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Sears still plagued with problems
With revenue on a downward trajectory for the past half-decade and the company posting considerable losses recently, many wonder what assets Sears may unload next.
Most recently, Sears reported dismal Q1 earnings, posting a massive net loss of $2.63 per share, down from a profit of $1.78 per share in the prior year quarter. The steep slide far exceeded analysts' consensus estimate for a loss of $0.60 per share. Revenue dropped 9% to $8.5 billion, also missing analysts' expectations of $8.74 billion. While unfavorable weather was partly to blame for soft sales of spring seasonal merchandise, it fails to account for the overall weakness – especially in the beleaguered Kmart division.
Sears continues to present a dreary image: For Q1 2013, the company reported a year-on-year same-store sales decline of 3.6%, which means that there have been seven straight years of same-store sales declines. The only positive number was a 20% increase in online sales.
The company has been working to better integrate its online channel and retail stores, and to leverage the millions of customers in its "Shop Your Way" loyalty program. "Shop Your Way" has generated more than 60% of the company's revenues in the last quarter, and on average the members in that program spent 18% more money in stores than non-members.
However, just a boost in online sales would not be enough for the company to stage a turnaround. The company took a $3 billion loss in fiscal year 2012, and is expected to lose considerable amounts at least through fiscal 2016. The company has been able to survive over the past few years mainly due to sales of real estate and other assets. Massive store closures, especially at Kmart, and tighter inventory controls have also helped. Yet Sears lacks the one thing it truly needs to bounce back: a viable plan to reverse seven consecutive years of declining same-store sales.
Based on Market IQ's proprietary fundamental metrics, the company is bleeding red ink across the board. Sears is the worst performer in its peer group as seen on the quality-value chart below.
Sears' fundamental stock quality is worse than 75% of its peers. This is mainly due to weak revenue growth, decline in net income, poor profit margins, and weak financial standing relative to its peer group.
- The department store chain has seen revenues fall from $9.3 billion in Q1 2012 to $8.5 billion in Q1 2013. This along with an increase in SGA costs has led to a reduction in the bottom line from a gain of $189 million in Q1 2012 to a loss of $279 million in Q1 2013.
- Gross margins have declined from 27.7% in Q1 2012 to 25.5% in Q1 2013. Increased clearance markdowns and bad timing mainly drove a decline in gross margins when it came to vendor allowances – especially with closing stores that led to inventory clearances
- The company is carrying a significant amount of debt, as well as substantial pension fund liabilities. Sears has an equity to debt ratio of 0.26, which is lower than the industry average of 0.67, indicating weak financial standing relative to its peer group. Additionally, interest coverage ratio of -0.83 is lower than the industry average of 3.11, indicating the firm's weak ability to meet its short-term obligations.
However, according to Sears Holdings' chairman Eddie Lampert, the company's real estate portfolio is easily worth more than $20 billion. Assuming that assets are worth $20 billion, then this literally means that the company is sitting on top of an unconventional gold mine, making current market capitalization of $4.5 billion a bargain.
In recent years, Sears has made a habit of spinning off its holdings to raise cash and ease investor concerns over liquidity. SHC Realty was launched in 2010 to conventionally market available properties in an attempt to create value for stockholders by selling and leasing them. In December 2011, Sears completed the spin-off of its Orchard Supply Hardware Stores chain.
In 2012, the company separated Sears's Outlet and Hometown and Hardware stores. Additionally, Sears completed a partial spin-off of its Canadian unit and sold 11 of its stores to mall operator General Growth Properties (GGP).
Earlier this year, Sears launched Seritage Realty Trust as a "nationwide developer of commercial real estate" to help oversee a Sears portfolio containing several properties. Most recently, Sears launched a new business unit, Ubiquity Critical Environments, with the mission of converting some of the closed Sears and Kmart stores into facilities for data warehousing, network co-location centers and business continuity operations. Ubiquity is also spearheading a new initiative to lease cell towers to be built at existing Sears facilities.
Sears has also suggested the company may divest itself of Lands' End, a higher-end apparel brand and e-commerce outlet that the company acquired in 2002, given its deteriorating financial performance. Other possibilities for sale are proprietary brands such as Kenmore and Craftsman.
Sears is stuck in the middle of an increasingly polarized department store market that has diverged into high-end and low-end spheres. As a mall-based mass merchant, Sears has failed to specify a niche and articulate the well-defined identity necessary to compete with high-end rivals like Nordstrom Inc. (JWN) and Saks Inc. (SKS). Additionally, its mall-heavy real estate portfolio has suffered -- as customers have flocked to stand-alone big boxes like Target Corp. (TGT), Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) and Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST), while its stores, starved of capital investment, often felt bedimmed.
Eddie Lampert, who has chosen to run it as a financial asset rather than as a retail business, has grossly mismanaged the chain. With revenue on a downward trajectory for the past half-decade and the company posting considerable losses recently, many wonder what assets the company may unload next. Slipping sales, questionable strategies and tight finances doesn't warrant investment in the retail behemoth unless the company turns profitable or at least shows signs of a turnaround. However, despite dismal fundamentals, the underlying or breakup value of Sears' real estate assets merits a substantially high valuation, which may make Sears a potentially good investment.
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Spring often means house hunting in the real estate market, and this year realtors are reporting the lowest inventory in years.
So, on Thursday on "Good Day" we had the latest phone apps to help you find the latest listings before they are gone!
Consumer expert Cassie Slane joined us to talk about three such apps.
"HomeSnap" allows you to tap an address and get info, like square feet, the price and information on local schools.
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Dear Readers:
Over the holidays, I received quite a few emails commenting on the work philosophy I developed (H.EA.R.T. ™) and requesting an overview of what it is all about. H.EA.R.T.™ is an acronym for Honesty, Empathy, Adaptability, Responsibility, and Teamwork enveloped in passion and respect. A workplace is more effective, as is one's life, if the basic principles of each element in this H.EA.R.T.™ philosophy are followed. Recognizing that it is the beginning of a new year, a time for reflection and resolution, I am hopeful that all of you will assess your aspirations and consider applying H.EA.R.T.™ in your work and personal lives.
More information on H.E.A.R.T.™ can be found on my Web site.
Dear Roze:
I'm really bothered by what I think is unethical behavior of one of my colleagues. Our company has a postage meter that we're all allowed to use, but it's understood that it's only for work-related mail. This colleague uses it for his personal mail too. I've seen him put his household bills and family birthday cards through it. I don't want to get him in trouble, but he shouldn't be doing this. It's not right. How should I handle this?
-Stamp out personal postage use
Dear Stamp out personal postage use:
Depending on what kind of relationship you have with this person, you can either talk to him about what is considered to be proper use of the meter the next time you see him using it for personal items; or you can ask the appropriate person in your organization to send out a communication to everyone in the office that specifies the allowable uses of the meter. Also, have the communication posted at the site of the postage meter. That being said, is it possible that your colleague is reimbursing the company when he uses the meter for his personal mail?
Dear Roze:
I've been a stay-at-home mother for almost ten years. Like most families, ours is feeling the recession. I want to alleviate some of my husband's stresses, so I've decided to go back to work. I only want to work part-time out of our home, so I can be there I'll be there when my children get out of school. I'm okay with making about $30,000. I have a bachelor's degree in the liberal arts and a lot of experience in sales. I really don't want to be a telemarketer or a medical transcriptionist, jobs people have been suggesting to me. Some of my friends and family have told me that I'm not being realistic and that I'm too rigid with the type of work I'm willing to do. They say I'm going to be very disappointed. What do you think?
-Know what I want
Dear Know what I want:
I applaud you for wanting to assist your husband and I understand and respect your specific desires in a job, but given the bleak economic climate, the unusually high number of individuals in search of work, and the fact that you have been out of the workforce for quite some time, it would be in your best interest to be more flexible and open-minded about the type of work you are willing to do, your hours, and pay. Do not limit yourself; consider all job possibilities.
