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We seem to be in profits warning season, as some companies begin to realise that they're not going to hit their forecasts. Given the softness in the Eurozone, and UK economies, then one imagines we're likely to see more profits warnings that usual this year. So might be a good time to review the portfolio and trim back a bit on things that look vulnerable to warn? Handy to have a bit of spare cash on the sidelines too, so one can move fast to grab opportunities that arise.
One such opportunity that I spotted yesterday was a special situation called Security Research (LON:SRG) , a very interesting small cap that won an enormous & highly profitable contract from the MoD to provide detection equipment for bombs for use in Afghanistan. The earnings are not sustainable, which they freely admit, but it has brought in a one-off cash boost, which they are returning to shareholders via a tender offer at 225p. The shares can be bought for about 125p, so I picked up a few, with the intention of tendering 1 in 5, but getting almost double the money for each share tendered. I also wonder if there is the possibility of repeat orders? You never know. DYOR as usual on this one, it does need careful thought, as it's such an unusual situation. But a tender offer at almost double the share price seems a pretty bullish signal to me.
Computer games company Zattikka (ZATT) is one of today's casualties, saying that proforma 2012 revenues will be $10-11m. Stockopedia shows that broker forecast is for $12.8m turnover in 2012. So that looks like a 10-20% share price fall on the cards for today.
Things are not going well at Stadium Group (SDM), a £15m mkt cap electronics company. I see that broker forecasts have already been lowered considerably throughout 2012, but they've warned today that H2 profits will be below H1, and therefore the full year will be "significantly below current market expectations". Not good that, so a sharp drop likely here too. Although they do say that a Hong Kong property disposal will realise a £3m one-off cash inflow, and £2.2m exceptional profit, and that they are confident of an improved 2013. So I might put this on the watch list, to consider once the dust has settled.
Ooh, I forgot to mention, a reader emailed me to ask if I could approach Stockopedia and see if they would give a special offer on subscriptions to my readers. So I did, and they said yes! I think it's a cracking offer, they've set up a special deal for readers of this Blog to claim £50 off an annual subscription (reduces the price from £180 to £130) for the first year, if you apply by 31 Dec 2012 deadline. You also get a 2-week free trial, and 2 free ebooks.I've been using Stockopedia premium for a few weeks now, and have to say I think it's excellent. Well worth £130 if you spend much time researching companies. Some really useful valuation & screening tools too (for the avoidance of doubt, I am not getting any commission, or any payment at all from Stockopedia for anything, I'm recommending it purely because I think it's good!).
Bioquell (LON:BQE) has been on my watch list for a while now, as I like the company but never quite pushed the button on buying any shares, because they never really looked cheap enough. Their IMS issued today reads well, with the order book up 16% in the "period" (which I presume means 4 months?) to 31 October, with good growth coming from new products. That sounds great, although the benefit to turnover will mostly fall into 2013 (and beyond possibly?).
Bioquell's IMS provides lots of other detail, but unless I missed it, they've missed out the most important point, which is how profits are panning out compared with expectations. So annoying when this happens - lots of blurb in an IMS, but they don't tell you what you actually want to know, i.e. what the profit is going to be!
Financial PR companies please take note - the vital data that investors want above all else from an IMS, is how profits are compared with market expectations. Everything else is background noise.
I was surprised to see that Ultrasis (ULT) is still soldiering on, a relic from the Dot.Com boom in the late 90's. Their results today for y/e 31 Jul 2012 are absolutely dreadful, with turnover plunging from £2.8m to £1.1m, and going from breakeven to a £1.4m loss. They look to have enough cash left to last maybe another year, but it looks pretty terminal to me. Their products have never really taken off, and surely there comes a point where you just give up & move on to do something else?
Headlam (LON:HEAD), a £259m mkt cap flooring distributor, says that they are on track to meet internal targets for 2012 providing Nov & Dec pan out as planned. Shares look priced about right on a fwd PER of 11.5, and I note they have net cash, and a rather tempting 5% dividend yield. Bearing in mind those figures are being achieved in depressed markets, it could be an interesting cyclical recovery play?
OK, that's it for now. Have a great weekend y'all!
Regards, Paul.
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Most would agree that something is messed up with women's representation today. The poses women strike in fashion spreads makes them appear doll-like, almost breakable. Nebraska-based photographer and musician Laura Burhenn's new collection "The New Revolutionists" takes inspiration from Native American soldier portraits, portraying women not as breakable objects but imbued with strength and beauty from the inside out.
