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Head to Head Contrast: Aircastle Limited (NYSE:AYR) vs. Neff Corporation (NEFF)
Aircastle Limited (NYSE: AYR) and Neff Corporation (NYSE:NEFF) are both small-cap transportation companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, profitabiliy, valuation, institutional ownership, risk, earnings and analyst recommendations.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Aircastle Limited and Neff Corporation, as reported by MarketBeat.
|Sell Ratings
|Hold Ratings
|Buy Ratings
|Strong Buy Ratings
|Rating Score
|Aircastle Limited
|Neff Corporation
Aircastle Limited currently has a consensus target price of $24.22, suggesting a potential upside of 11.26%. Neff Corporation has a consensus target price of $20.20, suggesting a potential downside of 3.35%. Given Aircastle Limited's higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe Aircastle Limited is more favorable than Neff Corporation.
Insider & Institutional Ownership
63.4% of Aircastle Limited shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 87.7% of Neff Corporation shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Aircastle Limited shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 9.0% of Neff Corporation shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Aircastle Limited and Neff Corporation's revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
|Gross Revenue
|Price/Sales Ratio
|Earnings Per Share
|Price/Earnings Ratio
|Aircastle Limited
|$788.43 million
|$157.43 million
|Neff Corporation
|$403.28 million
|$103.37 million
Aircastle Limited has higher revenue and earnings than Neff Corporation. Aircastle Limited is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Neff Corporation, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Aircastle Limited pays an annual dividend of $1.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.8%. Neff Corporation does not pay a dividend. Aircastle Limited pays out 52.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Aircastle Limited has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years.
Volatility and Risk
Aircastle Limited has a beta of 1.8, indicating that its stock price is 80% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Neff Corporation has a beta of 3.39, indicating that its stock price is 239% more volatile than the S&P 500.
This table compares Aircastle Limited and Neff Corporation's net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
|Net Margins
|Return on Equity
|Return on Assets
|Aircastle Limited
|Neff Corporation
Aircastle Limited beats Neff Corporation on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Aircastle Limited
Aircastle Limited is a holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, acquires, leases and sells commercial jet aircrafts to airlines. The Company is engaged in financing and managing commercial flight equipment. The Company manages its aircrafts in the United States, Ireland and Singapore. As of December 31, 2016, the Company owned and managed on behalf of its joint ventures 206 aircrafts leased to 71 lessees located in 36 countries. The Company originates acquisitions and sales through relationships with airlines, other aircraft lessors, financial institutions and brokers, as well as other sources. As of February 7, 2017, the Company had lease commitments or letters of intent to lease or sell 16 aircrafts. The Company's aircraft portfolio includes passenger wide-body, passenger narrow-body and freighter aircrafts. The Company's portfolio spans across various regions, such as the Middle East and Africa, South America, North America, Asia and Pacific, and Europe.
About Neff Corporation
Neff Corporation is an equipment rental company. The Company offers an array of equipment rental solutions for its customer base, including infrastructure, non-residential construction, oil and gas, and residential construction customers. Its fleet of equipment includes earthmoving, material handling, aerial and other rental equipment. Its earthmoving equipment category includes excavators, backhoes, loaders, bulldozers, mini-excavators, sweepers and tractors, track loaders and skid steers. Its material handling equipment category includes reach forklifts, industrial forklifts and straight-mast forklifts. Its aerial equipment category includes personnel lifts, electric scissor lifts, dual fuel scissor lifts, articulating boom lifts and straight boom lifts. Its other rental equipment category includes compaction and concrete, trucks and trailers, sweepers, generators, welders, lighting, pumps and other small equipment and tools. As of December 31, 2016, it had operated 69 branches.
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SME Update Issue 15 31 January 2013
Facts and Figures
DG Research and Innovation's SME Unit reaches out to EU citizens, SMEs
Samuel Maenhout, policy officer at the SME Unit of the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), discusses the key role SMEs will play in 2013 and beyond, as well as the strategic communication activities planned by the unit.
'2013 is the European Year of Citizens, and there is a genuine will in the EU to enter into dialogue with citizens about topics that concern them most,' underlines Mr Maenhout. 'Our unit subscribes firmly to this, as we will be reaching out to specific target audiences in a language that they understand via the channels that are theirs.'
SMEs at the forefront of EU's present and future
SMEs are at the heart of Europe 2020, the decade-long strategy which envisions a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy delivering high levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion. 'A 2012 survey shows that the chief concerns of Europeans at national level remain unemployment, the economic situation at large and rising prices due to inflation,' he says.
'Throughout the economic downturn, SMEs have continued to be the backbone of the European economy, primarily responsible for wealth and economic growth, alongside their vital role in innovation and R&D,' stresses Mr Maenhout. About 20.7 million firms account for more than 98% of all enterprises, of which the lion's share (over 92%) are firms with fewer than 10 employees. According to the annual report on SMEs in the EU entitled 'EU SMEs in 2012: at the crossroads', it was estimated that SMEs accounted for 67% of total employment and 58% of gross value added.
SMEs translate research results and innovative ideas into products, services and business models that meet market demand and provide solutions to societal challenges. More highly innovative companies are instrumental in helping Europe to exit the crisis and to become a knowledge-based economy. 'The EU's motivation to give a firm boost to SMEs is stronger than ever,' emphasises Mr Maenhout.
2013 marks the build up to the launch of Horizon 2020, the research and innovation (R&I) programme for the period 2014-2020. The successor to the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) intends to fill gaps in funding for high-risk innovation projects by SMEs. As such, it will create business opportunities in response to major societal challenges. In addition, it will strengthen productivity and innovation capacities and help innovative SMEs to grow.