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Opera on Tap
Farewell to
Cafe Royale
Cafe Royale, SF, CA
Sunday August 17th, 7pm
The Balcony Level Supporter Membership Program
Opera on Tap San Francisco is excited to unveil its new membership program – The Balcony Level Supporter!
As our organization undertakes original and progressive ways to make opera accessible and entertaining, we need your financial support. With your help, we will continue to offer and expand our innovative and professional performances free of charge or at low-cost to a wide Bay Area audience.As you know, we are re-inventing operatic performance by inserting it into the grass-roots cultural scene, following the example of rock bands and comedians. Local singers let their hair down and bring you into what feels like an after hours backstage party, singing some of opera's best and little known pieces in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. This Spring, we embark on our most ambitious project to date, collaborating with a graphic artist to set Mozart's classic Le Nozze di Figaro into the world of comics: a comic opera, literally. Our first full production needs your help to bring our vision to fruition.
For a yearly donation of $250.00, you will receive the following thank you items:
To become a Balcony Level Supporter Member, please email Indre Viskontas at firstname.lastname@example.com. She will respond to your email with guidance. Within a week after your donation is made, you will receive a membership packet. Please note that you can break your payments into 2, 3, or 4 separate payments over the year.
Your financial support make sure Opera on Tap San Francisco can continue putting on world class performances by providing stipends for the singers and musicians, costumes for the performances, and instruments.
About Us
Opera on Tap is a non-profit organization whose mission is to make opera as ubiquitous and accessible as pop music. Following the example of rock bands and comedians, we bring opera to neighborhood music venues and give our audience the context and background of each piece. Local singers let their hair down and bring you into what feels like an after hours back stage party, singing some of opera's best known and little known pieces in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere.
We have a monthly residency at Cafe Royale, one of San Francisco's emerging performance hotspots. We partner with local chamber music groups and create evenings filled with laughter, warmth and most importantly, great music.
Co-Managing Divas Indre Viskontas and Katherine Gerber are committed to changing the perception of opera in the Bay Area.
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This event was a rare and exceptional pleasure into what will hopefully become a more increasingly common venue! It reminded me of the good old days in North Beach, forty years ago, when one could have a good Italian meal while listening to live opera singers, but without the surrounding smoking! The singers were all young, gorgeous, and enchanting to hear! This is an event to not miss next time. ~Ruth
Very nice venue, with beautiful voices. The harpsichord, cello and flute gave wonderful accompaniment and set the tone for the individual sets. ~Bob W.
Scintillating and fun! Can't wait for the next Opera on Tap. ~Steve H.
Great venue, wonderful singing. ~ Dr. Eric
A wonderful experience - intimate, lively, fun and full of amazing talent. ~Jessica
This was so well produced that I can not wait to go to the next one. Bravo!!! ~Robert F.
This event was amazing! I enjoyed the music. The performances was spectacular. I am so looking forward to the next "Opera on Tap". BRAVO! ~Maura V.
Don't know how they do it, but these fresh young classical singers just keeps getting better and better every performance! I loved the addition of the Baroque instruments too and hope these musicians will also be returning again! ~Ruth
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Eliot Cohen, a professor of strategic studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), has been an important supporter of neoconservative-led foreign policy campaigns. Sometimes touted as "the most influential neocon in academe,"[1] Cohen had multiple roles in the George W. Bush administration—including advising Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and serving on the Defense Policy Board during Donald Rumsfeld's tenure as defense secretary—and was closely affiliated with the circle of hawks who surrounded Vice President Dick Cheney.[2]
Cohen has been a vociferous critic of Barack Obama since the beginning of his presidency, accusing the his administration of being insufficiently committed to using military force abroad and of being "promiscuous" in its diplomacy with traditional U.S. adversaries.[3] Diplomacy, Cohen says, only works when the military is seen as a "growling mastiff on the leash."[4] Similarly, Cohen opposed Obama's 2013 nomination of Chuck Hagel to lead the Department of Defense on the grounds that Hagel had "already made it clear that he does not want to engage in a confrontation with Iran." What was needed, Cohen said, was someone "who looks as if he's perfectly capable of waging war against you and happy to do it."[5]
Cohen has called the Obama administration's approach to Syria "feckless." In a 2013 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Cohen echoed many neoconservative supporters of an attack by arguing that U.S. "credibility" depended on the willingness of the Obama administration to strike Syria after the regime's alleged use of chemical weapons in the country's civil war. "For better or for worse," he wrote, "the credibility not only of this president, but of America as a global power and a guarantor of international order, is on the line." If Washington decides against a strike, Cohen claimed, "profound conclusions will be drawn by a China ready to bully its neighbors, by a North Koreawhose scruples are already minimal, and by an Iran that has already killed many Americans in a covert war waged against us in Iraq and Afghanistan."[6]
Cohen has suggested that a "serious bombing campaign" against "substantial targets" in Syria would be necessary, arguing that a"bout of therapeutic bombing is an even more feckless course of action than a principled refusal to act altogether." He warned that such an attack would entail "civilian casualties, at our hands," as well as U.S. casualties, "because the idea of a serious military effort without risk is fatuous."[7] He has argued that, given the risks, the president should seek "congressional support and authorization as a matter of good politics" and "out of respect for democratic legitimacy," but also insisted that "Barack Obama does not need congressional approval to launch a war."[8]
Cohen has in fact expressed contempt for democratic legitimacy when it comes to the use of force, complaining openly about public weariness with the neoconservative agenda.Reasoning that most Americans had "not served in the armed forces," that "no one has raised our taxes to pay for war," and that "Americans can change the channel if they find the images too disturbing," Cohen suggested in September 2013 that average Americans had no right to be reticent about sending soldiers into new wars."For the great mass of the American public," he wrote, and "for their leaders and the elites who shape public opinion, 'war-weariness' is unearned cant, unworthy of a serious nation and dangerous in a violent world." For Obama especially, Cohen added, "to confess to war-weariness is to confess weakness."[9]
Calling Cohen's tirade against war-weariness "one of the most offensive columns I've read in a long time," Mother Jones blogger Kevin Drum nominated Cohen for his "Asshole of the Year" award and quipped, "Cohen is simply apoplectic at the thought of anyone in America thinking they have a right to be tired of war merely because we've been at war for 12 continuous years for virtually zero observable gain."[10]
For his part, Cohen appeared to disregard the possibility that disillusion with the policies he and other neoconservatives had advocated played any role in the public's increasing skepticism about foreign interventions. The real problem, according to Cohen, is that younger Americans"take [American] primacy and the stability and prosperity it has brought for granted," and that "leaders of the isolationist movement … speak loudly on Capitol Hill."[11]
Romney Campaign
In 2011-2012, Cohen served as an adviser to the Mitt Romney presidential campaign, notably authoring a white paper for the campaign that was intended to provide a strategy "to secure America's enduring interests and ideals." Titled "The American Century"—a not-so-subtle allusion to the nationalistic jingoism of the Project for the New American Century, whose work Cohen supported—the white paper argued that President Barack Obama's efforts to bridge the sharp diplomatic divide that emerged between the United States and the international community during the Bush years amounted to "a form of unilateral disarmament in the diplomatic and moral sphere." Cohen also argued that Obama has promoted the idea of "America in decline," ignoring how the policies Cohen himself promoted during the Bush administration—like invading Iraq—played a key role in encouraging this notion both in and outside the United States. He wrote, "This view of America in decline, and America as a potentially malign force, has percolated far and wide. It is intimately related to the torrent of criticism, unprecedented for an American president, that Barack Obama has directed at his own country."[12]
Romney's views, according to Cohen, stood in stark contrast to Obama's. "Mitt Romney rejects the philosophy of decline in all of its variants," Cohen wrote. "He believes that a strong America is the best guarantor of peace and the best patron of liberty the world has ever known. That is the central lesson Romney finds in the history of America's role on the world stage."[13]
