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Stocks to Watch: LinkedIn, AIG, Duke Energy
NEW YORK -- LinkedIn (LNKD - Get Report), the career Web site, forecast on Thursday second-quarter sales and earnings below analysts' estimates.
The Mountain View, Calif-based Internet company said it expects to post earnings before interest, depreciation and amortization of $77 million to $79 million, short of the estimates of $84.8 million. Sales were also less than expected, as the company forecast revenue for the current quarter between $342 million and $347 million, short of an average estimate of $359.7 million.
For the first quarter, LinkedIn sales rose 72% to $324.7 million, beating an average forecast of $318.2 million as adjusted net income reached $52.4 million, also topping analysts' average forecasts of $36.5 million.
LinkedIn Sandbags Estimates, Shares Tumble
Insurance giant American International Group (AIG - Get Report) said Thursday first-quarter net income was $2.2 billion, or $1.49 a share, down 31% from year-earlier earnings of $3.2 billion, or $1.71 a share. The 2012 results included $3.3 billion in pretax income from investments in funds that were sold or liquidated last year. Analysts were expecting earnings of 88 cents a share. AIG's after-tax operating income, which excludes the impact of certain investments and hedging activities, rose 28% in the first quarter to $3.02 billion.
Kraft Foods' (KRFT - Get Report) first-quarter earnings topped Wall Street expectations. The company earned $456 million, or 76 cents a share, down from $483 million, or 82 cents a share, a year earlier. Revenue rose 2% to $4.55 billion. Wall Street was expecting earnings of 63 cents a share on revenue of $4.49 billion.
Barnes & Noble (BKS) said Friday it is adding Google's (GOOG) Play app store to its 7-inch Nook HD and 9-inch HD+ products in the U.S. and U.K., a move that greatly expands the number of apps available from the Nook tablets. 3 Big Tech Stocks to Trade (or Not)
Madison Square Garden (MSG - Get Report) is forecast by analysts to report on Friday fiscal third-quarter earnings of 32 cents a share on revenue of $406 million.
Duke Energy (DUK - Get Report) is predicted to post first-quarter profit of $1.04 a share on revenue of $5.69 billion. 5 Huge Stocks to Trade in May
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- About half a decade after the first maritime shipping concerns sold shares to the public on U.S. stock exchanges, another fleet of IPOs is preparing to set sail into the capital markets of New York.
Kicking it off on Wednesday is the expected pricing of two new issues -- an owner of dry-bulk vessels called Baltic Trading and an oil-tanker outfit called, straight-forwardly enough, Crude Carriers.
Both names have established provenances. Baltic, which will trade under the symbol BALT, was formed by Peter Georgiopoulos, the impresario behind the tanker operator General Maritime (GMR) (the first shipping company to go public on the New York Stock Exchange, back in 2001), as well as the dry-bulk ship owner Genco Shipping & Trading (GNK - Get Report) and the ship-fuel transporter Aegean Marine (ANW - Get Report).
Crude Carriers, which will trade under the ticker CRU, was formed by Capital Maritime & Trading, a privately held Greek company that owns and manages tankers as well as dry-bulk carriers. Capital Maritime is the baby of Evangelos Marinkais, who also took public Capital Product Partners (CPLP - Get Report) in 2007 on Nasdaq. Capital Product owns 19 of the kind of tankers that carry wet cargoes other than petroleum, known in the industry as "product tankers."
Yet another shipper filed a prospectus in February: Scorpio, an Italian shipping group, hopes to float shares of its fleet of three Panamax chemical tankers under the name Scorpio Tankers. Some observers have wondered at the timing of this latest IPO push. The first wave occurred during boom times, when global trade was brisk and shipping rates high. Not so in early 2010; only a year ago, the marine transport business had fallen to its lowest ebb in decades. Rates cratered and share prices in the sector have yet to recover. The second item on Baltic's list of risk factors makes note of this: charter rates for drybulk carriers "are currently at relatively low levels as compared to recent historical levels and may further decrease in the future." Meanwhile, much of the industry remains concerned about potential oversupply, with hundreds of new ships -- ordered pre-crisis when companies were flush -- scheduled for delivery this year and next.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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Slow pick-up in India's GDP growth
(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters)
GDP estimates by the Central Statistics Office for the 2013-14 fiscal year show an improvement over the previous year. But the extent of improvement is too small for comfort. Possibly, in the final revision, that small margin may disappear or even turn negative.
