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Category: Education, Great Women, WMC in the News
CBS Chicago: "Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Keeping Up The Fight For Equality"
February 7, 2012
CHICAGO (CBS) – She led the feminist fight for equality and at 77 she's still fighting for humanitarian causes worldwide.
Gloria Steinem met with students at Columbia College on Tuesday, to share the story of America's road to gender equality. As CBS 2′s Vince Gerasole reports, Steinem said it's a road we're still traveling.
Full story at http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/02/07/feminist-icon-gloria-steinem-keeping-up-the-fight-for-equality/

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In Two Weeks, the "Ice Bucket Challenge" Has Raised $3 Million for Charity [Video]
The "Ice Bucket Challenge" thing has been going around for a couple months now. But it's really picked up steam over the past week or two.
If you haven't heard about it, it's pretty simple. You record yourself dumping a bucket of ice water on your head, then dare your friends online to do it. And if they DON'T, they're supposed to donate money to fight Lou Gehrig's disease.
The Kennedy family even challenged PRESIDENT OBAMA to do it. But apparently someone decided there shouldn't be footage of a sitting president dumping a bucket of ICE on his own head. So yesterday, the White House said he'll be donating.
And check out what an impact a stupid idea like this can have. Since July 29th, the ALS Association says 71,000 people have donated a total of $4 MILLION, which is HUGE compared to what they'd normally get.
During the same time period last year, they got $1.1 million in donations. Meaning that in just two weeks, the "Ice Bucket Challenge" brought in an extra $3 MILLION to help fight Lou Gehrig's disease. If you want to donate, just go to ALSA.org.
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Hello everyone,
I am currently in my final year at university and I'm studying Civil Engineering.
I've always been interested in Japan, its rich culture and technology and it is for this reason that I wish to further my studies (Masters degree) from a Japanese University.
Since I don't stay (and have never been to) Japan, its quite hard for me to find out the best university to apply to.
I am going to apply for the Monbukagakusho scholarship for a Masters program in a Civil Engineering related field, so my request is that could someone help me learn more about which Universities offer good Engineering programs? Ofcourse I have researched about them over the internet but I am hoping someone who has had a first hand experience can help me out.
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Leonard D. Schaeffer, Wellpoint Health Networks
WellPoint Health Networks Inc. (WLP) CEO Leonard D. Schaeffer has a well-earned reputation as a fierce competitor. He once cheered on employees who marched into a budget meeting wearing camouflage outfits and war paint. When a bidding war erupted for Cerulean Health Cos. last November, Schaeffer pounced, raising his offer from $500 million to $700 million. Just a day later, WellPoint emerged victorious.
That acquisition capped a banner year for Thousand Oaks (Calif.)-based WellPoint. While other managed-care providers suffered weak profits, WellPoint is expected to report earnings growth of 22% in 2000, to nearly $340 million. Schaeffer credits WellPoint's success to its focus on innovation. WellPoint, for example, offers even small companies more choices of health plans than most other insurers. And earlier this year, WellPoint asked the Food & Drug Administration to make the allergy drug Claritin available over the counter--which would reduce doctor visits and save WellPoint money. It may be the first time that an insurer has approached the FDA with this kind of request. "They were kind of stunned," he says. But facing this health-care warrior, the agency agreed to consider it.


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Hopes are being pinned on an advert during Sunday's X Factor show to boost the number of foster carers in Edinburgh.
Officials say there is a severe shortage of foster carers in the city offering children safe and caring homes while they are unable to live with their own families.
The advert on Sunday evening's show is expected to reach around 51% of all adults watching television.
The council told Guardian Edinburgh the advert was "an unbelievably good deal, a tiny fraction of the normal cost, with production included."
The actual cost of the promotion drive is expected to be around £2,000.
It will highlight a need for more foster carers for babies and young children under five, over fives, teenagers, children with emotional and behavioural problems, children from ethnic minority backgrounds and children with disabilities.
As well as the prime spot during X Factor, the clip will go out on STV between now and next Thursday.
City education leader councillor Marilyne MacLaren said:
"We want to encourage people from all backgrounds to become foster carers as we need a broad spectrum of people who can look after children in our care. X Factor is obviously hugely popular and this approach is a great way for us to get our message out to lots of potential carers.
"A foster home can have a huge impact on a child's life, improving their confidence and helping them towards a happy future - it really is a very special role."
Foster carers must be over 21 years old and can be single, married or part of a long-term relationship. They can be a tenant or homeowner and it doesn't matter whether or not they have children. The council also point out that carers don't need to be well-off or in work.
To find out more about fostering visit www.edinburgh.gov.uk/fostering.


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The WLSF exists to bring together organizations and individuals interested in local studies in and around the Borough of Telford & Wrekin. It is a fully constituted group that meets quarterly to share information, expertise and resources and to plan joint ventures. There is currently a mailing list of 30 contacts representing local history, family history and civic societies, reminiscence groups, museums, archives, libraries colleges and the local authority, and of these 18 are active members.
The WLSF aims to promote and encourage local studies in the area by organizing exhibitions, day events and conferences, working with other organisations to widen access to resources and by publishing bi-annual leaflets to advertise the interests and meetings of member societies.
The events, meetings and organisations advertised on these pages are an indication of the popularity of local history in the Telford and Wrekin area. The calendar this year is fuller than ever before, but we know there are more groups and societies out there that are not part of the WLSF.
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Skip to comments.US judges rule for teacher who called creationism superstitious nonsense
Posted on 08/22/2011 7:49:29 AM PDT by Former Fetus
A public high school teacher in California may not be sued for making hostile remarks about religion in his classroom, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.
The decision stems from a lawsuit filed by a student charging that the teacher's hostile remarks about creationism and religious faith violated a First Amendment mandate that the government remain neutral in matters of religion.
A three-judge panel of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the lawsuit against an advanced placement history teacher at Capistrano Valley High School in Mission Viejo must be thrown out of court because the teacher was entitled to immunity.
The San Francisco-based appeals court said the teacher was entitled to immunity because it was not clearly established in the law that a teacher's expression of hostility to certain religious beliefs in a public school classroom would violate the First Amendment's establishment clause.
