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As for what they're discussing, our sources say the custody of the children -- not money -- is the issue on the table, but that it looks pretty clear Katherine Jackson will end up with custody, assuming the judge goes along. As for what Debbie Rowe wants ... we're told she too is interested in making sure the children are okay.
We're told Rowe is still collecting money from an agreement she and Michael struck several years ago, around the time of the child molestation trial. That agreement was drafted so it will survive Michael's death.
As for additional money, we're told Rowe is not requesting that. In fact, our sources say lawyers for Jackson's estate have not even been consulted about the discussions between lawyers for Katherine and Debbie. If there were any issue of additional monies, the estate lawyers would have been consulted.


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The Annual Fund student phone-a-thon has completed about 30 of the 50 nights of calling for the 2006-2007 fiscal year and alumni and friends are answering the call to "open doors of opportunity" for Wabash students.
As part of their conversations, members of the 22-man student calling team are explaining to alumni and friends how Annual Fund gifts open doors of opportunity for Wabash students—opportunities such as generous scholarships, top-notch faculty instruction, cutting-edge technology, and inspiring travel abroad programs.
The callers go on to explain how this year—for every alumnus, parent, or friend who makes a pledge or gift to the Annual Fund during one of the phone-a-thon sessions—they will be writing the name of the individual donor on an actual door to show how gifts add up to open even more doors of opportunity for Wabash students.
The names of over 1,000 alumni, parents, and friends of Wabash have been added to the old wood door.
Joe Klen '97 and Roger Busch '96 coordinate the College's Annual Fund plan and supervise the Phone Room.
"Almost every alumnus or parent has a story about how doors of opportunity opened for them," said Klen. "Some alumni talk about a professor introducing an idea or getting them hooked on a particular discipline and how those interactions opened the door to a passion for life-long learning. Other alumni talk about travel abroad opportunities that changed their life. Parents often mention how generous scholarships opened the door for their sons to attend Wabash. And current students talk about how technology and updated facilities are enhancing their undergraduate experience."
Busch adds, "Writing the names of alumni and friends who pledge their support of the Annual Fund on the door helps the student callers, who are a small representation of the larger student body, have a better understanding of the collective impact of all gifts—both large and small."
Klen and Busch report that nearly a quarter of those who make annual gifts to the College make those commitments through conversations with Wabash students during one of the phone-a-thon sessions.
The students call from 6:30-9:30 p.m. on Sunday-Thursday evenings from a 12 man calling room in the lower level of the Pioneer Chapel on the Wabash campus. They will be calling again in February and later in the spring as the June 30 fiscal year-end approaches.
So if the phone rings, you answer, and there is a Wabash student on the other end—take a few minutes to share your Wabash experience and his current experience. You might be surprised to learn which doors of opportunity opened for both of you as a result of some alumnus or friend, like you, who made a gift to the Annual Fund.
If you are not able to talk with a Wabash student this fiscal year, you can always make your gift in support of opening doors for Wabash students by visiting https://www.wabash.edu/alumni/egift.

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Friday, April 13, 2012 - Albert and Zdenek - Broke CZ Boys - FULL CONTACT
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We brought newcomers Albert Kroka and big dicked Zdenek Kabat together for a Broke Czech Boys shoot. The guys are interviewed and then begins the video, where they are pushed to do as much as we can get them to do. Firstly they must kiss each other. So Zdenek leans over and kisses Albert and is told to caress his body as he kisses. Then he has to kiss the nipples and feel Alberts crotch. He licks at the nipple and kisses it as he rubs Alberts crotch and then it is time for Albert to reciprocate. As he does so we see Zdenek's balls in his shorts, as the leg is pulled across. Albert move to lick the second nipple, continuing to rub the crotch. Zdenek's huge dick is growing and begins to peep out of the leg of his shorts. As the instructions continue Albert's tongue pokes into Zdenek's mouth and his hand goes inside his shorts to grab that big dick. Albert then pulls Zdenek's dick out of the legs of the shorts and wanks it as he kisses him. At the same time Zdenek reaches over to feel Albert's cock in his undies. He removes Albert's undies and begins to play with his cock. Albert is then told to kiss Zdenek's cock head, and he does so, a little reluctantly, but is told to do it again, and then to lick it. Slowly he goes further and eventually is persuaded to suck that big cock, with his own cock getting hard at the same time. As he sucks that cock Zdenek reaches over and wanks him as well. Albert has a big cock too and Zdenek is told to lick it. He doesn't seem to be reluctant and does it immediately and then sucks it when told to do so. He sucks that cock real well, going down on it as far as he can, his head bobbing up and down on it as Albert wanks him. They are then told to 69 and Albert's reservations seem to have disappeared as they do it very well indeed. Albert then comes off the cock and wanks it, with Zdenek's massive balls out of his shorts too. Albert wanks that cock and Zdenek soon starts to moan, with a mouthful of cock, as he shoots a nice big load. Zdenek then reciprocates and wanks Albert to a big, creamy load, and even licks that sticky, spent cock.
Lukas Pribyl is from Uhersky Brod and is aged 19. He works as a barman and enjoys sports, kick-boxing and fitness. Lukas is a stunning looking guy, such a beautiful face and body. He starts off with his interview and picks up a bottle and shows us some tricks he has learned as a barman. Then he begins his show, standing and running a hand under his shirt, before unfastening his shirt. He runs his fingers over his torso and up to his chest, with one hand rubbing his groin. Removing the shirt completely Lukas stands and poses a little as he caresses his body and face. Next he opens his fly and pulls out a nice hard cock, together with his balls. That cock looks great just poking out of his pants, and then Lukas begins to wank it a little. He opens the pants and shucks them down some, so we see that cock so much better, standing nice and proud for us. Lukas turns around and shows his smooth, perfectly shaped ass, he bends forward a little as a hand rubs over it, pulling the cheeks apart. His hands work over the ass and he pushes it back, towards the camera, showing his hole as his cock hangs between his legs. Then with both hands he spreads the ass to give and even better view of that tight pucker hole. As he shows that hole, writhing around for us, he pushes his cock down between the legs, giving a great view. Lukas then sits and removes the pants completely and begins to play with his cock again. It gets so hard as he leans back and plays with it. Then he lifts is legs in the air to give another view of his hot hole, pushing that throbbing cock back towards us at the same time. Lukas is ready to blow and starts to wank himself, soon squirting a very nice load for us. It squirts nicely up chest chest and Lukas lays back to relax a bit, his spent cock still hard in his hand, breathing heavily. Then he goes of to the shower to finish a really lovely shoot. Lukas is a really wonderful guy, who looks beautiful on camera and is a real treat everytime he comes into the studio.