Horizon 2020 seeks to provide much greater support to SMEs through a new dedicated instrument. By bringing together the R&I-related SME measures that are currently spread across several programmes, this instrument will provide one comprehensive and simple scheme adapted to SME needs. Under Horizon 2020, a single SME or a group of SMEs will be able to apply for funds to finance a project of economic and preferably also societal relevance in a user-friendly manner that puts business first. Mr Maenhout explains that a large part of the unit's communication efforts will concentrate on providing details of the application of the new instrument from start (idea/concept design) to finish (commercialisation/go-to-market). Support networks, expert evaluators and coaches will have the opportunity to attend specific events where their potential role will be clarified. According to Mr Maenhout, the particulars about such SME support under Horizon 2020 will gradually become available.
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2013 in particular will see a stronger emphasis on the importance of innovative SMEs in order to prepare them for the launch and implementation of Horizon 2020, which places greater focus on market delivery. The unit aims to appeal to innovative SMEs more directly by bridging the communication divide that exists between the small business world and the EU public support infrastructure.
Mr Maenhout outlines the unit's upcoming communication initiatives, including but not limited to the following:
'Getting relevant and value-added information to innovative SMEs, but also sincerely listening to their concerns via dedicated networks, events or social media platforms, will be complementary actions to ensure that SMEs have sufficient knowledge and know-how about EU support and funding application processes to start acting upon them,' says Mr Maenhout.
He believes that one of the main objectives for public intervention in Europe in research, innovation and industrial policies should be to increase European innovative company growth. To translate the EU policy agenda into effective policy actions, EU support policies need to foster R&D investment in a specific innovative company type, and only where there are market failures (e.g. difficulty in accessing capital, knowledge and infrastructures) and clear high social returns, for instance in such domains as aging society, climate change, energy supply, safety and security.
'It is this ambition that will drive the SME Unit forward in 2013, and it is based on this premise that the bulk of our energies will be spent,' concludes Mr Maenhout.


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September 16th, 2012 (1:12 AM).
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What are your opinions on subjects such as same-sex marriage, abortion, the death penalty, and so on? Why?
Same-Sex Marriage: Surely they can do better at staying together than straight people, yes? I say "Yay"! Love is love.
Abortion: I am with it. Can you image what the population would be like if nobody aborted their babies? Can you image what would happen if you couldn't abort a baby because you didn't have the money to care for them, let alone feed?
Death Penalty: Again. All about population. If there is ABSOLUTE evidence (physical evidence that cannot be mistakened; such as videotape) then it is a yes. Mostly if it is murder, serial rape, ect.
Why are your beliefs the way they are?
I consider myself eclectic pagan (wiccan), not atheist. However, much of my beliefs are tied into everything else. My beliefs are this way because (hopefully) I understand how the human mind generally works, as well as what most religions believe in and why.
Do you believe in any form of life after death?
Yes. What I believe in, is that something of power cannot affect your life or judge you after death if you do not believe in them. So, if you do not believe in the Christian God (Yahweh), he cannot affect your life or after-death, should it exist in your mind. All religious worlds and deities exist in sub-realms, but cannot be opened to you unless you believe in their existance.
Do you believe in aliens?
Green humanoid men and slug-like blobs? No. Life forms from outside Earth, yes.
Does your family and friends know about your faith? If no, why not?
My mom and friends do. My dad does not. He does not know because;
1. My parents are separated
2. He does not believe in magick, and is very tight-skinned about religion in general (He believes in a God, but does not place himself in any sort of religion)
If God does exist, what do you think it would be like?
I notice that much of the discussion here is directly over Christian belief. The correct way to ask this question would be "If deity does exist, what do you think they would be like?"... Anyways, I believe that all spirit and deity have personalities just like ours. There is no "completely good" or "completely bad" being. They all appear to us differently, however. Many associate angels and deities as humanoid, because it is the most comfortable image to see them as. Though in reality, they may come to you as light, an animal, or even something that doesn't even resemble anything you've seen before.
What are your family's general religious beliefs?
My mother and father do not associate themselves with any sort of religious order, yet believe there is a God. I am not so sure about other family members (Such as cousins, grandmothers, ect) however.
"Your plans will fail, my sweet lady. And when they do, your stories will be nothing but lies, your rebellion will be in vain, and war will rage for years until you are but a speck of dust." - Noh
"The lies of your world will be exposed. My rebellion will rein over your realm, and no longer will this time be plagued by war." - ???
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Chief William J. Bratton, credited with polishing the tarnished image of the LAPD and pushing down crime to historic levels, will announce today that he is stepping down to head a private security firm.
Bratton is expected to announce his plans during a noontime press conference with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
City Council President Eric Garcetti said Bratton told him in a telephone conversation that he would be leaving midway through his second five-year term.
"I have a sense he feel he has done his job here and it is time for him to move on to other challenges," Garcetti said.
"He will be moving back to the East Coast, where his father is, and where there are opportunities for his wife."
Bratton' wife, Rikki Kleinbaum, regularly appears on television as a legal consultant.
Bratton, 61, was hired in 2002 by then-Mayor James Hahn. His contract was renewed in 2007 by Villaraigosa.
"He has done an incredible job here in Los Angeles," Garcetti said. "Crime is at its lowest level and he has done a great job in improving community relations. What I hope he has left is a sense of the importance of that with thei new officers."
Crime has dropped in each of the seven years Bratton headed the LAPD and he was able to get the department out from a federal consent decree that guided its operations as a result of the Rampart Division scandal involving anti-gang units.
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He was a well-known law enforcement figure nationally because of his jobs as head of the New York Police Department and the Boston Police Department.
Perhaps because of his various jobs, rumors about how long Bratton would remain in Los Angeles have dogged him since he was first appointed, including the possibility of him heading the London Police Department.
