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Boston BabyZone Guide suggests you try her favorite tour for seeing the colors and sipping apple cider. Follow Route 2 West to North Adams and enjoy the ride! You can end your trip at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Boston Art Museum's best kept secret. The trip will take you about three hours from Boston, and on the way, you'll find spectacular views of valleys flooded with color. Orchards along the drive offer apple cider and maple syrup, a New England tradition. If you are particularly ambitious you might even start your search for the perfect Halloween pumpkin!
Who says all the great scenic fall drives are on the East Coast? Not our Colorado Guides, who insist that the Rockies have as much to offer as any of those "hilly areas" back East. West-central CO offers a golden view as the aspen trees turn yellow, seemingly overnight. One recommendation is Route 550 between Silverton and Ouray. Hurry up and get out there, though, as foliage at the higher elevations tends to turn early.
Hundreds of miles of colorful drives await lucky travelers in Illinois. From scenic rivers to rocky bluffs, to stretches of beautiful forest, Illinois has it all. One of the best fall drive plans is to spend the weekend driving along the Ohio River Scenic Route in Southern Illinois. During your day, stop for a relaxing afternoon at the Shawnee National Forest. Consider a road trip along the scenic bluffs of the Great River Road in Western Illinois. Along either drive, you will find dozens of activities, from fall festivals to corn mazes, to everything in between.
Minnesota is probably best known for the cold winters; however, this beautiful state of 10,000 lakes has more than just snow. Before the chilly winters, we have Guide Kathy's favorite season, autumn! Fall in Minnesota is a wonderful time to take the family out for a weekend drive to visit an apple orchard, corn maze, pumpkin patch, farmers market or best of all, to see the fall colors. You won't have to go far. Within the Twin Cities Metro area, the Mississippi, Minnesota and the St. Croix Rivers are good locations for fall color watching. Each river is lined with paved paths for biking or walking. Another fun way to view the fall colors is on a paddleboat trip down the Mississippi. Many boat tours are arranged especially for this season. The Farmer's Markets in Minneapolis and St. Paul are sure to be stocked with autumn's harvest, including pumpkins!
The West Coast California Guides want to remind you that some of the most spectacular scenic drives are waiting for you on this side of the country! Has anyone NOT heard of the fabulous Pacific Coast Highway? Immortalized in song, most recently in on the new Paul McCartney album, the PCH can inspire anyone! Consider California Highway 1. Along the way, you can't miss sites such as the Golden Gate Bridge, one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. Take a gander at Bixby Bridge too, and be stunned by a vista that you will never forget. And what would a California Drive be without stopping at Morro Bay or Monterey Bay. Just one of many more wonderful destination recommendations is the Shasta National Forest.
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Hey ladies! I just finished Xtrain CLB. My legs are wobbly now. I am pretty tired. The guys finished the fence today. It looks fantastic. I love having my privacy back. We have a corner property and without this fence you could see right inot our bedroom windows. Now we have all the privacy we need, lol. We had them expand the backyard too, bringing the fence more up to the front of the house so the boys will have more room to play in the spring. Speaking of spring. . . I wish it would get here soon. I woke up this morning to a surprising fresh inch of snow. .. I hate driving in any snow, whther it be a foot or an inch. People drive like maniacs around here and snow seems to make them crazier.
Amelia- I hear you with the dogs. When I was a kid, our dog used to bark at the neighbors' dog at the fence. Then this dog would come up to the fence and pee on my dog. . . that happened almost EVERY time. My dog was a bit stupid, lol.
Lori- I don't dread Tabatacise so much as I wonder if I will live through it. The one cardio workout by Cathe that I never do because I just really dislike it and dread it is Cardio Core Circuit. I've never liked it. I guess with this, knowing it is only 20 seconds for each part might make it less dreadful to do the whole thing. I plan on doing premix 2 on Thursday.
Belinda- we waited for the insurance money for the fence to come through. Then it took forever to get a fence guy. The island construction companies are booked. Our friend who is in construction has not had a day off since the hurricane. That is why it took so long to get it done. First, waiting for the insurance check. Then getting the fence guy to come.
Waving hello to Cookie and Deb!
I did BS shoulders today. One more week to go & so much to do & I feel guilty leaving DS's (like Lori) & they are old
Belinda - Sorry your nose is stuffed it's been good for awhile wonder if it's the weather. Since TJ has been around awhile you would think the price would be cheaper, maybe QVC?
Lori - The guilts & they adapt quicker than us. Wow, 3 weeks is great they aren't as generous here in the States. Do you have plans to visit home in the summer?
Kristin - We have been getting an inch here & there too, it does seem to be worse because it doesn't stop anyone from staying home. These new workouts are making me tired too.
Amelia - You must be an expert on selling on e-bay, as long as you don't buy more than you sell I'm sure you could do it on your own too.
Cookie - I'm thinking of 50 Shades of Grey to see what all the hype is about LOL. Sometimes I think most shoes/sneakers need inserts because they don't seem to made as good anymore.
Belinda, I should revisit dog training! The dogs think going in and out is their part of helping me get in exercise, and this morning it is getting on me. Have heard good things about TJ but never tried it.
Amelia, found a site about that Game On and it was free. Of course, you could do it with a team, which is how it is designed, for but nothing to purchase. Overview Anyway, my friend has done it a couple of weeks and lost 6#. Now she's convinced a couple of others to do it with her, and they are a team doing it on their own. She said they were just doing it not submitting any formal stuff. How's your dh handling the news?
