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If you are looking for trendy, name-brand clothing without the high-end designer price, then take a shopping trip to A 2nd Closet. The store resells slightly used designer clothing at a discounted price.
This chic, urban store offers something different from other consignment stores.
The 2,200 square-foot store, located in Elmwood Crossing shopping center on Hope Mills Road, opened in December of last year and has been recycling fashion ever since. The store's owners are Jessica and Carlos Gonzalez, previously of Sanford. The military couple has since transferred to Dallas, but has left the day-to-day operations of their store in capable hands.
The original A 2nd Closet store opened in Carthage and was only 1,200 square-feet. The store outgrew that space, thus leading to the store in Hope Mills.
"The first store did well, it was just too much of a small space," said Branden Elmore, the store's regional manager. A third store also recently opened in Fayetteville in the Westgate Plaza on South Raeford Road.
The Hope Mills store looks more like a swanky specialty shop with its ultra-modern decor.
"You get cash for the items you bring in. It all differs from brand, style and condition," Elmore said. "We don't consign, we give cash right on the spot, so we have to know what is going to sell."
"We buy items, and we resell them back; that's how we maintain our inventory," said Elmore. "We mainly take your specialty store items. Like Abercrombie & Fitch, Aeropostale, Express, and New York & Company. We also take premium outlet brands. That's more of the style of the whole store. That's what we base our concept on, the specialty brands."
Elmore says the name brands that A 2nd Closet sells aren't what you would typically find in other thrift stores.
"Those brands are so pricey and they generate, when you resell them, a good turnover rate within our store.'' Elmore said. "It also differentiates us from thrift stores, who take almost any brand. We do become a little bit picky with what we take."
The store offers men's, women's and junior sizes, along with shoes, handbags and accessories. From designer jeans and polo shirts to formal attire, business attire, dresses, slacks and blazers, the store offers a variety of clothing selections. Throughout the store you will find brand names such as Hollister, Michael Kors, American Eagle and Louis Vuitton.
"If consignment and thrifting had a baby, we would be right here in the middle," joked Elmore. "It's so new to people."
Erin Schenck, a repeat customer, was back looking for a dress to wear to a wedding.
"I've browsed here before. Last time I came in here, I saw a lot of things I like," Schenck said. "I like the store, it's got nice brands and has good quality clothes. They have a lot of nice things in my size, things that are actually in right now."
Schenck, didn't find a dress for the wedding, but ended up buying a dress shirt and a fashion ring.
For Casie Dowd, the store manager, the best part of her job is creating new fashion statements and helping customers find what they are looking for. The store's management team encourages its employees to help their customers create unique looks and put together trendy and up-to-the-minute ensembles.
"Working here gives you a chance to express your creativity," Dowd said. "Through learning the fashions, learning what's in and dressing the mannequins."
"Helping a customer, is so great," Dowd said. "When someone comes in and they don't know what they want and then you help them find what they need, and they leave the store absolutely happy. That's the best part."
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- Daisy said...
Oooh I saw those in there, there's some that are basically exact same in Urban Outfitters!
Don't have a clue about the sloppy soles I'm afraid though, apart from I heard someone using a cheese grater on the bottom, don't know how well that turned out though ha :)
x - 5 April 2012 11:14
- preeeti said...
i think if you cross hatch them with a knife that should help the slippery problem as you're creating a texture & giving it more grip.
hope that helps! :)
love your blog, you're absolutely adorable. - 5 April 2012 11:34
- all about the girl said...
I nearly bought those sandals in Primark the other day, they're so cute!
allaboutthegirlblog.blogspot.com xx - 5 April 2012 12:09
- Kate said...
I've heard sandpapers a good tip! They are lovely shoes, I might have to treat myself, how much were they?
- 5 April 2012 12:30
- Yellow Bow said...
Spray hairspray on the soles and it should help!!!
- 5 April 2012 12:53
- Kirsten said...
I reaaaally want a giant ice-cream now. Lovely sandals!
- 5 April 2012 15:11
- Nicola said...
I really like them, but won't buy sandals from Primark after last year's pair shredded the top of my toes.
On Snog Marry Avoid Jenny Frost said that the cheesegrater trick works, but I haven't tried it myself. Through I have got some slippery shoes too, so probably should. - 5 April 2012 15:22
- Crafty Nell said...
I bought those in coral! I loved the brown, but I have a similar tan pair that are a bit too similar. They are super slippy, especially on floorboards! I've heard the scissor/cheese grater tips, but generally I find they get better after a bit of wear - particularly on concrete.
Penny x - 5 April 2012 15:29
- Pip said...
Oh my god, giant ice cream. Yum! No suggestions for the shoes, sorry hun!
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PS - I do know that ice cream isn't real really. Promise! - 5 April 2012 16:18
- Chloe said...
Either sandpaper 'em or attack 'em with a grater :)
- 5 April 2012 16:38
- thekittenswhiskers said...
Owh they're so nice!!
