimate relationship with God and best not to insist that she exists."


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This may sound very stupid but I find that 600ml boxes can hold more food than I can actually eat!
My mum has always cooked in "diet" way as my dad and my grandmother can't eat salt, and she is particularly picky about me getting fat (I am not at all, though) so due to that I'm used to eat very small portions.
I've been searching for bento boxes that are around a 500 ml capacity but I don't find them... And I'm afraid that little "side dish" boxes (those around 250-300 ml) may be too small.
Any help? I'm not sure about how to measure the capacity in a box so I have a little problem there.
Or maybe the problem is not the capacity but the quantity or kind of food I put in the box. Maybe I should cut out the carbs and put more veggies? This is sooo complicated!
I actually own a red 2 tier Urara box and a box that has only one tier (i like it much better).
Thank you!!! *n_n*
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Don't cut the carbs right out, but you could certainly replace some of them with veges. But remember that you don't need to have a "proper" bento box - there are plenty of plastic lidded containers that you can use in heaps of different sizes and shapes. Do they have shops like "Payless Plastics" or suchlike in Spain? Where you go to buy plastic containers for your pantry and laundry?
As far as measuring the capacity of your boxes goes, all you need is a measuring cup of some sort, or scales. And if you don't have either of those you should get at least one! Fill your box with water, then either a) pour the water into a measuring cup/jug/whatever and see how much there is, or b) pour it into a bowl on your scales and see how much it weighs. By definition, 1 millilitre of water weighs 1 gram. So 500ml of water will weigh 500g, 650 ml will weigh 650g etc.
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wow thanks! That's a lot of help! *n_n*
Yeah there are lots of cheap homeware shops here, I guess they will work...
I prefer bento boxes anyway because I have a very very 'high-responsability' job (financial consultancy) and I'm trying to scape from my horrible routine! :) But I guess the box is not the point, but the food!
You can dress up a plainer box with the things like this:
BUT to make sure you get the right amount of food go over the information here:
and consider looking at what your caloric needs are using the information here:
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Thank you eilis I will!! :D
Muji has (or at least had) a small bento box. I'm not sure of the exact dimensions and I'm too lazy to go measure it now :P
But it's smaller that my Urara box. http://www.muji.eu/pages/online.asp?V=1&Sec=4&Sub=25&PID=1066
It's listed on the italian site (but not on the uk one) but it says it's not available for online shopping, and the price is cheaper so I fear it's been discontinued :/
As well as including more vegetation, it may be you need to cut down on protien, as protein suppresses your appatite somewhat. Most pepole think they need much more than they do, and don't count it in things like bread. Assuming your about average in most things, you probably only need an egg or something for a whole days worth (although that's as a minimum really).
However, I'm aware bento boxes still seem a bit big even then. If you find a good one, do tell me (although the freind I feed my spare food too may not forgive you).
Well I've packed my first bento today and I put everything in my 1-tier box... I think it may be like 550 ml... (i don't know and I can't take it out in the office lol) so I'll tell you after lunch :)
Yeah.... 550 ml and it was de absolute PERFECT size for me. So now I know what to take :)
Thanks for the help people! :D
These are about 500 ml, I believe. I have one I got from Ichiban Kan and it's a nice smaller bento box:
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We live blogged Friday's stock market action here. Read a summary of pre-market moves in Indications. Check out Market Snapshot for a concise summary of the day's action. It's available shortly after the open.
4:17 pm | Biggest slide in 17 months | by Victor reklaitis
The Nasdaq's weekly percent drop represents its biggest slide since October 2012, says our short story.
And on that downbeat note...
That's a wrap for this live blog. Thanks for checking it out today.
4:12 pm | Today's drivers | by Victor Reklaitis
Stocks got a lift on Friday from an upbeat report on consumer spending, although the main indexes pared gains by day's end.
Biotech stocks were a factor again, with their losses weighing on the indexes after early advances evaporated.
The iShares Nasdaq Biotech ETF /quotes/zigman/85342/delayed /quotes/nls/ibb IBB closed down 2.9%, leaving it down 6.8% for the week and off 13.5% so far in March.
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4:05 pm | Weekly, monthly performance | by Victor Reklaitis
The S&P 500 lost 0.5% for the week, and it's down 0.1% in March with one trading left in the month.
The Dow managed a gain for the week, rising 0.1%, and it's also up a fraction for the month… +0.01%, according to FactSet data. You could say basically flat for the month.
The Nasdaq ended with a relatively steep weekly drop of 2.8%, as that biotech sell-off weighed on the tech-heavy index. It's down 3.5% in March.
4:01 pm | The close! | by Victor Reklaitis
Dow +0.4%
Nasdaq +0.1%
3:45 pm | Michael Lewis: "Stock market is rigged"
The U.S. stock market is rigged to hurt the average investor and benefit high frequency traders, stock exchanges and large Wall Street banks, according to the author of the new book "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt." Michael Lewis.
MarketWatch's Sital S. Patel has more in this Tell post.
"High frequency traders have found ways to use their speed to gain an advantage that few understand," says Lewis in the interview.
"They're able to identify your desire to buy shares in Microsoft and buy them in front of you and sell them back to you at a higher price," says Lewis. "The speed advantage that the faster traders have is milliseconds…fractions of milliseconds."
