Actually, Hostess products sold extremely well, judging by the hue and cry across the nation about the demise of Hostess. In fact, it's expected that the popularity of Hostess products will raise the price of buying Hostess somewhat. It's called "good will,", and good will is expensive to buy. The latest news is that Bimbo, a very large Mexico-based bakery company, is very interested in buying Hostess to expand their line.
Religious orientation comes first, then smoking/drinking, age requirements, want/don't want children, then everything else. I think it would be hard to be married to someone of the opposite political party. Oh, the arguments that could be anticipated.
Mother Superior was on her way to late morning prayers when she passed two novices just leaving early morning prayers on their way to classes. As she passed the young ladies, Mother Superior said, "Good morning, sisters."
The novices replied, "Good morning, Mother Superior, may God be with you."
But after they had passed, Mother Superior heard one say to the other, "I think she got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning."
This startled Mother Superior, but she chose not to pursue the issue.
A little further down the hall, Mother Superior passed two older sisters who had been teaching at the convent for several years. She greeted them with, "Good morning, Sister Martha, Sister Jessica, may God give you the wisdom for our students today."
"Good morning, Mother Superior. Thank you and may God be with you."
But again after passing, Mother Superior overheard, "She got up on the wrong side of the bed today."
Baffled, she started to wonder if she had spoken harshly or with an irritated look on her face. She vowed to be more pleasant.
Looking down the hall, Mother Superior saw retired Sister Mary approaching, step by step, with her walker. As Sister Mary was rather deaf, Mother Superior had plenty of time to arrange a pleasant smile on her face before greeting Sister Mary. "Good morning, Sister Mary, I'm so happy to see you up and about. I pray God watches over you today, and grants you a wonderful day."
"Ah, thank you, Mother Superior. I see you got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning."
Mother Superior was floored! "Sister Mary, what have I done wrong? I have tried to be pleasant but three times already today people have said that about me."
Sister Mary stopped her walker and faced Mother Superior. "Oh, don't take it personally, Mother Superior. It's just that you're wearing Father Murphy's slippers."
Some years ago, there was a true story on TV about a UFO abduction case. Five young men went out to a remote area and saw a UFO hovering over the ground. The craft was shining a bright beam of light on the ground. Four of the guys stayed behind at the pickup truck, while a fifth boy went and stood right in the beam of light. His companions urged him to come back to the truck, but he got abducted and went up into the UFO. Scared out of their wits, the other four boys peeled rubber to race away from the scene. They were interviewed by the police and given a polygraph test, which all four passed. A few days later, the abducted man was found wandering around town, totally dazed and "out of it", incoherent, and acting very weird. Forty years later, all five were given another polygraph, and all five passed again, proving that the whole UFO incident was still true. Sorry, I don't remember the name of the show, nor do I remember whether the show was in black and white or color.
Thank you for your concern, Monte. Much appreciated.
I was just in shock when I heard about Hostess giving up after being a household name for so long. Well, one way to look at it, Monte, is no more Twinkies means a better diet!
I've been a Hostess fan as far back as I can remember. It's unthinkable that I will never see another Twinkies or other Hostess product ever again. For a goodie freak like me, it's enough to make a poor guy depressed.
Last night, I went to QFC and bought $32 worth of Hostess goodies. I would have bought everything in sight if I had wanted to spend more mnoney! Now I'm on a search for any store that has Hostess, so be on notice...I have dibs on any Hostess products in my area!
Nearly 18,500 workers will lose their jobs as the company succumbs to the crippling effects of a nationwide union strike.
By MSNMoney partner 4 hours ago By Tanya Agrawal, Reuters
Hostess Brands, the bankrupt maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, said it has sought court permission to go out of business after failing to get wage and benefit cuts from thousands of its striking bakery workers.
Hostess said a national strike by members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union that began last week had crippled its ability to produce and deliver products at several facilities.
The liquidation of the company will mean that most of its 18,500 employees will lose their jobs, Hostess said on Friday.
The 82-year-old company said it took the decision to shut down after determining that not enough employees had returned to work by a deadline on Thursday.
The company, which filed for bankruptcy in January for the second time since 2004, said it had filed a motion with U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain in White Plains, New York, for permission to shut down and sell assets.
The Irving, Texas, company has 565 distribution centers and 570 bakery outlet stores, as well as the 33 bakeries. Its brands include Wonder, Nature's Pride, Dolly Madison, Drake's, Butternut, Home Pride and Merita, but it is probably best known for Twinkies -- basically a cream-filled sponge cake.
"We deeply regret the necessity of today's decision, but we do not have the financial resources to weather an extended nationwide strike," Chief Executive Gregory Rayburn said in a statement.
"Hostess Brands will move promptly to lay off most of its 18,500-member workforce and focus on selling its assets to the highest bidders," Rayburn added.
Union President Frank Hurt said on Thursday that the crisis at the company was the "result of nearly a decade of financial and operational mismanagement" and that management was trying to make union workers the scapegoats for a plan by Wall Street investors to sell Hostess.
Hostess said its debtor-in-possession lenders had agreed to allow the it to continue to have access to $75 million to fund the wind-down process.
"There's no way to soften the fact that this will hurt every Hostess Brands employee. All Hostess Brands employees will eventually lose their jobs - some sooner than others," Rayburn said in a letter to employees.
The company has canceled all orders in process with its suppliers and said any product in transit would be returned to the shipper.
In its filing with the court, the company said it would have incurred a loss of between $7.5 million and $9.5 million from November 9 to November 19 in lost sales and increased costs.
"These losses and other factors, including increased vendor payment terms contraction, have resulted in a significant weakening of the debtors' cash position and, if continued, would soon result in the debtors completely running out of cash," it said.
Hostess had already reached agreement on pay and benefit cuts with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, its largest union.
I remember a dollhouse store in Tukwila, Washington. They got a notice from some company's lawyer to cease and desist using the store name they were using because it was the same as an old product line that the other company was no long using! So you have to be careful even with store names.
I live in the Starcrest neighborhood, and my dad caught some construction company using Starcrest as the name of one of their models. My dad put a stop to that, pronto!!
It's obvious that copyrights and trademarks go much further than meets the eye. For example, I have a button business, in which I do stock and custom buttons. If I wanted to reproduce buttons with "Mariners" on it, for example, I'd have to get permission first.
Photo studios are very vigorous about copyrights on their photos, as for example, Jimnastics Photography. Authors have an automatic copyright on unpublished works, but an even stronger copyright if they go through the Library of Congress to copyright their work.
+ I thought it might be some sort of coffee. I'm guessing cappuccino is a type of coffee. I don't drink coffee, so my coffee education has been somewhat neglected.
I was just going to say the same thing, Ali. A beautiful woman holding a cup of some delicious-looking food certainly does inspire curiosity, doesn't it?
Years ago, I read a Dear Abby column where a guy was talking about a woman he met that literally had a very long written questionaire that every prospective date was required to fill out. I'm sure I dcn't need to tell you what Abby's response was!
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Hostess Out Of Business
Actually, Hostess products sold extremely well, judging by the hue and cry across the nation about the demise of Hostess. In fact, it's expected that the popularity of Hostess products will raise the price of buying Hostess somewhat. It's called "good will,", and good will is expensive to buy. The latest news is that Bimbo, a very large Mexico-based bakery company, is very interested in buying Hostess to expand their line.