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Sometimes I like to daydream about what if I became an American dictator. You know, just like the Romans used to do in the Republican times when things were getting out of hand, someone who was given absolute power for a limited time, with a life-time immunity for the decissions made while in office. It worked for them, and I wonder if it would work for us. Anyhow, if I became absolute ruler for a time, I think the first thing I would do (after overturning Roe vs. Wade) would be to get rid of all judges. I would hold special elections to replace them, but I would not spare anybody!
and while you're at it,
send all the libtards off to colonize other planets.
That's a promise! Y'all appoint me dictator and I will ship the libtards in the shuttles. After all, we don't need them any longer (the shuttles, we NEVER needed the libtards). LOL-
Ok to urinate on the baby Jesus but say God Bless You .... and they have to put you down.
Might be a silver lining in this cloud: this ruling could be legal ammunition for the *defense* of a *Christian* teacher who professed his or her belief *in* the Creator.
Neutral is neutral; hostility to one side *or the other* is not neutrality.
Put another way, militant atheism is a religion, too; if it must be respected in the classroom, than so must Christianity.
'Teacher of the Year' is under fire after he likened same-sex unions to a 'cesspool' on Facebook.
Pending a school district investigation, Mr Buell, who serves on the school's advisory council, has been reassigned to an administrative post.
It's the Ninth Circuit court of appeals. What do you expect?
Ummm...yeah, sure. Not clearly established in the law? Try speaking out about the violence and intolerence of Islam in a classroom. Simply amazing when the very basis of the 1st Amendment is flipped upside down and used as an anti-religious device. So now the 1st Amendment prevents the discussion of any positive influences religion has on society yet protects the debasement of those very same religions by agents of the State.
Would I to hear this case in court, I would have still found in favor of the teacher, but for a different reason.
Namely, that creationism is not a religion, nor is it found in any religion, nor is it a science. My argument would go as follows.
Science has a fixed set of rules, called the scientific method, that are not unlike the rules for say, the game of chess. If you follow the rules of science, you have done just that, conducted an experiment following the rules of science. An experiment that is reproducible by anyone, using the same rules.
If you play a game of chess, you must do so by its rules, or it is not a game of chess, even if it uses a chess board and chess pieces. Likewise, many people call many things "science", that are not scientific, even in the sciences, because they do not follow the rules of science. This includes interpolation and extrapolation of scientific ideas outside of the scientific method.
Some of the parts of evolution are not truly scientific, but other parts are. Thus, criticisms of evolution are justifiable on grounds that it is not fully scientific, and only the scientific parts should be taught as science.
However, criticizing evolution with the creation of a pseudo-science, creationism, compounds the error. Creationism does not use the rules of science, so it is not "creation science", and since it is the mandate of schools to teach science, creationism has no place in public schools.
If the "separation of Church & State" concept (not in the Constitution) together with the First Amendment, have any conjoined meaning it is that the State must be AGNOSTIC.
An agnostic is neither a believer nor a non-believer.
An agnostic is neither a promoter and defender of either secular humanism or religion, nor an opponent of either one - they are neutral.
If the "separation of Church & State" concept (not in the Constitution) together with the First Amendment, have any conjoined meaning it is that teachers IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS need to be AGNOSTICS, on matters where religion and the secular world disagree.
That means they are neither there to promote religion, nor to attack it - they must be neutral.
May not be a terrible ruling in the sense that if you cannot stop a teacher from making hostile comments about religion, conversely you also could argue they can't stop a teacher making friendly comments about religion in the classroom, either. Further it also means you can't stop a teacher pointing out problems with evolution, identifying the questions it cannot ever answer itself, shortcomings, all the theories held as gospel you couldn't question until they found data that proved them wrong, that they have no new logical explanations for, etc.
Free speech works both ways. Use their own ruling against them.
What does your post have to do with the article? The article is about a teacher expressing hostility to religion in the classroom.
Most atheists when pressed (called on the fact that the claim "there is no God" is just as unprovable as the statement "there is a God" and is therefore equally an expression of faith) retreat and claim to be "agnostic". Usually the expressing hostility to religion in the classroom is rooted in the denial of the possibility of God's existence.
"...if you cannot stop a teacher from making hostile comments about religion, conversely you also could argue they cant stop a teacher making friendly comments about religion in the classroom, either."
Good point.
Nor could you stop a teacher from making hostile comments about atheismor any other theory or claim.
Except they wouldn't be facing a student lawsuit; the student would complain to the school board, the school board would fire the teacher, and the courts would rule that it was an employment matter, and not a first amendment matter.
But an atheist is in fact not an agnostic, and an agnostic does not have to "retreat" from statements that an atheist makes; they don't make them. The atheist does and exposes themselves as only pretending to be an agnostic.
"Usually the expressing hostility to religion in the classroom is rooted in the denial of the possibility of Gods existence."
That's my point. Such actions are not that of a PUBLIC SCHOOL educator practicing agnosticism in the classroom. They are not taking an agnostic position of being neither an advocate nor a denier of any religious precepts. They are not acting as agnosticism would dictate - neutral. They are taking an atheist or secular humanist view and attacking a religious precept. That is not the agnostic, neutral position PUBLIC SCHOOL educators need to take.
I understand all that. But I also know that agnosticism means much more than "nuetrality"; agnosticm is far more complex than that. Books have been written on the subject, including on distinctions of the various flavors of agnosticism.
In the real world, and especially looking at the case in the article that was posted that set off this discussion about agnocticism, just scratch the surface and you will usually find an atheist underneath.
Your premise is faulty. The Bible's book of Genesis contains an account of creationism, so it is most definitely found in a religion.
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Where is the group from and how long have you been here?
The band formed in early 2012. The members come from all around the Lowcountry, with Jack coming from Ellabell, Rebecca from Rincon, Tim from the Pooler area, Mike from Statesboro and Whiskey John in Claxton.