3:35 pm | Market update | by Anora Mahmudova
With less then 30 minutes before the closing bell, the main indexes are holding on to very modest modest gains. The Dow average has pared weekly losses and may end the week flat.
The Nasdaq Composite will record the worst weekly decline in 15 months if it closes around this level.
SPX +7 points
DJIA +40 points
COMP +3 points
3:24 pm | Top 5 losers on the S&P 500 | by Anora Mahmudova
Top 5 losers on the S&P 500:
Red Hat -7%
Biogen Idec -4.6%
Vertex Phrama -3.7%
Gilead -3.5%
3:13 pm | Top 5 winners on S&P 500 | by Anora Mahmudova
The top 5 best performing stocks on the S&P 500:
GameStop +6.7%
H&R Block +4.9%
Cognizant +4.8%
Newmont Mining +4.5%
Staples +3%
2:45 pm | Hulbert: open-ended index funds can offer a better deal | by Anora Mahmudova
Mark Hulbert: Why you may want to avoid ETFs
Here is a surprise for most investors: Exchange-traded funds aren't always cheaper than traditional open-end mutual funds.
True, ETFs have much lower expense ratios than the typical open-end fund. The average ETF's annual fee is currently 0.58%, versus 1.24% for the average open-end fund, according to data from investment-research firm Morningstar.
2:26 pm | Nasdaq turns negative | by Anora Mahmudova
And the tech-heavy Nasdaq turns negative briefly but seems to be rebounding and it about flat right now.
It is being dragged down by steep losses in biotechs. The Nasdaq Biotechnology index is down 2.7%. The iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF is down 2.9%.
2:12 pm | Nasdaq struggling to hold on to gains | by Anora Mahmudova
The Nasdaq Composite is quickly giving up gains. It's up a few points today and is set for a near 3% weekly loss...
Nasdaq fell 35 bps from 1-2 PM. We're lucky the index is still higher.
— Bespoke (@bespokeinvest) March 28, 2014
2:06 pm | Jaffe: Shut up already! It's not 1929 | by Anora Mahmudova
From MarketWatch's Chuck Jaffe:
The market is about to crash! Now that I have your attention, I can tell you why you should ignore alarmist headlines (and statements) like that one.
It's not that crashes and downturns have been rescinded by a five-year bull market, it's that what should matter the most to a long-term investor is the economy over the market, and the long-term trend instead of what's happening now.
1:46 pm | About the SFX conference call | by Anora Mahmudova
It is good to see that the entertainment industry is.. well, entertaining. A conference call with the SFX CEO on Thursday resulted in a 20% swing in the shares. Apparently, during a profanity-laced call an analysts questioned Robert Sillerman's sanity.
Want to know more? Read the Street story: "The Definitive Story of What Happened On SFX Entertainment's Conference Call"
1:34 pm | Charter to Time Warner Cable shareholders: Don't do it! | by William Watts
Spurned Time Warner Cable suitor Charter Communications Inc. is asking Time Warner Cable shareholders to reject the $45.2 billion buyout agreement reached last month with Comcast Corp.
Unsurprisingly, a Time Warner Cable spokesman says the company was unmoved.
1:33 pm | Stocks rally to end choppy week | by Anora Mahmudova
Stocks are higher, getting back on track after two lackluster sessions. Investors are shrugging off geopolitical concerns for now, says portfolio manager Marty Leclerc at Barrack Yard Advisors. He sees increased volatility as the market heads into the second quarter.
1:23 pm | CBS Outdoor, 2U best performers among Friday's IPOs | by William Watts
It was a big day for stock-market debuts, with five companies completing initial public offerings.
CBS Outdoor, 2U doing best among today's IPOs. $CBSO$TWUO$EVDY$HIVE Stocks live blog: http://t.co/cKAVPbmaaTpic.twitter.com/4HmSugSLqu
— Laura Mandaro (@lauramandaro) March 28, 2014
1:08 pm | Watching the weather | by William Watts
It's been a long winter. Economists and investors are eager to see what April showers bring in terms of the data.
Blame it on weather. As April nears, I hope to see signs of economic improvement in sectors & industries sensitive to weather disruptions
— Jerry Webman (@JerryWebman) March 28, 2014
12:52 pm | Watch the spread between U.S., German bond yields | by William Watts
The gap between 10-year U.S. Treasury 1 /quotes/zigman/4868283/delayed 10_YEAR and German bund /quotes/zigman/4869083/delayed DE:10YR_GER yields is near the widest it's been since the launch of the euro in 1999, notes John Higgins, market economist at Capital Economics. And it's probably going to get wider.
The widening of the spread by around 1.1 percentage points since the beginning of 2012, when it stood near zero, is partly a reflection of the growing wedge between inflation expectations in the U.S. (where they are rising) and the euro zone (where they are falling), Higgins says in a note, while a rise in implied real yields of 10-year U.S. and German government bonds accounts for the rest of the difference.
