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Fun loving
Kind & compassionate
Reserved & quiet
Very down to earth
Well grounded
Soft hearted but not a pushover
I have been known to cringe and cover my eyes when I see a squirrel try and beat traffic to cross the road. I have also been known to do a little cheer inside my head when he makes it safe and sound on the other side :)
They're right. LOL
Seriously – I try to be the best person I can every day, life's too short to live with unhappiness or regrets.
I treat others as I want to be treated or as if God or my mom is watching.
I LOVE my friends and family & very loyal to the important people in my life.
I Love to laugh, can give & take a joke. I have a weird dry sense of humour.
I'm not an Olympian or a competitive athlete, but I do enjoy working out at the gym a few times a week & strive to be healthier.
I'm not a stick figure or petite, beauty comes in all sizes (I've incl'd some recent pictures)
If skinny model looking woman are your thing, no offense taken at all but let's not waste each other's time.
While I'm not perfect (no one is), I'm happy & content with who I am.
HATE bullies, drama, and spiders. If you're not willing to kill spiders for me it's a deal breaker J
Love B horror movies, 80's love songs, thunder and lightning.
Enjoy playing guitar
Love singing, singing, singing. Oh and did I mention I love to sing?
Love all music, but singing and playing country is my favorite.
Love to fish. I don't do it near enough.
I need a fishing buddy who might be willing to bait my hook for me and take my fish off. I don't like killing anything, even if it's just worms or fish. Except spiders…you can kill those suckers all day long J
I like to walk, spend time with my pets.
I read alot (mystery/horror) & love to watch movies (action/horror/comed y).
My idea of a great time is sitting by a campfire under the stars, listening to the crackling of the fire, singing & playing guitar.
I'm ready to meet someone special and settle down long term. Looking for someone mature and responsible with a great sense of humour.
I'm an optimist (most days) & appreciate the same. Someone special, who accepts me for me, takes the good with the bad. (I tend to hog the covers and crack my knuckles). LOL
I believe communication is so important being able to compromise & communicate is KEY.
I am hoping to meet a sincere no games kinda guy who enjoys the simpler things in life.
(AND the taller u are the better lol)
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Doctor Who – Big Finish Catch up
Things have been a bit crazy here in Geeksville, but I haven't forgotten about Doctor Who and Big Finish. I have a lot of catching up to do. The BLACK/WHITE TARDIS saga came to a conclusion back in September. I'll be honest, I got this back when it came out, but there was new Doctor Who on TV, and I was busy with a lot of things at Comicbooked.com, then there was New York Comic Con to get ready for. But I recently went back are re-listened to it. But you really don't care about all that, do you? Lets … Continue reading


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Zip up chicken salad with a three-ingredient dressing made from piña colada yogurt and jerk seasoning.
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Too bad for anyone who drives. Of course I'd walk there-and I could!I had been wondering about what the capital one would become:
If true, it would bring traffic madness to Washington.
Ugh. It almost doesn't matter anymore.If and when I obtain reliable information on what the bank is to become, it will be posted here: http://www.brooklynian.com/discussion/38905/the-capital-one-on-washington-at-lincoln#Item_11


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By Brendan Conway
If you haven't been following the last two weeks' Herbalife (HLF) saga, take one new idea away from this post. It's that investors seem to be selling all companies that fall under the label "multilevel marketing" indiscriminately.
Multilevel marketing is the phrase of art for a particular form of organizing a firm's sales force. Sellers and distributors are set up with strong incentives to sign up new folks for the business, in some cases to sell products to them. The universal item: They get more compensation not only when the folks beneath them perform better, but also when there are more folks beneath them. You probably heard that hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman's assault on Herbalife, a multilevel marketing firm, is centered on an argument about the purportedly skewed incentives that the company's salespeople face.
That critique has sent the health-products company's stock tumbling. Less noted is the fact that other multilevel marketers are also getting whacked.
Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS) and Usana (USNA) have been hammered of late. Nu Skin is down by 23% since Dec. 18. For Usana, it's 21%. Today Nu Skin and Herablife are recovering a bit, rising by two to four percent. Usana is down slightly.


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On March 21, Haaretz correspondent Ari Shavit wrote a powerful op-ed in the New York Times that began with this stark and stunning claim: "An Iranian atom bomb will force Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt to acquire their own atom bombs." Indeed, it has become axiomatic among Middle East watchers, nonproliferation experts, Israel's national security establishment, and a wide array of U.S. government officials that Iranian proliferation will lead to a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. President Barack Obama himself, in a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) last month, said that if Iran went nuclear, it was "almost certain that others in the region would feel compelled to get their own nuclear weapon."
Multiple nuclear powers on a hair trigger in the Middle East -- the most volatile region on earth, and one that is undergoing massive political change -- is a nightmare scenario for U.S. and other security planners, who have never before confronted a challenge of such magnitude. But thankfully, all the dire warnings about uncontrolled proliferation are -- if not exactly science fiction -- further from reality than Shavit and Obama indicate. There are very good reasons for the international community to meet the challenge that Iran represents, but Middle Eastern nuclear dominoes are not one of them.
Theorists of international politics, when pondering the decision-making process of states confronted by nuclear-armed neighbors, have long raised the fears of asymmetric power relations and potential for nuclear blackmail to explain why these states would be forced to proliferate themselves.


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David Conrad: 'More than just being polite'November 13, 2013 10:31 AM
I wish I'd kept them all. Collected all the answers people sent me. The question? And it almost sounds like the set up for a joke — Pittsburgh?
Why Pittsburgh?
Why do we love this place? Why when we leave, even when we want to leave, why do the tears come? What is it about "home"?
How does "home" get built? Who were the builders?
Two and half years ago I wrote what? … A letter? A shout, a cry? I'm not sure what it was but I'd gone golfing with my brother who was very ill and run into some truly unsavory people who more or less mocked his infirmity. I was furious. I was also deeply touched by someone who happened to be from my hometown who defended him there.
The Post-Gazette printed the piece and since then I've received in the neighborhood of 1,000 emails. It's amazed me. Stunned me. Since then as well, my brother lost his fight with cancer. He died two years ago, almost to this day. I wanted to say out loud that he is gone and thank everyone for their prayers.
I wish I'd printed them out, your letters. No. I wish I'd written them down by hand and laid them in a book. Not because you've comforted me, or complimented me, not because my brother needed to hear it. All true.
I wish I'd read them aloud, broadcast what you said, in your voices and played them out over the airwaves, the rooftops and trees of Pittsburgh.
When I look at a map of my city now I think, "I know someone from Belle Vernon. … I know that guy from New Castle who moved to an island in South Carolina but still dreams of home. … I know a woman from Penn Hills whose father worked like a dog at Westinghouse so she could go to college. … I know a waiter in LA who says to himself 'I'm an artist, I'm an actor, I'm from Pittsburgh' when he needs some faith. … I know someone who woke up after 10 happy years in San Fran and told her husband honey we gotta go home. … I know Little Washington … I know Duquesne … I know Lebo … I know Hampton and South Fayette and Greenfield and East Liberty and Gallatin and Braddock and Baldwin and Dormont" and it goes on and on and on. It's exhausting, it's terrifying, it's beautiful.
I spend a lot more time away these days, but when I fly home, when the plane starts its descent, voices sound out from all over the field of the city. It's almost eerie feeling them rise up, having been invited into the homes of people I'll never know, into their hearts and memories, hearing them — and there's no better word for it — hearing them praise their mothers and fathers and grandparents and children: "I was taken care of" … "I was loved" … "I'll never forget" … "I will always remember" … "What a gift I was given" … the stories have been overwhelming.
They combine in my mind as a kind of music. Words fail most of us when we try to say why we love something but then love really is the doing isn't it, the labor, not what we call it after.
The letters I've been given speak together like a chorale, a song to a city and its people. A prayer for what it turns out a great many of us have been given by those who came before.
I've been blessed to hear it. You. Humbled.
It's one thing to call into a crowd and ask, "Who's with me?!" With all the arrogance of anger, with the righteousness of a cause. But when they start to stand and then they speak one after the other, number upon number, one's arrogance fades into astonishment. I made a minor point. You people made an epic argument. That this place matters.
You and your forbearers, your parents and your grandparents, caring and fighting and working and dying, made a city. Made a bunch of streets and plumbing and roads and houses, made all the common hardware of any town into some "thing," the myth of a place, that haunts us wherever we go. A labor of love bent into physical form. Brought to life.