Members: Jack Love on lead vocals, guitar; Rebbecca Collins on lead vocals, guitar; Tim Victor on lead guitar, mandolin; Mike Myers on drums; "Whiskey John" Neff on bass, harmonica
Catch them next: Jan. 25 at Alibi's Sports & Grill in Rincon; Feb. 14 and 15 at Silverado's in Port Wentworth; Feb. 21 at 69 East in Richmond Hill
Info: www.six-times-sinned.com, Facebook.com/Six.Times.Sinned, www.reverbnation.com/sixtimessinned
Who are some of your musical influences?
The band draws from the very diverse influences of all the members. The members of Six Times Sinned have played country, rock, punk, funk and jazz in various bands and as solo artists. The current sound of Six Times Sinned is heavily influenced by current and classic country music and Southern rock, but elements of other styles come through, giving unique qualities to cover songs and original compositions.
Describe your sound in three words.
Country rock jam.
What are some of your favorite Savannah venues and why?
We really love each and every venue we play at and it is very difficult to single out any in particular. Let us just say that we want to thank every bar and venue owner that lets us come and entertain their customers and introduce SXS to new audiences.
What's in the future for your band?
Oh lord, we have lots to do! We are continuing to compose and rehearse original songs with the intent of getting into the studio to cut an album. We also want to continue to expand the SXS Nation throughout Georgia and the world by taking the show to as many new audiences as we can.
Anything else to add?
Come visit us live and on the web and get on our mailing list to receive updates from the band!


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This is an interesting deodorant alternative. Detox Deodorant is 80% organic and extracts toxins from the body while you sleep (particularly aluminum which is contained in most deodorants). it removes these impurities and promotes a normal, manageable release of fluids. Some of its ingredients are coriander, cocoa butter, almond oil, tapioca, and coconut oil.


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David Hodson, one of the 2011 "Thanks for Sharing Awards" winners, shared some of his workflow outside of the camera. Here's what he had to say:
"Ninety percent of the time I shoot real film. I have a small compact camera that I occasionally use. When I use the compact, I turn up the image quality as high as I can.
When the film comes back from the lab or after I download digital files, my processing workflow is very similar for both kinds of photos. I open them with Photoshop Elements for colour corrections and minor touchups like dust spots, hairs, etc. While open, I'll adjust for highlights/shadows too.
Exposure comes into play next to get that certain look. I often start with a classic discontinued film or some kind of vintage effect to make an image look older. Once I use Exposure, I'm basically finished. I'll make re-sizing adjustments and save it to my flickr gallery.
For example, I immediately thought of B&W for this door shot. The original photo is fairly mundane. The industrial elements in the shot screamed 'gritty' to me. A high contrast setting in Exposure brought it to life. The final version makes me smile. I had a vision, and Exposure helped me nail it. This was my winning Flickr image with Alien Skin Software.
Here is another example. This one I shot with a 1933 Voigtländer Brillant on real Fuji NPH 400 film. The scene was an Edwardian re-enactment event. In post I chose Daguerreotype. It gave a slight sepia tint with pleasant grain.
Here is an image that I shot at a 1940s event. I usually use B&W settings, but I kept the colour. Kodachrome was around in the 1940's and I wanted to stay true to the period.
As an avid film shooter, I have a broad range of product choices to achieve the looks that I'm after. Exposure opens up my options considerably. After a few mouse-clicks I end up with great-looking effects. It's so easy to use!"


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For those individuals who have a lifetime certificate and want to purchase the sportsman's package license, Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) reduces the amount the individual pays for the sportsman's package by the amount of the certificate/license type they have already paid. For example, a person who has a combination lifetime certificate has paid for the license portion of the package. IDFG reduces the amount the person pays for the sportsman's package license by the amount of the combination license (currently $33.50) so the customer will pay $90.75 for their sportsman's package instead of $124.25.
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You may have never heard of George Bellows – and understandably so.
After all, American artists and the groundbreaking achievements of early 20th-century painting rarely feature in the same sentence. If you have, it's probably because of his boxing paintings, scandalous at the time and which even a century later possess the visceral force of a right hook in the solar plexus.
But ignorance should prevail no longer. The first major Bellows retrospective in three decades opened a week ago at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Simultaneously thrilling and draining, the exhibition stakes his claim as one of the most important and wide-ranging artists of his age, in America or anywhere else.
Since his early death in 1925, Bellows' reputation has fluctuated. At first he was hailed as a genius, but then he rather faded from view, considered a typically "American" painter. Never once in his life did he venture abroad. And what, too, could be more American than his very emergence as a painter – the strapping young man and gifted athlete who, legend has it, turned down an offer from the Cincinnati Reds baseball team before he dropped out of college in Ohio to pursue his first love at the New York School of Art?
Bellows is usually lumped in with the realist Ashcan School that flourished at the time, so named because of its preoccupation with New York's grimy human underside, of immigrants and tenement dwellers, day labourers and street urchins. Bellows rendered all of those, as a visual poet of the teeming post-Gilded Age metropolis. However, he was much else besides. In the exhibition, you start to grasp his place in art history, amid the transition from prim Victorian convention to the modern era, and the extent to which this supposedly all-American painter drew on centuries of European tradition.
Over the years, critics have accused Bellows of being crude and unsubtle, all energy and no nuance. And America's detractors might again say, what could be more American than that? But though his work vibrates with raw intensity, the foreign influences are unmissable. From the anticipatory expressionism of El Greco to the mysterious portraiture of Manet and Goya's horrific depictions of war, all are to be found in his work.
The Washington show brings together for the first time Bellows' three great boxing paintings – Club Night (1907), followed by A Stag at Sharkey's and Both Members of this Club in 1909. They are surely among the most powerful sports images ever committed to canvas, capturing the brutality of a then semi-legal sport that took place in private clubs, where rules were few to nonexistent. The fighters are streaks of flesh and blood, like meat in a butcher's shop. The grotesque faces of the rivetted crowd, receding into an enveloping darkness, could be lifted from Brueghel the Younger.
