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Recap: Apple's 4Q profit missed estimates on fewer iPad sales. CEO Tim Cook said the company has been struggling to meet demand for the iPhone 5, but that Apple still expects to sell it in 100 markets this quarter — including putting it on sale China in December. Cook also took a dig at Microsoft's new Surface tablet, saying it's a "fairly compromised, confusing product."
Apple came in a little ahead of analysts' sales expectations in the back-to-school shopping season, selling slightly more iPhones than anticipated even after customers held off buying the smartphones and iPads as they waited for rumored new models.
But it missed on fourth-quarter profit estimates, as iPad sales faltered, and also forecast earnings this holiday season below what the Street expected, fueling concern that Apple will be unable to build enough new smartphones and tablets to satisfy demand.
Sales rose to $36 billion in the quarter ended Sept. 29. Profit was $8.67 a share, up from $7.05 a year earlier. Analysts, who lowered their estimates this week after CEO Tim Cook hinted that iPad shipments would be less than they were expecting, were looking for revenue of $35.8 billion and profit of $8.75 a share.
Gross margin was 40 percent, compared to 40.3 percent a year ago. It will slide to 36 percent this quarter because Apple is seeing higher costs in producing so many new products, including the iPhone 5, the just announced iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad and updated iMacs.
"We're unwilling to cut corners in delivering the best customer experience in the world," Cook said. "This is the most prolific period in our history in terms of new product introduction and innovation. The past six weeks have been phenomenal. I don't see those costs accelerating on a per-unit basis as we go through the quarter. I see it very much being a production ramp across many new products."
Fourth-Quarter Shipments, First-Quarter Forecast
Apple said it sold 26.9 million iPhones, topping expectations of about 25 million units and just above the 26 million it sold in the third quarter ended in June. It also sold 14 million iPads, down from 17 million in the third quarter. Mac shipments totaled 4.9 million units. The iPhone and iPad together accounted for almost 70 percent of Apple's sales. Shipments of the iPod fell 19 percent from a year earlier, to 5.3 million units.
(You can find all the unit shipment data, with third-quarter and year-ago compares here.)
As for the holiday shopping season ending in December, Apple's forecast missed analysts' projections. The company said today it expects sales of $52 billion and profit of $11.75 a share. Analysts were anticipating $54.9 billion in revenue and profit of $15.41.
The shares, which fell 1.2 percent in regular trading to close at $609.54 on the Nasdaq, dropped to about $600 a share after the report was released but then recovered after the company's hour long conference call. They were trading at about $609 at 3:30 p.m. California time.
Apple this year introduced three new versions of the iPad, including this week's iPad mini, a slimmer, larger-screen iPhone 5, redesigned iPod media players, updated Mac notebooks and desktops, and new generations of its iOS mobile and OS X desktop operating systems. It also cut prices on its iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 and iPad 2.
The price cuts, and higher production costs of the new models, weighed on earnings, Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer said on the earnings call. While Apple has faced similar issues with new products and price cuts in the past, the sheer number of new products is what makes the situation different now, he said. Apple is continuing to work on improving manufacturing costs, particularly for the iPhone 5 and iPad line, which together will account for more than 70 percent of sales this quarter, he said.
Customers, inundated with rumors about new products to come, kept their wallets closed as they waited for the rumored iPhone 5 in September and the new smaller-screen iPad in October. Cook said iPad shipments were better than Apple anticipated, given the drop in demand in July and August as customers delayed buying a tablet as rumors "intensified" about new models.
As for the iPhone 5, which went on sale in the U.S. on Sept. 21, Cook said demand is "robust" and that Apple is in a "significant state of backlog." Apple's website shows a three to four week wait for the iPhone 5 a month after the smartphone was released, prompting concern that the company won't be able to keep up with demand.
China, Microsoft Surface
Even so, Cook said Apple stands by its plan to offer the iPhone 5 in 100 markets by the end of the year, including launching it in China in December. China is one of Apple's key markets, with sales reaching $23.8 billion in fiscal 2012, a 78 percent increase. Greater China represented 15 percent of Apple's sales in the fiscal year, Cook said, and remains an "extremely exciting market" for Apple.
Cook also answered question about challengers to the iPad and the $329 price tag of the iPad mini, which is higher than the $200 to $300 many analysts had been expecting. Rival offerings from Google (Nexus 7) and Amazon (Kindle Fire) sell for $199. Cook said the iPad mini is in a "whole different league" from rival offerings and that Apple didn't want to offer a product that would make people feel good when they bought it because it was inexpensive but then would never use it after they took it home. "What we tried to do is create a product that people will love for months and years after they purchase it and continue to use in a robust way."
As for Microsoft's new iPad rival, the Surface, Cook said he hadn't had a chance to play with it but it's a fairly compromised, confusing product" and that Apple knows the choices that must be made on a tablet to create a great user experience.
"I suppose I can create a car that flies and floats, but I don't think it will do all of those things very well," Cook said. "I think when people look at the iPad versus competitive offerings," they'll continue to choose the Pad.
Apple hosted its earnings call at 2 p.m. California time. Here's a play-by-play.
- 2:02: CFO Peter Oppenheimer is up first.
- Says Apple set new September revenue and profit revenue. He is going through the earnings report.
- Oppenheimer is going through the Mac business, talking about the new iMac and 13-inch MacBook Pro that will go on sale this quarter. Mac inventory was below it's target range, he said.
- iPod Touch accounts for more than half of all iPods sold, he says. Apple began shipping new iPods two weeks ago. "We think our full range of iPods will make wonderful gifts this holiday season."
- iTunes store had record revenues of $1.2 billion.
- He's now turning to iPhones, which had a 58 percent year to year growth. iPhone 5 was launched in more than 30 countries in September. "Demand has been phenomenal…Demand for iPhone 5 continues to outstrip demand" and Apple is working to change that. He said that iPhone channel inventory is below the 4-6 week channel inventory levels Apple expects, with 9.1 million iPhones in the channel.
- iPad up now. Oppenheimer says Apple was "very pleased" with iPad sales and that they "were ahead of our expectations," showing strong growth across geographies. Oppenheimer is now talking about the iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad announced earlier this week. Says they ended the quarter with 3.4 million iPads in channel inventory, ahead of their usual four-week inventory levels.
- 2:10: Combining iPhone, iPad and iPod, Apple sold more than 44 million iOS devices in the September quarter. Reiterates that Apple has paid more than $6.5 billion to app developers.