Laila x
thekittenswhiskers.blogspot.com - 5 April 2012 18:39
- Flick T. said...
hairspray the bottoms! my friends used to do this on the bottom of their ballet shoes to stop them slipping on slippery stages haha :)
- 5 April 2012 19:09
- Lauren said...
According to my boyfriend sandpaper is good, he told me to do that with a pair of boots I had I just never got round to it as they ended up getting rougher whilst I was walking around in them anyway xx
- 5 April 2012 20:33
- Gem said...
I just scufffed the soles of my sandals on my wall outside, easy peasy! xx
- 5 April 2012 20:42
- Rebecca said...
Sandpaper! And/or score the underside with a scalpel :)
The sandals are gorgeous. I can't wait for the warmer weather too! x - 5 April 2012 21:01
- mygirldaphne said...
I can't wait summer either, love your sandals by the way!
- 5 April 2012 21:13
- Lilpixie said...
Sandpaper or coca cola on the soles, sounds carzy buts its meant to work! Can't wait for summer :)
- 5 April 2012 23:52
- Julia Henderson said...
those sandals are lovely! score the soles with scissors :)
- 6 April 2012 12:18
- Laura-photographies said...
Love your shoes
- 6 April 2012 16:35
- Elise said...
Loving the sandals, they do look totally vintage! Maybe sandpaper the bottoms? :)
- 7 April 2012 23:34
- Rose. said...
If only that giant ice cream was real!
Rose x - 8 April 2012 22:00
- Hayley said...
Those sandals are amazing! They look like the sort I would wear (I don't usually do sandals because I hate my feet!) I'll have a look for them in my local Primark!
Can't wait for the summer :D x - 9 April 2012 13:04
- HELen said...
Those sandals are pretty neat finds !! Have a couple of slippery soled shoes myself.. I just kind of shuffel. Near railings..
pierrelecat - 9 April 2012 19:40
- laurielizabeth said...
Love those sandals! My grandpa used to criss cross the soles of slippy shoes with a hot poker, worked a treat, be careful if you try it tho! :) x
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G4 promises 14 hours of live E3 conference streaming
G4′s going to be streaming all the major press conferences live from E3, promising 14 hours of video from the Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo shows.
The site's going to have corresponding liveblog coverage. Get all the details here.
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GTTV and Spike streaming major E3 conferences live
GameTrailers will be offering live video of all the major E3 press conferences next week. Find all the details, including links, after the break.
The Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, EA and Ubisoft pressers will be covered by the site.
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Brookline Community Foundation's Garden Provides Fresh Produce For Hungry Local FamiliesFor the fifth consecutive year, the garden at the Brookline Community Foundation (BCF) has supplied some much needed fresh produce to the Brookline Emergency Food Pantry. Since the summer, the Food Pantry has received 270 of produce including: beans, peas, carrots, cucumbers, kale, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, shallots and leeks. By the end of the growing season in late fall, the garden will have yielded about 500 pounds of produce from its 14 raised beds with 320 square feet of growing space. BCF provided a grant this year to JP Green House to manage the garden and provide educational programs for the community. Read more... |
The Studio Hosts 'Kids Strong', the Fashion Event of the Year, Sunday NightAt 7pm on Sunday, September 29th, the wonderful woman of the Studio will host 'Kids Strong', unveiling their Fall/Winter Collection at the newly launched and way cool Brookline Teen Center, in what will surely be a fantastic evening. Read more... |
What I Saw At The Feed Brookline DinnerOur annual Feed Brookline Drive to benefit the Brookline Emergency Food Pantry concludes with a dinner at the Fireplace. Remarkable generosity and compassion was alive and well even before the dinner started. Read more... |
Puppet Showplace Presents Internationally-Acclaimed Canadian Puppet Company Les Sages Fous in Northeast Tour of "The Orphan Circus"After two European tours and an appearance at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club in New York City, acclaimed Canadian puppet company Les Sages Fous ("The Wise Fools") will perform "The Orphan Circus" at Puppet Showplace Theatre. The show is presented as part of the Puppets at Night series for adults and teens. Read more... |
BrooklineHub.com Youth of the Year Ben Hoff : Our Next Ambassador From BrooklineOn May 9th, Ben Hoff became the 3rd BrooklineHub.com Youth of the Year, and the event's first unanimous choice. At the age of 18, Ben has already achieved a range of accomplishments which would be the envy of someone decades his senior. Read more... |
The Abortion Buffer Zone Law Should be Upheld in MassachusettsWhat is supposed to be a private decision becomes a public one, where women who are likely feeling vulnerable or nervous to begin with would be bombarded by a sanctimonious stranger handing out unsolicited advice, "counseling," and biased reading material. Read more... |
Booked : Catherine Steiner-Adair, EdDI spoke with Dr. Steiner-Adair, who lives in Newton, and we had a lively (and often cautionary) discussion of how being "linked in" has many of us feeling left out, particularly in our own families. Read more... |
Program for Brookline's Veteran's Day CeremonyThis year's Veteran's Day Ceremony will be held at 11 am, November 11 at the World War Monument. Read more... |
Old-Fashioned Fix-It Shop Focuses on Refurbishing, Not ReplacingWalking into Village Green Renewal on 6 Davis Avenue in Brookline Village is like stepping into your grandfather's (or perhaps even your great-grandfather's) workshop, with all the old tools mounted on the walls and the many boxes and drawers overflowing with antique door knobs, brass hardware, and skeleton keys that might unlock the door of an old Victorian house, like the kind you see all over Brookline. Read more... |
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Losing one or both parents is traumatic for any child in any situation. Each year, millions of children are orphaned due to conflict, famine, and diseases such as HIV/AIDS.
