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Diabetes is a disease that does not have a cure, however with the right management of your daily activities, diet and exercise it can be maintained. There are many cases where someone that is diabetic may not even need to take medication for the illness but there are many factors that the doctor will take into consideration for a treatment plan. These include medical history, age, the current state of your health, the type of diabetes you have been diagnosed with, allergies and tolerance to medications, the progression of the diabetes, the processes and how you feel about the entire course of action. A positive attitude is always important for successful treatment.
In considering medications that you can take for your diabetes, there is insulin as well as oral medication that you may be able to take. The type and amount of medicine that you might need is going to depend upon the type of diabetes that you have and the diagnosis that was made. Not everyone is the same when it comes to the levels of blood sugar so you may know someone that takes insulin and another that does not require any medication at all. Many factors, including the progress of the disease, are going to make a big difference about whether you take medicine or not.
For someone that is prescribed insulin it is because the pancreas is not producing enough of it for the body to use as energy. The only way to take insulin is through injection and there are several different types which all work in different ways. These are described as rapid-acting, short-acting, long-acting and intermediate options. Because each type works in a different way it is possible that you may need to take more than one type at certain times of the day. Monitoring your glucose levels several times throughout the day will help you to know if certain things affect your levels more than others including certain foods, stressors and situations. You will learn how to adjust your medications accordingly to stay healthy.
One of the most effective ways of maintaining good health with diabetes is to pay attention to your diet. You may hear that a "diabetic diet" is the best way to go. However, everyone is different and it is possible that although one type of food has a bad effect for one person it does not mean that you will not be able to eat it. Checking your levels after you eat will help you and your doctor to better decide on a diet that is best for you and your situation for the right foods.
Another crucial part in your treatment plan is the right amount of exercise. It is usually highly recommended to get at least 30 minutes of exercise five days a week, although this can vary for each individual. For those that are diabetic and for whom the disease is not responding to treatment or medication, a last resort could be a pancreas transplant but is not considered unless necessary.
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Throwback Thursday: A young Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli2013-09-26 1 Share Tweet
Sean Penn is known for his powerful performances in serious roles such as gay rights activist Harvey Milk alongside James Franco but did you know he played a surfer dude with more than just a laid back attitude in his earlier acting days?
Fast Times at Ridgemont High featured the 22 year old Penn as stoner and surfer dude Jeff Spicoli who has nothing but the open seas, gnarly tubes and a beer buzz on his mind. His character in the movie plays a strong role in the portrayal of teen life during the 80s, especially around the coastal beach towns of Califronia. Strutting around the school hallway, Spicoli's character popularized the checkered slip-on shoes favoured by the youth back in the day.
The movie was actually a screen adaptation for Cameron Crowe's book of the same title wherein he went undercover as a student at Clairemont High School in San Diego. Talk about commitment.
Spicoli's famous line "Hey bud, let's party!" became a widely used expression during the film's heyday. Still considered to be one of the most accurate notes on coming-of-age stories of teen back in the 80s, the movie still has that funny bone thing to it.
Gnarly, dudes!
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That's right, at a time when we are at war, when diplomatic tensions are running high, when we need to be supporting our troops and supporting the quick end to war and re-uniting the world, we react with "Freedom Fries" and the removal of Gruyere cheese from popular New York deli menus. Chirac is accused by so-called humorists of "kissing Saddam's ass." More seriously, certain politicians (like, say... our president) have found it necessary to make snide comments at France, intimating it is their fault that we were "forced" to go to war.
What exactly did the French do to us? They disagreed with us. God FORBID, in a society where we are supposed to be supporting open-mindedness and democracy, that someone offer a dissenting opinion. God FORBID, that another powerful nation in the world exercise the powerthe power we agreed they should have as mutual members of the United Nationsto express and enforce that opinion in light of preserving the security of the world and of the United Nations. Just as Bush and his supporters have made their goals for forcing Iraq to disarm clear, Chirac and his fellows made it equally clear that they thought it was a mistake, and brought up specific, logical instances as to why. And since they actually had the balls to stick to their guns, now Congress has to rename their French-fried potatoes.
France forced us to make a move on our own? France didn't force us to do a damned thing! Bush and his administrators decided of their own free will to declare war on Iraq. They could have waited for inspections to finish. They could have listened to the world'snot just France's, the world'spleas for more time, because Iraq had begun to demonstrate disarmament. Bush CHOSE, all by himself, not to listen to France nor anyone else, and went ahead with his war plan. We knew, ever since the Iraq issue was brought up in September, that Bush was likely at some point within the year going to declare war on Iraq, with or without UN support. France didn't change that. Nothing did. It was the Bush Administration's CHOICE. There's no "force" about it, except for the force that is now killing our soldiers, Iraqi soldiers, and Iraqi civilians. And that force comes from the Bush Administration ALONE.
I've got news for you: France is a democracy. It loves democracy. It's one of the most democratic nations out there. And you know what? WE would not be a the kind of democracy we are without them. The United American Colonies of the Commonwealth of Britain, that's what we would be without the French. So if we want to call the French "traitors" and "anti-democratic" for standing up for what they believe in, if we want to send back our French fries and French cheese, let's tear up the Declaration of Independence and send its pieces back to them too. Oh, and let's not forget the Statue of Liberty. That was a gift from the French, and we certainly don't want gifts from traitorous fiends like them. Let's pack it up and send it back to Paris. Damned French. We've only been staunch allies since our nation was founded, it's high time we found a new friend.