The "New Revolutionists" recognizes the revolutions that often go unnoticed. Burhenn wrote: "Revolution can start small, in a kind neighborly gesture, in a mother or friend's love, in community organization, in a national or worldwide crusade to end poverty and inequality. But often the truest revolutionaries are the ones who live quiet lives of bravery." In the website's very first day of going online it was flooded with nominations of women warriors from all over the country. Though the project is just in its beginning stages, we are hoping it becomes more diverse. (There are black people in Nebraska, we swear!) That's where you come in, readers. Scroll down to find out how to nominate a woman warrior who has inspired you.
We asked founder Laura Burhenn some questions about the budding project, which is based in Omaha.
HP: Why did you start this project?
LB: Back in 2009, I was in DC for the inauguration and happened to see the Richard Avedon exhibit at the Corcoran Museum called "Portraits of Power." It was an incredible collection of his work.
One of the portraits featured there is called "Generals of the Daughters of the American Revolution." It's a picture of women in pristine starched satin gowns, an image that, in my mind, contrasting the title completely. I started thinking about what women who are true American revolutionaries look like to me. They're rarely pristine. They're not afraid to get their hands dirty.
The basic idea is a sort of political protest. It is a statement of a collective voice, one that says, "If you want to get through to America's best and brightest future, you're going to have to come through us." The portraits are also based on Native American warrior portraits. So these images are really supposed to portray a woman the instant before she goes into battle for everything she believes in. Each woman at their fiercest, most powerful.
HP: How do you find your revolutionaries? What do you look for?
LB: It's a nominative process. So I started by simply nominating women around me who inspire me on a daily basis. Some of them are known (like Rosanne Cash); others are just doing some incredible work quietly and bravely in their own communities. Women should be raised up for being brave, as mothers, as artists, as community organizers, as friends.
So from that point on, each woman who is photographed will then nominate other women to participate and sit for a portrait. In my mind, the nomination is the ultimate way to thank someone for inspiring you to be and do better -- and to realize that you are strong enough to overcome any obstacle that stands in your way. It's really the ultimate thank you to my own mother, who has yet to sit for her portrait.
Sometimes we don't think we have the strength to endure our battles. But knowing that someone else in our lives thinks we do -- that can be the most empowering thing ever.
HP: Do you tell the women what pose to take?
LB: No. What a woman wears and how she wants to pose is entirely up to her. We all face our battles in different way. I know plenty of women who fight in a suit! The only I specify is that the photos be cropped in roughly the same dimensions and that they be lit similarly and are black and white. That way there is consistency in the sort of yearbook we're creating.
HP: Right now the women on the site are incredibly similar in terms of age, race, and body shape. Are you looking to diversify it?
LB: Absolutely. The project is meant to be multi-generational and as diverse as the revolutionary women all across America. There are a number of other faces who are going to be a part of the project who haven't yet been photographed. I thought about waiting to have more women on the site to launch it -- so that it would be more representative, but you've got to start somewhere.
HP: What is the arts scene like in Omaha?
LB: The arts scene in Omaha is surprisingly vibrant and incredibly supportive. I'm energized by it every day.
Check out the inspirational photos at "The New Revolutionists" and nominate someone you feel is a revolutionary in her own right.
Amy Klein* (photographed by Shervin Lainez): writer, musician, and founder of the national feminist collective Permanent Wave.
Andrea Blankenship (photographed by DP Muller): graphic designer, currently working on her first children's book.
April Faith Slaker (photographed by DP Muller): photographer.
Chelsea Richardson (photographed by DP Muller): student of the world.
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Kara Cavel* (photographed by DP Muller): social worker and social work educator.
Lagusta Yearwood* (photographed by Shervin Lainez): vegan chocolatier and crusader for fair-trade and organic farming.
Laura Burhenn* (photographed by Shervin Lainez): musician, writer, and community organizer.
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Melissa Amstutz (photographed by DP Muller): writer and musician.
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Orenda Fink* (photographed by DP Muller): musician and performance artist.
Rachel Jacobson* (photographed by DP Muller): founder and director of Film Streams, a non-profit cinema in Omaha.
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My 1999 dodge durango idles and runs terrible, sitting at an idle it ranges fro 400-1400rpm and stalls out occasionally, it also runs rich all the time and puts out block soot when I give it gas, I have replaced the tps sensor, map sensor, idle air controlle, alternator, and spark plugs, help
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What led you to all those random parts? Have you checked for a vacuum leak? That will cause a varying idle speed, and it will introduce extra air that the Engine Computer will try to compensate for by adding more and more fuel. Too much unburned fuel causes black smoke from the exhaust.
