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The Hudson: The latest from entrepreneur Ian Schrager, developer of the several boutique hotels in New York, Los Angeles and Miami, is aiming for cheap chic, with rooms starting at $95. Located at 356 W. 58th St. in a 1928-vintage structure built by a daughter of J.P. Morgan and most recently used as a TV studio, it has 1,000 rooms, decorated in Philippe Starck minimalism. Opened Tuesday. Telephone (212) 554-6000.
The Muse: Billed as "a concierge-style, boutique hotel ... in the heart of Times Square," this 19-story, 200-room lodging was converted from the former 1913 Leavitt Building, 130 W. 46th St. It opened Aug. 31, but as of last month about 10 percent of its rooms, plus the restaurant, bar and fitness center, were still unfinished. Rates begin at $355. Tel. (212) 485-2400.
Off-season Turkey offers airfare savings
Istanbul is about as far north as New York, so travelers should figure the weather is about the same for this fall-winter tour of Turkey.
It being off-season, the rate is $995 per person for the 10-day excursion, which offers airfare from New York, four-star lodgings, daily breakfast and dinner, guide and bus. Participants will visit Cappadocia, site of the vast network of residential caves carved out centuries ago; Pamukkale and its mineral-water springs; Konya, the much fought-over city where 13th-Century mystic poet Mevlana Celaddin-i-Rumi inspired the Mevlevi Order (the Whirling Dervishes); the Greek and Roman centers of Ephesus and Aphrodisias, and Istanbul.
Departure dates are Nov. 12, Dec. 3, Feb. 25 and March 25. Call Tursem Tours of New York, 800-223-9169.
Visit Venezuela for 8-day eco-trek
Canaima, in southern Venezuela, is one of the world's largest national parks and possessed of a phantasmagoric aura with jungles, savannahs, mesas, waterfalls and flora and fauna seen nowhere else. An eight-day trek through its western region is available from Angel-Eco Tours of Brooklyn.
The group eight to 20 persons gathers at Margarita Island, and then is flown on Day 2 to Uruyen, at Auyan Tepui, a massive mesa from which plummet the 3,212-foot Angel Falls (the world's highest). From there, the group hikes through the jungle to the Pemon Indian village of Kavac, then rides the Churun River in dugout canoes to Devil's Canyon and on to Angel Falls. The finale is walking along a passage behind Frog Falls near the Canaima Lagoon and then flying back to Margarita.
The tariff is $1,499 per venturer, covering meals, seven nights' lodging (mostly camps with hammocks) and local transport. Airfare to Venezuela is extra. Departure dates are Nov. 3 and 17 and Dec. 1. Call 888-475-0873.
Switzerland gets Golden Arch hotels
It sounds like a fast-food fan's dream come true: The world's first two Golden Arch hotels are scheduled to open next spring in Switzerland. The Golden Arch Zurich Airport and the Golden Arch Lully A-1, whose names reflect their locations (the latter along a new stretch of highway), will naturally adjoin Mickey D's eateries. But other details except that the hotels will "embrace McDonald's policy of providing top value for the price" are still being kept mum for competitive reasons, according to Sacha Wigdorovits, spokesman for the Swiss project.
Switzerland is home to 115 of the world's 26,000 McDonald's food outlets, including several unusual ones: a party train and two excursion buses.
So are Golden Arch hotels likely to spread beyond the innovative alpine nation? "This was an initiative taken by our Swiss joint-venture partner," said corporate spokesman Brad Trask. "In some ways it is just another strategy to get a McDonald's on this property it's a site strategy, or a real-estate strategy. In order to get McDonald's restaurants in certain locations there has to be this all-in-one concept. McDonald's is not in the hotel business nor do we have plans to be."
Learn evacuation, refund policies
Hurricanes might disrupt Florida or Caribbean vacations anytime in the coming months, so travelers headed for these areas should know the refund and evacuation policy of their airline/cruise line/resort and consider their own protection options.
One major insurance provider, Travel Guard International, has established Sto rmGuard a toll-free, around-the-clock consumer hotline (800-826-1300) and dedicated area on its Web site (www.travelguard .com) to answer questions regarding insurance coverage for trips canceled or interrupted due to severe weather as well as to detail how travelers can protect their vacation investments.
The Web site also features hurricane preparedness tips from the American Red Cross and offers up-to-the-minute information via links to major weather and hurricane Web sites.
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Outside Options, Ownership and Incentives Revisited
Paper number: 99/10
Paper date: March 1999
Year: 1999
Paper Category: Discussion Paper
David de Meza
London School of Economics and University of Exeter
Ben Lockwood
University of Warwick and CEPR
Previous work on the property rights theory of the firm suggests that in the presence of outside options, ownership may be counter productive in motivating managers. This paper shows that this conclusion depends on the assumption that a manager's outside option only depends on her own investments. In many cases, an owner has the right to continue with a project even if the team breaks up. The efforts of non owners to enhance productivity may then be devalued, but are typically not wholly lost on the project. This weakens the bargaining power of the non owner, considerably enlarging the circumstances under which outside options are consistent with ownership motivating. In addition, our analysis identifies the possibility that when the right agent owns not only do they put more effort into the enterprise, so does everyone else.
JEL Classification Nos: D23, C78
Keywords: Property rights, outside options, inside options, incentives
Corresponding Author: David de Meza, School of Business and Economics, University of Exeter, Streatham Court, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4PU, UK, tel: (44) 1392 264485, fax (44) 1392 263242, email: firstname.lastname@example.com

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LONDON -- A brash British reality show star whose ups and downs captivated the nation is approaching her death the same way she has lived -- on television.
Given just months to live from cervical cancer that spread to her liver and bowels, 27-year-old Jade Goody sees no reason to turn the cameras off now.
Her first foray into the spotlight was in 2002, when she lost at strip poker on "Big Brother." She later went on to write her autobiography, star in fitness videos, release a perfume and appear on "Celebrity Big Brother."
She went to India last summer to star in its version of reality TV. It was there -- in a shocking diagnosis captured on television -- she found out about her cancer.
Bald and gaunt from chemotherapy, pictures of Goody have been daily fodder in the British press since her cancer treatment failed recently. She says the publicity and profits made from selling her story will help her 4- and 5-year old sons and raise awareness of cervical cancer.
On Thursday, a television show will air her reaction to her terminal prognosis. On Sunday, they will capture her wedding to 21-year-old boyfriend, Jack Tweed. The ceremony will be aired on cable television, and the photographs printed in OK! magazine. It's believed that she will have earned as much as $1.4 million for her appearances in the past few weeks.
Her actual death is not expected to be televised or photographed.