Those rumors escalated in recent months after he sold his home in the Los Feliz district.
As police chief, Bratton brought a renewed stability to the LAPD and a new direction. Using his Compstat program, Bratton had the department tracking crime hot spots, looking for trends in crime and responding with strike teams of officers.
He also oversaw the largest expansion of the LAPD in its history, where it now has 9,996 officers and is expected to exceed the 10,000 mark with the next graduating class.
But Bratton has not been without his clashes with officials.
Most notably, he has argued with Councilman Bernard Parks _ who preceded him as chief _ and two other council members with law enforcement background, Dennis Zine and Greig Smith. Zine was a motor officer for more than 30 years and he and Smith work as reserve officers.
In 2006, Bratton said Parks and Zine "didn't know what the hell they are talking about" when it came to proposed modifications to the hiring standards of officers.
This year, he became embroiled in another dispute when Smith complained Bratton was ignoring the City Council on a variety of issues, particularly the uniforms to be worn by retired polie officers providing security on movie sets.
Bratton was among the highest paid of city officials, with a salary of more than $305,000 a year.
Garcetti said he had no preference on whether the next chief should come from inside or outside the department.
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THERE was no one in the long village street of Byfleet to observe a stranger who had come to town by the last train. He was looking to right and to left, but not with the air of a man who expected to meet some acquaintance; he went his way as if through a land of ruins. In front of a low, vine-covered house that stood behind a narrow garden he stopped long, leaning upon the fence to look the little house full in the face, as if to trace some probable change and to read its friendly or forgetful demeanor. The windows were all dark and silent, no light shone yet from within, no busy shadow crossed the curtain. He went a few steps forward, and, returning, gazed again, and stood before the house for a long, sad minute, and then again passed on.
It was like a deserted village. The fine rain fell in cold and wintry gusts upon the dead shapes of the houses. There was still light enough left in the sky to make it only the end of a dark spring day in Byfleet rather than the beginning of night.
The stranger went his way under the bare-boughed trees, now hastening, now pausing near some scene once familiar. Then he left the village behind him, and entered the open gate of the burying-ground, which lay beyond, there the road came to the open country. There was still enough light for him to read the names on the gravestones, and he stopped to read one and another as he crossed the lonely plot of ground. In the corner which he sought were some graves which had been made a careful garden spot. There were two old stones by themselves, and two or three others in a separate group, while a little way apart from these, with a vacant space beside it, was a grave where one might see withered stalks of the last year's flowers and sturdy, snow-bleached roots from which lilies would bloom again. The stranger stopped, as if half in fear to read the name on the white stone. The name carved there was his own!
Byfleet was such an old-fashioned village that its one house of entertainment still kept the name of tavern, and the tavern afforded most comfortable hospitalities to a number of unprofitable patrons. A small number of elderly men, relics of a more convivial time, still gathered on the narrow front piazza in summer, and about the great Franklin stove in the barroom in winter. This small club never had any but transient recruits to replace its many losses; now and then a stray bit of unexpected gossip refreshed the members or some merchant prince of a travelling salesman lingered at the tavern over night and joined their circle. However great the experience and opportunities of such a person, he could rarely tell this group of sages anything new or startle them with his darkest tales of anarchy or business depression. The size of their incomes, which ranged from nothing whatever to the neighborhood of $1,000. could never be belittled by any accounts of daring city speculations, although valued by millions. They represented to themselves and to each other the sober certainties and opinions of their native town.
On this rainy night, in early spring, the little company assembled in good season after supper. There was Capt. Asa Fitch, the honored leader, and his neighbor and friend, old John Dimmock; Timothy Hall, the tavern keeper, a silent man at times, but a jester, and John Bean, the town clerk, who was a cynic and born opposer. They always took pains to account for their presence; Capt. Fitch looked at the barometer, as his own was out of order, and Mr. Dimmock compared his watch with the tall clock in the corner.
There was one stranger present, a cattle drover, whom they all greeted with surprise. He was out of season now, as one might say, though his coming might be looked for every other week from September until Thanksgiving time. Presently the door opened, and a well-dressed man came in whom nobody knew except the drover, who gave him a careless nod, as if they had parted not long before. Evidently they were returning together from an up-country excursion in order to make their collections or to settle up their last season's accounts. Capt. Fitch, who was possessed of something like second sight in his knowledge of character, might have said that the other drover was a man who bore fewer marks of rough, out-of-door life than his fellow. Perhaps he was the overseer of the stockyards. As he took the last empty roundbacked chair he wore the air of an elderly travelling salesman who had reached a final stage of unexpectant taciturnity. He had left the persuasive loquacity of youth far behind, and wore a talked-out look, and sat among the other men as if there were no subject upon which he wished to convince any human creature -- as if he were now content to follow any quiet company of men or beasts without reproach or remark. He answered his companions' questions briefly, and soon took on a sleepy look in the heat and comfort of the room.
"Any news from up-country?" asked Timothy Hall, with an air of amusement.
"Snow's about all gone," said Jackson, after some deliberation. "Seemed kind o' quiet all up along. There was a woman's head to every pane o' glass 'n some o' them houses. I come in a sleigh far 's Crooked Falls, where I took the cart; I guess I was stopped many 's six times to the mile to know what news there was. There was a good many folks I had to stop and deal with; Lord, I was raised up to Winfield, but I couldn't pass one o' them old-fashioned winters an' come out in the spring half so lively as some o' them poor fly creatures that was so ardent to pass the time o' day."
Jackson took on the air of a city man as he spoke, in spite of his rustic flavor of horned cattle and the country haybarns. The next moment, however, he remembered that he was still in provincial surroundings, and made haste to give the conversation another turn. "You wouldn't believe what a sight o' difference there is between your place here and even ten miles back."