Kristof Hertz is aged 18 and lives in Hermanuv Mestec. He is a salesman who enjoys sports, bodybuilding and basketball in his spare time. Kristof is another very good looking guy, such a handsome face. He looks very smart as he starts his shoot and soon removes his shirt, revealing a very good chest. Kristof has a ready smile, which we see throughout the shoot as he poses. He also has very sensuous lips, which we see well in one shot where he hold a finger to them. Kristof then pushes his jeans down a little to show us a beautiful ass before turning and revealing his cock and balls. Once he is fully naked we see him in all his glory and he gets his cock mighty hard. It looks fabulous standing fully to attention almost touching his belly it is so hard. Kristof adopts some wonderful poses to show himself off to full effect including spreading his ass as he lays down with his legs in the air, to reveal a nice tight hole. I think he looks reall good in this shoot and will be eagerly anticipating his erotic video.
Tomek Ziska is from Sobeslav and is aged 23. He works as Market manager and in his spare time enjoys sports, ice-hockey and fitness. What a good looking guy Tomek is and in this office setting, dressed in a suit he looks very smart indeed. As he removes his shirt we see that Tomek has a very good body and it isn't long before he turns and drops his pants some to reveal a very sexy ass. Then he gives us some great views of a nice, flaccid cock, resting on his balls. But that isn't all Tomek then gets his cock hard for us, and beautiful it looks too. More shots of that ass follow with Tomek on his back, legs in the air, cock pushed back so we get the tight pucker hole and cock in one shot. A very good shoot indeed. I am sure he will also give us a great erotic video.


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Today I am very happy to share some exciting news about the upcoming BlackBerry® Desktop Software v6.0 release this summer. We did some major changes to the product inside and out, all to make it a true part of the overall BlackBerry® 6 experience. The first invitations to join our BlackBerry Desktop Software v6.0 Limited Beta will start going out today to some of you who have already joined BlackBerry® Beta Zone. If you haven't joined BlackBerry Beta Zone yet, sign up at www.blackberry.com/beta.
Stay tuned for more posts here at Inside BlackBerry from myself and Vikram, where we will dive into the detailed feature sets and user interface walkthroughs for all the new goodness we added in BlackBerry Desktop Software v6.0. For now, here are a few screenshots to give you an idea of the new look and feel of the software – let us know what you think!


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Pretty simple concept. You're a virus, and you can mutate, acquiring and shedding characteristics of transmissibility, lethality, and visibility. You need to spread to get a toehold on every continent before the world community closes the borders. Choose your attributes carefully -- become too lethal, too quickly, and you'll fall victim to a quarantine! You win by eradicating mankind.
Not terribly realistic, of course, but realistic enough to be a little scary. I think in fact the game's logic underestimates how rapidly a highly infectious disease would spread worldwide (SARS, anyone?) and overestimates how effective "closing borders" would be. Fortunately, the lethality component also is overstated, but then, what fun is it being a virus if you don't get to depopulate the globe?
Via Richard S Matthews.
11 February 2008
A Nasty Little Game
Posted by shadowfax at 10:53 PM
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Passed it (the game) onto my kid; his comments:ReplyDelete
It's a really cool game, but I can't figure out how to infect western Europe...I made myself as infectable as possible and avoided obvious signs that I was there...the one time I started in western Europe, I miraculously made it to Africa but missed some other continents.
Thanks though, it was fun...I love destroying the human race."
Ah, the simple pleasures.
Great game. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Fun game. Albeit very simple, primitive and short.ReplyDelete
Now I wonder how possible it is to engineer a virus to kill 99% of human population (cant kill all the bastards because someone will have some genetical mutation that will make them surivive).
I was thinking something in line with airborne HIV. -Very nice because it doesnt kill in itself but lets other diseases finish you and so it is hard to detect it . Infect enough population before people even get to know that you exist and when they do it will be too late.
- Anonymous8/27/2008 9:08 PM
How about that, I am in fact reading your blog while playing Pandemic 2. Good times, now if only I could do better than 100k points!ReplyDelete


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(CBS Seattle) — Longtime Canadian marijuana activist Matt Mernagh has a brand new book out that may come in handy for residents in Washington who plan to dabble with the recently-legalized substance.
Put simply, Marijuana Smoker's Guidebook: The Easy Way To Identify and Enjoy Marijuana Strains aims to pair certain types of strains with certain types of smokers.
Mernagh, who is the only person ever to be personally legally exempted from Canada's marijuana laws, has regularly written for Toronto's alternative weekly NOW and several other publications. He currently runs an extensive collection of cannabis smoke reports on his website, mernagh.ca.
In preparation for an appearance at Vancouver, B.C.'s Kush Cup, he spoke with CBS Seattle to explain the purpose of his book and also weighed in on what the future holds for legal cannabis in North America.
Would you equate this book to a craft beer guide book?
One-hundred percent like a craft beer guide or a wine guide. If you're a marijuana enthusiast, this is the guide for you — especially in a place like Seattle … You're gonna be able to take this guide right to your outlet and flip through it and find the strains you want.
For the people in Washington who've never smoked marijuana because of its illegality, what are the basic types of cannabis?
There's indica, which is your sedated, relaxing, mellow kind of high — and there's sativa, which is your uplifting, soaring, "get up, get it on" type of stoned. And then you have your hybrids.
Is one more prominent than the other in the U.S.?
Most people in the U.S. are into indica because it grows faster, more people prefer it and more growers offer it because of that … I'm heading to British Columbia and it has nothing but heavy, heavy idica. The indica on the west coast is really intense.
What are the more popular strains in North America right now?
Right here in Toronto we have Justin Bieber Kush … It's got an uplifting high … I can actually sit through a Justin Bieber video if I smoke it which is rare for me … One of the most popular strains in the U.S. right now is one called Girl Scout Cookies. I haven't had any yet myself…
What do you think the culture of marijuana will be like in the U.S. five years from now?
I think what your state should realize is that you gave the world hope … You helped take down the walls of prohibition — and prohibition is a big wall like the Berlin Wall. For a place like Washington state kicking in the wall…it's starting to crumble. I'm not saying every state is gonna fall that way, but I think a lot of states are looking at Washington saying, "hey, we can fix some of our budgetary woes." Ultimately there's going to be such a push from the state level that the federal government will just have to cave on this issue.
What region do you think can benefit the most from legal marijuana?
It's gonna come down to who can offer tourists the best opportunity to smoke marijuana legally … That's what people are looking for. Once it's offered, that city and/or state should hold on for an incredibly great ride of economic prosperity.
Mernagh will be appearing at the Kush Cup in Vancouver, B.C. from June 28 – 30.
Marijuana Smoker's Guidebook is available on amazon.com.
–Chris Coyle, CBS Seattle
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Chicken Stock Plus a Stock of Chicken
I make a lot of soups, stews, casseroles, and Mexican dishes. Needless to say i use a lot of chicken stock as well as a lot of shredded, cooked chicken....
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Gluten-Free "canned" Cream of Chicken Soup T-R-L
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Chicken in a Pot Plus Stock or Dumplings
This is quite different from the Chicken in a Pot recipe already posted (#7202), which calls for tomato and very little liquid. I like this alternative...