In a Boston Globe op-ed coauthored with fellow Romney advisers Meghan O'Sullivan and Eric Edelman shortly before the election, Cohen summed up his critique of the Obama administration in an argument that relied on nebulous notions of American strength: "Because of the last four years," Cohen and his coauthors wrote, "we face a world in which our enemies do not fear us, our friends do not believe they can trust us, and those who maneuver between the two camps feel that they will not get in trouble by crossing us."[14]
Neocons and Hawks
Cohen has been closely affiliated with neoconservatism for decades. He was a founding signatory of the Project for the New American Century—the pressure group founded by William Kristol and Robert Kagan in 1997 that played an important role building support for the invasion of Iraq—and advised the now-defunct Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which was founded in 2002 by former Lockheed Martin vice president Bruce Jackson with the sole purpose of promoting the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
As of 2013, Cohen was also a member of the Council of Academic Advisers of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), which has served as a key bastion of neoconservative ideological promotion. Serving alongside Cohen on the council have been numerous other long-standing neocons, including Gertrude Himmelfarb and Aaron Friedberg.[15]
Cohen's popularity has not been limited to neoconservatives. His work has also been promoted by scholars based at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a liberal hawk think tank that was for a time the Obama administration's go-to think tank for security policy.[16] Thomas Ricks, a CNAS scholar and former Washington Post correspondent, has lauded Cohen's work on his Foreignpolicy.com blog, calling him "one of the smartest people I have ever met."[17] Another CNAS scholar, Andrew Exum—a retired U.S. army soldier who served in Iraq and is a former fellow at the hawkish Washington Institute for Near East Policy—endorsed Cohen's ideas on his Abu Muqawamablog.[18]
Bush Years and the Iraq War
Cohen gained media attention in the years leading up to the Iraq War when President George W. Bush and many influential administration figures appeared in public holding Cohen's 2002 book Supreme Command. The book argued that civilian leaders often have more strategic sense than military leaders. James Mann, in his 2004 book Rise of the Vulcans, commented on Bush's purported reading material: "Few recognized the symbolism and subtext of [Bush] carrying Cohen's book, the determination not to let U.S. military leaders play the powerful political role Powell had exerted at the time of America's first war with Iraq. Cheney and [Paul] Wolfowitz certainly understood."[19]
MacKubin Owens, a scholar at the right-wing Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, wrote: "As Cohen pointed out in his indispensable book Supreme Command, the normal theory of civil-military relations has rarely held. … The fact remains that wars are not fought for their own purposes but to achieve policy goals set by the political leadership of the state. And so it is with President Bush and Iraq. He has outlined his plan and chosen the generals he believes can implement it."[20]
By 2005, however, Cohen seemed less confident in civilian leaders' ability to manage a war. In a 2005 Washington Post op-ed titled "A Hawk Questions Himself as His Son Goes to War," Cohen argued that although the decision to invade Iraq was correct, "what I did not know then that I do know now is just how incompetent we would be at carrying out that task."[21]
At Johns Hopkins' SAIS, a beltway institute that has been a base for numerous prominent neoconservatives like Paul Wolfowitz and Gary Schmitt, Cohen heads the Center for Strategic Studies, a program founded in 2003 with a generous grant from Philip Merrill, the now-deceased banker, minor media mogul, and advisor to the hawkish Center for Security Policy (CSP).[22]
In 2001, Cohen was one of a host of hardliners given seats on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board (DPB), which at the time was chaired by Richard Perle, a key supporter of the Iraq War based at AEI. (Others with the DPB at the time included James Woolsey, Newt Gingrich, and Richard Allen.) Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, Cohen was part of a core group of neoconservatives who pushed the idea that Iraq should be a primary target in the war on terror—despite any actual connection between Iraq and the 9/11 terrorists. A founding member of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), Cohen contributed his name to PNAC's notorious September 20, 2001 letter to President Bush, which argued that even if Saddam Hussein was not connected to the terrorist attacks, "any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq."
In a Wall Street Journal editorial a few weeks after 9/11, Cohen provocatively proposed the idea that the war on terror is World War IV. Other prominent neoconservatives—including former Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz, DPB member (and former CIA director) James Woolsey, and CSP's Frank Gaffney—quickly adopted the term World War IV in their writings.[23]
In his Journal op-ed, Cohen considered several potential names for the war that began, he argued, "well before Sept. 11." After dismissing the "9/11 War" and the "Afghan War," Cohen proposed: "A less palatable but more accurate name is World War IV. The Cold War was World War III, which reminds us that not all global conflicts entail the movement of multimillion-man armies, or conventional front lines on a map. The analogy with the Cold War does, however, suggest some key features of that conflict: that it is, in fact, global; that it will involve a mixture of violent and nonviolent efforts; that it will require mobilization of skill, expertise, and resources, if not of vast numbers of soldiers; that it may go on for a long time; and that it has ideological roots."[24]
Arguing that the invasion of Afghanistan was merely "one front" in this war, Cohen set out an ambitious agenda based on some hyperbolic assertions, including the false claim that Saddam Hussein supported Al Qaeda. Among Cohen's proposals: Pushing "free and moderate governance in the Muslim world," especially in Iran, arguing that the "overthrow of the first theocratic revolutionary Muslim state and its replacement by a moderate or secular government ... would be no less important a victory in this war than the annihilation of [Osama] bin Laden"; targeting all regimes that sponsor terrorists, with Iraq being "an obvious candidate, having not only helped al-Qaida, but attacked Americans directly (including an assassination attempt against the first President Bush) and developed weapons of mass destruction"; and finally, mobilizing the U.S. public "in earnest" for The Long War.[25]
In late 2006, with the Iraq War turning sour and conservative "realists" making a comeback in the form of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) led by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-IN), Cohen expressed growing frustration with the way the Bush administration was waging the war on terror.[26] In early 2007, then-Secretary of State Rice echoed the ISG's call for a "diplomatic offensive" toward Iran and North Korea. Soon after the ISG released its final report, Cohen criticized the group in a Wall Street Journal editorial: "This is a group composed, for the most part, of retired eminent public officials, most with limited or no expertise in the waging or study of war. It consists of individuals carefully selected with an eye to diverse partisan and other irrelevant personal characteristics. These worthies, with not one chairman but two (for balance, of course), turned to several score experts known to disagree vehemently with one another about the best course of action to be pursued in Iraq."[27]
Cohen concluded: "The creation of the Iraq Study Group reflects the vain hope that well-meaning, senior, former public officials can find ideas that have not already occurred to people inside government; that those new ideas can redeem incompetent execution and insufficient resources. ... This is no way to run a war, and most definitely, no way to win it."[28]
Despite his differences with the State Department, particularly with Rice, in 2007 Cohen was asked to serve as Rice's counselor. Cohen's appointment came as surprise to many observers because it came on the heels of several of Rice's diplomatic overtures in hotspots like North Korea and Iran. "Condi may feel she needs to have a neocon right next to her to protect her flanks," surmised Chris Nelson, editor of the Washington insider newsletter the Nelson Report. "And, if she's really planning to put her foot down on the Israelis, which [Washington] will have to do if it wants to get a real process with the Palestinians under way as part of a bigger regional deal with the Saudis and Iranians, then a guy like Cohen up there on the [State Department's] seventh floor who is in on it and can claim influence on the outcome can help."[29]
On Kosovo
In 2001 Cohen co-edited War Over Kosovo, a compendium of writings about the Balkan conflict. His coeditor was Andrew Bacevich, a critic of neoconservative influence on U.S. policymaking who later wrote The New American Militarism (2005). Reviewing the Kosovo book for Foreign Affairs, Stephen Biddle observed that Bacevich and Cohen see the conflict as marking the emergence of a fundamentally new "American way of war." According to Biddle, the authors consider the United States particularly suited to "crusades to end fascism or save democracy," but not suited "to the dirty work of imperial policing to secure second- or third-tier interests." Thus, to get public support for intervening in places like Kosovo, the Clinton administration decided to do it "on the cheap" through such tactics as air campaigns that minimize American casualties.