With inflation in the U.S. expected to come in near the Fed's annual target of 2% in 2015 while a continued "internal devaluation" pushes inflation lower in the euro zone, the inflation wedge will grow, Higgins says:
If we are right, then the ECB, which meets on Thursday, will probably keep monetary policy exceptionally loose for considerably longer than the Fed. By the end of next year, we forecast that the Fed's target for federal funds will have been raised to 1%, but that the ECB's refinancing rate will have been lowered slightly from its level today. What's more, our sense is that the gap between official interest rates in the US and the euro-zone will get considerably larger in the following couple of years. If so, real yields between the US and the euro-zone may diverge further, too.
12:30 pm
Indexes are hanging on to gains.
S&P 500 up 0.8% at 1,862.64
Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.7% at 16,382.55
Nasdaq Composite up 0.7% at 4,182.23
12:26 pm | Flows reflect biotech bubble-burst fears | by William Watts
Probably not a shocker, but data show investors were fleeing biotech and healthcare stocks with a vengeance as ideas the once-highflying sector has popped a bubble. The Nasdaq Biotechnology Index is down nearly 14% from its all-time high set in late February.
Weekly outflows were the heaviest since December 2011, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Read more here.
12:15 pm | Facebook moving fast and breaking things again? | by Anora Mahmudova
In its early days, Facebook relished its reputation as a bull in the internet's china shop. Following a quiet spell, is it getting back to its old ways? Andrew O'Day reports.
11:49 am | 10-year Treasuries fall | by Anora Mahmudova
Treasury prices fell Friday, sending yields higher, after consumer spending in February rose at the fastest pace in four months.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury note yield rose 2 basis points to 2.704%. The benchmark yield has gained 5.5 basis points since 2.649% on Feb. 28, marking the first monthly loss for the 10-year note this year.
For more, read Saumya Vaishampayan's bond report.
11:39 am | S&P 500 sectors | by Anora Mahmudova
The main indexes are off their session highs, but still firmly in positive territory.
On the S&P 500, consumer discretionary, energy and technology stocks were leading the gains. Telecoms and utilities were lagging behind.
For the week, energy stocks were the top performers, followed by the telecoms.
11:27 am | Wal-Mart sues Visa over "swipe fees" | by Anora Mahmudova
Walmart has sued Visa for more than $5 billion, claiming the card network charged unreasonably high fees when the retailer's customers paid with plastic. Shelly Banjo reports. Photo: Getty Images.
11:07 am | MarketWatch Radio newscast | by Anora Mahmudova
CBS Outdoors Americas goes public today. Plus Hollywood's first big-budget Bible movie in 50 years arrives in theaters today. MarketWatch's Ann Cates reports.
10:55 am | Kate Warne: "Good enough news" | by Anora Mahmudova
"Today's economic data was as expected, but compared to the last few months there is an improvement, suggesting that the economy's slowdown this year is weather-related and temporary," said Kate Warne, investment strategist at Edward Jones.
This was enough good news for stocks to go higher this morning.
We would caution investors that markets are in an environment where geo-political risks have grown and could trigger pullbacks and corrections.
We suspect the next correction will come as a surprise and be deeper more painful, simply because investors have forgotten what it feels like to be down 10% or more.
10:53 am | Momentum ETF | by Victor Reklaitis
This chart shows how that momentum ETF is stabilizing, but still remains below its 50-day moving average.
10:51 am | QQQ, MTUM stabilizing | by Victor Reklaitis
Biotech, tech in general and momentum plays have gotten plenty of attention this week — and not for moving higher.
But at least today they're all advancing.
The PowerShares QQQ Trust /quotes/zigman/105934/delayed /quotes/nls/qqq QQQ was last up about 1%, albeit still below its 50-day moving average, a key level for many chart watchers.
The iShares Nasdaq Biotech ETF /quotes/zigman/85342/delayed /quotes/nls/ibb IBB was up slightly, while the iShares MSCI Momentum Factor ETF /quotes/zigman/15320656/delayed /quotes/nls/mtum MTUM added 1%.
Those two ETFs also still remain below their 50-day lines. MarketWatch's Need To Know column today wrote about MTUM.
10:45 am | Movers & Shakers | by Victor Reklaitis
BlackBerry was last up 1.6% in the wake of its earnings report, while Restoration Hardware was surging 11% in the wake of its quarterly release.
Meanwhile, Amazon.com gained 2% following news it could launch an ad-supported streaming video service.
Read all about this in our Movers & Shakers column.
Photo credit: Bloomberg
10:36 am | TWOU choppy | by Victor Reklaitis
2U has started trading now as well, and it was last up 1.4%, recovering from a loss.
10:32 am | Thinking positive | by Victor Reklaitis
There has been "enough positive data out this week stateside like yesterday's upward GDP revision and improved jobless claims to keep traders thinking positively about the economy," says Colin Ciezynski, a senior analyst at CMC Markets, in a note this morning.
He wrote that after the personal income and spending data, but before the sentiment report hit.
But he also sounds cautious in his technical analysis for the S&P 500:
"SPX500 is holding steady near 1,850 as it drifts within a 1,835-1,885 trading channel. RSI under 50 suggests momentum still downward with next potential support on a breakdown near 1,810 a Fibonacci level then 1,800."
10:21 am | Today's drivers | by Victor Reklaitis
The economic reports today have been on consumer spending and consumer sentiment, and they've matched and missed expectations, respectively.