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Cream of Chicken Soup - Dairy Free
For people lactose intolerant. Great by itself as just soup or yummy in recipes. We like it over chicken and served with rice.
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Cream of Chicken Soup
If you like to make everything from scratch this is the recipe for you. I also use it because my Grandson is allergic to milk and we don't have to worry...
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Easy Cream of Wild Rice Chicken Soup
I found this recipe on a weight loss website. My family didn't even notice that it was made with fat-free ingredients.
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How to Workout and Get in Some Spring Cleaning
The sun is out and the birds are chirping. The plants are blooming and there is warmth in the air. This can only mean one thing, spring is upon us. It is time to shed those winter layers and get out into the world. It is also the time that many of us like to get our houses in order, which is also known as spring cleaning. You can actually maximize your time by getting your house and body ready for spring at the same time.
Dusting and polishing. This can be an easy chore to overlook. So, when you do it, why not go all in and make up for the time lost? Light dusting can burn around 170 calories per hour, but if you go all in, you know the more intense cleaning and scrubbing, you can burn approximately 204 calories per hour.
Scrub the bathroom. This is one of my most hated chores, but you have to do it. So, why not turn up the music and get it over with? You can burn up to 231 calories an hour just by cleaning your bathroom and probably work in some light stretching just by trying to clean those hard to reach areas.
Sweep the floors. A lot of people probably use a vacuum cleaner because they have carpet or it is easier for them, but you can always sweep the garage, patio or the driveway. You can burn 272 calories per hour by sweeping, and you can increase this amount if you try to get all those nooks and crannies. Don't forget you can also use your broom to knock down those pesky cobwebs.
Clean the floors. This is a great follow up exercise to sweeping the floors. You can get down on your hands and knees and scrub the floor. Try to get rid of all those stubborn stains stuck in those hard to clean places, and you can burn around 258 calories an hour.
Rearrange. Everyone loves to give their house a new look for spring. They like to move the furniture around, add new home decor, and get rid of old home decor. Take advantage of all this lifting and moving. The more steps you take the better, so do not hurry yourself too much. You could burn around 240 calories per hour just by reorganizing your house.
Iron your clothes. Once you have rearranged your house, you can rearrange your closet. It is time to pull all those hidden clothes out of the back of your closet and give them a good ironing. So, turn on some loud music and pull out that ironing board, and know that you can burn approximately 156 calories per hour ironing all your clothes.
Vacuum the floor. As we said earlier, sweeping helps you burn 272 calories an hour; however, vacuuming only burns 238 calories an hour. It is just a little less, but many of us have carpets and have no choice. However, you can try to up the calories burned by walking around as much as you can and vacuuming the couches and the pillows.
The next time you feel bad or get down on yourself for not having the time to visit the gym, remember you can burn calories just by doing your housework. However, you should not think that all you have to do to stay in shape is clean your house. It can give you a great workout, but you still need to visit the gym every now and then to get in some different forms of exercise and add some excitement to your routine.


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Georgia and I had a lot of fun with iPhone-controlled helicopters a few weeks ago on TiPb TV -- so much fun the iMore Store folks got jealous and went and stocked some iSuper Helicopters of their own. They've got two sizes, large and small, so you can choose how big you want to
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Criminal Offender Record Information and Sex Offender Registry Information Checks
In order for a student to be eligible to participate in an academic, community or clinical program that involves potential unsupervised contact with children, the disabled, or the elderly, the student will be required to undergo a Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) check and/or a Sex Offender Registry Information (SORI) check. Students found to have certain criminal convictions or pending criminal actions will be presumed ineligible to participate in such activities. The College is authorized by the Commonwealth's Criminal History Systems Board, pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 6, Sections 167-178B, to access CORI records The College shall refer to regulations issued by the Commonwealth's Executive Office of Health and Human Services, 101 Code of Massachusetts Regulations 15.00-15.16, as guidance when assessing student CORI records. Sex Offender checks shall be performed pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 6, Sections 178C-178P.
For more information regarding the College's CORI/SORI check process, please contact the Director of Human Resources at 617.541-5386.


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Thursday 18th July 2013
It's been a busy couple of days for 3 Beat's top girl Baby Blue!
Her brilliant new single "Bump" has just been added to the BBC Radio 1 playlist and has taken the Number 1 spot on the Music Week Urban Club Chart. It's also number 7 on the Shazam new release chart and number 29 on Shazam's UK Top 200 (up from number 98 last week!). Great news for Blue and British female rappers.
"Bump" has been well supported over at 1Xtra too – Mistajam premiered the track and DJ Target and Charlie Sloth are both big fans. The single was play listed by 1Xtra, Kiss Fresh and Choice FM back in June. Early spins on Choice came from Firin Squad and from KC who has been championing "Bump" ever since! And the love is building over at Kiss FM. The Kiss Twitter feed was buzzing after Justin Wilkes played it on his daytime show. It's also had a play on Live@Kiss and evening spins from Jez Welham and AJ.
"Bump" is out on August 11th, but you can pre-order your copy on iTunes now.
The official video for "Bump" has had more than 420 thousand views on Vevo, did you see it yet?


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Coming Events...
The young adult group and their families of the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church will hold a chicken barbecue on Saturday, March 15 at PenMart, Rt. 6, Wyalusing. Chicken halves, $5/half. R10c
A benefit will be held on March 30, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. at the Towanda Elks Club for Dorothy Button Casselbury. A spaghetti dinner will be served—adults, $10; kids, age 6- 12, $7; under age 6, free. Basket raffle, bake sale and Chinese Auction. If you'd like to donate or help out in anyway, please call Heather at 570-250-0009. Dorothy is a member of WVHS class of 93.
Monthly Breakfast at the Herrickville Fire Hall, Sunday, March 30, 2014, 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. All you can eat: pancakes, French toast, ham, sausage, eggs, home fries, sausage gravy and biscuits, coffee, orange juice, real maple syrup and sugar-free syrup. Adults, $7.50; children to 12 years, $3.50; preschool, free. Benefit: Herrick Twp. Vol. Fire Co. - Dept. 4.
Lenten Vesper services will be held at the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church on Wednesdays during Lent. The dates are: March 19, March 26, April 2, 9 and 16 from 7 to 7:30 p.m.
Hunter Trapper Education Class. New two-day class. Register for class, then go to website: www.pgc.state.pa.us and take the online study. You must complete the online Today's Hunter & Trapper in PA course before attending the class. Held at Tri-County Sportsman's club, Saturday, April 5, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday, April 6, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Light lunch. For more information, call Pat Beebe, 570-746-3869 or Carl Yurgatis, 869-1706. You must be 11 years old.
Round and Square Dance will be held at the Wysox Fire Hall, Saturday, March 15, 7 until 11 p.m. Refreshments available. Benefit Wysox Fire Company.
Free soup suppers at Hollenback United Methodist Church on April 9, from 5 to 6 p.m. with a Bible Study from 4:30 until 5. All welcome.
