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Basket Raffles
A Basket Raffle Fundraiser sponsored by the Stevensville Community Club will be held on Thurs., Nov. 14, noon to 5 p.m.; on Fri., Nov. 15, noon to 5 p.m. and on Sat., Nov. 16, beginning at 10 a.m. The drawing will be held on Sat. at 4 p.m. Questions, call Harriet at 570-746- 3523 or Jean at 570-746-3188. Held at the Stevensville Community Hall, Rt. 706.
The next monthly breakfast at the Herrickville Fire Hall will be the Hunters' Breakfast on Sunday, Dec. 1 from 7 to 11 a.m. Menu: pancakes, ham, sausage, biscuits, sausage gravy, real maple and sugar-free syrup, coffee and orange juice. $7.50 for adults; $3.50 children up to 12 and preschool, free. R44- 5c/S45-4c
Christmas Events
On Saturday, Nov. 2, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. the Springville Area Women's Club will sponsor its annual Christmas Bazaar. With over 130 vendors, and a handcrafted quilt display. The Christmas Bazaar is held at the Elk Lake school. For more information, call 570-278-3365.
Holiday Shopping Extravaganza on Sunday, Nov. 17 from noon until 3:30 p.m. at American Legion Post 42, Towanda.
Second Sunday Vesper Service on Nov. 10 at 5 p.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Montrose. Simple supper served afterward in the Parish House.
Adult CPR/AED Class and Adult and Pediatric CPR/AED, Nov. 9, 9 to 12; Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED class on Nov. 9 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. All classes are at the Bradford County Emergency Operations Center, North Towanda. To register, visit http://www.redcross.org/take-a-class or call 1- 800-733-2767.
Craft Bazaars
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish Holiday Bazaar, "The Biggest Little Bazaar in the Area," on Sunday, Nov. 3, 10 to 4 at St. Mary's Hall in Wyalusing. Chicken and biscuit lunch. Hot dogs. Turkey raffle, pick a gift raffle, bake sale. Tables are available for vendors, call Dennis at 570-746-1006 if interested.
IMH Fall Bazaar Sunday, Nov. 3 at St. Francis of Assisi Hall, Rt. 487, Mildred, noon to 5 p.m. Cards, Bingo, adult and children's games. Food available.
WVVFD Appreciation Dinner, Saturday, Nov. 2 at the Wyalusing fire hall. Happy hour: 6 - 7 p.m., dinner, 7 p.m. An awards ceremony will follow. This dinner is held for the volunteers who helped during the Wyalusing Firemen's annual celebration. Reservations are required. Please call 570-746- 4904 and leave a message of who and how many will be attending.
Free soup suppers are back at Hollenback United Methodist Church. They will be held on Nov. 13 and Dec. 11. The suppers will be from 5 to 6 p.m. with a Bible Study from 4:30 until 5. All welcome.
Wyalusing's Relay for Life will hold their annual kick off event on Tuesday, Nov. 12 at the Wyalusing fire hall. A spaghetti dinner will be served, 6 p.m. until 7 p.m.; Adults-$5, school age - $3; Preschool are free. The community is welcome to attend.
Annual Harvest Dinner on Saturday, Nov. 2 at Spring Hill Community Hall, 4 p.m. to ? Turkey with all the trimmings. Adults, $8; students, $4; preschool, free.
The Hollenback United Methodist Church will be holding a chicken and biscuit Election Day lunch on Nov. 5, starting at 11:30 a.m.
Election Day Beef dinner on Nov. 5, 4 p.m. until. Adults, $9; children, 6 to 12, $5; under 6, free. Jenningsville United Methodist Church Hall, Menu: Beef, gravy, mashed potatoes, peas, squash, rolls, pies, beverages.
Election Day Pancake Supper on Nov. 5, 4:30 to 7 p.m. at New Era U.M. Church on Rienze Road, off Wyalusing-New Albany Rd. Adults, $6; under 12, $3; preschool, free.
Harvest supper at the Silvara Ladies Aid Hall on Thursday, Nov. 7 at 5 p.m. Roast beef dinner and bazaar table. Last dinner for this year is Dec. 5. R43- 2c/S44-2c
Pancake Supper at the South Auburn Grange on Nov. 9, serving starts at 4 p.m.
Ham Dinner with homemade pies, Thursday, Nov. 7 at St. John's Chapel in Wilmot starting at 4:30 p.m. until 6:30. Adults, $8; children, ages four to 12, $3 and preschool, free. Take-outs available.
Chicken Biscuit Dinner in the bingo hall at the Black Walnut American Legion Post 510, Sunday, Nov. 10, 1-6 p.m. Adults $8; children $5. A basket raffle and silent auction will be held. Proceeds will benefit WVHS student Brooke Force's 2014 student ambassador trip to Europe. The legion hall is located at 338 Old Route 6, Laceyville.
Second Annual Trivia Night at Herrickville Fire Hall, sponsored by Niemiec, Smith and Pellinger, attorneys and counselors at law on Saturday, Nov. 9, 7 to 9:30 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Free snacks and beverages. Advance tickets or at the door, $10 per person. Up to six people per team. 50/50 drawings, door prizes. Special raffle item, handmade queen-size quilt. Call Frank Niemiec for reservations at 570-637-2495 or email@example.com. All proceeds benefit Herrick Township Vol. Fire Company.
The Elk Lake Drama Department will present Lady Pirates of the Caribbean on Nov. 1 and 2 at 7 p.m. Cost of admission is $3, reserved tickets preferred. Call 570-278-1106 and leave message on ext. 226.
My Summer Sketchbook exhibit by Steve Colley at Dietrich Theatre in Tunkhannock on display through December 2013 during movie times or by appointment. Meet the Artist reception on Nov. 1, 6 to 8 p.m. Call Dietrich for details, 570- 996-1500.
For Your Information
Fall has come again, so has the Candy Corn Contest at the Monroeton Public Library. Guess the correct number in the pumpkin and win a $50 gift card from Kmart. Tickets are 50¢ each or 3 for $1.
The LeRaysville Minstrel practices will be held on Thursdays at 7 p.m. at the Community Social Hall. Shows will be Nov. 8, 9, 15 and 16 at 7 p.m. Please note time change. All are welcome. Chorus members needed.