If there's some better way to describe the American Dream, I haven't heard it.
Please, tell me more.
David Conrad of Braddock, an actor who starred in the CBS television series "Ghost Whisperer," can be reached at email@example.com.
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By Ben Levisohn
Not a very big one, according to Deutsche Bank.
Yesterday, reports emerged that Tesla's (TSLA) Model S caught fire after an accident. And investors apparently think it's a pretty big deal. Tesla's shares fell 6.2% yesterday and are down again this morning.
Deutsche Bank's Rod Lache and team, however, tell investors not to worry. They write:
We expect that negative news flow and investor concern over the impact to demand of this incident will put negative pressure on the stock in the nearterm. And these are meaningful concerns, as this is a new technology and one in which sensitivity to safety risk is very high. We believe that there are several issues that will mitigate the negative impact to perception of Model S safety…
Those include 83 million miles of driving with this being the first fire, the fact that it resulted from a collision and that the fire began gradually and the driver was warned by the car. As a result, Deutsche Bank is still bullish on the stock. The analysts write:
This incident does not change our positive thesis on the company or the stock. Given significant Roadster and Model S experience (6 years, tens of millions of miles driven) without a fire, we have confidence that this is an isolated incident that could happen to any vehicle.
Of course, the Model S is not just any vehicle–it's a Tesla. When Baird cut the stock yesterday, it noted that sentiment had turned and I can't help but thinking that an event like this, even if it's isolated, will do nothing to restore the stock's mojo.
Tesla's shares have dropped 4.6% to $172.60, while General Motors (GM) has fallen 0.6% to $35.72, Ford Motor (F) has declined 0.6% to $17.11 and Toyota Motor (TM) has gained 0.7% to $128.50.


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Hey guys sorry if I am asking redundant questions here just started collecting. But is having for example: a Darth Vader(or whichever character) from the OTC better or worse than having one of the same character from TVC? and or vice a versa.
Hey guys sorry if I am asking redundant questions here just started collecting. But is having for example: a Darth Vader(or whichever character) from the OTC better or worse than having one of the same character from TVC? and or vice a versa.
Have: CW Yularen, CW Clone, everything from CW Slave I set except Slave I, TFU Shadow Stormtrooper x2, Evo Trooper, Saga AT-AT Driver, K-Mart Jodo Kast || Want: Vintage Fordo
Thanks to TheDarthVader, Phantom-like Menace, TheRealDubya, Jediguy, Dark Marble, Umbra, Qui-Long Gone, CrunchyNug, GH_fan and jedikiss.
The earlier vintage assortments are referred to as VOTC (Vintage Original Trilogy Collection - 2004), VTSC (Vintage The Saga Collection - 2006), and VTAC (Vintage Thirtieth Anniversary Collection - 2007). However some people will just use VOTC to refer to all pre-TVC vintage assortments. Hopefully my post will make more sense with this little bit of background info.
On to your question: a lot of the VTAC/VTSC/VTAC figures have been resculpted/retooled and significantly improved upon since their earlier release. These would include Vader, Boba Fett, Bespin Luke, C-3PO, R2-D2, Stormtrooper, Luke Skywalker, and maybe a couple of others that I can't remember. So, if you're in it for the figures, then you might want to track down the TVC versions. If you only want the most "perfect" version of each character - well that's kind of hit and miss, since the original Vintage assortments put out some amazing figures that will likely not be improved upon anytime soon (Bossk, IG-88, Snowtrooper, Chewbacca), and there are some figures (like ANH Han Solo) where people consider the 2004 VOTC release to actually be superior to the 2011 TVC release. Although with Han, they could technically count as two separate figures because of the different accessories and card art, so you would be justified in buying both.
If you are only interested in secondary market value, then it's possible that the original VOTC/VTSC/VTAC figures might be worth more money, since I believe they were produced in smaller numbers; but it won't be much more. The only reason the real vintage Kenner figures are as valuable as they is because they were purchased mostly by kids and were usually opened and played with pretty heavily. Ever since 1995, collectors have been buying and storing away Star Wars figures in massive numbers, so finding mint examples of modern figures isn't going to be that difficult.
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New taxi service Lyft set to go in Pittsburgh
'Volunteer' drivers face insurance questionsFebruary 6, 2014 11:36 PM
A day before its official Pittsburgh launch, ride-sharing company Lyft announced a major change in how it handles insurance coverage for its drivers -- but that may not be enough to keep the company from finding itself on the wrong side of Pennsylvania law.
San Francisco-based Lyft is planning a launch party tonight on the South Side. Because Lyft's "volunteer" drivers use their own vehicles, many had concerns about gaps in their personal insurance policies.
"We've needed to push the insurance industry to innovate quickly and create new unique solutions," Lyft said in an announcement on its website Thursday.
The new policies include expanding collision insurance for drivers whose personal policies include collision coverage and additional coverage in the event of an accident with another driver who is uninsured or underinsured.
Will Reynolds Young of Castle Shannon signed up to drive for Lyft and is enthusiastic about earning some extra money, but gray areas in the insurance coverage left him concerned.
Rosanne Placey, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Insurance Department, said those concerns are well-founded. "Once you start using your vehicle for business, it's considered commercial," Ms. Placey said, "so you need a commercial policy or an add-on to your personal policy."
She added that there could be exclusions in policies that may prohibit a vehicle's use as a so-called livery, but might allow carpooling or car sharing. "The safest way to handle this is to check in with your auto insurance company to find out if there is coverage should an injury occur," Ms. Placey said.
Lyft is one of a new generation of ride-sharing companies, including SideCar and Uber, that operate with drivers who use their own vehicles. All originated in San Francisco. Uber Black, a version of the Uber service that subcontracts with commercial limo companies, has been in Philadelphia since 2012. While Uber has started signing up drivers in Pittsburgh, a spokeswoman couldn't say when the service might launch here.
Ride-sharing services have faced opposition in other cities, with Uber facing a lawsuit from the family of a 6-year-old girl in San Francisco who was struck and killed on New Year's Eve by a driver who said he was working for Uber at the time.
To use Lyft, a would-be passenger downloads its smartphone app, connects via Facebook, and provides credit card information for payment purposes. Passengers and drivers connect via the app, and after a ride both rate each other with the passenger choosing how much, if anything, to pay on a donation-based payment structure
Insurance issues aren't the only bumps in the road for Lyft.
Jennifer Kocher, spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, said Lyft has not applied for a commercial broker license, which is required of commercial operations such as limousine companies.
"If the driver is receiving compensation, they are supposed to have a commercial license," she said. And, drivers who are found operating a commercial vehicle without a commercial license could face criminal charges, she added.
Erin Simpson, Lyft's director of communications, said the company "doesn't fit the criteria" of a commercial service.
"We are not a taxi or a limo service," she said.
In addition to the drivers being volunteers and the payment system being donation-based, drivers are using their own vehicles, so they don't fall under state guidelines of limo services, Ms. Simpson said.
Jamie Campolongo, president and CEO of Pittsburgh Transportation Group, which operates Yellow Cab, disagrees. He said Lyft and companies like it are breaking the law and present safety issues, both for drivers and passengers.
"It's electronic hitchhiking," Mr. Campolongo said. "It's no different than sticking your thumb out on the side of the road."
He said while Yellow Cab could handle the competition, he thought smaller cab companies might suffer as a result.
"[Ride-share companies] all have this arrogant disregard for regulatory issues," Mr. Campolongo said. He added that he may take pictures of Lyft cars and report them to their insurance companies.
But Ms. Simpson said Lyft sees room for various transportation options in the same space.
"When people have more options to choose from, they use all of them more. They might take a taxi to go out to dinner, but call Lyft to get home," she said. "We don't see this as a zero-sum game."
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I managed to get Ardour packaged and uploaded last night, with all of it's dependancies, yes there are a fair few. One of these was LADSPA, which doesn't use autoconf/automake to compile sample plugins. This quite annoys me as I have to hack and patch to build it with optimizations, and place everything where I want it to go for the package build. Thank god for bash scripting, which saves the day for this problem, as well as for all other packages I now build.
Music Matters
Well I sat down at the piano today and went through those music ideas mentioned earlier. There is certainly something possible there, but I need to let my unconcious brain work more stuff out yet. Amazing what the mind does.