Already checked for vacuum leak, after I put in the new map sensor and new spark plugs it ran terrific for about 30mins then started doing the same thing
The first thing to do is check the diagnostic fault codes. Cycle the ignition switch three times from "off" to "run" within five seconds, then watch the numbers show up in the odometer display. If there's no codes, you'll need a scanner to view live data to see what the Engine Computer is seeing from the sensors and how it is responding.
I will try checking the code on the diagnostics, but when I put it on a scanner it threw a code for tps, po123 I think, we changed tps, and map sensor which both can cause it to throw that code and neither was successful, could a faulty computer cause this behavior?
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Don't worry about fuel pressure until we eliminate the cause of any codes. Code 123 isn't related to the map sensor. That code will set if the tps is unplugged while the ignition switch is on. Did you erase that code and did it come back after you put the new one on? If it comes back, what voltage is it reading on the scanner when you run the gas pedal from idle to wide-open-throttle?
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Q2 2011 Earnings Conference Call
July 20, 2011 5:00 p.m. EDT
Erica Pettit – Financial Dynamics
James F. Wright – Chairman and CEO
Anthony F. Crudele – CFO, EVP, Treasurer
Gregory A. Sandfort – President, Chief Merchandising Officer
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Tractor Supply Company's conference call to discuss second quarter 2011 results.
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Please be advised, the reproduction of this call in full or in part, is not permitted without prior written authorization from Tractor Supply Company. And as a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, this conference is being recorded.
I would now like to introduce your host for today's conference, Ms. Erica Pettit of FD. Please go ahead, Erica.
Erica Pettit
Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us.
Before we begin, let me take a moment to reference the Safe Harbor Provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This conference call may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, including the future operating and financial performance of the company. Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in its forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations or any of its forward-looking statements will prove to be correct. Important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements are included in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The information contained in this call is accurate only as of the date discussed. Investors should not assume that the statements will remain operative at a later time. Lastly, Tractor Supply Company undertakes no obligation to update any information discussed in this call.
Now I'm pleased to introduce Jim Wright, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Jim, please go ahead.
James F. Wright
Thank you, Erica. Good afternoon, everyone. I'm here today with Tony Crudele, our Chief Financial Officer, and Greg Sandfort, our President and Chief Merchandising Officer.
Our second quarter and year-to-date results further underscore the structural changes that we have made to our business model over the last few years and our ability to navigate successfully through a challenging environment. We experienced another record quarter, a broad-based strength across the business. We grew sales by 11% with both traffic and ticket positive, and combined with margin improvement and SG&A leverage, earnings per share increased 18%.
Now let me go into a bit more detail for the second quarter with respect to our merchandising margin expansion and efficiency initiatives.
Our unique mix of merchandise drove our top line. We continue to focus on our core items and were quick to respond as the season evolved. Our consumable, usable and edible, or CUE categories, are core to the rural lifestyle. As a result, we've been able to pass through price increases while maintaining or gaining market share as we managed through this inflationary period. Consistent with prior quarters, these non-discretionary items drove traffic and sales across all eight regions. Our results reflect that we've become less reliant on seasonal big-ticket items.
Seasonal weather was a headwind early in the quarter and drought conditions in the south affected approximately one-third of our store base. Accordingly, there was limited demand for outdoor power equipment and reduced demand for repair and maintenance sales in certain areas. However, we are pleased in regions where we experienced normalized weather patterns that our repair and maintenance performance was strong. For the south in particular, I'm proud of how our field and merchandising teams anticipated and responded to adverse conditions by shifting the product assortments swiftly towards items that drought-affected consumers need, such as animal feed and supplements, water storage and water movement products.
We continue to make progress on our four key margin expansion initiatives. As planned, we transitioned and did the spring selling season smoothly. We continue to increase our strategic sourcing as we work with partners that provide us with great service quality and attractive pricing. We are delighted with the conversion of our customers to private brands. For example, our customers have continued to respond well to our 4 Health premium private brand dog food. We are beginning to see the positive effects from the initial rollout of our price optimization software.
During the quarter, we continued to enhance service to our stores and to our customers. Our in-stock position is as strong as ever, we maintained our disciplined approach towards our [30/300 Program] which is focused on prioritizing inventory food of seasonally top 30 merchandise categories and the top 300 SKUs.