De Niro, Morrison first guests for Fallon's show
NEW YORK -- If Jimmy Fallon is nervous about the premiere of his new gig as "Late Night" host, he'll have show-biz heavyweights Robert De Niro and Van Morrison to lean on.
They'll be the guests for Fallon's March 2 debut hosting the NBC late-night show.
Fallon replaces Conan O'Brien, who has his final show Friday before heading out west to take over the "Tonight" show in June.
NBC says Tina Fey, Jon Bon Jovi, Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Donald Trump and Serena Williams are among other guests scheduled for Fallon's first week on "Late Night."
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Saudi Arabia is set to take the lead in regional infrastructure investment and construction spending. Over the next 15 years, the MENA construction sector will be a key beneficiary of the implementation of structural reforms to raise productivity of the nonoil sector and the economy\'s potential output, according to a new medium term outlook BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research Report "GCC 2020: Time to Shift Gears." "Due to many years of underinvestment, we expect Saudi Arabia to take the lead in terms of construction spending in the MENA region as the Kingdom responds positively to pressing social needs such as labor, housing and education," said Philip Southwell, Bank of America Merrill Lynch president and country executive, Middle East and North Africa. The MENA infrastructure and construction market is among the world\'s most attractive given its sheer size, according to the report. Forecasting figures predict a total of $ 4.3 trillion will be invested in construction projects across the MENA region by 2020, representing an increase of almost 80 percent from today\'s spend in the sector. To put these projections in a broader context, the region is expected to account for 12 percent of the global emerging markets and 4.4 percent of the world construction markets within the next decade. Saudi Arabia is expected to continue leading the way. Although MENA contract awards have been somewhat disappointing for the period January to May 2012, declining by 41 percent from a year earlier, the main reasons for this decline can be primarily attributed to delays in awarding petrochemicals projects in Egypt and delays in awarding construction and infrastructure contracts in the UAE, Kuwait and Iraq. "The construction and infrastructure sub-sectors in Saudi Arabia, however, remain strong, growing by 177 percent over the same period, and currently accounting for 46 percent of the 2012-2013 MENA project pipeline totaling $ 448 billion," said Merrill Lynch Kingdom of Saudi Arabia CEO Mutashar Murshed. "It is a trend we expect to continue," Southwell said. "With its young and expanding population, Saudi Arabia should remain the most buoyant market, in line with its overall economic development plan. Furthermore, the recent approval of the mortgage law should help to drive growth in residential construction in response to the current housing shortage." BofA Merrill Lynch report said Saudi banks seem best placed among GCC peers to produce loan growth and improved ROEs. Saudi Arabia should be able to maintain a similar pace of growth compared to the previous seven years at around 14 percent CAGR playing on both the consumer as well as infrastructure themes noted earlier in the report. A long-term normalization of interest rates from historical lows will support their ROEs given their franchise deposit base. The remaining GCC banking systems will be more of a play on the infrastructure theme given their greater skew toward corporate lending while ROEs are unlikely to materially change. With credit to GDP averaging 58 percent within EM countries credit penetration is not enticingly low within most of the GCC even after accounting for the higher per capita income. However, looking more closely Saudi Arabia and Oman stand out as having more room for growth. "We expect the two countries along with Qatar (which is preparing for the World Cup 2022) to produce 14 percent CAGR growth in lending between now and 2020. Beyond 2020, Saudi Arabia is likely to have further room to grow especially on the mortgage lending side," BofA Merrill Lynch said in its report. One example of structural improvements in credit penetration is mortgage lending in Saudi Arabia. Home finance loans currently stand at 1.4 percent of GDP, 12 percent of retail loans and 4 percent of total loans. They averaged CAGR of 25 percent 2003 to 2011and current pace is 7 percent QoQ and 31 percent YoY in March 2012. The government has recently passed the countries first mortgage law which will allow banks to provide longer duration loans backed by the underlying asset. "We expect growth to accelerate to 38 percent CAGR in 2011-14 with penetration around 4.5 percent of GDP by 2016E. The legal reform is driven by the government\'s need to alleviate housing shortage and strong population growth," BofA Merrill Lynch said. From arabnews
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"This is not the Karen Robards that I know and love"
Very unrealistic. I am not into ghosts and that was all this book had to offer.
Very unrealistic
Please, no.
I love all her books and usually can't wait to download them but this one I could have passed on.
"Sexy Southern drawl, or Honey Boo-Boo?"
I can't honestly say whether the story was awful, or simply rendered almost unlistenable by the choice of a narrator who sounds almost like a little girl. It's frankly a little creepy to hear a sex scene read by someone so young, I'd want to see some ID before letting her see some of those words in print.
If you can tune-out the age issue, there remains a serious flaw in the narrator's interpretation of the key male character. He's described as having a sexy, smooth-as-honey Southern drawl. Unfortunately, the voice Lee gives him is a lot more backwoods than Rhett Butler.
Too bad. The story delivers an intriguing premise, with the psychic-medium heroine torn between a nice live guy and a life signs-challenged bad boy. I'm a little curious to know how it will play out in the series, but not enough to listen to more of this miscast production. If I can't resist the sequel, I'll be reading it in paperback.
"In love with a Seriel Killer (Ghost)"
It is ok Not sure I believe that this woman would be in love with a Ghost and think twice about a flesh and blood good guy. Just hard to believe
No not really. A ghost as a pretector maybe. Not sure I want a ghost as a lover. Especially not one that had been on death row.
She was fine.
"Should be rated the minus 5 stars it deserves"
If you value your credits, and love a good thriller, don't waste them on this. In this book, a "trained psychologist" who also sees spirits begins to flirt and become sexually aroused by a vicious dead serial killer's ghost.
This has nothing to do with real psychic phenomena. The "visions" of the dead serial killer aren't eerie or remotely believable, but just idiotic. He keeps getting sexier to her, with added "glistening muscle", and even a new suntan! He uses lame come-ons such as "you're so hot, baby", and she finally gets annoyed because he comes on to her in the shower. Although aroused by him, she feels guilty when she chases him away with incense, and it ticks him off. The reader sounds like she can't believe she is reading this junk either. I just want my credit back.
This is the worse book I have ever listened to. I have listened to and read other books by this author and enjoyed them, I JUST DON"T GET THIS AT ALL I'm more than 1/2 way through and keep asking myself WHY?Listen to something you enjoy . I have bought other books that I have not enjoyed this is the first one that I have written a review on
I can not find fault with the narrator she could only read what wwas written baaaad
"Im confused.. the point of story WAS?"
WOW... I do not know.. this story kind of through me off..
NO .. I love Karen Robards.. she one of my favorites..and always will be...i hope there will be a second part to this story...
narrator was great.. it was just the point of the story..
maybe less killings..