Yes. Staunch allies since our nation was founded. Soooo.... if they are so adamant about speaking against us...... maybe, maybe they have a reason. Did you ever consider that? Maybe they're risking a lot to disagree with us. Even as powerful as they are, we are still more powerful, after all. Did you ever consider that?
Agree with the French or not, whatever you wish to do. In a democratic world, there will be people who disagree. It is their right. There will be people who vote and use their voting power to stand up for what they believe. It is their right. Even if they disagree with us, it is their right. And we must let them have that right. To believe otherwise is to be undemocratic. It is to be unAmerican.


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Toni Jerrman
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Toni Jerrman (born 1964) is critic and editor of the Finnish sci-fi magazine Tähtivaeltaja.
He has won several awards, including:
- The Arctic Comic Festival's Publication-Lempi for Tähtivaeltaja (1998)
- Dark Fantasy's Golden Chainsaw for the best horror print (short story anthology Himon anatomia, edited by Jerrman) (1998)
- The Finnish Science Fiction Writers Association's Cosmos Pen reward for promoting Finnish sci-fi literature (1992)
- European Science Fiction Society's European Science Fiction Award: Best chief editor (1988)
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External links[edit]
- The official Tähtivaeltaja site
- Jeff VanderMeer: Dispatches From Smaragdine. SF Site, November 2006.
- Jeff VanderMeer Interviews Toni Jerrman. The SF Signal 5/2011.
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On June 23 of that year, Judge Judy Clendenning of the Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick in Moncton issued a ruling that the province's failure to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples was a violation of their Charter rights, in accordance with the court rulings in other provinces. She allowed a ten-day grace period to the government in which to begin issuing same-sex marriage licences. (CBC New Brunswick)
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I have found an interesting article about wolverines which I wanted to share with you. The article is entitled: "Demons of the Dark Forest", and it is written by Ed Struzik, of the Edmonton Journal. You can read this article by clicking on the following link which will take you to the online edition of the Vancouver Sun newspaper:
Sadly, "The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada considers wolverines found west of Hudson Bay to be of "special concern" and the eastern population, found in Quebec and Labrador, to be "endangered."
"There are two main reasons why wolverine populations disappeared from parts of North America. The first is that wolverines are scavengers—which means they feed on carrion, or dead animals—and are attracted to bait. Because the wolverines damaged traplines, early trappers used any means to kill them, including poison. The extensive wolf poisoning programs that occurred throughout Canada beginning in the late 1700s also killed many wolverines."
"The second, and more important, reason for the decline of wolverine populations is that wolverines have a low resiliency because of their low densities and low reproduction, or the number of young that are successfully produced and raised. This means that wolverine populations have a difficult time rebounding once their numbers have been lowered by either nature or human-influenced factors."
source: http://www.hww.ca/hww2.asp?id=108
Efforts are being taken in Alberta to ensure the survival of the Wolverine as a species in our province. You can read about the efforts of "The Alberta Wolverine Working Group" by visiting the following website
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http://www.wolverinefoundation.org/research/fisher.htmOther websites which discuss Wolverines in Alberta include:
It is very unlikely that most people in Alberta will ever get a chance to see living wolverine. This is due to their reclusive nature and because Wolverine females rarely have large litters. Thanks to the wonders of technology and due to the efforts of lovers of Wildlife I was able to find a website with a great video which shows a wolverine in the wild:
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The 38-year-old played in an almost identical West Coast system to what the Vikings employ when Mike Sherman coached the Packers, and Favre also is good friends with Minnesota offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell. Bevell spent six seasons on the Packers coaching staff, including the final three (2003-05) as the team's quarterbacks coach.
But no matter how interested Favre might be in relocating to the Twin Cities, the Packers simply aren't going to allow him to join an arch-rival in their division and let him have two shots at them in a season.
Vikings coach Brad Childress can't comment on potential interest in Favre because that would be tampering.
Besides, Childress wants to make it clear the Tarvaris Jackson is his quarterback.
"I think I've always said that," Childress said of Jackson being his starter. "I just think he's right where he needs to be in terms of being a third-year quarterback. Would I like to have seen him play 16 games last year? Absolutely I would have.
"But I think he's in a natural evolution. He understands what it means to play an NFL season as a starter with all eyes on him, dissecting everything. Understanding what it's like to go through some injury during the middle of the season. Get yourself back on the field. Understands what it's like to play awful in the (first) Detroit game. To lead your team to wins."
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Under a warm evening sky in Texas, Sebastien Bourdais took advantage of a late-race mistake by pole sitter Mario Dominguez to claim victory in round two of the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford. I think the McDonald's car was really awesome...
Under a warm evening sky in Texas, Sebastien Bourdais took advantage of a late-race mistake by pole sitter Mario Dominguez to claim victory in round two of the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford.
I think the McDonald's car was really awesome tonight." The two-time defending series champion said. "It's all this hard work that's been being done during the winter that really pays off. I really quite honestly never would have believed we could have won that race at the start."