Lori, bet in a week or so, you'll have the drill down of packing and loading the get the day started and off. You must be quite organized to get done all you do. Can't believe you didn't want to come home and collapse after the first day.
Kristin, glad the fence is in, and bet it looks good. Nice that you got extra space with it. We have snow again today and I'm so sick of it. Spring! But I really want summer.
Phatgyrl, how's the studying? Last night I was reading some paperwork and it was so boring, I started thinking I should eat something to ease the pain of it. Thankfully, I didn't and just gave up for that reading for a time. Does snacking call you when studying?
Deb, one week?!! You must be so excited. I would be. Love e-readers so you don't have to carry books and can always get another selection if need be. There are a lot of details to prepare. How long will you be gone for?
Have bis/tris this morning While I love my job, lately I'm just worn out from the nonsense of my coworker. There's soooo much to do and no time for stupid things that don't matter. Why don't others see it that way? Oh well, thanks for listening.
Good morning,
Haven't decited what I will do today? Too early? Need more coffee.
Cookie - lol. about your dogs. Dog training went well yesterday, we learned off leach. How is your foot feeling? Sorry about your job. Aleisa has the same problems with hers. Frustrating!
Debbie - I haven't found a cheaper price for TJ. I know the set been out a few years? Don't get it? The only place I found on for $59 was at totalfitnessdvds.com , but the shipping was almost $10. Hallo? But this set comes with two more workouts and weighted cloves! The once on amazon is already $29 for only 5 workouts? Sometimes you find BB workout half price on groupon.com. I still can kick myself in the butt for not getting Turbo Fire for $53 a few month ago.
Kirstin - I understand! We couldn't wait for the insurecane money for the fence to come through. Not with 4 dogs. I am sure where you live, the damage was worst. Glad your fence is up. What kind did you get?
Amelia - you will lose those 30 lb. I find the more I fuss about counting cal the more I gain? Do what you been doing meaning keep active and you will see results. About ebay and amazon, I am always afraid to buy bootleg dvds. Hate spending that kinda money and l have a fake. Like I said to
Debbie, you do spend almost $30 on amazon or ebay. But if you buy from Beachbody/totalfitness.com or QVC you do get 2 more workouts and weighted cloves. I just don't trust amazon or ebay???
Hi Lori!!
Happy Hump Day, everyone. BBL!
Evening everyone. I just finished Xtrain Disc 2, Bis and Tris. I added on Core #1, so I did the first premix. My arms have such a nice pump in them now. I have only done the 100 rep challenges with the Scarecrows and hip thrusts. I want to try the biceps and triceps ones, but not on the day I just did bis and tris, lol.
Anyway. . . I am so tired and wishing that my mid-winter break was not cancelled because of the stupid hurricane . My parents are going to Puerto Rico, and I wish I could go with them, but I am stuck here in the cold. . . with snow in the forecast . . . I guess I need to hold on for spring. Another month and it will be here, right? That's what I love about 90 day rotations. . . it makes the 90 days fly. I cannot believe I am in the fifth week of the Xtrain rotation. Once I finish it will be baseball season and then school will be over.
I am dreaminf of swimming pools over here, can you tell?
Deb- you must be so excited to be getting out of this cold. Are you packed yet?
Belinda- we got six foot stockade. I wanted to get the nice pvc fence, but DH and I talked about it, and we would have to spend money out of pocket, and if we are planning on moving what would be the point?
Cookie- There are a number of people at my job complaing and complaining, which I find draining. At this point, I stay in my room. I eat lunch alone in my room, or I give extra help during my lunch. I'd rather be with the kids than with the adults, lol.
Lori- how is the job going?
Waving hello to AMelia and phatgyrl!
Today I took a yoga class. So we are expecting a big snow storm here in the East & wouldn't you know it I have to go to Jersey City to set-up a prototype. I'm going to go early so I'm back home by late afternoon. I started cooking extra food for DS's & tonight it was lasagna & chili.
Belinda - Crossing my fingers you find a good deal. Amazon can be tricky because they don't always sell the whole package
Lori - How are you making out?
Kristin - I can't wait to get away from the cold but your right Spring is just around the corner. You even lost President's day? I'm pulling things out of the closet & will spend some time narrowing it down over the weekend.
Amelia - What are you up to?
Cookie - Have you been spinning? Still haven't tried the ride dvd. Is your co-worker close to retirement?
Phatgyrl - How is school?
Morning girls,
Last night I did High Reps. That ab wo is tough.
Debbie - good job with your yoga class. I am sure I will find a good deal on TJ eventually. If not, I got enough dvds.
As long as my neighbor lets me use TJ I don't need to buy them, right?
Kirstin - glad you enjoy Xtrain and seeing great results. I wanted to get a nicer fence, but like you we don't plan on staying here forever. lol.
Hi to everyone that checks in after me. BBL!
Good evening girls,
Turbo Jam 2 is done! Can you tell, I love those workouts I am thinking doing Brazil Butt Lift and a Turbo Jam rotation?
I will be back in the morning. Good night, girls.
Good morning everyone. I tried to post on here last night but I think the site was down again :/. Anyway, I dad Tabatacise premix 2, (tabatas 1, 2, core 2). I was breathing heavy and my heart was about to burst. Next week I will add on the third one.