TAFE is quite enjoyable at the moment. I have a bit of work to do for it, but nothing I can't handle at this stage. The subject matter thus far has been quite simple for me at least.
We were examining Windows 2000 and simple networking this week, which was an absolute bore. I look forward to the day when we are setting up DHCP servers with domains etc. Of course we will be learning 2000 Server, but I am quite tempted to prepare my laptop with Samba 3 and wack it on the network, and show that things can be done with free software.
Unfortunately, only my TAFE teacher knows anything about Linux in the class it seems. I know there is another student learning it, but I don't think he is as far on as my teacher. Even then I think I am way ahead of both of them. I am not getting a big head over this at all, because I want to try and show them all that free software can do the same things as proprietory software.
The move to Linux
As also stated earlier, I am using windows for my day-to-day tasks, because I am vision impaired, and thus far, none of the screen reading packages, except Gnopernicus (which is still under heavy development), on Linux apeal to me. However I am quite sure I know what email client I will use, after playing with it a bit. I eagerly await the GNOME 2.6 release.
This blogging is new to me
Well I just discovered http://www.advogato.org after finishing up some long-overdue work for AudioSlack, my little piece of contribution to the Linux Audio arena. I actually found it while browsing some GNOME related stuff and blogs on Planet GNOME.
Want to prepare and update more packages this afternoon, particularly the kernel and other really neat apps.
Music matters
I have some ideas for what I think would make a deacent song that I may eventually write. I must sit down at the piano and play them through to see whether they in fact do work.
GNOME accessibility
Glad to say that Gnopernicus is really coming along well, particularly since version 0.7.1. I am really keen on jumping to Linux for all my day-to-day tasks, particularly web browsing, but since I can't seem to get Mozilla 1.6 running, I may have to wait a bit.
I used Garnome to build GNOME 2.6 RC1, and Mozilla crashes before it gets started. Maybe a rebuild of garnome tonight may be a possibility.
Windows and JAWS never co-operate
JAWS, the screen reader that I currently use for Windows is always being a pain. Even now while writing this blog, it doesn't always want to read the text in the text field. Come on Gnopernicus and GNOME, give me access to Mozilla damn it!!
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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The new Cinturato offers more mileage, lower rolling resistance and reduced wet braking distances – highlighted by its excellent score of 'AA'under the new European tyre label legislation
At Essen, Germany, today (5 May) the curtain goes up on new Cinturato P7 Blue. For the four days entirely devoted to the new developments from the tyre world, the spotlight will be firmly on this Cinturato family newborn. The tyre has been developed for medium cubic capacity cars and, like other evolutions of the Cinturato P7, it is confirmed as an ecological product.
High mileage, reduced braking distances and low rolling resistance are the Cinturato P7 Blue's main characteristics, while the name recalls the WET tread compound of the Formula 1 tyre, from which its technology is derived.
It is precisely for its low rolling resistance and braking in the wet that the Cinturato P7 Blue has received top marks 'A' and 'B' in the tyre labelling classification (European Tyre Label) introduced by the European Union and which will become obligatory for cars, light and heavy commercial vehicle tyres from 1 November.
Cinturato P7 Blue will be available in 16 sizes in Europe from next July.
Also making their debut at Essen are the new Serie 01 truck tyres, which benefit from all the latest technological innovations created by Pirelli's research and development division for the tyre's structure, tread compound and pattern:
· H:01 tyres designed for use on motorways, dual carriageways and surfaces that determine reduced treads wear.
· ST:01 to equip trailers and semi-trailers.
The ecological covers developed by Pirelli for heavy goods vehicles have been given the maximum number of marks on their labels.
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As the economy coughs its way toward something resembling recovery, politicians and economists are pointing to a surprising elixir: manufacturing.
Rising Chinese wages, high fuel costs, and mounting concerns about the quality of overseas work have contributed to a phenomenon that seemed unthinkable not long ago.
"For the first time since 1990," President Obama crowed during a recent appearance at a Master Lock factory in Milwaukee, "American manufacturers are creating new jobs."
The talk of resurgence has a particular appeal in Rhode Island, where factories once churned out steam engines and textiles and jewelry in breathtaking volumes.
As late as the 1950s, manufacturing employed six in 10 private-sector workers in the state — the triple deckers of Providence and Central Falls teeming with immigrants ticketed for the middle class.
By 2010, that figure had plummeted to one in 10. "The kind of workers who used to work in those factories," says Stanley Lemons, professor emeritus of history at Rhode Island College, "now push around trays at Rhode Island Hospital."
But after a brutal encounter with the Great Recession, Rhode Island's manufacturing sector is stabilizing. There are new jobs on the factory floor and they're good ones; as of 2010, manufacturing paid an average annual wage of $49,217, almost $7000 better than the state's average private-sector wage.
And while no one is predicting a return to the glory days, there is hope — in some quarters — that the state's rusted industrial core will come to life again; that it will play a central role in pulling the state out of its deep and cruel rut.
So, can manufacturing really save Rhode Island? To answer that question, you have to understand, first, what the American factory looks like circa 2012.
Astro-Med's headquarters and manufacturing hub, nestled behind a car dealership in West Warwick, appear more like a suburban office park than an industrial center.
American and Rhode Island flags preside over a tidy parking lot and a pair of white, low-slung buildings. In the main lobby, visitors are greeted with modern, gray, curving furniture.
The company was founded in 1971 by the late Albert W. Ondis, who worked in a mill while attending Woonsocket High School and, after college, drove to Washington and called the CIA from a payphone to ask for a job.
He worked at the agency for a time. But believing it moved too slowly, Ondis left to pursue a career in business — first as a sales manager at Brush Instruments and then as an entrepreneur.
Astro-Med started in the business of data recorders. And the devices, handheld or mounted, are still central to the business; they've been used to monitor the performance of the Space Shuttle and the g-force of Disney World rides.
Later, the company added two more product lines. Its QuickLabel division sells in-house, color labeling systems used by breweries and cosmetics companies, among others. And its Grass Technologies group sells machines that monitor the brain activity of the epileptic and sleep-deprived.
On the day I visit, Steve Petrarca, Astro-Med's amiable vice president of instrument manufacturing, walks me onto the sprawling factory floor and I'm immediately struck by the quiet and cleanliness of the place.
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Shares of Apple (AAPL) are up $1.83, or 0.4%, at $489.05, after the company this afternoon confirmed weeks of speculation it will hold a media event next Tuesday, September 10th, at its headquarters in Cupertino, California.
Speculation has focused on the introduction of new iPhones, and, less likely, new iPad models, since a report a month ago by AllThingsD's Ina Fried.
Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster this afternoon offers up his thoughts on what to expect from the event, reiterating a view that the introduction of both a new high-end iPhone and also cheaper iPhone models will "mark the transition back to positive EPS growth."
Munster thinks Street estimates are too low, based on a belief that despite lower margin for the less-expensive iPhone model, already 70% of the company's iPhone sales are "in the bag":
As we have done in the past, we looked at the total number of iPhone units sold in FY12 to get a sense of how many units we can assume are already "in-the-bag" for FY14. We use FY12 to ascertain FY14 numbers by assuming the average phone life is two years (assuming early/late upgrades offset) and that 80-90% of iPhone users stay with an iPhone. In FY12, Apple sold 125 million phones. Assuming 80-90% of those iPhone users stay with iPhone would imply 100-112 million phones will be upgraded in FY14. Taking the midpoint of that estimate (106 million) and applying it to the total core iPhone number plus cannibalized units from the cheaper phone (152 million units) suggests that about 70% of what would be core iPhone units should be sold in the FY14 upgrade cycle. In this analysis, we assume that the cheaper phones (less cannibalization) appeal to new consumers.