"I see one of our ladies out a rakin' up her front yard before yisterday. She showed me some o' her tulips that was way above ground," answered Capt. Fitch, with proper pride.
"There was considerable snow laying in the north side o' woods and stretched out back o' the fences up in the Winfield neighborhood as we came along," said the strange drover, handsomely.
"Up Canada way 't's all snow. No, you don't know nothin' about long winters here to Byfleet," said Mr. Jackson, and at this moment the company felt both warmhearted and sociable, and one or two men pushed back their chairs from the fire, but the moment did not appear to have arrived in which to speak of the usual closing subject of politics.
"I guess the flower gardens is all delayed somewhat by such a spell o' weather as this," grumbled John Bean, but his next chair neighbor turned a beaming red face to say that "nobody could delay Abby Sands's gardening when once she began it, an' the tulips were well up."
"That's so, Mr. Dimmock," agreed Capt. Fitch. "She manages to get some kind o' blooms even after the snow comes and before it's gone. Abby does. All the year round, you may say, with her livin' room full an' the suller full of deputations to fetch up and start for spring. I never see a woman slave so; what's the use when you can pick 'em wild all summer to keep up such a drudgin' over a garden piece. I don't know 's I should be distressed if I never see a flower, but I tell ye the green grass looks good and smells good, too, when you're comin' in from sea. I could always smell it myself a good many miles out."
The captain's marine reminiscences were apt to be long, and this group of friends knew each other's stories by heart. "Poor Abby Sands, she does the most to her buryin'-ground lot of any body here in taown; she makes a second garden o' that," said somebody hastily.
"All the near folks she's got lays right there together," said Capt. Fitch.
The strange drover seemed restless; presently he got up and walked to the window and then came back to his arm-chair again. "Does this lady live all by herself?" he asked, unexpectedly.
"Yes, sir; she lives alone, Miss Abby Sands does," continued the captain, pleased by such a show of interest. "She's a well off woman, an' a nice woman as there is in town, but I don't expect she'll change her situation now; she ain't one that wants the whole world and a piece o' the moon either. She didn't pick up no great shakes of a man when she did make a choice, but she's worthy o' the best; no one's more ready to catch holt and help when any one's in trouble."
"That's so," said old Mr. Dimmock, with decision. "You can't speak too high of her, cap'n," and he drummed softly on the arm of his chair. The first blaze of the fire was over, but the great accumulations of winter ashes underneath had turned into a glowing heap of coals. The stranger moved his chair further back from the scorching heat.
"You see," said the captain, finding that no one else seemed inclined to speak; "you see," clearing his throat and addressing the drovers, "this lady was very pretty as a girl, and was the heir to property -- not large, but ample -- an' folks expected her to make a proper match. Love goes where it's sent, as old folks is in the habit of sayin', an' we was all distressed to have her take up with about as poor a kind of young fellow as there was. It takes everybody to know everything, but I tell ye he was so plumb full o' conceit an' ambition that poor Byfleet didn't give him no room to spread; he had to start for the great West, an' he engaged Abby Sands's affections previous to departin'. 'Twas right at the close o' war time but he was so nigh-sighted, an' occupied, anyway, that he couldn't 'list with the rest o' our young men."
"War done a good thing killin' off some o' that variety that looked better 'n they really was in soldier clothes," said cross-grained John Bean. "The Parkins boy'd offered to be a gineral if they'd took him at all."
"He struck for Arizona first," said the captain, who had been waiting to begin again. "An' [an'] Abby had some interestin' letters 'long at the first an' showed them 'round and read 'em to the folks an' thought there never was no travels like 'em, but all of a sudden they stopped. Abby got thin and peaked-lookin', and seen trouble from that time. Her father was a shipmaster, and died at sea early, before ever her beau come about, then her mother was taken away, an' you never see nobody take on as she did. Pore girl, spent a sight o' time an' money writin' letters and sending despatches to find where Parkins was, and at last after some time she give up that the young man must be dead. Nobody never knowed nothin' more about him" --
"I've heard it hinted round that Mis' Sands felt so about him that she took good care of some o' them letters that never come," said John Dimmock, mysteriously.
"In the beginnin' of their acquaintance she was certain opposed to Abby's marryin' o' him. She was a good woman, but always a-frettin' an' harpin'; one o' those that keeps gittin' up them nervous spells to skulk behind when they don't want to do things. She died at last, just as she was always expectin' to, but not so soon."
"Mis' Sands was a pretty girl when she was young, same as Abby," said the old captain, gallantly.
"Abby went to so far 's to set up a headstone for the young man; 'tain't customary if you've only got hearsay to rely on. She's got a headstone for him that cost her, when set, $67," said Mr. Bean. "Mis' Sands would feel pleased if she come back an' see it. Yes, I always heard it hinted she knew where them missin' letters went to. Some says that knows that she owned up to Abby she done it, before she died, an' that was why the girl strove so hard to find him."
"She always wears a lonesome look," said the captain, who had a tender heart. "Folks say he done well as long as she heard from him, he was minin' an' operatin' in wild lands."
"I've sort o' forgot about him, I'm sure," said the landlord, yawning. "Well, she has the comfort o' her gardin; that's wuth somethin' and she's got property herself, 'stead of lettin' him flutter it all away."
"Yes, she's got her flower-garding," said the captain, who was in no hurry to go home. "Her youth's gone an' all her hopes, but they do say she was reasonably certain, from a letter she had, that he was killed by the Indians; he was right out there among the wildest kinds. There was a good many things that made it hard. `There, what shall I do, what shall I do?' she kept sayin' to herself. It had been somethin' like a missing ship, you never quite give 'em up; and afterwards folks couldn't seem to say honest none of them consolin' things about him, such as she'd have like to hear. He was likely to be wuthless, and everybody know'd she was better off. Sassy-lookin' he certain was, but sometimes that means pluck an' ambition, and they turn out smart men. You can't tell about young, foolish boys, but she's been a-plantin' flowers onto his grave now for most this thirty years."