The victory was the second in succession for Bourdais and the Newman Haas Team, as Bourdais attempts to become the first driver to win three successive championships since Ted Horne accomplished the feat in 1948.
"Now it's the second win out of two races. It's great. In the meantime, we know it's going to be a long season. We need to shy away from getting too excited because the wheel can turn around very quickly. Let's make sure we don't get too crazy about that. It's a long way to go."
Canadian Paul Tracy finished second and Mario Dominguez saved third position for the final podium spot after throwing away the lead under pressure.
It was determined right before the start of the race that the cars would take the green flag single file instead of side-by-side as is normal in Champ Car. The Houston street course goes right into a chicane after Turn 1, and officials may have been trying to fend off another first lap incident similar to the one that plagued the Long Beach Grand Prix in April.
When the race got under way, Dominguez held the early lead with Bruno Junqueira, Tracy, Bourdais and Allmendinger in tow. Servia lost a winglet of the front right wing assembly, and struggled to hold of Tagliani who did eventually pass him.
Justin Wilson went into the pits after minor contact on lap 2. Bourdais passed Tracy with just 6 laps in the books.
On lap 10, Bourdais passed Junqueira under braking and set sail for Dominguez. Saving the better tire compound for the later, Bourdais started out on the harder rubber but was still able to move from 4th to 2nd with relative ease.
Tracy passed Junqueira on lap 12. As easy as his teammate Bourdais was moving up the field, Junqueira was finding it just as simple to go backwards. In the opening lap, Junqueira appeared to have lightly brushed a wall with the right rear tire.
With 20 laps in the books, Dominguez led from Bourdais, Tracy, Allmendinger, Junqueira and Tagliani.
On lap 27 Dominguez slipped off course at the chicane and gave up a couple of seconds to Bourdais. That error gave Bourdais the opportunity to pass under braking as he'd done to Junqueira.
Right at that moment a full course yellow came out to retrieve a disabled car.
Bourdais then led the field into the pits for the first round of stops. His lead was short lived however when his car jack failed to level the car properly, and it cost the team an extra two seconds. That was enough for Team Forsythe to put their pole setting car back in front.
On the green flag Jan Heylen and Nicky Pastorelli came together right before the chicane. The impact was light, but both cars spun and stalled to bring the caution flags back out.
With the lights shining brightly on the course, the Champ Cars resumed competition on lap 36 of the scheduled 100; the Forsythe drivers of Dominguez and Tracy sandwiched around Bourdais in a heated battle that lasted several laps.
Just as the cars had got back up to speed, rookie and the lone female in the field Katherine Legge tried to make a move around Dan Clarke but slid out into a tire wall. The damage to her rear wing was enough to knock her out of competition for 20 laps, and she ended up finishing 19 laps down to the leaders.
An exciting battle ensued once again on the next green flag. Dominguez, Bourdais and Tracy were all over each other, using their push-to-pass buttons for extra boost, mostly to hold each other off. Bourdais may have actually blocked Tracy at one point, however Champ Car officials did not levy any penalties but were keeping an eye of both Bourdais and Dominguez.
That's definitely a penalty and you're not suppose to get away with blocking". Tracy said following the event. "But, I guess when you are Sebastien Bourdais you can get away with it."
"Obviously we weren't the fastest car on the track, but it was a steady night for us." Tracy went on to say. "The car was balanced pretty well, just a tick off of Mario and a tick off of Sebastien."
A.J. Allmendinger, who up to this point was having a very quiet race, did a fine job running relatively unchallenged in fourth. Tagliani followed in fifth, Junqueira had slid back to sixth.
With half the race in the books, Dominguez held off Bourdais -.866, Tracy -1.706, Allmendinger -9.959, Tagliani -10.530, Junqueira -11.432, Power -12.430, Servia -14.355, Zwolsman -17.421 and Ranger -18.450.
As second round pit stops approached, Allmendinger was starting to loose the grip on his tires and was quickly being swallowed up by Tagliani and Junqueira. Allmendinger took the next opportunity to head into the pits and much needed rubber. He re-entered the circuit in the 11th spot, but others ahead of him still needed to come in.
Just as things appeared to be going so well for Dominguez, he made an unforced error and missed the braking zone approaching turn 5. Bourdais seized the opportunity to take the lead and Tracy slotted in right behind him. Dominguez did manage to keep the engine running as he slid into the run-off area and resumed in third.
It was a tough race", Dominguez said. "Sebastien, he did well. I give him credit. He pressured me pretty good. He was saving fuel. I knew he was saving fuel. I had to save fuel and at the same time stay in the lead. That's where I got caught. I locked up the rear tires, just went straight into the runoff, lost first place. I was really fighting for it, doing my best to save first place. Sometimes the car would get sideways, especially on restarts. Saving fuel wasn't easy."
Bourdais came into the pits for the final time on lap 71. His 9.9-second stop was enough to keep him in the lead, and immediately after that rookie Charles Zwolsman was clipped by Power bringing out another full-course yellow.
When the dust settled, Zwolsman was out of the race with a broken left-front wheel. As the filed lined up for the re-start, Bourdais led from Tracy, Dominguez, Tagliani and Servia.