Ham and cabbage dinner, with dessert on Sunday, March 16, 12 to 2 p.m. at VFW 6824 on Haigh's Pond Road in Potterville. Cost $8 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. Public welcome. Benefits VFW Auxiliary Relief Fund.
Annual St. Patrick's Dinner. Corned beef, ham, cabbage, roasted red potatoes, glazed carrots, Harvard beets, applesauce, rolls. Also homemade pies and bread pudding for dessert, March 17, 4 p.m. to ? at Mehoopany Methodist Church. Take-outs available, call 570- 833-2264. Adults, $12; children 12 and under, $6; preschool, free.
New Albany Vol. Fire Department banquet dinner will be held on March 15 at 6 p.m. RSVP by March 10 to 570-924- 3959.
Lenten Fish Dinners on March 14, 28, April 11. Dinner includes baked fish, macaroni and cheese, stewed tomatoes, cole slaw, applesauce, dinner roll, beverage and homemade dessert. Served 4 to 7 p.m. at St. Basil's Hall, Dushore. Adults, $8; children 12 to 6, $3; under 6 eat free. Everyone welcome. Take-outs available. Proceeds benefit local charitable activities. Knights of Columbus, Dushore, Wyalusing and Mildred Council 12406.
Stag Ham and Bean Supper, Laceyville Goodwill Fire Company, March 20 at 6 p.m. R9-3c/S10- 2c
The annual Camptown Civic Club family-style chicken and biscuit dinner will be held on Saturday, March 29 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Camptown Community Church.
New Era United Methodist Church community dinner will be held on Wednesday, March 19 at 11:30 a.m. Chicken and stuffing bake plus more. Free-will offering. Bring pennies for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The church is located on Rienze Road, off Wyalusing- New Albany Road.
Easter Events
The New Albany Area Children's Fund will be hosting their annual Easter egg hunt at the New Albany Park on Saturday, April 12 at 12 p.m. All New Albany area children ages preschool through sixth grade are invited to attend.
For Your Information
Bright Beginnings Preschool of the Dille Parish UCC in LeRaysville is holding a visitation and pre-registration March 24- 28 from 9:30 to 11 a.m. for the fall. Call 570-744-2225. Bright Beginnings admits students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin.
Meeting Notices
AA Meeting—Wednesdays at 8 p.m. in the basement of the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church. Open meeting, nonsmoking.
S.O.S. Al-Anon—Family Group will meet on Fridays at 7 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church, Hopkins Street, Sayre.
TOPS PA #1134—Laceyville, meets each Tuesday evening at the Braintrim Baptist Church in Laceyville. Weigh-ins from 5:15 to 6 p.m., meeting from 6-7 p.m. For more information, call 570-965-2493 or 570-869-1834. Toll-free 1-800-932-8677.
Recovery House Meetings— AA Group of Towanda meets Mon.-Fri., noon; Mon., Thurs., Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., Sun., 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. NA meetings are held Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Speaker meeting every first Sunday, 8 p.m. All meetings at 205 Main St., Towanda (please use rear, lower entrance).
Compassionate Friends—of the Endless Mountains will hold their meetings on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. in the Endless Health Community Center, Montrose. TCF is open to all families who have lost a child from any cause at any age. There are no membership dues or fees of any kind. For more information, call 570-965-0901 (evenings) or 570-278-1658 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
MOPS—(Mothers of Preschoolers) meet every first and third Wed. of the month from 9 to 11 a.m., September through May. Meetings are held at the First Presbyterian Church, 5 Court St., Towanda. All mothers of preschoolers are welcome. Child care is provided for children, ages infant through five years old. For more information, contact the church at 570-265-5575.
Al-Anon meetings in Tunkhannock—Endless Serenity Al-Anon Family Group on Monday, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, 7 p.m., Saturday, noon. All meetings are held at the Tunkhannock UM Church Education Bldg., second floor.
Diabetes Support Groupmeeting the first Thursday of every month at the Guthrie Clinic office in Towanda beginning at 5:30 p.m. There is no charge and all diabetics and family members are welcome. For more information, call Dawn at Guthrie Clinic at 570- 265-6165 during regular business hours.
The Wyalusing Masonic Lodge No. 618 meets at 7:30 p.m. on the third Monday of each month at the Lodge Hall, 158 Church St., Wyalusing. For more information, call 570-721- 0008.
Memorial Hospital's monthly bereavement support group schedule for 2014 will continue to meet on the last Tuesday of each month from 3 to 4:30 p.m., located in the library on the lower level of Memorial Hospital, Towanda. The group follows the book by James Miller, "What Will Help Me?" and other authors' writings related to grief and loss. The support group is open to those who have experienced loss and is facilitated by Trudy Ventello, LSW, a social worker with Memorial Hospital's Hospice program. For more information call 570- 268-2233.
Towanda-Wysox Kiwanis Club meets every second and fourth Wednesday of each month at the Weigh Station Café at 7:30 a.m. in Towanda. They find ways to help the children in the community. Contact Eileen Sheets at 570-265-2350 for more information.
Addictions to Victory—Faithbased support for addictions. Program will be held the first and third Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at New Generation Church, Milan, 570-888- 1967.
MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) group meets the second and fourth Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. in St. Peter's Church, 3832 State Route 6, Tunkhannock. For more information, visit www.mops.org or www.stpetestunkhannock.org. Call 570-836-2233.
AA meeting–Friday evenings at 8 p.m. at the Standing Stone Vesper Church spiritual building, River Road, Standing Stone Township. Open meeting, nonsmoking.
Al-Anon meetings on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. in the upstairs kitchen of the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church. Open meeting, non-smoking.
Bradford Salon 747 Eight and Forty will meet on Thursday, March 13 at 4 p.m. at the American Legion Post 534, Wyalusing.
The Wyalusing Senior Citizens will meet at the fire hall on Tuesday, March 18 at 11:30. Bring a dish to pass and place setting. Entertainment will be Ronnie Schoonover, who plays guitar and sings. All persons 55 and over are welcome.
A meeting of the Susquehanna Beekeeping Association will be held on March 14 at 7 p.m. at Claverack in Montrose. For more information, contact James Wood, 570-934-1166.
American Legion Auxiliary Unit #534 — meeting will be held on March 13 at 5 p.m. at the post home. Members are urged to attend. Members are also reminded that their 2014 membership dues are now due and payable.
American Red Cross Bradford Sullivan Counties Chapter Blood Services Volunteer meeting on Friday, March 21 at 1 p.m. at the Bradford-Sullivan Counties Chapter, 800 S. Main St., Towanda. RSVP by March 19 firstname.lastname@example.com g or call 570-265-2797.
The Camptown Civic Club will hold their meeting at the home of Edna Morse on Tuesday, March 18 at 7 p.m. (Note change of place, please). The refreshment committee is Wendy Gaustad and Virginia Woodruff. A program on birding will be presented by Trudy Gerlach.