Islamic Relief supports orphans in more than 20 countries worldwide. Over 27,000 orphans are currently benefiting from sponsorship, which ensures that they finish school and have enough money for food, healthcare and household necessities.
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About Last Night: Knicks Ripped in Rip City
By Spike Friedman atIn case you were busy trying to pass off a quiche as an acceptable offering at a Pi Day party, here's what you missed in sports on Thursday.
- Damian Lillard and the Portland Trail Blazers handed the New York Knicks their third straight defeat, winning at home, 105-90. Lillard, the leading candidate for Rookie of the Year, has already established himself as a fan favorite in Portland, where he's respected both for his efficient offensive play and his ability to remind people how much they liked Matthew Lillard in SLC Punk.
- San Antonio completed a season-series sweep of their instate rivals, beating the Dallas Mavericks, 92-91, at home after Vince Carter's game-winning shot attempt rimmed out. After the game, Carter was seen slapping himself across the face; when asked why, Carter responded, "Must. Wake. From. Nightmare."


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PHP programming in the Eclipse IDE
The PHPEclipse plugin brings the PHP scripting language to the Eclipse development environment, and the Subclipse plugin integrates version control.
The free and popular Eclipse development environment gives programmers a feature-rich editor, version control manager, and debugger on a shared GUI. Eclipse was designed as a universal IDE that is easily extensible to accommodate a variety of programming languages. The PHPEclipse plugin converts Eclipse into a full-fledged IDE for PHP-based dynamic websites. Another plugin called Subclipse integrates version control with the Subversion version management system. In this article, we describe how to set up a PHP development environment with Subversion and Eclipse.
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- Charlemagne
- Charlemagne is a genetic programming application that includes both a commandline client and an interactive console mode. It is written in Python and Lisp, and is user extensible to some degree in both languages. It features built-in input-output mapping support and provides the ability to define complex fitness calculations in Lisp or Python.
- Dbacl
- 'dbacl' is a digramic Bayesian text classifier. Given some text, it calculates the posterior probabilities that the input resembles one of any number of previously learned document collections. It can be used to sort incoming email into arbitrary categories such as spam, work, and play, or simply to distinguish an English text from a French text. It fully supports international character sets, and uses sophisticated statistical models based on the Maximum Entropy Principle.
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- 'Deduce' is an artificial intelligence program which accepts natural language sentences as input. These sentences describe properties and relationships between objects, (for example, "Spot is a dog", "A liquid will evaporate", or "Water does not flow uphill"). The user can then ask questions against that input, to which Deduce will attempt to answer using deductive reasoning techniques.
- Discrete Event Calculus Reasoner
- The Discrete Event Calculus Reasoner allows a programmer to add common-sense reasoning capabilities to programs. It supports deduction/temporal projection, abduction/planning, postdiction, and model finding. It allows default reasoning about action, change, space, and mental states. It is based on the event calculus, a comprehensive and highly usable logic-based formalism. It helps applications understand the world, make inferences, adapt to unexpected situations, and be more flexible.
- Fast Artificial Neural Network Library (fann) implements multi-layer feedforward networks that support both fully connected and sparsely connected networks. It supports execution in fixed point arithmetic to allow for fast execution on systems with no floating point processor. To overcome the problems of integer overflow, the library calculates a position of the decimal point after training and guarantees that integer overflow cannot occur with this decimal point. FANN is designed to be fast, versatile, and easy to use. Several benchmarks have been executed to test its performance. It is significantly faster than other libraries on systems without a floating point processor, and comparable to other highly optimized libraries on systems with a floating point processor.
- GNOWSYS is an acronym for "Gnowledge Networking and Organizing SYStem." It is a web based object oriented database server with each object provided by an unique URL. GNOWSYS is a tool to construct and store persistently a Gnowledge Base (GB). The GB consists of the following three groups of constructor classes (system and temporal classes under development):
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- 'Ikaros' is a framework for writing and running component-based simulators. It is currently used for simulations of brain areas and learning models, but is general enough to be easily used for any discrete-time simulation. A simulation consists of modules connected in the simulator, with connections specified in an XML file. There are socket-based hooks for adding a GUI. The package contains a number of modules and complete documentation for working with the framework.
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- The NL Toolkit simplifies the construction of programs that process natural language and defines standard interfaces between the different components of an NLP system. NLTK includes graphical demonstrations, sample data, tutorials, and API documentation.