The caution could not have come out at a worse time for Allmendinger. With his competition able to stop under the yellow, he was relegated all the way back to ninth ahead of teammate Wilson.
Now, if Dominguez was going to try to get back up to the front, this was his chance. On lap 75 the green flew and like a rocket Bourdais took off and quickly put a second between himself and Tracy. Dominguez struggled to stay behind his teammate from third, but Tracy was bidding for victory himself and was giving no quarter.
With just over ten circuits to go, Tagliani and Servia came together entering Turn 1. Servia had attempted a late inside pass but Tag had already committed to his line and turned in on the Spaniard. Servia's 100 Champ Car race ended against the wall in a twisted heap.
Tag didn't come away completely unscathed though, a few laps later the Canadian slid off at Turn 3. He was taken to the medical center and then to hospital with possible back injuries.
"Honestly, I wasn't even thinking of passing Tagliani on that lap." Servia said. "But in the middle of the straightaway he let off the throttle and slowed down. I caught him and then he got back on the throttle. At that point I was beside him and I thought he was having a problem. Then he turned in and hit me. It's really a shame."
As the two-hour time limit approached, the cars lined up for the final few minutes of racing. A Green-White-Checkered scenario would complete the first night race in Houston.
Bourdais took the green and tried to leave Tracy behind. The front of Bourdais car started to slide a bit through the first few corners, but Tracy could not take advantage. There was just not enough time to catch Bourdais, and the jubilation his team showed when the checkered flag flew was equal to the incredible effort they had taken to bring their car to victory lane.
Nelson Philippe, mostly un-noticed during the event, was in the right place at the right time and came home in fourth place ahead of Wilson.
Wilson had a fine drive following his first-lap brush with another car to finish in fifth. Andrew Ranger, Power, Allmendinger, Christiano da Matta and Junqueira completed the top ten.
The Champ Cars now head south to Monterey Mexico and Fundidora Park, May 19-21. Bourdais maintains his lead in the championship, now with 68 points over Dominguez (50), Wilson (48), Ranger (40) and Tagliani (35).


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This article was published 27/9/2013 (1395 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) and the Manitoba Museum (TMM) today signed an important agreement to collaborate in areas such as marketing, educational programs, collections, exhibits and knowledge --- that includes borrowing key artifacts from The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike.
"Together, our museums will create a visitor experience like no other in the world," CMHR president and CEO Stuart Murray said at a news event held today in TMM's Urban Gallery. "Our unique approaches will strengthen each other for the benefit of this community, promoting both global human rights and Manitoba's rich cultural heritage."
The two museums will share artifacts and expertise, develop programs and exhibits together, and work on cross-promotional tourism marketing. The human rights museum said it is seeking similar agreements with Winnipeg's other major cultural institutions.
"We now have an amazing opportunity to build on a 'critical mass' of museological excellence -- located mere blocks from each other," TMM CEO Claudette Leclerc said. "Not only is Winnipeg destined to become a national hub for human rights education, it can also become the city of Museum excellence with even more Canadians and tourists being exposed to our world-class interpretation, dioramas and educational programming."
Winnipeg General Strike artifacts include a Special Police armband, a Special Constable badge, a billy club, a photo plate depicting imprisoned Strike leaders, and a "One Big Union" lapel pin.
CMHR curatorial advisor Sharon Reilly spent 30 years as a TMM curator, where she developed its labour history collection, curated temporary exhibits on the Strike and helped produce an educational kit on the Strike for Manitoba students. TMM's Urban Gallery was designed to interpret Winnipeg in the fall of 1920, in the aftermath of the Strike, portraying the socio-economic conditions underlying the confrontation.


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This is touching, and this is coming from someone who hated the Noatok/Amon backstory. Maybe if we had more time to explore Noatak's and Tarrlok's background, (including a scene like this), it might have made more of an impression on me. Luckily the fandom is swimming with creativity and wonderful storytellers to compensate for that disappointing finale. I think Bryke should really look on here for employee's. Anyway, thanks for this.
can i use the fairytale in a story im writing pleeeaase!!!? lovely pic by the way
Sure! As long as you give proper credit!
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The storytelling parts was really well done. The message was beautiful
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The two of you do work well together. Seems like this is like a real First Nations fairytale also. And the story is touching because it's true.
This was so beautiful and so well-executed. I love the 'fairy-tale' aspect of this, also. Very creative and unique!
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Bangalore, May 17: These are bad times for the Indian Premier League (IPL). Just two days after the spot-fixing allegations, a team owner has got into trouble and is banned from entering a stadium.
On Wednesday night, Kolkata Knight Riders' owner Shahrukh Khan, reportedly, got into a scuffle with Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) officials and security personnel at the Wankhede Stadium. This was after KKR had won their game against the Mumbai Indians.
MCA officials were quoted as saying that the Bollywood actor was banned for life from entering the famous Wankhede Stadium, where India won the 2011 World Cup.
This is not the first time a team owner has got into trouble during IPL 5. Earlier, this season, Kings XI Punjab co-owner Preity Zinta got into an argument with match officials over a batsman's dismissal.
Preity, upset by umpire's decision, chargers onto the field and questioned the match officials over that decision. It required Adam Gilchrist to intervene and pull Preity away.