Karen Robards still great and hope there will be a second part to this story book..
"I should have heeded the warning!"
I think this was Karen's last one for me it was that bad. There are no words to describe haw bad this one sucked!
The narration was good but that was it.
"Somewhat Different"
The characters were well developed, as usual.
This one is somewhat different than her usual stories. I don't want to give anything away but the ending didn't finalize the story for me ... series?
I wasn't as 'invovled' in this book as I have been in previous ones.
"Very Interesting Situation"
The premise is very interesting, the whole "I see dead people thing". It definitely is a blessing and a curse. That was the enjoyable part of this production. I have enjoyed many Karen Robards books. The choice of narrators was not the best for this one. The overdone whispered exacerbation of thoughts, the projected enunciation...it gets old. Just use a normal tone!
Julia Whelan was my favorite and would have done a much better job with this series.


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Cleveland Browns fans from around the world are uniting today.
Many of them have high hopes that the team will pick players that will turn the team around.
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#DraftDay - Wonder how the @browns will mess up this draft. Will they draft the 100th QB in 10 yrs? Or another top pick that fails in CLE.— Jeffrey Depp (@jeffreydepp) May 8, 2014
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#Browns fans have been let down for years on #DraftDay but we still continue to get more excited than anyone else. #Loyalty#NFLDraft— Patrick Kalista (@PatrickKalista) May 8, 2014
#DraftDay. Jesus, please grant us Sammy Watkins and deliver us from Johnny Football. Amen. @Browns— Jimmy McLoud (@jimmymcloud) May 8, 2014
Both ESPN mock drafts have the Browns getting Watkins %26 Bridgewater. I'm 1000% ok with that. #Believeland#DraftDay#CantWait— David G. Heiser (@davidheiser) May 8, 2014
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We introduce a new model of aggregate information cascades where only one of two possible actions is observable to others. Agents make a binary decision in sequence. The order is random and agents are not aware of their own position in the sequence. When called upon, they are only informed about the total number of others who have chosen the observable action before them. This informational structure arises naturally in many applications. Our most important result is that only one type of cascade arises in equilibrium, the aggregate cascade on the observable action. A cascade on the unobservable action never arises.
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Saints Row IV Banned in AUS.
Started by epicluca, Jun 25 2013 04:43 PM
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Posted 25 June 2013 - 05:00 PM
lol. lets wait was german USK will do with this game... they banned the normal version of all 3 previous Saints Row games...
got them from AT or UK...
got them from AT or UK...
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I've been experimenting with the addition of a share option in the next myCSC update. It would allow sending a quick email, text message, tweet or Facebook post that includes some default text, small chart image and URL link to selected chart. Would this be useful? What should the default text say other than the Chart Name? In my example screen shots below I used "Join me tonight at (Chart Name) for some observing!" but you can edit the message before sending. Thoughts?
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Fun idea! Could be great for astronomy clubs--they could send out an announcement with the chart letting people know it's going to be a great night. Or, even that the observing will focus on planets or faint fuzzier depending upon transparency and steadiness!
Posted 22 July 2014 - 03:54 PM
Thanks for the feedback Roger. I was struggling with the default text wording for the share message. I've decided to make it a user option in the iOS Settings app for myCSC. The variable {name} can be used to insert the actual chart name.


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OKLAHOMA CITY - The Pac 12's run of Women's College World Series championships has been interrupted.
Jackie Traina homered and threw a two-hitter, Kaila Hunt and Jazlyn Lunceford also connected and Alabama beat top-seeded California 5-2 on Sunday to reach the Women's College World Series finals for the first time.
The No. 2 seed Crimson Tide (58-7) will face No. 4 Oklahoma (53-8), which knocked off defending champion Arizona State 5-3 in the other semifinal. Both teams arrive on 11-game winning streaks.
The best-of-three championship series starting tonight marks the first time since 1986 that no Pac-12 teams made it to the finals. The conference had won six straight titles, 10 of the past 11 and 23 of 30 since the tournament started.
"There's athletes everywhere now - I mean everywhere - and if you find them, you're going to put together a good team," Alabama coach Patrick Murphy said.
The Big 12 will be going for its fourth NCAA title while Alabama will go for the Southeastern Conference's first.
Oklahoma is in the finals for the first time since winning its only national championship in 2000, when the title was decided with a single game.
Katie Norris homered, Keilani Ricketts struck out 13 and the Sooners struck for four runs in the third inning against Dallas Escobedo (24-8) to take control.
Ricketts hit an RBI single that tied it at 2 and Jessica Shults followed with a two-run double that nicked off right fielder Alix Johnson's glove as she tried for a diving grab. Shults then came in to score when third baseman Haley Steele lost Norris' potential inning-ending popup and let it fall.
"I just love the tenacity of this team, and to find a way to play for a national championship has been our ultimate dream," Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso said.
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Finger pointing
I can't believe the nerve of Germany in criticizing Canada for not wanting to pump money into a European bailout.
Whether Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty are right or wrong is beside the point. Germany itself has stood in the way of several proposals to aid the ailing euro zone, and has no right to point an accusing finger at anyone.
To recap, Canada has said repeatedly it will not put money into an International Monetary Fund effort to raise $430-billion (U.S.) that could be used to rescue its members, which in the modern era means the basket cases of the 17-member European monetary union. Other countries outside of Europe have pledged billions.
Germany's ambassador to Canada, Georg Witschel, is peeved about that, telling The Globe and Mail's Bill Curry this week the Canadian government must accept that the troubles in Europe threaten the global economy.
"We find it indeed somewhat irritating and somewhat disappointing that Canada is so adamantly refusing to help," the ambassador said. "A major problem in the euro zone would have major negative economic repercussions on Canada, so solidarity is needed. … We still hope that Canada would be ready to contribute more, like so many other partners."
Set aside the fact that Canada has its own troubles, notably a stubbornly high unemployment rate of 7.3 per cent, and is, like others, scrambling to cut its deficit.
Focus instead on the issues here.
Canada believes the troubled nations of Europe must work harder to find a solution. So does Germany. Canada believes there must be discipline. So does Germany.
What's irritating, to use Mr. Witschel's word, is the fact that he would dare point a finger when his Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has repeatedly rejected solutions that have been put forth.
She will not sign on to a proposal for a eurobond, and that may be understandable, given that such a measure would mean the weak countries could borrow on Germany's good name, while driving up its own borrowing costs. Nor will she sign on to a suggestion for a "banking union," which would spread the risk of failing banks throughout the group.
"This is still the only viable method of solving the crisis, but for some unfathomable reason the Germans aren't too keen on - as they must see it - throwing good money after bad," futures dealer Rupert Osborne of IG Index in London said recently, referring to the idea of the banking union.
