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RIM's BlackBerry has long set the standard when it comes to connected devices, offering a mix of smartphone portability and PDA usability. In recent times, the company has started to offer consumer as well as corporate models.
The Curve 8300 continues this tradition, being focused at the consumer end of the market. A bright 2.4-inch widescreen display and Qwerty keypad make it an appealing option. It's easy to type rapidly and without mistakes, although the buttons are somewhat cramped.
The Curve features BlackBerry's excellent online interface for setting up your emails. Log into your account, type in your email details and your mail will automatically be sent to your BlackBerry. This simplicity is one area where none of its rivals get even close.
Features include a 2-megapixel camera with flash, and expandable memory in the form of a micro-SD Card slot. However, hidden away under the battery, access is fiddly and you'll have to turn off the device to swap cards.
You'll be able to play your music and video files, and there's a standard 3.5mm headphone jack so you can plug in your regular headphones.
The BlackBerry lags behind others when it comes to connectivity, missing out on both 3G and Wi-Fi. This means you'll find internet connections on the move are limited to slower speeds, and you won't be able to connect to company networks.
Unlike its Windows Mobile rivals, there's also no office suite as standard. However, there is plenty of third-party software available, making it easy to access your documents. Google Maps software is provided with the Curve, although there is no GPS receiver built in.
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Pointing out one example Mitchell said, "It has an unsanitary, abandoned swimming pool, stagnant swimming pool. There's no electricity running at this location."
The code compliance department was paying nearly 7,000 dollars a year to dump chemicals into the pools to treat the scummy buildup.
That's when Mitchell and some of her colleagues came up with an environmentally-friendly idea to get rid of the green. An idea with a much lower price tag of just 700 dollars.
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At a typical home that needed help Mitchell revealed, "We have dumped 15 pleco algae-eating fish in here to take care of the algae situation."
Mitchell believes that cleaner more sanitary pools will make the houses more attractive to buyers, as will the lower fees for upkeep.
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No, this tale does not come from the Topographic Ocean, but rather the UK. A consortium headed by British sports car guy Al Melling and Yes keyman Rick Wakeman is reportedly looking to buy TVR from Little Nicky Smolenski. The group plans to keep production in Blackpool and use the facility to build some of Melling's cars as well. And beyond that, they're looking to bring TVR back to America.
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The wide angle camera onboard NASA's Cassini orbiter has been capturing incredible shots of Saturn and its various moons for years, and if this photo is any indication, it has no intentions of letting up.
Prima facie, the image looks like little more than a beautiful, wide-angle Saturnian snapshot. But look a little closer and you'll see another cosmic orb in the foreground, helping illustrate the sheer immensity of the ringed planet.
The photobombing body in question is the moon Tethys. (Or is it Saturn that's doing the photobombing?) Measuring over 660 miles across, Tethys is no shrimp. And yet, in the picture you see here (click here for a hi-res version), it measures a mere 10 pixels in diameter; it is positively dwarfed by the shadows of Saturn's ring system, shown here arcing along the planet's southern hemisphere.
For another dramatic picture that demonstrates the enormity of Saturn, check out this image of the planet looming behind its icy moon, Enceladus. Impressive right? Now go back and take another look; believe it or not, there are actually two moons in that photo.
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Atlanta: Flatbread Pizzas Fall Flat at Cucina Asellina
Cucina Asellina
1075 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30309 (Map); 404-793-0141; website
Pizza type: Primarily flatbreads
Oven type: Wood
The Skinny: Swanky Italian in a hip urban setting; Overpriced pizzas that underwhelm.
Price: Margherita, $11 as listed/$16 with half-sausage add-on; Prosciutto Pizze, $18
From the outside looking in, there's much that's intriguing about Cucina Asellina. First, its pedigree—being the sister eatery of Ristorante Asellina in New York City brings a certain clout that few spots in the A have. Plus, it's from the same folks who created STK Atlanta, the steakhouse that's one of the city's top see-and-be-seen places.
This little Italian joint next door actually has the same primo people-watching vibe in a much smaller footprint. With outdoor patio seating. On an absolutely plum corner in the heart of Midtown. Yeah, Cucina Asellina should be killing in Atlanta. But sadly, their much-ballyhooed pizzas left my palate underwhelmed, and my wallet overextended.
In truth, I came for a pizza I didn't expect to see listed on the menu. Early on, no one mentioned Cucina Asellina without raving about a hush-hush truffle-and-egg-topped pie that was always available, but only to those in the know. And yet, here it was in black and white, listed as the Prosciutto Pizze. What gives? My server told me that this was, in fact, the formerly-secret-menu-pizza, now with prosciutto added and available to anyone who knows how to read. His take? "It was meant to be kind of a secret treat for the locals...but then we were only getting locals in here."
Huh??? I'm not sure how taking the kitchen's most buzzworthy dish and making it seem patently un-special by sticking it above the grilled chicken panini broadens the restaurant's mass appeal to those outside the 30309, but I was already here. And hella hungry. Bring it on.
It looked tasty enough, if on the small side at eight inches. And the egg yolk was already bleeding out, having arrived pre-cut. I might have hoped for more black truffles dotting the surface, but this was already an $18 pizza. I shudder to think what the price would be with any more of them. Perhaps that's why the kitchen added prosciutto to the mix—it's definitely the standout on this pie.
I've said it before about truffles on pizzas and it held true again: I know I'm supposed to be impressed, but the taste just doesn't do anything for me. Between the prosciutto's saltiness and the egg's richness, those could have been garden-variety mushrooms—or simply not there at all—and I wouldn't have known the difference.
It's not a bad pie. But for an $18 personal-size pizza, I want to be blown away... or at least filled up. This felt more like the kind of aren't-we-cool-and-trendy app you'd get for the table to snack on over fancy drinks from the bar while you scan Peachtree Street for celebs. But a destination pizza? Definitely not.