So this snowstorm is going to be a whopper and of course, it begins while I am at work. When I say I hate driving in the snow, I mean I am terrified. I've had bad experiences in the past. The last time it snowed heavy like it is expected to today, I was at work and it took me THREE and a half hours to get home. I am hoping they will do an early dismissal so that we can beat it to the punch. Gas lines where ridiculous last night. I paid $4.09 a gallone .When I got back in my car my younger DS tells me, "Mommy are you going to flip out?" I asked why and then my older DS goes, "Did you just pay $50 for gas?" I said, "Yes, I did." He goes, "I think you are going to flip out." I said, "I just might," lol. They jacked up the price already. Yesterday morning in was $3.79 a gallon. I had to go to three different gas stations because of lines and then one claimed they had no more regular. Yea, I'm going to buy your premium gas at $4.39.
I got my hair colored yesterday and my hairdresser was talking about how she was leaving for Florida at 4 a.m. today. How very lucky she is!!!!
Belinda- nice job with high reps! How's the foot these days? Feeling any better?
Deb- we have President's day off, but I need more than that, lol. I am glad the snow storm is hitting us over the weekend and not on a school day. I don't want to lose the four day weekend for Memorial DAy. The kids and I will need it after all the testing!!
Waving hello to Lori, AMelia, Cookie and phatgyrl!
Belinda, you are tempting me w/TJ! Not that I need any more dvds, but they do sound really good. The past two mornings I've woken up to an indoor snowstorm - the dogs have torn apart a throw pillow each night. Guess what I'm storing today?
Amelia, are you drowning in red frosting and decorations at work? That Game One thing is free.
Kristin, think part of my problem is it is all adults (or so they claim) I'm working with! checked with HR the other day on when retirement notices had to be filed. Too late for this year if I want to claim sick days, but guess at this rate I will next year unless I can get a transfer. I would love a transfer but keep getting told I'm "far too valuable" there, but two others in that office are driving me out. Not trying to gloat, but honestly it has to be jealousy. Yet I'm doing three jobs and they're doing one. Sorry, but I've been up for hours from the stress of them.
Lori, how are you adjusting to your new job? Hope it is going smoothly.
Phatgyrl, how's the job and studying coming along?
Deb, hmmm, second honeymoon and 50 Shades.... there seems to be a theme here. Do your ds know how lucky they are with you leaving them food and everything? Drive safe today.
Did an old Leslie on the rebounder this morning.
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Dr Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf is a Senior Fellow at Ecologic Institute and Coordinator of its International Governance Program. He is co-founder and co-director of Democracy Reporting International (DRI), a Berlin-based NGO promoting democratic governance in the Arab world. With a background in international and European law, his work focuses on climate change, international governance, and sustainable development. Since 2003, when he joined Ecologic Institute, he has led numerous projects on climate change, international trade, reform of international environmental governance, economic transformation, and indicator development. International and constitutional law are the focus of his work at DRI. Dr Nils Meyer-Ohlendorf works in German and English; he also has a good knowledge of Spanish.
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back to the topic of swirlymms...
does this allow you to receive video and sound files or just pictures, since we can only send pictures I'm wondering if others are able to send WHATEVER they want. I'm thinking of upgrading my plan to the family unlimited messages (30 a mo. and me and my wife get unlimited) but if I am still crippled in the mms category it seems not worth it.
Once all of this is done you should be able to just go to recent packages and it will be near the top.
So its just gonna be a thumbnail we see? I think it would be better to save them to the camera roll and save them as a PNG don't you think? So we can actually do something with them
Please tell me it's open source! I'm dying to know how they managed this.
AT&T settings anyone?
Man i give up.. i cant even see the new version... just the old one i typed it all kinds of ways refreshed restarted everything. i used it http://swirlyspace/swirlyspace.xml
without the http with the two capital letters on the last swirelyspace word and capitol XML i dont get it. im version 1.1.3 jail broken tmobile usa
look through the pages they have been posted several times
And you will find it under the swirlyspace repo
using at&t on 1.1.3 and the mmsc settings posted....cant receive or send
If this was n e help hit the thanx button...
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im testing this as we speak.
What I'd like to know is why (and I know this from looking at their Installer install script) they are overwriting the /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app file without backing it up first?
This file is never reverted back upon uninstall either... what gives?
Hi Markyboy
Your almost there. you just missed the port number on the proxy:
Proxy: 126.96.36.199:8080 only got it sending though, I get error message when fetching
Failed to GET:timeout error when reading http header
Could not fetch any MMS
Check your settings
Tells me there is one to fetch but will not let me fetch it, bummer eh!!


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He did, and also read about woodworking, looked at it and, "the day after I graduated, it was an instant decision: the heck with teaching."
Instead, he opened what he described as a "normal" woodworking business in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. Within a couple of years, he'd found a signature product: the oval tambour box. It came about as a way of doing something that "not everybody else was doing," and was a combination of the traditional rolltop desk and Shaker oval boxes. The appeal of the design, Bruce said, has "stuck" since 1978.
What didn't stick was the appeal of running a business: as interest rates went up in the early 1980s and relationships with galleries changed, Bruce's business shifted to a focus on computer furniture, "which was all the rage in '84. Solid oak computer furniture: it's the craziest thing, now that I look back on it."