Munster lays out what he expects to be the economic impact of a lower iPhone:
We have built in conservative assumptions and believe that the vast majority of Street estimates do not currently factor in the cheaper phone. Specifically our model makes the following cheaper phone impact: Gross Margin: We are modeling a 15% gross margin for the cheaper phone. While this is highly unlikely we are using a conservative assumption given the iPad Mini gross margins came in below our original estimates. We believe the actual iPad Mini margin is 20-25%. It"s more likely the cheaper iPhone will have margins in the 20-30% range. Pricing: As mentioned, we are modeling a $300 unsubsidized price, 33% below the current iPhone 4 unsubsidized price in the US. Prices outside of the US tend to be 26% to 200% higher. For example an unlocked iPhone 4S in the UK is 33% higher than in the US, Germany 47% higher, China 37% higher, and Brazil 94% higher. We believe talk of a $99 iPhone is premature. Long term we believe a $99 phone is a possibility, but highly unlikely through 2015. Apple could try to address the sub $200 market through another product category that we expect would have more measurable difference between how we envision the cheaper iPhone vs. the current iPhone line. Size Of Under $400 Phone Market. We think the phone market is divided at the $400 price point. We believe 40% of total dollars spent globally are on phones below $400. We believe about 60% of units are in this market. In total we believe the sub $400 market in 2014 will be worth about $160 billion (compared to our estimates for iPhone revenue in 2014 of $101 billion). We believe the average price of a phone in this market is $220, thus Apple"s cheaper phone at $300 will be priced 36% higher than the average cheaper phone. Market Share & Units: We are modeling the cheaper iPhone to have 10% share of the cheaper phone market in 2014 and 14% share in 2015, which assumes 50m units in 2014 and 100m in 2015. This compares to our estimate of Apple"s global market share in high-end smartphones of 37% and 16% of overall smartphones in CY13. Cannibalization: Since we expect the phone to be sold globally, we are modeling a 25% cannibalization rate. In other words, for every four cheaper iPhones sold, Apple will sell one fewer regular ($600 ASP) iPhone. Impact To Model. For 2014, the combination of these assumptions around the cheaper phone ($300 ASP, 10% share, and 15% gross margin) represents $2.2 billion to our gross profit dollar estimates and $15 billion to revenue in 2014 and $4.5 billion and $30 billion, respectively, in 2015.
Munster is modeling Apple making $190 billion in revenue next fiscal year ending September of 2014, with $44.03 per share in net profit. That is better than the Street consensus for $180.7 billion and $42.44 per share.


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In response to issues raised by the Workers' Rights Organizing Committee, University officials have advanced two measures concerning casual workers and wage levels.
Richard Spies, vice president for finance and administration, explained the measures in a statement issued Wednesday.
First, the University will seek to move a significant number of casual workers to benefits-eligible term appointments or regular staff positions. Second, administrators have asked the Priorities Committee to examine the University's compensation program, including the wage levels of lower-paid staff members, and to make at least initial recommendations by the end of April.
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Binghamton University presents 29th annual dance showcase
The Children's Dance Theatre at Binghamton University will present their annual dance showcase at 2 p.m. Saturday, February 26, in the Anderson Center Osterhout Concert Theatre.
The showcase will feature pieces choreographed and danced by Binghamton University students in various styles including ballet, breakdancing, tap, hip-hop and jazz.
The Children's Dance Theatre has served the Greater Binghamton area for nearly 30 years and often travels to area elementary schools to perform in assemblies.
This performance is open to the public. Tickets at $2 for children and $4 for adults will be available at the door.
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MRS. ST. QUENTIN'S health became increasingly fragile that autumn; and the weight of the sorrow which had fallen upon Brockhurst bowed her to the earth. Her desire was to go to Lady Calmady, wrap her about with tenderness and strengthen her in patience. But, though the spirit was willing, the flesh was weak. Daily she assured Mademoiselle de Mirancourt that she was better, that she would be able to start for England in the course of the next week. Yet day after day, week after week, passed by, and still the two ladies lingered in the pretty apartment of the rue de Rennes. Day by day, and week by week, moreover, the elder lady grew more feeble, left her bed later in the morning, sought it earlier at night, finally resigned the attempt to leave it at all. The keepers of Lucia St. Quentin's house of life trembled, desire—even of gentle ministries—began to fail, the sound of the grinding was low. Yet neither she, nor her lifelong friend, nor her doctor, nor the few intimate acquaintances who were still privileged to visit her, admitted that she would never set forth on that journey to England at all, but only on that quite other journey,—upon which Richard Calmady had already set forth in the fulness of his manhood,—and upon which, the manifold uncertainties of human existence notwithstanding, we are, each one of us, so perfectly certain to set forth at last. Silently they agreed with her to treat her increasing weakness with delicate stoicism, to speak of it—if at all—merely as a passing indisposition, so allowing no dreary, lamentable element to obtrude itself. Sad Mrs. St. Quentin might be, bitterly sad at heart, perplexed by the rather incomprehensible dealings of God with man. Yet, to the end, she would remain charming, gently gay even, both out of consideration for others and out of a fine self‐respect, since she held it the mark of a cowardly and ignoble nature to let anything squalid appear in her attitude towards grief, old age, or death.
But Brockhurst she would never see again. The way was too great for her. And so it came about that when Lady Calmady's child was born, towards the end of the following March, no more staid and responsible woman‐creature of her family was at hand to support her than that lively, young lady, her brother, William Ormiston's wife.page: 53
Meanwhile, the parish of Sandyfield rejoiced. Thomas Caryll, the rector, had caused the church bells to be rung immediately on receipt of the good news; while he selected, as text for his Sunday‐morning sermon, those words, usually reserved to another and somewhat greater advent—"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given." Good Mr. Caryll was innocent of the remotest intention of profanity. But his outlook was circumscribed, his desire to please abnormally large, and his sense of relative values slight. While that Lady Calmady should give birth to a son and heir was, after all, a matter of no small moment—locally considered at all events.
Brockhurst House rejoiced also, yet it did so not without a measure of fear. For there had been twenty‐four hours of acute anxiety regarding Katherine Calmady. And even now, on the evening of the second day, although Dr. Knott declared himself satisfied both as to her condition and that of the baby, an air of mystery surrounded the large, state bedroom—where she lay, white and languid, slowly feeling her way back to the ordinary conditions of existence—and the nursery next door. Mrs. Denny, who had taken possession by right divine of long and devoted service, not only did not encourage, but positively repulsed visitors. Her ladyship must not be disturbed. She, the nurse, the baby, in turn, were sleeping. According to Denny the god of sleep reigned supreme in those stately, white‐panelled chambers, looking away, across the valley and the long lines of the elm avenue, to the faint blue of the chalk downs rising against the southern sky.
John Knott had driven over, for the second time that day, in the windy March sunset. He fell in very readily with Mrs. Ormiston's suggestion that he should remain to dinner. That young lady's spirits were sensibly on the rise. It is true that she had wept copiously at intervals while her sister‐in‐law's life appeared to be in danger—keeping at the same time as far from the sick‐room as the ample limits of Brockhurst House allowed, and wishing herself a thousand and one times safe back in Paris, where her devoted and obedient husband occupied a subordinate post at the English Embassy. But Mrs. Ormiston's tears were as easily stanched as set flowing. And now, in her capacity of hostess, with three gentlemen—or rather "two and a half, for you can't," as she remarked, "count a brother‐in‐law for a whole one"—as audience, she felt remarkably cheerful. She had been over to Newlands during the afternoon, and insisted on Mary Cathcart returning with her. Mrs. Ormiston was a Desmolyns. The Cathcarts are distantly connected with that family. And, page: 54 when the girl had protested that this was hardly a suitable moment for a visit to Brockhurst, Charlotte Ormiston had replied, with that hint of a brogue which gave her ready speech its almost rollicking character:—
"But, my dear child, propriety demands it. I depart myself to‐morrow. And, now that we're recovering our tone, I daren't be left with such a houseful of men on my hands any longer. While we were tearing our hair over poor Kitty's possible demise, and agonising as to the uncertain sex of the baby, it did not matter. But now even that dear creature, Saint Julius, is beginning to pick up, and looks less as if his diet was mouldy peas and his favourite plaything a cat‐o'‐nine‐tails. Scourge?—Yes, of course, but it's all the same in the application of the instrument, you know. And then in your secret soul, Mary dear," she added, not unkindly, "there's no denying it's far from obnoxious to you to spend a trifle of time in the society of Roger."