Additionally, our distribution center team has done an outstanding job moving through the seasonal inventory despite less than ideal weather conditions and adjusting through the changes as we implement our new warehouse management system. During the quarter, we've decided to slow down the implementation of WMS and move the implementation for one distribution center from late this year to early 2012.
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K-Bob's Steakhouse could have its new restaurant open in Las Cruces by the end of March.
Lisa Vernon with Tinsley Hospitality Group said there is a tentative opening date of March 25, but that could change.
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Lake Underwood
Lake Underwood (July 4, 1926 – September 12, 2008) was an American entrepreneur who competed as a champion in the racing of prototype automobiles and motorcycles. He was a master mechanic who, although high performance fuel delivery and carburetor design and mechanics were his specialties, also invented automobile improvements, especially in electronics for German automobiles.
Underwood was one of the founders of the Watkins Glen Racing School where he taught racecar driving skills. He participated in the training of Paul Newman to drive race cars for the 1969 movie, Winning, which sparked Newman's lifetime enthusiasm for the motorsport.
He was an active member of many racing, road racing, and automobile related clubs, some of which he helped to found. He served as president for some of them.
Porsche Club of America identified Underwood as one of four race car drivers who established Porsche as "the giant killer" in the early days of its racing in the United States. Carroll Shelby described him as one of the top ten drivers in the U.S. and in September 2003, Excellence: The Magazine About Porsche, named Lake Underwood as Porsche's Quiet Giant in an extensive article on some of his driving history.[1]
He was born into the family of mechanical engineers who worked on the heavy water project in the development of nuclear power and in the Manhattan Project. Born and raised in Blue Ridge, Georgia, Underwood served as a flight crew airman in the United States Navy during World War II. After the war he was graduated from Lehigh University.
He opened automobile dealerships in Maplewood, New Jersey where he dealt with the direct importer of Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, and Volkswagen—Max Hoffman, who was renowned for handshake deals in direct contacts with the manufacturers of the foreign vehicles, rather than the American model of contracts. The dealerships included Essex Sports Cars and Aircooled Automotive, which operated for more than four decades.
Lake C. Underwood died at the age of eighty-two in Roseland, New Jersey on September 12, 2008.[2]
Racing history[edit]
Lake Underwood began sports car racing in MGs initially, but soon was piloting a vehicle powered by a Porsche 356 engine loaned to him by the inventor, Ben Shereshaw, who owned a 1952 Porsche Supercar. Porsche factory disk brakes—not used on production vehicles at the time—were adapted for the vehicle by Dick DeBiasse,[3][4][5] (the founder of AER Research in Madison, New Jersey) who was able to reduce the weight of the parts without altering their effectiveness—giving the vehicle a distinct competitive advantage.
Before long, managers at Porsche recognized that racing in American circuits could increase sales. They chose Underwood and his team to become the recipients of engineering tips from the factory as well as factory equipment.
Underwood became a founding member of the Northern New Jersey Region chapter [2] of the Porsche Club of America, serving as its second president. By nomination in 1957, he is among the few ever invited to join the Road Racing Drivers Club, serving as its president as well. He maintained friendships with others driving both motorcycles and Porsches, such as Mark Donohue, George Mennen, and Stirling Moss.
He won two F-Production National Championships in 1956 and 1957 with one of the "bathtub" Porsches. Driving a Lister Jaguar, he finished sixth in his class at the 1959 12 Hours of Sebring. After switching to a larger engine in his Porsche in 1963, Underwood won his third F-Production National Championship.[6]
Lake Underwood raced in Class F (F-Production or FP), in SCCA, factory Jaguars, Jaguar D-Types, and Costin Lister Jaguars for Briggs Swift Cunningham II, Porsche 356s, Porsche 550 spyders, and on the Cunningham Team in Porsche 904s and Porsche 906s.
At 12 Hours of Sebring in 1964, Briggs Cunningham and Lake Underwood drove their jointly owned silver Porsche 904 GTS, Number 37, to capture first place in under-2-liter (prototype class) and ninth overall for the race car—during its debut racing season—good photographs of the automobile taken by Bill Kutz are accessible via the external link provided below to the Internet site of racingsportscars.com, which has posted many historic photographs of the automobiles that participated in that event and data of interest to enthusiasts.
In 1965 Lake Underwood raced in 12 Hours of Sebring for the Porsche factory. Co-driver, Günter Klass, and Underwood drove a 904 GT in the race and they won first in under-2-liter GT class, fifth overall, and first overall in the prestigious Index of Performance.