"Unless they change their minds, this crisis is only going to end one way."
Mr. Osborne is not alone.
Kit Juckes, the chief of foreign exchange at Société Générale, did not cite Germany, but did point to the need for common action that Ms. Merkel has blocked.
"I fear that unless Europe's leaders accept the need for debt mutualization - i.e., issuing debt in common either through the front door (euro bonds) or back-door (with the help of the ECB) the euro won't survive," Mr. Juckes said recently. "But Europe's leaders are only going to react to crisis, not pre-empt it."
Germany has indeed been the paymaster throughout this affair, and I'm not saying Ms. Merkel is necessarily wrong in her approach.
What I am saying is that I find Mr. Witschel's comments somewhat irritating and somewhat disappointing.
- Harper's refusal to bail out Europe draws Germany's ire
- Spain: It's beginning to look a lot like ... Greece
- Spain may request EU bank aid
China cuts rates
Determined to promote stable economic growth as momentum slows, the People's Bank of China this week trimmed its key lending rate for the first time since 2008, by one-quarter of a percentage point.
The move sparked a temporary market rally - later doused by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, who failed to signal a new round of stimulus - highlighting the concern among investors over what has been the engine of global growth.
Despite the rate cut, Carolynne Wheeler reported from Beijing, authorities are stressing that China won't return to the stimulus-heavy days of the financial crisis.
"We anticipate more rate cuts ahead," said Qinwei Wang of Capital Economics in London. That said, the scale of the stimulus this year is likely to be smaller than in 2009 and should not lift price pressures much."
Barrick changes CEOs
Not at all happy with its share price, Barrick Gold Corp. made a key change at the top this week.
Out went chief executive officer Aaron Regent after not quite four years in the post, and in came Jamie Sokalsky, promoted from chief financial officer.
"We are fully committed to maximizing shareholder value, but have been disappointed with our share price performance," said Barrick founder Peter Munk.
Barrick made a bold move into the copper market last year with its $7.3-billion deal for Equinox Minerals Ltd., but the deal alienated many investors who saw it as an expensive departure from the company's focus on gold.
In the markets
What China giveth, Ben Bernanke taketh away.
The People's Bank of China put a spark in global markets Thursday, announcing a quarter-point cut in its benchmark lending rate. That lasted just about as long as it took the Federal Reserve chairman, in congressional testimony, to warn of global threats but hint at no new emergency measures.
Investors had been looking for a signal that the U.S. central bank was prepared to act again, but Mr. Bernanke gave nothing away in the run-up to the next Fed meeting.
"In contrast to the argument that additional Fed easing would spark reduced global market confidence because of Fed confirmation of challenges to the outlook, we're seeing that what equities are emphasizing is their addiction to Fed stimulus," Derek Holt and Dov Zigler said Friday as markets sank. "Don't provide it, and the risk trade sells off. "
Toronto's S&P/TSX composite index under-performed most of the world's major markets this week, gaining just 1.2 per cent, noted Robert Kavcic of BMO Nesbitt Burns.
"Canadian energy stocks also continue to languish, now down 20.4 per cent in the past year versus a more modest 11.4-per-cent decline for their U.S. counterparts," he said.
What to watch for next week
If there's anything that's a hot topic in Canada these days, it's the housing market.
So watch late next week when the Canadian Real Estate Association releases its report on resales for May. Economists at BMO Nesbitt Burns expect the report to show sales up 7 per cent from a year earlier, and prices up 3 per cent.
"Led especially by Toronto, the overall Canadian housing market looked to have remained buoyant in the key May sales season (often the busiest month of the year for home sales)," said deputy chief economist Douglas Porter.
"Early returns show that sales in Toronto rose a solid 11 per cent from year-ago levels, and that strength was reinforced by double-digit gains in Calgary (up 35 per cent), Ottawa and Victoria," he said in a research note.
"Where Toronto has been especially hot this year is prices, although the city saw somewhat cooler gains of 6.5 per cent last month. Similar to 2011, Vancouver is the distant outlier - it was incredibly strong last year, but ice cold this year, with sales down 15 per cent year over year and average transaction prices off almost 6 per cent year over year in May. The fade in Vancouver will restrain national sales gains to about 7 per cent year over year, and should keep Canada-wide price increases calm at 3 per cent year over year. While a growing cadre of pundits wait breathlessly for a Canadian housing crash, the market just keeps grinding ahead amid still exceptionally low borrowing costs"
Investors will also get a fresh reading on the state of Canada's factories, which have been chugging along.
Economists expect to see a another pickup in sales when Statistics Canada reports sales among manufacturers in April on Friday, though short of the healthy 1.9-per-cent gains of March.
Also on tap is a U.S. report Thursday on consumer prices in May, which could show the first decline in two years. Economists expect to see a monthly decline of 0.2 per cent and an annual inflation rate of 1.8 per cent.
"Consumer prices should fall for the first time in two years during May, fuelled by an abnormally large drop in gasoline prices (raw prices fell 4.3 per cent)," said senior economist Michael Gregory of BMO Nesbitt Burns. "Flagging the start of the traditional 'summer driving season,' gasoline prices tend to motor higher in May, which will magnify the impact of any seasonally unusual decline on the headline CPI."
Required Reading this week
Christine Day's mission to move beyond yoga pants to bikinis and bike shorts is raising questions about how far she can stretch Lululemon Athletica Inc.'s business without pinching profit margins too much, Marina Strauss writes.
Canada faces a potato shortage, mainly because of poor growing conditions last summer, Paul Waldie reports. That has sent wholesale prices for some spuds soaring and forced processors such as McCain Foods Ltd. to temporarily close some plants.
The Detroit Three auto makers have fired an early salvo at their Canadian work force, warning they are determined to hold the line on wages and other fixed costs in contract negotiations that begin next month, Greg Keenan reports.
In an age of austerity and heated competition, retailers are courting their premium customers like never before. Marina Strauss looks at the issue.
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Please sign Pat's Petition!
Pat Onions has submitted an e-petition to the government website. Pat is blind and Pat is also a carer. Pat is calling on the Government to stop and review the cuts to benefits and services for disabled people which are falling disproportionately on disabled people, their carers and families.
Please sign this petition! We need 100,000 signatures to generate a debate in Parliament!