A year before he died, Bellows produced a last great boxing painting, which rounds off the Washington show, of Jack Dempsey as he was knocked out of the ring in his legendary 1923 title fight with Luis Angel Firpo, the "Wild Bull of the Pampas". By then both boxing and Bellows' style had changed. Prizefighting was now legal, and Dempsey and Firpo is better lit and almost stylised, a kind of poster-art. But right across the board, Bellows' output was moving in that direction.
If boxing provided the bookends to Bellows' career, what came in between was a kaleidoscope of genres. There is of course his Ashcan canon, including a celebrated quartet of paintings of the construction of Penn Station, shown in Washington together for the first time, and the 1913 Cliff Dwellers that depicts tenements as human anthills, a study in perpetual motion.
Bellows, whose socialist sympathies should now be obvious, also has a haunting eye for the especially vulnerable as they cope with life's inequities. His early work Kids (the word in those days was slang for streetwise poor children, not the generic term it is now) could illustrate the pages of a Dickens novel. So too could his 1908 portrait Paddy Flannigan, of a scrawny, bucktoothed boy, wise far beyond his years. Equally disturbing is New York, a bleak and claustrophobic winter cityscape of 1911, teeming with people, yet somehow inhuman. It is vintage Bellows, compelling yet exhausting in its refusal to offer a single quiet spot where the eye may rest.
His range is breathtaking. Throughout his career he produced portraits, not just of street kids and other ordinary people of New York, but of his family and friends. In the portraits the classical influences upon him are most vivid. Most of them share an unsettling intensity – none more so than Emma at the Piano, one of 11 portraits of the wife to whom Bellows was devoted. She turns directly to face the viewer, her blue eyes opened wide, challenging one to look away.
Then there are seascapes from his beloved Maine, rich experiments with colour, as well as winter landscapes contrasting pristine snow with urban grime, that make you feel cold looking at them. Bellows could paint not only the poor but also the rich, as they disported themselves at lawn tennis or polo, or lazed in Central Park on a verdant summer's day. Yet by 1918 he was depicting German war atrocities in Belgium with the vividness of a Goya. He was a lithographer and illustrator of astonishing power as well.
As he once put it, "There is nothing I do not want to know that has to do with art and life," and his topics, too, are as relevant as ever today: the inner city of course, and the widening gulf between rich and poor – but also immigrants, race, sport and hot-gospelling preachers (in Bellows' era one Billy Sunday, the Pat Robertson of his time).
In the end, one can only wonder where the restless drive of this supremely gifted artist would have taken him had he not been struck down by peritonitis at the age of only 42. The sheer variety of his output, and his readiness to experiment, suggest a man searching for his ideal means of expression. When he died, George Bellows was still a work in progress.
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Drywall - to replace or just sand and mud?
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Hi there,
I've removed the old mirror from the bathroom and it was installed with just construction glue. In pulling it down, there was quite a bit of damage to the drywall that I think is superficial but I'd like to get some expert opinions on the matter.
Pictures are attached...is this something I can just sand and mud to clean up or should I just replace that entire section of drywall? I'm not sure at this point if we will be going with two separate mirrors or one big mirror when finishing up the bathroom so it's unknown how much will be exposed in the end.
Thanks for the tips in advance,
Chris P.
less time and work to replace this piece. But you could cut the loose paper, fill and sand if you wanted. The missing paper should be replaced with tape or wood glue.
No worse than that looks, take a razor knife and cut the loose paper flaps off. Don't cut any deeper than you have to. Then skim coat the damaged areas with drywall mud. Sand lightly, and you're good to go.
Trim the edges carefully, sand lightly, skim several times with thin coats and you will be good to go....been there done that, worked!:thumbsup:
PS. If painting and will show, be sure to seal repairs.
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Author: Andreas A Tjeldflaat
Andreas A Tjeldflaat is a Norwegian architect and illustrator based in New York. Over the past five years, he has worked on design projects in Norway, Denmark, Taiwan and the US
In this tutorial, architect and illustrator Andreas A Tjeldflaat takes you through the post-production steps of an architecture rendering in Photoshop. The featured techniques focus on marrying a CG building constructed in Modo and rendered using Rhino into a base photo, as well as building up an atmosphere around the structure that supports the aim of the design.
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The goal of this image was to blend a Brutalist prison tower into an urban landscape and calm down its overpowering presence. To do this, the image frames the building as a backdrop to an everyday morning scene. The scene is not intended to be photorealistic, but rather to capture the spirit of the construction and its context. Some artistic touches have been added that take the image beyond realism.
The following techniques are applicable to post-production of any CG rendering. Although it can be seen as a step-by-step guide, the process is not as linear as it seems. It inevitably involves going back and forth between layers; adding, adjusting and tweaking, until it feels right.
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Visitor Sighting: On the bulletin board in Mr. Garrison's classroom, there is a drawing of a visitor hanging up; it is captioned, "Carl."
When Mr. Garrison is typing his erotic novel (second scene), his keyboard is backwards. The number pad and enter key are on the wrong side.
Cartman's pig, Fluffy, is seen for the first time since "An Elephant Makes Love To a Pig".
When Kenny dies in this episode, no one says "Oh my God they killed Kenny!" or "You bastards!"
Stan: Kenny, you stay there and guard his mom's door with Timmy.
Timmy: Timmy!
Stan: S***!
Timmy: (Quieter) Timmy
(Stan and Kyle are at Cartman's house convincing Cartman to donate one of his kidney's to Kyle)
Stan: Dude, one of your friends are gonna die! Don't you see how serious this is?
Kenny(muffles): It's not that f**king serious!
Kyle: Coughs twice
Cartman: Well, perhaps I can see a way for giving up kidney… for a price!
Stan: Oh my god!
Kyle: How much?
Cartman: I don't know, how much is your life worth to you, Kyle?
Stan: Cartman, you are SO going to hell when you die!
Cartman: Yes, well until then. I need about $10 million dollars.
Kenny(muffles): $10 MILLION DOLLARS?!?!?
Stan: What the hell will you do with $10 million dollars, fat ass?
Cartman: What I attend to do with the money isn't an issue is it? I suggest you start looking for that money quickly, Kyle doesn't seem have much time. Tick Tock Tick Tock.
Stan: C'mon Kyle! Let's get out of here!