The other pies on the Cucina Asellina menu are larger oval flatbreads, and while the same dough is used for all of them, the size and shape difference translated to taste, too. The eight-inch round under the truffle-and-egg was yeastier, denser, and chewier than the crisp crust I noted under the rustic and more elongated Margherita.
Decorated with cherry tomatoes and thin ribbons of basil atop its buffalo mozzarella, the Margherita had more wood-oven char around the rim, with burnt edges. The huge chunks of red and yellow tomato placed atop the melted mozz made for a pretty picture, but had a tendency to fall off with every bite... unless you carefully manipulated each piece en route to your mouth to prevent spillage.
Our table decided to add sausage to half, just for variety's sake. (One of the day's specials was a sausage-rapini pie, so we figured we'd help the kitchen use some of that surplus pork.) Ho-hum. A hunk picked off the pie and eaten on its own yielded exactly zero flavor—of any kind, sausage or otherwise—indentifiable solely by its telltale "bumpy" mouthfeel.
What's worse, this add on (on just half the pie, mind you) jacked up the price of the Margherita from the menu-advertised $11 to a stunning $16 on my final bill. Again, not a bad pizza, but not great...and certainly not worth sixteen bucks.
I really wanted to like Cucina Asellina. And maybe if I were a young, hip twentysomething working in Midtown Atlanta and walking past the place every day on my way home to my super-swanky loft apartment, this is exactly the kind of place where I'd meet my unspeakably cool friends after-hours for an overpriced nosh, craft cocktails, and some urban herd-watching on the patio.
And maybe if that were me, paying 50 dollars (with tip) for two personal pizzas and two soft drinks wouldn't bother me in the least. But as a pizza fan, I can come up with a dozen pie shops within walking distance that offer way better bang for way fewer bucks.
About the Author: Todd Brock lives the glamorous life of a stay-at-home freelance writer in the suburbs of Atlanta. Besides being paid to eat cheeseburgers for AHT and pizzas for Slice, he's written and produced over 1,000 hours of television and penned Building Chicken Coops for Dummies. When he grows up, he wants to be either the starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys or the drummer for The Gaslight Anthem. Or both.
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Joshua Sharfstein asked for the truth about children's cold medicine.
When Joshua Sharfstein first heard about the opening for Baltimore health commissioner, he didn't think he would want, or get, the job.
It turns out that Sharfstein, a licensed pediatrician, was wrong on both counts. That's been good not only for Baltimore but also for kids and their parents everywhere. Because when Sharfstein began asking whether young children ought to be taking over-the-counter cough and cold medicine, it sparked a national discussion about whether such medicine might actually be harming kids.
The crusade blended both of Sharfstein's passions: one for public policy, the other for hands-on health care. Those twin interests began to merge when Sharfstein was in his early 20s, on a humanitarian mission. "I was in Central America working with Nicaraguan immigrants, going hut to hut and weighing kids," Sharfstein recalls. "On weekends, I'd buy the New York Times and read every word in every article." One article in particular never left his mind. It was about President George H.W. Bush's executive order prohibiting doctors in federally funded clinics from discussing abortion with patients. The American Medical Association, according to the Times, was furious about the gag order.
That story got Sharfstein thinking about politics and health care policy in Washington — and the AMA's tactics in particular. When he got back to the United States, he pored over AMA's campaign finance records. To Sharfstein's astonishment, he found that the AMA frequently supported political candidates who actually opposed the policies most doctors wanted. His subsequent analysis made the New England Journal of Medicine.
So it was no surprise that when Sharfstein took the Baltimore job, he would look for other areas where policy and practice didn't match up — and he found a huge one in pediatric practices around using cough and cold medicine. "This has been on my radar since medical school," says Sharfstein. "Because what we were taught in school and what pediatricians were practicing in the field was so different."
What he'd been taught in school — and what all the medical literature corroborated — was that there was no proven clinical benefit to giving kids six and younger cough and cold medicine. What's more, four childhood fatalities in Baltimore had been linked to cold medicine. Sharfstein recruited the best medical minds in pediatrics in the country to launch a fact- and research-based campaign questioning the safety and efficacy of kids taking cough and cold medicine. As a result, the cold-medicine industry voluntarily pulled off the shelves all medicine that was claimed to be safe for kids under two. And just this summer, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it would finally look into a new rule on over-the-counter cough and cold medicine for all kids.
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(Since we have Jovian for the Jupiter system, I'm assuming Hermean, Venerian, Arean and Chronian are the proper adjectives for the rest of the planets. I think, though, that "Poseidian" is a bit much and "Uranus" is basically the same word in Greek and Latin [Ouranos vs. Uranus.] Even "Venerian" isn't entirely correct, but it's either that or "Aphroditan. )
As you may have guessed, my interest in planetary maps has peaked again, and I think it's time to update all my Voyager-sourced maps. The question is, should I buy the latest USGS maps of Mimas, Iapetus, Enceladus, Dione, etc. or are new maps coming anytime soon?
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Nobody agrees on the adjectives and most people try to structure a sentence so an adjective is not needed. "Map of Mimas" rather than "Mimosian map". We can now map well over 60 worlds - do you really want to remember 60 obscure adjectives? (I know, you were only referring to planets...) You mention Venus - Cytherian was used for a while by some people. It comes from one of the other names for Venus. I think Venereal sounds better, but it's already taken.
USGS is not producing the most current maps - they may later - but DLR in Germany is doing a lot of that work now. Their maps are on the Cassini website and the Photojournal if you explore a bit. Google will take you there.
... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Sorry to wander off-topic, but....
"Jovian" is from Jovis, the Latin genitive form of Jupiter, not the Greek name (which would of course be Ζεύς or Zeus). The same is true for Venerian (not venereal... tsk, tsk) and Martian. The forms Mercurian, Saturnian, Uranian and Neptunian work just fine, being formed in more or less the same way. Besides, Cronian means of the Klingon homeworld (ducks and runs for cover).