- He switches to iOS 6 mobile operating system, released last month. He mentions the problematic Maps app. "We've made a number of improvements to the Maps app over the past month" and said Apple will not stop working until Maps meets their expectations.
- RE: gross margin. He says it was up due to better than expected commodity costs and other factors that happened in the fourth quarter they don't expect to see repeated.
- Retail stores had $4.22 billion in sales. They opened 18 news stores, including their first store in Sweden and second store in Hong Kong. Exited the quarter with 390 stores. 140 are outside the U.S.
- Oppenheimer is talking now about cash: Apple had $121.3 billion at the end of the September quarter, $4 billion more than they had at the end of June. $83 billion was offshore.
- He's now repeating the forecast for sales/profit (see above) and says that gross margin will be 36 percent this quarter.
- Expanded the reach of iTunes to 63 countries around the world.
- Oppenheimer is now recapping the year's results, since this closes out their 2012 fiscal year. We entered this holiday season with our strongest product offering evers, he says. And the company is excited about the product pipeline.
- Q&A begins.
- Oppenheimer is asked about the forecast — if Apple's numbers come through, first-quarter profit will down for the first time. Why? And what's with gross margin. "The change year over year is driven by a few things. Q1 is not 14 weeks this year, it's 13 weeks, as it was last year. Also there's a stronger dollar that Apple is facing."
- Oppenheimer says gross margin — "this is the most prolific product period" for Apple. led to record levels of demand. Newer products represent over 80 percent of sales in the September quarter. All the new products had new form factors. All of these products have higher costs than their predecessors and therefore lower gross margins…This isn't necessarily new. It's just the number of products introduced at the same time. Says Apple also cut the cost on iPhone 4s and iPhone 4, and that affects gross margin. Also, the iPad mini also has a lower price tag.
- So Apple expects gross margin to decline sequentially.
- He says deferred revenue was higher in September and some of the benefits they enjoyed in the quarter won't be repeated in the holiday quarter. "We will work hard to get down the cost curves and improve manufacturing" as we have done in the past.
- 2:22: Tim Cook speaks for first time. "We're unwilling to cut corners in delivering the best customer experience in the world." That commitment to excellence is the reason that customers buy our product. "We're managing the company for the long run and will continue" to make long-term decisions about the business.
- Cook says demand for iPhone 5 is robust and Apple is in a "significant state of backlog." But he says they've improved production and he's pleased with the current level of output in what is the largest product ramp in Apple's history. He says it's hard to predict when supply-demand will balance but that the company will deliver a significant number of products.
- Next question is whether iPhone 5 will be rolled out to 100 countries, as previously announced.
- Cook answers. "We still continue to anticipate rolling out to the 100 countries as we announced before. There will be some large countries in the month of December."
- Cook: "In terms of cost, with each new product we see learning curves with ramping production." The new products are no different — the difference is the number of products. He repeats this is the "most prolific period" in terms of new product introductions.
- "We do see all of these costs associated with each of these. But I don't see those costs accelerating on a per unit basis as we go through the quarter. I see it very much being a production ramp" as we go through the quarter.
- 2:27: Question now on iPad adoption and what happens with larger form factors versus smaller.
- Cook says we don't comment on our future views of products and roadmap. But, he says, "We continue to be very confident that the tablet market will surpass the PC market. There's incredible development in both ecosystems and products in the tablet space. It is already extremely compelling for customers to chose a tablet, in particular an iPad, over a PC." Sees "enormous opportunity" for Apple. "We do think the iPad, the iPad mini and the iPad 2 will all be extremely offerings for people in lieu of PCs…We're very very confident with what we have in the pipeline." Says iPad mini goes on sales Nov. 2.
- Question now on China.
- Revenue was $5.7 billion, up 26 percent. Mac was up 44 percent — with portables launches in July in China. iPad was up 45 percent in greater China. iPhone was up 38 percent. All in all a fantastic quarter. $23.8 billion for China in the 2012 fiscal year. That's up 78 percent year on year. Greater China represents 15 percent of Apple's sales in the fiscal year. Apple is happy with how it's doing in China, continues to add retail stores and partners. Says it remains "an extremely exciting market with more and more people wanting Apple products."
- Asked about the Microsoft Surface, Cook said he hasn't played with one but that "it's a fairly compromised, confusing product." He says Apple, with the iPad, has made choices, sometimes hard choices, to create a great user experience. "I suppose I can create a car that flies and floats, but I don't think it will do all of those things very well. I think when people look at the iPad versus competitive offerings," they'll continue to choose the Pad.
- Cook now asked about how the regular iPad (larger screen size) will do versus the iPad mini and if it will cannibalize Apple's sales. "We've learned over the years not to worry about the cannibalization of our own products." he says that Apple would rather cannibalize itself. He says the opportunity is the millions of PCs being sold and that many customers would prefer to chose an iPad over a PC. "
- 2:35: For Q4, sold 1.3 million Apple TV's, Cook said. That's up 100 percent year over year. Sold more than 5 million Apple TVs during the 2012 fiscal year — compared to 2.8 million in 2011.Says the size of the business, relative to other Apple's business, is still small. "It still has a hobby label, but it's a beloved hobby."
- Cook says that the 14 million unit sales of iPad was better than expected. Apple expected it would decline in Q4 because they would expect to see a seasonal reduction in the September quarter — K-12 heavily buys in the June quarter and doesn't buy in the September quarter, he says.
- In addition, it's clear that customers delayed purchases of new tablets due to new product rumors and this intensified in July and August. "That's how I would explain the sequential difference" in iPad sales in Q4 from Q3 (numbers are above).
- "We continue to feel great about how iPad has done," Cook said. "We think it's going to be an incredible holiday season" for iPad with the new iPad mini and fourth-generation iPad.
- Cook asked about pricing. "We think we've made great choices about the products and the prices."
- 2:40: Oppenheimer is asked about sequential sales of iPad and iPhone and how they might do. He says don't forget when you do the compare to remember that last year Q1 was a 14-week quarter and this year it will only be 13-week quarter. "We have just announced amazing new products" and "we expect large sequential increases" in sales of both new products, which is why Apple's sales forecast is for $52 billion over the holiday.
- Cook is asked about the product rollout of the iPhone and supply. He said the rollout is planned in advance, it's not a precise science and they do take into account expected demand. "Occasionally it can be different from what we think."