Then, "the next step for me was to do a 'real business.'" After months of Small Business Administration courses, loans for CNC [computer numerically controlled] machines and more, that "taught me how to be a real businessman," though, Bruce said "I was turned off to that."
He sold his woodworking business and all of his equipment and went to work as a computer programmer.
That lasted for a few years and then, a couple of years ago, he found himself needing to choose another occupation again. He decided to give woodworking another go.
"When people ask me why I do it, back in the day, the answer was easy: 'It's a job; it helps pay for what we need.' Now, it's different. It doesn't affect whether we stay in the house. What excites me about it is the woodworking. I don't know why, but I have to be torn away from the shop in order to do anything else."
This time around, since he'd sold off all his machinery, Bruce started out with a couple of projects made entirely with hand tools: a rocking chair and a Bible box.
Then he found out about the possibility of acquiring old woodworking machinery, including the Delta 6 x 48 belt sanders from the 1950s and 60s he says are critical to the production of his oval tambour boxes. With the discovery of the possibility of acquiring these old machines and the website Old Woodworking Machinery [now Vintage Machinery], Bruce says he found himself heading down a slippery slope.
"I've bought 100 machines in the last three or four years, and kept maybe 10 of them. The rest I've sold as restored or parted them out. I enjoy it as much as woodworking now. It's a real kick to take a rusty piece of nothing and turn it into a beautiful, stunning piece of something."
Usually, in the summer, Bruce says he kicks everyone else out of the garage in order to work on paint removal and other restoration processes for these old tools -- but this summer, he has so many woodworking orders, he doesn't know if he'll have time to do that.
One project he'll be working on is his new series of chess tables. The 3" squares have clear, open air around them -- "you could drop a quarter, and it would fall between them," Bruce said -- while the actual pieces are blocks of wood of different heights with features cut into them. They are not turned.
"Chess is oriented somewhat toward medieval times and castles, and castles have moats," Bruce said to explain the open air surrounding the squares.
It's one of the ideas that have just popped into Bruce's head, the source of inspiration for most of his woodworking projects. "I've got 20 or 30 [ideas] up there right now that I can't wait to get started on."
Another one he cites as something with ongoing popularity is his Pigeonhole Cabinet. "I was working in the shop on a pigeonhole desk, and it didn't come out right, so I threw it in the burn pile," Bruce said. "My wife took it out, and it occurred to me: people want pigeonholes. They don't care if they're in a desk."
Although Bruce worked mostly with imported woods in the 1970s, "this time around, I work only with domestic woods" - mostly walnut, bird's-eye maple and cherry. "Domestic woods grow right here and are pretty," he said, plus, "I no longer feel the need to work with anything that I don't know where it comes from."
And, although he says he would love to use more reclaimed lumber, it's just too darn expensive. "It's hard to get used to the way prices are going these days. The glue I bought two years ago for $12 a gallon is now close to $20 a gallon."
So, for his wood, Bruce relies on sources like Craigslist and people who run mills in southern Wisconsin. "I pick up whatever old wood I can get: if Grandpa had a tree he cut down and put it in the garage, and he died, and the son died, and the grandson's wondering what he can do with this: I know what he can do with it."


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Keeping the Faith
A True Act of God
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June 1, 2011
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"Maybe God finally got the attention of the Japanese," a lady said to me in the aftermath of the recent Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. After I peeled myself off the ceiling, I asked her what in the world she meant by such a statement. She went on to speak about idolatry, the evil Buddha, and Pearl Harbor. When she finished I resumed my place on the ceiling tiles.
It happens every time a major natural disaster strikes, and it doesn't matter if it is in Japan, Europe, Haiti or New Orleans. Pontificating preachers, tawdry televangelists, and their minions begin pointing fingers, blaming the victims, and speaking of God's raging vengeance. Even insurance companies get in on the fault-finding, referring to otherwise inexplicable disasters as "acts of God."
An act of God? Really? What about the crashing of tectonic plates, the inherent danger of living on a coastline prone to major hurricanes, the tornadic collision of cold fronts with warm air over the Great Plains, and the natural eruption of lava from the earth's crust? These are native conditions of our planet, not the fickle trigger finger of an angry God.
I know that is not the response for which many Christians are looking, because we want intractable answers to all of our questions. We want to be able to provide all the divine reasons for justice/injustice in the world (even when we are incapable of discerning the divine or justice). And we hold on to words like God's "control, sovereignty," and "judgment" over the world as a thin defense mechanism when we have no other explanation.
I'm not saying that God isn't sovereign over Creation. But I am saying that we don't understand what that means, and we have no business whatsoever sitting in judgment over those who now face unfathomable suffering. Granted, I can't unravel the enigma that is a loving God presiding over an often unjust world, but I cannot accept the "act of God" explanation for so much misery.
I do not believe that it was God who caused the Japanese earthquake. Rather, it is God who will now enter the sorrow and be with those victimized by it. It was not God, who with a cosmic breath forced the ocean waters onto the Tōhoku shore. Rather, it is God who now weeps with those left to bury the dead.
It was not God who systematically and vindictively planned this disaster. Rather, it is God who will be with the Japanese every step of the recovering process in a life that is terribly unjust. How will God do this -- join those who suffer? Through you and me.
As a Christian, I believe that the greatest divine revelation is the appearance of Christ, who showed us in the flesh what God is really like. Sent from God on a truly earth-shaking mission of grace, he now sends his followers to do the same. "As the Father sent me," Jesus said, "I am sending you."
