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Current News for April 09, 2008
Citi Faces Huge Write-Downs, Nears Sale of Leveraged Loans (pfblogs.org)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:12 PDT
From Financial Week: Citi may write down another $17 billion for Q1, research firm says CreditSights estimated that Citigroup will likely report the biggest write-downs for Q1. The write-downs could range from $15.2 billion to $16.8 billion, CreditSights reckons, depending on whether valuation reserves related to financial guarantors are included in the tally....CreditSights estimates that write-downs at Bank of America could range from $8.8 billion to $9.9 billion. At J.P. Morgan, the hit could
Thinking aloud: AX.UN (pfblogs.org)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:12 PDT
(Disclosure: I've owned Artis REIT for more than two years)Being a long-term value investor, I try not to worry too much about short-term fluctuations, but that doesn't mean I'm not keenly interested in the reasons behind them. If a stock loses, say, 10% of its value, I want to know why. Did earnings fall off a cliff or did they lose a key customer? Or did it simply get knocked back by a broad market sell-off, but still has a decent long-term outlook? If it's the former, I'll probably avoid it,
NTRI APR 2008 CALLS sold out with positive news on stock (pfblogs.org)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:12 PDT
I was lucky and that’s about it with a big news piece on Nutrisystems getting a new CEO and saying new revenue will be much more positive. This news brought the stock up 25% from $15 up to $19.90. My options were sold out right over $19 so I was very fortunate ...] ...
Lending Club Business Changing (pfblogs.org)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:12 PDT
photo credit: pfalaRateLadder wrote up an interesting piece - Big Lending Club News — Quiet Period Underway for Secondary Market - about an email he received from Lending Club about a major change in how they are going to go about their business. Oddly enough he mentions that he got this info via ...] ...
CurbedWire: Seeley’s Building Now a Historic Resource, Pasadena Bike Week (pfblogs.org)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:12 PDT
GLENDALE: Glendale News-Press reports that Seeley’s Furniture store in South Glendale was put on the registry of historic resources. Via the paper: "As a designated city historic resource, the building will retain its architectural significance even with the planned... ...
Tuesday PM Linkage (pfblogs.org)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:12 PDT
· Blogger discovers plenty of biking at Farmer's Market Street Heat] · House squatters wreak havoc in Tujunga Daily News] · Yet more on the Santa Monica Mountains conservancy deal LA Times] · Gaze upon a good-looking street in Van... ...
Man (and Comcast employee) gets laptop and ... Crime] (pfblogs.org)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:12 PDT
Man (and Comcast employee) gets laptop and XBOX back after unleashing mobs of vigilante internetters on the thieves. Philly Daily News] (Thanks, Markus!) ...
everyone be a love and go vote for me….pullllleeeeeaze?
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:14 PDT
Click here and please vote for Wendy’s caption in Diesel’s weekly caption contest. I’ll wax your car for you. Copyright © 2008 Let the dog in!. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement and in BIG, BIG TROUBLE. Please contact legal@www.letthedogin.com so we can take legal action immediately. Plugin by Taragana Share This
Lots of Good Educational News from Arizona and Beyond
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:37:38 PDT
by David Safier I keep on meaning to write about these, and other, articles that have come my way, but something always seems to come up. So here is a list of interesting articles, most of them positive, that you can read yourself if you're interested. (Note: I find myself complaining on this blog most of the time, talking about what's wrong with education. Yet every day, thousands of gifted teachers, and sometimes less gifted but very hard working teachers, are doing wonderful things with th
What Worked and Sucked Today 482008
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:39:15 PDT
Worked: TITN - Ripped today up 8% unfortunately I can pick the stocks, but I can’t ride them all the way. I got out with a 3.6% gain, so I can’t complain. CPST, DRYS, and JOYG all finished higher. It looks like I’m going to have to sit through a possible drop tomorrow though. My RUT long was swapped today to the short side along with extra shorting of the NDX. I didn’t like the way the market was acting today so if there is some profit tomorrow morning I’m taking it. Basically the long RUT
Martin's Super Markets to Make Website Interactive
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:39:21 PDT
Martin's Super Markets has signed an agreement to have MyWebGrocer, Colchester, Vt., build a comprehensive new online channel (www.martins-supermarkets.com) for the 20-store chain.
