The business performance creates the value -- the price creates the OPPORTUNITY. No-one likes to pay too much for something. We all like to thing that what we buy is ' good value'. It's not different when we purchase a share in company listed on the stock market. In the Concise Guide to Value Investing, Brian McNiven reveals how to calculate the true value of a company to find out whether you are paying a fair price. This fascinating book explores: value investing versus speculation the difference between price and value variable values of a dollar of earnings accounting misrepresentation the characteristics of a wonderful business the StockVal® valuation formula. Two of the world's most successful investors, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, are self-confessed value investors. McNiven often draws on their wisdom to support his approach to value investing,which he defines as buying a share at a price lower than its calculated value. Only investors who have the ability to calculate value can call themselves 'value investors'.
House of M changed the planet; now, a new, major threat has emerged. Nothing can stop it - not even Canada's premier super-team, Alpha Flight! The New Avengers are about to be put to the test in a way they never have before. Collects New Avengers (2004) #16-20.
The Avengers try to help the most powerful super-hero in the world figure out who he is and where he came from! But will this knowledge destroy the man they are trying to help - the unbelievably powerful Sentry? Collecting New Avengers (2004) #7-10.
In The Missing Gene of Reason, the author argues that intolerance and divisiveness that leads to conflict is due to the missing gene of reason that makes people susceptible to being indoctrinated with beliefs that originated in an era when men were less tolerant and respectful of human life. The book provides some fascinating insights into the history and origins of Christianity and explains why the scribes who edited and compiled the New Testament were directed by Constantine to shift the blame for the execution of Christ from Rome to the Jews an injustice that resulted in the persecution of Jews. Because secular morality has brought about dramatic changes to our values since the era of the biblical myths when Moses devised God s laws, observance of most of God s laws is now called murder. In saying he has never met a Christian who wasn t a heretic, the author points out that people who call themselves Christians no longer respect God s biblical laws that demand the stoning to death of homosexuals, disobedient sons, women who have sex before marriage, those who worship a God of a different faith and those who work on God s Sabbath of Saturday. In stating that without reason we are but a rudderless vessel drifting on the sea of ignorance to be taken by the currents of fantasy in the direction of those we allow to determine our beliefs, the author points to the great paradox that has confounded philosophers throughout the ages. Namely, that in spite of the fact that the Bible claims that God committed genocide by drowning everyone and discredits God with its endless nauseating descriptions of his serial killings and demands that we should do likewise, Christian propaganda has succeeded in convincing their flock that the Bible is a virtuous guide by which to lead their lives. Furthermore, the author considers that because the Bible asserts that both God and Christ approve of slavery and that God approves of a father selling his daughter as a sex slave, the Bible s justification of evil and portrayal of God as psychopathic killer has been the greatest cause of man s inhumanity to his fellow man. The author claims that the only defense the Church can have for obeying God s demands that they kill, torture and burn heretics alive, is that God not only set the precedent when he created hell, but also prevented his believers from knowing the difference between good and evil when he denied them access to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the garden of Eden. In providing evidence that the Church rightly considers reason to be the enemy of faith, the author argues that governments have a responsibility to promote tolerance and pacifism by requiring that taxpayer funded or subsidized schools provide students with a modern education that is free from religious divisiveness and bias against truth, reason and science. Because the author s bases his contentions on the facts of history and what the Holy Scriptures actually say, the readers only defense is to disregard both.
Of everything written by Warren Buffett, the words that will always remain foremost in Brian McNiven's mind are: "It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price". This thought-provoking discussion of stock selection identifies desirable attributes to look for in determining wonderful companies and how to calculate a fair price.A Wonderful Company at a Fair Price shows investors how to cut through the rosy prose of annual reports and the misconceptions and nonsense that are all-too common in the investment world. The underlying theme of the book is the enhancement of shareholder wealth, protection of shareholder interests and management's obligation to keep their shareholder-employers better informed.McNiven is highly critical of management that fails to think like proprietors, and in promoting their own interests and following their peers with lemming-like precision, lose sight of the owners?objectives. He says: ?eople have a tendency to treat stocks as a speculative means of making a quick dollar rather than a long-term share in a business that has a value".There are lessons in these pages for astute sharemarket investors and financial regulators. As Wayne Peters, CEO of Peters MacGregor Funds Management Ltd, says in his Foreword:"With the business world littered with the corpses of companies whose capital allocation decisions were less than propitious, management boards would do well to study his guidelines".