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Update on Pat's Petition it has now reached 40,787 but has a long way to go to reach its target of 100,000. If you haven't signed yet please do so -http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/20968
Also for those interested Pat's Petition is getting together various groups to have a CIA-D Cumulative Impact Assessment for Disabilities, something the Government should have done before introducing all these changes but refuses to do -http://carerwatch.com/reform/?p=942
trying to get this 1 going as well as trying for pat
hi to both of you have been trying for pat people are hard work sometimes have e mailed labour party christ knows how many times they don't seem to have the balls to commit to anything this government won't be happy till they have ground everyone with under 1 million into the dust and it looks like people are going to let them
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Have signed the petition , have emailed mp about early day motion, just got to keep trying
Early day motion 295, please any interested ask MP to sign as this involves the Work Capability Assessment which BMA & some MP's now acknowledge finally is not fit for purpose, puts really sick.disabled on to fit for work & some even die before they finally get appeal through to say error, 6months up to a year later, they lose money as not fit for work, unable to look for such to qualify for work related benefit.
hi anonymous i told rose last night that was me finished with this site they don't seem to understand unsubscribe hence doing this but glad to be able to say goodbye to you so maybe meet you on another site
i am always on dwpexamination.org free speech for the disabled
People keep saying it divide & rule, well the divisions are deep now, shows it on here.
Sounds like a good idea. Can't be any worse than 38degrees
Rose, you know on Avaaz, they have a facebook page, worth posting some info on there would you think?
Even the Early day motion posts didn't rate much attention, maybe people did do the email MP's but diudn't tick liked, if so i malign some, yet MP's & doctors say it's wrong. It is a lost cause on here, re the members saying it is important, I've known that for a while, I wanted to rally people, not to be despondent, such a shame as it would have really helped get the truth out there & support if people knew the facts & given Pats e-petition a boost maybe. Truth is no one cares enough about the plight of a minority, not PEOPLE as they see it who have through no choice to rely on the state because they have more to contend with in life daily, carers have more too & trying to work, care & juggle makes pursuing careers if you can find one these days almost impossible hence the low pay of most. Others sick/disabled have no one, can't get jobs often if able & have no one to help them in families. What to do then people out there, you think of a way they can keep selves if too unwell/disabled to be reliable & hold down jobs. Many have paid into the system so far & still are denied help. Many families have never claimed a bean & work so are their family members not entitled to help. So this is what you want people no welfare state, So you will all have to earn & earn until you die & pay for the lot.yourselves even if you fall on hard times,& it does happen more than you think, even If you can of course get a really well paid job for all the Insurances you will need, if you don't get too sick, if you don't have an accident, don't get made redundant, if you partner doesn't get sick/get Alzheimers/cancer etc & you have to reduce hours, give up work. Have it your way people. Even people who go bankrupt, get in arrears with rent/mortgate fall on hard times. they are closing it down, choosing the easiest target first! Ps not intended for anyone who has supported this or any people affected by this. Probably won't get seen as no one takes any notice, but I feel a bit less frustrated. Also other anonomous thanks for DPAC links, been supporting them for a while. Maybe worth seeing if they could all combine as individual groups to form some sort of shared information site in the form of an Alliance. the Badger Trust & quite a few others do this, remain individual but pool ideas, campaigns when needed. Any thought anyone?
Hi Clifford whilst I cannot disagree with you about your feelings for 38 degrees I hope you will continue to support Pat's Petition and circulate the information on any forums you visit. Don't forget it has nearly 40,000 votes and with persistance we have to hope it will get to the 100,000 needed.
surposed to have a lot of members on 38 degrees been told close to a million 1 vote off all thats all pat needed the plain truth rose nobody is interested only a handful of us trying to drum up support for her lost my faith in people now only bothered when they want something or its happening to them no wonder this government laughs at us the rich stick together right or wrong we don't this is my last post all talk no action unless your a tree or a badger
Avaaz just started Pats Petition in the middle of April but you are right not a lot of votes compared to the main campaign, but it is perhaps not as widely publicized.
just been on avaaz 85 votes for pat onions how bad is that
anonymous are daughter developed cancer at the age of 22 with 2 infants on the floor along with me getting work injuries making me disabled then benefits treating us with contempt and distain my wife continued to shoulder all are problems and still go to work and i feel you will probably know how she felt better than me or daughter she showed nothing just kept going as it is now with them stopping my benefits she is literally working to pay the rent and food no profit for her labours so they don't care working or not if you are not upper class your fair game for bad treatment
Disabled People Against Cuts : www.dpac.uk.net/
Go now to get involved.
Also go to a website called : Disabled People Against Cuts.
This website has an article relating to Labour MP's and other MP's signing a letter to highlight the injustice of ATOS and what is happening generally. You will be invited to contact your local MP.
Well worth a look and now.
that may not be quite true as I fight strongly for the badgers, being brought up in the countryside, also for the trees & many other environmental issues. It just seems not everyone is open minded, cares & sees more than one or two issues as important, especially concerning fellow human beings! They are also brainwashed, indifferent, oblivious to others plight for many reasons. Having said that I posted on comments for winning! the woods issue recently re the importance of this issue as it is lives, peoples health & safety & people are dying, under immense stress & their carers too. I too have been feeling it's a waste of time, but I still think we have to give it a go, but we need more to do so with us that are members. People in general do need to wake up to this for selves/family & for what is right, it is people suffering & you are right, when my daughter was born a long while since I was thrown into a different life, returning to work in those days near impossible, her needs demanded me there 24/7. with the cuts now/changes the help for all is seriously in danger, not going to be there, locally either. I am getting older & worry for her, I am on my own after divorce so have to support self by working & help her, juggling both over the years has never been easy & I ended up in low paid work to do so & care, attend hospital etc. For now I
am reasonably fit but worry it may not last, then what happens, if I can't work, she will never be able to go out alone safely but her disabilities are hidden & if she gets put into looking for work, it just won't be able to happen & I'd have to manage totally. I will manage hopefully though we have no family to rely on, so many now are in awful situations already. It just should not be this way. They do need to vote, I had my life changed forever too, but love her to bits. There are also disabled children out there who will become disabled adults, what is the future for them too.
the advice centre dealing with my benefit appeal are starting a peoples union so i will be in that
and just so everyone knows i am disabled now because of work related injuries and have been treated with contempt and distain by the very system i payed so much tax and ni into and along the way have seen people with terrible disabilities being deemed fit for work so i know how cruel and i sided this attack on the old sick injured and disabled is i have worked all my life but i tell you people need to stop the welfare reforms by voting i did not think it would happen to me what a lesson i've had
its a shame pat is not a bloody badger or a tree everyone would be signing now just shows you peoples mentality not bothered until it happens to them see the team have been really quiet on this 1 as well
see anonymous its this attitude the goverment thrive on we are wasting are time with this lot mate and the few others who are trying with us people are there own worst enemies
pat is blind for gods sake those who don't help should be ashamed lost all my faith in people now


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Today's episode was another good one well I don't think it was as good as the last three but the end was a shocker that lifted the whole episode. The Episode starts off in with the Doctor , Rory and Pond being brought to a weird alien space hotel. The hotel I must say is very creepy but I think I just feel that way about anything that looks a bit 70's, there are some weird pictures on the wall off loads of different aliens that had stayed in the hotel and perished. This was cool because it showed a lot of my favorite aliens like the Sontaran's and the Jadoon who are tragically under used in the show. The Doctor, Rory and Pond then meet a another three guests of the hotel who weren't planning on being there. This group was made up of a sniveling obedient creature played by David Walliams a nurse and a geeky blog ( 😀 ) the group initially threaten the Doctor and the Pond's out of fear but the doctor calms them down and takes and instant shine to the nurse. They explain that there are scary things in every room and you will be drawn to a room which holds your greatest fear you wont know what to expect but when you see it you will know.