- Question about iPad mini and the pricing ($329): Oppenheimer says "When we set out to build the iPad mini, we didn't set out to build a small cheap tablet." He says Apple set out build a small iPad with the same user experience. He said the difference between the iPad mini and rival offerings is "profound." Says the mini has 2 cameras, versus 1 in rivals products; it has a faster chip than others; and the unibody chassis is also a point of differentiation. The iPad mini has a higher cost and therefore has a lower gross margin than Apple's average. But Apple will work to bring down manufacturing costs.
- Cook picks up on iPad mini pricing. "What we tried to do is create a product that people will love for months and years after they purchase it and continue to use in a robust way…Apple will not make a product that someone will feel good about at the moment they are paying for it" but will take it home and never use it again."
- Cook asked about enterprise opportunity for iPad. Most of the Fortune 500 are using or testing iPad, he says. Apple is also pushing into the Global 500 with both iPhone and iPad. "I feel we're doing fairly well there. There's clearly much more to do, but I'm feeling fairly good about it."
- 2:47: Question about component pricing. Cook says in terms of iPhone and iPad, "I don't see a component shortage in the quarter" and how it would affect Apple's forecast. In term of general shortages, the iMac will be constrained in the quarter in a "significant way." So he sees a significant shortage in iMacs because they expect huge demand but they're not shipping new iMac models until November and December, respectively.
- Question about unit growth versus revenue growth. Oppenheimer says the iPhone ASPs (average selling prices) were relatively flat in September quarter and were up slightly on a sequential basis. The iPad ASPs were down, in a low double-digit way, he says, but that was "reflective of the pricing on the iPad 2 and the stronger dollar and a little bit of change in mix."
- Cook asked about the iPhone 5. Says that it was first launched in the U.S. in the September quarter, which is why there were higher U.S. activations.
- Cook says the iPhone 5 will be launched in greater China in December.
- 2:53: Another question about iPad and where some tablet vendors are selling their devices at a loss and hoping to make it up in content sales. Is this something Apple would consider?
- Cook says "we've seen low-cost challengers before and iPad continues" to beat them. Says customers want a device that can do more. "We're confident that our focus on making the best product is what will win at the end of the day. We will stay true to that."
- Cook asked about changes in supplier partner. He says there hasn't been any significant changes in partners, and there hasn't been any changes that would affect cost. He's asked about LCD and Samsung. "I wouldn't characterize any change there affecting any cost." Apple says it continues have a commercial relationship with Samsung
- Question on why timing for the iPad mini is right, since Apple has seemed reluctant to bring that form factor to market up until now.
- Cook says he believes that the question refers to comments that Steve Jobs made about 7-inch tablets — we would never make a 7-inch tablet, he says. Cook says the usable area is greater than those on 7-inch tablets (iPad mini has a 7.9-inch screen). He says the iPad mini is in "a whole different league" from rival products.
- 3:00: And that's the end of the call.


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- Releases: …What did come out this week? Hawken? Anything else?
- Guild Wars 2's Wintersday event, held this Wendesday, pushed the game to the top of the PC downloads. (PC Gamer) Here's the list of events.
- Naughty Dog studios, the developers of The Last of Us revealed in an interview this week that they were asked to remove Ellie, one of the game's two main characters, from the front and center of the box art. Naughty Dog refused. (GamesIndustry International) There's also a great feature piece on VG247 about the game, where Ellie's voice actor Ashley Johnson spoke out about the industry perception that games with women on the covers don't sell as well. (VG247)
- Angry Birds Movie coming in 2016. This is not a drill. For the first time the impending apocalypse doesn't seem so bad. (Kotaku)
- MMO The Secret World is changing its monetization strategy. No more subscriptions, now after buying the game you can play at "free," "member" and "grand master" packages. (Joystiq)
- The PC release date for DMC: Devil May Cry was announced for January 25 through Europe and North America. The game will be on PS3 and Xbox on January 15. In this reboot, a younger Dante from a different timeline partners with a psychic named Kat, and since the game's developers, Ninja Theory, pulled off a similar-sounding game called Enslaved: Odyssey to the West a few years ago I think it's safe to say this game will probably be pretty good. (Digital Spy)
Side Quests
- If you've played enough of Far Cry 3 you'll know that [SPOILER] the game heavily implies the rape of a main character. A male main character. At Kotaku, Patricia Hernandez tries to make sense of the scene, and what the game might be trying, or not trying, to say with it.
- Kotaku also has a series of "Years in Review" for some of the biggest videogame companies, including Nintendo, Square Enix, Sony, and Microsoft.
- Lots of people have written about the relationship between Master Chief and Cortana in Halo 4, and this article,"The Naked Vulnerability of Halo 4" on Tap Repeatedly, is one of my favorites.
- And here's a timeline of The Last Guardian announcements by Kotaku that only reminded me how badly I want that game. TRUE FACT: I occasionally tweet at @fumito_ueda to send him encouragement like "You have lots of American fans!" and "頑張ってね よ!"
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- There were female pilots in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi but they were cut from the final version! Eight-year-old me is crying. (Star Wars Aficionado)
- Beloved comic book writer Gail Simone was rather unceremoniously fired from the Batgirl series this week. We still don't really know why, but we do know it really sucks, particularly for ladies in comic books. (The Mary Sue)
- Here's a little awesome to make up for all that: A Swedish toy company with a gender-neutral catalog that features boys playing with dolls, girls with Nerf guns and, perhaps most incredibly of all, boys and girls playing together with the same toys! Sooo basically me and my brothers growing up?


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photoreception, any of the biological responses of animals to stimulation by light.
In animals photoreception refers to mechanisms of light detection that lead to vision and depends on specialized light-sensitive cells called photoreceptors, which are located in the eye. The quality of vision provided by photoreceptors varies enormously among animals. For example, some simple eyes such as those of flatworms have few photoreceptors and are capable of determining only the approximate direction of a light source. In contrast, the human eye has 100 million photoreceptors and can resolve one minute of arc (one-sixtieth of a degree), which is about 4,000 times better than the resolution achieved by the flatworm eye.
The following article discusses the diversity and evolution of eyes, the structure and function of photoreceptors, and the central processing of visual information in the brain. For more information about the detection of light, see optics; for general aspects concerning the response of organisms to their environments, see sensory reception.