Biddle's review appeared just as the administration began building its case for invading Iraq. President Bush, he concluded, "casts a new war in similar terms yet draws back from asking Americans to make any major sacrifices to wage it. If U.S. aims prove achievable without pain, then the Bush administration will deserve the highest praise from a grateful nation and will be able to justly claim mastery of a new way of war that all should acclaim. If not, however, then one can be forgiven for wondering whether the style of warfare waged in Kosovo has not outlived its usefulness."[30]


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First of i like Good Food, and let me tell you this that this was the best ice cream sandwich i have had in a long time. Me and a group of friends went there around 8pm, the service was great & very friendly.
I ordered the Turtle cookie with vanilla cookies and cream ice cream. It was amazingly good, the cookie was soft and chewy, and the ice cream was full of flavor. Each bite i took, gave me visions of my childhood when sitting outside on a hot day eating ice cream.
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HEAT oil in large skillet on medium-high heat. Add chicken; cook and stir 4 to 5 minutes or until cooked through.
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Cobus Potgieter. If you haven't heard of him, check him out on YouTube.
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There haven't been any posts in quite a while to say the least, partly because Cobus hasn't posted a cover in two months or so. I say 'partly' because, while I could make graphics, gifs or something similar, my Photoshop, drawing and general art skills are terrible. Disgusting. Deplorable. So bad, one could say a lack of talent has coalesced around my being and become infinitely dense, transforming my person into a black hole of pure suck.
Anyway—I intended to make this blog a sort of highlight reel of his sexiest covers, but in light of the recent cover shortage, I'll just have to start posting everything. It's no big deal of course—everything the man does is awesome beyond belief—but I felt like letting you all know. Not to imply he's taking a break, of course; Cobus has been really busy lately developing The Cobus Method, his own drumming system based on playing by ear. I've no experience of it myself, but this reviewer seems rather taken with it.
If anyone feels like making badass Cobus graphics, fanart or anything along those lines, feel free to submit. It doesn't even have to be 'along those lines'—a scale figure made entirely of brownie sounds pretty badass. As does a life-size papercraft. Just sayin'.
Don't isolate yourself, every single person has bad days and struggles and issues. We're all equally human. — Cobus Potgieter (via everything-is-something)
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As an avid collector of vintage vinyl, it occured to me at some point that a large amount of great music has yet to make it to the reissue market and so Jazz From the Vinyl Junkyard each month features those obscure records that continue to elude all but the most astute jazz collectors.
For the first time in many years, there has been a shift in the focus of many record labels, putting new music and previously unearthed artifacts in a position of precedence over the reissue of vault items. New releases of live recordings from Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, and Charlie Parker seemed to steal the thunder from other important discs of new music and general reissues. What the labels don't seem to understand is that so much of the classic music of the past fifty years has been recently repackaged, which calls for a different approach in looking at material for ...read more
Artie Butler Have You Met Miss Jones? A&M/CTI 1968
Well, it has been some time since we last dipped into the vinyl crate for an installment. During the summer months, I had the good fortune of moving to a new house where I have more than enough space at last to accommodate all the vinyl, CDs, books, drums, stereo, and associated gear that comes with being a musician and music fanatic. On the other hand, that meant moving massive amounts of discs and vinyl, not to mention the usual painting and sprucing up that ...read more
Moacir Santos Maestro Blue Note Records 1972
Among a sizable number of Brazilian composers who are better known in their homeland than abroad, few can lay claim to a more substantive and varied catalog of music as that written by the great Moacir Santos. A prodigy of sorts, Santos mastered many wind instruments while still in his teens and toured Brazil for many years, studying and playing with a wide variety of ensembles. He also served as a musician with the National Radio Network in Rio de Janeiro before heading to the United States ...read more
Bobbi Humphrey Flute-In Blue Note Records 1971
Last time out we looked at two particularly neglected Blue Note gems from keyboard man Ronnie Foster which actually got me to thinking about the present state of that iconic jazz catalog. While the Connoisseur and RVG series have brought to light many of the best items from the vaults, the fact remains that there are still a small number of releases that have yet to make it to CD and deserve to be heard once again. So for the next few months, our efforts will be ...read more
While it's true that the declining years of the Blue Note label saw many releases of a lesser quality when compared with the golden gems of the label's heydays, sweeping generalizations lead to value judgments that might not always be applicable. Up through the mid '70s, artists like Horace Silver and Gene Harris continued to record viable albums even if they didn't quite reach the heights of earlier accomplishments. During this same era, a few uniquely talented young artists made the scene in an attempt to bring the music in line with the current fashions and trends.
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Keeping with tradition, over the past few years this column has turned its attention to some of the best reissues of the past twelve months, looking carefully for any albums that might have been profiled here and subsequently made it to compact disc. Not surprisingly, the vault material still available for mining becomes increasingly less and less each year. Still, many fine reissues made their debut and the Japanese market remained a major source of inspiration. So while jazz ukulele playing as heard on the Verve reissue of Lyle Ritz's How About Uke? might be an obscurity for few tastes, ...read more
The Riverside Jazz Stars Jazzy Soundtracks 4: Kean Riverside 1961
Last time out we focused on a jazz version of a 60's Broadway play and we continue in a similar vein this month with an unusual treatment of another long forgotten production. Kean opened in New York City at the Broadway Theater on November 2, 1961 and while its ultimate run was relatively short, it did receive some fine critical notices. Based on the swashbuckling adventures of esteemed 18th century actor Sir Edmund Kean, the play exploits the bawdy behavior of the great Shakespearean ...read more
Billy Taylor Orchestra Jazzy Soundtracks 3: Kwamina Mercury 1962
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Kenyon Hopkins Jazzy Soundtracks 2: The Yellow Canary Verve 1963
We initiated our foray into the land of jazz-inflected soundtracks with a look at the score to the long forgotten Mr. Buddwing , a superb accomplishment of the venerable Kenyon Hopkins . As we continue our survey, it seemed logical to continue with yet another one of Hopkins' luminous accomplishments, this one possibly being his most celebrated. Released in 1963 with a screenplay by mystery master Rod Serling, The Yellow Canary finds as its unlikely lead Pat Boone playing an intolerable singing star whose ...read more
With December ushering in the holiday season, it seemed logical to allow this month's column to address two items that fall under the category of jazzy Christmas fare. Although the repertoire in this area is really quite limited, some of the more memorable holiday jazz sides include works by Ella Fitzgerald and Jimmy Smith. For my money however, among the best sets is a pair of 1964 sides cut for Prestige by Bobby Timmons and Don Patterson. The idea for successful Christmas music adaptations has always been about utilizing the formats of such traditional pieces as a launching pad for ...read more
Never before had there been such a rush of musical product as that which appeared during the '50s and '60s. In all areas of music, but especially for popular and jazz genres, the time was ripe for a myriad of experiments. As stereo took its place among the technical landscape, companies large and small rushed to take advantage of its possibilities, sometimes with disastrous results, but often with a sense of inspired ingenuity. While producer Creed Taylor had already skipped to the head of the class while serving as A&R man for ABC Paramount and then ushering in its Impulse ...read more
Yusef Lateef Jazz 'Round the World Impulse! 1963
With a recent article in JazzTimes covering the history of Impulse Records and the role that prime mover John Coltrane made in securing the label's place in history, it occurred to me that there are still holes in the catalog's reissue program. Aside from Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders, both heavily caught up in Coltrane's trajectory, multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef was a vital member of the Impulse family who made his most mature recorded statements during the sixties while following his own path.