Mrs. Ormiston carried her point. It may be stated, in passing, that this sprightly, young matron was brilliantly pretty, though her facial angle might be deemed too acute, leaving somewhat to be desired in the matter of forehead and of chin. She was plump, graceful, and neat waisted. Her skin was exquisitely white and fine, and a charming colour flushed her cheeks under excitement. Her hair was always untidy, her hairpins displaying abnormal activity in respect of escape and independent action. Her eyes were round and very prominent, suggestive of highly‐polished, brown agates. She was not the least shy or averse to attracting attention. She laughed much, and practised, as prelude to her laughter, an impudently, coquettish, little stare.—And that, finally, as he sat on her right at dinner, her rattling talk and lightness of calibre generally struck John Knott as rather cynically inadequate to the demands made by her present position. Not that he underrated her good‐nature or was insensible to her personal attractions. But the doctor was in search of an able coadjutor just then, blessed with a steady brain and a tongue skilled in tender diplomacies. For there were trying things to be said and done, and he needed a woman of a fine spirit to do and say them aright.
"Head like an eft," he said to himself, as course followed course and, while bandying compliments with her, he watched and listened. "As soon set a harlequin to lead a forlorn hope. Well it's to be trusted her husband's some use for her—that's more than I have anyhow, so the sooner we see her off the premises the better. Suppose I shall have to fall back on Ormiston. Bit of a rake, I expect, though in looks he is so page: 55 curiously like that beautiful, innocent, young thing upstairs. Wonder how he'll take it? No mistake, it's a facer!"
Dr. Knott settled himself back squarely in his chair and pushed his cheese‐plate away from him, while his shaggy eyebrows drew together as he fixed his eyes on the young man at the head of the table.
"A facer!" he repeated to himself. "Yes, the ancients knew what they were about in these awkward matters. The modern conscience is disastrously anæmic."
Although it looks on the terrace, the dining‐room at Brockhurst is among the least cheerful of the living rooms. The tapestry with which it is hung—representing French hunting scenes, each panel set in a broad border pattern of birds, fruits and leaves, interspersed with classic urns and medallions—is worked in neutral tints of brown, blue, and grey. The chimney‐piece, reaching the whole height of the wall, is of liver‐coloured marble. At the period in question, it was still the fashion to dine at the modestly early hour of six; and, the spring evenings being long, the curtains had been left undrawn, so that the dying daylight without and the lamplight within contended rather mournfully for mastery, while a wild, south‐easterly wind, breaking in gusts against the house front, sobbed at the casements and made a loose pane, here and there, click and rattle.
And it was in the midst of a notably heavy gust, when dessert had been served and the servants had left the room, that Captain Ormiston leaned across the table and addressed his sister‐in‐law.
The young soldier had been somewhat gloomy and silent during dinner. He was vaguely anxious about Lady Calmady. The news of Mrs. St. Quentin was critical, and he cherished a very true affection for his great‐aunt. Had she not been his confidante ever since his first term at Eton? Had she not, moreover, helped him on several occasions when creditors displayed an incomprehensibly foolish pertinacity regarding payment for goods supplied? He was burdened too by a prospective sense of his own uncommon righteousness. For, during the past five months while he had been on leave at Brockhurst, assisting Katherine to master the details of the very various business of the estate, Ormiston had revised his position and decided on heroic measures of reform. He would rid himself of debt, forswear expensive London habits, and those many pleasant iniquities which every great city offers liberally to such handsome, fine gentlemen as himself. He actually proposed, just so soon as Katherine could conveniently spare him, to decline from the splendid inactivity of the Guards, upon page: 56 the hard work of some line regiment under orders for foreign service. Ormiston was quite affected by contemplation of his own good resolutions. He appeared to himself in a really pathetic light. He would like to have told Mary Cathcart all about it and have claimed her sympathy and admiration. But then, she was just precisely the person he could not tell, until the said resolutions had, in a degree at all events, passed into accomplished fact! For—as not infrequently happens—it was not so much a case of being off with the old love before being on with the new, as of being off with the intermediate loves, before being on with the old one again. To announce his estimable future, was, by implication at all events, to confess a not wholly estimable past. And so Roger Ormiston, sitting that night at dinner beside the object of his best and most honest affections, proved but poor company; and roused himself, not without effort, to say to his sister‐in‐law:—
"It's about time to perform the ceremony of the evening, isn't it, Charlotte, and drink that small boy's health?"
"By all manner of means. I'm all for the observance of ancient forms and ceremonies. You can never be sure how much mayn't lie at the bottom of them, and it's best to be on the safe side of the unseen powers. You'll agree to that now, Mr. March, won't you?"—She took a grape skin from between her neat teeth and flicked it out on to her plate.—"So, for myself," she went on, "I curtsey nine times to the new moon, though the repeated genuflexion is perniciously likely to give me the backache; touch my hat in passing to the magpies; wish when I behold a piebald; and bless my neighbour devoutly if he sneezes."
At the commencement of this harangue she met her brother‐in‐law's rather depreciative scrutiny with her bold little stare—in his present mood Ormiston found her vivacity tedious, though he was usually willing enough to laugh at her extravagancies—then she whipped Julius in with a side glance, and concluded with her round eyes set on Dr. Knott's rough‐hewn and weather‐beaten countenance.
"I'm afraid you are disgracefully superstitious, Mrs. Ormiston," the latter remarked.
She was a feather‐headed chatterbox, he reflected, but her chatter served to occupy the time. And the doctor was by no means anxious the time should pass too rapidly. He felt slightly self‐contemptuous; but in good truth he would be glad to put away some few glasses of sound port before administering the aforementioned facer to Captain Ormiston.page: 57
"Superstitious?" she returned. "Well, I trust my superstition is not chronic, but nicely intermittent like all the rest of my many virtues. Charity begins at home, you know, and I would not like to keep any of the poor, dear creatures on guard too long for fear of tiring them out. But I give every one of them a turn, Dr. Knott, I assure you."
"And that's more than most of us do," he said, smiling rather savagely. "The majority of my acquaintance have a handsome power of self‐restraint in the practice of virtue."
"And I'm the happy exception! Well, now, that's an altogether pretty speech," Mrs. Ormiston cried, laughing. "But to return to the matter in hand, to this hero of a baby—I dote on babies, Dr. Knott. I've one of my own of six months old, and she's a charming child I assure you."
"I don't doubt that for an instant, having the honour of knowing her mother. Couldn't be otherwise than charming if she tried," the doctor said, reaching out his hand again to the decanter.
Mrs. Ormiston treated him to her little stare, and then looked round the table, putting up one plump, bare arm as she pushed in a couple of hairpins.
"Ah! but she's a real jewel of a child," she said audaciously. "She's the comfort of my social existence. For she doesn't resemble me in the least, and therefore my reputation's everlastingly safe, thanks to her. Why, before the calumniating thought has had time to arise in your mind, one look in that child's face will dissipate it, she's so entirely the image of her father."
There was a momentary silence, but for the sobbing of the gale and rattling of the casements. Then Captain Ormiston broke into a rather loud laugh. Even if they sail near the wind, you must stand by the women of your family.
"Come, that will do, I think; Charlotte," he said. "You won't beat that triumphant bull in a hurry."
"But, my dear boy, so she is. Even at her present tender age, she's the living picture of your brother William."
"Oh, poor William!" Roger said hastily.
He turned to Mary Cathcart. The girl had blushed up to the roots of her crisp, black hair. She did not clearly understand the other woman's speech, nor did she wish to do so. She was admirably pure‐minded. But, like all truly pure‐minded persons, she carried a touchstone that made her recoil, directly and instinctively, from that which was of doubtful quality. The twinkle in Dr. Knott's grey eyes, as he sipped his port, still more the tone of Roger Ormiston's laugh, she did understand some‐ page: 58 how. And this last jarred upon her cruelly. It opened the flood‐gates of doubt which Mary—like so many another woman in respect of the man she loves—had striven very valiantly to keep shut. All manner of hints as to his indiscretions, all manner of half‐told tales as to his debts, his extravagance, which rumour had conveyed to her unwilling ears, seemed suddenly to gather weight and probability, viewed in the moral light—so to speak—of that laugh. Great loves mature and deepen under the action of sorrow and the necessity to forgive; yet it is a shrewdly bitter moment, when the heart of either man or woman first admits that the god of its idolatry has, after all, feet of but very common clay. Her head erect, her eyes moist, Mary turned to Julius March and asked him of the welfare of a certain labourer's family that had lately migrated from Newlands to Sandyfield. But Ormiston's voice broke in upon the inquiries with a determination to claim her attention.
"Miss Cathcart," he said, "forgive my interrupting you. I can tell you more about the Spratleys than March can. They're all right. Iles has taken the man on as carter at the home‐farm, and given the eldest boy a job with the woodmen. I told him to do what he could for them as you said you were interested in them. And now, please, I want you to drink my small nephew's health."