Bashas' Letting Consumers Know It's 'Best Place to Work'
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:39:21 PDT
Bashas' here said it is posting in-store signs this month to let consumers know it was named one of Arizona's "best places to work" by the Phoenix Business Journal and BestCompanies AZ earlier this year.
BJ’s Names Sheehan to Board
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:39:21 PDT
Michael Sheehan has been elected to the board of directors of BJ’s Wholesale Club, the retailer here said.
GMDC Renames Golf Tourneys for Doug Blough
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:39:21 PDT
GMDC’s board of directors, in conjunction with the organization’s Education Leadership Council, has honored GMDC's recently deceased long-time director of communications Doug Blough, by naming each of the association's two annual golf tournaments after him.
Today's Depressing Magazine News Link
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:39:35 PDT
Joystiq: "Games For Windows Magazine goes online only."
Community Media: Selected Clippings - 04/07/08
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:39:59 PDT
Don’t Downgrade Public Channels by Scott Hanley Hartford Courant (CT) 04/07/08 3 comments ] I applaud The Courant’s decision to encourage the General Assembly to protect the Connecticut Television Network from substandard delivery on AT&T’s U-verse video system editorial, April 4, "Don't Downgrade CT-N"]. The editorial did not mention that this “downgrade” will also have a significant impact on the many community-based public, education and government channels throughout the sta
cornell university scientists state lawmakers plant pathology state agriculture christmas trees
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:40:18 PDT
Brown Root Rot in Northeast States By News Editor Posted: November 9, 2007 The brown root rot, a fungus that attacks alfalfa has been detected in farm fields in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Maine. The research was conducted by Cornell University scientists, with the first samplings conducted in 2005. There are no effective treatments ...]
McCain: Don't choose to lose in Iraq
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:40:46 PDT
This morning's Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on Iraq showed pretty decisively that the Bush administration's policies are made of straw. Their chief advocate in the Senate, John McCain, delivered an uninspired and somewhat risible defense of them. Here is the conclusion of John McCain's prepared remarks (PDF): Congress must not choose to lose in Iraq. We should choose, instead, to succeed. That's a measure of the depth of his thinking about the morass McCain helped the nation to
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:12 PDT
From Financial Week: Citi may write down another $17 billion for Q1, research firm says CreditSights estimated that Citigroup will likely report the biggest write-downs for Q1. The write-downs could range from $15.2 billion to $16.8 billion, CreditSights reckons, depending on whether valuation reserves related to financial guarantors are included in the tally....CreditSights estimates that write-downs at Bank of America could range from $8.8 billion to $9.9 billion. At J.P. Morgan, the hit could
Thinking aloud: AX.UN (pfblogs.org)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:12 PDT
(Disclosure: I've owned Artis REIT for more than two years)Being a long-term value investor, I try not to worry too much about short-term fluctuations, but that doesn't mean I'm not keenly interested in the reasons behind them. If a stock loses, say, 10% of its value, I want to know why. Did earnings fall off a cliff or did they lose a key customer? Or did it simply get knocked back by a broad market sell-off, but still has a decent long-term outlook? If it's the former, I'll probably avoid it,
NTRI APR 2008 CALLS sold out with positive news on stock (pfblogs.org)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:12 PDT
I was lucky and that’s about it with a big news piece on Nutrisystems getting a new CEO and saying new revenue will be much more positive. This news brought the stock up 25% from $15 up to $19.90. My options were sold out right over $19 so I was very fortunate ...] ...
Lending Club Business Changing (pfblogs.org)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:12 PDT
photo credit: pfalaRateLadder wrote up an interesting piece - Big Lending Club News — Quiet Period Underway for Secondary Market - about an email he received from Lending Club about a major change in how they are going to go about their business. Oddly enough he mentions that he got this info via ...] ...
CurbedWire: Seeley’s Building Now a Historic Resource, Pasadena Bike Week (pfblogs.org)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:12 PDT
GLENDALE: Glendale News-Press reports that Seeley’s Furniture store in South Glendale was put on the registry of historic resources. Via the paper: "As a designated city historic resource, the building will retain its architectural significance even with the planned... ...