Wyalusing Musical Society will meet on Tuesday, March 25 at 7:30 p.m. at the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church. Allen Waterhouse will present the program on the music of Victor Herbert.
Stevensville Birthday Club will meet Tuesday, April 1 at noon at OIP in Wyalusing. Joyce Sharer will be the baker.
Rabies Clinics
Rabies Clinic - Monday, March 24 at Wilmot Fire Hall, 5 to 6 p.m., $10. Animals must be caged or on a leash. Clinic run by Rome Vet Center.
WVHS Class of 1979 will a have a class reunion meeting at the Wyalusing Hotel on Thursday, March 13 at 6:30 p.m. Any classmates are encouraged to attend.
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Homemade Soup Sale Saturday, March 29, 3 to 5:30 p.m. at Russell Hill United Methodist Church, Rt. 6 W, Tunkhannock. Soup, salad, rolls and homemade baked goods. No set charge, but all donations greatly appreciated. The church has containers or you may bring your own. For more information, call 570-833-2983.
RTL Little League tryouts: March 22 at the High School (old gym) Everyone must attend and please wear sneakers. Major baseball: 9-10-11-12 yr. olds, 10 to 11:45 a.m.; Minor baseball: 7-8-9-10 yr. olds, noon to 1 p.m.; Major softball: 9-10-11- 12 yr. olds, 1:15 to 2:45 p.m.; Minor softball: 7-8-9-10 yr. olds, 3 to 3:45 p.m.; Junior baseball and Junior softball: 3:45 p.m.
Mandatory managers/coaches meeting: RTL on March 23 at the Laceyville Fire Hall. Scheduled as follows: T-ball, instructional baseball and instructional softball at 5 p.m.; Minor baseball and minor softball at 5:45 p.m.; Major baseball and softball at 6:30 p.m.; Junior baseball and junior softball at 6:30 p.m.
The WVHS Wrestling Booster Club will meet on March 20 at 6 p.m. in Coach Haley's room at the high school.
Sixth Annual Pink Panther 5K Run/Walk will be held on March 22 at 10 a.m.
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Towanda Elks Lodge is having a Towanda Trivia Night on Saturday, March 22 from 7 to 10 p.m. Teams of up to six people. Open to public.
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Kimberley Hagen, Ed.D., Talks About Massive Open Online Courses in HIV/AIDS
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Dr. Kimberley Hagen has taught HIV education to undergraduates and medical professionals since the mid-1980s, before many people were even discussing HIV. Now she's bringing that conversation out of the classroom and onto the Web. Through the brand-new world of massive open online courses (MOOCs), Dr. Hagen is bringing the course "AIDS" to Coursera, currently one of the largest purveyors of MOOCs.
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Can you tell us how you got involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS, and how that became a part of your academic life?
I have been an HIV/AIDS educator since 1986. First, a community educator. Back in the early days, there was not a lot known by almost anyone about HIV. Transmission, the social issues, you name it. There was a need for people to just go out to community groups and just talk about HIV/AIDS, and so I began doing that in 1986. Two years later, in 1988, I was able to use that experience to get a job at Emory Medical School as a medical educator for people working at Emory, and throughout the Southeast through a group that was then called the Emory AIDS Training Network and is now called the Southeast AIDS Training and Education Center (SEATEC) to provide medical education. I didn't have a graduate degree at that time, but we were so early into the epidemic that I had more experience doing frontline AIDS education than most of the other applicants. So I took that position and never looked back.
This is my passion: helping people to really understand HIV. Not just the nuts and bolts of transmission, but understand what this does to the individuals that are infected by it, that are affected by it, because it's within their family and friend networks, who are at risk for it, and to live in a society that has been remade by the activists who have helped take control of education, the political support structure that helps keep our country and our citizens healthy. All because of the AIDS epidemic.
"This is my passion: helping people to really understand HIV."
At what point did your passion translate to becoming an academic and teaching in a formal university setting?
When the job to become a medical educator at Emory opened up, I jumped at it, and I convinced them that even though I didn't have a graduate degree, they should still hire me. And I did that for 10 years. In 1998, I was invited by Jim Curran, who had just taken a role as the dean of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory. Jim Curran, you may or may not remember, was at the CDC (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in 1981 and was put in charge of the task force that was assigned to look into these first AIDS cases. So, basically the only people who had been in the field of HIV/AIDS longer than Jim Curran were the two doctors who reported those first cases to the CDC.
He asked me if I wanted to come to the School of Public Health and start the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) with him, and I jumped at that. When I did, he offered me an opportunity to join the faculty at the school and become a teacher. That was when I transitioned from a community educator to a medical educator to a research educator to an educator educator.
I've been working in the field ever since, and I think it was natural. There are a lot of people on the Emory campus who are doing work in HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS education.
How did the more recent online "AIDS" course come about?
I co-taught, along with several other people, a course that's called a "university course" here at Emory. Emory, like most universities, has a college, and the undergraduates do their college thing. They have the Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Nursing, Law, Business, etc. The "university course" tries to break those boundaries by picking a theme and bringing students from all the different units into the same classroom and drawing the faculty from all the different units, so it's truly a "liberal arts" approach to education. This year the theme was "AIDS," and I got tapped to be one of the co-teachers for that and it was really, really cool. It was shortly after I completed that course that Emory decided that they wanted to join this brave, new world of MOOCCS, massive online open communication courses. In deciding which three courses they were going to offer, one of them was "AIDS," and I was probably on people's minds because I had just taught the university course. They called and said, "Would you like to teach this?" And I said, "Yeah, pick me! Pick me!" [laughs]
Dealing with HIV/AIDS in an educational setting, you've had those tough conversations, and you talk about topics around which people may have inhibitions. What do you think will be the key around teaching this challenging material in an online setting?
I have been thinking and thinking about this, because that may be the only real drawback to this particular medium for education: There's going to be very little opportunity for me to interact with a significant percentage of the students. I'm still a month out from when the course rolls out, and I've got over 10,000 student signed up. That could easily double by the time the course begins. I can't have significant interactions with over 20,000 people!
We're trying to think of ways we can use blogs and have people post to that, but how do you do that without it becoming an area where people rant and become trolls? I don't have an answer for that yet; I better have an answer by the end of February, but we're having conversations about that with the instructional design team right now.
"I know when I'm teaching, when I'm giving my lectures, I'm using all my old tricks. I'm trying to be matter-of-fact; I'm trying to bring humor into it; I'm trying to make it seem like normal stuff that normal people talk about."
I know when I'm teaching, when I'm giving my lectures, I'm using all my old tricks. I'm trying to be matter-of-fact; I'm trying to bring humor into it; I'm trying to make it seem like normal stuff that normal people talk about.
What are some of the issues, innovations or controversies that you think the course is going to address?
I'm going to be talking about the origin of HIV. That still is, even now -- two weeks ago, I went to Science Tavern meeting (a bunch of people who are science nerds like me get together and listen to an interesting presentation and drink beer), and the guy sitting at my table said, "You work in AIDS! Great. Maybe you can answer this question. Is it true that AIDS was a lab accident? That somebody was playing around and it escaped and infected the world?" And this is in 2013. So, you know, "No." I gave him the lecture on the origins of HIV that I will be giving on Coursera.