Salt Springs State Park Happenings: Nov. 2, Movie Night, 7 p.m.; Game On, Nov. 8, 7 to 8:30 p.m. For more information, email Debra Adleman dadleman@ stny.rr.com.
Elk Lake Kindergarten Registration is Nov. 7, 8 and 9, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Children must be five years of age by Sept. 1, 2013 in order to enter kindergarten for the 2013-2014 school year. Call Mrs. Gesford at 570- 278-1106, ext. 730 to set up an appointment and for more information.
Halloween Events
Trick or Treat Night - in Laceyville will be held on Thursday, Oct. 31 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Terrytown trick-or-treat will be held on Thursday night, Oct. 31. Leave your porch light on if you wish to have little visitors.
Jenningsville will have Trick or Treat night on Oct. 31 from 5 to 7 p.m. Leave porch lights on.
Meeting Notices
S.O.S. Al-Anon — Family Group will meet on Fridays at 7 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church, Hopkins Street, Sayre.
Recovery House Meetings — AA Group of Towanda meets Mon.-Fri., noon; Mon., Thurs., Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., Sun., 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. NA meetings are held Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Speaker meeting every first Sunday, 8 p.m. All meetings at 205 Main St., Towanda (please use rear, lower entrance).
Compassionate Friends — of the Endless Mountains will hold their meetings on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. in the Endless Health Community Center, Montrose. TCF is open to all families who have lost a child from any cause at any age. There are no membership dues or fees of any kind. For more information, call 965-0901 (evenings) or 278- 1658 or e-mail email@example.com.
Al-Anon meetings in Tunkhannock: Endless Serenity Al-Anon Family Group on Monday, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, 7 p.m., Saturday, noon. All meetings are held at the Tunkhannock UM Church Education Bldg., second floor.
Diabetes Support Group - meeting the first Thursday of every month at the Guthrie Clinic office in Towanda beginning at 5:30 p.m. There is no charge and all diabetics and family members are welcome. For more information, call Dawn at Guthrie Clinic at 570- 265-6165 during regular business hours.
TOPS PA #1134 — Laceyville, meets each Tuesday evening at the Braintrim Baptist Church in Laceyville. Weigh-ins from 5:15 to 6 p.m., meeting from 6-7 p.m. For more information, call 965-2493 or 869-1834. Toll-free 1- 800-932-8677.
AA Meeting — Wednesdays at 8 p.m. in the basement of the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church. Open meeting, nonsmoking.
MOPS — Mothers of Preschoolers meet every first and third Wed. of the month from 9 to 11 a.m., September through May. Meetings are held at the First Presbyterian Church, 5 Court St., Towanda. All mothers of preschoolers are welcome. Child care is provided for children, ages infant through five years old. For more information, contact the church at 570-265-5575.
Towanda-Wysox Kiwanis Club meets every second and fourth Wednesday of each month at the Weigh Station Café at 7:30 a.m. in Towanda. They find ways to help the children in the community. Contact Eileen Sheets at 570-265-2350 for more information.
Addictions to Victory. Faithbased support for addictions. Program will be held the first and third Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at New Generation Church, Milan, 570-888- 1967.
The Wyalusing Masonic Lodge No. 618 meets at 7:30 p.m. on the third Monday of each month at the Lodge Hall, 158 Church St., Wyalusing. For more information, call 570-721- 0008.
AA meeting, Friday evenings at 8 p.m. at the Standing Stone Vesper Church spiritual building, River Road, Standing Stone Township. Open meeting, nonsmoking.
Grief Support Group: Jan.- Dec. 2013. A bereavement support group meets monthly, the last Tuesday of each month from 3 to 4:30 p.m. This group is open to those who have experienced loss and is facilitated by Trudy Ventello, LSW, a social worker with Memorial Hospital's Hospice program. The meetings are located in the library in the lower level of Memorial Hospital in Towanda. Any questions, call 570-268-2233.
MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) group meets the second and fourth Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. in St. Peter's Church, Tunkhannock. For more information, visit www.mops.org or www.stpetestunkhannock.org. Call 570-836- 2233.
The next AARP meeting will be held on on Tuesday, Nov. 12. Executive meeting at 1:15 p.m. and regular meeting at 1:45. The meetings are held at the Wysox EMS Building, Rt. 187S, across the railroad tracks. Any questions, contact Secretary Merna Colwell, 570-833-2567.
Attention: American Legion Auxiliary Unit 534 members will hold their meeting on Thursday evening, Nov. 7 at 6 p.m. at the post home. Note the change of date. Help is needed for Poppy Days, Nov. 15 and 16. Give Renee Stewart a call at 570- 746-3370 if you are able to help out. Also, help is needed for the annual Veterans' Day dinner on Nov. 9 (set up, cook and clean-up or desserts). Call Renee or Ree Ann Ross, 570-746-1316 and leave message.
Bradford Salon 747 Eight and Forty will meet on Thursday, Oct. 31 at 10 a.m. at the American Legion Post 534, Wyalusing. Theme is Ride 4 Respiratory.
The Tunkhannock Junior Women's Club will hold a general meeting on Nov. 26 at Perkins in Tunkhannock at 7 p.m. (6 p.m. for optional social dinner). All women 18 years and older are welcome. Visit the club on facebook at tjwc.tripod.com for more information.
Hill Country Artists will meet on Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 7 p.m. at Claverack, Rt. 706, Montrose. For more information, call 570- 278-2141.
Al-Anon meetings on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. in the upstairs kitchen of the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church. Open meeting, non-smoking.
$5 Jewelry Sale, hosted by the Memorial Hospital Auxiliary on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and Wed., Nov. 6 from 7 a.m. until 3 p.m. in the lobby of Memorial Hospital. No item is more than $5 and proceeds benefit Memorial Hospital Auxiliary. R44c
The WVHS Wrestling High School Booster Club will meet on Wednesday, Nov. 6 at 6 p.m. in Coach Haley's room at the high school. They are looking for any interested individuals to be a part of their group.
Vendors Wanted
Vendors Needed. Festival of Crafts, Laceyville Fire Hall, Dec. 7. Call or email Melissa Kunkle, 570-240-1411 or Kunkle_ email@example.com.