The rain was falling heavily; old John Dimmock had suddenly succumbed to sleep and even the captain himself was drowsy and looked about for his hat. One of the drovers was far gone to the land of dreams after a long day of traffic and travel, but he awoke now with a loud gasp. The other stranger, who had risen hastily, had trodden upon his outstretched foot.
"What be you a doin'?" shouted the drover. "Who be you anyway, stompin' on a person's foot like that?"
The stranger came back from the door with slow steps, and stood in the middle of the barroom, under the hanging-lamp. "Since you ask that p'inted question by accident, I don't know but some o' these other gentlemen'd like to hear it answered. My name's Parkins, and I've heard plenty of truth to-night, an' some lies, an' I'm going over now, thirty years too late, to see Miss Abby Sands. You can tell anybody that asks you, that she's lived lonely all her days, an' so have I, through the fault of other folks. I was drove to the end o' the earth by 'em, but, thank the Lord I've got back, an' I've got money enough to make her happy and give her all the gardins she wants."
He seized his hat and disappeared, and the tavern company made haste to follow him down the street. It had all along seemed like a dull evening until then. There was a bright light in Abby Sands's sitting-room, and the door was already shut upon a scene of joy that no other eyes had any right to look upon or share. Timothy Hall had come with the rest of the men, bare-headed, and they all stood before the house, speechless, in the rain.
"Mis' Fitch'll be waitin' for me, there's the 9 o'clock bell," said the old captain at last, from force of habit. "I hope there wan't no fool there with Abby, come in to pass the evening. I don't know what the rest of you may have thought, but he seemed to me like a good deal of a man."
"I never see him a'fore to-day," said the drover. "We fell into some talk in the cars, and he was inquirin' about folks in Byfleet. I never should have took him for a drover."
It was late that night when the stranger came back again down the silent street. The rain had stopped and the young moon was shining in the sky.
"Told in a Tavern" first appeared in various newspapers, including the New York World (April 15, 1894) p. 25, and the Philadelphia Press (April 15, 1894). It was collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
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Byfleet: Jewett uses this town name in "The Flight of Bestsy Lane," in A Native of Winby (1893).
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Vh1's 'Pop Up Video' is back, and Taylor Swift's 'Our Song' has now gotten the pop up treatment. Viewers get a little more than the normal facts and quirky trivia that the program is known for with this episode. The television show breaks down one side of a band member's unceremonious exit from the band.
Included in the cuter pop up bubbles is that it took "a really long time" to straighten Swift's hair, and Swift requested a look similar to Carrie Bradshaw's from 'Sex in the City.' She'd just watched a 'SITC' marathon, so costume designers came up with the purple dress that is very "Carrie." The rhinestone guitar was director Trey Fanjoy's idea. He told the stylist to glue them on, one-by-one. While shooting, a rhinestone would fall off and everyone would get on hands and knees to find it for re-gluing.
It's never entirely clear who the producers of 'Pop Up Video' talk to, but somebody shared some dirt about Swift and Emily Poe, her close friend and fiddle player. The official story is that she left the band in 2008 to pursue law school, but the video explains that she was allegedly fired without being given a reason. "Taylor never talked to her again," a bubble pops.
Multiple Taylor Swift fan sites remain clueless as to why Poe parted ways with Swift, but at least one suggests Swift tried to save her job but couldn't. It's believed that the song 'Breathe' from 2008's 'Fearless' album could be about Poe.
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Police are reportedly considering increasing the number of blood samples taken from two to three in light of the embarrassing bungle with Justice Jeff Shaw's lost blood sample.
Opposition police spokesman Andrew Tink said he would support the move, but questioned why Justice Shaw's blood sample was the only one to go missing from the 20,000 taken from drivers in NSW each year.
The matter of the missing sample is being investigated by the Police Integrity Commission (PIC).
"It is before the PIC and I think it is an important thing [increasing the number of samples] for them to look at," Mr Tink said.
"But it's got to be seen against the background that there are 20,000 of these tests done every year and this is the one test of 20,000 where there has been a problem.
"So I am not sure it is really the system that is the problem but that is something for the PIC to look at.
"The taking of these samples is very important and we can't afford any mistakes. One mistake in 20,000 is one too many so any improvement has got to be carefully considered by them."
A spokeswoman for NSW Police Minister John Watkins said it would be inappropriate for him to comment while the inquiry into the incident was being conducted by the PIC.
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"The minister is not going to comment on it until that investigation has concluded."
Up until the 1980s, police required three samples from drivers.
But the installation of secure storage boxes in hospitals - which only police can open - dropped the number of samples to two.
Currently, one sample is placed in the secure box for analysis while the other is given to the driver in case they require it for their defence.
Justice Shaw yesterday bowed to public pressure and agreed to give police his half of the sample taken after he crashed his car on October 13.
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The NSW Deputy Police Commissioner, Dave Madden, today didn't rule out bringing back the old three sample system.
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Mathematician Clifford Stoll has turned his attention to the most popular method of pizza consumption and concluded that it is "remarkable".
Stoll reports that pizza prefers a Gaussian curvature despite being partially flat and having no natural curvatures. Humans correct this by folding the slice in half lengthwise using mathematician Carl Gauss's "theorem egregium" or "remarkable theorem." This improves the slice's rigidity and makes it easier to eat.
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History of Halloween
The Word on Hallows Eve
The word Halloween comes from the phrase All Hallows Eve. It is the evening before the Catholic Church holiday on November 1st known as, All Hallows Day, All Saints Day, All Souls Day, or All Hallowmas Day. In Old English, Hallow means sanctify. In the past on November 1st, Catholics honored all saints while Romans prayed for the dead
honored saints. Halloween, the night before this, has many different customs and origins attached to its history.