The Commerce Department reported at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Friday that consumer spending in the U.S. rose 0.3% in February, matching expectations and representing the fastest rate since November. The adjacent chart is from our story on that spending data.
Then at 9:55 a.m., a gauge of consumer sentiment declined to a final March reading of 80, the lowest level since November and below forecasts for 81.
Stocks actually added to their gains slightly after that weaker-than-expected sentiment report.
10:02 am | CBS Outdoor pops | by Victor Reklaitis
CBS Outdoor has started trading, and it was last up about 7%.
9:57 am | More on CBS Outdoor | by Victor Reklaitis
The future of marketing rests just as much in the trusty billboard as in social media, online video or TV. That, at least, is the contrarian message that the head of CBS Corp.'s outdoor-ad business has been taking to Wall Street.
So says a story with background info about CBS Outdoor.
As we wait for trading to start, you can read the story here.
Photo credit: CBS Outdoor
9:55 am | Healthy pop fades | by Victor Reklaitis
Everyday Health is now down 3%, erasing its earlier gains and heading south.
The company provides online content related to health and wellness.
Sounds similar to WebMD.
9:50 am | EVDY up 3% | by Victor Reklaitis
Everyday Health has started trading, and it was last up about 3%.
9:44 am | Dow up triple digits | by Victor Reklaitis
Stocks have strengthened in the last few minutes, with the Dow last up 101 points.
SPX +0.7%, down -0.3% for week, now up 0.1% for month
Dow +0.6%, up 0.4% for week and up 0.3% for month
Nasdaq +0.7%, still down a hefty 2.3% for week, and off 3% for month
9:41 am | 2U celebrates | by Victor Reklaitis
2U, with the ticker TWOU, rang the opening bell for the Nasdaq:
2U Inc rings the #NASDAQ#OpeningBell in celebration of its #IPO today! #dreamBIG$TWOU@2Uinc#edtechpic.twitter.com/QB8xDPHKhS
— NASDAQ.com (@NASDAQ) March 28, 2014
9:39 am | Fresh faces | by Victor Reklaitis
There are a bunch of companies that will have their first day of trading today.
They include:
CBS Outdoor, with the ticker CBSO -- the billboard company
Aerohive Networks, HIVE
Everyday Health, EVDY
2U, TWOU -- described as a cloud-based platform for online degree programs at nonprofit universities
9:34 am | Rising at the open | by Victor Reklaitis
Good morning.
It's moderate gains in the early going.
S&P 500 is up 0.2%, but down 0.7% for the week and on pace for a 0.3% slip in March.
Dow +0.2% for the day
Nasdaq +0.2% for the day


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
It's official: the Muslim Brotherhood has taken control of Egypt, or will do so in the very near future.
To the consternation of many throughout the region, Egypt's election commission on Sunday announced that Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi would be the next president of the largest and most powerful Arab state.
That victory comes just months after the Brotherhood and an allied Islamist group won a strong majority in the Egyptian parliament. Egypt's current rulers in the Supreme Military Council had those election results nullified, but a similar outcome is expected when new parliamentary elections are held.
Morsi scored a narrow 51.7 percent victory in Egypt's run-off presidential election against secular candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who was plagued by his ties to former dictator Hosni Mubarak.
Egypt's evolution from secular, Western-aligned dictatorship to an Islamist-controlled regime advocating Sharia Law so closely mirrors what happened to Iran in the late 1970s that Israel is understandably concerned.
Iranians chafed under the repressive rule of their former shah, just as Egyptians did under Mubarak. Eager for change, many Iranians were quickly taken in by the promising message of the Ayatollah Khomenei, and propelled his movement to power through newfound democratic freedoms. The very same holds true for the Muslim Brotherhood and its growing support base in Egypt.
Only after attaining overall control of the country did Khomeini show his true face and plunge Iran into darkness and repression on a scale never imagined under the shah. Already, Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood leadership are hinting at going down a similar path.
Despite claims to the contrary for the sake of Western consumption (the Western media has inexplicably, but predictably swallowed those lies), Morsi said Sharia will be a central component of his presidency.
During an election rally at Cairo University last month, Morsi told young Egyptians, "The Koran is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader, jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal. Today we can establish Sharia law because our nation will acquire well-being only with Islam and Sharia."
But like in Iran, it's not the president everyone should truly be worried about. Rather, Western concerns are more properly directed at the religious forces using the presidency as a puppet. In Egypt's case, that puppeteer is Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohammed al-Badi.
It was Badi, and the rest of the Brotherhood leadership, that advanced Morsi as a candidate for president, confident that he would promote the movement's core tenants.
And just what are those tenants? The imposing of Sharia in place of true democratic freedom, for one.
In 2007, former Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohammed Mahdi Akef very bluntly explained that the movement would, given the opportunity, use democracy to gain power, and then replace it with Sharia law, which he sees as the "true democracy."
"The final, absolute message from heaven contains all the values which the secular world claims to have invented....Islam and its values antedated the West by founding true democracy," Akef told the Egyptian newspaper Al-Karama.
Current Supreme Guide Badi suggested that does not bode well for the minorities in Egypt or anywhere else the Brotherhood intends to rule.