Calling all vendors: The next free training workshop in the Non-Profit Training Series will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 12 from 9 to 12 at the Keystone Theatre in Towanda. Vendors sought include catering, rentals, design and printed materials, drinks, venues, DJ's, etc. If you are interested, contact Kerri Strauss, 570-247-5569 or email email@example.com or Angela Klopf, 570-888-4759 or email@example.com.
Veterans' Day Services
Wyalusing American Legion Post 534 is hosting a Veterans' Day dinner on Saturday, Nov 9 at 6 p.m. Social hour is 5 p.m. Reservations can be made by calling the post home at 570-746-1772 by Nov. 4.
Tutor Training Workshop begins Thursday, Nov. 3 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. and continues on Thursday, Nov. 10 and 17 and Nov. 29 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Tunkhannock Public Library at 220 W. Tioga St. in Tunkhannock. Sponsored by the Bradford-Wyoming Co. Literacy Program. There is a $5 registration fee. For further information or to register, please call 570-297- 3375 or 836-1677. R44c
Yard Sales
St. Paul's Church of Overton is having a Yard Sale on Nov. 1 and 2, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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More Than Just Public Speaking
Centretown Ottawa Toastmasters is not just about developing your public speaking skills. Leadership and attentive listening skills will also be developed through the various activities at our meetings.
Each meeting includes prepared speeches, impromptu ones, known as Table Topics, and then an evaluation portion.
Meetings are fun and informal and guests are welcome! Come and see for yourself.
Our meetings take place at 6:30 pm every Tuesday at the Jack Purcell Community Centre just off of Elgin Street. Our room is on the second floor and is accessible by stairs and elevator.

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I used to hate fall when it signaled back to school, but now that my school days are firmly and securely in my past, I can appreciate the season for all it's worth. Crisp weekends, football, and of course, fashion make fall one helluva season. Who doesn't love to get all cozy in a new sweater and cheers a cider to all things autumnal? Nobody.
I've been looking to update my fall wardrobe, but hey, I don't want to spend too much. That got me thinking that if I focused on accessories, I could save money and still get some style thrills. So! Here are 8 of my favorite fall fashion frills.
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Opinion: The 2% President
Assistant editorial page editor James Freeman on today's GDP report and corporate earnings reports this week. Photo: Associated Press
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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21,457 keyframes. 18,844 layers. 1,012 compositions. Insane, nuts? 18bis's latest reel depicts the creative work of the studio through a fun narrative.
Stratastencil animation, dance and poetry take flight in this short film by 18bis. A diversified artistic experimentation creates the story of a ballerina on a journey towards freedom.
Challenged with the theme "seamless transition," 18bis created a colorful motion piece for the v21n1 issue of the prestigious design magazine IdN.
The animation presents Acer's National Services Center, an efficient problem-solving structure for customers.
Animated collages inspired by the fantastical universe of dreams. Hybrid creatures, inked drawings and cutouts are the main characters of this motion graphics series.
A virtual library containing hundreds of titles. In this fun narrative, books literally fly across the sky.
The music video presents symbolic concepts such as time, experience and remembrance. An imaginary world was built using objects collected from everyday life.
Animation for the launch of a crowdfunding campaign. Meu Rio is a powerful network that helps the city of Rio by promoting social mobilization to support multiple causes.
18bis developed a motion identity for the biggest cycling competition in Brazil. An animated series provided useful information about safe riding.
With over eight years of experience across the audiovisual industry, the creative directors teamed up to create a studio with one clear philosophy: creative freedom.
Gabriel, the Animation Director, could just as well have been a rap drummer. Instead, he incorporates rhythm as a core principle of his language, employing a playful style and cadence.
Maria Ilka is the Art Director and also a former somnambulist. Today, her waking hours are split between building dream-like scenarios and satisfying her sweet tooth in the mornings.
The studio's name, 18bis, was inspired by the most prodigious creation by Brazilian inventor Santos Dumont -- the airplane 14bis, which helped change the way people interact and connect with each other. 18bis takes flight and journeys through this inventive atmosphere, working through the convergence of medias and techniques.
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Julianne Hough & Ryan Seacrest: 'Safe Haven' Hollywood Premiere!
Julianne Hough is stunning while attending the premiere of her new flick Safe Haven held at TCL Chinese Theatre on Tuesday (February 5) in Hollywood.
The 24-year-old dancer turned actress was accompanied by her boyfriend Ryan Seacrest.
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Stan Lee Cancels Megacon Appearance, Calls Florida "Worse Than Ohio"
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by LOLtron » Thu Jan 31, 2013 1:41 pm
Stan is said to be okay, but taking a short break from second-rate conventions in states that suck.
Source: Bleeding Cool
The Facebook page for Orlando, Florida's Megacon announced today that Stan "The Old Man and the" Lee has canceled his scheduled appearance at the convention, which was to take place from March 15 to March 17. The announcement follows last week's news that Lee canceled an appearance at Arizona Comic Con. Lee also canceled appearances in 2012, but it was later revealed that the 90 year old legend was undergoing bionic enhancements.
According to Megacon, Lee is "okay, but is taking a small break from convention appearances." However, a source inside the Lee camp tells The Outhouse that Lee is purposely avoiding Megacon because "Florida is a terrible place, worse than Ohio."
"If I didn't want to go to Ohio last year, why would I go to Florida, where people from Ohio go to die?" asked Lee, allegedly. "Seriously, there are more Ohioans in Florida's retirement communities than in Ohio itself. And don't get me started on all the old jews from New York and New Jersey. Oy vey!"
Lee apparently went on to cite a large Latino community, constant rainstorms, and the crocodile menace as further reasons to avoid the misleadingly named Sunshine State. "They've got insects the size of Dan Slott down there," said Lee, who was forced to admit that most giant water beetles would probably do a better job of writing Spider-Man.
"Also, fuck LeBron James and his shitty lockout title," added Lee. "He should have become a Knick."