Diversity of eyes
The eyes of animals are diverse not only in size and shape but also in the ways in which they function. For example, the eyes of fish from the deep sea often show variations on the basic spherical design of the eye. In these fish, the eye's field of view is restricted to the upward direction, presumably because this is the only direction from which there is any light from the surface. This makes the eye tubular in shape. Some fish living in the deep sea have reduced eyelike structures directed downward (e.g., Bathylychnops, which has a second lens and retina attached to the main eye); it is thought that the function of these structures is to detect bioluminescent creatures. On the ocean floor, where no light from the sky penetrates, eyes are often reduced or absent. However, in the case of Ipnops, which appears to be eyeless, the retina is still present as a pair of plates covering the front of the top of the head, although there is no lens or any other optical structure. The function of this eye is unknown.
The placing of the eyes in the head varies. Predators, such as felines and owls, have forward-pointing eyes and the ability to judge distance by binocular triangulation. Herbivorous species that are likely to be victims of predation, such as mice and rabbits, usually have their eyes almost opposite each other, giving near-complete coverage of their surroundings. In addition to placement in the head, the structure of the eye varies among animals. Nocturnal animals, such as the house mouse and opossum, have almost spherical lenses filling most of the eye cavity. This design allows the eye to capture the maximum amount of light possible. In contrast, diurnal animals, such as humans and most birds, have smaller, thinner lenses placed well forward in the eye. Nocturnal animals usually have retinas with a preponderance of photoreceptors called rods, which do not detect colour but perceive size, shape, and brightness. Strictly diurnal animals, such as squirrels and many birds, have retinas containing photoreceptors called cones, which perceive both colour and fine detail. A slit pupil is common in nocturnal animals, as it can be closed more effectively in bright light than a round pupil. In addition, nocturnal animals, such as cats and bush babies, are usually equipped with a tapetum lucidum, a reflector behind the retina designed to give receptors a second chance to catch photons that were missed on their first passage through the retina.
Animals such as seals, otters, and diving birds, which move from air to water and back, have evolved uniquely shaped corneas—the transparent membrane in front of the eye that separates fluids inside the eye from fluids outside the eye. The cornea functions to increase the focusing power of the eye; however, optical power is greatly reduced when there is fluid on both sides of the membrane. As a result, seals, which have a nearly flat cornea with little optical power in air or water, rely on a re-evolved spherical lens to produce images. Diving ducks, on the other hand, compensate for the loss of optical power in water by squeezing the lens into the bony ring around the iris, forming a high curvature blip on the lens surface, which shortens its focal length (the distance from the retina to the centre of the lens). One of the most interesting examples of amphibious optics occurs in the "four-eyed fish" of the genus Anableps, which cruises the surface meniscus with the upper part of the eye looking into air and the lower part looking into water. It makes use of an elliptical lens, with the relatively flat sides adding little to the power of the cornea and the higher curvature ends focusing light from below the surface, where the cornea is ineffective.
Though the eyes of animals are diverse in structure and use distinct optical mechanisms to achieve resolution, eyes can be differentiated into two primary types: single-chambered and compound. Single-chambered eyes (sometimes called camera eyes) are concave structures in which the photoreceptors are supplied with light that enters the eye through a single lens. In contrast, compound eyes are convex structures in which the photoreceptors are supplied with light that enters the eye through multiple lenses. The possession of multiple lenses is what gives these eyes their characteristic faceted appearance.
Single-chambered eyes
Pigment cup eyes
In most of the invertebrate phyla, eyes consist of a cup of dark pigment that contains anywhere from a few photoreceptors to a few hundred photoreceptors. In most pigment cup eyes there is no optical system other than the opening, or aperture, through which light enters the cup. This aperture acts as a wide pinhole and restricts the width of the cone of light that reaches any one photoreceptor, thereby providing a very limited degree of resolution. Pigment cup eyes are very small, typically 100 μm (0.004 inch) or less in diameter. They are capable of supplying information about the general direction of light, which is adequate for finding the right part of the environment in which to seek food. However, they are of little value for hunting prey or evading predators. In 1977 Austrian zoologist Luitfried von Salvini-Plawen and American biologist Ernst Mayr estimated that pigment cup eyes evolved independently between 40 and 65 times across the animal kingdom. These estimates were based on a variety of differences in microstructure among pigment cup eyes of different organisms. Pigment cup eyes were undoubtedly the starting point for the evolution of the much larger and more optically complex eyes of mollusks and vertebrates.


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A Pop Culture Baby Shower Party
Forget the pastels and baby animals and go straight for her favorite cartoon, movie, band, or series.
- You can go for a general pop culture theme or pick a particular niche, such as movies, Disney, or Nickelodeon. Decorate with movie posters, billboard ads, and other entertaining visuals.
- Let your theme guide your food. If it's a movie, go for popcorn and other concession-stand favorites.
- Movie theaters and video stores often use life-size freestanding cardboard displays. Ask if you can adopt one or two old ones for your party. Then set it up at the door as a greeter.
- If you've got a small group, consider an evening party and show a favorite movie or some classic TV.
- Ask guests to come in a costume of their favorite pop culture icon.
- Have Trivial Pursuit cards around the party room.


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Music Video Girls: Exploitive or an Industry of Independence
In the fbomb.com post, a blogger depicts a documentary, "Music, Money and Hip-Hop Honeys", discussing the job of a music video girl. Discussing the meaning behind the video girls actions as exploitive or independence. My take on this article is the women who decide to how their body to people around the world is their decision, when a woman gets to the point that she feels she is being exploited by the men they are taking off their clothes for and dancing next to she has the right to refuse being looked at as "exploited".
"What happened to the dreams of a girl president? / She's dancing in the video next to 50 cent", was posted underneath a picture of 50 cent in his video girl half-naked dancing next to him. After researching women today being brought down my our society women probably don't have the desire to be a president, not only do they have to fight for high positions in America, they have to gain respect, prove that they are as strong as the men, and have to deal with the scrutiny of the media and society. Such as Hillary Clinton having gone further than other woman in a presidential race she was still scrutinized by the media and society.
Another component to this blog is women using music videos as a industry of independence. Women are getting paid thousands of dollars for showing off their body; every woman doesn't have the ambition of going to college so yes there is alternative to making money. As long as they are respecting themselves I have no problem with it. What do you say to models that pose naked and I'm not talking about for PETA, models and music videos girls almost have the same job.


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SHREWSBURY, Mass. — Check out this list of some of the things happening this week in Shrewsbury. To see a full listing of events, visit our Events page.