"Allah's word will reign supreme and the infidels' word will be inferior," Badi said in a televised sermon in 2010.
What about foreign relations, in particular relations with Israel?
Morsi has publicly promised to honor all international treaties and agreements, including the Camp David Accords. But, again, it is reasonable to view that with suspicion as a sound bite intended for Western consumption.
During the run-off presidential election, Shafiq strongly cautioned that were it to gain power, the Muslim Brotherhood would provoke armed conflict with Israel by making "Palestine" the core issue for all Egyptians.
Shortly after, Morsi appeared at an election rally where a Muslim cleric with ties to the Brotherhood declared that a Morsi presidency would result in the return of Jerusalem to Islamic sovereignty.
Again, the man everyone should really be looking at when it comes to these matters is Badi, and according to a 2010 speech he made, the Muslim Brotherhood seeks jihad against both Israel and the US. "Waging jihad against both of these infidels is a commandment of Allah that cannot be disregarded," declared Badi.
None of this means the Muslim Brotherhood will declare war tomorrow. Indeed, it can't at this stage, with Egypt's Supreme Military Council wary of relinquishing full control of the state to the new president and his superiors. But the Muslim Brotherhood is nothing if not patient, and it is gaining some surprising allies in the West.
The Obama Administration seems to not share Israel's deep concerns over the Muslim Brotherhood rise to power, and that has more than a few Israelis scratching their heads in wonderment. In fact, Obama is leading the international call for Egypt's army to step aside and let the newly elected Islamists assume full control.
Another similarity with the Iranian Revolution is the American response. Like Mubarak, the former shah of Iran was an ally of the US, but found little or no support from Washington as he was toppled from power. And, like Obama with Egypt, as it became clear that radical Islamists would rule Iran in the shah's stead, the Carter Administration, rather than raise doubt and take action against further regional destabilization, expressed sympathy for and confidence in the ayatollah.
Photo: Hamas activists in Gaza celebrate the electoral victory of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Hamas is an offshoot of and closely allied with the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Are Parents and Students Ready For More Math and Science?
Obsolete is the word Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates used to describe the nations high schools in his speech to the nations governors and education leaders at the 2005 National Education Summit. Gates explained his concerns crisply: By obsolete, I mean that our high schools even when theyre working exactly as designed cannot teach our kids what they need to know today.
Our high schools were designed fifty years ago to meet the needs of another age. Until we design them to meet the needs of the 21st century, we will keep limiting even ruining the lives of millions of Americans every year.
Gates is not the only one advocating major reform. The American Diploma Project, an influential consortium that includes Achieve, Inc., The Education Trust and the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, believes that expectations about what youngsters learn in high school must be raised and raised dramatically. According to the group, the diploma has lost its value because what it takes to earn one is disconnected from what it takes for graduates to compete successfully beyond high school either in the classroom or in the workplace.
Much of the concern centers on continuing gaps in achievement between white and minority youngsters and the high dropout rate among disadvantaged students. But some of the most dramatic critiques focus on the need to ramp up science and math education among students across the board. The Business Roundtable and United States Chamber of Commerce, for example, are leading voices for dramatically increasing the focus on science and math in the nations high schools.[3] The concern here? That U.S. leadership in science and technology is at risk unless high schools do more to train and nurture a whole new generation of young American scientists, engineers and mathematicians.
According to reports issued by these and other business organizations, American high school students are not sufficiently skilled and knowledgeable about science and math in general. Far too few have the preparation and desire to enter engineering and other careers that are critical to the nations economic competitiveness.
Earlier editions of Reality Check surveys from 1998 through 2002 showed that while most employers and professors were dissatisfied with high school graduates skills, most families were confident that their own schools prepared their youngsters well. But given the passionate and high profile calls for high school reform, have parent and student views changed? Just how ready are American families to take up the challenge these leaders propose? New results from the 2006 Reality Check surveys suggest that parents and students come to this issue from very different starting points. These results are part of Public Agendas multi-year Education Insights initiative designed to address communication and engagement problems that could stall or derail progress in improving schools. The work was supported by the GE Foundation, the Nellie Mae Education Foundation and The Wallace Foundation.
In the following pages, we summarize attitudes about high school reform and math and science education from our new round of Reality Check surveys. While neither parents nor their offspring underestimate the role science and math will play in the future world of work, the research suggests that leaders working for major high school reform need to do their homework. Families are aware of the challenge in a general sense, but relatively few see this as the pre-eminent issue facing their local high schools. More important, relatively few seem to absorb its implications in their own personal lives. That is, despite parents lip service agreement that U.S. schools should be competitive, proposals to increase math and science coursework for their own kids could come as something of a surprise. As leaders in government, business and education move forward to address this issue, as they build a strong leadership consensus to act, they may be well advised to reach out to parents and students directly as well. Based on this research, they have one more agenda item to add to their list helping American families understand the economic and educational challenges the country faces and involving them in strategies to find effective solutions.
The first in a series of Reality Check reports finds that parents and students do not share the concern of business and government leaders about flagging math and science skills.


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AUSTIN, TEXAS—University of Texas astronomers have discovered what might be the universe's largest black hole, a finding experts said could lead to a better picture of how galaxies and black holes are formed.