The girl pushed forward her wine glass without speaking, and, as he filled it, Ormiston added in a lower tone:—
"He, at all events, unlike some of his relations, is guiltless of foolish words or foolish actions. I don't pretend to share Charlotte's superstitions, but some people's good wishes are very well worth having."
Unwillingly Mary Cathcart raised her eyes. Her head was still carried a little high and her cheeks were still glowing. Her god might not be of pure gold throughout—such gods rarely are, unfortunately—yet she was aware she still found him a very worshipful kind of deity.
"Very well worth having," he repeated. "And so I should like that poor, little chap to have your good wishes, Miss Cathcart. Wish him all manner of nice things, for his mother's sake as well as his own. There's been a pretty bad run of luck here lately, and it's time it changed. Wish him better fortune than his forefathers. I'm not superstitious, as I say, but Richard Calmady's death scared one a little. Five minutes beforehand it seemed so utterly improbable. And then one began to wonder if there could be any truth in the old legend. And that was ugly, you know."page: 59
Dr. Knott glanced at the speaker sharply.—"Oh! that occurred to you, did it?" he said.
"Bless me! why, it occurred to everybody!" Ormiston answered impatiently. "Some idiot raked the story up, and it was canvassed from one end of the county to the other last autumn till it made me fairly sick."
"Poor boy!" cried Mrs. Ormiston. "And what is this wonderful story that so nauseates him, Dr. Knott?"
"I'm afraid I can't tell you," the doctor answered slowly. A nervous movement on the part of Julius March had attracted his attention. "I have never managed to get hold of the story as a whole, but I should like to do so uncommonly."
Julius pushed back his chair, and groped hurriedly for the dinner‐napkin which had slipped to the ground from his knees. The subject of the conversation agitated him. The untidy, little chap‐books, tied together with the tag of rusty ribbon, had lain undisturbed in the drawer of his library table ever since the—to him—very memorable evening, when, kneeling before the image of the stricken Mother and the dead Christ, he had found the man's heart under the priest's cassock and awakened to newness of life. Much had happened since then; and Julius had ranged himself, accepting, open‐eyed, the sorrows and alleviations of the fate he had created for himself. But to‐night he was tired. The mental and emotional strain of the last few days had been considerable. Moreover, John Knott's presence always affected him. The two men stood, indeed, at opposing poles of thought—the one spiritual and ideal, the other material and realistic. And, though he struggled against the influence, the doctor's rather brutal common sense and large knowledge of physical causes, gained a painful ascendency over his mind at close quarters. Knott, it must be owned, was slightly merciless to his clerical acquaintances. He loved to bait them, to impale them on the horns of some moral or theological dilemma. And it was partly with this purpose of harrying and worrying that he continued now:—
"Yes, Mrs. Ormiston, I should like to hear the story just as much as you would. And—it strikes me, if he pleased, Mr. March could tell it to us. Suppose you ask him to!"
Promptly the young lady fell upon Julius, regardless of Ormiston's hardly concealed displeasure.
"Oh! you bad man, what are you doing," she cried, "trying to conceal thrilling family legends from the nearest relatives? Tell us all about it, if you know, as Dr. Knott declares you do. I dote on terrifying stories—don't you, Mary?—that send the page: 60 cold shivers all down my back. And if they deal with the history of my nearest and dearest, why, there's an added charm to them. Now, Mr. March, we're all attention. Stand and deliver, and make it all just as bad as you can."
"I am afraid I am not an effective improvisatore," he replied. "And the subject, if you will pardon my saying so, seems to me too intimate for mirth. A curse is supposed to rest on this place. The owners of Brockhurst die young and by violent means."
"We know that already, and look to you to tell us something more, Mr. March," Dr. Knott said dryly.
Julius was slightly nettled at the elder man's tone and manner. He answered with an accentuation of his usual refinement of enunciation and suavity of manner.
"There is a term to the curse—a saviour who, according to the old prediction, has the power, should he also have the will, to remove it altogether."
"Oh, really, is that so? And when does this saviour put in an appearance?" the doctor asked again.
"That is not revealed."
Julius would very gladly have said nothing further. But Dr. Knott's expression was curiously intent and compelling as he sat fingering the stem of his wine glass. All the ideality of Julius's nature rose in revolt against the half‐sneering rationalism he seemed to read in that expression. Mrs. Ormiston, who had an hereditary racial appreciation of anything approaching a fight, turned her round eyes first on one speaker and then on the other provokingly, inciting them to more declared hostilities, while she bit her lips in the effort to avoid spoiling sport by untimely laughter or speech.
"But unhappily," Julius proceeded, yielding under protest to these opposing forces, "the saviour comes in so questionable a shape, that I fear, whenever the appointed time may be, his appearance will only be welcomed by the discerning few."
"That's a pity," Dr. Knott said. He paused a minute, passed his hand across his mouth.—"Still, if we are to believe the Bible, and other so‐called sacred histories, it's been the way of saviours from the beginning to try the faith of ordinary mortals by presenting themselves under rather queer disguises."—He paused again, drawing in his wide lips, moistening them with his tongue. "But since you evidently know all about it, Mr. March, may I make bold to inquire in what special form of fancy dress the saviour in question is reported as likely to present himself?"
"He comes as a child of the house," Julius answered, with page: 61 dignity. "A child who in person—if I understand the wording of the prophecy aright—is half angel, half monster."
John Knott opened his mouth as though to give passage to some very forcible exclamation. Thought better of it and brought his jaws together with a kind of grind. His heavy figure seemed to hunch itself up as in the recoil from a blow.
"Curious," he said quietly. Yet Julius, looking at him, could have fancied that his weather‐beaten face went a trifle pale.
But Mrs. Ormiston, in the interests of a possible fight, had contained herself just as long as was possible. Now she clapped her hands, and broke into a little scream of laughter.
"That's just the most magnificently romantic thing I ever heard!" she cried. "Come now, this requires further investigation. What's our baby like, Dr. Knott? I've seen nothing but an indistinguishable mass of shawls and flannels. Have we, by chance, got an angelic monstrosity upstairs without being aware of it?"
"Charlotte!" Roger Ormiston called out sternly. The young man looked positively dangerous. "This conversation has gone quite far enough. I agree with March, it may all be stuff and nonsense, not worth a second thought, still it isn't a thing to joke about."
"Very well, dear boy, be soothed then," she returned, making a little grimace and putting her head on one side coquettishly. "I'll be as solemn as nine owls. But you must excuse a momentary excitement. It's all news to me, you know. I'd no notion Katherine had married into such a remarkable family. I'm bound to learn a little more. Do you believe it's possible at all, Dr. Knott, now tell me?"
"The fulfilment of prophecy is rather a wide and burning question to embark on," he said. "With Captain Ormiston's leave, I think we'd better go back to the point we started from and drink the little gentleman's health. I have my patient to see again, and it is getting rather late."
The lady addressed, laughed, held up her glass, and stared round the table with a fine air of bravado, looking remarkably pretty.
"Fire away, Roger, dear fellow," she said. "We're loaded, and ready."
Thus admonished, Ormiston raised his glass too. But his temper was not of the sweetest, just then, he spoke forcedly.
"Here's to the boy," he said; "good luck, and good health, page: 62 and," he added hastily, "please God he'll be a comfort to his mother."
"Amen," Julius said softly.
Dr. Knott contemplated the contents of his glass, for a moment, whether critically or absently it would have been difficult to decide. But all the harshness had gone out of his face, and his loose lips worked into a smile pathetic in quality.
"To the baby.—And I venture to add a clause to your invocation of that heartless jade, Dame Fortune. May he never lack good courage and good friends. He will need both."
Julius March set down his wine untasted. He had received a very disagreeable impression.
"Come, come, it appears to me, we are paying these honours in a most lugubrious spirit," Mrs. Ormiston broke in. "I wish the baby a long life and a merry one, in defiance of all prophecies and traditions belonging to his paternal ancestry. Go on, Mr. March, you're shamefully neglecting your duty. No heel taps."