Anyway, as for maps: I still have my collection of hard-copy maps of the planets and moons from the eighties that I got as a kid and will keep forever. I regard them as historic, the first maps of these worlds, but yes, they are out-of-date. I did recently stumble across the USGS' current listing of I- maps (geologic investigation maps, the category under which they published the Voyager-based maps), but if you look under planetary maps you'll note that they stop at Jupiter. (They have nice new maps of all the Galileans except Io, available as PDFs.) However, the only Saturn maps I've found are the rough photomosaics available on the CICLOPS page; most don't even have nomenclature attached. I suppose you could put it there yourself and make a decent map, but I'm hoping at some point the USGS makes nice new maps of the Saturnian satellites (and also Mercury). Back in the Voyager era I was, as mentioned, just a kid, so I called the USGS in Flagstaff and asked them; I think I got put on the phone with the late Hal Mazursky. IIRC he told me it would be about 18 months after they got all the data from the Voyager encounters. So if the USGS even plans on publishing new Saturn maps, I'll bet they'll wait until "all" the data are in, and who knows when they'll judge that to be. Any opinions?
In the meantime, there are also PDFs available at the USGS' Gazetter of Planetary Nomenclature. And Google gave me this map of Mimas, though it's not listed. Hope this helps.
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Oh no! Another linguistic discussion!
As a real linguist, Im not going to try to say whats correct and whats not, but just looking at the specific problem of the English genitive of Venus its pretty clear that venusian dominates in actual usage by far.
To test this, I did a quick search of all titles in the UW library for all three terms. I found 269 with venusian in the title, 6 with cytherian and only one with venerean (and that one isnt about the planet).
To usefully tie this back to UMSF, let me suggest that captions of pictures posted to the web should use venusian (even though its a barbarism) simply because that is the term that scientists and lay people alike will be putting into search engines. Anything meant to be found on the web simply cant ignore a 269-to-1 usage ratio.
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O.k., let's agree on "Saturnian maps"... and after being led to the newly processed cylindrical maps of the large icy moons at JPL by a link on povray.binaries.images (a newsgroup dedicated to the famous Persistence of Vision Raytracer), I'm about to re-activate my project of a raytraced Solar System ("POVSolar") - and thus I would like to ask whether any Cassini altimetry data of the larger Saturnian moons have been made publicly accessible, regardless in which format (ASCII would be most convenient).
Currently, I'm mostly looking for altimetry data of Mimas...
See you in Khyberspace!
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You are probably looking for shape models/DEMs. Several of Saturn's satellites can be found here:
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You are probably looking for shape models/DEMs. Several of Saturn's satellites can be found here:
Very intriguing! And easy to implement in POV-Ray - no conversion from geographic into cartesian coordiates but ready-made vertex and face lists! Cool!!!
See you in Khyberspace!
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Hipsters all across North Park will be rolling their eyes when they hear the news that their beloved space has been ranked amongst Forbes' list of America's Hippest Hipster Neighborhoods.
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The Ritz Theatre opened in 1935 and closed around 1986.
It has since stood empty and unused.
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I was rewatching "The Ladykillers" (w/Tom Hanks) and noticed this theatre all in disrepair as the leading lady walked through town twice. Saw the location at the end as being Natchez, MS and lo and behold, found it on CT.
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In watching for blogs about Natchez I came across your bit about the Ritz Theatre. The theatre is being renovated, and the facade is looking quite a bit better now. I took some shots of it today, one of which is on our NatchezMS.com website at http://www.natchezms.com/img/ritztheatre.jpg
The damage to the roof actually started quite a while before the '98 tornado (sorry, the "weather service" called it a "straight-line wind.")
I went around to the back of the Ritz building awhile back and am sad to report that there is no roof on it and nothing is left between the walls. (There is not even a floor as best I could see when looking through the cracks in the fence surrounding the building.) I understand that the location will never be a theatre again but that it's possible that a restaurant could be build there from the ground up while keeping what's left of the restored facade intact. Here's hoping for at least that with help & thanks donations and the assistance of The Historic Natchez Foundation.
To Chuck 1231. It is still there at this location you mention. Well, the front and the shell of the building
is, anyway!
I was able to enter through the back a little way in this past April and waynebeau23 is correct: the floor had apparently fallen through to the basement area and the roof is long gone. Though some have stated that the theatre operated into the 70s or even 80s, the last trace of it in papers or phone books are 1968, closing shortly before the Baker Grand in downtown Natchez and leaving the Clarke the only downtowner til its 1980 closing.
I agree with FredSliman on the closing date. I worked for Gulf States Theatres in the 70's, which operated the Clarke Theatre. During the early 70's only the Clarke and Trace Town Twin (Why is that theatre not listed) were operating in the town. The Ritz was gone by 1971.
Aerial shot shows the back part of the roof gone. Sad.. ..
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Here's a photo I took back in April of 2010.. Enjoy!
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Interior and exterior photos from 2012 here: http://opacity.us/site242_ritz_theater.htm
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LACOG Director, Dr. Gustavo Werutsky, discusses how the clinical research cooperative is applying SAS analytics to real-world data to improve the care and treatment of Latin American cancer patients.
According to the National Cancer Institute of Brazil, physicians will diagnose about 1.2 million new cancer cases in Brazil over the next two years. At the same time, Brazil has seen a startling rise in cancer mortality. The disease claimed the lives of more than 220,000 Brazilians in 2015, a 31 percent increase in cancer deaths since 2000.
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While Latin American countries have a lower cancer incidence than in the United States and Europe, cancer mortality is markedly higher. Latin America has a 59 percent cancer mortality-to-incidence ratio (MIR) versus 43 percent in the European Union and 35 percent in the United States. Lower MIRs reflect better support of cancer screening and treatment in developed countries.
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"All studies adhere to Brazilian law and therefore undergo the required documentation protocols, such as approval by a local and national Ethics Committee and obtaining the appropriate patient consents," explained Werutsky.