After that incident at the PCA Stadium in Mohali, IPL Chairman Rajiv Shukla had asked for a report from the officials concerned. But, we haven't heard anything after that. Is the matter dead and buried?
Can owner's get any with whatever they do? Why is IPL mum on such happenings?
Why was Preity not censured? Why is IPL and BCCI quiet on Shahrukh's misbehaviour at the Wankhede?
There were also reports that Shahrukh was in an "inebriated" state. MCA has taken action as they are the host association of Wankhede Stadium.
BCCI and IPL have to put in place certain code of conduct for franchise owners as well. In one of the earlier editions too, Shahrukh was questioned for sitting in the dugout with KKR players. He was also on the wrong side of the law, smoking in public places.
If Shahrukh is found guilty of misbehaviour at the stadium, BCCI should take strict action, which will keep other owners and their entourage in check at all venues.
After all, IPL is cricket and let us focus only on the players and the games rather than scuffles off the field. Cricketers deserve all the attention and adulation, not the owners.
One can never imagine football club owners taking the spotlight away from the players. Big English Premier League owners or any other club owners quietly watch the action far away from the pitch and make their way out. There, it is only about players and coaches. In India, too much attention is being paid to team owners.
Let the owners work for the success of the team behind the scenes. Let them not get into any altercations with ground personnel. At the end of the day, IPL owners do not own the ground.


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A PLUCKY schoolgirl is devoting her summer holidays to an epic charity cycle ride.
Ella Parker, of Great Urswick, hopes to pedal 147.5 miles – the same distance as the longest stage of the Tour de France – on the bike she was given for her sev-enth birthday.
Accompanied by mum Gina, dad Mike and 20-month-old brother Zac, the Low Furness C of E School youngster has already raised more than £900 for Alice's Escapes, the family hol-iday charity founded by Ulverston teen Alice Pyne, who won world-wide recognition for her 'bucket list' before losing her battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma last year.
- Furness festival triples its size
- MP welcomes supermarket's British meat pledge
- Show success for Bentham farmers
- Award-winning Ulverston artist blacksmith unveils iconic Spitfire sculpture
In a hand-written letter, Ella sets out her reasons for the ride as 'to help people, to be kind, I'll get fit', adding: "I think this challenge is going to be really hard and I'm a bit scared."
Her mum told the Gazette: "We've been doing a lot of family cycling and Ella does like a challenge, so we thought about doing a ride over the summer, raising money for charity. We asked her to choose and she chose Alice's Escapes."
The family braved tor-rential rain, midge bites and a 450-feet climb as they pedalled from Dalegarth to Raven-glass on day one of the adventure, on Saturday.
Next day they completed an easier 11 miles from Newbiggin, near Waberthwaite, to Bootle; and the rest of their route will take them through Devon and Wales, before a grand finale at their local, The General Bur-goyne, Great Urswick.
Gina thanked sup-porters including BAE Systems, where dad Mike works.
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How Apple Watch Margins Will Impact Apple Earnings Going Forward
- The Apple Watch isn't as quick and responsive as a smartphone.
- However, these issues will likely be addressed through software and hardware upgrades.
- While the product category has a lot of promise, the Apple Watch has other costs pertaining to COGS and OpEx, which severely limits profit contribution over the next couple of years.
- Volumes would need to be ramped up to offset these costs, which limits the contribution to Apple earnings. On the other hand, it may provide some upward lift to revenues in key quarters.
- While I'm certain I'm on the exact margin impact, I don't view the product category negatively, as I believe that over time it will add meaningful shareholder value.
From my own experience with the Apple Watch, I felt that the device was pretty slow in comparison to an iPhone but was substantially quicker than comparable smart watches from Samsung (OTC:SSNLF) and various other OEMs. Of course, I'm not much of a technology reviewer and I'm just basing this off of my own personal experience, but I think very many of you can already validate what I'm thinking here.
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) plans to address this issue by releasing a second-generation Apple Watch that will come with improved hardware, and will operate without sharing data with an iPhone. More specifically, the Apple Watch is slow because it has to communicate with the iPhone to display information on the device, so by removing that bottleneck, the performance will improve considerably from the first generation device.
For the most part, investors had pretty high expectations for the upcoming product category. It takes a while for new product categories to appeal to the mass market. In this case, the app developer ecosystem is relatively small and it will take some time for developers to create a unique experience away from smartphones and tablets. Needless to say, the Apple Watch has very compelling applications for health and fitness, and is useful for big data analytics.
I anticipate that these functions will be built upon going forward as Apple will continue to integrate various micro-electromechanical systems into the device, i.e. sensors. The inputs for an Apple Watch are different when compared to an iPhone because the device is strapped to your wrist, which can give users the ability to feed continuous contextual data into the device. This has interesting implications for app developers, but I don't think the development community has leveraged the differences in hardware between wearables and smartphones to a meaningful extent. However, that doesn't make me pessimistic but rather realistic about the long-term revenue ramp of the product category.
Also, profitability has been a key concern for analysts following the announcement of Apple earnings in Q3. Initially, analysts were anticipating that the Apple Watch margins would at least be similar to the Apple iPhone. However, after examining the accounting notes more carefully from Apple's annual report, there are other costs not factored into component cost breakdowns.