Perhaps the oldest recordings of a celebration on Halloween are that of a druidic fire festival called Samhain. This was celebrated by the Celts (people who now live in Great Britain and Northern France), in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. It meant the closing of a harvest and the beginning of winter. After the Romans conquered most of that territory, they combined two of their own festivals with the traditional Celtic ritual of Samhain. The first Roman festival was called Feralia. This was a day in late October set aside to commemorate the passing of the dead. The second Roman festival was to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of the harvest or fruit and trees. Her symbol was the apple, which could be the reason we bob for apples on Halloween.
Trick or Treat for Prayers?
As with the history of Halloween, there are many different ways the act of trick or treating came about. One is from the 19th century custom called souling. This means Christians would walk from town to town on Halloween night, begging for soul cakes. The soul cakes were actually square pieces of bread made with currants. The more soul cakes people received, the more prayers they had to say for the dead family members of the donors. During this time, people believed the dead remained in limbo for a while after death. They also thought that prayer, even by strangers, could speed up a souls passage to heaven.
There was another recording of the handing out of souls cakes, this time to
citizens. It was also in exchange for prayers for the familys dead relatives. The church encouraged this as a way to replace the practice of leaving food and wine on doorsteps for roaming spirits.
Europeans and Celts believed that to avoid the spirits, they should wear masks when they left their homes. The Celts also believed that on Halloween, the disembodied spirits of everyone who had died that past year, would come back to search for bodies to possess. So the people put out all their fires and disguised themselves with masks and costumes and marched around town trying to ward off the spirits.
Today, families can avoid having tricks played on them if they give the kids who wander door-to-door, Halloween treats.
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Eventually, the customs of European immigrants combined with American and American Indian customs. Although annual autumnal festivals were common, the very first American Halloween celebrations were called play parties. At these public events people celebrated the harvest, shared stories of the dead, told each others fortunes, danced, sang, and told ghost stories. During the second half of the 19th century, a new flood of millions of immigrants fleeing the Ireland potato famine of 1846 came to America. This created the meshing of Irish and English Halloween traditions, and people began dressing up in costumes and going house to house for visits. In the 1800s there was a push to make Halloween more of a community-based event, and anything scary and gross was forbidden. In the 20th century, because of the 1950s baby boom, there were a lot of children. Vandalism increased during the celebration of Halloween.
Traditions or Trade-Offs?
As told before, the idea of bobbing for apples could have come from the Roman goddess of the harvest and her scared fruit of apples.
The name witch comes from the Saxon Wicca meaning wise one. A sacred ointment was rubbed on the skin of the which, to give them a feeling of flying.
The use of Jack-O-Lanterns perhaps comes from when children used to carve out potatoes or turnips and light them for Halloween gatherings. The name Jack most likely comes from a story of Jack the Irish Villain. It was about a man rejected by good and evil, who wandered the world forever looking for a place to rest. His only warmth came from a small candle in a rotten potato. With the Irish potato famine from 1845-50, almost 700,000 people immigrated to the Americas. They brought with them the Jack-O-Lantern tradition but turnips were scarce. The pumpkin became a good replacement because there were a lot of them around.
Masks were worn to scare off demons and evil spirits and to keep people from being recognized.
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I have changed my thoughts on fast marathons and will focus on multiples. Next year I will look to faster times.
So, this year, so far I have done 2 and will add:
Toronto Waterfront Marathon - Sept 28
Toronto International Marathon - Oct 19
Hamilton Marathon OR NYC Marathon - Nov 2
Las Vegas Marathon - Dec 2 (Depending on travel funds)
Toronto has that many Marathons that close together?
My cousin's on assignment in Sarnia, so I had talked about the possibility of going up there. Unfortunately, this year wouldn't a good time to venture far from home--White Rock is unlikely unless I get a pass and/or the company pays me to be down in Dallas already.
Yup, and many HM options as well.
The Hamilton is an old one that has been revived. The Waterfront and International ones compete against each other. they never should have allowed the 2nd one to start up (Waterfront) It has diluted them to a point there is no real 'big' event here.
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Horizontal projection of the aircraft flight track on a latitude-longitude grid, April 10-11,1992.
The portion of the flight path over the Beaufort Sea consisted of three segments, starting with a vertical profile 220 km upwind, northeast of BRW, followed by a low-level traverse on a north-south heading to sample the plumes from the Prudhoe Bay region. The third leg consisted of a cross-wind traverse to the north of BRW at the top of the planetary boundary layer. The profile began with a westerly segment from 1942 to 1952Z, to provide a clear view of the sun for turbidity measurements. The aircraft descended at an average rate of about 200 m min-1 (16 mb min-1). At 2022Z, the aircraft conducted a second westerly segment for turbidity measurements. The descent was continued at 2033Z, reaching the lower sampling level of 1015 mb (0.15 km) at 2057Z. A third radiation segment was flown from 2107 to 2119Z.
The second portion of the flight consisted of a level segment along 150°W from 72°N to 70°N, at 150 m altitude, and back to 71°N, at 330 m altitude (991 mb). This segment started at 2119Z, reaching the southernmost point at 2202Z and ending at 2224Z. From 71°N, l50°W the aircraft took a heading of 290 to sample a cross section of air upwind of BRW. At 156.61°W, the longitude of BRW, the WP-3D passed about 13 km to the north of the station. The first half of this segment was flown at a height of 150 m (1018 mb), the second part at 90 m (1029 mb). At l59°W (2330Z) the aircraft turned toward the east and began a gradual climb to a maximum altitude of 9.5 km. (0040Z), after which the airplane began a gradual descent into Anchorage via Fairbanks. The WP-3D landed at 0242Z.
