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Tuesday Morning Corporation (NASDAQ:) Q2 2018 Results Earnings Conference Call February 1, 2018 9:00 AM ET
Stacie Shirley – EVP, CFO Treasurer
Steven Becker – President CEO
Jeff Van Sinderen - B. Riley
Alex Silverman - Special Situations Fund
Ethan Steinberg - SG Capital
Good day, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Tuesday Morning Corporation second quarter 2018 results conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will follow at that time. [Operator Instructions]. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded.
I would now like to turn the conference call over to Stacie Shirley, CFO Officer. You may begin.
Stacie Shirley
Thank you operator and good morning everyone. I would like to welcome you all to our second quarter fiscal 2018 earnings conference call. Joining me on the call today is Chief Executive Officer, Steven Becker. If you have not received a copy of today's earnings release, you may obtain one by visiting the Investor Relations section of the Tuesday Morning website at tuesdaymorning.com.
Before we begin today's discussion, I would like to make you all aware that some of the information presented today may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those implied in the forward-looking statements. Information regarding the company's risk factors was included in our press release and is also included in our filings with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements made during this call speak only as of the date of this call.
Today's presentation will also include certain non-GAAP financial measures, including adjusted EBITDA. A reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures used in this presentation to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures can be found in the Investor Relations section of the Tuesday Morning website at tuesdaymorning.com.
Steve will provide an overview of the results and strategy and I will follow with a review of our financial results before we open the call to questions.
I will now turn the call over to Steve.
Steven Becker
Thank you, Stacie, and thank you everyone for joining us this morning for our second quarter call. For the quarter, we delivered sales of $334 million with positive comp growth of 1.8%. We remain pleased with the performance of our relocated stores and continue to work to improve topline performance across our store base. Throughout the peak season, we experienced significant improvement in our supply chain operations, benefiting from the management, personnel, systems and process changes that we have made. We have also continued to make solid strides of our working capital position with inventories down 12.5% versus last year and our overall inventory turns improving to 2.6 times versus last year's 2.4 times. Also of note, we ended the quarter with no outstanding balances under our revolver.
Overall, we continue to be pleased with our positioning in the retail sector and believe the evolving environment is opening up opportunities for Tuesday Morning to gain share. With our own capabilities improved, we are better positioned to capitalize on these opportunities. The closeout market continues to be very strong offering compelling deals for our buyers. We are actively adding more vendors, premium brands and deeply discounting merchandise across the stores. As is the nature of off-price, dislocation and disruption in the retail sector provides buying opportunities and open up new avenues for growth with our vendors. With department and specialty stores continuing to shrink square footage as well as others going out of business, the current deal environment is particularly strong.
For example, this quarter we had several significant buys of first-year brand-name toys due to the current issues in the toy market. Toys have been a strong category for us historically and we were happy to take advantage of these great buys and pass them on to our customers. We know that compelling deals keep our customers coming back. Our customer not only enjoys the treasure hunt but she comes to us as a destination for better and best products at incredible values.
With this in mind, we are making strides improving our marketing to engage with these customers as well as introduce our brand to new customers. Through our new brand messaging, both in-store as well as in our email, print and digital platforms, we are focused on improving customer engagement. As we go about our approach in other media channels beyond print, we are pleased with the results. Over the last 12 months, we have captured well over two million unique email addresses and have an above industry average email open rate.
Additionally, we are learning more about our customers and have grown our known customer files significantly. All of this has allowed us to improve our ability to drive traffic with email, which we believe over time will allow us to shift advertising dollars. We also continue to test other advertising and have been pleased with the early results. All of these efforts allow us to build stronger brand awareness and drive more traffic to our stores.
Turning now to our work with inventory management. As I noted, total inventories continued to be down year-over-year. Since the latter part of last year, we have removed significant dollars from our overall working capital needs with our move to process inventory on a FIFO basis and no longer hold large inventory reserves in our warehouse. This initiative, as well as continued refinement in how we buy, have led to meaningful improvements in the freshness of our store level inventory.
While we believe we are taking the right steps with our total inventory management, we have also embarked on a project to optimize our inventory level in a subset of our stores. So far, the initial results of this work has been encouraging and we believe there is opportunity to generate additional sales volume in these stores.
With regards to our supply chain, our distribution centers in Phoenix and Dallas handled peak and are continuing to effectively manage our supply and we are continuing to effectively manage our supply chain on a FIFO basis. We have continued to add more points of distribution with our Phoenix DC servicing 182 stores at the end of Q2 versus 151 at the end of Q1. By the end of this fiscal year, we expect to transition an additional 61 stores to our Phoenix DC. Clearly, this is great progress for our supply chain as we are now able to move more products through our more efficient distribution facility while taking pressure off of our Dallas distribution center.
As we have moved past the issues of last year and with our distribution network functioning more effectively, we are also in a position to begin evaluating next steps for our Dallas distribution center. As we have mentioned before, moving from our current facility has always been an opportunity. We just had to prioritize and sequence our initiatives and tackle the most critical ones first. We are actively looking at different possibilities and will keep you updated on any notable developments.
Finally, on the real estate front, we are on track to relocate 45 stores, open 15 and expand eight stores. We are going to have a busy spring with seven openings, five closures, 19 relocations and one expansion. The dislocation created by the evolving changes in the retail sector are creating many opportunities for us from a retail perspective, from real estate perspective. All of these changes will take time to fully shake out and we are patient being discerning about the deals we do and aggressive in our negotiations for new deals [or lease terminals] [ph].
As we look to the back half of this year, we are far better positioned than we were a year ago across every area of the business. Over the course of the last 12 months, we have made considerable management changes with many of our new leaders recently celebrating their first anniversary in their roles. I am proud of the team we have built and through these significant changes in the organization, we are seeing benefits internally and we feel good about our ability to continue to drive further improvement.
We remain focused on our goal to deliver improved gross margins for the second half and for the year we expect comp performance of 2% to 5%, as well as significant EBITDA improvement. Given our planned improvement for the second half and continued working capital discipline, we also continue to expect our fiscal year year-end net debt position to be flat to last year.
I will now turn the call over to Stacie to go through our results and outlook in more detail.
Stacie Shirley
Thank you Steve. Thank you. In the second quarter, net sales were $333.8 million, up approximately 1.7% from Q2 last year despite having 16 fewer stores in our store base. Comp sales increased 1.8% on top of the 3.8% increase in Q2 last year. Comp transactions increased 1.9% and average ticket decreased 0.1%.