Monday, Feb. 18
Presidents Day. February vacation begins.
Tuesday, Feb. 19
Girls Varsity Ice Hockey Game. Noon. The Colonials host Dover-Sherborn. Buffone Ice Rink. 284 Lake Ave., Worcester.
"Sounds of Steel." 1 p.m. Experience the sound of the Caribbean. Shrewsbury Senior Center. 98 Maple Ave.
Free Screening of "Argo." 6:30 p.m. Shrewsbury Public Library. 609 Main St.
Wednesday, Feb. 20
Boys Varsity Ice Hockey Game. 6 p.m. The Colonials host Algonquin. North Star Youth Forum. 15 Bridle Lane, Westborough.
Lenten Soup Supper. 6 p.m. Mount Olivet Lutheran Church. 34 Prospect St.
Intermediate Computer Class. 6:30 p.m. Learn free and safe ways to enjoy music and movies online. Shrewsbury Public Library. 609 Main St.
Thursday, Feb. 21
Community Blood Drive. 2 to 8 p.m. Shrewsbury Senior Center. 98 Maple Ave.
Gardening for Beginners. 7 p.m. Shrewsbury Public Library. 609 Main St.
Friday, Feb. 22
Drop-in Play Group. 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Weekly drop-in play group for children up to first grade who are accompanied by a parent, guardian or caretaker. Mount Olivet Lutheran Church, 34 Prospect St.


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Barnes Named First Team All-NWC; Six Bearcats Earn Conference Honors
SALEM, OR- After an impressive second place finish in the
competitive Northwest Conference, six Willamette softball players
were named to the
All-NWC teams this week.
Sophomore third baseman Molly Barnes was selected as a member of the All-NWC First Team for infield. Barnes, of Salem, OR, finished the season batting .301, .376 SLG%, with 93 at bats. She totaled 28 hits, 14 runs and seven doubles. Barnes (pictured left) defended the hot corner, leading the league with 81 assists.
Bearcats Lindsey Braun, Kelsey Stolz, Cari Schruth, and Brittney
were all named to the All-NWC Second Team. Senior April Greer received NWC Honorable Mentions.
Braun, senior first baseman from Salem, OR, earned Second Team
honors. Braun ranked fifth in the conference in putouts, digging up 246.
She started in all 32 games for Willamette, bringing in a total of 14 runs, totaling 22 hits, one homerun and seven doubles.
Receiving the vote for Second Team catcher is sophomore Cari
Schruth came to the Bearcats from Roseburg, OR, adding more than just a
competitive edge to the game. Schruth played in every competition, recording 28 hits, 23 runs, 17 BB, 12 RBI and 19 stolen bases. Schruth stepped up to the plate 90 times for Willamette finishing the season with a batting average of .311 and an on base percentage of .432.
Stolz and Tachara, two Bearcat freshmen, received the
prestigious honor of
being named Second Team outfield and pitcher.
Stolz, of Bandon OR, covered the green playing center field for Willamette. From center, Stolz had 18 putouts. At the plate she totaled in 23 hits, 12 runs, and three doubles. Stolz also competes on the Bearcat track and field team and won the Northwest Conference championship in the javelin throw.
Tachara dominated the mound, totaling ten wins for the Bearcats. Tachara, from Manteca, CA, was fourth in the conference for strikeouts with 101. Tachara pitched a total of 104.2 innings, allowing only 81 hits and 45 runs for an era of 2.61.
Senior April Greer earned NWC Honorable Mentions for her success
at the
plate. Greer, a designated hitter for Willamette, had 62 at bats, many of
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS; A Horse, a Soccer Club and the Tampa Bay Bucs
By ALAN COWELL
Published: February 28, 2004
LONDON, Feb. 27— What could possibly link the fertility of a champion racehorse, a corporate governance inquiry and the deal- maker owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers football team?
The answer to that seeming riddle is Manchester United, one of the biggest sports names in the world and a $1.3 billion company on the London Stock Exchange.
If the logic of this bond seems elusive, then consider events of recent months since Sir Alex Ferguson, the manager of Manchester United, became embroiled in a dispute over his share of the stud rights to a racehorse owned by John Magnier, the leading Irish horse breeder. Along with a fellow Irish millionaire, J.P. McManus, Mr. Magnier is the biggest shareholder of Manchester United, which, in recent years has been the New York Yankees of English soccer.
That is the starting point of a turn of events that has spurred a sharp rise in the shares of Manchester United and led British regulators to place the company in an ''offer period'' -- which means that transactions by investors holding more than 1 percent of the shares must be declared lest a takeover bid be in the air.
Mr. Magnier and Mr. McManus, the Irish partners, have acknowledged acquiring around 29 percent of the club's shares -- just shy of the 30 percent that would require them under market rules to bid for the rest.
Just this week, Malcolm Glazer, 74, the owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, bought a million more United shares at £2.65 each to raise his stake to just less than 17 percent.
So who's bidding? Well, no one -- at least not yet.
''Why would anybody pay for it at the current exchange rate with the U.S. dollar?'' said Andrew Lee, an analyst with Dresdner Bank, who also said he did not think an imminent bid was likely.
In this tangled tale, however, the fate of the club may hang not so much on financial considerations as on the outcome of Sir Alex's dispute with Mr. Magnier over a racehorse.
And not just any racehorse, but Rock of Gibraltar, a European champion and the runner-up in the 2002 Breeders' Cup Mile. Rock of Gibraltar won 10 of 13 starts, earning more than $2 million before being retired to stud.
That dispute began to surface last year after Sir Alex argued in a lawsuit that a half-share in Rock of Gibraltar extended to breeding rights worth more than $200 million. The manager says Mr. Magnier gave him a half-share in the stallion in 2001, but Mr. Magnier says he did not.
The Irish partners offered instead a share in the breeding rights worth some $85,000 a year, according to British press reports. Sir Alex, known for his blunt and pugnacious manner, did not accept that, either.
So the two Irish partners began increasing their stake in Manchester United. And as bid rumors mounted, so, too, did the stock price, which has more than doubled in the last year, meaning that the two investors may already have increased the value of their stake by tens of millions of dollars. That made the dispute over the racehorse a serious affair.
''They have got nearly a 30 percent stake'' in a company valued at around $1.3 billion, said Mr. Lee at Dresdner Bank, ''and you don't play around with that.''