The so-called supermassive black hole is the mass of approximately 17 billion suns. What makes it so unique is that it contains 14 per cent of its galaxy's mass. Most black holes usually have less than 1 per cent of their respective galaxies' mass.
UT astronomy professor Karl Gebhardt and postdoctoral fellow Jonelle Walsh are part of a team of researchers led by Remco van den Bosch that used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at the McDonald Observatory to locate the black hole in galaxy NGC 1277, located 220 million light-years away from Earth in the Perseus constellation.
The team's discovery is set to appear in the journal Nature on Thursday.
Gebhardt said the find challenges the main theory of black hole and galaxy formation, which says the galaxy comes first and a black hole afterward.
"We're trying to understand what comes first," Gebhardt said. "Is it the black hole or the galaxy? It's the chicken and the egg problem." A black hole has strong gravity that pulls in everything around it, growing larger with the material it consumes.
All galaxies are believed to have a black hole, Gebhardt said. Smaller black holes are generally believed to be formed by the death of large stars, he said, but there are three theories about the formation of supermassive black holes like the one UT researchers measured.
In the main theory, the galaxies are formed first and send material to their centre to grow black holes. Another theory says the black hole comes first and determines how big galaxies grow, while a third contends that black holes and galaxies grow together.
UT astronomy professor John Kormendy, who wasn't involved in the new study, is reviewing black hole theories and was part of a team in 1997 that discovered a black hole that made up 9 per cent of its galaxy's total mass.
"The general idea is that black holes grow gradually over time because they eat the things they live in," Kormendy said. "That theory is somewhat disfavored by this new discovery, or at least it's not the whole story."
Gebhardt said the research team anticipates that there are at least five more galaxies with massive black holes, and they will attempt to examine those within the next year. Experts currently know the mass of fewer than 100 black holes, he said, and the team's project is to measure 800 of them.
Gebhardt and the team have worked on the project for about four years, he said.
"I want to know how a galaxy is made," said Gebhardt, who got a job after college analyzing black holes at the University of Michigan. "I want to know what role black holes play in galaxy formation and evolution, which (now) appears to be a pretty big role."
Gebhardt said his team was attracted to this particular galaxy because the stars were moving so fast and they wanted to find out why.
The team used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, a 15-year-old telescope at McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis to measure the black hole.
The $13.5-million telescope measures the light emitted from the galaxies in a process called spectroscopy, which gathers information about the temperature and speed of objects in space. In August, the telescope detected the first evidence of a planet destroyed by a star.
"Finding the largest black hole was not what we were after," said Matthew Shetrone, a resident astronomer who made the observations for Gebhardt's team. It "required shifting through the diamonds in the rough."
Astronomy professor Chung-Pei Ma at the University of California, Berkeley, who wasn't involved in the research, said the link between black holes and galaxies was established during the past decade.
She said this new discovery sparks new questions in the galaxy and black hole debate, and she is interested in seeing more results from Gebhardt's team.
"If you have just one extraordinary outlier, you can always say maybe this galaxy was very special," Ma said. "If you say this is a class of its own, then we need to come up with a theoretical explanation."
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Amphora was presented at The Public Health Research Conference: A project for the Future organized by The Health Department of The Generalitat de Catalunya, 3 February 2010, in Barcelona.
The main purposes were the internal dissemination on ongoing research projects as well as definition of research priorities and promotion of cross-sectional studies in areas of public health. The programme included a large number of poster presentations and lectures on drug-dependence and mental health, nutrition and health, environment and health and transmissible diseases.


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LA PINTADA, Mexico (AP) — Rescuers fighting tons of slippery, wet mud at the site of this week's worst storm disaster unearthed a woman's body Saturday, possibly one of 68 missing in a massive landslide that buried half of the remote coffee-growing town of La Pintada.
Houses were filled to their roofs with dirt and vehicles were tossed on their sides when the hillside collapsed Monday afternoon after several days of rain brought by Tropical Storm Manuel, which along with Hurricane Ingrid gave Mexico a one-two punch last weekend.
"As of today, there is little hope now that we will find anyone alive," said President Enrique Pena Nieto after touring the devastation, adding that the landslide covered at least 40 homes.
Pena Nieto told storm survivors that La Pintada, a town of 800, would be relocated and rebuilt in a safer location as officials responded to a wave of criticism that negligence and corruption were to blame for the vast devastation caused by two relatively weak storm systems.
Authorities on Saturday also found the wreckage of a Federal Police helicopter that was working on the La Pintada rescue when it went missing nearby on Thursday. All aboard died, though officials still could not confirm late in the day how many were aboard.
All week in Mexico City, editorials and public commentary said the government had made natural disasters worse because of poor planning, lack of a prevention strategy and corruption.
"Governments aren't responsible for the occurrence of severe weather, but they are for the prevention of the effects," wrote Mexico's nonprofit Center of Investigation for Development in an online editorial criticizing a federal program to improve infrastructure and relocate communities out of dangerous flood zones. "The National Water Program had good intentions but its execution was at best poor."
Ingrid and Manuel simultaneously pounded both of Mexico's coasts, killing at least 101 people, not including the helicopter crash victims or the 68 missing. Interior Secretary Miguel Osorio Chong told Mexican media the death toll could go as high as 200 in the coming days, nearing that of Hurricane Paulina, which hit Guerrero state in 1997 and caused one of Mexico's worst storm disasters.