Stores relocated over the last 12 months continued to be strong contributing approximately 340 basis points to comp sales in the quarter, driven by both better real estate and larger average store footprint. During the quarter we had three zero green card events versus last year, resulting in a headwind to our overall topline performance for Q2. As Steve discussed, we are expanding our focus to additional platforms to improve customer engagement and increase the effectiveness of our current marketing spend.
Gross profit was basically flat at $105.7 million, a decrease of $300,000 versus last year. Gross margin for the second quarter was 31.7% compared to last year's gross margin of 32.3%. As expected and discussed last quarter, gross margin decline year-over-year driven by a planned shift in our markdown cadence and was partially offset by continued improvements in IMU. Additionally, the amount of previously capitalized supply chain and freight costs recognized in this quarter was lower than the same period last year as a result of a decrease in costs incurred for both buying and supply chain compared to last year.
SGA expenses were just slightly above last year at $97.4 million for the second quarter versus last year's expenses of $97.2 million. As a percentage of net sales, SGA improved 40 basis points to 29.2% compared to 29.6% in the same period last year. The decrease in rate was driven primarily by reduced advertising expenses this quarter. Also contributing to the decrease in SGA were reductions in certain other corporate expenses including labor costs and legal and professional fees which decreased both in dollars and as a percentage of net sales from the prior year quarter. Partially offsetting these decreased costs were higher store rent and depreciation from our ongoing strategy to improve our store real estate.
Our operating income was $8.3 million for the quarter compared to operating income of $8.8 million last year. We reported net income of $8.7 million or $0.19 per share compared to last year's net income of $8.4 million or $0.19 per share. Also, EBITDA for this year was $15.2 million, compared to $14.5 million last year and adjusted EBITDA was $16.6 million this year compared to $17.2 million for the second quarter of last year. Included in adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter of last year was approximately $1.1 million of incremental costs relating to the ramp-up of our Phoenix distribution center. For further details on the remaining reconciling items, please refer to our earnings release for the reconciliation of adjusted EBITDA.
Now let me review our results for the six-month period ended December 31. Net sales were $552.6 million, compared to $540 million for the same period last year. This is a 2.3% increase in total sales with 16 fewer stores compared to last year. Comp store sales growth was 2.5% on top of last year's 4.3%. Comp transactions increased 2.3% along with the 0.2% increase in average ticket. Sales at the 55 stores relocated during the past 12 months increased approximately 59% on average for the first six months of fiscal 2018 as compared to the prior year period. Again, primarily from the improved real estate and larger store footprint and these stores contributed 370 basis points to our comp store sales.
Gross margin for the first six months of fiscal 2018 was 33.2% compared to last year's gross margin rate of 33.9%. The decrease in gross margin was primarily due to last quarter's recognition of previously capitalized supply chain and freight costs, including an approximate 50 basis point impact of elevated costs related to the supply chain issues we incurred in the prior fiscal year and to a much lesser extent increased markdown. Partially offsetting these increases in costs was an improvement in initial merchandise markup.
SGA expenses were $187.4 million for the first half of fiscal 2018 compared to last year's expenses of $183.8 million. As a percent of net sales, SGA improved slightly to 33.9% versus 34% in the same period last year driven by the same details I just mentioned related to the second quarter.
Our operating loss for the first six months of fiscal 2018 was $3.7 million compared to an operating loss of $500,000 in the first six months of fiscal 2017. We reported net loss of $3.6 million or a loss of $0.08 per share compared to last year's net loss of $400,000 or $0.01 per share for the six months.
EBITDA was $9.7 million for the six months of this fiscal year compared to $10.2 million for the same period last year and adjusted EBITDA was $12.5 million compared to $14.8 million for the first six months of fiscal 2017. The last year number included about $2.1 million related to the Phoenix DC ramp up.
Turning now to our balance sheet. Cash and cash equivalents were $9.4 million as of the end of the order compared to $12.6 million at the same time last year with total liquidity of $112.3 million including approximately $102.9 million available on our revolver. As of quarter-end, we had no borrowings outstanding under our line of credit. Given the seasonality of our buying, we expect we will be in our line for the remainder of the fiscal year. That said, we continue to expect in the year with our debt relatively flat with fiscal 2017 year-end levels.
We ended the quarter with inventory at $220 million, a 12.5% decrease from the year ago. And for the quarter, we invested $6.3 million of CapEx on a net basis, the majority of which was focused on our real estate initiative. During the quarter, we opened four stores, relocated 14 stores, expanded two stores and closed eight stores.
Turning now to our outlook. With regards to the remainder of the year, we continue to expect substantial gross margin improvement in the range of approximately 250 to 300 basis points. Again, as Steve had mentioned, we expect our fiscal 2018 comp sales performance to be in the range of 2% to 5%. And we expect to leverage SGA for the year. We believe that we are on track to deliver significant improvement in our fiscal 2018 EBITDA. Lastly, our outlook for our capital spend continues to be in the range of $25 million to $30 million for the year.
I will now turn the call back over to Steve before we open up for questions.
Steven Becker
Thank you Stacie. Before we turn the cal over for questions, I would like to thank our teams for all the hard work and dedication to Tuesday Morning. We are making good progress against our initiatives and we are excited and ready for an improved spring performance.
Now with that, we will open it up for questions. Operator?
Question-and-Answer Session
[Operator Instructions]. The first question is from Jeff Van Sinderen of B. Riley. Your line is open.
Jeff Van Sinderen
Hi. Good morning everyone. It might be tough to quantify but wondering how much you estimate the unfavorable weather and the shift in advertising schedule impacted your comps in the quarter? And then if you could speak more about regional performance differences and also are there any advertising schedule differences we should be aware of for your fiscal second half?
Steven Becker
So we had a shift of one event in the December quarter and then we removed two events. Over the last couple of years, we have a lot of creep in terms of green card events and we had them last year, I think, back-to-back-to-back-to-back in December. And we just decided that a couple of those events weren't profitable and put a heck of a lot of strain on both our supply chain and our stores. So we removed those and definitely cost us some sales, as did the shift from one event that moved from the second quarter to the first quarter. There definitely was some weather in the quarter. I don't know if we have quantified that.
Stacie Shirley
No. We have not.
Jeff Van Sinderen
Okay. And then is there anything as far as advertising schedule differences we should be aware for second half?