According to the Apple 10-K filing 2014:
Revenue allocated to the embedded unspecified software upgrade rights and the non-software services is deferred and recognized on a straight-line basis over the estimated period the software upgrades and non-software services are expected to be provided for each of these devices, which ranges from two to four years. Cost of sales related to delivered hardware and related essential software, including estimated warranty costs, are recognized at the time of sale. Costs incurred to provide non-software services are recognized as cost of sales as incurred, and engineering and sales and marketing costs are recognized as operating expenses as incurred.
When looking at Apple's accounting notes, cost of sales is also inclusive of the cost of servicing the device, warranties, and other unanticipated costs. More specifically, the company mentions unspecified software upgrade rights, which is basically a deferred cost that is recognized on a straight-line basis. In other words, Apple factors in additional costs not pertaining to hardware, which reduces the gross margin investors could realistically anticipate even as the Apple Watch is estimated to cost $84 per unit to make. Also, the operating expenditures are likely to be bloated because the development of a new product category is very resource intensive on both the hardware and software side. Therefore, the product category isn't going to generate iPhone like margins until the Apple Watch generates much more meaningful sales volume. Furthermore, it's likely that Apple will invest a lot of resources in terms of R&D, and SG&A to sustain unit growth over the next couple of years.
Currently, Apple doesn't break out Apple Watch shipment figures, however, estimates from IDC indicate that shipments in the second quarter of 2015 were approximately 3.6 million. If we assume that rate of adoption continues throughout the entire year annual shipments should reach 14.4 million. Assuming ASPs are around $500, we can anticipate revenue of $7.2 billion. But, as I have mentioned earlier, the initial cost of developing the device must have been pretty high, as the company doesn't anticipate gross margins to improve sequentially from Q3 FY 2015 to Q4 FY 2015.
Furthermore, Tim Cook mentioned on the Q2 FY 2015 Apple earnings conference call:
We're not going to guide to or give projections of gross margin outside of the current quarter. And so what we have right now, which is a situation, it's not surprising to us, we knew we would be here, is that the watch gross margins for the current quarter that we've included in the guidance that Luca's provided in the aggregate, are lower than the company average. And so that to us is intuitive that they would be. And so I think we must be just looking at it through a different lens than you are.
This all points to lower expectations on the product itself, but at the same time the category could add meaningful revenue growth in the next fiscal year. If Apple Watch volumes grow steadily, perhaps revenue from the category will exceed $10 billion over the course of FY 2016. That could mean the difference between meeting analyst expectations versus beating them, as analysts are anticipating revenue to grow by $11.53 billion between FY 2015 and FY 2016. If the addition of Watch volumes are included, and iPhone units continue to grow, Apple should sustain a solid top line growth rate. However, it would be flawed to anticipate high rates of profitability, based on the comments from Tim Cook in prior quarters, and based on the accounting notes in the annual report.
Source: Apple Stock Price data by Amigobulls
The stock is starting to recover due to the broader improvement in market sentiment. The stock is fundamentally undervalued, and various upside catalysts aren't fully priced into the stock. Investors can make a compelling entry point at today's pricing levels.
I continue to reiterate my buy recommendation and $136 price target for Apple Stock. I anticipate the stock to reach my price target by December 2015 despite recent market volatility.
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Invest in Peace
Giving that changes lives.
From our passionate students, to our esteemed faculty, our soul-stirring speakers, our accomplished alumni and visiting peacemakers; everyone has their own reason for loving the Kroc School of Peace Studies. Maybe it's a memory of the first time you stepped foot on our campus, or maybe it's when you first realized that your action could change the world.
For these reason and more, by investing in the Kroc School, you're investing in people — peacebuilders and changemakers. You're making it possible for students to come here from all corners of the world. And with your support, they'll leave here prepared to prevent and resolve conflicts, help refugees rebuild their lives and work for democracy in places where democracy didn't exist.
Kimberly (Heller) Godwin
As a USD parent, IPJ supporter, Kroc School Master's in Peace and Justice student and WorldLink donor, Kimberly (Heller) Godwin has never needed to be sold on the value of peace education. She just wants it to be available to more people. Her support started with a targeted focus: to sponsor buses bringing students from Mexico and low-income San Diego neighborhoods to the Joan B. Kroc Institute's WorldLink Youth Town Meeting. But her giving impact is widespread. This annual opportunity lets students from both sides of the border learn about urgent global issues and to contribute to solutions.
My Dream: students across ethnic backgrounds will connect one-to-one and come away with a better understanding of people from different communities, then feel empowered to make change.
My Gift: Sponsoring students for the WorldLink Youth Program
Judge Roosevelt Willie
As a justice in Liberia, which is recovering from 20 years of civil war and several bouts with Ebola, Judge Roosevelt Willie does not have the resources of judges in developing countries. But he has a deep commitment to rooting out corruption, promoting human rights and guiding young leaders. And because he was a Master in Peace and Justice student, Judge Willie knows firsthand how his modest gift, when combined with those of other alumni and donors, can make a real difference in the lives of students from developing countries.
My Dream: to see beneficiaries of our gifts become ambassadors for the rule of law and peace.