Tuesday PM Linkage (pfblogs.org)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:12 PDT
· Blogger discovers plenty of biking at Farmer's Market Street Heat] · House squatters wreak havoc in Tujunga Daily News] · Yet more on the Santa Monica Mountains conservancy deal LA Times] · Gaze upon a good-looking street in Van... ...
Man (and Comcast employee) gets laptop and ... Crime] (pfblogs.org)
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:12 PDT
Man (and Comcast employee) gets laptop and XBOX back after unleashing mobs of vigilante internetters on the thieves. Philly Daily News] (Thanks, Markus!) ...
everyone be a love and go vote for me….pullllleeeeeaze?
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:36:14 PDT
Click here and please vote for Wendy’s caption in Diesel’s weekly caption contest. I’ll wax your car for you. Copyright © 2008 Let the dog in!. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement and in BIG, BIG TROUBLE. Please contact legal@www.letthedogin.com so we can take legal action immediately. Plugin by Taragana Share This
Lots of Good Educational News from Arizona and Beyond
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:37:38 PDT
by David Safier I keep on meaning to write about these, and other, articles that have come my way, but something always seems to come up. So here is a list of interesting articles, most of them positive, that you can read yourself if you're interested. (Note: I find myself complaining on this blog most of the time, talking about what's wrong with education. Yet every day, thousands of gifted teachers, and sometimes less gifted but very hard working teachers, are doing wonderful things with th
What Worked and Sucked Today 482008
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:39:15 PDT
Worked: TITN - Ripped today up 8% unfortunately I can pick the stocks, but I can’t ride them all the way. I got out with a 3.6% gain, so I can’t complain. CPST, DRYS, and JOYG all finished higher. It looks like I’m going to have to sit through a possible drop tomorrow though. My RUT long was swapped today to the short side along with extra shorting of the NDX. I didn’t like the way the market was acting today so if there is some profit tomorrow morning I’m taking it. Basically the long RUT
Martin's Super Markets to Make Website Interactive
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:39:21 PDT
Martin's Super Markets has signed an agreement to have MyWebGrocer, Colchester, Vt., build a comprehensive new online channel (www.martins-supermarkets.com) for the 20-store chain.
Bashas' Letting Consumers Know It's 'Best Place to Work'
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:39:21 PDT
Bashas' here said it is posting in-store signs this month to let consumers know it was named one of Arizona's "best places to work" by the Phoenix Business Journal and BestCompanies AZ earlier this year.
BJ’s Names Sheehan to Board
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:39:21 PDT
Michael Sheehan has been elected to the board of directors of BJ’s Wholesale Club, the retailer here said.
GMDC Renames Golf Tourneys for Doug Blough
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:39:21 PDT
GMDC’s board of directors, in conjunction with the organization’s Education Leadership Council, has honored GMDC's recently deceased long-time director of communications Doug Blough, by naming each of the association's two annual golf tournaments after him.
Today's Depressing Magazine News Link
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:39:35 PDT
Joystiq: "Games For Windows Magazine goes online only."
Community Media: Selected Clippings - 04/07/08
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:39:59 PDT
Don’t Downgrade Public Channels by Scott Hanley Hartford Courant (CT) 04/07/08 3 comments ] I applaud The Courant’s decision to encourage the General Assembly to protect the Connecticut Television Network from substandard delivery on AT&T’s U-verse video system editorial, April 4, "Don't Downgrade CT-N"]. The editorial did not mention that this “downgrade” will also have a significant impact on the many community-based public, education and government channels throughout the sta
cornell university scientists state lawmakers plant pathology state agriculture christmas trees
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:40:18 PDT
Brown Root Rot in Northeast States By News Editor Posted: November 9, 2007 The brown root rot, a fungus that attacks alfalfa has been detected in farm fields in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Maine. The research was conducted by Cornell University scientists, with the first samplings conducted in 2005. There are no effective treatments ...]
McCain: Don't choose to lose in Iraq
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:40:46 PDT
This morning's Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on Iraq showed pretty decisively that the Bush administration's policies are made of straw. Their chief advocate in the Senate, John McCain, delivered an uninspired and somewhat risible defense of them. Here is the conclusion of John McCain's prepared remarks (PDF): Congress must not choose to lose in Iraq. We should choose, instead, to succeed. That's a measure of the depth of his thinking about the morass McCain helped the nation to