I can't hear those words, or witness human suffering, without thinking of my friend Walt DeNero, former Director of the University of Georgia's Fanning Leadership Center. He used to tell a story every time he gave a lecture, a story about two log-sitting turtles, discussing world events.
One turtle said, "I wonder why God allows so much suffering in the world? Sometimes I'd like to ask him 'why' when he could do something about it." The other turtle then said, "Well, why don't you ask God that question?" And the first one responds, "No. I am afraid God might ask me the same thing."
Quit wondering if God got the attention of the Japanese. Ask instead, "Did God get my attention?" For now is the time to give, to help, to love, and to become the hands, feet, heart, and compassion of God to those who hurt. Now is the time to redefine "act of God," not as a cataclysmic disaster of the divine kind, but as a deed of love and grace toward those who need it most.
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Fiscal 2012 was fairly uneventful for Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B) in terms of acquisitions; Warren Buffett and his loaded rifle found no elephants large or impressive enough to bag. However, this year may be shaping up differently, with a decent-sized acquisition already announced just two months into 2013. With interest rates lower than the average rate of inflation, Berkshire's cash is losing buying power with every passing day. For that reason, the company must continue to find good investment opportunities in which it can use large amounts of cash. Let's look at its most recent deal and two possible acquisition candidates.
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On Valentine's Day, Berkshire and 3G Capital wrote a love letter to H.J. Heinz (NYSE: HNZ) shareholders, announcing that the two would purchase the company for $72.50 per share. Although Berkshire only receives 50% of the equity in this deal, it will also receive $8 billion of preferred shares yielding 9%, a yield you would be hard-pressed to find elsewhere.
Heinz appears to be a good fit for the Berkshire family. Its brands are well-known and its products are sold world-wide. The company's return on equity of 35%, a metric Buffett has mentioned as a key determinant of a good business, is the fifth highest in its industry. The business is not exciting, but "boring" is an area in which Buffett has enjoyed great success.
Berkshire has a massive cash pile, which is growing at more than $1 billion every month. At this rate, Buffett can make a similar acquisition every year without seeing his current cash level diminish.
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Berkshire's stake in satellite television provider DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV) has grown steadily since 2011. According to its most recently filed 13F, Berkshire increased its stake in the company by 15% in the 4th quarter of 2012, raising its ownership to 34 million shares.
DirecTV's market capitalization sits just over $29 billion and Berkshire owns approximately 5.6% of the company as a whole. Backing out its ownership stake, it would cost Berkshire around $33 billion to acquire the rest of DirecTV, assuming a 20% takeout premium. Using the operating income numbers provided in the chart below, Berkshire would acquire the company at approximately seven times operating income. At last year's shareholders meeting, Mr. Buffett mentioned that he would be interested in a large deal of around $30 billion and DirecTV may just fit the bill.
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DaVita HealthCare Partners (NYSE: DVA) first appeared in the Berkshire portfolio in Q4 2011, with a purchase of 2.6 million shares. That number has grown significantly since then, with current ownership equaling 13.6 million shares, or 12.9% of the company.
DaVita's moat comes from its life saving dialysis treatments for patients suffering from kidney failure or end stage renal disease. In Q4 2012 alone, the company's kidney dialysis centers provided more than 5.7 million dialysis treatments, or approximately 72,000 treatments per day.
Adding a 20% premium and backing out Berkshire's current stake, this acquisition would take approximately $13 billion from Berkshire's cash pile. Using the operating income from the chart below, that would equate to around 12 times operating income. With Berkshire's current war chest, it could acquire both DirecTV and DaVita, and still have some cash to spare.
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The Whatcom County planning department has announced it will not impose a six-year development moratorium against the owners of a site south of Birch Bay for which a multi-million-dollar shipping terminal has been proposed.
Whatcom County Planning and Development Services (PDS) will not seek the moratorium against Seattle-based shipping terminal company SSA Marine on the advice of county civil prosecuting attorney Royce Buckingham. SSA Marine wants to build the $600 million Gateway Pacific Terminal just south of the BP Cherry Point refinery.
Opponents of the terminal, which is slated to transfer materials such as coal and grain from trains to multi-thousand-ton transport ships bound for Asian markets, called for the moratorium after investigations of the site by county and state regulators concluded SSA Marine had cleared trees and graded dirt roads without obtaining the proper permits. The unpermitted work affected approximately 9 acres of the forest and wetlands at the Cherry Point site and was done to obtain drilled earth samples of the site in preparation for the necessary environmental review of the terminal project.
Though Whatcom County issued $2,000 in fines and charged the terminal company an additional $2,400 to recoup processing costs, Buckingham argued the six-year moratorium would not be appropriate because SSA Marine did not intend to "convert" the land to nonforestry use. That is, the company did not intend to remove the trees and build something that would be unfriendly to timber growth without permits.
Buckingham referenced a Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) conference note
in support of this claim.
"[SSA Marine] stated that [the dirt roads] were temporary in nature and would be reforested while further potential permitting is underway," DNR officials said. "The timeframe of this permitting process is likely three to five years."