My Gift: Providing funding for Master's student scholarships.
Barbara and Wayne Coleman
USD grandparents Barbara and Wayne Coleman are involved on both ends of the USD campus—from the baseball fields on the east where their USD graduate granddaughter Cassidy is a softball coach, to the Joan Kroc School of Peace Studies on the western tip of the mesa. At the Kroc School they use IRA distributions to underwrite fieldwork being done by founding Dean William Headley and others to incorporate interfaith dialogue, religious leadership and shared religious values into peacebuilding. As devout Catholics, the Colemans see their faith reflected in on-the-ground peacebuilding.
Our Dream: to extend the activities of the Kroc School of Peace Studies and its Institute for Peace and Justice into the field where peacebuilding happens through interfaith dialog.
Our Gift: IRA distributions to the Religion and Peacebuilding Initiative
Justine Darling and Cristian Andreu
When Kroc School alumna Justine Darling, MAPJ '08, and her fiancé Christian Andreu Von-Euw decided to get married, they knew they wanted to celebrate their union not by receiving, but by giving. So in lieu of gifts they invited friends and family to contribute to the Darling Andreu Scholarship Fund. Established by the couple especially for master's students in peace and justice, Justine feels compelled to give future peacebuilders the same opportunity and experience she had at the Kroc School. It's a gift that will keep giving, not only to scholarship recipients, but also to the cause of restoring justice throughout the world.
Our Dream: to support students who actively contribute to their community with an affordable peace education that inspires collective transformation through service.
Our Gift: Establishing the Darling Andreu Peace Scholarship
The Johnson Family
For Todd Johnson, his wife, Lil, and their two daughters, Sara (BA '11) and Emily, giving back is a family affair. The Johnsons made the decision to create the William Headley Endowed Scholarship when founding dean Father William Headley stepped down after leading the school for its first five years. The scholarship enables students from developing countries to build the knowledge, skills and tools they need to shape a better world through economic development and conflict resolution in their communities.
Todd, who served on the Kroc School Board of Advisors when it was first formed, is passionate about facilitating capital deployment to create and encourage human flourishing. Oldest daughter Sara, who graduated from the Kroc School with a Master's degree in Peace and Justice in 2012, carries on that legacy as a current member of the Kroc School's Board of Advisors and a consultant to social enterprises, impact investors, family foundations, and corporations on how to maximize impact and effectively deploy capital.
Our Dream: By supporting an endowed scholarship, it is our dream that the number of supporters and amount of support will grow over time.
Our Gift: Creation of an Endowed Scholarship to honor Father William Headley's name in perpetuity as the founding Dean of the Kroc School of Peace Studies.
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Top 5 Recipes for Holiday Leftoversby Sara Levine in Holidays, Recipes, December 26th, 2013
If you overdid it on the holiday spread this year (ham AND prime rib, anyone?) and ended up with a fridge packed full of leftovers, never fear. We've got five ways to turn them into delicious new meals.
1. Ultimate Ham Sandwich
Whether your Christmas centerpiece was honey-baked or cherry-glazed, pile thick slices on crusty bread with lettuce, tomato, dill pickles, cheddar and whole-grain mustard, and you'll have a renewed appreciation for the holiday ham.


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Why do we care if we know rather than merely believe? Both in religion and life in general? I think that typically we appeal to an ethics. There are several ways this occurs. The first is that we have a community notion that knowledge entails beliefs that are true and have a certain degree of justification. If I go into an employer and say I know how to program in C++ and Python and I've never programmed in my life then we recognize that is a lie and that it is wrong to tell that sort of lie. In … [Read more...]
Knowing: Why Care?
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Years ago I got a call from someone from one of the major LDS book publishers. (It's been so long I can't remember which - although it definitely wasn't Deseret Books) They were planning on publishing a kind of Mormon dictionary that addressed many of the topics within Mormonism using short scholarly entries. The main emphasis was less the summation than to have a pretty thorough bibliography for each entry. They were calling me because several people had suggested that I was the best source for … [Read more...]
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To oversimplify things a bit, Mormon notions of salvation are more consistent with Paul, while Evangelical notions of salvation are more consistent with deutero-Pauline ideas. In essence, Mormons, like Paul, believe that salvation is a future event; while Evangelicals, like deutero-Pauline authors, believe that salvation is a present event.The deutero-Pauline letter Ephesians claims, "by grace you have been saved" (Eph 2:5, NRSV). The deutero-Pauline text Colossians agrees, and goes even f … [Read more...]
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100 Years of Seminary. And BTW Gay Marriage
In 1971, Elder Boyd K. Packer gave a talk in which he stated: The gospel might be likened to the keyboard of a piano—a full keyboard with a selection of keys on which one who is trained can play a variety without limits; a ballad to express love, a march to rally, a melody to soothe, and a hymn to inspire; an endless variety to suit every mood and satisfy every need.How shortsighted it is, then, to choose a single key and endlessly tap out the monotony of a single note, or even two or three … [Read more...]
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The first line of Mary Oliver's poem "Wild Geese" seems as at odds with Mormonism as anything can be. "You do not have to be good," she states.What's that? It sounds an awfully lot like sacrilege. Of course we have to be good. Jesus admonished us to become perfect, and not only do we have the 10 commandments of other Bible-believers, we have a strict health code, a tithing requirement, and obligatory church attendance. A Latter-day Saint's entire identity can be wrapped up in the necessity of … [Read more...]