While this article is obviously factually inaccurate, and The Outhouse hopes that Stan recovers fully and quickly from whatever illness he may or may not be suffering from, we do look forward to passive aggressive emails from women claiming to be "Stan Lee's publicists's niece" complaining about how mean we're being to Florida. We remind these and other humorless complainers that everyone copes with these things in their own way, and direct them to every other comic book website, who will be running headlines like "Oh Noes Stan Lee at Death's Door" to capitalize on Lee's possible illness with unique hits while feigning compassion.
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by misac » Thu Jan 31, 2013 3:30 pm
Don't blame the guy.
by S.F. Jude Terror » Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:27 pmFYI, any of you not using the Outhouse board skin is missing out on Dan Slott in the facebook comments down below.
by Grayson » Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:34 pm
Yikes! I tried that skin and no thank you! Although, I do like the fact that one of the people who commented apparently decided that attacking your name was a classy way to go.
Also, Dan Slott, does this mean we're not friends anymore? Will you no longer be banging the mothers of our posters?
by S.F. Jude Terror » Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:38 pmI'm sad Dan Slott thought it was mean-spirited. I mean, people are gonna find me not funny, that I can live with, but I certainly wasn't trying to be mean. I love Stan Lee! I just hate people from Florida and Ohio.
We always hurt the ones we love.
by S.F. Jude Terror » Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:41 pmYou get used to the skin. It has other perks too, like SKETCHtron.
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A 40-year-old man was sentenced to 21 years in prison for raping a 14-year-old girl, according to the Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr.
Abdool Azeez was sentenced after a jury found him guilty in November of three separate counts of felony rape, the DA's office said.
Azeez met the victim in 2013 while doing construction work on her grandmother's Mount Vernon-based business and home. Despite knowing the victim was a minor, Azeez, then 35, coaxed her into a sexual relationship that would continue to January of 2014 when the victim's mother discovered the relationship through social media, Scarpino said.
An arrest warrant was issued for Azeez, who fled to Guyana where he remained for two years in an effort to avoid apprehension. He ultimately returned to the U.S. when the victim turned 17 and was arrested on the warrant.
Upon his release from prison, Azeez must register as a sex offender and will also be on post-release supervision for 10 years.
Assistant District Attorney Joyce Miller, Deputy Bureau Chief of the Domestic Violence Bureau, prosecuted the case.
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Super Start/Select: Free Portal 2 DLC! Reset Trailer! End Credits!
In this week's show there's word on the Perpetual Testing free Portal 2 DLC and that uber-pretty debut Reset trailer. Also, Mark Walton presents the 13 finest credit rolls ever ...
In this week's show there's word on the Perpetual Testing free Portal 2 DLC and that uber-pretty debut Reset trailer. Also, Mark Walton presents the 13 finest credit rolls ever ...
Ubiquitous hardware company admits playing games on devices is "somewhat awkward" in USPTO filing for peripherals with rumble, dedicated game buttons for iPhone, possibly iPad.
Sega's simian puzzler proves a hit on Apple's all-in-one handheld, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Will Wright's evo-civil-space sim joining Super Monkey Ball and other games using the now-open SDK for Apple's all-in-one communication device.
We try out Sega's monkey-centric puzzler on the N-Gage.
We speak with the head of Amusement Vision--formerly known as AM4--to get his thoughts on Super Monkey Ball, developing for multiple platforms, the console version of Planet Harriers, and more.
The release of Super Monkey Ball in the US further cements Sega's position as a third-party publisher. SOA's Charles Bellfield talks to us about the milestone release and his company's ...
An updated port of Sega's arcade game, Monkey Ball, Super Monkey Ball is the first Sega published game for the Nintendo GameCube. Available at launch, this game takes the wacky ...
Sega has announced that it will release the theme song from its first GameCube game on CD.
We spend time with the Japanese retail version of Sega's ball full of fun.
We talk with the makers of Super Monkey Ball, Daytona, and Planet Harriers.
The initial sell-through numbers for the Nintendo GameCube are in.
The monkeys land on the GameCube for the console's Japanese launch. See new videos and screens inside.
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SMH: Utah Woman Is Suing Google Because They Gave Her The Wrong Directions & She Got Hit By A Car! (Wants Comensation)
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Kitchen Gardeners! Ordered your seeds yet? What and from where?
OK, I have a foot of snow on the ground and a good inch of ice on top of that. But we're past the midpoint of Winter, and there WILL be a Spring! I am up to my elbows in seed catalogs and websites, and need to order some of the seeds I'll start indoors by the end of the month.
I've only decided on a couple of things right now. I am going to try Amish Paste tomatoes this year, and I will not be ordering from Pinetree Gardens this year since for two years running have had germination issues with their seeds only. Will be getting some of the usual suspects, probably from Johnny's and Jungs --Fordhook chard, Maxibell filet beans and Fortex pole beans. Haven't decided on peppers, lettuces, squash, melons broccoli, kale, fennel or cabbage varieties yet. Thinking about Alpine strawberries, too.
What are you planning to plant, and do you have a seed company you love (or hate)? Any suggestions of vegetable varieties I should look into? Am just west of Philadelphia in a commuter suburb and have a good sized deer-fenced, organic garden. I've had vegetable gardens since 1976, but am always looking to improve.
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I enjoy tax season for many reasons, but mostly because I catch up with so many clients and friends and hear how their year went.
I enjoy tax season for many reasons, but mostly because I catch up with so many clients and friends and hear how their year went.
It also gives me insight into the local economy and how people are being affected (still struggling, by the way). A common thread this year was stories of families hit with injuries or illnesses that lasted for months. Those events can wreak havoc on your finances, and they underscore the need for strong emergency planning, including disability insurance.
Disability coverage
Most people recognize the need for life insurance, but the need for disability coverage is often overlooked. The fact is that you are more likely to become disabled than die before age 65. How likely is a disability in your case? Check out this calculator at whatsmypdq.org and input some general characteristics to get a customized estimate. My chance of being disabled for at least three months was 24 percent with an average length of disability for someone like me of 84 months. Yikes.
There are a few different ways to cover the financial impacts of becoming disabled. One option many choose by default, is to self-insure; meaning you'll just do without your income and cover your bills with personal savings. Not a great plan unless you have a very large emergency stash that you won't need for retirement or anything else. A more effective way to cover yourself is through disability insurance, which you can obtain through an employee benefit, purchase it yourself, or a combination of the two.