This year, India's GDP is expected to be up 4.9 percent from 4.5 percent the previous year. This additional growth has come mainly from agriculture, due to a favourable monsoon. Agricultural growth was three times the previous year. Production of non-food grains (like vegetables and fruits), and animal products (like meat and eggs), did not increase adequately in spite of the inflated demand and will continue to be the main source of inflation.
Why the RBI raised interest rates
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised interest rates at its review on Jan 28. The justification usually given for doing so is inflation.
But at its previous review, when inflation had soared, the RBI was passive and left rates unchanged. Now, with wholesale price inflation (WPI) slowing to 6.16 percent, the RBI was quick to raise the repo rate by 25 bps back to its highest level since the 2008 crisis. Why?
How much will U.S. recovery help India?
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After a prolonged slowdown, the U.S. economy is finally showing signs of recovery though much of it comes from investment in inventories and may not be sustained at the present high rate.
The United States is the largest economy with a share of more than 22 percent in the world GDP. Naturally, even small changes in its behaviour have a perceptible impact worldwide. To India, the United States counts for a lot, although possibly less than it does for China.
The year 2013 in perspective
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The economy was already in distress before 2013, but with no significant action by the government and increased pressure from external sources resulted in more danger signals. It is now doubtful whether the economy will recover in the current fiscal.
The rot began in 2011. It took hardly two-and-a-half years to bring down the growth from 8.8 percent to 4.5 percent. The monsoon was good but badly distributed with the result that the summer crop did not show much improvement. Industry is amidst stagnation with zero growth in April- October. The capital goods sector has been hit the hardest because investment declined, while the only silver lining was the improvement in external trade. Exports increased and imports declined which brought down the CAD to less than 2 percent of GDP.
Managing India's budget deficit
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The budget deficit has been a concern for India, but Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has assured that the government will not deviate from the target of 3 percent deficit in 2017. In the very first year, however, it has become almost obvious that the target will be missed.
Budget deficit is not the privilege of government alone as even corporates and households borrow like the government to fund deficits. However, they ensure that the money is used in a manner that it is repaid in time. With the government it is different — it can borrow more in order to repay old loans and it can do so with impunity because banks are a captive market for the government securities. That results in mounting public debt which stood at 56.5 trillion rupees at the end of March 2013. Of this, 40 percent is held by banks.
How the U.S. Fed's tapering can affect Indian markets
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It was never expected to be permanent. Quantitative Easing (QE), designed to pep up the U.S. economy after the financial crisis of 2008-09, has survived for five years. The United States is now on a rebound and unemployment is receding. That has tempted the U.S. Federal Reserve to reconsider tapering its economic stimulus.
This was first announced on May 17 and sent tremors through global markets. Asian markets were the most affected; India was worst-hit, having come to depend on FII investment. The knee-jerk reaction of FIIs was to reduce exposure to emerging market economies in the expectation that liquidity would dry up and interest rates would harden.
Which inflation should the RBI target?
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining price and financial stability, and it has used interest rate and money supply to pursue this objective with unwavering determination. Yet, inflation has survived with matching persistence.
The index that the RBI uses to target inflation is the wholesale price index (WPI), which is the combined price of a commodity basket comprising 676 items. A few prices in this basket can be too volatile or outside the scope of the RBI's monetary policy, leading to poor results.
Not a smooth ride for the markets
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There was subdued excitement over the Sensex hitting a record high in a special trading session on Diwali. It had taken the market quite some time to cross its previous peak in 2008. This was also the case for most other markets, although they had recovered a little earlier.
The Indian market was slow to catch up because, apart from the international conditions, there were domestic problems that affected the health of the economy.