Buckingham contends conversion to nonforestry use is a key phrase because the DNR, which confirmed SSA Marine had done the work without a forest practices permit, did not issue a notice of conversion to the county. This notice, Buckingham argued, is what is necessary to trigger the county's imposition of the six-year moratorium. Without the notice, state regulations governing when a moratorium can be imposed trump county code, which Buckingham admits allows a moratorium when less than a full "conversion" has occurred.
"However, local ordinances cannot regulate where state ordinances have prohibited regulation, and such is the case here,"
Buckingham wrote in a August 19 letter to county PDS
But the county's move has drawn criticism from Bellingham-based land-use attorney Jean Melious and Jan Hasselman, the lawyer with Seattle-based environmental law firm Earthjustice who called for the moratorium in a letter to county PDS last week. The two attorneys argue state and county regulations do not conflict and that conversion to nonforestry use in fact took place.
In an August 18 letter to county planning supervisor Tyler Schroeder
, Hasselman argued that though "conversion to nonforestry use" is a requirement of the state Forest Practices Act, DNR was mistaken in not issuing a conversion notice to the county. Moreover, SSA Marine's long-term plan to build a shipping terminal on the site constitutes a conversion to nonforestry use.
"Indeed, given that [SSA Marine] has express plans to convert this site to a major industrial facility within the next few years, we think finding that no 'conversion' occurred is difficult to understand," Hasselman wrote.
Hasselman contended the work done at the Cherry Point site meets the state's definition of "conversion activities," which are defined as "Any of, or any combination of, the following activities in preparation for nonforestry use of the land: Grading, filling, or stump removal." Based on the evidence presented in the publicly available notices of violation against SSA Marine, Hasselman argued these actions took place at the Cherry Point site and, by the state's own definition, constitute conversion to nonforestry use.
Hasselman, however, did not suggest that development at the site should be halted indefinitely. He said the Whatcom County Hearings Examiner could choose to lift the six-year moratorium before six years have passed if a public hearing is held on the issue.
"In conclusion, we believe that a review of the governing authorities directs that both DNR and Whatcom County conclude that [SSA Marine's] activities constitute a forest conversion, triggering the six-year moratorium," Hasselman wrote. "As we previously sought to emphasize, such a conclusion will not necessarily preclude additional activities on this site for the full moratorium term, but will ensure that the public's interest is protected and that all the facts are made available before the project can proceed."
Melious' August 21 letter to county planning director Sam Ryan
echoed Hasselman's arguments and asked for clarification on why the county has decided not to impose the six-year moratorium. Melious argued the county code describing when a moratorium must be imposed is clear-cut and does not conflict with state law.
County code requires the moratorium be put in place when tree clearing is done without a forest practices permit, and Melious contended these regulations dovetail with state law on the issue. Moreover, she argued Buckingham left out key parts of state law when quoting it in his letter to county PDS arguing against the moratorium.
In other Gateway Pacific Terminal news, SSA Marine has submitted a construction stormwater general permit to the state Department of Ecology (DOE). This permit was required before SSA Marine started work at the Cherry Point site.
DOE spokesman Larry Altose said SSA Marine, by having the site under permit coverage, will be required to develop a stormwater plan designed to analyze any stormwater runoff that might be produced at the site. SSA Marine could face fines of up to $10,000 per day per violation without obtaining the necessary stormwater permit.
The DOE will be accepting public comments on this permit application until September 20. DOE officials will take the comments into consideration as they determine whether SSA Marine has met the necessary criteria for permit acceptance.
Comments can be emailed to Shawn Hopkins at
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During last Sunday's Golden Globe Awards, co-host Tina Fey got big laughs when she announced on stage, "You know what, Taylor Swift ? You stay away from Michael J. Fox 's son." Well, it turns out that Fox would prefer Taylor stay away from his son as well.
Asked by New York magazine if he'd approve of a romance between Taylor and his 23-year-old son, Sam -- who was at the awards show because he was serving as this year's "Mr. Golden Globe" -- Fox responded, "No, no,...just back off." It seems as though the beloved Back to the Future star is concerned about how Taylor's favorite post-breakup activity would affect his son.
"I don't keep up with it at all, but Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right?" he asked New York magazine. "What a way to build a career." He says that if Sam brought Taylor home for dinner, he "wouldn't even know who she was," but says that if he heard the breakup song later, he'd probably realize then what just happened.
"Yeah, exactly," he said, imagining a future song title: "'Sam, You Piece of S**t'...oh, that was the girl you brought home!"
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Summary: At twelve, Edward Cullen never believed in anything from myths to ghosts and everything in between. Everything changes once he is forced to move to Washington in a small town called Forks. He and his parents move into the Swan house, which claims to be full of injured souls or ghosts. When he meets a little girl named, Isabella, she convinces him to cross over and help them. Edward and Isabella go on a journey to save the defenseless spirits and in the end, Edward will have to make a decision that may just change his life forever.
Preface: I could not believe it, but there she stood. She was tall, beautiful, and proud. A smirk plastered to her face; however, you could still see the fear and bewilderment in her exquisite eyes. When I stepped closer, tears began to pool. "Your mind is made up, Edward." She bowed and disappeared into the mist.
Chapter One: The New House
Edward gracefully stepped out of his parents' Honda. The music blaring from his iPod's earplugs could be heard from a yard away. His parents glanced at him; their faces reflected their mood, guilt sodden. Edward trudged up the porch steps and leaned against the front door. His black converse sneaker kicked the rotting entryway. "Edward, honey, the door is open. Why don't you go inside and look for your room?" Esme Cullen called out.