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Airto I'm Fine. How Are You? Warner Bros 1977
As we get ready to wind down the days of summer, it occurred to me that some of my favorite music of the season has always been Latin or Brazilian tinged. Something about that incendiary percussive mix always seems to speak of those warm and lazy afternoons under a shade tree with possibly a margarita on hand. Of those Brazilian artists most closely tied to the innovative jazz climate of the United States, drummer and percussionist Airto Moriera has come up with some of the ...read more
Don Goldie Trumpet Caliente Argo 1962
While the majority of classic jazz albums have obtained their status based on the innovative nature of the statements contained therein, the fact remains that there are a sizable number of albums that charm in a way that is quite different from the virtues of, let's say, Kind Of Blue or A Love Supreme. These minor gems may speak in a way that reaches the listener more directly or they may possibly contain a good number of favorite standards that just happen to strike a chord with a ...read more
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A Man Called Donald McDonald.
Let us talk about him, and the Man Behind The Masque.
Must have been very hard for Tom to be so far away from his beloved Sue for so many months.
And what a gorgeous part of the world to be filming in!
With new friends to meet and work with and enjoy.
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For a couple of hours Wednesday night into Thursday morning, a 66 year old man - trapped in a manhole - wondered if he would ever see the light of another day again.
It was about 8 o'clock Wednesday night. Ronald Ervin had just finished playing cards with friends and was walking to store. He decided to walk along the railroad tracks off the 400 block of East Long Avenue in Gastonia. He thought he was about to step on dirt surrounding by rocks.
"When I stepped on it, it went straight down" says Ervin. "I was very scared because I looked up and that manhole looked to me like it was 15 feet deep."
Ervin says he called out for help, and tried to climb up the ladder rungs inside the manhole but his legs were hurting. "If I put weight on one leg, the other leg still hurt" said the retiree, who talked to WBTV from his bed at Gastonia Memorial Hospital.
Along with the injuries to his legs, he says his hands had frost bite. "I tried to get out many times but I fell back down" said Ervin. "Next day this man going to work, he heard me."
About 11 hours later Ivory Floyd came along.
Floyd was not supposed to be in the area Thursday morning but his job called him in for some hours.
"I heard the cry help me, help me" says Floyd." I ran over to the hole and said sir how did you get in there. He said I was crossing the barrier and I was gone.
Floyd says he gave Ervin a bottle of water, called for help, and stayed at the hole talking to Ervin to keep him company and take the elderly man's mind off the ordeal.
According to firefighters, when crews got on the scene they found the man trapped in the hole nearly ten feet down. The man told rescuers he had been in the hole all night.
The Gastonia Fire Department and Gaston EMS were dispatched just before 8 am Thursday.
One rescuer went into the manhole to check on the man's condition while others set up a hoist to raise him out of the hole.
The rescue took about 20 minutes to complete.
EMS transported Ervin to Gaston Memorial Hospital where surgeons were scheduled to operate on his leg.
Ervin says "if God hadn't sent that man I might be still out there. Very blessed."
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Incase Portable Power 5400
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The Incase Portable Power 5400 puts an end to searching for accessible power outlets to charge your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch when you're on the go. Charge it before you leave, then take it along to recharge your iOS device at your convenience, anywhere. Once charged, the Portable Power 5400 quickly transfers power via USB, indicating charge progress with a series of LED lights. It has enough capacity to recharge an iPhone twice.
- 5,400 mAH internal battery
- LED power indicator
- Fast-charging 2.1-Amp output
- Embedded USB-A cable
- Universal connect USB port out
- Two full iPhone charges
Did you notice?Convenient built-in USB-A cable means one less item to pack.
Apple Recommends ForKeep your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch powered up wherever you go.
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- Incase Portable Power 5400
- User manual
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- Height: 1.9 cm
- Width: 6.1 cm
- Weight: 5.71 oz./162 g
- Length: 11.3 cm
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- Mfr. Part Number: EC20111
- UPC or EAN No.: 650450133430
- Note: Products sold through this website that do not bear the Apple Brand name are serviced and supported exclusively by their manufacturers in accordance with terms and conditions packaged with the products. Apple's Limited Warranty does not apply to products that are not Apple-branded, even if packaged or sold with Apple products. Please contact the manufacturer directly for technical support and customer service.
- Warranty: One-year limited (For details, please visit www.goincase.com/warranty)
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Can you charge 2 apple products at one time?
- Asked by Kay M from Tyrone
- Jul 18, 2014
Answer now (Can you charge 2 apple products at one time?)
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The description indicates that it can charge an iPhone twice on one charge. Is that the same with an iPad too?
- Asked by Anett T from Centreville
- Jan 19, 2014
Probably not, considering that an iPad uses much more power than an iphone
- Answered by Brandon K from Rancho Palos Verdes
- Feb 2, 2014
How much longer will battery last, if kept connected?
- Asked by John G
- Jan 15, 2014
Is this compatible with iPad mini?
- Asked by Cheryl M from Newport Beach
- Nov 29, 2013
Yes, through the USB charging port. But, you have to use the lightning cable that came with your mi Yes, through the USB charging port. But, you have to use the lightning cable that came with your mini.
Ronbo …
- Answered by Ronald K from Missoula
- Dec 3, 2013
How can its dimensions be SO large as stated if it is portable (The INCHARGE Portable Power Pack) porced at £69.95
- Asked by Alison M
- Nov 5, 2013
I'm assuming you may have mistook the cm for inches. This product is not SO large. Based on the manu I'm assuming you may have mistook the cm for inches. This product is not SO large. Based on the manufacturer's website, the dimensions are 4 3/8" x 2 3/8" x 3/4", the width and length are nearly identical to the iPhone 5 which is also portable. …
- Answered by S Christian D from Ballston Spa
- Nov 15, 2013
Is this compatible with the IPhone 5 or do I need an additional cable?
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- Nov 21, 2013
You need an extra cable to use this. It has a USB port on top that you plug the cable for your phon You need an extra cable to use this. It has a USB port on top that you plug the cable for your phone into (USB to Lightning for iPhone 5).
Incase and Belkin both make a kit with short (4-6") cables for use with this. The Incase one is cuter, since it comes it colors. I don't see it on the Apple site, but you can search for it elsewhere. It's the Incase USB Mini Cable Kit for iPhone.
Ah, looks like the Belkin 6" Lightning cable also comes in colors, and it is on the Apple site, but I can't post links even to other items in the Apple store in the answer! …
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The Red Wings will skate into their home opener tonight with a one and one record after they scored a 4-to-3 shootout victory last night at Columbus. Swiss rookie Damien Brunner scored the lone goal of the shootout to lift Detroit over the Blue Jackets. The much needed win followed the Red Wing's disastrous season opening 6-to-0 loss Saturday at St. Louis. Pavel Datsyuk scored for Detroit with six minutes remaining in the third period last night on an assist from Nicklas Kronwall to tie the score at three-three.
Brian Lashoff and Ian White also scored for the Red Wings while Jimmy Howard made 30 saves to pick up the win. Lashoff made his NHL debut after being called up earlier in the day from Grand Rapids to replace Jonathan Ericsson, who sat out with a shoulder injury. Dallas will face Detroit tonight with a 1-and-1 record after the Stars' 1-to-0 loss Sunday at Minnesota. The Red Wings said Monday that right-wing Todd Bertuzzi, thought to be suffering from mononucleosis, was diagnosed with the flu and is now listed as day-to-day.


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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
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BUFORD -- Five Below is not what you would expect to hear during the summer in Georgia, but it's coming.
The store, which carries only products that cost less than $5, will open in seven Atlanta area locations this weekend, including Buford. The store's grand opening will be on June 1 in the Marketplace at Millcreek at 1600 Mall of Georgia Blvd.
During the opening weekend, the first 300 customers will receive free Five Below T-shirts and one customer will receive a $100 Five Below shopping spree. Five-cent hotdogs and other giveaways will also be available.
Targeting pre-teens and teens, Five Below carries a variety of products across several retail categories, including nail polish, arts and crafts, fashion accessories, video games, toys, and fitness equipment.