When looking at disability coverage, there are two parts: short-term coverage and long term coverage.
For short-term disabilities or illnesses — typically 26 weeks or less — your employer may cover part or all with sick days or other short-term coverage. New Jersey and New York require private employers to either participate in the state plan or provide other insurance to cover non-work-related illnesses or injuries for up to 26 weeks. These benefits only cover a portion of salary for eligible workers: 50 percent of normal salary, capped at $170 per week for New York; and 2/3 of salary, capped at $572 for New Jersey employment.
In Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania residents who participate in these plans through their employers are eligible, but Pennsylvania workers are not covered by any state plan. That can leave you stuck if you use up all of your sick and vacation days and your employer does not offer additional benefits. Short-term policies can be purchased privately to help close the gap.
Once those short-term benefits, if any, are exhausted, your long-term disability policy kicks in. Employers will sometimes offer a base policy (50 percent of your pay for example) paid by the company, with the option to buy optional coverage (perhaps an additional 10 percent of pay) out of pocket.
You may find that no medical questions are asked if you choose optional coverage when first offered. Should you choose to enroll later, however, you will be subject to medical underwriting. You may also be offered the choice to pay premiums before tax or after tax.
When paying the premiumw with pre-tax dollars, you have the benefit of the tax savings but if and when you collect benefits, they will be taxable as income. On the other hand, if you choose to pay the premiums out of your after-tax net pay, should you receive benefits they will be tax free. That makes the dollars go further. When you are replacing only a portion of your income, that feature is an important benefit booster.
What if your employer doesn't offer any options for disability benefits or the benefits aren't enough? Long-term disability products are offered for sale privately. Premiums for policies are rated according to age, health, occupation and earnings to be replaced. Premiums are also dependent upon options you choose, such as your elimination period (the number of days that must go by before the coverage begins), the length of time your disability will be covered (two years, for instance, will be less expensive than policies that cover until age 65), any inflation protection and the conditions for you to return to work.
Some policies will only cover your disability until you can return to work at any job, regardless of whether that is the occupation you were working in prior to your illness or injury, while others will continue coverage until you can return to your own occupation. These "own-occupation" policies are more expensive because of their generous coverage.
You may also find policies that are hybrids of these two; they may cover your inability to return to your own occupation for two years, for example, but then stop coverage if you are able to work in another field. Carefully inspect all definitions prior to purchasing a policy.
A business owner is particularly vulnerable during disability. He not only loses income, but also if he is the primary generator of business income, the business suffers while bills continue to accumulate. In addition to regular disability insurance, business overhead insurance can help cover the cost of keeping the business going while the owner is unable to work.
Another consideration
Disability insurance is an important part of the financial emergency plan to cover the loss of a breadwinner's income. But what happens if the disability is not yours, but your child's? What if you have to leave work for an extended period of time to be with an ailing parent in another city? These are the kinds of life events we think will never happen to us, but they do.
If you've been putting off getting that emergency fund going, start today. You can't build it up overnight, but a dollar saved today is better than having none tomorrow. In the meantime, put a plan together to tend to your personal and business affairs in the event of a family emergency.
If you had to leave home for weeks, how would you pay your bills? Who would take care of your pets? Does someone have a key to your house, your mailbox? Think of things you do in the normal course of life. Make a detailed list and share it with someone you trust who could step into your shoes and keep your home running in your absence. You may think you can take care of things remotely, and perhaps you can, but chances are if you are dealing with a traumatic event, you won't want that burden.
Business owners
If you own a business with clients and employees depending on you, do you have an emergency plan? Especially if you work alone, enlist someone you trust to learn at least the basics to either service your clients until you can return or act as a liaison with another professional who can help. Get all those little details tucked away inside your head on paper so someone else can help should disaster strike. The time to think about the unthinkable is now.
Erin Baehr is a certified financial planner and owner of Baehr Family Financial, a fee-only financial planning firm in Stroudsburg (PurposefulMoney.com). Baehr can be reached at 570-223-1550 or at Facebook.com/YourMoneyEveryday.


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Worms are programs that make copies of themselves in different places on a computer. The objective of this type of malware is usually to saturate computers and networks, preventing them from being used. Unlike viruses, worms don't infect files.
The main objective of worms is to spread and infect as many computers as possible. They do this by creating copies of themselves on infected computers, which then spread to other computers by several channels including email, P2P programs and instant messaging, among others.
Worms often use social engineering techniques. To do so, malware creators use attractive names to camouflage the malicious files. Most of these names relate to sex, famous people, pirate software, current affairs or generally try to appeal to people's morbid curiosity.
The use of these techniques significantly increases around dates such as Valentine's Day, Christmas and Halloween.
Worms have also been adapted to fit the new malware dynamic. Previously, worms were designed largely to achieve notoriety for the creators, and were therefore programmed to spread massively and infect computers around the world.
Now, however, worms are more geared towards generating financial gain. They are used to create massive botnets which control thousands of computers around the world. Cyber-crooks then send commands to these computers (zombies) to send spam, launch denial of service attacks, download malicious files, etc. Conficker or The Gaobot or Sdbot families are just a few examples of this type of worm. In the following statistics you can check out the importance of this type of malware nowadays:
At present, there are thousands upon thousands of computers being used as zombies without their owners realizing. These compromised computers can still be used normally, and so often the only indication of the infection is reduced performance.
There are a series of basic measures that users can take to ensure that computers are protected against worms:
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CHARLOTTETOWN — A professor at a Prince Edward Island veterinary college says his worse fears have been realized with confirmation of a case of the deadly pig virus porcine epidemic diarrhea on an Island farm.
"We were worried about the virus even before this break. We were hoping it wouldn't come," said Dan Hurnik, a professor of swine health management at the Atlantic Veterinary College.
The province's Agriculture Department says the National Centre of Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg has confirmed the presence of the virus, a highly contagious disease that has already killed millions of piglets in the United States.
The province is prepared to prevent the spread of the virus, Hurnik said.
"(Producers) have had training sessions on biosecurity, so what we're doing is reinforcing that training."
Hurnik said an investigation is underway to determine how the virus arrived at the farm, which has not been identified.