Operating through an investment vehicle called Cubic Expression, however, Mr. Magnier and Mr. McManus did play some serious hardball with the club's management, demanding an inquiry into the club's business practices. Those included transfer dealings between the club and players' agents including Jason Ferguson, Sir Alex's son.
Cubic Expression also submitted a list of 99 questions about the way the business was run, and the club promised an internal investigation.
Philip Townsend, a spokesman for Manchester United, did not return calls about the club's response on Friday.
''To begin with there was a high degree of mutual respect between Magnier, McManus and Ferguson, and it was good for both sides,'' said Bill Gerrard, professor of sports management and finance at Leeds University. ''But as they got more involved, McManus and Magnier began to have concerns about how Manchester United was run, in a sense protecting their interests in terms of their investment.''
''I have always thought Rock of Gibraltar was more of a symptom than a cause,'' he said.
Symptom or not, Manchester United's fans have played tough, too. This month, more than two dozen fans staged a protest before a horse race in Hereford, England, by running onto the track. Many others threatened to protest at races where Mr. Magnier's other horses were running.
That threat extended to the prestigious Cheltenham Gold Cup on March 18, but Sir Alex urged United fans in a statement on Friday not to disrupt the race.
''My current dispute with John Magnier is a private matter not involving the club and its supporters,'' he said, ''and I am concerned first and foremost to protect and serve the best interests and further success of the club.''
Enter, then, Mr. Glazer, who has been an investor in a wide range of businesses, most notably the Zapata Corporation, the one-time oil and gas company founded by former President George Bush that has become a food and fish processing company. Mr. Glazer bought the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1995 and has more than tripled the value of the team, according to Forbes magazine.
Mr. Glazer has said that he built up his stake in Manchester United for a variety of reasons including ''investment purposes.''
In a statement last week, he said his company ''is considering possible options, which may include increasing its shareholding or decreasing it.
''It could also include a possible offer, or a possible sale of its shareholding,'' the statement said.
Manchester United claims the support of some 53 million fans worldwide. In the United States, Manchester United has a marketing alliance with the New York Yankees. In 2003, Manchester United P.L.C. reported a pretax profit of £39.3 million on sales of £173 million ($323 million).
''I think there's a belief that there's much more shareholder value to be extracted,'' Mr. Gerrard at Leeds University said.
But Mr. Glazer is unlikely to make a bid to take over the English team while Sir Alex is locked in dispute over Rock of Gibraltar. ''The future will depend on a meeting'' of the biggest investors, Mr. Gerrard said.
That might put Sir Alex further into a corner. ''I don't think Ferguson would be offloaded'' because of his value as one of Britain's most successful soccer managers, Mr. Gerrard said. ''But he would find that his sphere of influence would be more constrained to the coaching.''
Sir Alex, 63, has been the architect of Manchester United's resurgence since joining in 1986 after having success with Aberdeen in the Scottish league. From 1993 to 2003, Manchester United won eight league titles (the team is now in second place). A native of Glasgow, Sir Alex was knighted in 1999.
He is no stranger to controversy. Sir Alex found himself at the center of a national debate last June over his readiness to sell David Beckham, a star midfielder and captain of the England soccer team, to Real Madrid for $41 million.
''Ferguson has won his battles by reshaping United, but control is elsewhere now,'' Sam Wallace wrote in The Daily Telegraph. ''Winning this battle will take a whole new kind of plan.''
Photo: Sir Alex Ferguson with Rock of Gibraltar and his jockey, Mick Kinane, after the St. James's Palace Stakes in June 2002. (Photo by Reuters) Graph: ''Grudge Match'' A power struggle for control of Manchester United has erupted between the company's manager and two of its largest shareholders. It stems from an earlier dispute over a racehourse. Graph tracks Manchester United's share price since Aug. 2003. (Source by Bloomberg Financial Markets)(pg. C3)


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RE/MAX Advanced Realty has chosen East Cooper Habitat for Humanity as the beneficiary of their 2013 Charity Golf Classic. The tournament will be played at the exclusive member's only Bull's Bay Golf Club.
The tournament will be held Tuesday, Sept. 17 with registration at 11 a.m. and a shotgun start at noon. The entry fee is $600 per team.
The tournament will offer you not only a great day of golf competing for prizes and awards but your entry fee will help fund the construction of an East Cooper Habitat for Humanity home.
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LONDON (AP) — A massive, partly fossilized egg laid by a now-extinct elephant bird has sold for more than double its estimate at a London auction.
Christie's auction house said Wednesday that the foot-long, nearly nine-inches in diameter egg fetched 66,675 pounds ($101,813). It had been valued at 20,000 to 30,000 pounds pre-sale, and was sold to an anonymous buyer over the telephone after about 10 minutes of competitive bidding.
Elephant birds were wiped out several hundred years ago. The oversized ovum, laid on the island of Madagascar, is believed to date back before the 17th century.
Flightless, fruit-gobbling elephant birds resembled giant ostriches and could grow to be 11 feet high (3.4 meters). Christie's says their eggs are 100 times the size of an average chicken's.
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Lindsay Lohan: $40,000 Owed on Tanning Bill
Coveting Lindsay Lohan's often-bronzed complexion? (Yeah, we aren't either so much anymore.) Just know that her tan comes with a mighty price — and one that's getting the embattled starlet back in legal hot water yet again.
According to TMZ, Lindsay owes $40,000 to a Nevada tanning company, Tanning Vegas, for some seriously intensive (and seriously high-priced!) tanning sessions incurred between 2007 and 2009; a Nevada judge ordered her to pay the bill to the salon about nine months ago, but reportedly, Lindsay has failed to pay up. The salon's plan? To get the case moved to California, so Lindsay's assets within the state can be included in the judgment. (We're struggling to imagine anything more awful than losing your house to satisfy your tanning bill.)
Apparently, Tanning Vegas required interstate travel to give Linds her varying complexion, which sort of explains the size of the bill. Worse still? The owner, Lorit Simon, has already sued Lindsay once, alleging that Lindsay stole the company's spray tanning formula and sold it under her own label, Sevin Nyne.
Yikes. Hope Lindsay can sort this one out — and soon, before she loses her color!
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A woman's recommended daily intake of calories is 2,000. Here's a video that clearly shows how much food that is.
Flags that look good enough to eat
To promote the Sydney International Food Festival, advertising agency WHYBIN cleverly created flags from the participating countries using foods identified with that country.