One of the controversies that is still out there among the lay public is "Where did this come from?" It's not a mystery to those of us in AIDS, but many others are sure it's still a mystery.
The question of "Why is it that men who have sex with men, whether they self-identify as gay or not, seem to be infected more often than other people? What's with that?" That's a question I got a lot that we're going to be addressing. "Why is it that African Americans are so much more infected and affected by HIV than white Americans?" It creates a controversy when people insert their own feelings/beliefs/ prejudices/racism into it. They go, "Well, there must be a difference because black people are somehow biologically vulnerable in a way others aren't." No, that's not true. We'll be addressing that. That was in fact the lecture we just finished taping today. Patrick Sullivan, Ph.D., who does his field research in this area, gave a riveting talk -- I can't wait for it to be live.
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U.S. District Judge Joe Heaton issued the preliminary injunction for the Oklahoma City-based arts and crafts chain and stayed the case until Oct. 1 to give the federal government time to consider filing an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Brian H. Campbell, 42, of Swiftwater, was driving a 1997 Dodge pickup truck northbound, when the truck collided head-on with a southbound 1998 Chevy van occupied by driver Carl Lindquist, 30, of Stroudsburg, and passenger Shelly Bolton King, 29, of Saylorsburg.
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An autopsy was scheduled at Lehigh Valley Hospital.
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Campbell was the son of Barbara Griswold and the late Harold Campbell and was married to Maureen (Kent) Campbell.
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In April 2010 10 Fitch was featured as a 6 night seven day prize package during "Going Green" week on Wheel of Fortune. We were told a few months ago that we would be on again during February's Romance Week this year. It is very difficult to get a confirmation on this. You have to go through Bedandbreakfast.com who is the sole provider of bed and breakfast prizes to Wheel Of Fortune and I have been bugging the marketing project manager who handles this for weeks to see if she can find anything out. Last year I finally found out when we would be on the night before the show actually aired! So, if you are a Wheel of Fortune fan and you happen to see us on the show next week would you give a shout on our facebook page or comment here on our blog?
As to last year's show, our prize package included a chauffeured winery/sightseeing tour of the Finger Lakes region, dinner for two at Joelle's French Bistro, a romantic in-suite picnic dinner and lot's of other goodies and had a retail value of over $6000 with the airfare that bedandbreakfast.com was providing. During the show a women did land on the 10 Fitch Prize package but before she won it she had to solve the puzzle correctly. Unfortunately she messed up, called a letter that had previously been called which was not on the board and then tried to solve the puzzle but she was incorrect! We were just beside ourselves with disappointment!
I have been trying to get a hold of the clip of last years airing which shows us and the segment of the show we are a prize for. I was sent a DVD but can't extract the clips and save them in a format that I could use to post the video on youtube, our website or anywhere else for that matter.
We are hoping that we are indeed used again as a prize package next week and of course also hope that someone lands on our prize and then correctly solves the puzzle! Keep your eyes peeled and let us know if you see us on the air!
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London, 31 May 2011.
As reported in The Telegraph: -
"Sun lovers enjoy warmest spring since 1659."
"Farmers in Lingwood, Norfolk, have harvested hay three months early."
"The previous warmest spring was in 1893, the year that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle announced the death of Sherlock Holmes" and "Thomas Edison built the first film studio in New Jersey."
Clearly it's time for ice cream, and only a Knickerbocker Glory will do.
Knickerbocker Glory is a British adaptation of the Knickerbocker Sundae which originated in New York and named after Washington Irving's Diedrich Knickerbocker in his 'History of New York'. Although there are many variations I favour Caroline & Robin Weir's version as published in their seminal 'Ice Creams, Sorbets & Gelati' for its simplicity and clean flavours. However I substitute Honeycomb, a toffee-like sweet, for the usual brandied or glacé cherry in the original.
Cadbury's Crunchie bars are essentially Honeycomb enrobed in chocolate. It's light texture is made by trapping carbon dioxide bubbles within the sweet. This occurs when baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) is added to hot syrup. I prefer to make my own and use London chef Patrick Williams' recipe.
London, 31 May 2011.
Serves: 1
Knickerbocker Glory
ounces (45 g) chocolate syrup
scoop of vanilla ice cream
ounces (15 g) crushed raspberrys or strawberries
scoop of vanilla ice cream
ounces (15 g) crushed pineapple
scoop of vanilla ice cream
Whipped cream
Honeycomb, opt.
ounce (30 g) toasted almonds
Patrick Williams' Honeycomb (serves 6)
ounces (100 g) honey
ounces (125 g) glucose syrup
ounces (300 g) granulated (caster) sugar
fluid ounce(s) (90 ml) water
tablespoon baking soda (bicarbonate of soda)
Knickerbocker Glory
- Use a commercial chocolate syrup or make your own. If as I do you make your own, use the recipe that follows which is based one found at Epicurious.com: Use 200 ml (1 C) milk or water, 75 g (6 T) honey, 75 g (2/3 C) unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder, a pinch of sea salt, 1 t vanilla or 1 T brandy and 1 t freshly grated orange zest. Bring the milk or water and honey to a boil in a heavy saucepan over medium heat. Add the cocoa powder and sea salt and simmer, whisking for a few minutes, until the syrup thickens. Remove the saucepan from from the heat and add the vanilla or brandy and the orange zest. Let cool; the syrup will continue to thicken as it cools.
- Fold the honeycomb into the whipped cream.
- Layer the ingredients in a knickerbocker or sundae glass in the order given.
Patrick Williams' Honeycomb (serves 6)
- Line a small but deep roasting tray with baking parchment.
- Place all the ingredients with the exception of the baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) in a large pan and heat to 300 F (150 C).
- Add the baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) and stir quickly to mix it in.
- The mixture will foam and increase in volume for 1 minute. At this point quickly pour it into the roasting tray.
- The honeycomb will set quickly. When cool, break into small pieces or pulverise and add to ice creams, use to decorate puddings or sprinkle over desserts as you would with Praline powder (use food52 recipe search to find my recipe).
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Soda Fountain Recipe
More Great Recipes:
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By: Naty Barak- Netafim Chief Sustainability Officer As a much younger man, I had the pleasure of representing Netafim in the United States in the early 1980's. One of our flagship products at the time was the Pressure Compensated dripper which helped to establish Netafim in the American market. Our first sales were in 1981 to the vineyards in California. This was the first Pressure Compensated dripper invented and developed by Rafi Mehudar. Introduced into the market in 1978 it … Full article click here >>


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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Sears Collapse: Conspiracy or Cluelessness…or Worse?
19 comments:
- Dave said...
It's incomprehensible that anyone - other than a certified lunatic - could spend as much money as Eddie Lampert has to buy Sears and K-Mart, only to run them both into the ground. It's the paradox of modern capital markets making money while destroying value.