Need to rebalance RBI's interest structure
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In its mid-quarterly monetary policy review last month, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) made some hasty changes in the interest structure. The repo rate was raised possibly because of the rise in inflation and the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate was cut after the rupee recovered against the dollar. The interest structure is still lopsided with short rates exceeding long rates. This anomaly needs to be corrected.
It is believed that the economy is susceptible to a rundown when short rates exceed long rates. A further slowdown, in any case, needs to be prevented and is quite feasible since the compelling conditions that necessitated an interest hike have been contained. There is now enough room for the RBI to restore balance.
Rupee should not harden further
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The rupee has recovered over the past few weeks after falling to a record low of 68.85 per dollar in August. After a period of unease, the finance ministry and the Reserve Bank of India can now take it a little easy. But care needs to be taken that the rupee is not driven up further.
Speculation about the end of the U.S. Federal Reserve's bond-buying programme in May affected global currencies and the rupee was not alone in this predicament. The announcement had created a scare about the tapering of quantitative easing. That would have dried up liquidity that the market had got used to. The Brazilian real, Indonesian rupiah, and the Indian rupee were the principal losers.


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· If you have an existing site/app, read these design case studies to explore how to reimagine your web site or iPad app using Metro design principles
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Last week Geoff and I attended a number of University graduation showcase events across the country, firstly thank you for the invites and its great to see the outcomes of students projects and the use of Microsoft Technology. A number of students and academics also asked me some interesting questions in relation to the development of Windows 8 and specifically how to include some aspects of Windows 8 Metro into the curriculum. One of the easiest ways of implementing Windows 8 into your teaching is to simply add in a small work item of converting an existing app to Metro as a learning exercise, this may also be great a MSc or MPhil project for an existing application or service.
There are a lot of useful resources out there on porting existing applications to Metro apps, a successfully ported app will of course run beautifully on Windows 8 and this may be a great way of introducing/exposing students to the Metro UI and design principles:
Design-focused articles
Porting a website
Porting a Windows Phone app
Hope the above give you some food for thought of how you may start thinking about the opportunities of Windows 8 and the Metro UI.
.NET Gadgeteer can be used in schools to help students make gadgets and learn C# programming along the way. These lesson plans give teachers all the material needed to run 8 1-hour sessions using .NET Gadgeteer. You will also need the hardware, details of which are given at http://netmf.com/gadgeteer.
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Ordered this light fixture to replace an outdated one above our Bistro table in the kitchen area. Love this fixture and highly recommend it. Shipped on time and was in perfect condition when it was received.
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Well my UTG tactical quad rail came in the mail. Fits like a charm on ym rifle. The sad part is, those rails are awfully lonely without accessories. I do not want a scope but I do want the magpul backup sights. I found a set of 2 on amazon FOR TWENTY DOLLARS (usually around $35 for one of the 2 sights) Will these sights work on my 10/.22? I have full rail space from the receiver to the barrel band so i am pretty sure they will go on there and fit properly. Are they pretty easy to sight in and is there any way of doing that without going to the range. Second thing is a foregrip. Found one for 9 bucks. Plasticy but the reviews say it works, but not for large calibers. If you have anything to add, please let me know. I am not into changing all the internals, just accessories for my new rail (there is a crap ton of space on all sides.) Link to magpul sights: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AMUE3T2/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3MPR8WAO GZLJI Link to foregrip: http://www.amazon.com/UTG-Deluxe-Ergonomic-Foregrip-Black/dp/B0014ZY6Y6/ref=lh_ni_t?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER Link to the rail i bought: http://www.amazon.com/UTG-Commando-Tactical-Quad-System/dp/B002GO04OK/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1362434368&sr=8-14&keywords=ruger+10+22+rail Thanks!
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Welp my bad, the sights are for paintball guns... Looks like i am going to have to shell out some money... Glad i caught that.
Ok I think I found the right ones. Rear MBUS: http://www.amazon.com/Magpul-MBUS-Rear-Sight-Black/dp/B004RR0N8Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362434690&sr=8-1&keywords=MBUS Front MBUS: http://www.amazon.com/Magpul-MBUS-Folding-Front-Site/dp/B007OWZB0Q/ref=pd_sim_sg_1 Tell me what you think. The reason I need these sights is because the UTG rail blocks the iron sights. So will both the rear and front MBUS work? Thanks.