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Lebanon (lavash, fattoush, and a herb sprig)
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"The Connectors, Leaders and People on the Move"
What a memorable 2010-2011 academic year it's been! Full of learning & innovation, inspiration, perspiration and sometimes pain. What's crystal clear is that nothing replaces hard work and focus when it comes to achieving excellence. With that I'm pleased to share news from across our Canadian landscape. Congratulations on a successful year!
MindShare's friend and colleague, Dr. Stan Shapson, VP of Research and Innovation at York University recently retired from his position after serving two 5-year terms. We were fortunate to attend a wonderful tribute reception for Dr. Shapson last month. York University president, Dr. Shoukri thanked Stan Shapson for his dedication and service to the university. "I would like to thank Stan Shapson for his outstanding leadership and friendship," Shoukri said. "During his time at York, Stan was instrumental in advancing York's research and innovation mandate, as well as raising the university's profile externally. Among his many contributions, Stan helped to oversee the launch of the Markham Convergence Centre, an important research initiative in the provincial government's ONE Network."
The MindShare Learning 21st Century EdTech Leadership Summit, has a new date: Monday, November 14, 2011 and is shaping up very nicely with the recent keynote addition of Chris Kennedy, Superintendent, West Vancouver School District. Other keynote presenters include, Dr. Ron Canuel, CEO, Canadian Education Association and Dr. Eric Hamilton, Pepperdine University, School of Education and Psychology.
Congratulations to MindShare Learning advisory board member, Dr. Ron Owston, Director of the Institute for Research on Learning Technologies at York University. He recently received a two-year, $72,000 grant from the Insight Development Program of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The purpose of the grant is to study the accessibility for persons with disabilities of the Open Virtual Usability Lab (OpenVULab), an online tool designed to research the usability of websites. Collaborating with Dr. Owston is Dr. Melanie Baljko from the York Department of Computer Science as well as several doctoral students. For information about OpenVULab.
Great to see my former Pepperdine University prof, the always provocative Dr. Gary Stager at the ISTE conference in Philadelphia last week. As a tribute to Dr. Seymour Papert, he's now publishing The Daily Papert. I'm pleased to share a link to an exclusive interview I had with Dr. Papert while completing my master's in EdTech prior to his accident in 2006. Speaking of Pepperdine, it was great to connect with Dr. Margaret Riel, MALT Program Director and my former thesis advisor. I understand Cadre 13 students survived their thesis defense presentations-Congratulations!
Kudos to Pearson in their quest to transform from a traditional book publisher to digital in the 21stt Century. They certainly lead the way with the recent news in signing on Sir Michael Barber to join Pearson as Chief Education Advisor. Did you know Pearson's original core business was building construction?
Congratulations to the 2011 Distinguished Achievement Award Winners. For more than four decades the AEP (Association of Education Publishers) Awards have honored outstanding resources for teaching and learning.
Just in….McGuinty Government Continues To Support Pathways to Education A high school graduation rate of 81 per cent in 2009-10, is up from 68 per cent in 2003-04. This puts Ontario in the Top 10 in the world rankings.
Great to hear from my former Pepperdine classmate and MindShare HED editor, Mitchel N. Townsend recently who shared….his doctoral thesis at UofC is focused on Social Learning and 21st Century collaborative knowledge building. Mitchel also serves as the Co-President of the consolidated Faculty of Education, Graduate Programs Education Student Association (GPESA) where he'll oversee all related Graduate Student issues, including the two main Faculty of Education Conferences (Faculty and Student Research).
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100 Highest Ranking Websites in eLearning, Training and Development via @celea http://bit.ly/lznhjI #elearning
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Last but not least in the achieving academic and athletic excellence department….
|York University Basketball coaching legend Bob Bain (L) retires after a record breaking 38 years at the helm. President emeritus, H. Ian MacDonald (R) shares in the celebration. The duo are teammates on the York Faculty hockey team.
In closing, I was inspired watching a news report on CBC News recently that featured interviews with graduating College and University students. I was struck by their enthusiasm and the great hope that they conveyed during challenging economic times.
It's the human spirit that remains the cornerstone of innovation. Here's wishing you a safe and enjoyable summer! Cheers, R.


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By: Dayna Landgrebe
You know we're nearing the holiday when Christmas carols start hitting the airwaves. On Thursday, the annual "Christmas by the Lake" CD was released.
Folks met for a release party at Duluth's Greysolon Plaza Ballroom where they got a sampling of some of the 27 featured artists.
CD sales benefit both the Northern Lights Foundation and the Flooded with Hope group.
CDs are selling for $12 at area Super One Foods, Pam's Hallmark store in the Miller Hill Mall in Duluth and online at www.lundeenproductions.com.


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The Heavens Declare the Glory of God
Jun 29, 2007
By T. Siconolfi
'From the very first time our High School physics professor Father Richard Vail talked about Einstein and his theory of Relativity, I was captivated. Describing to us how time and the mass of an object change as it aproaches the speed of light, intrigued me.
He addressed the Big Bang Theory and introduced us to Einstein's Grand Unified Theory of Force. From that theory scientists could trace the origins of the universe back to the first one, one hundredth second of time, when all the forces of nature were one, the electromagnetic force and the strong and weak forces of molecular structure. Such ideas blew our minds and opened up a vision of an astonishing universe.
We also talked about how all truth came from God. Good science and good religion would always be compatible, since they both came from the same Creator. At times there had been and still would be mistaken ideas about the universe, but truth, whether scientific or religious, would be revealed, as God reveals himself. (Peekabooo God)
Those were exhilarating days. Now-a-days some writers either denounced science as false, and even diabolical, or shout down religion, as superstitious and insidious. Reading Dan Dwyer's book, Peekaboo God, gives a balanced view of both science and religion. It is up to date on new scientific findings. Once again I find myself filled with the wonder of this world. His book is clear and relentless in his convictions. From his own experience of the frailty of the body, he comes to the strength of faith in the presence of God. This writing will literally inspire (breathe life in) those who read it. Very Rev. [...].
A new look at God in today's world
Jul 12, 2007
By VME
From an overview of the complexity of human existence in relation to oneself, to others and to the world in which we live, Daniel Dwyer seeks to show that personal fulfillment and peace can come only when we accept that faith in an existing spirit world completes us and defeats human loneliness. Time and eternity, chance and discipline, the existence of God and rationalist philosophies are discussed alongside the writings of earlier philosophers and theologians. Peekaboo God directly challenges modern sceptical writers. Free will, altruism, and 21st century concepts of good and evil are seen as part of the construct of democracy and politics. This is the most interesting book I have read in a long time. How many authors today can talk about religion and philosophy in a way which is so engaging and easy to read?