Steven Becker
No. I think for the most part, you know, given our event history, for the most part it should be relatively consistent. I mean we are spending a lot of time from a marketing standpoint testing new mediums and we are working to shift dollars away from green card promotion, from the traditional means of green card promotion, which historically was print, both newspaper inserts and direct mail. And so in the second quarter, we did a lot of testing and I think we are at the point in time where we are beginning to see some signs of optimism around opportunity. And so I think you will see us continually try to move some dollars away from those mediums towards digital where we think there is opportunities to deploy dollars more effectively.
Jeff Van Sinderen
Okay. Good. And then maybe for Stacie. Just a couple of balance sheet items. How should we think about the average inventory levels during Q3 and then I guess at the end of the quarter? And then what would you expect the drawdown on your revolver to be roughly at the end of Q3?
Stacie Shirley
So from an average inventory, we have certainly entered the spring in a better position this year than where we were a year ago. We haven't really given guidance as to an average inventory and Steve spoke a little bit about the opportunity that we have in a subset of our stores to focus on inventory at these base stores. And so we would expect to see some improvement in those stores on an overall level basis.
I don't know if there is anything else on inventory you want to speak to.
Steven Becker
Yes. We talked about inventory ad nauseum. As you know, we have spent a lot of time overall on our inventory levels and we put in place a number of initiatives which we think improved the overall freshness of inventory. So our overall inventory was down about 12.5% versus last year. Our turns were up slightly. We measure the freshness of our inventory. Both three and six month inventory was significantly fresher, both in the second quarter and also in January than it was last year. We spent a lot of time on managing our weeks of supply. So we want the inventory to be fresher. We want it to turn more.
And I think the organization, from a merchandising standpoint, is really focused on the chase more so, I think frankly than it's ever been which is all positive. And then we have this initiative to identify an opportunity, a subset of stores within our base, which we think have been under inventoried. So if you think back on what happened with our supply chain last year, it really created some distorted sales record and we allocate back to regular price sales. And so stores that didn't get enough inventory therefore didn't have the right sales record therefore they weren't getting fed more inventory. So we spent a lot of time looking at individual stores where we felt they were outperforming their inventory levels and we are currently spending time adjusting that. We have an internal team. It's a project that's a couple months old and the early signs there are pretty positive.
Jeff Van Sinderen
Stacie Shirley
And from a debt level, we haven't talked about where we think we are going to end Q3. The only guidance we have given is that, again, we believe we will be in the same range at the end of the year as we were last year.
Jeff Van Sinderen
Okay. Any color, I know January is kind of a transitional month, but any color you can give us on how Q3 is starting? And then also just to clarify, your outlook calls for acceleration in comps going forward. Just wondering how we should think about comps in legacy versus legacy or non-relocated stores for second half?
Steven Becker
So Jeff, I would say this, if you think about the position that we are in today versus the position that we were in last year, I am not going to speak to exactly the performance in the month of January, but I will say that we are in a much better spot than we were then. The inventory is fresher. The product is timely. The mix is better. The inventory levels are better. So I would say, internally we are feeling better about our positioning. We don't update trend but that's how we feel about the positioning.
And in terms of comps in the base, that's obviously a huge focus of ours. And as we look at our performance over the course of the last year, you can really see anomalies based on inventory levels and much of that, as I mentioned, has a lot to do with the way that the supply chain functioned last year. And so you can see if you break our base into three different cohorts, very significant differences in performance based on inventory levels.
And so we are spending a lot of time on that and it's early and again, the results right now reflect the time last year when the stores were really low on white space inventory and we are receiving some of their inventory behind schedule. So we are tracking that. We are optimistic that there is opportunity there, but it's early.
Jeff Van Sinderen
Okay. That's helpful. And then one last one. If I heard you right, I think you said 19 relocations for spring this year. Just wondering how many store relocations you are planning for calendar 2018 at this point?
Steven Becker
I don't think we have given calendar numbers. I am not sure those are set. We have given fiscal year numbers.
Stacie Shirley
Just for this fiscal year we haven't really.
Steven Becker
Yes. What's the fiscal?
Stacie Shirley
For this year, it's the 45 for this year.
Steven Becker
45 for this year. And you know, I would say, Jeff look, I think the nice thing about our real estate portfolio is it's extremely flexible. I think 25% of our leases come up for renewal this year. And so you know we are being very opportunistic from a real estate standpoint. There is a lot of opportunity out there. There is a lot of square footage showing up that wasn't there before. You have seen a bunch of recent announcements that are pretty significant in the market and that presents an opportunity for us. Obviously it takes a little while to shake out. So you know, I would say, our real estate plans are pretty fluid and we are just watching and waiting and looking for the right opportunities.
Jeff Van Sinderen
Okay. Got it. Well, I can take the rest offline. Thanks for taking my questions and best of luck.
Steven Becker
Thank you.
Stacie Shirley
Thanks Jeff.
Thank you. The next question is from Howard Silverman of Special Situations Fund. Your line is open.
Alex Silverman
Actually, it's Alex Silverman, but that's okay. Good morning.
Steven Becker
Good morning.
Alex Silverman
So Jeff covered a bunch of my questions, but can you spend a minute on your higher initial inventory markup? How much of that is mix? How much of that is ability to price at less of a discount? Walk us through that if you could because I think this is, I don't know, your seventh or eighth quarter in a row of improvements.
Stacie Shirley
Yes. So we are very pleased with the trend that we have seen year-over-year for several quarters now. I mean it's a combination of things. It's a combination of both the mix as well as just a more disciplined buying and making sure that we have got better tools in place to monitor our progress and to ensure that we are hitting our goals. But other than that, we haven't really split it out to say the two pieces.
Steven Becker
Yes. I also think, Alex, there is some environment there. I think that we have made changes in leadership in merchandising and there is a lot of discipline around that. and I think W that when you hit an environment like this, you have a real opportunity to be very aggressive in what you pay for merchandise. And obviously, that helps you to drive your IMU.
Alex Silverman
Okay. Secondly, your 55 stores were up 52%. You said part of that is better real estate, part of that is larger footprint. Backing out footprint, can you give us a sense of what growth was like on a per square foot basis?
Steven Becker
I will have to get back to you offline on that. I don't have that number in front of me.
Alex Silverman
Or even on just how much of that mix, what percent of that, how much of that growth was one versus the other, even a bucket?
Steven Becker
We don't have that number in front of me for the quarter.
Stacie Shirley
It certainly is a part of it, but not in every single relocation that we look at is there a significant increase in square footage. But it's definitely a combination of an increase in just the overall performance of those stores in that first year, regardless of whether it's a bigger footprint or not we see really great performance.