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I wonder if I'm right thinking that Korea, in spite of its centuries long history and high level of achievements, is one of very few countries that never threatened its neighbors?
Koreans - possibly the world's unhappiest, whiniest people - often do not appreciate how far their country has advanced; for those over 50, they saw a Democratic Republic of Congo transform into something that approximates France in its real standard of living. I myself, being 23, saw Korea transform from being a developing country only noted for its fast rate of growth into a respected democracy and a fully accepted member of the league of developed nations. But personally, the biggest novelty for me is the popularity of the Korean pop-culture in many places around the world - if someone told me in 2002 that Korean boyband concerts were going to have a full-house in Europe, I would have called them crazy.
This does not go to say that the continued success of the Korean Republic is guaranteed. Reforms mentioned are easier said than done, and they represent a real hindrance to Korea's continued growth that must be dealt with. Ironically, with democracy, the Korean government's ability to force a painful reform on powerful vested interests is weaker than the time when it was headed by military junta. One must hope that a recurring strong shift in public opinion towards demanding a western standard of transparency and governance - something that missed Japan, and thereby ruined it - coalesce into a real political movement that can effect change. Thankfully, it is already happening.
Korea also needs to deal with the problem of its fast aging population. Only a few countries have lower birth rates than Korea, and this is an overall social issue that needs to be addressed on a multi-dimensional level. This will be a long-term process that fundamentally reconfigures the Korean social life, and immigration is necessary to stem the hemorrhage from greying workforce.
Finally, North Korea remains a severe security threat that prevents the normalization of the Republic's status in the world stage. Unification, for all intents and purposes, is not a viable option for decades. The two Koreas can inch towards it, however, by mutual engagement where they normalize their relations and cooperate on matters of economic policy. The US and China will also have to be supportive of the process. Unfortunately, the Kim dynasty will have to die off before this happens.
All these are quite a tall order for a country to achieve. However, given the track record of the Korean Republic and its people, they deserve a benefit of the doubt.
that is correct beweis, part of the reason for that is because Korea was for all of its 5,000 years long history, surrounded by big neighbours such as China and Japan, but even when Japan was weak and divided and a beneficiary of Korea's passing advanced civilisation to it from China, Koreans never tried and invaded Japan although it could have if it wished. Rather Koreans tried to 'enlighten' those barbaric (at the time) Japanese natives with letters and advanced technology from the continent. Perhaps the fact that Japanese are descendents of Koreans explains this
Now, Koreans need to learn how to enjoy life and relax! Unfortunately, there is a social norm that "if you're not working in one of those conglomerate companies that means you're a sore loser." Such pressure creates intensive educational competition (studying 8am to 12am) over the younger generations which the society pressures them to kill themselves: suicide rate of 40 per day (BBC,http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15331921). It is an education based on performance, there is no humanity in Korean education system.
Few Koreans will agree on the fact that Korea's education, either public or private, can bring quality of domestic innovation into reality. Korea's overall education, even after-school programs, is just dedicated to get a good test score, especially for entering university.
High proportion of tertiary students see it as a shelter when they fail to get a decent full time job or as an ornament to prettify their resume to make up the prestige they don't have in under grad school title, along with a hope that they can get an alumni network.
This is a great summary of Korean economic success. I would just like to add a few more obstacles that that Korean must overcome to continue its economic success:
1. Unemployment rate of 3%
The unemployment rate in Korea suggests that the job market is even better than that in the US back in 2007. This official statistics need to be dealt cautiously. The Korean statistics office label even those with 10hr/week part-time job as fully employed, resulting in a lot lower unemployment rate than what society experiences. Anecdotal evidence suggests that many college graduates are not very successful finding full-time career and as a result they accept minimum-wage part time jobs and often postpone their graduation by year or two. Despite the 3% "official" unemployment rate, college graduates in Korea in 2011 are having a far more difficult time finding full-time jobs than those in the US back in 2007.