He was following Don Wester when Don's automobile struck Mario Andretti's at Sebring in 1966 and Underwood had to drive blindly through the tragic accident scene where four spectators were killed after they entered a prohibited area and were struck by Wester's vehicle that Underwood estimated was going 140 mph at the time.
Driving a Porsche 906 with Ed Hugus, Underwood's final Sebring race garnered fourth place in the Sport Prototype class.
Other sports and activities[edit]
Underwood also was an accomplished all-around sportsman in aviation, boating, hiking, hunting, offshore game fishing, and skiing. Deep water fishing was a favorite pastime combined with boating. An excellent marksman, he completed his American sheep and mountain goat grand slam while hiking in the high Rockies and in the Alaska Range during the 1960s, before becoming an advocate of conservation, wildlife management, and habitat conservation. He also became a patron of the conservation organization, Friends of Seagate Inc., through his close relationship with its founder.
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SCCA National Championship Runoffs[edit]
|Porsche 356
|F Production
|Porsche 356
|F Production
- ^ Miliano, Dom, The Quiet Giant: Lake Underwood, Excellence, Number 122, September 2003, pages 123-128
- ^ The obituary is no longer accessible.
- ^ Miliano, Dom, The Quiet Giant: Lake Underwood, Excellence, Number 122, September, 2003, pages 123–128
- ^ Madison municipal minutes, October 23, 2000
- ^ Madison municipal minutes, April 23, 2001
- ^ Lake Underwood, Members, Road Racing Drivers Club
External links[edit]
- http://www.briggscunningham.com/cmuseum.html
- http://www.classicscars.com/chassis/porsche/904.htm
- http://www.bullpublishing.com/books/pdfs/porsche.pdf
- http://www.excellence-mag.com/back_issues.html - back issue archive from April 1987 to present - see - #122 September 2003 - Lake Underwood: Quiet Giant
- http://www.rrdc.org/ see - members bio list - biography and photograph (includes biographies of all ever invited to join Road Racing Drivers Club, living and deceased)
- http://www.jcna.com/library/news/jcna0050.html - a Costin Lister Jaguar raced as part of the Briggs Cunningham Team - detailed history - shown in detail, click for views
- http://www.listercars.com/heritage.htm - rare Jaguar of 1959 (only two powered by Jaguar)
- http://www.nationalroadrally.com/tradition.html
- http://www.virhistory.com/vir/57-oct/hh-5710.htm
- http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/frame.php?file=car.php&carnum=2179
- http://www.classicscars.com/wspr/results/wscc/ms1958.html
- http://www.teamdan.com/archive/wsc/1958/58seb.html
- http://homepage.mac.com/frank_de_jong/Races/1967%20Marlboro.html
- http://www.themaseraticlub.com/ITOL_Briggs.html Briggs Swift Cunningham - tribute 2003
- http://www.nnjr-pca.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=102:about-nnjr-and-its-history&catid=71:static-content-general&Itemid=76 NNJR-PCA - Northern New Jersey Region Porsche Club of America - brief history 1957-2006
- http://www.racecar.com/story.asp?NewsID=5302
- http://www.ddavid.com/formula1/story.htm
- http://www.imsaracing.net/imsaNS.cfm?h=/2003/news/header.htm&p=/2003/news04/2-282004133248ALMS.htm
- http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/Virginia-1957-10-27c-photo.html driving 356
- http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/Virginia-1957-10-27a-photo.html driving 550
- http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/Sebring-1964-03-21-photo.html driving 904 - two photographs are displayed alternatively
- http://www.carmemories.com/cgi-bin/viewexperience.cgi?experience_id=441
- http://www.imca-slotracing.com/QUIZZ1.htm
- http://www.motorsportsalmanac.com/sidebyside.asp?s=transom
- http://www.supercars.net/Search2?INPUT=porsche&searchType=cars
- http://wsrp.ic.cz/wsc1958.html
- http://wsrp.ic.cz/wsc1959.html
- http://forums.autosport.com/index.php?s=cc81639790bde2b73774681b722aba79&showtopic=1194&pid=4049766&st=80&#entry4049766 post 140 on December 20, 2009 by S&M Minis shows photographs of Lake Underwood driving at the Marlboro Double 300 Trans Am on August 12, 1967 as part of an Alfa team when Horst teamed with Lake Underwood for this event, Horst in the Alfa GTA (#3) Lake Underwood (#37); there were separate races run for the over and under 2 liter cars; all three Alfas DNF'd within a lap of each other and were placed 15th (Baker/Richards, 167 laps), 16th (Winkler/Feistman, 166 laps), and 17th (Kwech/Underwood, 166 laps) because the cars weren't placed by the typical number of laps finished on the official SCCA results sheet, but instead by the track position when the flag fell - using the laps completed records, the three Alfas would have been seventh, eighth, and ninth


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Same car manufacturer and almost same color with my PAJ (Lancer). I call it PAJ (reversed 'JAP') coz of the license plate :wink:
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yes it is really hard to find old cars in a good shape as they have been eaten by rust. every winter they pour ridiculous amount of salt on the roads and it just kills the cars. my lancer is not very bad yet as it came from the countryside where they do not use salt on the roads and the pajero was mostly in the country as well.