The Canadian Swine Health Intelligence Network issued a bulletin on Thursday that said a case of the suspected virus was detected by a P.E.I. veterinary lab overnight Wednesday.
The disease, which poses no risk to human health or safety, first emerged in Canada less than a month ago at a southwestern Ontario pig farm.
That number has since risen to 16 affected farms in Ontario and one in Manitoba.
The Canadian Swine Health Board said Saturday that the virus would be spreading more swiftly throughout the country if it weren't for stricter measures taken after the U.S. outbreak last May.
Executive director Robert Harding said the emergence of the disease gave the industry a warning and that, along with more vigilant farm practices in recent years, has helped minimize its impact thus far.


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Stanford Law Review Online: The Dead Past
The Stanford Law Review Online has just published Chief Judge Alex Kozinski's Keynote from our 2012 Symposium, The Dead Past. Chief Judge Kozinski discusses the privacy implications of our increasingly digitized world and our role as a society in shaping the law:
I must start out with a confession: When it comes to technology, I'm what you might call a troglodyte. I don't own a Kindle or an iPad or an iPhone or a Blackberry. I don't have an avatar or even voicemail. I don't text.
I don't reject technology altogether: I do have a typewriter—an electric one, with a ball. But I do think that technology can be a dangerous thing because it changes the way we do things and the way we think about things; and sometimes it changes our own perception of who we are and what we're about. And by the time we realize it, we find we're living in a different world with different assumptions about such fundamental things as property and privacy and dignity. And by then, it's too late to turn back the clock.
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Judges, legislators and law enforcement officials live in the real world. The opinions they write, the legislation they pass, the intrusions they dare engage in—all of these reflect an explicit or implicit judgment about the degree of privacy we can reasonably expect by living in our society. In a world where employers monitor the computer communications of their employees, law enforcement officers find it easy to demand that internet service providers give up information on the web-browsing habits of their subscribers. In a world where people post up-to-the-minute location information through Facebook Places or Foursquare, the police may feel justified in attaching a GPS to your car. In a world where people tweet about their sexual experiences and eager thousands read about them the morning after, it may well be reasonable for law enforcement, in pursuit of terrorists and criminals, to spy with high-powered binoculars through people's bedroom windows or put concealed cameras in public restrooms. In a world where you can listen to people shouting lurid descriptions of their gall-bladder operations into their cell phones, it may well be reasonable to ask telephone companies or even doctors for access to their customer records. If we the people don't consider our own privacy terribly valuable, we cannot count on government—with its many legitimate worries about law-breaking and security—to guard it for us.
Which is to say that the concerns that have been raised about the erosion of our right to privacy are, indeed, legitimate, but misdirected. The danger here is not Big Brother; the government, and especially Congress, have been commendably restrained, all things considered. The danger comes from a different source altogether. In the immortal words of Pogo: "We have met the enemy and he is us."
Read the full article, The Dead Past by Alex Kozinski, at the Stanford Law Review Online.


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10 Best Jobs You Can Get Without A College Degree
By Kaitlin Dewey, Kiplinger.com
College isn't for everyone. Sure, earning a degree will improve your income potential, but skyrocketing tuition costs are a deterrent for some. Others choose not to continue their schooling for a host of reasons, from family obligations to a desire to start collecting a full-time paycheck.
You can still find a good job without a college degree. According to the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, 44 percent of high school graduates make better money than college grads. It's just a matter of picking the right career field.To identify the 10 best jobs you can get without a college degree, we focused on two critical factors: salary and job growth. We started with the more than 300 professions that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics classifies as requiring only a high-school diploma or post-secondary non-degree (typically awarded by a trade school or vocational training program). We trimmed the list by filtering for jobs with annual salaries well over the national median of $41,444 and projected long-term growth rates above the average of 14 percent.
Check out these 10 great jobs you can land without a college degree.
10. Manufacturing Sales Reps
- Median salary: $52,440 (U.S. median: $41,444)
- Current workforce: 1,430,000
- Projected job growth, 2010-2020: 16% (Average: 14%)
- Projected new jobs by 2020: 223,400
Wholesale and manufacturing sales reps who specialize in non-technical products make 27 percent more than the typical full-time worker -- a far cry from your local Avon lady or Tupperware party-peddler. Unlike those salespeople, wholesale reps market directly to businesses and government agencies. The pay is good, the opportunities numerous and, for most employers, a high school diploma is enough to land a job or a spot in a one-year paid training program. The median salary for sales reps in technical and scientific fields is a heftier $73,710, but those jobs usually require an associate's or bachelor's degree.
9. Telecommunications Equipment Installers
- Median salary: $54,710
- Current workforce: 194,900
- Projected job growth, 2010-2020: 15%
- Projected new jobs by 2020: 28,400
Software engineers and computer scientists aren't the only people who benefited from the Internet boom. Thanks to high demand for high-tech services, telecommunications installers also see growing opportunities and salaries 32 percent higher than the national median. Installers usually work for telecom or building companies, setting up routers, switchboards and telecom lines in businesses and private homes. While the work can get technical, most installers don't need a college degree -- trade school or a certificate program will suffice.
More:10 Jobs That Pay At Least $35,000 A Year
8. Insurance Sales Agents
- Median salary: $46,770
- Current workforce: 411,500
- Projected job growth, 2010-2020: 22%
- Projected new jobs by 2020: 90,200
While few agents are as bubbly as "Flo," the retro salesgirl in Progressive ads, job prospects in the insurance industry justify a little giddiness. Typical insurance agents pull in salaries about 13 percent above the national median. Analysts expect the industry to add 90,000 jobs in the next decade. And as an added bonus, insurance sales requires little formal education. Most agents hold a high-school diploma supplemented by some on-the-job training, as well as a license in the state where they work.
7. Construction & Building Inspectors
- Median salary: $52,360
- Current workforce: 102,400
- Projected job growth, 2010-2020: 18%
- Projected new jobs by 2020: 18,400
Of all the construction trades available to job-seekers without college degrees, building inspection is definitely the best-paid way to go. Inspectors typically work for local government or private firms, reviewing plans, monitoring construction sites and checking building codes for upwards of $52,000 a year. While there are no formal educational requirements, experience is key. Most employers look for extensive knowledge of the construction industry, sometimes verified by a licensing exam.