The new group show the Doctor and the Pond's to a fourth member of their group is possessed by some kind of monster that he wants to praise and be killed by. There are also some very creepy ventriloquist dolls which I really didn't like. The possessed man then gets free and is chased down by the Minotaur and get's the life sucked out of him. The Doctor establishes that the praising of the Minotaur is what allows him to drain you and the praising comes from fear. There are some great little lines from David Walliams playing Gibbis like "resistance is exhausting" I think he added a great touch of humor to the whole episode which ended up getting quite dark. The blogger then starts to "praise him" and becomes possessed. The group decides to not get scared and try to catch the Minotaur and manage to trap the beast in a room of mirrors and the doctor talks to him and finds out that the Minotaur doesn't want to kill these people but he's driven by instinct and can't help it. The Doctor thinks that he's made a break through but then Gibbis lets the blogger get free to go to his death because he is so cowardly. The Minotaur then breaks out of the room to get the blogger swatting Rory aside.
The Group then do their best not to enter the rooms that they are drawn to but Gibbis and Pond end up in a room with weeping angels which was cool for about 2 mins till the doctor comes in and notices that they are holograms and that nothing there seeing is real. You initially think the room is pond's but it turns out to be Gibbis's room and Ponds is still to come. The nurse and the doctor continue to get closer he describes her as magnificent and drops hints that he wants her to travel with him, and she tells him that she is a muslim and that doesn't fear hell and that will see her through whats going on; only making the doctor admire her more.
The nurse then gets drawn into her room which is her dad shouting at her calling her a disappointment she gets out but she's already started to praise the Minotaur. The Doctor has also found his room but you don't get to see whats in the room. The doctor seems interested in why Rory hasn't found a room yet and why the Minotaur just left him when it knocked Rory over. Rory drops hints that he's no longer happy traveling with the doctor after last weeks choice saying things like " after traveling with you whats there to be scared of anymore". The Nurse gets separated and invites the Minotaur to claim her and all the doctor can do is watch her as she except's her fate on the security system. The Doctor is furious with himself that he let the nurse die.
The Doctor notices that she is calm when she's "ripe" for the Minotaur and has figured out that it was here faith that allows the beast to feed and that he has been speeding up the process by telling to not be scared and hold on to what they believe in. That is why Rory was left alone because he doesn't believe in anything anymore but Pond's belief in the doctor makes her a target and as he explains pond starts to praise the Minotaur. The Minotaur starts to chase them to get to pond and they end up running into the doctor's room. There they find young Pond waiting at her window with her suitcase for the doctor to come back for her. The Doctor realizing that pond will die if she keeps believing in him tells her the "truth" that he's just a mad man in a box and he brought her along for the ride because she adored him and he needed that for his ego. This scene was really intense and really showed the guilt and self loathing that has always been an aspect of the Doctor's character since the series re birth that has bubbled under the surface but rarely shown itself like in this episode.
After the Doctor breaks Pond's confidence in him the Minotaur can't feed on her anymore and he dies. The Doctor comforts the beast as it dies, the beast describes himself as creature that has lived for many years and that is covered in the blood of the innocent, but then tells the doctor he was describing the Timelord. This to me is another indication that with impending death the doctor will look more deeply at what he's done in his lifetime and the series will get much darker like some of David Tennant's fantastic last episodes.
After they've dropped Gibbis off on the nearest galaxy the Doctor drops the ponds of at a
fancy house that he had got for them and gets Rory a fancy car ( the car from the first episode of season 6) . He then tells Pond that he's leaving them there to get on with there lives; Pond tries to convince him not to but she understands that the doctor doesn't want to be responsible for the death of her and Rory and accepts she must stay. It was all very sad the Ponds have been fantastic as the doctors companions but the doctor said he will see them again and i hope they end up back in the Tardis full time at some point.
This was a great episode that started off a bit slowly but finished strong this series will be spectacular I think !! Next week we see the return of James Corden as Craig and the Cybermen I can't wait its been far to long since we last saw them 🙂


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Howell Raines, veteran editor and correspondent for The New York Times, who served for 21 months as executive editor before losing his job in the wake of the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal, has retired to rural Pennsylvania to resume his two beloved pastimes–writing and fly-fishing, both of which he chronicles in a new book, The One That Got Away: A Memoir. Recently, he sat down with the Forbes.com Video Network for a conversation about the media, life and fly-fishing. The following is a transcript of that interview.
Forbes.com: What's your day like these days?
Raines: Well, as you know, I was hooked to the deadline of a daily newspaper for something like 40 years. My life is very different now. If I'm working on a book, I like to work from 8 a.m. to noon, or some four-hour window. If I'm finished with a project, my typical day now is my wife and I get up, make tea and coffee, sit overlooking the Pennsylvania mountains and read whatever comes to mind, and it is very seldom a newspaper or a newsmagazine–more typically novels, or, since I'm working on a Civil War novel, I read a lot of Civil War history these days.
The trout season has started. Aren't you up at dawn and out on the river?
Actually, my brother from Alabama, my older brother, comes up for a month every spring, so we took the entire month of April and fished every day that the weather and our aching bodies would allow.
Why would a man who can write such an extraordinary book and catch such extraordinary fish all over the world want to be executive editor of The New York Times?
It took me about 300 pages to understand that myself, and I hope one of the things that comes through here is that I have had two great loves in my life in terms of career. The first was I wanted to be a novelist, like many people who grew up in the era of Hemingway and Fitzgerald and Faulkner. And then I was exposed to newspapering at the age of 21, and I found the world of the newsroom absolutely magical. So I think I love newspapering with the second chamber of my heart, let us say, and I developed a really strong feeling about the role of the press in a democracy, which I think is central to our system and our society.