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- Neural Network Framework is a C++ framework to develop, simulate, and analyze arbitrary complex neural networks. The programmer can use the classes provided to create neural networks with arbitrary topology and mixed type of neurons. It's very easy to add customized neurons and layers.
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- Open BEAGLE is an evolutionary computation framework. It provides an Object-Oriented software environment enabling the implementation of almost any kind of evolutionary algorithm, such as genetic algorithms and genetic programming. The only necessary condition is to have a population of individuals to which a sequence of evolving operations is iteratively applied. So far, two specialized frameworks have been implemented: genetic algorithms and genetic programming. An evolution strategies framework is also planned for a future release.
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Graduate Assistantships are designed to allow graduate students to become fully immersed in their graduate education. Graduate Assistantships provide a stipend plus cover the cost of tuition in exchange for on-campus employment in an area related to their program of study.
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[Pediatric News 33(3):40, 1999. © 1999 International Medical News Group.] Denver -- Chronic fatigue syndrome appears to be common among patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a connective tissue disorder characterized by joint hypermobility, hyperelastic skin, and connective tissue fragility.
Denver -- Chronic fatigue syndrome appears to be common among patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a connective tissue disorder characterized by joint hypermobility, hyperelastic skin, and connective tissue fragility.
According to other investigators, as many as one in nine people may have a mild variant of the connective tissue disorder. Other manifestations of the disorder may include acrocyanosis when limbs are in a dependent position, wide papyraceous scarring over bony prominences, ocular lesions, easy bruisability, and other vascular abnormalities.
It's too early to say how often the two conditions coexist, however, said Dr. Geraghty of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Dual-diagnosis patients may obtain symptomatic improvement using medications that address orthostatic intolerance by reducing venous pooling. Moreover, establishing the diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome has added benefits, including a heightened awareness of potentially serious complications, improved detection of affected relatives, and avoidance of unnecessary diagnostic and surgical procedures.
Dr. Geraghty reported on 10 patients averaging 16 years of age who were evaluated both in the Hopkins chronic fatigue syndrome clinic and the genetics clinic. All met prevailing diagnostic criteria for both disorders. Diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome preceded that of Ehlers-Danlos by a median of 42 months in 9 of 10 patients.
The medical literature has historically underemphasized the easy fatiguability of patients with Ehlers-Danlos, as well as their common complaints of widespread muscle and joint pain. Indeed, all 10 patients in this series complained of varying degrees of pelvic, joint, and limb pain in the absence of articular swelling or erythema. Nine had a history of recurrent joint dislocations, requiring surgery in three cases, Dr. Geraghty noted.
All patients had abnormal results on orthostatic testing. Based upon the results of an upright tilt-table test or a 10-minute standing test, eight patients had postural tachycardia syndrome, six had neurally mediated hypotension, and four had both.
Several prior studies in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have shown application of military antishock trousers results in symptomatic improvement, with prevention of orthostatic tachycardia and hypotension. It's logical that symptoms of chronic fatigue and orthostatic intolerance in patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome might respond to vasoconstrictors that reduce gravitational venous pooling, but this hypothesis awaits testing in randomized, controlled trials.
Before using these agents in patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, however, the presence of an enlarged aortic root should be ruled out. It's not a common abnormality -- it was present in 1 of 10 patients in this series -- but it predisposes to a feared complication of the connective tissue disorder: dissecting aortic aneurysm, he said.
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Washington, DC Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Conversations with Conservatives met with the press on Wednesday to discuss the conservative agenda for the 113th Congress.
The group, chaired by Representatives Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), Jeff Landry (R-LA) and Raúl Labrador (R-ID), meets with the press monthly to discuss issues.
Additional participants will include: Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA), Rep. Steve King (R-IA), Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) and Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL).
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ABOUT TSUNAMIS: What we think of as "tidal waves" actually have nothing to do with tides. They're called tsunamis. They are enormous ocean waves triggered by undersea earthquakes, and they can travel hundreds of miles at speeds near 500 MPH -- as fast as commercial jets. Only a patchwork warning system was in place during the 2004 tsunami that killed more than 200,000 unsuspecting victims. Recently developed systems are designed to simplify warnings in any future tragedies. Some are also compatible with alerting systems designed for multi-lingual and special needs populations.
IMPROVING EMERGENCY ALERTS: With adequate warning, people can react more quickly to natural or manmade hazards and disasters. There are many different warning systems, tailored to specific types of disasters for delivery through certain channels, but there is no public warning system that can reach everyone in every location at any time. More coordination is needed. The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is now running in parallel to more traditional systems used by the U.S. National Weather Service. CAP is essentially a "content standard": a digital message format suitable to all types of alerts and notifications, including the U.S. National Emergency Alert System, the Internet, and systems designed for multilingual and special-needs populations. The sender can activate several different warning systems at once. People hear the warnings from several different sources, increasing the likelihood that they will heed those messages, rather than dismissing them as false alarms.