6. Plumbers, Pipefitters, & Steamfitters
- Median salary: $46,660
- Current workforce: 419,000
- Projected job growth, 2010-2020: 26%
- Projected new jobs by 2020: 107,600
Plumbers are in demand almost everywhere in the country -- and if you've ever had a toilet clog or a sink backup, you know exactly why. The typical plumber makes more than $46,000 a year installing and repairing pipes and appliances, mostly in homes and businesses. Pipefitters and steamfitters specialize in pipe systems that carry chemicals, gases and such. They might work in factories, hospitals, power plants or other buildings that house these systems. Most plumbers and fitters learn their trade though apprenticeships.
5. Dry Wall Tapers
- Median salary: $45,490
- Current workforce: 22,900
- Projected job growth, 2010-2020: 35%
- Projected new jobs by 2020: 8,000
No high-school diploma? No problem. Tapers are the only workers on our list who can look forward to good money and strong job growth without even finishing high school. Tapers work in the construction industry, preparing walls for painting after installers hang them up. Most learn on the job from more experienced workers; no apprenticeship or technical school required. The Labor Department expects contractors to add some 8,000 jobs by the end of the decade, reflecting growth in the construction industry as a whole.
More:Where The Jobs Are: 25 Cities With Double-Digit Job Growth
4. Electricians
- Median salary: $48,250
- Current workforce: 577,700
- Projected job growth, 2010-2020: 23%
- Projected new jobs by 2020: 133,700
The world is more wired than ever before, and both businesses and homeowners have electricians to thank. More gadgets mean more work for these skilled workers, who will see nearly 134,000 new jobs added by 2020. The typical electrician makes more than $48,000 per year with a high school degree and a four-year paid apprenticeship. Major cities promise the most jobs, but even smaller towns need light: Kokomo, Ind., and Bremerton, Wash., have the highest concentration of electricians in the U.S.
3. Commercial Pilots
- Median salary: $67,500
- Current workforce: 32,700
- Projected job growth, 2010-2020: 21%
- Projected new jobs by 2020: 6,900
The average commercial pilot makes $26,000 more than the typical full-time worker and $13,000 more than the average college-educated worker. That's a considerable disparity in a profession that has traditionally required only a commercial pilot's license and some hours logged at a local flight school. Times are admittedly changing -- many airlines now look for pilots with two- or four-year degrees -- but salary and growth prospects remain strong. Opportunities look particularly good around major airline hubs, including Houston, Phoenix, Dallas, Miami and Atlanta.
2. Brickmasons & Blockmasons
- Median salary: $46,930
- Current workforce: 89,200
- Projected job growth, 2010-2020: 41%
- Projected new jobs by 2020: 36,100
The population is booming, and so is the construction of new schools, hospitals and apartment buildings. That's good news for masons. These craftspeople make rock-solid salaries working for construction contractors, especially in growing urban areas. While few employers require formal education, most masons complete three- to four-year paid apprenticeship programs to learn the trade. Some pick up needed skills informally on the job from more experienced masons.
1. Pile-Driver Operators
- Median salary: $47,860
- Current workforce: 4,100
- Projected job growth, 2010-2020: 36%
- Projected new jobs by 2020: 1,500
With just a high school education and some on-the-job training, pile-driver operators can expect to make 19% more money than the national median. That's because the job requires some heavy lifting: Operators typically work on skids, barges, cranes or offshore oil rigs, using large machines to drive construction supports into the ground. The Labor Department expects demand to skyrocket over the remainder of this decade, growing at nearly three times the rate of all other occupations. Aspiring operators will have the best chances of finding work along the Gulf Coast, especially in Louisiana, thanks to the concentration of oil rigs and port operations.
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Winters can sometimes get to seeming like they'll last forever here in northern Maine. But last year—right smack in the middle of one of those storms that make a person wonder whether anything will ever be green again—my friend Alan and I came up with a game that's just what the doctor ordered for cabin fever.
Feeling restless, and not willing to start another round of the same old stories (mine about the time the tree almost fell on me, followed by Alan's much-recounted tale about his journey south) that we'd told all the other evenings, I flicked a nickel across the table at my friend. Alan knocked the coin back at me, I gave it a smart finger snap and sent it spinning back at him ... and inspiration smacked both of us at the same instant. It was a moment's work to set pairs of empty bottles up as goals, decide that only one digit could be used to defend (our first rule! ), and start playing nickel hockey in earnest!
Before long, though, my finger was mighty sore from winging that nickel around, and Alan was complaining that my aim (which, I'll admit, was on the inconsistent side) forced him to spend too much time scuttling across the floor after runaway coins. So I trotted out to the woodshed (noting, as I had done all too many times before, how quickly even hair freezes in 20 below zero weather!) and returned with a hunk of plywood and some odd lengths of furring strips.
Ten minutes of sawing and hammering turned those scraps into a first-rate hockey board. And while I was whipping the playing surface into shape, Alan whittled out a dandy pair of miniature hockey sticks! We had a fine time, making a shot here, inventing a rule there, and before long the game evolved into a pastime that's since proved popular with a crew that includes both homestead tots and stir-crazy loggers!
A Board for the Bored
You can throw together a rough-and-tumble nickel hockey board in ten minutes or so, or you can do as I eventually did, and make as fancy a playing "field" as your scrap lumber supply and woodworking skill allow. In either case, though, the design will be about the same.
Begin by cutting a piece of 1/2"—or thicker—plywood into a 16" X 24" rectangle (you can, of course, vary any of the measurements given here, but these dimensions are the ones that seem to work best for us).
Then, centered at each 16" edge, draw and cut out a 1 1/2"-high triangle with a 1 1/2" base. These openings are the goals that the coin puck will—on a good shot—fall into. With that done, fasten strips of 1 X 2 along the sides of the board, using nails, dowels, wood screws, or what have you. (Of course, the wooden walls will also serve to close in the goals at the back.)