She threw back her head, showing the whole of her white throat, drained her glass and then flung it over her shoulder. It fell on the black, polished boards, beyond the edge of the carpet, shivered into a hundred pieces, that lay glittering, like scattered diamonds in the lamplight. For the day had died altogether. Fleets of dark, straggling cloud chased each other across spaces of pallid sky, against the earthward edge of which dusky tree‐tops strained and writhed in the force of the tearing gale.
Mrs. Ormiston rose, laughing, from her place at table.
"That's the correct form," she said, "it ensures the fulfilment of the wish. You ought all to have cast away your glasses regardless of expense. Come, Mary, we will remove ourselves. Mind and bid me good‐bye before you go, Dr. Knott, and report on Lady Calmady. It's probably the last time you'll have the felicity of seeing me. I'm off at cock‐crow to‐morrow morning."


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In 1951 Russell Drysdale spent a number of months travelling throughout northern Queensland and the Cape York Peninsula. In response to this trip he painted Boy running, Cooktown. This painting combines a number of characteristic Drysdale motifs: a long street leading to a vanishing point on the horizon, a building with veranda in profile and a dramatic sky balanced by a vast foreground.
There is an inherent drama in this image of a young Indigenous boy running across the street, his action rupturing the stillness of the picture. Drysdale depicts the boy in dynamic movement, yet he seems suspended in time and space. His activity in the isolated street begs the question: where is he running?
In his paintings of Australia's remote towns and settlements Drysdale conveyed a sense of life lived in connection with the land. He explored the spatial, environmental and personal elements that contribute to our experience of place. As in so many of Australia's remote country towns, the main street in this painting includes the iconic structure of a war memorial. In contrast to the youthful potential of the boy, the memorial is a reminder of history and the loss of many young Australians in wartime.


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Congratulations Dot (Polkadot)!
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Dot has been a faithful member of Scrap Girls since joining in August 2009! She is very active in our daily challenges. Dot can be found leaving love in the gallery and is a friendly face in the chat room! She is full of helpful information, too! Dot is a huge asset and Scrap Girls just wouldn't be the same without her!
Dot will receive a $10 gift certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique and has the honor of wearing the Member of the Month blinkie!
When you have a few minutes Dot, please tell us a little about yourself and share a link to your favorite layout! Thank you for making Scrap Girls a wonderful, friendly place! Congratulations!!
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Congratulations Dot! You're a wonderful part of our Happy Purple Place!
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My BLOG My GALLERY I scrap in CC7 on my MACbook, or whatever is available!
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Did you see it yet? heehee
Great choice - you have always been a kind help, encourager and SG friend to me!
Wear your crown, well!
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Congratulations, Dot! You are such a blessing to Scrap Girls and I am so happy that you are MOM for August! Well-deserved - you go, girl! I'm so happy for you!
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My Gallery I scrap with Photoshop CS6.
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Of all days to be signed out! I rarely sign off the message board, but as many of my night owl, insomniac friends here know, I have not been sleeping. So, last night I took a double dose of Benadryl. Long story short, it made me tired and very stupid, but I still couldn't sleep. Today I was just dopey, literally I guess. Anyway, please excuse the delay in expressing my gratitude! (I won't be taking Benadryl again and promise to try to be a good MOM!)
It was fun and funny to look through my gallery while trying to find that style! There are quite a few of my LOs for which I don't feel the love- LOL. But, I usually learned something new in doing them, so it's all good. I don't know if I have a favorite, but if I have to name one, I do like this layout of DGS#1: Loved Grandson. I remember trying to concentrate on creating a mood of quiet and calm. I was so happy to be able to correct the unappealing bg and distracting shirt in the photo using techniques I've learned here. I almost always use a SG style or action on my photos. I loved using the brushes in a more subtle way, loved that Katie Grace had suggested the theme in a Friday challenge (or I would not have used arrows) and loved using things like the branches as a symbol of family branches. I liked using the faded geometric arrow brushes in the bg and along the borders. Anyway, I remember while working on this LO feeling very appreciative of Scrap Girls and the staff and designers and teachers and members who have helped me so much and shared so generously in my quest to learn the software and digi-scrapping, and who all contributed in some way to this layout. I like the photo, like the layout and like the memory of how happy I felt while working on it.
A little about me....night owl and retired RN. (Too many years of shift work and now I can't sleep!) I had the wonderful gift of being the mother of two boys and one girl, all grown and gone from home now and living happy lives. I am so happy to be the grandmother of three boys whom you all know by now. Grandchildren are just too much fun! DD is expecting #4 on September 1 (scheduled C-Section,) if not sooner, so I will be off to babysit at the end of the month. I'll need the rest of September to recover. I met my one and only Ed in 1966 while in high school, and we started dating then. After HS, he went off to spend time with Uncle Sam, then I went off to nursing school, then he returned from the Army and went back to college. We finally married in 1975 and are still happy. I worked in and loved nursing since my first candy striping job at age 14, but also always enjoyed sewing, so about ten years ago finally left the nursing world to the younger, energetic girls and boys and took a job teaching sewing/computerized machine embroidery/machine software for a local sewing machine dealership. That was a lot of fun and I made many good friends through it. I co-taught with a wonderful woman who was my polar opposite and it worked out so, so great! She is very visual and doesn't read nor follow directions, whereas I love to read and write directions and am more verbal. Our classes were pretty successful and we each had our own groupies- LOL! I think that's one of the reasons I like it here so well.....Scrap Girls appeals to both sides of my brain. Two years ago I was immobile after knee surgery and while on the couch heard the name Scrap Girls mentioned on a BYU Scrapbooking TV episode (which I had never seen before.) I looked it up on the computer and the rest is history. I think of all the hobbies I have tried, this has been the most exciting and my very favorite.
I like to cook but don't do it so much anymore (it is harder to cook for two!) I despise gardening of any kind- LOL! I like Boston Terriers. I am trying to downsize our house, which is so hard. I love to travel since I overcame a fear of flying in my 40's. I used to play an accordion! I taught myself to play the piano a few years ago, but didn't keep it up and now forget it again. I liked to paint but gave it up because I tended to overwork the paintings when I just had to fix one more thing....a reason I think digi-scrapping is so great. I enjoy Project Runway on TV. I read any kind of instructional book or magazine. I am self taught on the computer and learned to use the Help Menus a lot, and I do like to just try anything and everything on the computer. I love problem solving. I go regularly for all health screenings and preventive care and encourage everyone I know to do the same. I am always battling my weight. In general, I take after my father and a grandfather whose nickname was "Hap" for happy. I am very grateful for my life.
Oops! I was supposed to tell a little. Uh-oh, need to stop! I hope you glazed over and stopped reading a while back there! For those who are up all night, it was something to read- LOL.
Thanks so very much again! I truly appreciate your kindness!
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And I LOVE your little, tell us about yourself. I think I already have guessed that happy was one of your attributes by all the happiness you spread around SG's!!
Enjoy your MOM month.
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Drug allergies are a group of symptoms caused by an allergic reaction to a drug (medication).
Allergic reaction - drug (medication); Drug hypersensitivity; Medication hypersensitivity
Adverse reactions to drugs are common. Almost any drug can cause an adverse reaction. Reactions range from irritating or mild side effects such as nausea and vomiting to life-threatening anaphylaxis.
A true drug allergy is caused by a series of chemical steps in the body that produce the allergic reaction to a medication.
The first time you take the medicine, you may have no problems. However, your body's immune system may produce a substance (antibody) called IgE against that drug. The next time you take the drug, the IgE tells your white blood cells to make a chemical called histamine, which causes your allergy symptoms. A drug allergy may also occur without your body producing IgE. Instead, it might produce other types of antibodies, or have other reactions that do not produce antibodies.
Most drug allergies cause minor skin rashes and hives. Serum sickness is a delayed type of drug allergy that occurs a week or more after you are exposed to a medication or vaccine.
Penicillin and related antibiotics are the most common cause of drug allergies. Other common allergy-causing drugs include:
Most side effects of drugs are not due to an allergic reaction. For example, aspirin can cause nonallergic
Symptoms of anaphylaxis include:
An examination may show:
Skin testing may help diagnose an allergy to penicillin-type medications. There are no good skin or blood tests to help diagnose other drug allergies.
If you have had allergy-like symptoms after taking a medicine or receiving contrast (dye) before getting an x-ray, your health care provider will often tell you that this is proof of a drug allergy. You do not need more testing.
The goal of treatment is to relieve symptoms and prevent a severe reaction.