Guerrero Gov. Angel Aguirre publicly confirmed that corruption and political dealings allowed housing to be built in dangerous areas where permits should have been rejected.
"The responsibility falls on authorities," Osorio Chong said in a press conference earlier in the week. "In some cases (the building) was in irregular zones, but they still gave the authorization."
Both the federal and Guerrero state administrations are new and cited cases in the past, though Osorio Chong said that going forward, he is sure that Aguirre and the mayor of Acapulco will not allow flooded-out victims to return to high-risk areas.
In a meeting with hotel owners in Acapulco, Pena Nieto told the resort city that the reconstruction phase has begun, and that the government will help address the hoteliers' concerns, including improving the main thoroughfare from Mexico City, the Highway of the Sun, which was closed by slides and damage in the storm, cutting off access for days.
The highway reopened Friday, albeit with many detours skirting stretches damaged by flooding and landslides. As of Saturday, all of the thousands of stranded tourists had been able to leave Acapulco.
Pena Nieto said he would visit the northern state of Sinaloa on Sunday, where Manuel hit with hurricane force Thursday morning.
Three people were reported dead in Sinaloa. Flood waters hat reached waist-deep in some places in Culiacan, the Sinaloa state capital, including the city zoo.
Some 24 animals perished in the hurricane, according to Mexico's federal prosecutor for animal protection, including goats, sheep and a scimitar oryx, an antelope from Saharan Africa that is now extinct in the wild. The giraffe cages were flooded and the storm damaged the reptile exhibit.
Zoo director Diego Garcia Herredia said the animals had shelter, but that stress from the storm may have prevented some from seeking protection.
The storms affected 24 of Mexico's 31 states and 371 municipalities, which are the equivalent of counties. More than 58,000 people were evacuated, with 43,000 taken to shelters. Nearly 1,000 donation centers have been set up around the country, with nearly 700 tons of aid arriving so far. Nearly 800,000 people lost power across the country, though the Federal Electricity Commission said 94 percent of service had been restored as of Saturday morning.
Seventy-two key highways were damaged.
The investigations center, known as CIDAC for its initials in Spanish, said Mexico had not been hit by two simultaneous storms since 1958.
The editorial said that while rescue efforts and aid are indeed humanitarian, they also provide good images for opportunistic politicians.
Prevention "like that in developed countries, designed to avoid the negative impact of natural events on people, doesn't seem to sell advertising or create grateful constituents," read the editorial.
Associated Press writers Katherine Corcoran in Mexico City and Martin Duran in Culiacan contributed to this report.
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tifosi77 wrote:I love how completely disjointed Izzard is on stage. It's literally like stream-of-consciousness, as if he's saying everything off the cuff. But it most assuredly isn't; about five years ago I got to see him perform at the Coronet Theater in L.A., which only seats about 75 people. He was testing material that has been the core of his act ever since. So I got to see "Jazz Chicken" when he was still using the Chuck Mangione song (which technically wasn't legal, and is why he now improvises a melody during the bit). (None of that will make any sense to anyone who hasn't seen his more recent stuff.)
I've seen him at the Coronet, Dolby nee Kodak Theater, the Nokia Theater and the Hollywood Bowl (where he was the first stand up comedian to headline in the venue's history, and the crowd was treated to him running up to the top of the bowl and a festival of fanimation set to Izzard's material.... the finale of course being "Death Star Canteen a la Lego".)
PghSkins wrote:I'm surprised none of you have mentioned Lewis Black
Because most of you are not funny, and neither is he.
count2infinity wrote:okay shad... you've used up all your sarcasm for this thread.
Rylan wrote:The mentioning of Mitch Hedberg increased my respect for you tif. Such an awesome comedian IMO.
tifosi77 wrote:Rylan wrote:The mentioning of Mitch Hedberg increased my respect for you tif. Such an awesome comedian IMO.
We saw him live at the Improv up in West Hollywood about three or four months before he died. New year's eve show. Took him about ten minutes to find his groove, but once he started rolling it was fantastic.
He opened with "Man, look at you all, got your dinner and your drinks. It's like you all chased me in here and just said, "f it, let's eat". Then he pointed to the big Improv sign on the wall behind him and said, "The last time I was here, they put an 'e' on the end."
FreeCandy44 wrote:Not one Dave Atell or Patton Oswalt? You people disappoint me.
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EditorsNote: Adds $84 million in second graph Blackhawks lock up Toews, Kane
The Chicago Blackhawks agreed to terms with forwards Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane on eight-year contract extensions, which run through the 2022-23 season, the team announced Wednesday.
Each contract is worth a total of $84 million, ESPN.com reported. Toews and Kane previously agreed to matching five-year, $31.5 million extensions in 2009 that were set to expire after this coming season.
A formal press conference will be held at the United Center next week.
"Jonathan and Patrick have become cornerstones of this franchise during their time in Chicago," general manager Stan Bowman said in a statement. "We are excited to ensure they will continue to lead our organization for years to come."
Toews, 26, became the youngest captain in Blackhawks history, third-youngest in NHL history, on July 18, 2008 and has guided the organization to two Stanley Cup championships during his time in Chicago.