Cartman: Ok, where were we Kenny? Oh yeah! Quick, Captain, we must destroy the engine of agent 5! Give me the space cruiser!
Cartman starts to grab the Space Cruiser out of Kenny's hands. Kenny starts to tug it back to him
Cartman: Give it Kenny meeh!
Miss Information: Holistic medicine is about nature! (To Sheila) That will be $233.
Stan: You suck Cartman!
Cartman: Maybe so, but at least I was smart enough to a wear Kidney Blocker 2000!
Stan: Careful Cartman, you might pop your stitches.
Get Well Soon, Kyle Song:
Butters: (singing) We're so sorry you're not feeling well.
We hope you're better soon.
So we're bringing you some sunshine
By, um, singing you this tune:
Everybody misses you
And though we hate to cause a fuss
We'd like to say, "Get well soon!"
And "Please don't die on us."
Mrs. Cartman: Don't get too close to Kyle; it looks like he might have the AIDS.
Mr. Mackey: What do you love most?
Mr. Garrison: Besides teaching?
Mr. Mackey: Yes
Mr. Garrison: Poon tang
Mr. Mackey: Mmkay.
Mr. Garrison: I can't help it. I'm a womanizer sometimes I know but I just think that bringing a woman home and getting some hot poon is about the greatest thing in the world.
Mr. Mackey: Well that settles it Mr. Garrison, what you need to do is go write a great romance novel!
Principal Victoria: Mr. Garrison, last week's charges of trying to solicit sex from a minor...
Mr. Garrison: That was not me! That was Mr. Hat!
(Kids decorate Butters instead of card)
Stan: Now that's a get-well card!
Kenny: You never f**king care when I die!
Stan: (after seeing that Cartman is the only eligible donor) Oh, sh*t.
Cartman: (speaking in his dream) HIPPIES,… HIII-PPIIIES ALL AROUND ME… they want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad!
Mr. Garrison: Very well, I suppose you'll be wanting my badge and gun.
School Board member: Mr. Garrison, MOST teachers DO NOT carry a gun!
Mr. Garrison: Oh, so I can keep it then?
Mr. Wyland: (speaking to Cartman) Kenny, you come and decorate the get-well card too.
Cartman: But I don't want Kyle to get well, I hate Kyle.
What Kenny says:
1) Kenny says "Here" when the sub. teacher says "Is Stan Marsh here?"
2) When Cartman and Kenny are playing Kenny makes swooching and shooting noises.
3) When Cartman and Kenny are fighting over the space cruiser Kenny says "No it's mine!"
4) When Stan says that Kyle dying is really serious, Kenny says "It's not that f(beep)king serious!"
5) When Cartman says that he wants 10 million dollars Kenny replies with "10 million dollars!?!"
6) Kenny says "I know." when Stan says that he doesn't know what to do.
7) Kenny says "Uh-huh." when Stan says that if Kyle died they'd never see him again.
8) Kenny says "Uh-huh." when Stan asks if that was it for people.
9) Kenny says "You never f(beep)king care when I die!" when Stan is talking about Kyle dying.
10) Right after Stan starts crying, Kenny says "Now that does it, I've had enough of this bullsh(beep)t! Screw you guys, I'm going home!"
(while writing his "Great American Romance Novel")
Mr. Garrison: Diana ran her hand across Rebecca's stomach. It felt good, like a penis. As Rebecca lay there, she felt as though she were surrounded by penises, a whole forest of them, all just flopping around her and smacking her face, (see Mr. Hat going down off the scene, and, evidently, into Mr. Garrison's pants) OH! OH MR. HAT! WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING!
(while writing his "Great American Romance Novel")
Mr. Garrison: "Out on the balcony, when Reginald kissed Diana lips, her knees went weak. Slowly, he pulled her top down exposing her soft, unyielding breasts." Oh, yeah! Now this is getting good! "Just the
sight of those breasts made Reginald's penis very hard. His penis was of considerable size, and now beads of sweat ran slowly down his penis, making it glisten like a strong swimmer fresh from out of the pool. It was a fantastic penis that seemed as strong as a horse's leg, yet as delecate as a flower wrapped in silk. What a grand, grand penis! Diana's nipples..." Uh, let's see! "Diana's nipples..." OH, WRITER'S BLOCK! WRITER'S BLOCK! Hm! CRAP! I'm stuck! Oh, well! Maybe that's enough writing for tonight, Mr. Hat!
Stan: Cartman, could you donate one of your kidneys to Kyle?
Cartman: (About a millisecond after Stan finishes; singing and dancing) No no no no no, no no no no no, no no no no no no no, no no no no no!
Cartman: Oh good, you got the crappy kidney.
Sharon: Hey Stan, I bought you more of that all natural toothpaste.
Stan: You mean that stuff that's taste like ass and doesn't fight cavities?
Sharon: Yup.
Cartman: SHUT UP FLUFFY!
Stan: Kyle's gonna die Kenny, (starts crying) Herbal medicine is going to kill my best friend...
Kenny: (mumbled) That's it I'm sick of this bull sh** screw you guys, I'm goin' home!
Carlos Ramirez: Yeah, you too and junk.
(Kenny comes through with Timmy and Butters)
Stan:This is it? This is everyone that wanted to help Kyle?
Butters: Well Clyde was gonna come too, but h-he said his mom was making tacos for dinner and Clyde likes tacos a whole lot.
Carlos Ramirez and Chief Running Pinto: Let the mysterious ways of our people show you a new way of tampons!
First time in years where Cheech Marin (Voice of Carlos Ramirez) and Tommy Chong (Voice of Chief Running Pinto) worked in acting together.
Cartman and Kyle have blood type AB Negative.
The school board mentions Mr. Garrisons conduct and recent charges of soliciting sex from a minor. This most likely stems from the episode before this one, Cartman joins NAMBLA, where Mr. Garrison sets up a meeting with Cartman on the internet, supposedly by mistake.
This is the first time Kyle nearly dies due to an illness, but recovers after Cartman`s misfortune.
The episode features the second ever live action commercial on South Park. The advertisement is for "Cherokee Hair Tampons."