2. Significant decrease in desiring for STEM careers
The Korean economy grew at an unprecedented rate from the late 70s to early 90s because of its strong human capital base in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). President Park (Chung-Hee) in the 70s and 80s encouraged people to major in STEM and provided incentives for them to do so. Starting in early 2000s, the trend no longer continues and high school/college students prefer careers in law, medicine, finance, business, in which high remuneration was the primary incentive, to STEM career. Having many students majoring in law and medicine may increase the quality of Korean domestic service. If the trend continues, however, South Korea may lose its edge in technology and manufacturing in the export market. In the economy in which export/import makes up 70% of GDP, this trend does not bode well for the nation.
3. Lack of Entrepreneurship
Korean students are very risk-averse. Top performing students' most favorite (or common) desire is to take the government-administered examination to become civil servants. Students are afraid of taking the risk and anecdotal evidence suggests that even in marriage market, single people with civil servant job command high premiums. This tendency starkly contrasts to that of the US, where higher proportion of top performing students aspires for either start-ups or private industry. If Korea needs to launch ahead with its innovation, there needs to be a significant change in societal, individual and cultural perspective on entrepreneurship.
It is dissapointing that the article ended with the myth that our ancestors have any real correlation to present success.
Ghana is more likely to be an economic leader Greece. Despite its history of slavery and lack of Platos.
a very good article
I believe you're referring to this sentence:
"They put in 2,200 hours of work a year, half as much again as the Dutch or Germans."
The key word is "again". So, Koreans work 1.5 times as much rather than 0.5 (50%) as much as the Dutch or Germans. This sentence might more clearly be written as:
"They put in 2,200 hours of work a year, 150% when compared to the Dutch or Germans."
I was born in Seoul but immigrated to Canada as a baby under the age of one years old. I returned in 88 and 99, and was blown away by the incredible progress even within this relatively short time frame. I think there is a mistake in this article, the journalist notes Koreans work half as much as the Dutch and Germans, should that not be twice as much? I only say that because the sentence say that Koreans work very hard, but then it goes on to say half as much as Dutch and Germans. 2,200 hours a year works out to an average of 42 hours a week. It's hard to imagine the Dutch and Germans work 84 hours a week. That's 14 hours a day on a 6 day work week, for all 52 weeks in a year, totalling 4,400 hours a year. I am also surprised this article does not make mention of South Korea's entertainment industry, which many Canadians with Asian heritage speak to me about. I was a bit clueless about it, but I researched it after hearing so much about it, and found that South Korea, in the last 10 years, has produced some award winning entertainment, including being an award winner in film festivals like Cannes.
It should not be forgotten that Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore (like Japan before them) uniquely benefited from American support. From the 1950's to the 1980's these original Asian Tigers were offered export access to US markets, and the developmental uplift of American FDI. To their credit they worked hard and took advantage of these economic opportunities and climb the value-added-ladder, but their populations had little choice under the authoritarian regimes of the time. Just as importantly, only a handful of developing countries had such privileged market access to get such a head start. Compare this with the prospects of Vietnam and others, who have to fiercely compete with China and others for FDI and export opportunities.
Higher share of GDP spent on tertiary education in no way means it is effectively spent. And the statistic that the government spending of 5% of GDP spent on overall education is below rich-country averages means more money is wasted on ineffective higher education. The article reaches a no-brainer conclusion that in the end, Korea needs more innovation and out-of-box thinking. But with an education system that leads college graduates to believe Koreans are more susceptible to death by eating US beef and the KORUS FTA will make Korea a colony of the US, though very innovative and out-of-box ideas they may be, they are not quite the ones that will propel further growth.
Never is a strong word. Successive Korean states (before and after they were mostly united) have threatened the peoples of present-day Manchuria and also engaged in conflicts with Chinese states.
Very well written article. Very impressed.
Chinese influence into Japan also came via Fujian, while we can never really say that there were any conscious and concerted decision to choose "enlightenment" over invasion.