With SAS' support, LACOG has already increased the volume of new studies by 100 percent compared to before the organization adopted SAS Analytics Pro in 2015. The decentralization of the analyses, which are now done in the office itself, has also led to greater agility.
Among its recent research, LACOG presented the EVITA cohort study at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's (ASCO) annual meeting in Chicago, June 1-5. The study examined 800 new cases of cervical cancer – the third most common type in Brazil – diagnosed at several institutions. The study demonstrated that low income and educational levels, as well as patients' lack of interest in getting the recommended clinical screening to identify this type of disease, directly correlated to advanced-stage diagnoses. Advanced age, race (non-white) and the use of the public health system were also found to be contributing factors.
"Awareness campaigns for early detection and prevention, targeting the poor, should be government priorities," said Werutsky of the study's findings.
On the horizon in 2018, LACOG is pursuing two major epidemiological studies on breast and lung cancer in Latin America. Involving 5,300 patients, these will be the most comprehensive studies conducted in the region to date, providing critical insights on diagnosis and treatment as well as the survival rates of patients with both diseases. The studies will analyze delays in diagnosis, lack of access to optimal therapies and survival rates in comparison to developed countries.
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Connectomics: Mapping the neural network governing male roundworm mating
In a study published today online in Science, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have determined the complete wiring diagram for the part of the nervous system controlling mating in the male roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, an animal model intensively studied by scientists worldwide.
The study represents a major contribution to the new field of connectomics the effort to map the myriad neural connections in a brain, brain region or nervous system to find the specific nerve connections responsible for particular behaviors. A long-term goal of connectomics is to map the human "connectome" all the nerve connections within the human brain.
Because C. elegans is such a tiny animal adults are one millimeter long and consist of just 959 cells its simple nervous system totaling 302 neurons make it one of the best animal models for understanding the millions-of-times-more-complex human brain.
The Einstein scientists solved the structure of the male worm's neural mating circuits by developing software that they used to analyze serial electron micrographs that other scientists had taken of the region. They found that male mating requires 144 neurons nearly half the worm's total number and their paper describes the connections between those 144 neurons and 64 muscles involving some 8,000 synapses. A synapse is the junction at which one neuron (nerve cell) passes an electrical or chemical signal to another neuron.
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Graham Nash's latest tour features him once again sharing the stage with guitarist-vocalist Shane Fontayne. It's at least his third time around with Fontayne, who also toured with Sting and Bruce Springsteen. The duo has evolved nicely into another successful musical relationship for Nash, following those he's forged with David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Neil Young, as well as with Allan Clarke and Tony Hicks of The Hollies.
During Nash's July 29 concert at The Old Town School Of Folk Music in Chicago (the second of his three sold-out shows there), he and Fontayne demonstrated how they practice harmonizing by delivering a breath-taking version of Paul McCartney's "Blackbird." Their compatibility extended to the way Fontayne's electric guitar playing provided a powerful undercurrent to Nash's melodic acoustic strumming on "Wasted On The Way," "Immigration Man," "Wind On The Water," and "Marrakesh Express." "I Used To Be A King," which Nash described as "My first breakup song," concluded with some spirited jamming.
Nash continued his recent tradition of opening shows with a pair of Hollies songs—this time playing "On A Carousel" and "Carrie Anne." It would great to see him delve deeper into his tenure with the British Invasion band for songs like "Butterfly" or "Tell Me To My Face." He and Fontayne added another stellar Beatles cover with "A Day In The Life" from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The bulk of the concert was devoted to Nash's solo output and his work with Crosby, Stills, and Young. "Golden Days" and "Found Myself At Last" from his 2016 solo effort This Path Tonight were introspective and engaging. "Mississippi Burning," a bonus track on Path, was a hard-hitting tribute to murdered civil rights workers.
Nash's occasional political comments during the Old Town show were measured but forceful, and he altered a line in "Military Madness" to "I hope Trump discovers what's driving the people wild." "Chicago," performed as the final encore, remains as relevant today as when it sprung from his Songs For Beginners solo debut in 1971. Like the early Crosby, Stills Nash and Young hits "Teach Your Children" and "Our House," it had people joyously singing along with Nash and Fontayne.


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NEW YORK, N.Y. - The Dow has never been higher.
The Dow Jones industrial average surged passed its all-time high and kept going on Tuesday. It jumped up from the opening bell, climbed as much as 158 points early and reached 14,286, breaking through its previous record high set in October 2007.
The index fell back slightly and was trading up 136 points, or less than 1 per cent, at 14,264 as of 12:35 p.m. (1735 GMT).
The gains represent a remarkable comeback for the stock market. The Dow has more than doubled since falling to a low of 6,547 in March 2009 following the financial crisis and the Great Recession. Stocks have rebounded sharply since then with the help of a large dose of stimulus from the Federal Reserve, even as the economic recovery has been slow and steady rather than spectacular.
"Whether they want to admit it or not, everyone is very impressed with the resilience of the market," said Alec Young, a global equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ.
The last time the Dow was this high, Apple had just sold its first iPhone and George W. Bush had another year as president. The U.S. housing market had yet to implode, and the financial crisis that brought down Lehman Brothers was still a year away.
The recovery in stocks may even have been quicker, had memories of the financial system's near collapse not been on investors minds, says Robert Pavlik, chief market strategist at Banyan Partners.
"It's still pretty close to the front of people's brains," says Pavlik. "That's one of the reasons that people are hesitant to invest in the stock market."
Despite the gains in the stock market since then, the U.S. economy has not fared nearly as well. Unemployment was just 4.7 per cent when the Dow last reached a record five and half years ago, versus 7.9 per cent today.
But the economy is strengthening in many areas. Housing is recovering, companies are hiring more and Corporate America's earnings are strong. That's fueled a 9 per cent rise in stocks this year, impressing even the most ardent skeptics. For all of last year, the index rose 7 per cent.
Stocks are also benefiting from the economic stimulus from the Federal Reserve and other global central banks. The U.S. central bank is buying $85 billion each month in Treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities to keep long-term interest rates very low.