"Whatever." he sighed. Edward dragged his heels inside and froze. The house had a reek of dead freesia and decaying wood.
The instant you walked through the door you had a direct view of the kitchen. After ambling all the way through you arrived in the living room. The living room was completely supplied with their furniture but the fixtures looked to rich in the dull atmosphere. Edward turned to the stairs and squinted. The flights of steps were blocked by a bizarre, glowing mist.
He ignored it, as most twelve year olds would and sauntered forward. The mist clouded around his head and in his ears, Edward sworn to himself he could hear a hiss of anger. The stairs were old and loud. With every step taken a shrill creek would resound in your ears.
The fog finally disappeared when he reached the second story, but Edward could see it slowly drift away into another room. He trailed after it and entered a small bedroom with a single bed sitting in the middle of the area. A rust covered window was filtering incandescent sunrays into the dark room. He glanced to the left and peered into the small closet.
"Is this the room you want?" a soft voice asked from behind him. Edward spun around to look at his baby sister, Alice. He glared at her coldly. "I'm sorry, Eddie!" she cried. His gaze softened and he knelt next to her.
"It's ok, Alice." Edward held his pale arms in front of him and little Alice ran into them.
"Let's look for my room!" she giggled. He hoisted her scrawny body into his arms and carried her down the hall. "Wait! I want that room!" she screamed.
Edward sighed, "Alice, this is the bathroom. You cannot sleep in here. What about this room?" he walked into an octagonal, blue room. Alice frowned.
"If I sleep in here, then I wont be able to get you if the ghosts-"
Edward snorted, "There is no such thing as ghosts!" Alice gasped and clutched the air.
"Try telling that to Charlie!"
"Is Charlie a ghost?" Alice nodded. Edward set her on the floor. "Well, this is your room. I am ten yards away. Go tell mom you found your room, so she can put your stuff in your room." he demanded. Alice screeched and stamped her shiny, black flats. She grabbed the edges of her pink dress and screamed louder.
"Stop, Renee!"
Edward hissed, "Alice, there isn't any ghosts. Now go tell mom!" She glowered at him and raced out of the room. He smiled as silence filled his ears and slowly made his way back to the other bedroom. The mist was floating in front of the window now. Edward slammed the door closed and inspected the rest of the span. His feet slid on the old wood and insignificant splinters stuck into his souls.
Suddenly a plank cracked and his leg plunged into the gap. Edward kept his mouth clamped shut so his mother would not be alarmed. After awhile of dangling he pulled his leg from the hole and glimpsed in the hole. There, in a cloud a white mist was a pile of dusty diaries dated all the way back to 1699.
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After beating a determined Sioux City Musketeer team 5-1 Sunday night, the Waterloo Black Hawks won the second round series three games to one and advanced to their second Clark Cup final in three years.
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The Black Hawks have been strong during the postseason, winning six of seven games. Their only loss came Friday in overtime at Sioux City. Waterloo bounced back in dominant fashion in its win Sunday.
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Thats very noble of you for not vectoring. I bet the handicap people wish you had the same attitude when you vectored their parking spaces.
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The Soul of Snow Interviews: Michael Jager, JDK Design
Michael Jager is the Creative Director and President of JDK Design, based in Burlington, Vermont. For over 20 years his design studio has had a profound influence on snowboarding. Michael shares a few thoughts and recollections.
When did you start skiing?
When I was 4 or 5 years old, I was like, "I need to ski." So my parents went to Ames department store and got me these horrible cable-binding, sketchy things. I would just do it over and over, trying to figure it out. All through high school, I was constantly thinking about it. And in my sketchbooks, I was constantly drawing skis, ski boots, graphics, designs, shapes. I was imagining ski boots with knees and hinges. So when I realized I was going to get into design and art, I was like, "Man, I'd love to do ski graphics someday. Album covers and ski graphics."
Did you start snowboarding because of your involvement with Burton?
Snowboarding was something I got inside of through skateboarding. Once I was out of design school, I had a skate ramp in the woods behind my house. A young kid named Brian Reed came and asked if he could skate the ramp, which was cool, as skating is about friends and community. He was the person who brought up snowboarding, so we started riding together at Bolton every day and night that we could. It was interesting – as an extension of skating, snowboarding made the mountain totally new for me again. Snowboarding got me dreaming about mountains again. About a year later, we met Jake and his crew and the snowboarding world evolved for us from there.
Do you think the cultural difference between skiers and snowboarders is still relevant?
I do think there's a fundamental cultural divide, but it's just not as electric now. The sparks are gone. But there is a difference at the core; I call it "sideways culture." Surf, snow and skate – it's this sideways, against-the-grain-of-culture kind of thing. It's very individualist. And once upon a time, skiing represented that. I saw that. I mean Stein Eriksen was a punk, really. He was a rebel character, very maverick. So is there a difference? Yes. But there are skiers and riders doing amazing things on mountains that people couldn't even imagine ten years ago.
Has snowboarding impacted your work as a designer?
Absolutely. Very early on, we realized the importance of diversity and cross-fertilization. Design has to be built upon an understanding of the fabric of life. If you're trying to attract someone to a snowboard, you have to realize that probably two months ago, they might have been in the Apple Store buying a new iPhone. Snowboarding itself has definitely had an impact on our work and a lot of areas beyond it. Snowboarding's creative freedom was the threshold that opened minds to what was possible, graphically, on so many things – bikes, motorcycles, helmets, trucks, etc.