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Work detailsTelegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon (Author) (2012)
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. There are several long passages where Chabon gets so carried away in the desire to make his narrator hip that important plot elements get lost. The dialogue shines, though. I'm not wild about the way the gay characters get treated, especially coming from a writer who is normally so sensitive to those things. Still, this book has a lot of style, and encompasses some great 70s history. The book says some really complimentary things about Quentin Tarantino, and takes a cue or two from him in terms of its mix of pop culture with jazz culture. Recommended. I picked up Telegraph Avenue thinking that this would be it - this would be the time I fell in love with an author so many of my friends rave madly about. This would be it, damnit, and then I started to read. Then I stopped. I blinked several times, looked around, started again.. and this pattern repeated until I got to the end of the book - almost a full month later. Because that's how long this book took me to slog through. And, honestly, I hated nearly every minute of it. Read the rest of this review at The Lost Entwife. After the first 100 pages or so, it felt like the purpose of the story and characters in this book were to provide the author with as many opportunities for similes as possible. After finishing the book, it turns out that was an accurate assessment. For the most part, the story dragged and the characters were mostly self absorbed and pretty boring. The only reason I give this two stars is the setting. I grew up in Oakland, not far from Telegraph Ave. All the places he mentions are places I remember. For me, the title represents the actual main character of the book. The thing is, this isn't a bad book. I wanted more from it and it felt, at times, a little too Writerly - but the language is gorgeous and the man clearly knows how to make a sentence flow like jazz. And, like I said, a particular moment that began with a laugh and ended with a wry smile on my part found me totally wrapped up in it. I had pretty low expectations going in - The Mysteries of Pittsburgh has actually decreased in my estimation in the intervening years - and this book far surpassed all of them. It was a perfectly enjoyable read, once it won me over - but it was nothing extraordinary, not even a little. More at RB: http://wp.me/pGVzJ-LQ I tried, I really did. I usually love Michael Chabon's work, but not this one. I just never got interested in any of the characters, and the pace felt off somehow--it seemed to keep going and going, but it wasn't going anywhere. After I renewed it twice and was still only halfway through it, I finally just gave up.
"Telegraph Avenue," Michael Chabon's rich, comic new novel, is a homage to an actual place: the boulevard in Northern California where Oakland — historically an African-American city — aligns with Berkeley, whose bourgeois white inhabitants are, as one character puts it, "liable to invest all their hope of heaven in the taste of an egg laid in the backyard by a heritage-breed chicken." The novel is equally a tribute to the cinematic style of Quentin Tarantino, whose films its characters study and discuss, and whose preoccupations pepper its pages: kung fu, cinematic allusions and the blaxploitation films of the 1970s; and an interest in African-American characters and experience. Chabon and Tarantino make an unlikely duo; while the latter's films tend toward gaudy eruptions of violence, Chabon bends Tarantino's sensibility to a warmhearted novel about fatherhood in which the onstage violence consists of two graphic childbirth scenes and a 15-year-old boy whacking a chubby thug with a wooden sword. A self-help book in the style of Andrei Tarkovsky would be hardly more oxymoronic. Mr. Chabon has constructed an amazingly rich, emotionally detailed story that addresses his perennial themes — about fathers and sons, husbands and wives, and the consolations of art — while reaching outward to explore the relationship between time past and time present, the weight (or lightness, as the case may be) of history, and the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.
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Let me start by saying that the title is a play on a similar title by another contributor to Seeking Alpha. That said, I do think the year 2013 will belong to China, and investors who go in with all guns blazing on China will be richly rewarded.
So, why China? After all, hasn't it broken enough hearts (and portfolios to boot) over the past decade? Here's how the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index has done. To say that it has been volatile is an understatement, as the chart below shows. It has zoomed up by 300% and then fallen by two-thirds. Some roller coaster ride, that! Love for China has indeed been a burning thing for investors.
Let us examine the situation in China from three angles.
1) Is growth back in China?
2) Is China now a value play as well?
3) How can investors benefit?
There has been a spate of economic news lately, which shows that China growth may well be on a trend up. The new regime in China has come out saying that they are going to pursue a pro-growth policy. In managed economy, this is big. Next, the economic indicators are up, as our very own Seeking Alpha Market Currents news desk has consistently reported on. Electricity demand is up, iron ore is on a tear, and rebar prices are strengthening. All of this points to an initial success for the pro-growth policy. So, we can safely conclude that the harbingers of growth are back.
The boom bust nature of the China market makes for a wild swing in the price to earnings ratios. Right before the 2008 crash, the P/E for Shanghai composite was in the mid-40s. Now, it is fluctuating between 11 and 12, significantly below the historical average of the mid-20s. Reports Bloomberg:
The Shanghai gauge's price-to-earnings ratio has dropped from an average 24 during the past decade and a 2007 high of 46, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
So, what does history tell us about this level of valuation for China? Reports Bloomberg, again:
The last time China's stocks were this cheap in 2008, the benchmark index rose 83 percent in a year.
As I noted in my earlier article, Shopping For The China Bull, growth in China is expected to be 8%+ in 2013. This should help the Chinese stocks to grow earnings in excess of 10-15%, from better fixed cost and SG&A utilization. If we also expect a P/E adjustment to 20 or so (or about 60% gain from the current 11-12), we should get an 80%+ growth in share prices in the Shanghai Composite. Note that a P/E of 20 will still be lower than historical norms.