If the Dow continues Tuesday at its torrid pace, it will finish above its record close of 14,164 from Oct. 9, 2007.
Tuesday's gains were driven by industrial and technology stocks. United Technologies rose $2.10 to $91.22, IBM advanced $1.84 to $207 and 3M rose $1.46 to $104.70, pushing the Dow higher.
That's a signal that investors are optimistic about the economy, since those companies stand to gain the most when the economy recovers. More stable, conservative stocks like utilities and consumer staples logged smaller gains.
From its March 2009 low to today, gains for the 30-member Dow have been led by American Express, up almost 500 per cent. Home Depot has jumped almost 300 per cent, according to data from S&P Dow Jones Indices. Hewlett Packard is the only stock in the index that is lower than it was four years ago, falling 22 per cent.
On Tuesday, investors received another piece of positive news on the U.S. economy, a report that U.S. service companies grew in February at the fastest pace in a year, thanks to higher sales and more new orders. The gain suggests higher taxes have yet to slow consumer spending on services.
Home builder PulteGroup rose 42 cents to $20.12 following news that home prices rose at the fastest pace in almost six years in January, a sign that the housing market is gaining momentum as it nears the spring selling season. Home prices rose 9.7 per cent in January from a year ago and had the biggest gain since April 2006, according to data released by CoreLogic
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 16 points, or 1 per cent, to 1,541, within striking distance of its own record close of 1,565. The Nasdaq composite gained 41 points, or 1.3 per cent, to 3,223.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to its price, rose two basis point to 1.90 per cent.
Among other stocks making big moves:
— Ascena Retail Group gained $2.30 to $18.84 after the clothing store reported stronger-than-expected sales in its most recent quarter.
— J.C. Penney fell $1.52 to $15.21 following media reports that one of its largest shareholders is selling a major stake in the retailer. CNBC and The Wall Street Journal reported that Deutsche Bank is shopping around the sale of 10 million shares of the company's stock held by Vornado Realty Trust, a real estate investment trust.


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Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, economic historians famous for their book deriding the notion that new financial crises differ from their predecessors, took up their pens again—this time to critique economists advising the Romney campaign who say there is something unusual about the absence of an economic recovery today.
In a paper published earlier this week, and a shorter Bloomberg View op-ed, the economist duo say their intention is not to wade into policy disputes. Rather, they seek to defend the finding of their extensive research that the U.S. is not somehow different from other countries that have experienced slow recoveries from financial crisis.
Reinhart and Rogoff (left) cite recent op-eds by Kevin Hassett and Glenn Hubbard, both American Enterprise Institute scholars, the Hoover Institution's John Taylor and Michael Bordo of Rutgers University, as promoting the idea that the U.S. has recovered from financial crises more rapidly in the past.
These writers, all Romney supporters, ignore the fact that "recessions that are associated with systemic banking crises tend to be deep and protracted and that this pattern is evident across both the historical and cross country experience," the authors say.
Five years after the start of the current crisis, Reinhart and Rogoff say "there can be little doubt that the United States has experienced a systemic crisis." In their 2009 book, "This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly," which examined 224 historical banking crises from around the world, the authors found that recovery was a long slog: taking on average four and half years to return to pre-crisis peak GDP per capita in the post-World War II period and 10 years on average in economies that buckled during the Great Depression.
Reinhart and Rogoff single out a working paper by Bordo and Joseph Haubrich published in June as the basis for the other economists' faulty op-eds. That paper states that the "the 1907-1908 recession was followed by vigorous recovery." Reinhart and Rogoff retort that "the level of real GDP per capita in the US did not return to its pre-crisis peak of 1906 until 1912. Is this a vigorous recovery? The US unemployment rate…was 1.7 percent in 1906, climbed to 8 percent in 1908, and didn't return to the pre-crisis low until 1918."
The two authors say that, five years on, recovery from the most recent U.S. financial crisis "has been quite typical," and has been better than average "in terms of output per capita and unemployment."
Reinhart and Rogoff's rebuttal of the Romney economists is not the first time the economist duo banded together to defend their thesis from what they regarded as a distortion of the data. Six months ago, also in Bloomberg View, the economic historians assailed the "rosy scenario" presented by a Federal Reserve working paper.
That paper misused data to argue that post-financial-crisis recoveries enjoy the same pace and strength of normal post-recession recoveries, Reinhart and Rogoff wrote in April.
"It is essential to measure where an economy stands compared with pre-crisis levels of important variables such as output, unemployment and housing prices," Reinhart and Rogoff wrote at the time.
Of the economists supporting Romney, just one so far has responded to Reinhart and Rogoff's rebuttal. Writing on his blog, Hoover economist John Taylor had this to say:
"Reinhart and Rogoff argue in favor of a narrower definition of a financial crisis, and they thus focus on a subset of the eight Bordo-Haubrich recessions with financial crises (for example, they exclude 1913 and 1982). This alone does not change the Bordo-Haubrich results … But Reinhart and Rogoff argue that one should look at the downturn as well as the recovery when looking at severity. There is no disagreement that recessions associated with financial crises have tended to be deeper than those without financial crises. The disagreement is over the recoveries. By mixing downturns with recoveries Reinhart and Rogoff get different results from Bordo and Haubrich."
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After living in Germany for almost four months now, I can tell you much has changed for my views about the food culture here. Actually, much has changed for my views of Germany in general. This is probably due to the fact that I now live in Berlin, and anyone who lives in or has visited Berlin would most likely agree, that this city, is in a class of its own.
Firstly, I must clear the rumor of all Germans loving meat. This may seem true in the southern parts of Germany, but here in Berlin—Europe's vegetarian capital, it's not. You might not see as many vegetarian restaurants as you would in Toronto, but for Europe, Berlin is the most likely place for PETA to set up an European office.