- Ben said...
I don't understand the logic that Lampert buying stock here means he wants it to go bankrupt. If he wanted it to go bankrupt, why would he buy the stock for his own fund/account?
As for the RE theory, hasn't that been debunked by now? There are plenty of Circuit City, Border's, and other bankrupt big box retailers whose real-estate is currently on the market. Not sure the real-estate of Sear's and Kmart has much value whatsoever.
As for the question of the article, I vote for cluelessness - it would have been a hard job for anyone to turn around Sears and Kmart. I think they were dead before Eddie got there - he probably just accelerated the complete demise by a few years.
It will be interesting if JC Penny does any better than Eddie with the former head of Apple's stores there. I would bet that they are unsuccessful even if they invest heavily in reviving that dead concept.
- Anonymous said...
I think Eddie got into this thing at a bargain price but has found out it's a lot tougher to turn around than he planned. It's no Autozone that's for sure. And conditions have changed the last half dozen years. Now he's burning cash and has to decide what to do. One option is to take it private and sell off the valuable pieces and shut down the rest. Ugly for the employees but probably the best way out of a difficult position for Eddie. he can probably still get out with a profit if he moves quickly. The longer he waits the worse it gets.
- Anonymous said...
Perhaps a really smart guy in the financial world just does not measure up well on the smartness scale of the world in general. They only think they're smart because they have money.
- Zhang Fei said...
The difference between those other companies and Kmart/Sears is that those other companies did not need rescuing. Lampert is a great stock picker. He has decided to find out whether he is a great manager as well. So far, Kmart/Sears is kicking his rear end.
- Anonymous said...
It's a bit mystifying, really, because Sears Roebuck was Amazon before Amazon. I had thought they would turn SR around by digitizing their catalog and making the stores more like showrooms, much like they did when I was a kid in Seattle and the giant Sears store/warehouse (now Starbucks) was right on the rail yard on the way to downtown.
They could have leveraged the logistical system they had in place, minimized held stocks in favor of JIT delivery from centralized facilities in the land cheap midwest for their large goods, and put a little more money into making the stores they had less ugly and more inviting. Kenmore, Craftsman, and other Sears brands still have legs for boomers and nostalgia appeal for hipsters (Hilary outdoor gear, Ted Williams sporting goods).
Nordstroms owns the attractive store experience-mood lighting, live music, attractive and helpful staff, cafe and coffee places. Spin off K-mart or make it the mid-zone between Target and WalMart, leverage Sears for its brand strengths (hard goods), spin off Lands End.
As for conspiracy theories, to me it always seemed like there were policies and policy alternatives. Nobody wants to be found out as the guy that pulled the trigger but there are lots of people to egg on the guy that might. Is it any different than business? Not when the government is run by business people (from Wall Street to the Mafia, it's about business).
- Anonymous said...
ELS always had 1 go to financial engineering move: use stock buybacks with whatever cash assets were available to boost earnings then find some street analysts to characterize the YOY earnings change as ""growth".
While it worked with Autozone, it was a simple game that was bound to be called out at some point. The dumb retail accounts that bought this nonsense must have bought alot of other nonsense and now they don't have funds to buy into the fantasy engineering world of EL.
What amazes me is that he was able to get away with it in the first place.
- Anonymous said...
Mr. Lampert is a very smart man, but not everything a very smart man does works. It is absolutely true that most retail sales initatives fail, but that doesn't mean that one will succeed with no sales initatives. Sears was broken before Mr. Lampert got involved, and there is a mismatch between his philosophy of retailing and what is wrong with Sears.
- Nick said...
Anonymous #4 (Mr. Institutional) suggests "dumb retail" is the sole consumer of Lampert's special sauce. That statement reeks of hubris and is factually inaccurate.
If we're talking numbers, #4 can put their returns up against Bruce Berkowitz's post collapse figures. I'll bet Fairholme still wins by "alot."
- Anonymous said...
Hey Jeff, ever wondered the real reason buffett bought into BYD?
please see page 30:
- Jeff Matthews said...
I don't see anything in this that we didn't know. Buffett has discussed BYD at length, everywhere.
And it hasn't worked out as expected.
- Anonymous said...
What I am saying is that the price of the BYD stock had gone up 4x when they decided to make the purchase (after months of probably saying no to the investment) - because Buffett was allowed to make the purchase at the initial price. So, he was given a 400% return for free. This I didn´t know. Also, Buffett makes it clear that he is not too confortable with the technological aspects of the company.
- Anonymous said...
and by the way, it has worked as expected, 42% annualized return with a tremendous margin of safety
- Jeff Matthews said...
It has "worked" only because the Berkshire investment created a bubble in the stock following the announcement in 2008, as you know.
Since then, sales and earnings have missed expectations, and cash flow has been so poor the company was forced to raise equity last year on the Shenzhen exchange.
Moreover, the real reason Berkshire invested--the company's purported lithium battery technology, which Charlie Munger has discussed at the annual meeting in response to questions from shareholders following numerous disappointing setbacks--looks like a bust. It is not commercially viable at this point, having missed the deadlines from past announcements.
The stock peaked at HK88 in 2009 and is now down 74%, as you also know. Last fall the stock was back close to Berkshire's cost but has since recovered some with the China market, providing the sexy-but-misleading annualized return cited above.
All in all, as Berkshire investments go, BYD has been a disappointment.
Burlington Northern, on the other hand, has been an absolute home run, as we anticipated in these virtual pages despite much skepticism at the time.
- Anonymous said...
The point I´m trying to make is that the only reason Buffett accepted this investment is because the founder of the company offered him some shares at $8, eleven months later when Buffett still wasnt convinced of the investment the stock was quoted at $40, Buffett tried to back out of the deal but the founder let it go at the original price. This means that there was an instantaneous 400% return on the investment + a margin of safety of 80% from entry price.
- Anonymous said...
Has anybody here recently shopped at Sears? I grew up wearing Tough Skins jeans. They wore like fiberglass which pleased my mother no end. Bought my first fishing road and reel there with chore money, a Zebco. I have rebuilt a BMW 1971 6 cylinder and restored my 1965 Mustang with craftsman tools. Once I had to bleed a Diesel engine on a sailboat in a gale with my tools. I really like my Craftsman tools. I have slavishly followed Consumer Reports advice and populated my house with many Kenmore appliances. My wine collection is cared for by Kenmore.