"I could not be more grateful for the amazing moments and opportunities I've been given by the Chicago Blackhawks," Toews said in a release. "There's no organization in sports that cares more about the overall experience of their fans and the success of their players. To have the chance to continue with this amazing group of teammates and people throughout the organization is an incredible honor. There's nothing we want more as players than to continue to win Stanley Cups for the best hockey fans on the planet."
Toews became the second-youngest player to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP following the Blackhawks' 2010 championship, the franchise's first title in 49 years. He won the NHL's Frank J. Selke Trophy, given annually to the forward who best excels in the defensive aspects of the game, in 2013 and was a finalist for the award in 2011 and 2014. Toews was also a finalist for the Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL's top rookie in 2008 and was selected for the NHL All-Star Game in 2009, 2011 and 2012. He was named to the NHL's Second All-Star Team following the 2013 campaign.
The Winnipeg, Manitoba, native has recorded 440 points (195 goals, 245 assists) in 484 career regular-season games with the Blackhawks, since making his debut during the 2007-08 campaign. He shares fifth on the franchise's all-time list in game-winning goals (six), is 20th in goals, 22nd in points and is tied for 27th in assists. He has recorded 81 points (29 goals, 52 assists) in 94 career postseason games with the Blackhawks, ranking sixth in franchise history in playoff points, seventh in assists and ninth in goals. He is also the all-time franchise leader with 10 postseason game-winning goals.
Toews is a two-time Olympic champion, helping Canada to back-to-back gold medals in 2010 and 2014. He has also represented Canada at two World Championships, earning a gold medal in 2007 and a silver in 2008, and two World Junior Championships, winning gold medals in 2006 and 2007.
Kane, 25, has helped the Blackhawks to two Stanley Cup championships, scoring the series-clinching goal in Game 6 of the 2010 Stanley Cup Final and winning the Conn Smythe Trophy following the 2013 title.
"It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago," Kane said in a release. "Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing. Since I was drafted by the Blackhawks, the people of Chicago have really embraced me and treated me with nothing but respect. I look forward to many more years of success with the Blackhawks."
Kane captured the 2008 Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL's rookie of the year and has been selected to participate in the NHL All-Star Game three times: 2009, 2011 and 2012. Kane was also selected as an NHL First-Team All-Star in 2010 and named to the All-Rookie Team in 2008.
The Buffalo, N.Y., native has registered 493 points (178 goals, 315 assists) in 515 career regular-season games with Chicago dating back to 2007-08. He ranks 12th in team history in assists, is 15th in points and 21st in goals. He also ranks 11th in franchise history with 30 game-winning goals.
Kane has posted 91 points (37 goals, 54 assists) in 93 career Stanley Cup playoff games with Chicago, ranking fifth in team history in playoff points and goals, and sixth in assists. He shares second in Blackhawks history with two playoff hat tricks and is third with seven postseason game-winning tallies.
Kane has represented the United States in two Winter Olympics, winning a silver medal in the 2010 Games in Vancouver. He also appeared for the U.S. in the 2008 World Championships and won a bronze medal at the 2007 World Junior Championships.
"When we started our journey we made a commitment to our fans to be relevant and to see the Chicago Blackhawks become the best professional hockey organization. There are not two finer symbols of that than Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane," chairman Rocky Wirtz said in a statement. "The commitment we have made to these incredible young men is equal to the commitment they have made to our team, our fans, our entire organization and the city of Chicago. We are excited for our future and proud that they will continue to be a part of that commitment and success for years to come."
President and CEO John McDonough said, "The signings of Jonathan and Patrick symbolize an important milestone in franchise history. We are driven by the pursuit of consistent excellence and today is a huge step forward."


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I am an advanced beginner who seek to improve on game and just completed one 6 class session with Cupertino Parks. Never competed in league , though interested to do so if get a good partner. Looking for a partner who can play in Cupertino/Santa Clara/Sunnyvale area.
Please feel free to ping me if you are interested to play in Friday evening, Weekends.
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I'm interested, ping me when you get a chance. thanks
Hi Raja,
What time works for you. Does memorial park works for you? Pls leave your email or contact# also.
I prefer to play at mango park, Mary / Remington in sunnyvale. I can be reached at 4088006379
Hi Raja,
Thanks for replying to my post. Mango works for me, as well as Memorial Park. I'd like to hit some time, maybe next week. Will contact you again. Thanks, Lynn
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Arkansas Fallen Soldier 5K Memorial Run
Mark your calendars for Saturday, June 1 and come to the Arkansas Fallen Soldier 5k Memorial Run!
The 5K run is from 6a.m. to 11 a.m. June 1 and starts at Trinity Baptist Church parking lot located at 3115 Trinity Boulevard. Proceeds go to help families of fallen soldiers in our area and to the Wounded Warrior Project. This is for a great cause! Please help show your support!
Registration forms can be picked up at the US Army National Guard at 4800 Airport Dr, in Texarkana, Arkansas.
You can go to Fallen Soldiers Run to register online.
For more information please call the Army National Guard at 870-772-4351 or Jamie Redfearn at 903-748-2438 you can also email her at email@example.com