And the whole "Japanese people being descendants of Koreans" is a myth. No research has substantiated this and linguistic heritage seem to indicate more distant lineage (both Korean and Japanese are language isolates).
Except that the current Greek people have their ancestors in Turkey...
And yet countries with presumable greater "out-of-the-box" thinking, like the U.S., produce citizens who believe in the wackiest things.
Creative freedom inevitably means the production of plentiful lousy ideas because of the belief that some gems will appear in their midst.
What about restrictions on foreign investment, which were surely a central part of the Korean economic model? Incoming investment was limited in order to ensure that Korean companies learnt for themselves rather than imported technology from abroad. Discovery was a vital aspect of the development process, and part of the reason why Korean technology is so good today.
You sound like a sourgrapping Japanese. Just look at the state Japan is in right now. Before opening your mouth again, just compare Samsung to Sony. Although Japan is one of the top innovative countries in the world, Japan used to be nothing but a copycat. The same thing applies to "creative" America. When America was a developing country in the 19th and early 20th centuries, America was the counterfeit capital of the world. America was only good at copying and stealing European ideas and inventions.
Never is a strong word. Successive Korean states (before and after they were mostly united) have threatened the peoples of present-day Manchuria and also engaged in conflicts with Chinese states.
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Updating an e-mail account in Playbook
My service provider recently changed how we log in. Instead of simply using the first part of your e-mail account name (eg joeblow) as my username, we are now required to use the complete e-mail address (eg email@example.com).
I have been trying to make that change to my e-mail accounts on my Playbook but for some reason the username is grayed out and I can't figure out how to edit that.
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Try deleting the account and then resetting it up. After putting in the initial info, go advanced before saving and input the correct user name.
I must warn you against deleting your account. Some people seem to be able to do this and re-add the account with no problem. However, many experience huge problems with this. It took me 3 weeks to get my yahoo email back and my yahoo contacts are totally unable to be reloaded. This is a well known problem.
I would not do this, unless you have done it before.
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Because nobody requested it yet and I either did not know about a mod_xyz, or I did not found it useful. Feel free to write me some suggestions what to add to the HOWTO. If there is more than one request, and it makes sense, it will maybe added in further releases.
A: The certificate produced like described in this HOWTO is just a self-signed certificate. This means the CA (Certification Authority) is you. Your CA is not recognized as a valid CA by your users browser. You can either install the certificate on your users machines (Makes sense in small Intranet environments) or buy a certificate from a CA that is recognized by all major browsers. An example of such a CA is Verisign http://www.verisign.com. Such a certificate cost approx. 300 USD a year, depending on the strength of the key (56 or 128 Bits)
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Three of the Vineyard's five lighthouses (all on the north side of the island) are open to the public for sunset tours operated by the Martha's Vineyard Museum (508-627-4441; mvmuseum.org). East Chop Light, in Oak Bluffs, is perched on a cliff 79 feet above the sea (508-693-8104). The red-brick Gay Head Lighthouse is on the edge of the Aquinnah cliffs and visitors are allowed into the light chamber; its original Fresnel lens, which was exhibited at the 1855 World's Fair in Paris, is now on exhibit in the Martha's Vineyard Museum. The Edgartown Lighthouse originally stood in Ipswich, Mass., and was moved to its present site after its predecessor was badly damaged by the Hurricane of 1938 (508-627-4441). Guarding the entrance to Vineyard Haven, the West Chop Lighthouse in its current brick incarnation dates from 1838 and was the last manned lighthouse on the island. There are also guided tours to (though not inside) the Cape Poge Lighthouse, at the far end of Chappaquiddick. This structure has been rebuilt four times since it first went up in 1801. The current white wooden structure was built in 1893 and on four occasions has had to be moved farther from the waterthe last time by helicopter (508-627-3599; thetrustees.org). For lighthouse connoisseurs, the Vineyard has launched an annual Martha's Vineyard Lighthouse Challenge in June, including transportation to all five lighthouses and a "lighthouse passport" book (800-505-4815; mvy.com/islandinfo/lighthouse_challenge).
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