I'll offer this one of many anecdotal experiences to explain why I don't even consider shopping there anymore. I could hire a landscaping crew to care for my property but the ghost of my frugal New England mother won't permit it. I can hear her now, "Mr. big fancy pants is too big now too even take care of his yard". So instead of a gym membership I do yard work and torture my kids by making them do the same. New Englanders think this kind of work "builds character" and saves money; heaven. This year I had to get some help with the leaves and needed another rake. I left the house and headed to Home Depot. On the way I thought that I'd give a closer Sears a try and save some time. I hardly ever shop there anymore but I was only looking for a rake. How difficult could that be? I went in and asked a kid sitting at a desk where the rakes were. He said nothing but pointed in the general direction. As I got close to the garden tool section he shouted, "I think we're all out". It was late October (I live in NJ) and Sears had no rakes! I then drove to Home Depot and they had bins full of rakes. Out of curiosity I then stopped in the local Lowes, tons of rakes. My wife reported that Target had rakes. A friend and I were discussing this and we joked that Sears didn't need ex IBMers and fancy IT systems to fix the problem, we both knew how to get Outlook to remind us to order rakes for fall.
PS: I still can't figure out where Mr. E.L. has parked the craftsman and Kenmore trademarks / brands within the corporate structure. Who owns them and aren't they some of Sear's most valuable retailing assets?
- Jeff Matthews said...
One correction on this BYD thread: Buffett did not "try to back out" of the deal and the "only reason" Buffett bought the stock was not because the founder offered it to Berkshire at a discount.
Buffett bought the stock because Charlie Munger, who had owned it for years, encouraged Buffett to buy it for Berkshire. Buffett sent later-disgraced David Sokol to China to vet the business. Sokol liked what he saw and encouraged the investment.
Buffett never tried to "back out" of BYD--his point was that BYD could have tried for a better deal following the price rise that came with the Berkshire announcement, but didn't. Buffett appreciated that.
Read our book: Buffett doesn't buy stuff just because it goes up: he wants to buy a good business, one he understands, with a defensible moat, at a reasonable price, with honest management. BYD has almost none of those attributes, as it turns out, except he bought it at a price that gave him that 'margin of safety' he looks for.
- Anonymous said...
Jeff, I read your book and other books about Buffett and my conclusion is that Buffett buys things to make money.
Hence my conclusion that the way he described the transaction in the article referred above seems to me that he was going to back out of the deal, but since the founder kept the original terms, he accepted to purchase.
Please note that Buffett explicitly says that he still doesnt understand the business. This makes me conclude that he bought into it just because even without understanding the business (which is agaisnt your argument that he only buys good businesses), Charlie seemed to understand and so did Sokol, so he thought that the margin of safety was good enough making an instantenous 400% profit.
Also, please refer to the last chapter of "The Intelligent Investor". Almost every business (however good or bad) has its price. It´s clear to me that that was the reason Buffett accepted the deal.
- Anonymous said...
When it comes to conspiracy theories, one statement always comes to mind. "I just don't think they are smart enough to pull all that off." This statement has always grounded me in every conspiracy theory I hear. In this case, I think it's simple cluelessness and this opinion was validated in Feb of 2009 in the SHC letter to Shareholders from ESL. His letter was 15 pages long and 12 of them were all about the crash in 2008. Nothing to do with the retail business who's logo was on the cover. His manifesto then validated he knew nothing about retail and wanted to know nothing about retail. Honestly, if you were an investor of retailers and having read that manifesto would you invest in this business? Then again, maybe he is THAT SMART?


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A bull elk alerts friends and foes of his position in the national park on Wednesday. The sounds of fall are echoing throughthe valley.
A home along Fish Creek sits in ruin on Thursday. More than 19,000 homes were lost throughout the front range in the historic flooding last week.
The first fall foliage appears in the national park on Wednesday. While the Autumn Gold festival has been cancelled this year, the fall colors will still be out.
A bridge is blocked by tape at St. Bart's along MacGregor Avenue on Wednesday. Bridges of all sizes were damaged by the flood.
An elderly man seems dejected at the Red Cross shelter on Wednesday.
A mud slide leaves a long scar on the west side of Twin Sisters. The rains of last week created slides and road damage all over the Estes Park area and the Front Range.
A moth seems unbothered by the rain and clean up in Estes Park this week.
The bridge on the Fish Creek recreation trail sits on a new island in the creek on Thursday. All land and concrete on either end was washed away in the flooding.
The 17th green sits cut off from the fairway at the Estes Park Public 18-Hole Golf Course on Thursday. Last week's flood tore away bridges and land on the course close to the Fish Creek.


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In the weekly feature called "e-views," we invite readers to answer a question via email.
Last week's question:
What's the most important race to you in this election and why?
THE MOST IMPORTANT race to me is the "human" race. Our leaders and we followers are supposed to be doing the "right thing," and what is good for all of us. Do you think that is happening?
I have bad feeling that the truth got lost in all the election fever and will need to be rediscovered. In the interim, I hope small minds and greed don't sell us all down the river of failure and despair. To me, it has been a while since I have seen politicians of any stripe come together for the good of the country.
Don Anthony
I'VE ALWAYS FELT that if you get bitten by a loose dog your world revolves around how the dogcatcher got elected. Truth be told, all offices can be critical and all contribute to the collective good, or ill, will.
That said, if you picked one, the presidency is huge in this 2012 race. Sure, we've all heard countless times in the past how the election at hand is the most important of our lifetime. This time, though, there is truth to it.
The two candidates don't differ as much on details, nuance or program delivery as they disagree on archetypal assumptions about the role and interplay of what I might call the trinity: government, private sector and individual and where the twain shall meet.
If men are, indeed, from Mars and women from Venus, then Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are, as well, universes apart. They mirror the greater philosophical divide in the country — it's like a national yin and yang.
As in all races, national regional and local, may the better man (or woman) win!
Walter Ruehlig
EACH OF THE MONEY-grabbing tax increase proposals, beginning with the state's and down to Antioch School District's Measure B, should be voted down!
Each of these will increase our taxes for many years, and financially adversely affect already delicate means of support for families. More taxes will not solve the true reasons behind the current economic downfalls of our society. More taxes just increase having less with which to provide for our children, our individual needs, and with which to pay for our increasing costs with. More taxes just covers for the incompetents who created the problems, and just gives them more money to waste as before. It has to stop, and all must be voted against.
Ralph A. Hernandez
This week's question:
When your newly elected local council is sworn in, what do you think should be its first priority?
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International Studies: Transfer
International Studies includes such specialized areas as government service, education, humanitarian aid, international law, international business and peace studies. The student's program choices should be relevant to his/her intended career. Suggested area courses available at UCC are listed below. Additionally, it is assumed that the student will be computer literate. Students needing additional computer skills should acquire these as soon as possible in their studies.
Additional Program Suggestions
Students interested in government service, including working for the United Nations or the United States Department of State, should select courses from the group which includes:
- Anthropology 221, 222, and 223
- Political Science 201, 202 and 203
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- Literature
Students interested in humanitarian aid should select science sequences which will prepare them for either medical or agricultural work.
Students interested in international business should consider courses such as:
- BA 211, 212 and 213, and/or BA 223
- additional mathematics and statistics courses
Students interested in international law should add Business Law, BA 226, to their curriculum.
Students interested in education should take:
- Anthropology
- Political Science or
- Psychology
Students interested in peace studies should take Philosophy 201, 202 and 203.
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