That Cartman answers for Kenny sets up a joke only people who've seen the "The Spirit of Christmas (Jesus vs. Frosty)" will recognize.
In a commercial for this episode when Stan asks what Cartman would do with $10 million he replies that he would make Britney Spears his sex slave. When the episode actually aired, he says it doesn't matter what he plans to do with the money.
Harlequin Romance
This is an allusion to the romance literature genre: Harlequin Enterprises which is an publishing house dedicated to romance fiction novels for women.
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to Forum:
Cartman sings a song consisting solely the word "no". This song is in the tune of "Comedy Tonight!" a song from the 1962 Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Forum".
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"Do you trust me babes?" "Of course I do!" "Then let it go then!" I'm not sure if you're talking about the duvet or my inhibitions, not that I have many of those, not by the standards of so called 'normal people' as I like to refer to them. Anyway, I do trust you and I let go of both the duvet and my fears. "Tell me what you want" you say and my response is that I want to be everything...Read On
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A good Science teacher passes on the facts of life...
Kieran Logan leant back in his chair, satisfied that he had finished marking his Year 11 Chemistry tests. Finally, he sighed to himself, just twenty minutes until... He grinned at the thought of the school bell - and his after school activities. It had been an uneventful day at his work, with piles of correction in his free classes, and immature Year 8s in his teaching periods. To make the...Read On
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He got the biggest surprise!
I knew your wife was going out of town to visit relatives. Damn I have wanted you for so very long. I wanted to do all the things to you that I knew she never ever would. All your fantasies I will make come true in a big way. Chatting with you for months made a huge lust grow deep inside me for you. Seemed you enticed me at every turn. You are just so sexy and hotter than any man I...Read On
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In one night, your whole perspective of a person can change.
There was something different about her tonight. She wasn't just the annoying girl I met a year ago when my father decided to move in with her mother; her movements were fluid as she stalked across the dance floor to the other end of the banquet hall. Her legs, extended to their length in four inch, black stilettoes; exposed to all of our eyes up to the mid of her thighs. Those legs that had...Read On
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Turning my sister in law into my slut
Please read part one "What have you done for me lately?" for a background in the events leading up to this. The miserable cold wind blowing outside made a wailing sound as it pushed before it an icy rain. Florida was experiencing one of the coldest winters, definitely not a nice start to 2010, thankfully I didn't have to go in to work. It was Monday the 3rd, there was inventory at...Read On
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He knew that she was his responsibility. Luckily all those around him trusted him, and he knew that one day so would she. Victoria had lived in the same house, on the same ten-acre property, with the same friends and family around her from the moment she was born. Her life just got a little more dramatic as time passed on. It all began when her parents revealed that her mum...Read On
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Yumi always seemed like the typical reserved Japanese girl, little did I know
This is a true story, all of the names except mine have been changed. I recently got certified to teach English as a second language. While I'm looking for a job overseas I am tutoring some foreign students at one of the local colleges. Sometimes we meet in groups and sometimes one on one. Sometimes on campus and sometimes out on the town. One evening I was meeting with Yumi; I had...Read On
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A baby is wanted..............
Fin and Travis Ch. 02 by Jena121© Chapter 2: Making a baby I have been requested to do a follow up on this story by a number of feedback fans -- it was only meant to be a one-off -- but I will try and follow up with some interesting events. Fin is a 36 year old single mother who had her daughter adopted when she was only 16. Jessica was her daughter who is now 26. Travis now 45 was...Read On
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I have been married 2 1/2 years, and believed my wife to be conservative. She comes from a big family with 8 aunts & uncles and lots of cousins. There is this one cousin named Shannon, she is a year older than my wife and I. My wife and Shannon are best friends they are constantly talking on the phone, texting, emailing, and doing the facebook thing. Shannon lives 2 hours away from us and...Read On
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A Curious Young Girl Wants To Learn
On my way home from work I was so horny I didn't know what to do. So, I called my dependable pussy, but, it was that time of the month. No problem, I got a back up, no answer. Last shot, as I dialed I thought to my self she's not that good looking, but, she has a hot body and her pussy gets real wet. But, she tells me her sister is there and they have plans. Strike three..... .no...Read On
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A Women In Need Of Some C***
Jackie was on her way to work. The night was cool, but, not as cold as it had been. She turned on the radio while her car warmed up. The man's voice spoke of a bad accident on the interstate. Four dead and twenty seven injured, a truck jack knifed causing a thirty car pile up. My Lord, Jackie commented. "It's going to be a long night" she thought to herself as she turned into...Read On
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The 16 year old twins also became tangled in the African's lustful ventures
Part 3 from Jonathan. It was early morning as the safari limo disappeared from site of the retreat compound. Dana, the oldest sister, had tried to stop the vehicle but was unable to. She knew the possible dangers that perhaps awaited her younger brother and sister but for now she could only remain behind and worry about them. Reflecting on her own affair with black male flesh last night,...Read On
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I fucked and sucked my older married boss.