Steven Becker
Yes. I would say, generally speaking, more of it is due to the location than the square footage growth. In fact sometimes we step back in square footage. We might have had a former supermarket that was oversized for a very large space and we move into a more modest pace. Obviously, sometimes we step forward smaller space into a larger one. But bigger driving factor is almost always the location.
Alex Silverman
Okay. And then my last question is, what do you think year two trends are for those relocated stores? Do you see the follow through?
Steven Becker
So they always step back in year two because they have such a strong glow period.
Alex Silverman
Steven Becker
And so that first 90 days out of the box, they outperform very significantly. And then they pull back into a trend that's more in line with the base.
Alex Silverman
Got it. Helpful. Thank you.
[Operator Instructions]. The next question is from Ethan Steinberg of SG Capital. Your line is open.
Ethan Steinberg
Hi guys. Thanks for taking the call. Those guys covered most of the questions I had to ask. I just want you to talk, Steve, a little bit more about some of the dislocation you are seeing with retail and what kind of opportunities that's creating? And also tie that into maybe opportunities which you have on lease costs as they come up for renewal, if that's changing right now.
Steven Becker
So you mean from a real estate perspective or overall?
Ethan Steinberg
I guess both. I am curious if you are seeing it open up less competition on the demand side with the customers? And then also if it's helping you on the cost with negotiating leases?
Steven Becker
So I mean I would say, overall the dislocation of real estate is very positive. One, from a market standpoint, obviously when you have competition, you know, we have a market, it's positive for us, especially in lots of our smaller markets around the country when you are in Tyler, Texas or Austin, Texas and a competitor closes, there aren't that many alternatives and that's very positive for Tuesday Morning.
From a real estate perspective, absolutely. I mean I think it's become very rapidly a buyers market in the commercial real estate market. You have seen a series of store closing announcements already this year. I suspect you are going to see more. And some of them are pretty meaningful from a square footage standpoint.
And thirdly, from a vendor perspective, you know, a couple of buyers who have been here for a very long time commented to me over the last couple of weeks that they are as busy with closeout opportunities than they have ever seen. And I think that that has a lot to do with the fact that you have a lot of vendors who built businesses around supporting department stores and specialty stores and they are seeing the demand from major customers that we are all well aware of cutting back meaningfully.
And so they have manufacturing capacity that they have to fill and that creates opportunities for the off-price channel. I would say that we have just gotten back from a handful of shows which happened in the January timeframe and we are very consistently hearing the message that vendors are very open-minded about doing business in the off-price channel, including some vendors who historically have been reluctant to sell in those channels. They have embraced it. They recognize that it's an opportunity for them. And frankly they need to fill capacity.
Ethan Steinberg
All right. And just the one other question was, the inventory in the cohort stores or the non-relocated stores, is that roughly appropriate right now? Is that where you want it to be? Or is there still work to do?
Steven Becker
So there is still work to do. As I mentioned, we have a team that's working on rightsizing the inventory on a portion of the base and we think there is a lot of opportunity there. We are measuring it. As I mentioned, we are kind of cautiously optimistic, but again it's January versus a rough January last year from an inventory standpoint and it's going take a little while for that to play out. So we will have more talk about at the end of the March quarter. But we think there is still opportunity to get inventory levels rightsized in a good portion of our base.
Ethan Steinberg
All right. Thank you.
Steven Becker
Thank you.
Thank you. And at this time, I would like to turn the call back to Steve Becker for closing remarks.
Steven Becker
Thank you for joining us today. Have a good morning.
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference. You may now disconnect. Good day everyone.
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As part of our year-end wrap up, we are sharing the best Fresh Air interviews of 2012. This interview was originally broadcast on April 2, 2012.
During a recent stand-up tour, the comedian and star of Parks and Recreation, Aziz Ansari riffed on what he calls the "fears of adulthood."
You know, babies. Marriage. That kind of stuff.
"I see a lot of my friends are kind of entering serious stages of their lives where they're getting married and having children, and I'm getting to the age where that stuff is getting expected of me," Ansari tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "And it's all very terrifying to me. It still feels like it's so far away."
Ansari certainly has a lot on his plate at the moment. He plays a low-level administrator on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, and recently released a new comedy special, called Dangerously Delicious, online. He got the idea partially from Louis C.K., who released his own $5 comedy special on the Web last year.
"Obviously, it was a tremendous success when [Louis C.K.] released it that way, and I started getting tweets and things saying, 'Can you release your stand-up special this way? I think it'd be great if you did it,' " Ansari says. "I thought, 'Well, if that really worked and people are really behind it, why try to fight that trend?' [Louis C.K.] clearly hit a nerve with that release strategy. So I did it and as soon as I did it, the overwhelming response was, 'I'm so glad you did it, too. I hope more comedians do this.'"
Ansari has been involved in the comedy world for a long time. He acted in MTV's sketch series Human Giant, and he played the part of a xenophobic fruit vendor in HBO's Flight of the Conchords. Now, on Parks and Recreation, his character, Tom, dreams of becoming a mogul like Russell Simmons or Sean "P. Diddy" Combs.
"But he's in this really small town, and he's too scared to go to New York or L.A. to try and make that happen, so he really tries to live those dreams in the confines of this very small town," says Ansari.
A Childhood Filled With Boredom
Ansari himself grew up in a small town in South Carolina, where he says there was frequently nothing to do.
"Nothing cool was going on, and I just wanted to leave," he says. "And I think now, with the Internet and everything, you have more glimpses into the cool world. I think when I was younger, you were exposed to whatever cool things [people] in your class were familiar with, but now I feel like with the Internet, you're exposed to everything cool."
He remembers playing guitar and losing himself in bands like Led Zeppelin and Metallica during the first part of high school, when he was the only nonwhite student in the entire school. But after 10th grade, Ansari transferred to a different school — a public magnet school for students across the state interested in math and science.
"Even just meeting kids from different parts of South Carolina kind of expanded my exposure to different cultural things," he says. "So that increased my interest in different things, and then I went to New York and NYU because that of course is where everything is."
Doing Stand-Up
Ansari started performing stand-up while he was still a student at NYU. Rolling Stone named him as a "Hot Stand Up" choice in 2005, and then came an invitation to perform at the 2006 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo., where he received an award for best stand-up. Much of his humor is self-deprecating.
"I play up the underconfidence ... a little bit," he says. "With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes. You don't want to hear a story, like, 'I went up to this hot girl and everything worked out fantastic. We're dating. Everything worked out great. Good night!' ... People would be like, 'I hate that guy.' It's much more endearing to hear someone going through the same struggles we've all gone through."