3.3 Synoptic Situation
Two days preceding this flight, the 500 mb flow over northern Alaska was determined by a ridge over the Bering Sea and eastern Siberia, with a 516 decameters closed high off the southwest coast, and a small low north of BRW at 75°N. During the next 36 hours the ridge intensified over eastern Siberia and the East Siberian Sea while the closed central portion moved to a position over the Aleutians at 53°N. The low drifted slowly to the southeast to a position over the Beaufort Sea north of Barter Island. With the high forecast to continue to increase inintensity, and the low forecast to move slowly to the south, the synoptic conditions were favorable for trans-Arctic transport for the first time in a week.
At the time of the analysis, the low was located over north central Alaska, with a central height of 511 decameters. The ridge to the west has split into two segments, a dominant center over central Siberia and a weaker high center south of the Aleutians. A minor ridge over the Beaufort Sea followed the low as it moved to the south.
Anchorage was reporting easterly winds at 5 m s-1 and overcast skies, consisting of altostratus clouds with tops below the 500 mb level, at takeoff. Also, according to the flight log, the undercast extended to just south of Fairbanks, where at 1800Z scattered clouds were reported. Skies were generally clear aloft in this region. Approaching the Brooks Range the lowlevel cloudiness increased to an undercast, and scattered high cirrus was encountered at flight altitude. At the time the WP-3D passed to the west of Prudhoe Bay, Deadhorse was reporting a cirrus overcast with northeasterly winds of 1-2 m s-1. No obstruction to visibility was indicated. One hour later while the aircraft passed Barrow, the observatory there was measuring a wind of 8 m s-1 from the north. The observer was reporting scattered clouds, and no obstruction to visibility was indicated.
8.1 Objective
The seventh flight in the series was dedicated to aerosol and gas sampling in the Barrow region and to providing a comparison of measurements with those from a Russian aircraft sampling the Siberian Arctic at the same time. A secondary interest was in sampling the plume from a large Palynya, to the west of BRW.
The WP-3D took off from Anchorage at 1742Z and climbed to a cruising altitude of 6.1 km (466mb). This altitude was maintained from 1800Z, at 62.18°N, 149.62°W, to 1934Z, at 68.92°N, 153.28°W. The aircraft followed the same track as in previous flights as far as Fairbanks, after which it turned toward Barrow. By 1929Z the aircraft had climbed to 6.3 km (427 mb) and remained at this altitude until the beginning of the descent profile. The slow descent began at 2021Z at 71.45°N, 158.90°W, and concluded at 2223Z, 71.21°N, 157.63°W, and at an altitude of 16 m (1018 mb). Level segments of 10-15 min duration were interspersed in the sounding at 3.0 km (702 mb), 1.5 km (848 mb), and 0.15 km (999 mb). At the conclusion of the sounding the aircraft was about 34 km west of Barrow. For the next 40 minutes the WP-3D conducted along- and cross-wind sampling segments at 16 m. A brief sounding from the surface to 5.9 km was begun at 2304Z, at 71.19°N, 157.60°W, after which at 2358Z, at 71.93°N, 165.90°W, the WP-3D descended to an altitude of 0.1 km to rendezvous with the Russian plane.
Horizontal projection of the aircraft flight track on a latitude-longitude grid, April 21-22, 1992.
Following the sounding, the aircraft turned to the south and then southeast to return to Anchorage. The ascent to cruise altitude began at 0004Z, at 72.25°N, 165.92°W. Cruise altitude of 7.6 km (375 mb) was attained after only 14 minutes, a climb rate of 0.5 km min-1 (45 mb min-1). After 18 minutes at 7.6 km the aircraft climbed to 9.5 km (286 mb). The aircraft maintained this altitude from 0055Z, at 71.06°N, 156.53°W, to 0138Z, at 68.06°N, 154.02°W. After a brief climb to 10.1 km (261 mb), and a 14 min segment at that level, the aircraft began the descent to Anchorage at 0204Z (66.18°N 152.77°N). The aircraft landed at about 0329Z.
8.3 Synoptic Situation
The dominant synoptic features at 500 mb at the time of this flight were a highpressure ridge over the Bering Sea and an accompanying low-pressure region over the Gulf of Alaska. The ridge had developed as a result of a sign)ficant low to the west. This low was the remnant of the low at 60°N, 150°W at the time of the preceding flight. The central pressure of the low was now 526 decameters at that time. The remnant of the high pressure ridge that was over northern Alaska during the preceding flight had become a weak high with a central height of 536 decameters. As a result of the decrease in the height gradient over the state, the steady southeasterly geostrophic gradient present during the preceding two flights was gone. Winds at 500 mb were generally light and variable.
At the surface, low pressure centered to the south and east of Anchorage, in alignment with the low at 500 mb, continued to advect low-level moisture into southern Alaska. This low and a secondary low in western Canada coupled with a large high-pressure cell in the vicinity of the pole resulted in a northeasterly geostrophic flow over most of the state. A minor trough was analyzed in the BRW region at the time of the flight. Barrow was reporting light snow with winds from the southeast at 3 m s-l.
Overcast and broken sky conditions were reported at Anchorage and Fairbanks at 1800Z. While some regions between Fairbanks and the Brooks Range were reporting clear or broken cloud conditions, the region north of the Brooks Range had extensive cloud cover.


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I really would recommend disconnecting the drives and using a LiveCD or some other
form of readonly bootdisk.
On 2 occasions now I've found that physdiskwrite does not like the Intel Matrix
RAID Storage adapter in my system. It does show you the disks in your system in
the correct manner, but when you select the disk to write to, it will write to the
wrong physical disk. (leaving me with a broken Windows installation)
This happend when using a Transcend flash drive on an IDE channel. I never had
issues with CF cards and I've never used USB disks.