Even after several years we continued our on again off again relationship as secret lovers I and my older English boss. There was a formal function we all had to attend and everyone brought their spouses. I was in-between boyfriends at the time and even though I could have drug someone along I knew he would be there with his wife so I wanted to go alone. I did my best to mingle and...Read On
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An innocent favor turns into an interesting afternoon
"You sure you don't mind writing the letter?" "Not at all. I'm glad to help out Wendy." I replied to Laura. We work at the same company in different departments. Our paths cross in the hallways, break room and the other usual places. We got to the same happy hours and other events. She's really terrific looking for a woman ten years older than me. I've tried to initiate a...Read On
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I was hanging out with my bff Jill at the mall one night before going to her house for a sleepover. We had a blast shopping for cute little outfits and pointing out to each other which boys were checking us out. Jill and I are both 16 and we've known each other since we were little, but that's pretty much the only thing about us that's the same. Jill is a tall brunette with a slender...Read On
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I sucked and fucked my older married boss
Work really sucked and seeing my sexy English boss was the only fun thing in store for me in that hell hole. We continued our occasional soirees going out to lunch alone together but now with a stop at the local park to have him for dessert or staying late at work so I could devour that perfect cock but always being very careful not to draw attention to ourselves. I loved making him cum so...Read On
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I fucked and sucked my older married boss
I was filing paperwork in the back of the office when I heard that voice. Oh that voice so deep with that sexy English accent I had to turn around and see who it came out of. It was a new outside salesman and OMG he was a hunk! I was only seventeen and living with my boyfriend but he could not escape my attention. Tall 6'2" with nice broad shoulders, blond short hair, dreamy gray blue eyes what...Read On
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Under the moonlight, he was able to see through her translucent white flowing dress. He saw her slender hour glass figure, thin yet alluring as she stood against the light a deserted children's play ground, talking about her missed childhood, and her dream. She looked very pretty, too pretty indeed to fuck. So, he sat beside the see saw, and stopped her swing. Without...Read On
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Leon finds Sonya to be a willing student in the art of lovemaking
This story continues on directly from my first story, Sonya's Siren Song. In the morning, I opened my eyes, and there was Sonya, in the bed beside me, still fast asleep. I realised that whatever happened last night had really happened, and there was no going back. I wasn't sure what would happen when she awoke, but just in case, I quietly slipped out of the side of my bed, and put my...Read On
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First, let me describe myself. I'm a 45 yr old male, single, average build. I live in an apartment complex, where a swimming pool is the center attraction. I was lying on a lounge chair, minding my own business, when I noticed two 16 yr old girls arguing. They're both in bikini bathing suits, and starting to fill them out nicely. There's no one else around, so its kinda quiet, and I...Read On
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The creditor foresaw the shrinkage of his property, and feared it.
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For unless you make it ruinous to the creditor for the credit to be given you will never stop it.
This includes every debtor of superior cast to the creditor.
mid-15c., from Anglo-French creditour, Old French creditour (early 14c.), from Latin creditor "truster, lender," from creditus, past participle of credere (see credo).
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The US Women's Ski Jumping Tean is getting a leadership shake-up, now with two Utahns at the helm.
Park City residents Robbie Beck and Jenny Holden will serve as the foundation executive director and the athletic program director, respectively. The two will help steer the team as it prepares for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games.
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Evolve Media Launches New Native Video Advertising Product
Los Angeles-based Evolve Media reported late last night that it has launched a new, native video advertising product called INgage. Evolve Media said that the new, video solution delivers "large format" video within content, startup up when a users comes into view. The company said its new product brings video out of the "right rail blind spot" on websites. Native advertising is the technique of wrapping advertising within website content, making it look and feel like non-paid content--which is controversial from the editorial standpoint, but very effective for advertising and revenues at companies.


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Sound Transit Route 560 (with service to SeaTac Airport) changes kick in June 8
Update for May 30
Sound Transit's Route 560 changes go into effect on June 8. The new schedule is available for viewing in this Sound Transit Guide, starting on page 99.
In a nutshell, the changes will have 560 running from Westwood Village to SeaTac Airport, Renton and Bellevue seven days a week. The service from West Seattle's Alaska Junction to Westwood Village will be cut.
Speaking with Sound Transit spokesman Geoff Patrick earlier this year, he explained:
"This is personal for me as a West Seattle resident, this route is the main Sound Transit route I have an opportunity to use so there is a real net improvement here. There is a truncation involved in having the service run between the growing transit hub that is located at Westwood Village and the airport and on to east side (after the airport, 560 travels to Bellevue), but the positive for West Seattle that is going to make it much more accessible is that where as before the route was peak hours only, it is going to operate seven days a week."
Original story on Jan. 4, 2013
Shorter West Seattle route, but more service with Sound Transit Route 560 changes in 2013
Sound Transit's Route 560, one of a few good options for West Seattle and White Center residents traveling to SeaTac Airport without paying for a cab or airport parking, has a service revision planned later in 2013 that will shorten the route, but increase service to seven days a week on the peninsula.
Currently, Route 560 picks up in West Seattle on weekdays only during peak travel times (roughly 4:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.), and serpents its way along (S.W.) Roxbury, 35th, Barton, Fauntleroy Way and California Ave., making the final stop at Alaska Junction before turning around and heading to the airport.
Sound Transit plans to revise the route on June 8th, leading to the following changes:
1) Instead of traveling to Alaska Junction, Rt. 560 will terminate at Westwood Village shopping center (S.W. Barton St. and 29th Ave S.W.), King County Metro's main West Seattle transit hub after the September 2012 service change. Sound Transit and KC Metro are separate agencies, but work together in coordinating service changes.
2) Instead of peak-only, weekday trips, Rt. 560 will run seven days a week, picking up every 30 minutes during the weekdays and every 60 minutes on the weekends and late night.
Sound Transits's Service Planning Manager Mike Bergman said a new schedule will come out a few weeks prior to June 8, giving riders time to adapt their schedules.
"This is personal for me as a West Seattle resident, this route is the main Sound Transit route I have an opportunity to use so there is a real net improvement here," Sound Transit spokesman Geoff Patrick said of the upcoming change. "There is a truncation involved in having the service run between the growing transit hub that is located at Westwood Village and the airport and on to east side (after the airport, 560 travels to Bellevue), but the positive for West Seattle that is going to make it much more accessible is that where as before the route was peak hours only, it is going to operate seven days a week."
"It's possible that people are going to have to travel a little farther to get to Westwood Village," Patrick said, "but the bonus is it is easy to get there on any number of bus routes … or if its short term you can actually find street parking down in that area, get a ride to the airport and get to your flight."
According to Sound Transit's 2013 Service Implementation Plan (page 70), the change is due in large part to the introduction of King County Metro's RapidRide C Line in September of last year. With the C Line duplicating much of 560's current route and picking up at (ideally) 10 to 15 minute intervals, Sound Transit hopes to reduce redundancy and take advantage of RapidRide's frequent service in getting airport-bound travelers to Westwood, and onto a 560.
The plan explains: "The objectives of this proposed restructure include avoiding duplication with King County Metro service, improving ST Express productivity and providing a convenient full-time connection between the West Seattle/Highline areas and SeaTac Airport."