That finishes the carpentry. To complete the board, you'll have to draw a red centerline with a felt-tipped marker, and you may then want to varnish the surface. (This step isn't absolutely necessary, but it will prevent spilled home brew from smearing the inked line.) As a final touch, perhaps you'll decide to put cardboard or cloth bottoms on the open goals. . . in order to catch the coins when the board is used on other than a flat surface.
To complete your game, you'll need a nickel and a pair of homemade hockey sticks. We simply carve (or cut, using a jig saw) the little swatters from 1/8" thick wood. You can get creative with the shape if you like, but it's best to standardize the length of the stick's "blade" at 1 1/2" (as you can imagine, a larger stick could give a player quite a defensive advantage).
Rules for the Unruly
During the first few weeks of use, my hockey board was subjected to an incredible amount of punishment. So, to keep the game—and our occasional weekend houseful of partying homesteaders and lumberjacks—under control, Alan and I established a few simple rules. (Again, these can be considered a starting point. You'll probably devise more regulations of your own as you become familiar with the game.)
Play begins with the flip of a coin. The winner of the toss then opens the game by shooting from anywhere on his or her side of the red centerline, while the other player, staying on the far side of the line, defends with the stick. (After a goal has been made, the player who didn't score returns the puck to play in the same manner.)
There are only two infractions that carry penalties. The first is placing a defensive stick within the goal "pit,", and the second is moving one's stick across the red line. Either of these fouls results in the other player's getting a free shot in which case he or she is allowed to swat the puck from any point on his or her side of the board, while the unlucky opponent's stick must be held, motionless, at the apex of the defended goal. (Free shots thus require banking the coin off the wall, and are far from being the "sure scores" they may sound like!)
If the puck is knocked clear off the board, the player who's not responsible for the overly eager swat is allowed to shoot the nickel just as in the opening move. Should the coin stop on the centerline, the shot goes to whoever reaches the puck first (unless, of course, he or she goes past the line in pursuit of the elusive five-cent piece!).
Snowbound Strategies
Probably the most difficult nickel hockey skill is simply keeping cool when you're on the defensive. It's pretty hard to maintain a Zen-like calm when your opponent has the puck whizzing about like an enraged bumblebee, but—in my experience at least—a player who stops defending his or her goal to chase after the nickel is usually beaten and back at the end of the waiting players' line in no time flat.
In fact, a lot of our group's hockey aficionados figure that the most important tactics to master are those that can help you move to the front of the line, and therefore back into the game, as rapidly as possible. (Announcing that there are fresh, hot doughnuts in the kitchen is a time-honored ploy!) If you can find the few minutes necessary to knock together your own nickel hockey board before next Saturday night, I think you'll understand our enthusiasm!


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Agnyaathavaasi AP and Telangana First Day FiguresJanuary 11, 2018 09:36
Powerstar Pawan Kalyan pinned many hopes on his recent outing Agnyaathavaasi which has been made on a massive budget and has been shot for a year. Directed by Trivikram Srinivas, Agnyaathavaasi is said to be a romantic entertainer laced with loads of family emotions and action episodes. Keerthy Suresh, Anu Emmanuel played the female leads while Rao Ramesh, Murali Sharma, Boman Irani, Kusbhoo played other pivotal roles. Agnyaathavaasi released in record number of screens all over yesterday.
Agnyaathavaasi received mixed response from the audience all over and the collections dipped down after the film received poor response. Agnyaathavaasi raked Rs 26.94 across AP and Telangana on its first day which has been decent. The film has been exceptional across USA and it raked over 1.5 million USD with premieres alone. Agnyaathavaasi needs to hold well during the holiday season to recover the investments. Haarika and Hassine Creations bankrolled this project. Here are the area-wise collections of the film:
Nizam: Rs 5.48 Cr
Vizag: Rs 4.30 Cr
Ceeded: Rs 3.35 Cr
Nellore: Rs 1.64 Cr
Guntur: Rs 3.78 Cr
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Apple, Google, IBM and McDonald's are among a slew of companies reporting earnings. MarketWatch's Polya Lesova joins Markets Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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... I ... Monday will be here before you know he he ... he it was going to get you prepared ... MarketWatch's Polya Lesova Q if you look at the weekend and ... how iPhone and I mean um and I know I don't know it all to see yet and spraying the markets closed obviously yes ... for every star right when the weekend and yes my can of eighteen dated the second inauguration of President Obama so it's actually you will be ... on my and interesting day for the nation but my kids will be killed so ... aam ... but beyond that the kid next week it will be pretty busy you will get a lot of corporate earnings reports ... aam and from some of the ... corporate to make this an ideal biggest names I used IBM Microsoft was gone no effect on ... United Technologies quorum ... aam ... a good long nap and so some of rank in the States yes eleven due to school though aam ... but only the name to to attack the most advanced and is Apple income now Korea's sad the ruling point this Alex on Wednesday ... after the close ... and consensus expectations right now are for the place to what the profit decline in nine years is an easy eight anything really to be ... and what she comes on ... I mean why doesn't yesterday about yet warming yet but that that a pretty big yes and a decline of around three percent so nothing too ... sentimental but the unprofitable yet exactly hermit but you know Apple shares have dropped four percent so far this mean ... and it has been a lot of the consent ... on how much the mind and it is for the I phone five is our consumers buying enough ... in dealing with this week that Apple has ... caught with this add to supply its ... end so that is generating a lot of nervousness in the market aam ... and also what the candidates are also predicting that Apple's profit margin will tell ... honestly think amounted to eight percent in the last few months of last year ... the online around forty five percent ... in that ... period indeed and he is exactly and so what ... now Apple has been saying that launching so many new products ... the league end of last year that was going to squeeze margins anyway aam ... but still aam investors will be looking to see is that going for him ... and most importantly what's the guidance whether the company expects ... no foreign Write to want to do that to me that he has over MarketWatch into team and nobody really cares about earnings ... and I think that the nine hundred and eighty dollars but you really can't deny that term for the most part of my kids has seemed to be biding its time in any way seem pretty small moves ... on the day basis of the OB yesterday with the exception of really do have the SNP five hundred mills in that ... cozy hit a five-year high exactly but aam ... him for the most part of the earnings season is going to end an eight game Wednesday the aisle and avoid a gas ... Polya Lesova appreciate think very much ...


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