What this book is about in a sense is that in getting fired from The New York Times, I had the rarest opportunity that could come to a person late in middle life, and that is to go back and take the road not taken. I had some offers to go back into journalism. The Washington Post and the L.A. Times both generously invited me to talk with them about doing a column, and I decided I had done newspapering and that I would try to return to my original ambition of being a literary writer.
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What does fly-fishing do for you that running a daily newspaper doesn't?
I think all of the above, in a sense, and I liken it to other what I call nonessential passions that we have–golf, for example, horseback riding, neither of which are to my taste. But fly-fishing is, and I think I get from it what devotees of these other outdoor activities get: It is a way of being in emotional and physical contact with the natural world. And particularly those of us who have spent so much of our lives in cities, it is a deeply relaxing feeling.
So it gives you a feeling of equilibrium in a sense?
Yes, I think so.
So does that carry over to the rest of life? Into your dealings with your wife or friends or colleagues. Does it add a base inside you somewhere?
I hope so. It certainly has carried over into my marriage. My wife, Krystina, was not a fisherperson when we met, and she's become quite expert. And having been a fencer in high school, she turns out to have this natural hand-eye coordination, which is quite magical.
But one of the nice things about retirement–it's a working retirement, but I took to it like a duck to water. Because not only do I have time to read and write exactly what I want to, but I have time to be a husband, a fisherman, a doting grandfather and all those things that, by necessity when we're pursuing active careers, you have to squeeze down.
Do you remember the first fish you ever caught?
My brother says I don't because he says I started catching them at 3, but I definitely remember the 20 fish that changed my life. I caught a limit of crappies, or croppies as we call them down South, on the Tennessee River when I was age 7, playing hooky from school with my parents, and I was never fit for anything again.
It did shape your life?
How did it come to be such an important thing in my life? I think one thing is my father was an outdoorsman, both a hunter and a fisherman, and for a small boy to be taken into the world of men, and it was essentially a masculine world in those days, was very important. As it happened in my family also, my mother was an ardent fisherperson, so she and I fished quite a bit together when I was in high school and college. So initially it was a way of a family being together.
You mentioned your father. Some of the things about him in the book are quite moving. He was a businessman, but you said a life lived for business does not matter. Do you still believe there is a good reason for not being a businessman?
There is a transition in my life that is covered in the book. I grew up in a family business. My father and his two brothers started out as carpenters and became successful contractors, and I was around business all my life. I worked summers starting at age 15. I was in my 20s sometimes running construction crews. And I just had a feeling that business wouldn't fulfill what I wanted, and I think it's because I was early hooked on the writing thing.
That said, I did a very interesting thing for me. The Times sent me to Dartmouth to do one of those M.B.A. programs in a month, you know–I call it an M.B.A. in a nitroglycerin tablet. And I began reading economics and business news with quite a sophistication, frankly. And the other thing that happened: Because I was in an industry that clearly was in a business crisis, I came to feel very strongly that we needed to improve the Times in some specific ways in order to prolong its life as a viable business.
Do you think the time for the Times has passed? You look at the Times lately, it's under attack by Wall Street for its stock price and everything else. You devised a strategy, though, "which worked at the time we devised it," was one thing you said. Has it stopped working now?
I can't say that. And I want to say one reason I became passionate on this issue is that I think the Times is an irreplaceable national institution, and I want to see it prosper in every way. At the time that I was there, Arthur Sulzberger and I and a core group of executives had a strategy for trying to use the revenues, considerable revenues but time-limited revenues from the print paper, to move into digital and broadcast and other areas of publishing, and we were going to go international.
ThatÃs why Arthur bought the International Herald Tribune. That was the right strategy for that time. I assume these are serious, smart people there, but I haven't been in the inner sanctum in three years, so I hope and assume they have a good strategy. I don't think the one we had at that moment is right for this moment. You have to adjust.
Your attempt to evolve this newspaper seems to have come to a sort of stasis. Since you left, there have been none of the changes that occurred at the time you were there, or even when Abe Rosenthal was making his changes in the '70s. Does this paper still need a makeover of the kind you completed?
I think what you have to look at in a business sense in a newspaper of the traditional sort are two sets of numbers that I think are important. If your circulation has been basically flat for 20 or 25 years and your stock price has decreased by 50% in the last two or three years, I think youÃve got to look at those numbers and see what they mean. And I think they mean you have to make significant changes in the quality of what you do in order to drive circulation and eventually follow that circulation into other media outlets.
I don't want to say and I donÃt have the basis of saying that the Times is in a state of stasis, because frankly I don't read it every day any more. I follow the news situationally now. I read the Journal, I read the Financial Times, I read USA Today, which I think is a very interesting publication in its own way. And I read the Times sort of interchangeably. But I think I would have to follow the paper every day and every way to really make a sweeping judgment.
What about the economics of the media industry? When I started in the media industry, there were five TV stations in New York, there were six newspapers. Now there are three or three and a half, yet there is a plurality of media out there, all competing for an advertising pie that hasn't gotten that much bigger. Given these parameters, is it possible to produce a really quality newspaper anymore?
I think so. But I think that I come to the question from an interesting perspective. I started going to journalism seminars in the 1970s where the theme was always you're in an industry that won't be around in another ten years, and now I've retired and the horse is still running. So that is an overstatement.
But I think we're obviously in a watershed period for print journalism. And I think just from the outside, figuring out how to make money in this multifaceted environment is the real challenge the business sides are gong to take. Because the old advertising model seems to be falling apart in many ways, and I'm not sure we've seen the future yet.
Do you think there are constructive things being done by corporate America these days?
Yes, obviously. The business of America is business. One of the things I touch on in this book is I am very concerned about corporate influence, unrestrained corporate influence in government. For a very specific reason: The American corporation as it has developed is a marvelous mechanism for what it's designed to do, which is to make money. It is not, in my judgment, a marvelous mechanism for setting social policy. And I think the balance in Washington right now is out of kilter.
What would it take to get back into kilter, and what should it get back into kilter? Is the media the mechanism that can help it get back into kilter?
I doubt it, at this moment. I think this changes at different times. I think earlier in my career the media on the issues like civil rights, war and the environment was the critical factor. Right now, I think we need two parties that are smarter and better in a variety of ways. Reagan must be spinning in his grave when he sees these deficits. By the same token, the Democrats seem to me to be very flat right now. I think what we need as a nation is another leader on Reagan's scale.
Do you think the media the way it is structured now is speaking to the young generation, under the age of 30? Is the American establishment, is the media establishment, speaking to people under the age of 30 who are more interested in watching TRL on MTV?