The new stores are a part of the company's second major market expansion this year. In a press release, Tom Vellios, Co-Founder and CEO of Five Below said, "With these new stores we are expanding the geographic reach of our retail model to bring great value to more consumers across the U.S."
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- Mall of Georgia to open four new stores ( September 24, 2011 )
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kevin 2 years, 4 months ago
So GDP, what do these people sell? Would be nice to put that in the article.
gr8fuldawg95 2 years, 4 months ago
Did you even read the article?
"Targeting pre-teens and teens, Five Below carries a variety of products across several retail categories, including nail polish, arts and crafts, fashion accessories, video games, toys, and fitness equipment."
Karl 2 years, 4 months ago
If you've read his replies in the past, you would know that kevin struggles mightily with reading comprehension.
JCJB 2 years, 4 months ago
They did put it in the article...nail polish, arts and crafts, fashion accessories (see article) Duh


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Jamnagar News
Investigation on Jamnagar terror alert sounded a week ago had a very nasty turn last night.
Earlier this week, Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB) managed to grab the headlines after it published five suspects with photo and their approximate targets.
Initially what looked like solid intelligence information is slowly becoming a huge embarrassment for the RAW and Intelligence bureau.
Photos of the terrorist provided by security agencies were flashed across the country and like every case; Indian media hyped the case stating the arrival of the 'deadly' five across the border, of the targets identified, one was the Refineries near Jamnagar, triggering a security panic through out Gujarat and specially in Jamnagar.
Come Thursday, Pakistani newspapers like Dawn and The Express Tribune catch this ball, and hit it hard back to India. Newspapers claimed that two of the men being shown as terrorists were shopkeepers in Lahore, and one was a security guard. In fact when they saw their picture flashed in Indian channels, they turned up at local police stations in Pakistan for 'protection'.
Now the pictures posted didn't looked like pictures from passport or from any official documents, what looked more like a facebook profile picture.
Still, India's former IB chief is not ruling out the suspicion yet, he says that raised doubts about the individuals were genuine and can not be ruled out.
10. May 2012
Jamnagar News
The Special Operations Group (SOG) has arrested a man with facility to forge documents in Ahmedabad. A copier shop on the Ashram Road ran a racket to forge the documents allegedly.
This operation was carried out by sending some constables to get a duplicate telephone bill and a fake election card, the owner named Jha, quickly took their photos and prepared election card and telephone bill, for just 140 rs.
Jha had created 200 such documents in recent past, and police is now tracing these individuals.
However this could be just one of the case, that has nothing to do with the terror threat.
Strong winds with dust is reducing the mercury in Jamnagar.
Winds with 50KM speed is reducing temprature and humidity across the city, maximum temprature is reduced to 34 from 37, just a day earlier.
Moisture is still at 73%, it is to note that whole of Gujarat has very different weather including snowfall in certain places in North Gujarat.
9. May 2012
Jamnagar News
Intelligence Bureau and Jamnagar police are still tracking the terror alert, updates from the reliance refinery claims that the forces had scanned through the CCTV footage of the Reliance refinery and nearby area.
A widespread hunt is on to nab 5 or 6 terrorists from Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) to target Jamnagar Refinery and other installation near Jamnagar.
Special Operation Group (SOG) is investigating the CCTV footage since yesterday.
Jamnagar police had earlier released sketches of many suspects, and also found that they were using a license of a driver who visits refinery. After advice of police Jamnagar's Reliance and Essar are doing a thorough checks on drivers and all entrants of the premises.
6 years ago a major raid in Moti-Khavdi's Guru Krupa Photo Studio, Police seized 400 fake licences and entry passes. The documents were to be used for Reliance, ESSAR and GSFC facilities. This areas is situated just outside Reliance refinery and GSFC facility. Two nabbed persons from that raid used to copy the identity cards of those who came to get passport sized photos, this documents were later forged to make entry passes for refineries.


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With a roll of nausea, I realized I'd misunderstood. "When you say we–," I whispered. "I mean my family and myself." Each word separate and distinct. I shook my head back and forth mechanically, trying to clear it. He waited without any sign of impatience. It took a few minutes before I could speak. "Okay," I said. "I'll come with you." "You can't, Bella. Where we're going… It's not the right place for you." "Where you are is the right place for me." "I'm no good for you, Bella." "Don't be ridiculous." I wanted to sound angry, but it just sounded like I was begging. "You're the very best part of my life." "My world is not for you," he said grimly. "What happened with Jasper–that was nothing, Edward! Nothing!" "You're right," he agreed. "It was exactly what was to be expected." "You promised! In Phoenix, you promised that you would stay–" "As long as that was best for you," he interrupted to correct me. "No! This is about my soul, isn't it?" I shouted, furious, the words exploding out of me–somehow it still sounded like a plea. "Carlisle told me about that, and I don't care, Edward. I don't care! You can have my soul. I don't want it without you–it's yours already!" He took a deep breath and stared, unseeingly, at the ground for a long moment. His mouth twisted the tiniest bit. When he finally looked up, his eyes were different, harder–like the liquid gold had frozen solid. "Bella, I don't want you to come with me." He spoke the words slowly and precisely, his cold eyes on my face, watching as I absorbed what he was really saying. There was a pause as I repeated the words in my head a few times, sifting through them for their real intent. "You… don't… want me?" I tried out the words, confused by the way they sounded, placed in that order. "No." I stared, uncomprehending, into his eyes. He stared back without apology. His eyes were like topaz–hard and clear and very deep. I felt like I could see into them for miles and miles, yet nowhere in rheir bottomless depths could I see a contradiction to the word he'd spoken. "Well, that changes things." I was surprised by how calm and reasonable my voice sounded. It must be because I was so numb. I couldn't realize what he was telling me. It still didn't make any sense. He looked away into the trees as he spoke again. "Of course, I'll always love you… in a way. But what happened the other night made me realize that it's time for a change. Because I'm… tired of pretending to be something I'm not, Bella. I am not human." He looked back, and the icy planes of his perfect face were not human. "I've let this go on much too long, and I'm sorry for that." "Don't." My voice was just a whisper now; awareness was beginning to seep through me, trickling like acid through my veins. "Don't do this." He just stared at me, and I could see from his eyes that my words were far too late. He already had. "You're not good for me, Bella." He turned his earlier words around, and so I had no argument. How well I knew that I wasn't good enough for him. I opened my mouth to say something, and then closed it again. He waited patiently, his face wiped clean of all emotion. I tried again. "If… that's what you want." He nodded once. My whole body went numb. I couldn't feel anything below the neck. "I would like to ask one favor, though, if that's not too much," he said. I wonder what he saw on my face, because something flickered across his own face in response. But, before I could identify it, he'd composed his features into the same serene mask. "Anything," I vowed, my voice faintly stronger. As I watched, his frozen eyes melted. The gold became liquid again, molten, burning down into mine with an intensity that was overwhelming. "Don't do anything reckless or stupid," he ordered, no longer detached. "Do you understand what I'm saying?" I nodded helplessly. His eyes cooled, the distance returned. "I'm thinking of Charlie, of course. He needs you. Take care of yourself–for him." I nodded again. "I will," I whispered. He seemed to relax just a little. "And I'll make you a promise in return," he said. "I promise that this will be the last time you'll see me. I won't come back. I won't put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I'd never existed." My knees must have started to shake, because the trees were suddenly wobbling. I could hear the blood pounding faster than normal behind my ears. His voice sounded farther away. He smiled gently. "Don't worry. You're human–your memory is no more than a sieve. Time heals all wounds for your kind." "And your memories?" I asked. It sounded like there was something stuck in my throat, like I was choking. "Well"–he hesitated for a short second–"I won't forget. But my kind… we're very easily distracted." He smiled; the smile was tranquil and it did not touch his eyes. He took a step away from me. "That's everything, I suppose. We won't bother you again." The plural caught my attention. That surprised me; I would have thought I was beyond noticing anything. "Alice isn't coming back," I realized. I don't know how he heard me–the words made no sound–but he seemed to understand. He shook his head slowly, always watching my face. "No. They're all gone. I staved behind to tell you goodbye." "Alice is gone?" My voice was blank with disbelief. "She wanted to say goodbye, but I convinced her that a clean break would be better for you." I was dizzy; it was hard to concentrate. His words swirled around in my head, and I heard the doctor at the hospital in Phoenix, last spring, as he showed me the X-rays. You can see it's a clean break, his finger traced along the picture of