It's kind of the flip side of what his rapper friends do with their personas.
"Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy," he says. "They understand it's a different type of thing. And those guys are super funny. They have a great sense of humor. I don't think they're like, 'Aziz isn't cool.' There's just not a self-deprecating rapper; that wouldn't work. If you're a rapper and you're like, 'I saw this girl, but I was too scared' — that doesn't work for a rapper."
Interview Highlights
On Indian role models he had while growing up
"I never saw an Indian person on TV unless it was like Gandhi or a James Bond movie where he goes to India or they're showing the Kwik-E-Mart guy. There was no one Indian on TV. When I did the MTV sketch show called Human Giant around 2007, I joked around and said, 'I think I might be the first Indian person you've ever had on MTV.' And I was half-joking, but I think it may be true. I can't think of ever seeing an Indian person on MTV."
On what his parents think of his comedy
"My parents have seen me do stand-up. I did Carnegie Hall January of last year. And a few days before, I thought, 'I have to fly my parents in to see this.' ... I was a little worried that they would be offended by some of the bits. There's some pretty harsh stuff. But the positives outweigh the negatives. And after the show, they didn't say anything about the language. Someone was sitting next to my parents and saying they were laughing the whole time. They weren't getting offended. Maybe every now and then my mom put her hands in her face, but I think any mom would do that with some of the stuff I say. Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession."
On his comedy idols
"The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. I was obsessed with that stuff. ... And then what else? Eddie Murphy's Delirious. Coming to America is still one of my favorite movies. TV shows? I feel like I didn't watch any good sitcoms until I was older. I loved Seinfeld, but I don't think I watched really good stuff till I got older. ... I have a friend Jason, and he talks about growing up and watching Freaks and Geeks and Mr. Show and Chris Eliott stuff, and that stuff just wasn't on anyone's radar in Bennettsville, S.C."
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Today we start a holiday week series featuring a few of our favorite interviews of the year. Comic and actor Aziz Ansari was on our show in April, after he released a new stand-up special on his website. He co-stars on the NBC series "Parks and Recreation" as Tom Haverford, who works in the parks and rec office in Pawnee, Indiana.
Here's a scene from season three with his then-boss Leslie Knope, played by Amy Poehler.
AMY POEHLER: (as Leslie Knope) Do you want to go to lunch?
AZIZ ANSARI: (as Tom Haverford) No, I don't really feel like going to J.J.'s.
POEHLER: (as Leslie Knope) We can go anywhere. Your choice. I'm, I'm buying.
ANSARI: (as Tom Haverford) Can I get apps and serts? Serts are what I call desserts. Trey-treys are entrees. I call sandwiches Sammies, Sandosals or Adam Sandlers. Air conditioners are Cool Blazters with a Z. I don't know where that came from. I call cakes big ol' cookies. I call noodles long-ass rice, fried chicken is Fry-fry Chickie Chick. Chicken parm is Chickie-chickie Parm-parm. Chicken cacciatore, Chickie Catch. I call eggs pre-birds or future birds. Root beer is super water. Tortillas are bean blankies. And I call forks food rakes.
POEHLER: (as Leslie Knope) Yeah. You can get as many 'serts as you want.
ANSARI: (as Tom Haverford) Well, let's get in my Go-Go mobile - car.
GROSS: Like the character he plays in "Parks and Rec," Ansari's parents emigrated from India. He's from South Carolina. Although his character sees himself as a ladies' man and is always bragging, Ansari's standup act is more self-deprecating.
So your humor onstage is self-deprecating, and I'm thinking like you're good friends with like, you know - good friends, I don't know, but you're friends with Jay-Z. You love hip-hop. And, you know, the - hip-hop is so much about confidence and swagger and feeling like you can go up to that beautiful woman, and she's just going to just - she's going to be really happy that you went up to her because you're the best when it comes to making love or standing up to the cops or looking good or, you know, whatever needs to be done.
GROSS: And I'm wondering, like, how your self-deprecating humor goes over with your hip-hop friends, because the sensibility in some ways seems pretty different.
ANSARI: Well, being a rapper is, like, about being cool and things like that. And being a comedian, you're not really supposed to be the coolest guy. So I think, you know, they understand it's a different type of thing, you know?
And, you know, those guys are super-funny. They have a really great sense of humor, and when I do hang out with them, like, we will laugh hard at things we all say, and they have a great sense of humor. So they understand it's a different thing. I don't think they're, like, oh man, Aziz isn't cool. You know what I mean?
ANSARI: It's just a different thing to be a comedian. There's not a self-deprecating rapper. That wouldn't work. If you were a rapper that was like: I saw this girl, but I was too scared, like...
ANSARI: Like that doesn't work for a rapper. You can't be like: And then I took her back to my place, and she said she had a boyfriend. Like that doesn't - that rapper wouldn't go very far because in a rap song you want to live vicariously through them. You want to be on the jet or whatever, you know what I mean?
ANSARI: (Rapping) And then I drove my mom's car 'cuz I can't afford my own.
ANSARI: Terry, I think we've got to do a self-deprecating rapper album. Do you make beats on the side?
GROSS: Absolutely. That is what I do in the evenings.
ANSARI: Or maybe you can sing the hooks.
GROSS: I do that too. It's really funny you should bring it up, absolutely.
ANSARI: (Singing) He can't afford a car.
GROSS: So you're of Indian - the country of India - ancestry.
ANSARI: Yes.
GROSS: And when you were growing up, there were probably not a lot of comics of South Asian ancestry to look to as role models. Did that matter to you?
ANSARI: I never saw an Indian person on TV unless it was like Gandhi or there was like a James Bond movie where he goes to India or like there was some show where they happened to go to India, or they're showing a Quik-E-Mart guy.
There was no one Indian on TV, like no one. When I did this sketch on MTV called "Human Giant" around 2007, I joked around with the people at MTV. I was like: Wow, it's pretty cool, I think I might be the first Indian person you've ever had on MTV. And I was half-joking, but I think it may be true. Like, I can't think of ever seeing an Indian person on MTV.
And I think it's really cool now, you can't avoid Indian people on TV. There's like one Indian person minimum on every, like, sitcom or drama. There's like some Indian guy in the office. It's really funny to me that that's the case. And even when I was coming up, even seeing like Mindy Kaling on "The Office," it was great because you could point to her and be like: See, like she's a really funny character on that show, and there's no jokes about her having an Indian accent or anything.