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dude this is just too funny. your license plate says paj 221 and my car is a paj with numberplate IK 221 and similar colour.Originally Posted by JunRaymond
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I picked Kristen - her dress is great. Audrina looks like she is going to a luncheon. Love the color of Ashleys dress and her makeup but I feel like the dress shape is unflattering. Megan looks evil as usual. She looks good but talk about how a nasty scowl can ruin a look! She needs to chill out.
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Kristin's dress is so cute. I love the neckline.
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I like all the looks, but Ashley looks the best, in my opinion.
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Ashley's dress is a bit loose. Kristen's was perfect!
shannydoots 6 years
Kristen definitely! Audrina looks nice, but I think her dress is a little too loose. Ashley's look is a little bland, could've used a necklace maybe to spice things up. Megan's hair and makeup looks hot, but her outfit is a little predictable and boring. I think Kristen looks cute but not overdone.
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I have such a girl crush on Kristen and she looks very fab here, although I like Audrina and Ashley's dresses as well. I'm kinda over Megan Fox right now.
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I'm not impressed with any of them. I want to vote for Kristen just because I love her, but I am SO tired of Herve Leger.
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They are way overdressed for the event! Are they serious?
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Ashley looks best IMO, then Kristen.
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definitely ashley!! her pink dress is cute enough, but those jimmy choos are just fabulous!!
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though Ashley Green's shoes are fab.
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I love the pink on Ashley!
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Ashley's, it's just simple and cute
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Um, first of all. Ahem. Don't forget to vote for us for the Shorty Awards! We might possibly win it, and then go to New York and make an acceptance speech and stuff. That'd be awesome! Eat Your Kimchi in New York! Woohoo!
Ok, shameless self-promoting aside, now for this week's KpopCharts update. OH WAIT! No, first, a small apology. Sorry for not including Jaejoong's video on this list. We're trying to film videos in advance because it's gonna be my birthday tomorrow (yay!) and we didn't want to stay up late putting up these videos, you know? So we filmed this before the video came out. Like, right before it came out. D'oh! We'll do a KpopCharts Update on it next week, if it doesn't win this week, that is. Anyhow, back to the videos we actually talked about!
Infinite H "Special Girl" – Vote for it Here!
We're not wrong here in saying that Infinite seems to be overworking as well, no? It's not a complaint on our end, because we're fans of their music, but it sure seems like they're producing a lot of music and music videos. And we know how hellish it can be to shoot a music video after being on set with U-Kiss when they shot "Stop Girl". It's good, I think, that they're dividing the group up so that some can do solo work (like the Snuggly One) and some can do duo-work (like Infinite H), so then other people can rest at that time? I don't know.
Side note: what the eft does H stand for? Infinite Hoodlums? Infinite Hadouken? That's my guess. Infinite Hadouken.
B.A.P. "Rain Sound" – Vote for it Here!
WHAT'S YOUR B?!?! Whatever happened to that kind of B.A.P.? Whatever happened to yelling and asskicking? I understand that getting shot is a bit gangsta, sure, but it's passive gangstaness, not their usual proactive gangstanicity. I want to see B.A.P. shooting people rather than getting shot. Well, not really. I can't imagine Kpop going that route.
Point is, this is another big change for B.A.P. in our eyes, and we're not necessarily sure how we feel about it, because we only heard it a couple of times. It doesn't jar us the way Stop It did, that's for sure. What are your thoughts? Are you liking the route B.A.P.'s going, or do you want them to go back to what made them stand out with their debut?
Boyfriend "AH EE YAH!" – Vote for it Here!