ETF investors in China have a lot of choices to benefit from this trend. I did an analysis of China ETFs in my article, Which China ETFs Have The Lowest PE? The ETFs in focus were:
- Global X China Financials ETF (CHIX)
- Global X China Materials ETF (CHIM)
- iShares MSCI China Small Cap Index (ECNS)
- iShares FTSE China 25 Index Fund (FXI)
- First Trust China AlphaDEX (FCA)
- Global X China Industrials ETF (CHII)
- iShares FTSE China HK Listed Index (FCHI)
- Guggenheim China Small Cap (HAO)
- iShares MSCI China Index (MCHI)
- SPDR S&P China (GXC)
- Guggenheim China All-Cap (YAO)
- EGShares China Infrastructure (CHXX)
- Global X China Energy ETF (CHIE)
- PowerShares Golden Dragon China (PGJ)
- Guggenheim China Technology (CQQQ)
- Global X China Consumer ETF (CHIQ)
- Global X NASDAQ China Technology ETF (QQQC)
Here is how the annual returns and P/E ratios stack up for these ETFs. Note than none of these are leveraged, and there are leveraged China ETF options for those with a wilder streak.
ETF Name | Symbol | Trailing P/E | 3-month return | 1-year return | Beta |
Global X China Financials ETF | CHIX | 7.4 | 19.9% | 30.2% | 0.91 |
Global X China Materials ETF | CHIM | 7.5 | 10.4% | -5.5% | 0.98 |
iShares MSCI China Small Cap Index | ECNS | 8.2 | 16.0% | 15.3% | 0.81 |
iShares FTSE China 25 Index Fund | FXI | 8.7 | 11.8% | 14.3% | 0.92 |
First Trust China AlphaDEX | FCA | 9.0 | 14.2% | 25.2% | 0.96 |
Global X China Industrials ETF | CHII | 9.3 | 14.6% | 17.8% | 0.76 |
iShares FTSE China (HK Listed) Index | FCHI | 9.5 | 12.0% | 17.7% | 0.87 |
Guggenheim China Small Cap | HAO | 9.7 | 15.2% | 18.5% | 0.88 |
iShares MSCI China Index | MCHI | 10.3 | 11.0% | 20.7% | 0.87 |
SPDR S&P China | GXC | 10.3 | 10.1% | 18.1% | 0.87 |
Guggenheim China All-Cap | YAO | 10.4 | 10.5% | 17.9% | 0.9 |
EGShares China Infrastructure | CHXX | 10.8 | 15.3% | 26.9% | 0.77 |
Global X China Energy ETF | CHIE | 12.5 | 10.2% | 14.1% | 0.87 |
PowerShares Golden Dragon China | PGJ | 13.6 | -3.2% | -6.0% | 0.97 |
Guggenheim China Technology | CQQQ | 14.6 | 1.8% | 4.3% | 0.94 |
Global X China Consumer ETF | CHIQ | 16.3 | 9.2% | 6.7% | 0.8 |
Global X NASDAQ China Technology ETF | QQQC | 17.1 | -2.3% | 2.0% | 1.06 |
I am personally in favor of the most liquid China ETF, the iShares FTSE China 25 Index Fund. However, for investors who want more breadth, the iShares MSCI China Index covers more sectors and stocks, and has had better growth (mostly from P/E expansion).
For the next year, though, I think three ETFs deserve very special mention.
The Chinese government is on the record as favoring big infrastructure expansion in 2013. To gain from this trend, I think China investors should consider the EGShares China Infrastructure ETF.
Housing in China is likely to boom, as indicated by the increase in rebar prices. While I didn't analyze the Guggenheim China Real Estate ETF (TAO) in my last article, it think this is ripe for explosion. For the record, this ETF is up more than 50% in 2012.
Finally, if infrastructure and housing are up, this should bode well for the Chinese banks from increased financing activity. To put a punt on this sector, China investors may want to consider the Global X China Financials ETF.
So there you have it, my predictions for 2013. Just so you remember, this is the only prediction that you will ever need. Jokes aside, investors in Chinese infrastructure, housing, and finance should have a good year, in my view.
Disclaimer: This is not meant as investment advice. I do not have a crystal ball. I only have opinions, free at that. Before investing in any of the above-mentioned securities, investors should do their own research, consult their financial advisors, and make their own choice.


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Ginny Brooks
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What has been your favorite class at COA? Why?
Literature, Science and Spirituality. This course left me with more questions than answers about the nature of knowledge and how we gain it. Plus, we got to read some amazing works.
What classes have you taken at COA?
Human Ecology
Native American Literature
Marine Biology
Race and Gender in Southern Africa
Writing Seminar II
Mountain Poets of China and Japan
Culture of the Maine Organic Farmer
Literature, Science, and Spirituality
Intro to Guitar
Classic Shorts
Nature of Narrative
Group Dynamics
Cultural Ecology of Population Control Practices
What was your favorite discussion at COA? Why?