The change was first announced in October, 2012, followed by a comment period. The main concern voiced by West Seattleites during that time was "that early morning connections to SeaTac Airport are difficult because (Metro's RapidRide C Line) currently does not operate from Alaska Junction to Westwood between 3:45 a.m. and 5:45 a.m. (currently, RapidRide's schedule shows trips from the Junction to Westwood every 60 to 120 minutes during that time frame)."
In response, Sound Transit said they are working with Metro to "add a new early morning C Line trip with timed connections to Route 560 at Westwood, allowing C Line riders to reach the airport by 5:30 a.m."
Bruce Nourish, a frequent contributor to regional transit watchdog Seattle Transit Blog, wrote about the 560 change a while back and gave it praise as a way "to provide significantly improved mobility at minimal cost."
"The word synergy is horribly overused, but it really does apply here," he added. "Sound Transit and Metro have created value for riders, as if from nothing."
Bergman said another airport-bound alternative is taking Metro's new-ish Route 50, with stops at Alaska Junction and along S.W. Admiral Way to Alki. Headed east, Route 50 stops at the SODO Light Rail Station where commuters can hitch a ride south to SeaTac.
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Definition of encounter
encounteringplay \in-ˈkau̇n-t(ə-)riŋ, en-\
transitive verb
1a : to meet as an adversary or enemyb : to engage in conflict with
2 : to come upon face-to-face
3 : to come upon or experience especially unexpectedly encounter difficulties
intransitive verb
: to meet especially by chance
Examples of encounter in a Sentence
We encountered problems early in the project.
The pilot told us that we might encounter turbulence during the flight.
Her suggestion has encountered a lot of opposition.
Origin and Etymology of encounter
Middle English encountren, from Anglo-French encuntrer, from Medieval Latin incontrare, from Late Latin incontra toward, from Latin in- + contra against — more at counter
First Known Use: 14th centurySee Words from the same year
Definition of encounter
1 : a meeting between hostile factions or persons : a sudden often violent clash an encounter between the police and demonstrators
2a : a chance meeting an accidental encounterb : a particular kind of meeting or experience with another person a romantic encounter
3 : a coming into the vicinity of a celestial body the Martian encounter of a spacecraft
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a chance encounter with a famous writer
He's accused of having had sexual encounters with several young women.
There was a violent encounter between fans of the opposing teams.
It was her first encounter with cigarettes.
First Known Use of encounter
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ENCOUNTER Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of encounter for English Language Learners
: to have or experience (problems, difficulties, etc.)
: to meet (someone) without expecting or intending to
Definition of encounter for English Language Learners
: a meeting that is not planned or expected
: a usually brief experience with another person
: a violent or very unfriendly meeting
ENCOUNTER Defined for Kids
Definition of encounter for Students
1 : to meet face-to-face or by chance I encountered an old friend.
2 : to experience or face often unexpectedly Have you encountered any difficulty?
Definition of encounter for Students
1 : a meeting face-to-face and often by chance
2 : an often unexpected experience It was his first encounter with fame.
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AT&T Posts Strong Quarter Results Despite Rising Competition
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Date: October 26, 2013 11:37AM
The second largest US telecom provider AT&T (T) posted strong third quarter earnings for the fiscal on October 23. The carrier recorded strong postpaid net additions with improved profitability margins despite increasing competition from smaller national carriers T-Mobile (TMUS) and Sprint (S). So what were the revenue and profit figures for the quarter?
A Brief Glance at the Quarter
The revenue of the Dallas-based company increased 2.2% to $32.16 billion for the quarter. The rise in revenue is primarily attributable to the solid 18% boost in the wireless data revenue of the company. The carrier recorded the addition of 363,000 new postpaid customers on its network during the quarter, which is over twice the number of additions it recorded in the last year quarter.
The third quarter revenue of the telecom giant rose 4.9%. The company reported profit of $3.81 billion up from $3.64 billion a year earlier. The average revenue per user also increased 1.5% year over year, thanks to the wide 4G LTE coverage and rising usage of smartphones. Increase in smartphone penetration helped the company increase the ARPU. As smartphone users consume huge data and account twice the revenue of non smartphone subscribers, AT&T greatly benefited as several subscribers shifted to smartphones. About 89% of postpaid sales came from smartphone users during the quarter.
The LTE Coverage
AT&T is increasingly gaining from its LTE network which is strengthen with time. At present the company's 4G network covers 250 million Americans. However, competition is growing stronger for the mobile operator. Verizon (VZ), the top US mobile carrier, leads in terms of the LTE coverage and this has helped the carrier to increase its market share.
The resurgence of T-Mobile and Sprint, particularly after their recent combinations, is also suggesting higher competition in the future. Both these companies are working extensively to widen their LTE coverage and expand subscriber base. Verizon and AT&T are facing increased competition from these telecom players as T-Mobile is adopting aggressive marketing strategy while Sprint is spending massively on its Network Vision.
AT&T is not quite. Aware of the possible threat from T-Mobile and Sprint, AT&T is working on the growth of its network coverage. It has huge capital spending plans for upgrading the network and posing challenge to larger rival Verizon to attract heavy internet users from rival networks. Additionally, this will also help AT&T to maintain its distance from the Kansas carrier and T-Mobile.
What Else?
This is not all. The second largest wireless operator is also in the process of closing a deal with regional carrier Leap Wireless (LEAP) in a transaction of $1.2 billion and by assuming a net debt of $2.8 billion. The regional carrier postponed its shareholders vote for the proposed acquisition as it was required to make corrections in prior financial statements.
The Bottom Line
The third quarter results have been particularly impressive for the carrier as it was feared of losing market share to rival players who are working on a strong come back. Verizon recently posted its third quarter results and experienced soft customer addition. However, it is a threat to AT&T as the Big Red has an extensive and strong network coverage. T-Mobile, on the other hand, is expected to record strong third quarter subscriber gain as its simplified and cheaper plans are constantly luring customers from rival networks. It would be interesting to see how AT&T plans its movement amidst strengthen competition.
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