It's just about her character and her personality. Even having that was, like, a great thing to point to, and I think now with me and Danny Pudi on "Community" and, you know, a myriad of other people, I think it must be a little different to be a kid growing up that's Indian and seeing all these Indian people in the culture.
GROSS: Somebody who knows your name now is President Obama, and he mentioned you at a fundraising event in New York in early March. He mentioned that you were there. He mentioned that you were backstage and that this was a particularly big deal because his daughter Malia is a huge fan of "Parks and Recreation."
So how did you end up being at that event with him, and how did he end up mentioning you?
ANSARI: As with a lot of things with me, it all goes back to food. I eat at that restaurant, ABC Kitchen, a lot. It's a restaurant in New York. And that's where this event was. And they came up to me, and they're like: Hey, we're doing this event with President Obama. He's going to speak here, and we were wondering if you would want to host it or something.
And I was like yeah, sure, because you guys are going to be catering and your food is delicious. And the Obama people contacted me, and they're like: Would you want to do this? We think it's a great idea. You could speak. And I did it, and it was really fun. And I wrote this little speech for the event and made the speech.
And then eventually the president spoke, and he mentioned me in the speech, and it just blew me away. Like I still haven't quite comprehended how crazy it is that the president mentioned me in a speech. I still don't believe it. It's still crazy to me. And he came backstage afterwards, and he talked to me for a while, and he mentioned that his daughter really loved "Parks and Recreation," and he was just super-nice and very cool.
GROSS: There's a good deed that you did that I think few people know about. There was an article in Rolling Stone about violence against gay teenagers, and after you read it, you got in touch with the person who wrote the article and offered to do a fundraiser to raise money for an organization that works with gay teens. And you hosted a comedy benefit in L.A. on behalf of a Minnesota LGBT group. Why did you decide to do that?
ANSARI: I heard a YouTube clip from Howard Stern, where he was talking about this article, and if you haven't read the article, you should really read it. It's about bullying and particularly about this school in Minnesota where it was just - it was just really such a sad article.
And I just read it, and I was like, man, is there - you know, it really affected me, and it really, really made me sad, like just thinking about these kids who were - these kids were just, like, getting put down by all these other kids in their school, and they seem like such brilliant kids. And it just really bummed me out that those kids, the other kids, the bully kids were winning, that they were letting them ruin what was special about them.
And it just didn't seem fair. It seemed like these kids were...
GROSS: Were you bullied as a kid?
ANSARI: I wasn't. You know, I think - you would think I would be. It seems like I would be a really easy bully target. But, you know, obviously I was made fun of here and there, but I've said this, I think I even said it to you last time I talked to you, like, you know, it was probably on par with what a fat kid dealt with. It was not, like, serious racism where like kids were throwing rocks at me and harsh stuff like that, or you know, or - you know, you see, like you read these stories and stuff, and you read about, like, real torment, you know, like real - kids getting really tormented.
I did not have that at all. But I guess I can relate to the idea of being different from everyone else, and I can relate to people telling you you can't do something or people making fun of you because you're different. Or I've seen other kids make fun of other kids for having different interests or whatever.
And when I read that story, it just, it really ticked me off that the school allowed that to happen. Basically the school district wasn't taking a stand. It really got bad, and several kids ended up taking their own lives. It was that bad.
And one kid's mom started an organization called Justin's Gift, and the writer of the Rolling Stone article - I just emailed her, and I was like: Hey, I read this article and it's really affected me. I just feel like I want to do something. I'll gladly do a benefit, like it's really easy for me to, like, put on a show and raise some money. Like, who could I raise money for? What would be the best organization?
And she referred me to Justin's Gift, and so I was doing a show that weekend, and it sold out, and we gave that money, and then I put together another show with some other comedians that I'm friends with, and we charged more for that, and it sold out, and we raised like $15,000 like just doing those two shows, and we gave it to them.
And, you know, I was glad we were able to do those shows and do that, and I hope it helps those kids even a little bit because, you know, it just really bummed me out hearing about what happened to those kids.
GROSS: Well, I think it's great that you did that. So you do a lot of tweeting, have a lot of followers. And after the Trayvon Martin story, when Geraldo made his comment about how, you know, he shouldn't have been wearing a hoodie...
ANSARI: Yes.
GROSS: You replied with a barbed tweet, and I'll ask you to tell us the radio-friendly version of what you said.
ANSARI: I think what I said was: It's really appropriate to say this any day, but today in particular: F-you, Geraldo. And I tweeted that, and what I failed to realize is that now whenever there's a big news story, news outlets will take things that people tweet and quote them as if that's, like, their statement on something.
Obviously if I was talking to, like, the Washington Post, that would not be my analysis of the event, no. I would have said something a little bit more nuanced. However, there was an article somewhere, I have it on my phone, I'll read to you what they wrote. They wrote - the headline said something like - sorry, give me a second, I'll put it up - it said: Geraldo Rivera says Trayvon Martin's hoodie made him a target receives major backlash.
The Fox News commentator says Martin's killer should be prosecuted, but the victim's attire put him at fault too. Aziz Ansari responds: F-you, Geraldo.
ANSARI: I love that that was in the sub-headline for that article. In that case, you know, I don't like people quoting me, you know, from my Twitter in like a serious news article. But in that case, it was so funny to me that I approve.
GROSS: Aziz Ansari, it's been great to talk with you again. Thank you so much.
ANSARI: It's always a pleasure, thank you so much.
GROSS: Aziz Ansari, recorded last April, after he released his stand-up comedy special Dangerously Delicious" on his website. He co-stars on "Parks and Recreation." Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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SEATTLE (AP) - January 6, 2014 --Former teacher Mary Kay Letourneau, who made headlines after she had sex with her 12-year-old student, is back in jail in Seattle.
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Subject: Counterfeit Cashier's Checks
Date: December 19, 2013
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Consider Inauguration Day, more than two weeks gone and already part of our distant past. In its wake, President Obama was hailed (or reviled) for his "liberal" second inaugural address. On that day everything from his invocation of women's rights ("Seneca Falls"), the civil rights movement ("Selma"), and the gay rights movement ("Stonewall") to his wife's new bangs and Beyoncé's lip-syncing was fodder for the media extravaganza. The president was even praised (or reviled) for what he took pains not to bring up: the budget deficit. Was anything, in fact, not grist for the media mill, the hordes of talking heads, and the chattering classes?