my severed bone. That's good. It will heal more easily, more quickly. I tried to breathe normally. I needed to concentrate, to find a way out of this nightmare. "Goodbye, Bella," he said in the same quiet, peaceful voice. "Wait!" I choked out the word, reaching for him, willing my deadened legs to carry me forward. I thought he was reaching for me, too. But his cold hands locked around my wrists and pinned them to my sides. He leaned down, and pressed his lips very lightly to my forehead for the briefest instant. My eyes closed. "Take care of yourself," he breathed, cool against my skin. There was a light, unnatural breeze. My eyes flashed open. The leaves on a small vine maple shuddered with the gentle wind of his passage. He was gone. With shaky legs, ignoring the fact that my action was useless, I followed him into the forest. The evidence of his path had disappeared instantly. There were no footprints, the leaves were still again, but I walked forward without thinking. I could not do anything else. I had to keep moving. If I stopped looking for him, it was over. Love, life, meaning… over. I walked and walked. Time made no sense as I pushed slowly through the thick undergrowth. It was hours passing, but also only seconds. Maybe it felt like time had frozen because the forest looked the same no matter how far I went. I started to worry that I was traveling in a circle, a very small circle at that, but I kept going. I stumbled often, and, as it grew darker and darker, I fell often, too. Finally, I tripped over something–it was black now, I had no idea what caught my foot–and I stayed down. I rolled onto my side, so that I could breathe, and curled up on the wet bracken. As I lay there, I had a feeling that more time was passing than I realized. I couldn't remember how long it had been since nightfall. Was it always so dark here at night? Surely, as a rule, some little bit of moonlight would filter down through the clouds, through the chinks in the canopy of trees, and find the ground. Not tonight. Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight–a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold. maybe the moon was broken. lost in the day without her sun. completly diferent beings... but what if the moon loved then sun? what if the moon got so used to being in the suns world that she sould never find her way back to her own? that poor moon. The Broken Moon. edwar was my sun and i would never find my world again. i belonged in his. with him. what if that moon wanted to be apart of the day instead of night? It was black for a long time before I heard them calling. Someone was shouting my name. i didn't bother to move. more and more times i eard people calling my name. i heard footsteps come closer... and then go away again. i didn't want to be found. i wanted to die. i had to move or they would find me. but how? every time i moved even a little it felt like another peace of my heart fell off. but it would be better for the pain to go away.so i lokked around i could see a cave.i crawled into it. "no bella!" i heard his voise call. i lokked around... no one.was he watching me. i heard more foot steps. i went further into the cave. "bella no come out of the cave. let them see you and take you to charlie."he told me. charlie. oh ya.was i really going to leave him? but it was to late it was all dark and quiet now. "they are gone now edward it's to late. i am going to die now." i told him. i layed my head on the ice cold ground. "no bella get up! stand up they are not far from here. get up and out of the cave and yell to them they will come!" he yelled. "no edward, i would rather die here."i told him. "bella n-" and i sliped away. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ so should i wright more? and no bella is not dead just sleeping. *MORE STORYS BY THIS AUTHER* My Guardian Devil summery: have you ever felt bad for rosalie for not having a child? well an 11 year old girl named kerigan has been abused by her father since her mother died. when her father shot her in the shoulder she new it was enofe and ran away. almost dead rosalie finds her. see what happens next!!! http://www.thetwilightsaga.com/group/fanfiction/forum/topics/my-gua... Crazy Wrong love this is a new twilight story. bella just moved to forks and edward and rosalie are together and they are the cullens with carlisle as there father. another pack of vege vamps move there two. emmett alice and jasper hale. esme is a house disiner.emmett and alice are together. jasper loves bella, bella loves edward,edward loves rosalie and bella ,rosalie loves emmett and edward, emmett loves rosalie and loves alice and alice has a HUGE cruch on jasper. this is just all crazy wrong love. will anything end the way it should? will emmett and rosalie be together? will edward and bella? with jasper and alice? or will esme and carlisle? Impossible Love anybody here like carmen? from the denil coven? i found her cool so i invented her past. plez read! carmen was a regular everyday girl. when she was young she had black hair instead of brown(i'll explan later) she had a best friend named chase. she and him where outsiders. but one day chase started o avodie her. she tryed to vist but chases dad wouldn't alow it. when she was walking home a vampire was passing by. disided to have her as a late night snack. he bit her but chase and his werewolf buddy derek chased him off. she was turned. learn about the great advenchers they go on together. will they someday fall in love? http://www.thetwilightsaga.com/group/fanfiction/forum/topics/inposs... http://www.thetwilightsaga.com/group/fanfiction/forum/topics/crazy-...
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The Indiana Pacers and Oklahoma City Thunder each got their conference semifinal series off to a winning start on Sunday. The Pacers went into Madison Square Garden in New York and knocked off the Knicks 102-95. The Thunder held home court by edging the Memphis Grizzlies, 93-91.
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text: Football Arsenal v Hull City: FA Cup final 2014 – in pictures All the best images from Wembley Stadium as Arsenal take on Hull City. Will Arsenal's nine years of hurt be ended or will we see the underdogs triumph as Wigan did last year? Steven Bloor Saturday 17 May 2014 11.29 EDT Share this article Share via Email Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+ Here it is, the brand new FA Cup, which is needed because the previous incarnation was getting too old and fragile to repair And here's a home-made version made by a young Hull fan. No doubt he'll be hoping Curtis Davies will be lifting the real thing at the end of the game Though David Skates, the owner of this Arsenal customised Rolls Royce, will obviously be hoping it's a red-shirted player hoisting the trophy high and ending Arsenal's nine-year wait for silverware Fans make their way towards the ground A nice selection of Arsenal shirts through the ages Arsenal fan Mo Farah has made friends with the opposing fans by doing the 'Mobot'. Hull's celebrity fans spotted at Wembley include Sinitta and Omar Sharif A Hull City fan displays a banner Looks like 'Ull have got the message as after just three minutes they take the lead when James Chester instinctively diverts Tom Huddlestone's shot into the corner of the net! Hull's dream start gets better after eight minutes when Fabianski tips Bruce's header onto the post and Curtis Davies reacts quickest and planted the ball into the net expertly from close range It's an unbelievable start Hull City manager Steve Bruce is ecstatic Sixteen minutes in Hull give away a needless free kick twenty yards out. Santi Cazorla steps up and fires a free kick goalwards … The ball rifles past the wall and the despairing dive of Allan McGregor and smashes into the top corner of the net. It's a fabulous free-kick and Arsenal are back in the game. Half-time score: Arsenal 1-2 Hull City The Hull fans applaud on 56 minutes in memory of the fans who died in the Bradford City fire in 1985 Santi Cazorla is brought down by Curtis Davies in the area Santi Cazorla and the Arsenal fans appeal for a penalty but the referee ignores their appeal Arsenal are piling on the pressure in the second half and eventually it tells as Laurent Koscielny equalises in the 72nd minute. Bacary Sagna wins a header from a corner and the ball ricochets off Olivier Giroud to Koscielny, who's standing three yards out. He swivels and shoots into the net before being clobbered by the keeper With eleven minutes to go Kieren Gibbs has a cast iron chance to put Arsenal in the lead when the ball falls to him seven yards out. However he loses his head and blasts the ball over the ball. Cue collective heads in hands Midway through the second period of extra time Aaron Ramsey gives Arsenal the lead with a lovely goal. Ramsey stabbed into the net from 14 yards after Giroud backheeled the ball into his path There's joy and relief on the face of the Arsenal players In the dying moments Hull City break and Sone Aluko skips past Arsenal goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski ... But the angle is tight and the forward's shot rolls across the face of goal and, to the relief of the Arsenal players and fans, to safety The final whistle goes and the relief of finally ending the trophy drought is etched on the face of Arsene Wenger Celebrations for Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker whilst there's despair for Hull City Lukasz Fabianski celebrates with the fans As does Jack Wilshere Thomas Vermaelen lifts the trophy, the first Arsenal captain to do so in 9 years There's cheers back at the Emirates too where fans who couldn't get a ticket for Wembley have been enjoying the match Wenger gets his hands on the trophy and lifts it high The Arsenal fans rejoice as the players take turns to lift the trophy The players make their way back to the pitch Tomas Rosicky leads the celebrations back down on the pitch Arsene Wenger is doused with champagne The Arsenal squad throw a drenched Arsene Wenger in the air as celebrations continue Wenger doesn't look too happy as he's changing out of his soaked shirt Topics FA Cup Arsenal Hull City Share this article Share via Email Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google+


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07 June 2011
Dr Victor Gekara researches Nautilus International.