I remember going to a panel about discussion-based teaching in the Ed. Studies room sometime during Freshman year. Karen Waldron, Candice Stover, and John Visvader all discussed their teaching methods and answered questions in their own unique ways and they completely blew me away.
What is your dream occupation?
Currently, working at rural schools in Thailand and helping to incorporate conservation methods into the curriculum while rehabilitating monkeys and apes on the side. That, or open a used bookstore/cafe/flower shop/art gallery.
Do you work on or off campus? If yes, where?
I work on campus at Allied Whale and off campus at the Bar Harbor Whale Museum.
What do you see yourself doing after COA?
My dream occupation... maybe the Peace Corps to start off.
What country or state would you like to visit? Where would you love to live?
I want to go everywhere! But, I think, Western Massachusetts will always be home.
What is happiness to you?
Honestly, not having to worry about "being happy." That, and having no regrets.
Have you had an internship? If so, doing what? Where?
I spent last term at a Gibbon Sanctuary in Northern Thailand. I cared for abused and abandoned primates, learned to speak some Thai, gave tours, and chopped an unbelievable number of fruit and vegetables.
What are your ideas for your senior project?
I'm still mulling things over, but I would love to go back to Thailand and research rural school systems or help improve the lives of the many refugees living there.
What is one of your favorite childhood memories?
My little sister and I shared a room and we would play "the hot lava game" (oh, you know you've played it). We would spend hours drawing diagrams of the room so we could plan the best way to clamber over the desks and dressers and save all our stuffed animals from certain doom. At the end of the game I always felt very accomplished.
What is your favorite food to eat? What is your favorite thing to cook?
Apples just seem to be the picture of delicious simplicity. I don't really cook very much, but I'll boil water to make tea.
What do you like to do when you're not doing school work?
...I must have missed a memo somewhere -- I didn't realize that was an option. Just kidding, I usually end up gallivanting around with friends; we often go on epic adventures in search of ice cream, climbing a tree here or there, causing good-natured mayhem, etc.
What are your favorite colors?
I just realized most of my shirts are the same shade of lightish blue. Maybe that's subconsciously my favorite.
What are your favorite flowers?
buttercups are adorable, orchids are elegant, starfish flowers are armed to the teeth.
What are your favorite animals?
I have always loved primates, but someone just told me about a rogue beefalo on the island and I'm pretty much in love.
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
I just think it's annoying no one ever asks this question in reference to the platypus -- no one sticks up for monotremes anymore.
What is the motto you like to live by?
Moms Mabley said, "Life is like a game of poker: if you don't put any in the pot, there won't be any to take out."
Why did you choose to come to COA?
I grew up going to small schools in small towns and I loved (and still love) the sense of community. Also: the ocean, progressiveness, and personal agency.
What do you like to study?
Life and all the "between the lines stuff" that comes along with it.
Who are your favorite writers? Poets?
Oh dear...William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, David Sedaris, Don Delillo, Samuel Beckett, Annie Dillard, J.K. Rowling, Joseph Conrad, Ray Bradbury and a number of others.
Who are your favorite artists? Musicians?
I love the artwork of Shepard Fairey and I am unreasonably obsessed with the music of Sigur Ros. I will listen to Mississippi John Hurt or Taj Mahal any time, anywhere. Also, Josh Ritter, Michael Franti, and Florence and the Machine.
Who is your favorite fictional hero?
Hobbes from "Calvin and Hobbes" always seemed to have a good head on his shoulders.
What historical figure do you most admire?
Anyone who stood up against adversity for the well-being of themselves or others.
Who are your heroes today?
Ba Pharanee, who runs Highland Farm Gibbon sanctuary in Thailand, and my boss Nan, who opened a restaurant in my town after losing her home in Katrina. Both are incredibly resilient, independent women.
What do you value most in your friends?
Honesty, quirkiness and humor.
What do people say is your most marked characteristic?
Passion which sometimes blurs the line towards obsession. Sarcasm.
What talent do you wish you had?
Is certitude a talent?
What is your least favorite spice?
Star Anise. Bleck.
Do you have anything cool or unique you would like to share?
I am double-jointed and have had run-ins with lightning, cars, and lions.


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All of the children are too young to provide for themselves.
Your relatives' resources have been all but exhausted.
You are out of work, you have exhausted your savings (401, stocks, bank account is almost gone) and all companies have quit hiring new workers, and all of your side gigs have been exhausted (cutting grass, selling supplements online, personal training, painting, pressure washing, washing cars, building, barbering, collecting aluminum, baby sitting, all options gone)
You must provide medicine, food, and keep shelter for your family…
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G. Allow your family to go completely without until something comes up
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A very small amount of geothermal energy is used directly for bathing, balneology and swimming. In recent years research has been undertaken into the possibility of using geothermal heat for the sterilisation of the growing medium for mushrooms.