One subject, at least, got remarkably little attention during the inaugural blitz and, when mentioned, certainly struck few as odd or worth dwelling on. Yet nothing better caught our changing American world. Washington, after all, was in a lockdown mode unmatched by any inauguration from another era—not even Lincoln's second inaugural in the midst of the Civil War, or Franklin Roosevelt's during World War II or John F. Kennedy's at the height of the Cold War.
Here's how NBC Nightly News described some of the security arrangements as the day approached:
[T]he airspace above Washington…[will be] a virtual no-fly zone for 30 miles in all directions from the US capital. Six miles of the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers will be shut down, with 150 blocks of downtown Washington closed to traffic, partly out of concern for car or truck bombs…with counter-snipers on top of buildings around the capital and along the parade route…[and] detectors monitoring the air for toxins.… At the ready near the capital, thousands of doses of antidotes in case of a chemical or biological attack.… All this security will cost about $120 million dollars for hundreds of federal agents, thousands of local police, and national guardsmen from twenty-five states."
Consider just the money. It's common knowledge that, until the recent deal over the renewal of the George W. Bush tax cuts for all but the richest of Americans, taxes had not been raised since the read-my-lips-no-new-taxes era of his father. That's typical of the way we haven't yet assimilated the new world we find ourselves in. After all, shouldn't that $120 million in taxpayer money spent on "safety" and "security" for a single event in Washington be considered part of an ongoing Osama bin Laden tax?
Maybe it's time to face the facts: this isn't your grandfather's America. Once, prospective Americans landed in a New World. This time around, a new world's landed on us.
Making Fantasy Into Reality
Bin Laden, of course, is long dead, but his was the 9/11 spark that, in the hands of George W. Bush and his top officials, helped turn this country into a lockdown state and first set significant portions of the Greater Middle East aflame. In that sense, bin Laden has been thriving in Washington ever since and no commando raid in Pakistan or elsewhere has a chance of doing him in.


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Massive crane catches fire at port in PortsmouthBy GRETYL MACALASTER
Union Leader Correspondent
July 30. 2013 3:09PM
PORTSMOUTH — Fire engulfed a crane at the New Hampshire State Pier on Market Street Tuesday afternoon, causing heavy damage to the massive piece of equipment.
The operator of the crane was able to get out safely.
Port Director Geno Marconi said they do not yet know what caused the fire.
He said the operator of a nearby truck waiting for the crane to unload his pile of scrap metal heard a pop and then saw smoke coming from the crane.
By the time he got out of his truck, the crane was ablaze.
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A Linux distribution is made up of various components written by lots of different projects. Those projects, in turn, are comprised of lots of individuals who contribute code in a loose manner. Microsoft Windows is also made up of various different components, written by several different departments ("projects", if you will) within Microsoft. These projects, in turn, are also comprised of several different people.
If you can blame "Microsoft" for the Conficker worm, then who do you blame when it comes to a Linux distribution?
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NEW YORK (AP) — J.C. Penney Co. shares are trading at their lowest level in nearly 13 years, as the department stores operator is facing a rough road ahead to turn around its business.
The retailer's share plunge comes as the chain is trying to recover from a botched transformation plan spearheaded by its former CEO Ron Johnson that led to disastrous financial results. The board ousted Johnson in April after only 17 months on the job and rehired Mike Ullman, who had been CEO of the retailer from 2004 to late 2011.
Wednesday's free fall comes a day after a gloomy analysis by Goldman Sachs, which began coverage of its unsecured debt with an "Underperform" rating. In the report, Kristen McDuffy wrote that she fears that the beleaguered company will be forced to tap into the debt markets for more cash.
"In our view, a combination of weak fundamentals, inventory rebuilding, and an underperforming home department will likely challenge J.C. Penney's' liquidity levels in the (third quarter)," wrote McDuffy. "In order to safeguard against a potentially poor (fourth quarter) holiday season, it is likely that management will look to build a bigger liquidity buffer."
McDuffy also said that she believes that the current and fourth quarter will be difficult, with business likely showing a slower-than-expected improvement.
The analysis follows reports that have been swirling since late last week that the retailer is looking to raise more money, possibly through a combination of debt and equity. J.C. Penney's reported search for more capital comes after it arranged a $2.25 billion loan this past spring with Goldman Sachs. McDuffy said she expects Penney to burn through $300 million of cash from inventory as it rebuilds its store label offerings, which were eliminated by Johnson.
Daphne Avila, a spokeswoman for Plano, Texas-based J.C. Penney, said she is unable to comment on stock performance or unconfirmed reports based on market speculation.
J.C. Penney shares fell $1.56, or 13 percent, to $10.36 in midday trading. The stock dropped as low as $9.93 earlier in the session, a level it last traded at in the fall of 2000. Shares are down nearly 50 percent since the beginning of this year and have lost more than 75 percent of their value since early February 2012, when investor enthusiasm was high over Johnson's transformation plan.
Penney ended up recording nearly $1 billion in losses and a 25 percent drop in revenue in the fiscal year that ended Feb. 2, the first year of the transformation plan that involved getting rid of most sales events and bringing in trendy merchandise. But the moves intended to attract a younger, more affluent shopper ended up alienating its core shopper. Since returning to Penney's helm, Ullman has been bringing back basic merchandise like loose-fitting khakis and restoring frequent promotions. But sales declines and losses continued into the first and second quarters as Johnson's legacy continued to cast a shadow on the results.
Even its overhauled home department, which was a project of Johnson's and was rolled out in late spring with a slew of new brands, has been a disaster.
Meanwhile, Penney is locked into a court battle with rival Macy's Inc. over a partnership with Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc.. A New York State Supreme Court Judge summoned lawyers for Martha Stewart, J.C. Penney and Macy's Inc. to a hearing, almost two months after the three made closing arguments in a lengthy battle over J.C. Penney's partnership with the homemaking maven.
The judge was seeking more information before he plans to issue a ruling on whether Macy's has the exclusive rights to certain merchandise like bedding and bath items. He told lawyers Wednesday that he will be making the ruling soon.
Macy's, which has a long-standing contract with Martha Stewart, sued Penney and Martha Stewart for signing a 10-year contract with the domestic diva in late 2011. The J.C. Penney deal was signed by Johnson as part of an overall plan to reinvent the retailer. The bedding and bath collection was part of the new home department. But sales of the merchandise have been disappointing. The New York Post reported that Penney is aiming to replace the Martha Stewart designed line bedding and bath collection with other brands.
Penney also sells window treatments and party supplies not covered by Macy's exclusive agreement.