What role does riding play in your life now?
It's huge. I have three kids and they all snowboard. It's certainly transitioned to a place of being in nature; being on the mountains with the people you love is pretty damn cool. It's different from the speed, the progression, the desire, which was the fuel for me for a long time. I like to ride fast and smooth and confident, and try to teach the kids good etiquette, but it's mostly about celebrating being outside and hanging out. The connect and flow – I feel like I've imparted that to my kids. My oldest son, Eli – I can just rage with him anywhere and I know that I've embedded the ability in him to just pick a line and understand the relationship to a mountain. A lot of people get to experience riding or skiing, but very few get to do it enough to actually get connected to the mountain. It's just like magic when you hit it. And to know that you've passed that on to a son or daughter, it's a real accomplishment. You really connect to nature somehow. And unless you've ever gotten confident enough to connect with the equipment and the mountain, the weightlessness of snapping out of a turn – once you get it, you'll never forget it. It's so beautifully addictive. You've got to seize every moment of it that you can get.
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"Delighted and relieved," is what the great-grandson of India's iconic freedom hero Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi said once news came in that a collection of Gandhi memorabilia sold to tycoon Vijay Mallya will come home.
Over the last two weeks, the auction of Gandhi's personal belongings has created uproar in India, with indignant citizens demanding to know why things came to such a pass.
Indians, who view the items as part of their national heritage, have said government intervention at a much earlier stage would have perhaps prevented the last minute dramatic build-up over the bidding.
Seller James Otis' last minute change of heart to withdraw the items — Gandhi's trademark wire-rimmed glasses, leather sandals, a pocket watch and a metal bowl and plate — failed and the auction went ahead as scheduled.
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June 18, 2013, 3:26 PM — Retailers place big bets on big data, digging to discover buying trends and preferences from masses of structured and unstructured data. Much of that data comes from outside their organization, in forms as diverse as research, reports, charts and even video files. However, while there's plenty of that data to preoccupy retail planners, that preoccupation often comes at the expense of gleaning intelligence from the data found in logs and other machine data produced by their own applications, websites, servers and supporting IT infrastructure components.
Machine data offers a wealth of information, but often goes untapped in the retailer's quest for external market research on buyer patterns, preferences and plans. And it's ironic that data from machine logs, while frequently overlooked, is always more time-critical than data from external sources. Machine logs that would warn of impending retail application downtime could save millions of dollars in lost revenues for a large online retailer during a holiday season.
In mid-2012, Target Stores lost, by one estimate, $464,000 in just 150 minutes of downtime caused by high server traffic; while that downtime could have been avoided by access to machine logs, external data would have been the electronic equivalent of a paperweight.
The big machine data
Logs and other machine data are the output of an organization's IT assets – essentially every application and device in the organization's IT infrastructure.
Machine data is one of the fastest growing components of big data, in part because it's generated by virtually every piece of IT hardware and every software application – servers, retail and related applications, and mobile devices – and sensors and input devices of all kinds. In fact, IDC forecasts that machine data will account for 40 percent of the total data generated in 2020, up from 11 percent in 2005.
By managing this data proactively instead of only when something goes wrong, organizations can help mitigate risk, ensure service availability and promote operational efficiency. It's an amount of data that many retailers are not prepared to struggle with, but tools such as log management systems are purpose-built to handle.
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Ceiling: Kevin Martin
Basement: Marquis Daniels
Final Comparison: Eddie Jones
The biggest weapon in Burks' diverse offensive game is his ability to get to the free-throw line. Every part of his game helps him get there, the elusive dribble allows him to get around defenders. His burst and quickness put defenders in a bad position defensively and his size allows him to finish with contact creating more scoring opportunities. Combine all of those together and Burks is a foul drawing machine allowing him to score with ease and open the rest of his offensive game.
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Like a few others in this year's draft, Burks has a great chance to be the best player in five years. As a freshman in college, he impressed and was considered a lock for the first round; his decision to come back allowed Burks to round out his game even more. During his sophomore year, he proved he is a dangerous scorer and can get buckets from anywhere on the court. If improving year-after-year is a trend, Burks will only get better and end up as a very good NBA player.
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Combined Score: 41 out of 50 possible points
He has the complete package for a basketball player, while still showing he has a ton more untapped potential. Actually, Burks may wind up being the best player in this class. His combination of length, shooting, attacking mentality and niche for scoring is unmatched in this class.
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During parliamentary debate of the law, government representatives said the offense of filming or distributing films of acts of violence targets the practice of "happy slapping," in which a violent attack is filmed by an accomplice, typically with a camera phone, for the amusement of the attacker's friends.
The penalty for recording or publishing acts of violence is up to five years in prison and 75,000 euros. Depending on the violent act, the penalty for recording or publishing could be heavier than for the act itself.
I can see the reasoning behind the law and I certainly don't want the Internet to be the medium of choice for snuff films and other violent acts. But it's still a disconcerting law.
Not as disconcerting as another proposal before the body:
The government has also proposed a certification system for Web sites, blog hosters, mobile-phone operators and Internet service providers, identifying them as government-approved sources of information if they adhere to certain rules.
Oh, perfect. Will we start referring to France as "China: Europe"?
Via Techmeme