Dr Victor Gekara from the School of Business IT and Logistics, RMIT University, has been researching international trade union, Nautilus International.
The union, which was launched in 2009, has recently taken steps towards cross-border unionism - a move that is seen as innovative and ground breaking.
"The value of Nautilus to its members – as a cross-border union instead of individual national unions – is great," Dr Gekara said.
"Bringing together members from different countries opens up new possibilities to counter the negative consequences of globalisation (for labour).
"It will also form a model to assist others in the process of building effective international union alliances in the context of growing labour and capital transnationalism."
The challenge of growing capital influence in the maritime sector is set to grow as some of the largest container carriers, who are also the largest employers of seafarers, continue on the path of expansion.
As smaller carriers are phased out and the industry becomes dominated by just a few major players, one union, operating across national borders and supported by a strong membership base, will have greater capacity to negotiate.
Nautilus International is currently one of the largest unions representing maritime professionals in Europe and is expected to gain prominence within the international shipping industry.
"While it is early days in the life of Nautilus International, it has shown great success so far and makes for an interesting case study," Dr Gekara said.
"My discussions with the leaders and members have revealed great enthusiasm and confidence – a sound indication of a good journey ahead."
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Maw Maw is Virginia Chance's grandmother, Barbara June, who raised Virginia and lets her live in her home with her husband, Burt, and their son, Jimmy.
Maw Maw doesn't have many lucid moments. As a result, she often walks around the house without a shirt on and kisses Jimmy, who she thinks is her dead husband, Wilfred.
When Burt tries to make Maw Maw quit smoking, she keeps burning him with lit cigarette butts. In order to protect himself and rid the house of fumes, Burt built Maw Maw a bubble to smoke in.
Maw Maw is unstoppable at the game Jenga as long as the song "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" is playing in the background. This skill comes in handy when baby Hope crawled into a precariously cluttered shed and Maw Maw was able to rescue her.
Even though she thinks her husband, Wilfred, is still alive, Maw Maw started an affair with a man she meets at Shelley's day care. When Virginia tried to stop Maw Maw from cheating, Mel moved on to another woman and broke her heart.
In her more delusional moments, the octogenarian thought she was in labor, tried to breastfeed baby Hope, and believed that she was still in the USO. But when she was in a more sensible frame of mind, she knew that the U.S. was at war with Iraq and Afghanistan, and she reminded Jimmy that there are lots of other fish in the sea.
As time went on, Maw Maw almost seemed to be getting more lucid. She was having fewer topless run-ins in public, and her commentary seemed more connected to what's going on around her. She was still prone to mischief, like swallowing her gold tooth and stealing the mayor's car.
And it was not surprising to discover that Maw Maw once had a very conniving streak. Twenty years ago she paid someone to lure Burt away, hoping to put an end to Burt and Virginia's marriage, but she vowed never to interfere with their union again.
That doesn't mean Maw Maw lives free of her moments of confusion. When Virginia and Burt leave her in Jimmy's care, she once again mistook her grandson for her late husband, Wilfred. Even though she started off feeling randy, she soon turned on him, believing that Wilfred forgot their anniversary. Jimmy discovered that her outbursts could be calmed with a nice necklace and a spritz of water.
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A Definitional Analysis with Implications for Classroom Teaching
Pragmatics has been a field that has been considered by some scholars to be rather difficult to define and/ or not sufficiently important to be considered distinct to semantics. It has also not always received sufficient attention in L2 learning. A clear definition of what pragmatics is in terms of context and meeting truth conditions is presented as well the potential for ambiguity in defining cross-cultural pragmatic failure from other types. The analysis demonstrates the importance of such understandings of pragmatics and some of the implications for teaching it particularly in the L2 classroom, so that students can be better equipped to avoid cross-cultural communication problems. Based on Jung's seminal work at, there are also a number of insightful ideas on how acquisitorial pragmatics can be approached. One important area of focus relates to ensuring L2 learners gain an acceptable appreciation of pragmatic strategies of relevance. Again understanding the pragmatics of politeness and face saving is an important area to return to for L2 students to get right in their language learning strategies. For consistent to Hanza getting a grasp on what constitutes cross-culture failure through losing face due to low pragmatic competence would seem to be especially worthy of classroom attention. For example, though a milder example of impoliteness, for some, certain L2 speakers may not understand the differences of how and when to use such modals as "can" and "could" versus the conditional "would"; the latter of which carries a more imperative meaning than the two modals in respect to making requests -at least among middle class Americans.
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Not only is this National Heart Month, it is also National Cardiac Rehabilitation Week. Cardiac Rehab involves a closely monitored exercise program after a coronary procedure. We met a young woman in Aberdeen who had just started as a physical therapist in Avera St. Luke's Cardiac Rehab Unit, when out of the blue, ended up needing open heart surgery and going through the 12 week program herself.
Laura Huber is a Physical Therapist in Avera St. Luke's Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit. What makes her a great PT is her empathy for patients. She knows what it's like to recover from open heart surgery. Her heart started to give out 3 years ago just days after the birth of her daughter Maddie.
Laura tells us, "I had a baby in April and went home and a couple days later I developed symptoms of pneumonia. I was hospitalized, well first they put me on antibiotics, and then I was hospitalized, but I wasn't getting better."
Instead of relishing in the joys of motherhood, at the age of only 26, she was diagnosed with Postpartum Cardiomyopathy which is essentially heart failure.
Laura says, "I didn't feel that sick. I didn't realize how sick I was until the day the cardiologist came to me and said you are in multiple organ failure. You need an LVAD and without it I don't give you more than 2 days. Then it hit me and I said ok let's go. "
That afternoon she had surgery.
Laura explains how the LVAD (Left Ventricular Assist Device) works. She says, "Essentially it's a heart pump. It's sewed to my left ventricle to keep a continuous flow of blood so you won't feel a pulse on me. A tube goes up to the aorta pushes the blood to the rest of my body and electrical cord comes out me and is connected to the computer."
When Laura had open heart surgery to have the LVAD implanted her doctors were calling it a "bridge to recovery", but 3 years later her heart still hasn't shown much improvement.
Laura says, "I will need a transplant at some point, but I'm postponing being put on the list because I feel so good with the LVAD and I'm so young (she is now 29). I'm not ready to give up my own heart yet."
For the patients she helps in rehab and the nurses who work beside her they understand completely. They all say Laura truly has a heart of gold, and as long as she feels good, they would hate for her to be without it.
Laura suspects a virus during her pregnancy is what caused her heart to stop working like it should.
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The Naval Sea Systems Command has found a way to beat its goal for hiring a certain group of vets - wounded warriors - by more than 200 percent.
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