Yes, we know that the romanized version is different. It's supposed to be "I Yah," but that's not what it says in Korean! In Korean (and we know this, because we can read Korean – BOOM!) it says "아이야" which is literally
아 – Ah
이 – Ee
야 – Yah
Put it all together, you get AH EE YAH, or, what we imagine should be "HIYA!" like the sound karate people make when they karate chop things. Which would make sense in this video, because some dude has an asswhooping stick, which he probably yelled "HIYA!" to in Karate format when he whooped his students. Little did you know that this whole video was about that teacher's abusive tendencies. It wasn't about love or girls or any of that crap. It was about the teacher, man. THE TEACHERRRRRRRR!!!!!
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That Infinite H video is like a clothing catalog exploded inside a music video. :)
Happy birthday Simon!!
Haha, you're not helping your case. I feel like most idols should get more sleep and rest so they don't burn out before they're 25. Yes, doing interviews and stuff like that is important, but health is important too!
The H in Infinite H stands for hip hop in other words Infinite's hip hop sub group!
someone has to make sure, this song get reviewed!
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I really wish you could just review them all… :P
but it looks like Kim Jae Joong is going to win this one
Happy Birthday Simon ^_^ ~
I'm not upset about not including "Mine" because it most probably is going to win today and you'll talk about it anyway.
I'm a little bit sad because so many videos with great review potential came out almost at once. Ooh Simon and Martina, you made me change my attitude from "Mondays suck" to "too bad there's only one Monday per week".
And I already mentioned it in I Yah comment section but I'll say it again – I was hoping for you to mention the infobox for this video. It's gold, I'm telling you, GOLD! Whoever wrote it, I want to thank them.
Happy Birthday, Simon!!!
Why no CNBLUE?
Happy Birthday, Simon~! Only you can say 'You're so nasty' in that special way~ Be healthy ^^
ooooo ~ Happy Birthday you Nasty Man ~ ♫♪ ♥ ☮
Every time I see those boys in Boyfriend I want to lock them in a kitchen with a side of beef and FEED THEM! Too skinny! *_* I like their song and Infinite's also. B.A.P.'s wasn't bad…just not my kind of music. I like their others better.
The H in infinite H stands for Hip Hop! :D
I believe Martina was talking about how Infinite H actually know how to use their guns. They don't use them as blow dryers to kill PO hair like in Nillili Mambo.
Happy Birthday Simon!
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I actually really like Boyfriend's I YAH! That and Batgirl were amazing songs, they've transitioned from cutie boys to "masculine men" very well.
I heard infinite H's song/saw the M/V, and thought it was funny and cute. Not much else though, because…
B.A.P! Oh MA GAWD! I LOVE THIS SONG! and its not cuz I'm B.A.P biased or anything…*cough *cough. I love Yong Guk's slow rap in the beginning, the smooth, powerful vocals throughout the song, and Zelo's calm rapping, it was FANTASTIC (baby)! It BLEW MY MIND! I love it, but I am still really wanting Jaejoong for KMM :D B.A.P next time!
Boyfriend is the one boy band that I actually like. This song is no exception.
HAPPY (early) BIRTHDAY SIMON! May your days be filled with nasty-ness!
Happy Birthday Simon! Stay nasty. Stay dothraki man warrior-y.
Hope Jaejoong gets reviewed this week. The MV is so epic. Also Martina his name is pronounced JAY-JOONG. I replayed that part so many times and kept hearing Chaejung, but the then I realized you were saying jaejung. Anyhow interesting update, why'd so many good songs have to come out together?
i do remember somewhere they mentioned that B.a.p wanted to experiment with their sound and show a new image or something every time they release a new song? But they have mentioned about it before :P just can't find it now!
I too miss the tougher BAP. Not that this is a bad song, but I like their first songs so much that I miss them.
Happy b-day Simon!
Hopefully, there won't be an update for Jae Joong then.
Happy Birthday Simon!! ^^
Happy Birthday, Simon!! Wish you all the best…. but why didn't you say anything about CN Blue's new song? ToT I always hope to see CN Blue on Music Monday =/
They usually talk about the top 3 songs on the Kpop chart.
OMG~ INFNITE & U-KISSSS !!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAH <3 I'm going crazy ;A;;;;;
I'm so shocked. Out of those 3 songs I actually liked Boyfriend's song the best. Actually liked it. And I never usually like Boyfriend! What is happening…
Same for me! Boyfriend has a totally different image now, so they reach a more mature public. Thus, their name doesn't suit them at all anymore.