Berlin is also the most likely place where you would see street art on the side of buildings, graffit on doors, abandoned buildings turned into clubs, musicians on the street, musicians in the subways, dogs off leashes walking by their owners, beers caps engraved into the ground, karaoke in the park, people eating döners at lunch, people eating döners at 2 in the morning, people eating burgers at Burgermeister when it's 3 in the morning and people drinking at 10 in the morning from the night before. It's a city where people eat, drink, party, create, design, innovate, love and live.
It's a city that still searches for it's identity, constantly changing and evolving, people moving in and people moving ou—well, I haven't met anyone moving out of Berlin, only people who intended to stay for a few months, which turned into a few years. But I suppose there is a reason for that, because as I settle into the city, I feel this mysterious attraction and longing to discover more.
You may love New York, but Berlin loves you.
As for this pumpkin soup, which doesn't seem to be the actual topic of this post, it's pumpkin season and well, soup season, so get your hand blender ready and start making this delicious spiced Hokkaido pumpkin soup. And the benefit for using hokkaido pumpkins, you don't need to peel them, but you can scrap off the warty looking bits if it makes you feel any better.
Guten Appetit!
Spiced Hokkaido Pumpkin Soup
Makes 6-8 servings (depending how hungry you are)
- 1 average sized Hokkaido pumpkin, deseeded and cut into chunks
- 2-3 smaller potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
- 1 medium sized onion, chopped
- 2 cloves of garlic, chopped
- 2 tsp of curry powder
- 1 tsp of ground coriander
- 1/2 tsp of ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp of ground cinnamon
- 6 cups of chicken or vegetable stock
- olive oil
- salt and pepper
- focaccia bread for croutons
- crèam fraîche for garnish
- In a large saucepan, on medium heat, gently fry 3 tbsp of olive oil with the chopped onions until soft.
- Add the pumpkin, potatoes, garlic and the four spices. Fry for about 10 minutes or until everything looks happy together.
- Pour in the stock, you may not need it all, depending how thick you like your soup. Begin by just cover the top of pumpkin with the stock, you can add more later if you feel it is too thick.
- Cover and simmer until the pumpkin and potatoes are tender and soft, about 10-12 minutes.
- Using a hand blender, puree the pumpkin and potatoes until smooth and creamy. Here is where you can add more stock if you like. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- For the croutons, cut up chunks of focaccia bread and fry in a pan with a bit of olive oil.
- Ladle the soup into bowls and garnish with crèam fraîche and croutons.


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Elsevier Announces the Launch of a New Journal: Methods in Oceanography
27 Feb, 2013, 11:35 GMT
AMSTERDAM, February 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of a new journal: Methods in Oceanography.
Published as a quarterly journal and adding to Elsevier's Aquatic Sciences portfolio of journals, Methods in Oceanography will publish articles that focus on new methodology of oceanographic research.
"The journal is geared toward providing a venue for scientific and engineering research that advances sensing, modeling and the ultimate understanding of the multitude of processes that play a fundamental role in the chemistry, physics and biology of oceanic processes," said Editor-in-Chief, Jules S. Jaffe Ph. D. of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (La Jolla, Ca, USA). "We also plan to publish so-called career narratives, authored by leading figures in oceanic methodology that will chronicle their role in the development of their field. These narratives will, hopefully, become cornerstones for understanding both the current state of research and what we might expect in the future."
Luaine Bandounas, Publisher at Elsevier added, "Authors and readers will benefit from several enhanced presentation methods offered in the journal. For example, besides the traditional article, authors are encouraged to submit an audio recording of a lecture presentation which will be posted alongside the article, providing readers with an introduction and summary of the research."
All articles published in the first issue are available on Science Direct
For more information about the journal or to submit an article, go to: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/methods-in-oceanography
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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Small businesses looking for a windfall of investor money from crowdfunding may find that it's more of a bust.
President Barack Obama and members of Congress have touted a law that makes crowdfunding, a method of soliciting money over the Internet, as a way for startups and other small companies to raise money and create jobs. A year after the law was passed as part of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups, or JOBS, Act, entrepreneurs wanting to raise as much as $1 million annually from online investors are still waiting to get going. The Securities and Exchange Commission is in the process of writing rules to regulate the process.
But business owners anticipating their chance to solicit online investments may not want to count on crowdfunding to finance their entrepreneurial dreams. People involved in small business investing warn that many entrepreneurs will find that potential investors aren't interested in their ventures because they don't have an attractive track record or look like they'll provide a good return.
"I think there's going to be an enormous amount of companies that go online, and nothing happens," says Brian Cohen, chairman of New York Angels, a group of angel investors. Angel investors are individuals who are willing to invest in very small or young companies.
There's likely to be a fundamental difference between the expectations of entrepreneurs and investors, Cohen says. The entrepreneurs will want money to build their companies, and may not be thinking in terms of returning the cash to their investors. Investors will want to see their investment grow — so they can sell and take a profit.
"These are nice businesses, a lot of mom and pops, but there's no clear method in which an investor can get a return," Cohen says.
Crowdfunding isn't expected to be a jackpot for investors because even the savviest investors — those at venture capital companies — don't have a great success rate. Three-quarters of U.S. companies that get venture capital investments don't return their investors' money, according to Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. The National Venture Capital Association, a trade group, estimates that between 25 per cent and 30 per cent of companies that receive venture funding fail.
The JOBS Act allows companies to raise up to $1 million a year. It aims to protect individual investors by limiting the amount they can put into a company. People with annual income or net worth of $100,000 or more can invest no more than 10 per cent of their income or net worth, up to a maximum of $100,000. People whose net worth or annual income is below $100,000 are subject to lower limits on potential crowdfunding investments.
Crowdfunding websites can't start soliciting smaller companies and potential investors until the SEC finishes rules governing the process. The JOBS Act called for the rules to be completed at the end of 2012, but SEC officials told a House hearing on April 11 that they don't know when the agency will be able to issue the rules, which they described as complex.
It's taking time because the SEC is wary about small businesses, says James Angel, a Georgetown University associate professor who specializes in financial markets regulation.