It could have mistyped two times, but I doubt it. Can anyone confirm this ?
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:15:36 -0500, Michael Brown wrote
> I've used phydiskwrite.exe a lot. Just check the volume
> name/information and compare it to what phydiskwrite shows. When you
> start the program it will ask you which disk to write to with names and
> everything so you are sure. I have tried to overwrite the c: drive with
> it, it won't let you if that's the drive you booted with.
> Cheers!
> Michael
> David Burgess wrote:
> >
> > I haven't used physdiskwrite in a while, but when I used it it asked
> > me at some point before writing which disk I wanted to write to, and
> > if memory serves me, I had the feeling I was passing the point of safe
> > return when I actually hadn't.
> >
> > To answer your question, I guess the only way to be totally sure not
> > to overwrite your hard disk is to disconnect it and boot your computer
> > from a live CD or some such thing.
> >
> > But I'm sure somebody here has used physdiskwrite more recently than I
> > and could brief you on the order of things when you do run it. I'm not
> > currently running windows so I'm not much help.
> >


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Bedrooms available for rent in brand new home This brand new property is positioned in the Victory Heights Estate and is ideal for the respected, tidy and employed individual. The lowset house is air-conditioned throughout living areas. All living areas come fully furnished including the alfresco area located off the dining room and is situated in the fully fenced yard. The house also has a dishwasher and washing machine. The home will be professionally cleaned once per week. Available - 1 x $150 per week bedroom includes- • Built in robe (1465mm) • Ceiling fan • Full access to all of the above • Garden/lawn maintenance • Water and electricity • Professional cleaner weekly 1 x $165 per week bedroom includes- • Built in robe (1465mm) • Ceiling fan • Full access to all of the above • Garden/lawn maintenance • Water and electricity • Professional cleaner weekly • King single bed with all linens and bedside table EVERYTHING IS INCLUDED – only bedroom furniture required for bedroom listing valued at $150 Requirements for application to be considered • Must be able to supply photo identification • Must be able to provide 4 recent payslips or employment contract • Must be able to provide minimum of 2 previous landlord references House Rules • No smoking, or drugs • No pets Terms and Conditions • Bond required is $540.00, prior to receiving keys to property • Costs of electricity will be reviewed, upon receiving first power bill Please contact Shantelle Elliott directly for further details and provide phone number in email Thanks
Very clean & tidy 9 year old. Not into the party lifestyle. I have 2 cats & 1 outside puppy. Can provide on temporary fencing for puppy. All well behaved animals. Have been renting for 6 months, but due to unforeseen circumstances can no longer continue living here.
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Fully furnished air conditioned granny flat away from main house on 10 acres only 1 km from Pomona center, Looking for a good tenant to rent the flat as well be responsible to feed my 2 dogs ( male ridge back and female Bull mastiff both great dogs with good temperament) daily while i work away 30 days 30 days home , Prefer middle aged Single Professional, Must be responsible and love dogs , respectful of my property, no party animals need apply Flat is available after 10th Aug for $150 per week including power - water - internet and phone
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The Story of the Cathédrale St-Julien, Le Mans
The chapel on the far right of the soaring Gothic east end (built 1220 - 1254) of the Cathédrale St-Julien is called the Lady or Chevet Chapel. On its ceiling are frescos painted in the mid-1300s and portraying 47 "Musician Angels" of outstanding beauty and outstandingly restored. The chapel also has some beautiful stained glass windows.
Link to Photos from the Lady Chapel
The Gothic east end of the Cathédrale (built 1220 - 1254) is just as spectacular from the inside - the fact that this photo was taken from the middle of the choir gives some idea of how big the structure is. The Lady Chapel entrance can be seen behind the cross on the main altar.
North ambulatory - the tomb of Plantagenêt founder Geoffrey, Count of Anjou (1113 - 1151 (38)), is rumoured to be around here somewhere, but none of the "locals" knew where, and the place is a guidebook and signage free zone.
By contrast with the east end, the nave (dedicated April 25, 1120) is very classic Romanesque.
The nave would have been completed by Bishop Hildebert de Lavardin in time for the 1128 wedding of Geoffrey Plantagenêt, Count of Anjou, to widowed Empress Matilda (1102 - 1167 (65)), daughter of Henry I of England. Geoffrey and Matilda's son, the future Henry II, First Plantagenet King of England (1133-1154-1189 (56)), was also carried down this nave to be baptized.
Lucifer and hoofed devil assistant try and drag down the final judgement balance held by the Archangel Michael and capture another soul for hell (window location unremembered).
The Magi visit with Mary and Son in the Birth of Jesus window in the north nave wall.
The Nativity
The Annunciation
West Window
The cathedral also has a renowned south portal (though not quite so renowned as the portal (singular sic) of Chartres as claimed in one guidebook). We cannot comment as it was scaffolded and screened off in 2007.
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Hi. This has been bugging me since I started using XBMC (about two weeks ago). Any new video I add to my library will not play audio. My other movies are fine. The video containers are the same, the audio is the same as well. I typically convert whatever video I get (if it's too large), using Handbrake. I use the standard aTV2 format option. Even if I don't convert the video, I experience the same problem.
tried restarting - unsuccessful
tried changing settings - unsuccessful
verified the other videos that existed before installing XBMC
played the new videos on both my MacBook and my PC - works
tried every possible configuration for audio settings on the aTV2 and XBMC
Here is the xbmc.log file.
aTV 2 5.0 (4099)
XBMC 11.0-3 installed using FireCore
Video formats are .m4v or .mp4
Audio is either AAC or DTS
Any help that anyone can provide would be fantastic.
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