Canon and Culture: The Scriptures Made Me Do It!
Fundamentalism is the belief that all that the scriptures and revelation say are to be taken as factually accurate. This view is clearly problematic, but I'd like to address its cousin, foundationalism. Foundationalism admits that the scriptures are not factually accurate in all things (though they may be in some), yet argues that they still give us clear moral, ethical, or doctrinal guidance. The scriptures, when properly interpreted, are the secure foundation for our doctrines about the … [Read more...]


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I don't have a lot of time to read, but like reading books based on facts. I am also an animal (dog) lover. This book was easy to read, easy to pick up and read when I had a few minutes. The hardest part was to keep track of the dogs who are mentioned at different times in the book - especially since I drew out the time it took to read it. Makes you want to hug a handler and adopt a military dog after reading it. When I feel alone, my dogs really help ease that, so I can only imagine what kind of a bond a handler and a soldier dog would have. Really loved this book! Sharing it with my fellow dog lovers.
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Great book! I learned so much and having been telling others about this book nonstop!
A very good read. All dog lovers should read this one.
VERY informative and interesting for someone who has or plans to own a dog. The book is not highly structured as it just tells stories about dogs, their handlers, and the people who run the military programs, but it is very evident that the author did a great deal of research and knows her subject. A lot of very short chapters make it just right for those us us who read right before sleep.
This was a new field of interest for me and I learned a lot about military working dogs. I knew handlers and MWD had a close bond, but Maria Goodavage's ability to share the stories of the men/women and dogs, the physiology of the dogs, life changing events each dog team underwent while deployed made me appreciate what both handler and dog go through while on assignment. This is a MUST read and this from a cat person!
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I'm currently studying profiling data from an httpd built from a CVS snapshot earlier today. In general, the performance of 2.0 is starting to look good. Here are the top 30 functions, ranked according to their CPU utilization. (This summary is derived from a Quantify profile of a threaded-MPM httpd handling mod_include requests on Solaris; thanks to Blaise Tarr at CNET for the profile data.) CPU time function (% of total) -------- ------------ 1. find_start_sequence 23.9 2. mmap 14.1 3. munmap 10.2 4. _writev 9.4 5. _so_accept 4.7 6. _lwp_mutex_unlock 4.3 7. stat 3.2 8. _close 2.4 9. _write 2.4 10. __door_return 2.3 cumulative total: 76.9% 11. __open 2.0 12. _so_getsockname 1.6 13. find_entry 1.5 14. strlen 1.2 15. strcasecmp 1.2 16. _so_shutdown 1.2 17. _read 0.84 18. fstat64 0.82 19. __lwp_sema_post 0.80 20. memset 0.78 cumulative total: 88.8% 21. apr_hash_next 0.53 22. apr_file_read 0.46 23. _lrw_unlock 0.39 24. __fork1 0.39 25. apr_palloc 0.39 26. strncpy 0.28 27. memchr 0.26 28. _ltzset_u 0.24 29. overlay_extension_mappings 0.20 30. apr_hash_set 0.20 cumulative total: 92.18% Some notes on the data: * The discussion here covers only CPU utilization. There are other aspects of performance, like multiprocessor scalability, that are independent of this data. * 7 of the top 10 functions are syscalls that I'd expect to see in the top 10 for an httpd. :-) * find_start_sequence() is the main scanning function within mod_include. There's some research in progress to try to speed this up significantly. * With the exception of find_start_sequence(), all the opportunities for optimization are individually small. I expect that the only way to get an additional 5% reduction in CPU usage, for example, will be to fix ten things that each account for 0.5%. * _lwp_mutex_unlock() gets from pthread_mutex_unlock(), but only from a small fraction of pthread_mutex_unlock calls (Can someone familiar with Solaris threading internals explain this one?) * Collectively, stat and open comprise 5% of the total CPU time. It would be faster to do open+fstat rather than stat+open (as long as the server is delivering mostly 200s rather than 304s), but that might be too radical a change. Anybody have thoughts on this? * I think the __door_return() call is an anomaly of the profiling instrumentation itself. * find_entry() is part of the apr_hash_t implementation. Most of the calls to find_entry()and apr_hash_next() are coming from the mod_mime dir-merge function. * strlen() is called from lots of places throughout the code, with the most frequent calls being from apr_pstrdup, apr_pstrcat, and time-formatting functions used in apr_rfc822_date. * strcasecmp() is used heavily by the apr_table_t implementation (sort_overlap, apr_table_get, apr_table_setn). Converting tables to hashes is is a potential speedup. However, most of the table API calls are on request_rec->headers_(in|out); changing those would impact a *lot* of code. * fstat64() happens during fcntl() on sockets (it appears to be a Solaris implementation detail) * memset() is called mostly from apr_pcalloc(), which in turn is used in too many places to yield any easy optimization opportunities. * memchr() is called from apr_pstrndup(), used mostly in apr_uri_parse() and mod_mime's analyze_ct(). It may be possible to optimize away some of the calls in the latter. --Brian
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