"The way they look at it is, small companies are very risky and therefore bad investments," Angel says. "They say, we are serving the public interest by protecting investors by keeping them from raising money in the capital markets."
"My fear is that the SEC will weigh this thing down with so many requirements that no one will use it." Angel says. "There's nothing in the (JOBS) Act to prevent the SEC from requiring these companies to actually file a full-blown 10-K just like larger companies do now."
A Form 10-K is an annual report that publicly traded companies must file with the SEC disclosing their finances and other significant information. They also must file quarterly reports and other documents throughout the year. That could be a large financial and administrative burden.
The SEC is likely to make the requirements tough because it has failed in recent years to detect fraud in the markets — most notably, the billion-dollar scheme created by Bernard Madoff, says Scott Shane, a professor of entrepreneurship at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management.
"If you're someone like the SEC, you're going to get in trouble if there's a big fraud and you don't catch it," Shane says. You're going to be conservative about writing the rules."
That caution extends to some of crowdfunding's biggest proponents, who expect that many companies that seek money will be too young for many investors' comfort— some of these businesses may be little more than an idea. Some of the skeptics are already involved in a type crowdfunding that's authorized by the government because the investors meet requirements for net worth — for example, they have more than $1 million in assets, not including their primary residence. The law assumes these investors are more sophisticated than those likely to take part in crowdfunding under the JOBS Act.
"We don't take idea stage companies — they're too risky," says Chance Barnett, CEO of Crowdfunder, a social networking site for investors and companies seeking capital. "We want to see them be much farther along than an idea on a napkin."
Companies must have a good track record and managers who have shown they can run a successful business, Barnett says.
"The assumption is that everyone gets funded, but nothing can be further from the truth," Barnett says. "A majority (of companies seeking funding) aren't companies that are deserving of capital today."
CircleUp, another crowdfunding service, turns down 98 per cent of the companies that want to solicit funding on its site because it believes they're not likely to be good enough investments, Chief Operating Officer Rory Eakin says.
"We look at a number of different things — the experience of the management teams, do they have expertise, a plan for growth, the skill set to deliver on that plan," Eakin says. "Is it distinguished in its category, does it stand out for customers and potential investors?"
"Crowdfunding will not be a panacea for all small businesses — certain businesses are investment worthy and others are not," he says.
Stacey Shiring is optimistic that her three-year-old business, Creative Invites and Events, will be able to raise money when the rules are written and the crowdfunding sites are up and running. She doesn't know how much she'll seek, but she plans to use the money to expand her website. And she's happy the SEC is taking time to write regulations.
"A lot of good is going to come from it. Being diligent and making sure they do it right is a big concern," says Shiring, who sells invitations at her store in Cincinnati.
Shiring has already gotten investments from family and friends. She wants to use crowdfunding because her customers also want to invest and she wants them to be able to do so in a formal way. She expects that through crowdfunding online, they will be able to study her company's financial documents and make an informed investment decision.
Some companies are able to raise money even when they're not expecting to give much in return. Some of projects funded on websites like Kickstarter have been able to raise $100,000 or more. In return for giving money, donors — they're not investors — tend to get free samples of products or T-shirts.
With that kind of success in mind, a flood of companies are likely to seek funding when the crowdfunding investment sites are up and running, says Sean Carr, director of intellectual capital at the University of Virginia's Batten Institute, a part of the Darden School of Business.
"There are plenty of capital constrained entrepreneurs right now. They'll take whatever opportunities come along and if they think it'll be relatively easy to do it that way, they'll try it," he says.
But Carr is also wary about the number of good investments that will be available online, and wonders whether many of the companies will be resorting to crowdfunding because they can't raise money through family, friends or business associates.
"If I were an investor, my antenna would be going up," he says. "If you couldn't get funded that way, then this must be a lemon."


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Hand, foot and mouth disease, or HFMD, is a common childhood virus that pediatricians, day care centers and preschools see throughout summer and early fall. It causes fevers, rashes on hands and feet and blisterlike sores in the mouth, which can make drinking and eating extremely uncomfortable. It usually clears up on its own in about a week.
Now, though, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is reporting that an unusual version has hit the country, with more severe fevers and rashes, some leading to hospitalization for dehydration and pain.
The severe strain was first noticed in Alabama, Connecticut, California and Nevada last winter, which was odd because HFMD typically appears in summer and early fall.
"It's pretty much all over the country at this point," says Steven Oberste, laboratory chief in CDC's viral disease division.
HFMD is usually caused by coxsackievirus A16; the more severe illness is caused by coxsackievirus A6, which has popped up in this country only a few times in the past 40 years, according to the CDC. Both are spread through saliva, mucus, fluid from the blisters and stool.
The CDC has received about 100 to 150 reports of severe cases. "Since there's no required reporting of hand, foot and mouth disease, it's difficult to estimate how many cases are out there," Obereste says. "We have 100 to 150 reports, but clearly it's a lot more than that."
Melissa Arca, a pediatrician in Sacramento, Calif., where the disease seems to have hit hard, says there were times during the summer when she saw three or four children every day with severe HFMD, and she only works half days at her clinic. Researchers don't know if the A6 wave has peaked with the end of summer, so they're unsure whether the new school year will cause a spike in cases. Outbreaks of HFMD occur around the globe, but in recent years they have mostly been in Asia, according to the World Health Organization.
Daniel Levy, a pediatrician in Owings Mills, Md., says that he has seen a normal amount of HFMD and the cases don't seem any more severe than usual. Pediatricians at Children's National Medical Center in Washington echoed Levy's experience."I have yet to see any child hospitalized or sent to the ER [for HFMD] in my career; it is just not that serious," Levy says. "It sounds a lot worse than it is."
The A6 version is odd, for a number of reasons. It causes more severe rashes up the legs, around the mouth and, especially for toddlers, on the buttocks. Arca reports that in some cases, after the rash has gone away, the skin can peel and the fingernails and toenails can fall off. "It's scary, but they'll grow back," she says.