Boyfriend grew up and became AWESOME!!!! lol
The other Infinite members aren't just at home resting – they're all busy with their own schedules. It just seems like they're not doing anything because they're not on TV, but each member is busy with their own things.
Well, I think it's usually considered that they are resting if they don't release a song around here… but they are definitely not resting. And, considering the huge number of episodes of Immortal Songs 2 they've been on, we can say they released quite a lot of songs in 2012.
They take the plane as if it's a taxi…..T.T
And yay for Infinite H being on Immortal Songs!! Now, we just need to get L, Jjong, and Yeol on it….haha
Happy Birthday Simon!!!!
If Boyfriend doesn't get Reviewed…it won't. I would like to see a tl;dr on how Korean schools are depicted in MV's and Dramas and how it's different from your experiences in schools :)
it feels like S&M view bap as 1-dimensional artists who are only allowed to do rough tough songs, and thats sad. i bet if other groups did the song 'rain sound', they'd accept it more.. but since it's bap (who to them are gangsta), they bcame a bit iffy with the song? idk, thats how i understand the situation. i may be wrong. and it would be a shame if the deep symbolisms in that MV will be overshadowed with their comments over "this is not their style"… while we could've focused on discussing the meaning of the song
If you´ve listened to their other songs in their albums before, B.A.P have released songs like this before.
All Lies, Secret Love, What My Hearts Tells Me To Do, Voicemail are all the slower B.A.P songs.
Rain Sound isn´t a "surprise" or different from B.A.P at all.
a title track is a representative of the group which is very different… for a title song it wasn't done convincingly… I was clearly also talking about the video… and none of those songs have had concept videos. And Voicemail is clearly superior to rain sound.
The thing is, Rain Sound isn't the title track. It's just a pre-release, like Goodbye, except that this time the members are in the video instead of the Matoki, so it makes sense for the song to sound this way. And since this style is so common for B.A.P, it isn't really a good indication of what the actual title song will sound like.
ahhh ok… I thought it was their title track
Maybe I dont see the changes as "extreme" because I also listened to the other songs in their previous albums and they have other songs that weren't tough and in your face, but I understand this only counts for their title tracks or songs with MVs. All I'm saying is, I wish they would view the song/MV with focus on the actual song and the MV production rather than repeatedly pointing out what BAP's image is supposed to be all the time (because to be honest, if i were BAP being told "this is not you" repeatedly, I'd feel quite trapped and unaccomplished despite all the efforts of trying to "develop" myself as an artist). Because eventually, all groups will grow and will not exactly back to their original image (unless they wanna reminiscent).
I completely get what you mean; even as a person, I've been told several times that I do not act like how a "man" acts or that I don't talk like a "black" person would or that I don't align myself with whatever image they have projected onto me. As an artist, I haven't had much of that crap, but I know the pressure's gonna turn up when I start throwing stuff out there. That being said, I think TS Entertainment is just tossing many different images at B.A.P to see which one will stick (we get aegyo B.A.P in Stop It and now we have emotional B.A.P in Rain Song). It feels like they're only keeping an image for them as long as it sells, then they change it to something else. I, personally, like Stop It (I hated it at first, but I generally don't like guys who act overly cute when it isn't their aesthetic and cute is definitely not B.A.P's aesthetic) and Rain Song (it instantly stole my heart) along; I don't particularly miss the ultra tough guy image (especially when they were all blonde; I could not take them seriously). This is definitely a step in the right direction for these guys, though, and I hope to see more diverse material from these guys.
Simon goes through the standard aging process? I don't believe this… Oh, well. Happy birthday!
Now, I'd like to talk about these videos too. I don't like the Special Girl video very much. I mean, the song is okay and I might causally listen to it, but it just really isn't amazing to me. Although, Primary is in the video! He's the guy with the box on his head, and he is a Korean rapper.
But the B.A.P video is suuuuuper goood. Sure, they might be different from when they first debut, but I don't see anything wrong with that. What really matters is that the video is interesting to watch and the song really grabs you. Now that I think about it, the song and video remind me of "Caffeine". You expect one thing to happen (B.A.P to be gangster and Yoseob to be cute), so when they do something different it's mind blowing. Plus, I would rather B.A.P try something different and fail then to do the same thing again, and again.
It also kind of helps that I'm a sucker for slow songs that have a good beat. :/
For the BOYFRIEND video, I kept hoping that the babies from their season of Hello Baby would come on! :O


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