“We are not worth more, they are not worth less.” This is the mantra of S. Brian Willson and the theme that runs throughout his compelling psycho-historical memoir. Willson’s story begins in small-town, rural America, where he grew up as a “Commie-hating, baseball-loving Baptist,” moves through life-changing experiences in Viet Nam, Nicaragua and elsewhere, and culminates with his commitment to a localized, sustainable lifestyle. In telling his story, Willson provides numerous examples of the types of personal, risk-taking, nonviolent actions he and others have taken in attempts to educate and effect political change: tax refusal—which requires simplification of one’s lifestyle; fasting—done publicly in strategic political and/or therapeutic spiritual contexts; and obstruction tactics—strategically placing one’s body in the way of “business as usual.” It was such actions that thrust Brian Willson into the public eye in the mid-’80s, first as a participant in a high-profile, water-only “Veterans Fast for Life” against the Contra war being waged by his government in Nicaragua. Then, on a fateful day in September 1987, the world watched in horror as Willson was run over by a U.S. government munitions train during a nonviolent blocking action in which he expected to be removed from the tracks and arrested. Losing his legs only strengthened Willson’s identity with millions of unnamed victims of U.S. policy around the world. He provides details of his travels to countries in Latin America and the Middle East and bears witness to the harm done to poor people as well as to the environment by the steamroller of U.S. imperialism. These heart-rending accounts are offered side by side with inspirational stories of nonviolent struggle and the survival of resilient communities Willson’s expanding consciousness also uncovers injustices within his own country, including insights gained through his study and service within the U.S. criminal justice system and personal experiences addressing racial injustices. He discusses coming to terms with his identity as a Viet Nam veteran and the subsequent service he provides to others as director of a veterans outreach center in New England. He draws much inspiration from friends he encounters along the way as he finds himself continually drawn to the path leading to a simpler life that seeks to “do no harm.&rdquo Throughout his personal journey Willson struggles with the question, “Why was it so easy for me, a ’good’ man, to follow orders to travel 9,000 miles from home to participate in killing people who clearly were not a threat to me or any of my fellow citizens?” He eventually comes to the realization that the “American Way of Life” is AWOL from humanity, and that the only way to recover our humanity is by changing our consciousness, one individual at a time, while striving for collective cultural changes toward “less and local.” Thus, Willson offers up his personal story as a metaphorical map for anyone who feels the need to be liberated from the American Way of Life—a guidebook for anyone called by conscience to question continued obedience to vertical power structures while longing to reconnect with the human archetypes of cooperation, equity, mutual respect and empathy.
The mystery of the Sentry is revealed! The Avengers try to help the most powerful super hero in the world figure out who he is and where he came from! But will this knowledge destroy the man they are trying to help? Collects New Avengers #7-10 and New Avengers: Most Wanted Files.
After serving in the Vietnam War, S. Brian Willson became a radical, nonviolent peace protester and pacifist, and this memoir details the drastic governmental and social change he has spent his life fighting for. Chronicling his personal struggle with a government he believes to be unjust, Willson sheds light on the various incarnations of his protests of the U.S. government, including the refusal to pay taxes, public fasting, and, most famously, public obstruction. On September 1, 1987, Willson was run over by a U.S. government munitions train during a nonviolent blocking action in which he expected to be removed from the tracks. Providing a full look into the tragic event, Willson, who lost his legs in the incident, discusses how the subsequent publicity propelled his cause toward the national consciousness. Now, 23 years later, Willson tells his story of social injustice, nonviolent struggle, and the so-called American way of life.
There's a new rule in the galaxy: No one touches Earth! No one! But why has Earth suddenly become the most important planet in the galaxy? That's what the Guardians of the Galaxy are going to find out! Join Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket Raccoon, Groot and - wait for it - the invincible Iron Man, as they embark upon one of the most explosive and eye-opening chapters of Marvel NOW! These galactic Avengers are going to discover secrets that will rattle Marvel readers for years to come! But while London deals with a brutal invasion by the Badoon, the fate of the Guardians may have already been decided millions of miles away! Why wait for the movie? It all starts here! COLLECTING: Guardians of the Galaxy 0.1, 1-3; Guardians of the Galaxy: Tomorrow's Avengers 1
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