Also, more adults than usual seem to be catching the new strain, according to the CDC. That's probably because A6 has circulated only sporadically in the United States since 1970, so fewer adults were exposed to it when they were younger, according to Oberste. A6 was big in Japan in the spring and summer of 2011.
"That's how these viruses travel. You'll see an outbreak in one country, and they get to other countries within a year or so," says Eileen Schneider, a medical epidemiologist at CDC. "Then they go back to a low level."
Virtually all of the adults who have caught it have small children or work in day care centers or schools, Oberste says. Some people infected with HFMD — usually adults, rather than children — have no symptoms.
"A lot more parents have been getting it, and they say, 'Oh my gosh, my poor baby! This is really painful,'" Arca says.
Researchers hypothesize that A6 started circulating out of season due to last year's mild winter, the fourth-warmest U.S. winter on record.
Regardless of the strain, HFMD can be an unnerving diagnosis for a new parent to hear, if only for the name. (Many parents also confuse it with foot and mouth disease, a highly infectious disease that affects livestock.)
Erin Pfiffner's son Julian came down with HFMD in April, when he was 14 months old. Pfiffner, who lives in Fairfax, Va., had seen a sign on the door to Julian's day care center warning parents that the illness was going around.
"When I first heard it, I thought it was the same thing as mad cow disease," Pfiffner says.
A few days later, Julian's fever shot up to 103 degrees and he got a rash all over his body: hands, feet, mouth, chest, head and face. For the first few days, he rested and spent most of the time playing in the family's basement, where it was coolest and eating frozen peaches and yogurt to soothe his mouth and throat. He was a little out of sorts and had trouble sleeping, but it wasn't as bad as she feared it would be, Pfiffner says.
"All my other mom friends had worse horror stories about the rash and fever," she says. "One said it was the worst week of her parenting experience so far."
Treatment for HFMD is similar to the flu: rest, drinking plenty of fluids and taking ibuprofen or acetaminophen for the fever. Prevention includes good hygiene, frequent hand washing, and cleaning shared toys and surfaces. If someone is sick, he or she should stay home until both the fever and the sores clear up.


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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces have pushed rebels from a district in Homs after several days of fierce fighting in the strategically important city, opposition activists said on Saturday.
The army moved into Deir Ba'alba, a neighborhood on the northeastern edge of Homs, they said, leaving the rebels controlling just the central neighborhoods around the old city and the district of Khalidiyah, immediately to the north.
Homs, in central Syria, was the scene earlier this year of some of the heaviest fighting in the 21-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad which has killed at least 45,000 people, according to activist tallies.
On the junction of roads linking Assad's power base in Damascus to the heartlands of his Alawite minority in the port city of Tartous and Latakia province, Homs has strategic value in his battle with the mainly Sunni Muslim rebels.
There were unconfirmed reports that dozens of fighters had been killed in the battle for Deir Ba'alba, the director of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdelrahman, said.
Rebels have been gaining ground in recent months, particularly in the northern provinces of Aleppo and Idlib, and launched an offensive in the central Hama province which would extend their control south towards Homs and Damascus.
But an activist in Hama province said on Saturday that the army had reinforced its positions in the town of Morek, which lies on the main north-south highway linking Damascus to Aleppo, to push back rebels who were running low on ammunition.
A rebel attack on the military base of Wadi Deif, further north on the same highway, had also slowed as rebels struggled to maintain supplies, the activist who used the name Ali al-Idlibi told Reuters by Skype.
He also said Assad's forces had bombarded the provincial town of Karnaz in Hama on Saturday, killing 10 people. Other activists said 12 people were wounded, with no fatalities. It is not possible to verify reports from Syria because authorities restrict media operations in the country.
Activists also said a Palestinian fighter who had been a prominent figure in the armed wing of the Palestinian militant group Hamas was killed in Aleppo province on Friday.
Mohammed Qanita was killed in fighting around Aleppo airport where he had been helping to train Arab and Muslim fighters, a rebel said.
A Hamas source in Gaza said Qanita had left the Qassam Brigade of Hamas and joined a jihadi group before leaving for Syria to fight there.
The exiled leadership of Hamas was based in Damascus until earlier this year, when officials from the Sunni Islamist movement, which sympathises with the uprising against Assad, quietly pulled out.
(Reporting by Dominic Evans in Beirut and Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)


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Would-be investors imagine a stream of tenant troubles waiting for them on the other side of their first purchase, but that's more fantasy than fact, says Davelle Morrison, an industry expert and speaker at the upcoming Investor Forum Toronto. Jemima Codrington reports.
The Early Bird deadline to purchase tickets for the upcoming Investor Forum Toronto is Feb 15 and space is filling up quickly. To reserve your place, please visit www.toronto.theinvestorforum.ca
Video transcript below:
Jemima Codrington: Davelle Morrison, Real Estate Investor, Realtor and Speaker at the Investor Forum, Toronto believes in a hands on attitude to investing and that includes property and tenant management. Today she shares her secrets for avoiding tenant trouble.
How challenging is it to manage your tenants?
Davelle Morrison: I don't find it that difficult to manage my own tenants. One of the reasons is that people aren't calling you at 2 o'clock in the morning with problems. Everybody says, "oh I don't want to become a real estate investor, because I don't want to get that phone call at 2 A.M." Nobody calls you at 2 A.M. They usually pick 3 in the afternoon. But really it's, you know you are not getting calls all the time and if I look at the scope over here, I wouldn't even say that I am getting a call once a month. And even if I did get a phone call once a month, that really wouldn't be so bad for the amount of money that I am receiving every month.
What can we expect from your session at the Toronto Investor Forum?
Davelle Morrison: My session at Toronto Investor Forum is really going to be giving people an insight as to how I started investing in real estate, why I think it's something that everybody can do and should do to better prepare themselves financially in the future.
Jemima Codrington: To learn more, book your tickets to the Investor Forum Toronto today.
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