Martha Stewart Living on Wednedsay reiterated its statement issued earlier this month that "J.C. Penney remains one of our many retail partners.""Our agreement with them is in force, and we have no intention of ending it. We are committed to working with them to design high-quality, beautiful and affordable products for consumers around the country," it said.


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Monochrome colorblocking and soft lightweight knit make this bebe sweater dress an effortlessly-chic fall item. Try it with embellished heels and a moto jacket for a punch of edge.
- 90% rayon, 10% spandex.
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Date published: 2012-10-30
Rated 5 out of 5 by 2Die4Fashion from Comfy and Cute Def recommend this dress. The material so is soft and the length is perfect! The dress does have some stretch to it so it gives you a nice figure shape. Highly recommend!
Date published: 2012-10-22
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Date published: 2012-10-16
Rated 5 out of 5 by KalikaSlg18 from Absolutely Love this dress This sweater dress is so comfortable and looks adorable with some leggings and boots. I wore it to the bar for Sunday night football and received so many compliments on it. It hugs your curves. I turned alot of heads with this dress. Couldn't ask for anything more a sexy comfortable dress without being overly sexy. Thanks Bebe!
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Officials at Vallejo's St. Patrick-St. Vincent High School said earlier this month that 50-year-old head football coach Chris Cerbone was fired because varsity players exposed their genitals to harass six younger teammates.
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Echiuran worms, numbering around 135 (Brusca and Brusca 2003) to 165 (Biseswar 2009) known species, are an exclusively marine/brackish water group of round, unsegmented worms with a short, stout trunk and and a proboscis that can be shortened and lengthened (but not retracted). The proboscis has a broad groove beneath, with the mouth at its base. Many echiurans are quite large. The trunk can range from a few centimeters in length to as long as 40 cm, but the proboscis can reach as much as 1 to 2 meters!
Most echiurans burrow in sand or mud or live in surface detritus or rubble. Some species inhabit rock galleries excavated by other invertebrates. Echiurans occur from the intertidal down to 10,000 meters in depth. They have a large coelom (body cavity) that provides a hydrostatic skeleton against which the body wall muscles operate, allowing them to move and burrow. Most echiurans are detritus feeders, burying their trunk and extending the proboscis over the substrate, with organic particles being trapped by mucus on the proboscis. The mucus and food particles are moved by ciliary action along the ventral proboscis gutter to the mouth. Urechis species, which have a very short proboscis, excavate and reside in U-shaped burrows. They produce a funnel shaped mucus net which is attached to the burrow wall by the proboscis. Water is drawn through the burrow and food particles are captured in the mucus net, which is periodically ingested.
Most echiurans have a simple closed circulatory system (although some echiurans, such as Urechis, lack a circulatory system altogether). The main site of gas exchange is probably the hindgut, through which water is pumped constantly in and out, via the anus, by muscular action. Echiuran sexes are separate and, at least in most cases, fertilization is external. Larvae may drift in the plankton for up to 3 months. Species in the family Bonellidae exhibit extreme sexual dimorphism: females may reach a total length of 2 meters, but males are just a few millimeters long, are reduced in complexity, and live attached to the female. Sex determination seems to depend at least in large part on whether or not a larva settles close to the proboscis of a female; if it does, it rapidly matures into a tiny male.
(Jaccarini et al. 1983; Brusca and Brusca 2003 and references therein)
Although generally similar in appearance to sipunculans, the proboscis of sipunculans can be retracted and the sipunculan anus is positioned anterodorsally (posterior in echiurans) (Brusca and Brusca 2003). The exact phylogenetic placement of the echiurans remains elusive. However, they are clearly closely related to the annelids and recent analyses indicate that they are in fact nested within the phylum Annelida (McHugh 1997; Struck et al. 2007); according to McHugh (1997), members of the former phylum Echiura should now all be referred the family Echiuridae, in which they were originally placed more than a century ago.


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The New Zealand Rural General Practice Network and the 2016 conference organising committee wish to thank all those who took part in, and contributed to, a hugely successful national rural health conference in Dunedin from March 30 to April 3.
In what was the best attended conference to date, 530 delegates overall registered for the event, and there were 49 exhibitors on site. A big thank you must go to all exhibitors and sponsors and especially to Medtech, the conference's major sponsorship partner. Thanks also to the Health Promotion Agency (HPA) and Sanofi for their sponsorship and other support for the conference.
Huge thanks to the wonderful keynote and concurrent sessions presenters throughout the conference. Many keynote sessions were at, or close to capacity – with 400 in attendance – and concurrent sessions had on average between 30 and 40 people attending.
During the next days and weeks, links to keynote and concurrent session presentations will be posted on this website along with links to interviews of keynote and other speakers filmed during the conference by Mark Eager and the Mobile Health team.
Photos from the various social events including the welcome function, awards night, gala dinner and wine and art auction, as well as the Pat Farry Trust Fun Run and Walk will also be available to view via this website in the coming weeks.
More than 160 people attended the gala dinner held at the Otago Settlers Museum, and the wine and art auction at the dinner raised $22,000 for the Pat Farry Rural Health Education Trust.
The 2016 Peter Snow Memorial Award went to Dr Ivan and Mrs Leonie Howie from Aotea Health Limited on Great Barrier Island.
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The HPA and NZRGPN Leadership in Health Promotion in rural award went to the Kokiri Community Trust from Taumarunui. Several nurses were recognised for their services to rural health including Gemma Hutton, Sharon Sandilands, Theresa Ngamoki, Hine Loughlin and Pareake O'Brien. The RHAANZ/NZ Doctor/NZRGPN practice of the year award, as nominated by the public, went to the team at Martinborough Health Services in the Wairarapa.
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Network members will receive information about the AGM held at conference and from the Members' Sunday breakfast forum in separate communiques during the next weeks.
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Sharon Hansen, chairperson; Dr David Wilson, deputy chairperson; Ray Anton, treasurer; Dr Martin London, secretary; Nancy Malloy, North Island representative; Rose Lightfoot, northern North Island representative; Ross Lawrenson, western middle North Island representative; Dr Grahame Jelley, eastern middle North Island representative; Kim Gosman, southern North Island representative; Dr James Reid, southern South Island representative; Sharron Bonnafoux, northern South Island representative; and Tania Kemp, South Island representative. Student representatives on the Board remain unchanged: Katelyn Thorn (Otago) and Blair Mason (Auckland). The Board sadly farewelled members Dr Fiona Bolden and Dr Jane Laver.
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