Treatment may include:
The offending medication and similar drugs should be avoided. Make sure all your health care providers -- including dentists and hospital staff -- know about any drug allergies that you or your children have.
Identifying jewelry or cards (such as Medic-Alert or others) may be recommended.
Occasionally, a penicillin (or other drug) allergy responds to desensitization, where you are given larger and larger doses of a medicine to improve your tolerance of the drug. This should only be done by an allergist when there is no alternative drug for you to take.
Most drug allergies respond to treatment. However sometimes they can lead to severe asthma, anaphylaxis, or death.
Call your health care provider if you are taking a medication and seem to be having a reaction to it.
Go to the emergency room or call the local emergency number (such as 911) if you have difficulty breathing or develop other symptoms of severe asthma or anaphylaxis. These are emergency conditions.
There is generally no way to prevent a drug allergy.
If you have a known drug allergy, avoiding the medication is the best way to prevent an allergic reaction. You may also be told to avoid similar medicines. For example, if you are allergic to penicillin, you should also avoid amoxicillin or ampicillin.
In some cases, a health care provider may approve the use of a drug that causes an allergy if you are first treated with corticosteroids (such as prednisone) and antihistamines (such as diphenhydramine). Do not try this without a health care provider's supervision. Pretreatment with corticosteroids and antihistamines has been shown to prevent anaphylaxis in people who need to get x-ray contrast dye.
Your health care provider may also recommended "densensitization." This procedure must be done under close medical supervision. It involves giving very small doses of the medicine over a specific period of time. Do not try this without your health care provider's supervision.
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Celik G, Pichler WJ, Adkinson NF Jr. Drug Allergy. In Adkinson NF Jr., ed. Middleton's Allergy: Principles and Practice. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa; Mosby Elsevier; 2008: chap 68.
Grammer LC. Drug allergy. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 262.
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J. Cooper @ 21 if Eifert isn't there.
J. Cooper @ 21 if Eifert isn't there.
D.J Fluker @ 21 would be nice...
1a. Eifert
2a. Justin Hunter
2b. Taylor, Bidi Wreh, or best CB on the board
2c. Alex Okafor
3a.Giovanni Bernard
3b. Kyle Long
There are some mock drafts that have Moore dropping to the third round. I realize his combine was awful but even if he coulndt bench a noodle his combine shouldnt have that sort of impact. I've seen Moore play in almost every game and he's always around the ball, always making plays. People put way too much stock in the combine and Moore is going to be a great value pick for someone.
Him and Jarvis Jones, I'd love if the Dolphins are able to grab them in the second thats why I would love this Cincy trade. To me, you cant have too many guys that pressure the QB and these guys are elite at doing that.
If this happened....... I would go crazy..
You can take about 2-3 of these guys with those picks Eifert, Rhodes, Trufant, Carradine, Okafor, Ertz, Mingo, Fluker, Richardson, Patterson, Reid, Jones, Cooper, Warmack, Werner..
1. Jonathan Cooper
2a. Alex Okafor
2b. Zach Ertz
2c. Robert Alford
3a. Giovani Bernard
3b. Bacarri Rambo
4. Barrett Jones
5a. Kevin Reddick
5b. Stansly Maponga
7a. Jeff Nady
7b. Everett Dawkins
7c. Kenny Tate
Good article on Cincy and Vaccaro interest.
2013 NFL Draft: Will the Cincinnati Bengals Trade Up in Round 1?
Kenny Vaccaro is the top safety prospect by far in this year's draft class.
Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports
The 2013 NFL draft is only 22 days away, and teams like the Cincinnati Bengals are beginning to develop their strategies. Big boards are becoming more clear, and certain players will be targeted at particular spots in the draft. All things considered, what would possess the Bengals to trade up from pick No. 21 overall?
There are several factors that would come into play for the Bengals to make such a move. The right teams need to be involved, the right players available and the right offer presented. This could all potentially come into play for Cincinnati on April 25.
It seems as though the Bengals could be keying in on a particular first-round prospect. That player would be Kenny Vaccaro of Texas�the top-rated safety in this year's class.
The Bengals' interest in Vaccaro became blatantly obvious on March 26�the Longhorns' pro day. Cincinnati will usually send its position coaches to a pro day that provides a prospect worth a look. For instance, on Matt Elam's pro day�the second-rated safety out of Florida�the Bengals sent secondary coach Mark Carrier to work him out (via SB Nation).
The big difference in Vaccaro's pro day is the fact that Bengals defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer conducted the drills himself (via CBS Sports). This is a very rare occurrence and will only happen if there is serious, legitimate interest in a prospect.
News of the Bengals' interest in Vaccaro struck again when the safety tweeted Wednesday morning that he was on a flight to Cincinnati.
This was confirmed by Joe Reedy of the Cincinnati Enquirer Wednesday afternoon.
It seems clear that the Bengals are pulling out all the stops in effort to court this great coverage safety make him their selection on draft day.
Now that the player has been identified, what do the Bengals need to do to acquire him?
Due to a weaker draft class this year, teams will be looking to trade down out of the first half of round 1 to acquire a prospect that will require a smaller price tag. This is because there is not much of a gap in talent at many positions between the early and late first round.
Looking at the order of the 2013 NFL draft, there are certain teams that could potentially snag Vaccaro before the Bengals get on the board at 21. The most obvious of these teams is the Pittsburgh Steelers at 17 and the Dallas Cowboys at 18 overall.
**PS. Cincy has 10 picks in the draft and will be looking to trade up as needed to get the players they want.


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"How to Write a Song" was a Princeton Atelier course at the Lewis Center for the Arts taught by Paul Muldoon and John Wesley Harding where students explored the art of songwriting and performed in public. Read more.
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PAUL MULDOON: My name is Paul
Muldoon and this is the
Atelier on how to write a song.
PAUL MULDOON: You know, one of
the things about the Atelier,
of course, the central idea of
the Atelier is that it's based
on a collaboration.
And so I was thrilled to think
of the possibility of working
with John Wesley Harding, Wes
Stace, his real name, of
course, the great English
JOHN WESLEY HARDING: Paul
and I have been
writing songs together.
And with his kind of lyrical
expertise and with my just
knowledge of throwing songs
together a bit, that's what
we're hoping to pass on.
PAUL MULDOON: We would take a
particular theme that's based
on some kind of emotional
It might be jealousy.
It might be anger.
It might be joy.
It might be defiance.
Whatever it might be, revenge.
And just allow the students
to go to town on that.
And it's worked out
fabulously well.
MAIA TEN BRINK: We
did loneliness.
And I thought about a love story
between the moon and the
Earth, where the moon can never
get close to the Earth,
but really wants to
be with the Earth.
And the Earth just kind
of ignores it.
And the moon's just going
around and around.
But the Earth is in
love with the sun.
EMMA ZORENSKY: We're working
with two instructors who are
very well known and they
have a reputation
that precedes them.
But they're so fantastic
to work with.
And I was definitely
intimidated, especially not
being a trained musician or
like a poet, that I just
didn't have that background.
But the feedback that they give
was fantastic every week.
And they have such a unique way,
especially Paul, of like
looking at a lyric and just
knowing the perfect thing to
do with it.
And you and your partner could
have sat and worked on the
same two lines of a song
for half an hour.
And he just like, [SNAP].
PAUL MULDOON: I would be
inclined to think of "I hope
the waves will come crash
every party in this town," and isolating
it even further and have
it a kind of bridge?
JOE EDELMANN: People get really
excited about these
songs when they hear them.
And so it's more everybody has
their own thing that they find
special about the song, they
really want to talk about.
So really the discussion has
always just sort of flowed
naturally from people's
reactions to the songs.
JOHN WESLEY HARDING: Just be
thinking about this while
you're listening to these songs
this week and also as we
go into next week, which is the
rehearsal for the gig that
is on Saturday at 9:00 PM.
EMMA ZORENSKY: I'm definitely
super excited.
It's going to be a great
opportunity to just like
actually really show what we've
been working on in this
classroom to the community,
because I think so many of the
songs are so great.
And there's so much talent, that
I had no idea, even as a
senior, existed on this campus
with regard to musicians and
lyricists and just actually
people that are creating.
PAUL MULDOON: And we had the
great honor of working
together with this group of
extraordinary students in a
class called, "How to
Write a Song." [SINGING]
MALE SPEAKER: Thank you.