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James Mitchell, who for nearly three decades played gruff patriarch Palmer Cortland on the ABC soap opera “All My Children,” has died, his longtime partner said Sunday night.

Mitchell died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, partner Albert Wolsky said. Mitchell had suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for years, complicated by a recent bout of pneumonia.

Mitchell appeared in more than 300 episodes of the popular soap from 1979 until a 40th anniversary episode this month. He was a regular on the show until 2008.
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Sam’s Club, the warehouse club division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc is cutting roughly 11,200 jobs, or about 10 percent of its workforce, as it outsources in-store product demonstrations and eliminates positions used to recruit new business members.
Sam’s Club Chief Executive Officer Brian Cornell said on Sunday that the retailer would outline charges associated with the job cuts in February, when it releases fourth-quarter results. He said he did not expect any “material impact” on its financial results.
“We look at this as an investment in the in-club experience,” Cornell said in an interview. “This is not a cost-cutting move for us in the short term. We really hope it will be cost neutral for our operation. It’s an investment in building loyalty, enhancing the member experience and driving future growth.” Cornell took the helm at Sam’s Club on April 3 last year and has been looking for ways to boost its sales and increase its membership ranks. Members pay an annual fee to shop in its clubs and get discounts on everything from bulk-sized packages of toilet paper to raspberries.
Sam’s Club said it will use Shopper Events, a third-party company, instead of its own employees to run in-store product demonstrations and hand out food samples — a popular tactic used by warehouse clubs to entice shoppers to buy new items.
In a memo to employees, Cornell said Shopper Events will develop a demo program, called “Tastes and Tips”, that will offer improved demonstration of items like food, beverages and electronics. The shift means Sam’s Club will cut 10,000 jobs primarily held by part-time workers. Current Sam’s Club demo employees can apply for new jobs with Shopper Events.
Brian Pear, general manager for Shopper Events, said his company would hire about the same number of employees being let go by Sam’s Club. But he said there was no guarantee it would hire former Sam’s Club employees to fill the positions.
Cornell and Pear declined to disclose terms of the deal.
Sam’s Club, the No. 2 U.S. warehouse club operator behind Costco Wholesale Corp, also said it was cutting the new business membership representative position, or employees in its stores who focused on recruiting new members. That will result in the loss of about 1,200 jobs, or about two jobs per every location.
Sam’s Club said it was having more success recruiting members through direct marketing or doing price comparisons, where it shows consumers how much money they could save by shopping in its clubs.
Craig Johnson, president of consulting firm Customer Growth Partners, said it made sense for Cornell to announce such extensive job cuts early on in his tenure.
“If you need to take a hit to get your cost structure down, you want to do that sooner versus later,” he said. “Given that it’s the end of the fiscal year, now is probably the best time to take the hit.”
Wal-Mart’s fiscal year ends on January 31.
While Sam’s Club said the move was not a cost cutting one, Johnson said companies like Shopper Events, which specialize in in-store sampling, can typically deliver those types of services less expensively than a retailer can.
The latest job cuts come after Sam’s Club said earlier this month that 1,500 jobs would be lost as it closed 10 money-losing stores. At Wal-Mart’s meeting for analysts in October, Cornell said that Sam’s Club was shifting its focus from opening new clubs to remodeling existing ones as it works to increase sales.
He said then that the retailer was testing a new store layout, adding more food and drugs to its shelves, and streamlining operations to reduce labor hours in its clubs by 6 percent to 8 percent over the next five years.
Sam’s Club operates some 600 clubs and has about 110,000 employees.
Wal-Mart shares closed on Friday up 2 cents at $52.94.

When the Bakers and their newest children finally arrived home to hugs this week, it was the end of a surreal journey for Thamar, Davidson, and Lili – three of the lucky orphans airlifted from the earthquake who are now about to start a new life, on solid ground and in soft beds, reports CBS News correspondent Cynthia Bowers.

Even though Haiti is a world away, Nat and Kris Baker have devoted years to the poor island nation.

“Every time we travel to Haiti we see kids on the street hungry and hurting and scared,” Nat Baker said. “That breaks my heart. Every child deserves a chance.”

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A 20-year-old man told investigators he has had sex repeatedly with an elderly relative before he was caught, according to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office.

Garrett Andrew Douglas of Vero Beach was charged with incest and attempted sexual battery on a mentally defective victim. He was being held at the Indian River County Jail in lieu of $15,000 bail.

Douglas was caught naked and on top of the 87-year-old relative in her room on Dec. 29, according to the arrest affidavit. The woman suffers from dementia, family members told detectives. Douglas told the Sheriff’s Office he’s had sex with the relative 20 times in the last eight years, the affidavit said.

Reports have yet to indicate what relative the woman is to Douglas but I’m going to go out on a limb and say that no matter where they each fall on the family tree, this probably isn’t going to end up with everyone going, “Oh, no, it’s totally cool; they were just third cousins.”

NEW YORK — The flagship Macy’s store at New York City’s Herald Square has been evacuated because of an escalator fire.

The fire department says no injuries have been reported reported from the fire in an escalator between the third and fourth floors.

The fire started just after 4 p.m. Sunday on one of the biggest shopping days of the year.

Hundreds of customers were evacuated because of heavy smoke.

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Wow did oprah really stoop this low for ratings. I really think that she shouldn’t have done this but people looooovvvvveeeee oprah . I would say something like this is shocking to watch but how the fuck do think some one looks after being attacked by a fucking chimp. If you don’t remember take a look here

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Andre Agassi talks candidly to Katie Couric about his life, his strong dislike of tennis at a young age, and the depression that led him to use meth.More here

It’s an expensive lesson on the importance of reading your mail.

A Wisconsin judge has ordered PepsiCo Inc to pay $1.26 billion to two men who said it stole their idea to sell purified water after a secretary mislaid a document alerting the world’s No. 2 soft drink maker the lawsuit existed. The case was reported earlier on Wednesday by The National Law Journal.

The  amount is equal to more than 20 percent of PepsiCo’s reported annual profits in recent years, regulatory filings show. According to filings with the Jefferson County Circuit Court, Charles Joyce and James Voigt won the Sept. 30 judgment five months after first suing PepsiCo and two distributors.

The Wisconsin men said they talked with the distributors in 1981 about their idea to bottle and sell purified water and that PepsiCo later stole the idea by creating Aquafina. The complaint was filed on April 28, but PepsiCo said the legal department at its Purchase, New York headquarters was not alerted to the case until around Sept. 18, when secretary Kathy Henry received a letter for her supervisor Tom Tamoney. Read more

Now Beanie Sigel, has done a interview about his problems with Jay-Z.

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Beanie is saying Jay-Z didn’t visit him in jail, wouldn’t let him be released and calls the COPS ON HIM! Listen Here!!

Beanie Sigel – Average Cat

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1. The 11 Most Badass Last Words Ever Uttered.

2. 5 Real Life Soldiers Who Make Rambo Look Like a Pussy.

3. The 5 Ballsiest Lies Ever Passed offas Journalism.

4. 5 Myths That People Don’t Realize Are Admitted Hoaxes.

5. 5 Great Things You Didn’t Know Came from Horrific Tragedies.

6. The World of Tomorrow (If The Internet Disappeared Today).

7. The 25 Most Baffling Toys From Around the World.

8. 7 Secrets Only Two Living People Know (For Some Reason).

9. 6 Insane Discoveries That Science Can’t Explain.

10. 7 Great Occupations for Horribly Stupid People.