The effects of Indonesia's financial crisis in 1997 are still being felt. Prior to this time the Government had planned to install some 3 000 MW by 2006 but by end-2004 the country had increased its installed geothermal electric power generation capacity to 797 MWe (operationally capable of at least 807 MWe). This latter figure includes currently operating facilities with a capacity of 330 MWe at Gunung Salak, 140 MWe at Kamojang, 145 MWe at Darajat, 110 MWe at Wayang Windu, 2 MWe at Sibayak, 20 MWe at Lahendang and an additional 60 MWe at Dieng.
It remains the Government's policy to significantly alter the fuel mix of electricity generation by increasing the use of coal, geothermal energy and hydro power and thus reducing the use of oil and gas. To this end it plans to have 6 000 MWe of geothermal generating plant installed by 2020.


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The unprecedented level of economic inequality in America is undeniable. In an extended essay, Bill Moyers shares examples of the striking extremes of wealth and poverty across the country, including a video report on California's Silicon Valley. There, Facebook, Google, and Apple are minting millionaires, while the area's homeless -- who've grown 20 percent in the last two years -- are living in tent cities at their virtual doorsteps.
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It´s obvious that 0bama wants to pin Benghazigate on Petreaus. But, it is also starting to look like they are setting him up to be the villain for all administration leaks.
I´m sure Paula enjoyed eyeing Petreaus´ staff.
This woman was so ballsy, it wouldn´t surprise me if she just walked in and demanded the documents. As an intelligence officer, she had security clearance to view them. She just wasn´t supposed to take them away in any form. (Maybe Carol missed the report about her security clearance?)
Brings back memories: could the military have changed that much since I was in the Navy 40-odd years ago?Back then each classified pub was clearly marked as such and had it´s own ID number; it was stored in a special security file cabinet/safe, and anyone with both the clearance and need-to-know had to sign them out and get a receipt when they returned them. If a document was overdue or missing, we knew who had signed it out. Xerox copiers were not common then.Pubs were periodically inventoried by 2 officers together, who had to certify the results of their survey. Once (when I was in charge of secured pubs) I did have problems with my commanding officer, who refused to sign for anything, because back then losing a firearm or a classified document was career-ending; his solution to avoiding that pitfall was to not sign them out. I had to spend a lot of idle time in his office while he read documents... seemed stupid then and still does, but I wasn´t going to stake my own commission on whether or not he misplaced a pub (he was a jerk, to put it kindly).
To me,this all looks ike an accumulation of blackmail pressure to keep Broadwell from singing like a canary on how corrupt Obama´s foreign policy is. Of course if they had their dreathers,she´d drown accidentally while swimming in the Potomac River at 1 am.As i said before I don´t approve of some of Broadwell´s behavior but until there´s signs she´s a traitor or sold info to foreign agents,I´m giving her the benefit of the doubt. I think she´s a very patriotic American as of right now.The big effort to discredit her has to do with her saying the CIA had a secret overseas prison,something the left railed against Bush for years.On top of that Obama signed an exe. ordering banning them, This would be huge hypocrisy on the left if her assertions are true and guess what,I believe her.
How about probing who ignored the pleas for help.
#2----I think Petraeus staff enjoyed filling Paula in...
Enough, already.#2 - Naughty, naughty.
Having a security clearance is not enough to get access. You are also required to have a ´need to know.´I worked in a facility where we had 150 documents that had to be inventoried twice each day. And we changed the safe combinations at least once each month.
I tend to agree w/ #5. I think Paula may have been "bi-partisan" (military people try to be because they frequently have to take orders from whatever civilians are voted in to the top offices) enough to not believe that the Obama administration might be malevolent enough to use her as a scapegoat for any number of things. She may have known about Kelley´s connections to the Islamists and in an attempt to protect Petraeus and the military, tried to warn Kelley to keep away. I think her efforts were inept and the administration is willing to not "let a crisis go to waste, using her to misdirect the press away from the truth of Benghazi. Just as they let the apparently very competent FBI agent be portrayed as lusting after Kelley, characterizing what was obviously a joke photo as a "naked photo" (a la Anthony Weiner), they have portrayed Broadwell as just one rabbit away from a "Fatal Attraction" moment. They are also portraying Jill Kelley as an airhead, when she is smart enough to have been in medical school at one point. Any financial professional can probably tell you that many doctors are not very good at managing all the money they make and in downturns (especially in real esate) are very likely to be among those needing the bankruptcy courts. This is apparently what has happened to Kelley´s husband, the surgeon.
#11 - anyone who comports herself as does Mrs Kelly is highly unlikely to be sympathetic to "the Ismalists."
Now I can rest - the story is complete and the movie will come out soon. First Gloria Allred came to advocate for Jill Kelley´s sister, Natalie K(not a Kardashian). Now we learn that Dee Dee Myers (Clinton´s first Press Secretary) is Paula Broadwell´s "spokeswoman".Ah yes, the intrigue is now complete. These last few years are just a trashy fiction novelette (a novel that is regarded as being slight, trivial, or sentimental). Lord, don´t I wish! At least one can throw a trashy novelette in the garbage - if only we could do the same thing with anything and everything Obama!


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