To the Threshold of the Almighty
Jul 15, 2007
By Jeffrey Thomas "Tom"
For as long as I can remember I've believed what I've heard and read that science will never be able to prove the existence of God. But Dan Dwyer, in his just-published Peekaboo God, takes you on a journey to the threshold of the Almighty that you won't soon forget. If you're interested in evolution, language development, the Universe, philosophy and religion, you'll find Peekaboo God a fascinating layman's review of the scientific evidence that will leave you asking and searching for more. Prepare yourself for an education and an adventure.
Tom Fitzgerald, Retired Educator
What a wonderful surprise
Jun 20, 2007
By James A. Reilly
This is a book that you will want to read more than once. Full of insights that you never find in our current literature. Dwyer has combined the fields of science, philosophy and religion into a structured path leading to finding ourselves and our God. An intellectual guide for the post-modern society, it should be read by anyone who has become confused by all the fabrications put out by the secular anti-God crowd.
Peekaboo God More Than a Peek
May 24, 2007
By Vincent M. Cooney
To those who believe and have become complacent, he will put a bite to your convictions and help energize your faith. To those who do not believe he will cause you to reconsider your position. To all, believer or not, it is a great read.
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The system generates more downforce - but lowers the power output of the engine - meaning it is a delicate balancing act for teams running the system.
Along with the new exhaust layout, Romain Grosjean also ran with a new front wing and Allison was satisfied with how both updates performed.
"It was a solid debut for the Coanda system and we will see both Kimi and Romain using it in India," he said.
"We were reasonably pleased with how it performed on its first outing. We knew that our first implementation would be a little power hungry, but we hoped for - and were delighted to register on the track - a good downforce boost.
"Our initial design was already a step forward relative to the previous system, but we expect more from this package as we modify the exhaust to recover much of the lost power.
"Romain used a new front wing in Korea which has proved to be a mild step forward and will be available to both drivers in India."
With just four races to go, most teams outside of the title battle are already switching their attention and resources to their 2013 cars. However, with reasonably stagnant rules over the winter, Allison says Lotus have a three-way split on their resources: pushing ahead with the E20, working on the 2013 car, whilst also getting ready for the major rule changes 2014 will bring.
"This question comes up a lot at the tail end of the season" he added.
"In a normal year, the answer would be that the focus has pretty much shifted to next year's car already. This is not a normal year though. Every team on the grid is facing the unprecedented challenge of working simultaneously on three cars. There are two principal reasons for this : Firstly, the rules for 2013 are relatively unchanged which - combined with the quite tight grid - means that there is still merit in developing the 2012 car even this late in the season.
"Secondly, the looming shadow of the 2014 regulations demands our attention. Anyone who followed the sport in 2009 will know that a large shake up in the regulations presents both opportunity and hazard which can significantly re-jig the traditional pecking order of the teams.
"The regulatory revolution for 2014 makes the 2009 changes look trivial by comparison. Choices have to be made with three babies competing for development food ; do you put resources into the E20 and get as much out of it as possible or is it more prudent to make the most of what will be 'the last hurrah' for this generation of rules in 2013 ?
"Alternatively, is it right to focus more on the longer term future with the 2014 rules that will form the basis of the next generation of F1 cars ? It's a very finely balanced judgement and one that is a fascinating challenge. By the end of the 2014 season we should know if we made the correct decisions."


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Here is the skirt tutorial from my "All Ruffled Up" post as promised. :) It was a fairly simple, although a wee bit time-consuming project (due to the ruffles) and has become one of my favorite skirts. Whatever length you make it or whatever fabric you use, it's the perfect cute and comfy piece for your summer wardrobe!
5 - Repeat step 4 for all your ruffles. In the first picture you can see how the sewn ruffles look from the inside of the skirt and, in the second picture, how they look from the outside. Each one overlaps the next just slightly and they cover the entire 9" long skirt base. (You can also see how I sewed small squares of the fabric on the inside under the distressed holes on the jean skirt. I didn't want those to be see-through. :P)
Once all of your ruffles are completed, you can take the entire skirt base piece (now with all the ruffles attached) and sew it to the jean skirt. I overlapped the jean skirt over the skirt base by about 1/2 and sewed it down securely. Lastly, I added some trim over the stitching line for an extra detail.
And there. You've got a fun, cute and casual skirt that is just waiting to be worn. :)


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BuzzFeed posted this audio clip today under the headline "Santorum Loses His Cool During Interview With Cincinnati Radio Station." I'm not sure what exactly they're referring to, because honestly Santorum stays pretty even-keeled throughout the interview. He also does what he should be doing every time he's asked about his views on birth control: call it out as a ridiculous, media-manufactured issue, and pivot back to attacking President Obama's record.
Santorum: It's a bogus issue. It's just absurd. It's a legal product, it should remain a legal product. It's up to people to decide what to do. This is what the national media does. They don't want us to be able to talk about Barack Obama's pathetic record on the economy and jobs, so they bring up issues…This is my opinion on my personal faith, and they're all of a sudden saying 'Well, he must want to do this with everyone else.' Well that's just crazy. This is what the media does. They try to change the subject. I'm not going to let them. We're going to talk about creating jobs, we're going to talk about reducing energy prices, and we're going to focus on what's important to Americans, as opposed to what the media wants to do, which is to play gotcha politics.
Exactly. This is the position Santorum has maintained since the birth control issue was first raised in the race: he's personally opposed to it, he wouldn't use it in his own life, but he has no interest in regulating it in the lives of other people and believes birth control should remain a legal product. The media continues to try to divert attention away from economic issues by bringing up the much more sensational contraception debate, and Santorum needs to take a cue from the Newt Gingrich media relations playbook and simply refuse to engage on the subject.
On the other hand, as ridiculous as the media's obsession with the birth control issue is, it's hard to have a ton of sympathy for Santorum here. He's the main reason this has become a campaign issue. If he doesn't want the government to crack down on birth control use, then the public really never had any need to know his own personal opinions on it. Santorum was the one who shared this part of his private life by writing and speaking about it openly. Notice that Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich aren't constantly pressed about their own personal views on contraception – that's not a coincidence. They didn't bring it up, and Santorum did.