You have touched on one of my favorite things when I was still in the business, which was that what we needed was a younger readership. When people pass 35 or 40, you're going to get them with articles about the Social Security trust fund. But when they're under 35, you have to speak the language of style, culture, entertainment, and there's been a kind of snobbery I think at the Times and other places built around the wrong ideas that you can't really have highly intellectual writing and reporting about popular subjects. And I just simply disagree about that. To me, for example, the rise of the rap music industry was one of the most important business stories of the last decade of my time in newspapering.
Was it covered adequately by the Times?
I don't think so. And I don't fault anyone but myself perhaps for that. But what I thought was interesting and what I think we began to come to grips with–the story of rap music was not two guys shooting one another in the street and insulting each other's mothers. The story of rap music was Sony and other multinational entertainment corporations trying to adapt to a new audience environment. And that was the story.
They did because they could take the words and music of rap music and put it on discs or on TV. But the Times has a certain tone that's the same from the beginning of Section A all the way to the end. So how do you have that rap music tone in one section of the paper and not have it permeate into other sections of the paper, destroying that overall tone?
That's not quite what I mean to be saying, David. A journalistic style as distinctive as the Times or let's say The Wall Street Journal, can be used, I think, to take on any subject matter, and it's not a case because youÃre writing about rap music you've changed your own language or your own style. That's not what I mean to be saying.
What I think is very important now for newspapers is a general rise in quality through the sections. I wish I thought there was this consistency of excellence through every section of the Times or any other paper. My mantra when I was there was, we need to make every section of the paper as good every day as our best sections, let's say our foreign report, on our best days. That's a tall order. It's an idealistic one, but that was the method for that moment to grow our circulation, I think.
You succeeded then. Are they succeeding now?
Well, I don't think I succeeded then, driving the circulation very much in 21 months. I'm very proud of the fact that in the 21 months I was there, the work published by the Times won nine Pulitzers, seven in one year, a record I'm very proud of. The Times won three Pulitzers this year, which means they had a very good year.
And you know I don't want to be in a position of being a lifelong commentator on The New York Times. I am talking about it more freely with you, frankly, because the sophistication of the environment here, I think there are important business and journalistic issues, but I have to tell you my real bottom line is, these are problems for the next generation of journalists and the news executives to figure out. I'm on a different journey now, and frankly it's a very pleasant one.
So what's next for Howell Raines?
IÃm under a two-book contract with Scribner, of which this is the first. The second is a Civil War novel, which I've been planning since my 20s, saving string, both in terms of folk tales from my native South and in terms of serious scholarly histories of the war. And reading other historical fiction like The Killer Angels or Gone With the Wind still holds up pretty well. I always in the back of my mind said I don't want to write this book until I'm writing my very best. And then at age 63 you're as good as you're going to get, so if you're going to climb that mountain, you'd better start up it.
So itÃs an intimidating project. I've heard the Civil War compared to elephants' attraction for American writers, or Moby Dick. It's a big subject. After that I want to write a book about the civil rights era in the South. And frankly after that I'm thinking of writing a political novel set in Pennsylvania. Because my friend Jim Carville says in describing Pennsylvania politics–you've got Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and Alabama in between. So in a very unusual way, I've gone home again.
With your roots in Alabama, you feel at home in Pennsylvania?
There is a reason for that feeling of continuity, because the Scotch Irish came into Philadelphia. The Quakers had the notion they could make good farmers out of them. Once they got into Pennsylvania, they hit the Appalachian Trail and went all the way to Alabama. There is a cultural continuity in the Appalachian people that many know about. I was stunned to find out that Philadelphia was the major point of entry for Scotch Irish immigrants. And my family was one of those who had people in both [Civil War] armies.
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Two Richmond County Board of Education newcomers and an Augusta Commission challenger qualified for open seats before filing closed at noon Wednesday.
Business owner Lucien Williams and Augusta resident Christy R. Cunningham filed to run against 12-year incumbent school board member Marion Barnes for the District 1 seat.
Stan Hawes, the former Laney-Walker Neighborhood Association president who announced plans to run months ago and has campaign signs in yards around District 1, was the final commission candidate to qualify. He will face Commissioner Matt Aitken and former Augusta-Richmond County Coliseum Authority member Bill Fennoy, city water treatment operator Thelonious Jones and former Augusta Green Party Chairwoman Denice Traina.
The only other newcomer to the Board of Education race, Pq Corp. shipping manager Robert Cheek, qualified Monday to run against District 8 school board member Jimmy Atkins.
The remaining incumbents, Barbara Pulliam in District 4, Patsy Scott in District 5 and Helen Minchew in District 10, are unopposed.
Williams said he chose to run for the board to provide change and a fresh face to the education system in Augusta.
"(Barnes) was running with no opposition, and he's done a fine job ... but if you're running for a race you ought to have somebody to run against," Williams said. "I've been wanting to do something like this for a while."
Williams, 57, the owner of Tax Man of Augusta, said he would like to see improvements in the public school system. He had a son graduate from the Academy of Richmond County, but he said his other son received a better education from Augusta Preparatory Day School, which is something he'd like to see change.
"There's always room for improvement in Richmond County schools," Williams said.
For the Augusta Commission, District 5 incumbent Bill Lockett will be unopposed.
Qualifying earlier this week were commission candidates Mary Davis, Ed Enoch and Cleveland O'Steen in District 3, where Mayor Pro-Tem Joe Bowles is ineligible to run again; Kenneth Echols and Donnie Smith in District 7, where Jerry Brigham is term-limited; and Harold Jones and Marion Williams in Super District 9 to replace term-limited J.R. Hatney.


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Hello davidians,
It's a long time that I had in mind to scan a big and complex object. My question was: how accurate is David (working without panels)? Can I scan many pieces, from a big and articulated object, and marge all of them togheter, without problems or discrepancies?
Time ago I've proved to myself that David is great (precise enough), just scanning a little model of motorbike (with panles).
I've dismantle it and scanned the separated pieces. At the end, all the little props fit togheter perfectly, and I was able to rebuild the bike model into my 3D editing software. No problems.
Now: Ok, I haven't a real model of the Suzuki bike GSX 1300R, but I have (or better, I must to say I "had") an old Piaggio scooter, the "Sfera 50". The idea is to dismantel the scooter (is broke and stay sitted in my basement for many years) and scan all the separated pieces. For this purpose I need: a lot of time, 4-5 white spray bottles, David Laser Scanner without panles.
I've worked on it last Augost and a couple of week-end in September. Unfortunately I've no finish this project, till now, because my spare time is drastically reduce. I still need to scan some pieces. I hope to do the job soon as I can.
My initial thoughts were to open this thread only at the end of the whole work, but I'm scared to came too much later
And today I've read this post, so I'm encouraged to share my experience.
This is the Scooter:
During the dismantling:
All the pieces were coated and, if the surface was big and smooth, some markers were created on it for a better alignment:
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