The Trail is a 17km long redevelopment of the former Meon Valley Railway, from Wickham to West Meon. It provides an attractive traffic free route across the South Downs for cyclists, pedestrians and horse riders avoiding the A32.
It should be fully open late summer. The work is partly funded from the Department of Transport, 'Cycling in National Parks Grant', linking communities and supporting the sustainable tourism economy. The Meon Valley Trail was badly under used for many years. Mud often made cycling impossible.
Drainage and coppicing undertaken to dry out the site, along with the stone chipping surface should provide an improved base for all users. After 2 or 3 years the local biodiversity will improve to make an outing along the trail a memorable event.
Route safety will be better but several road accesses need improvement, also permitting the use of horse trotting is not consistent with children cycling safely and will discourage many users. The tree work will provide better visibility enabling far more users without increasing the risk of conflicts of interests between users.
Where similar developments have been undertaken user levels have increased but anti social behaviour has reduced. Overall the trail development is considered to be a very positive development. It's unfortunate that the publicity given by the Hampshire Chronicle and the BBC has been so negative and badly researched.
As a final thought a large proportion of cyclists would prefer the trail to have a sealed surface enabling all year round use that would help to improve the health and well being of a considerable proportion of users.
"Well it seems that giving away our bridleway rights is what is called 'Working with the Council' according to the BHS."
I don't think HCC can just upgrade the bridleway without the consent of the Secretary of State but they don't seem to think he counts for much.
As far as I can see they just do what they want.
The BHS ignore the law so they can 'work with the Council'. How disgraceful is that?
Not for nothing is Hampshire County Council's address known as The Castle, Westminster.
Should the authorities interfere with the surface, then it will have adopted it , this then makes them responsible for any/each mishap, the upgrading can be seen as it being adopted by both parties, and their liability.
Evidence that the access has been dedicated as a Bridlepath after the railway lines were removed meaning that somehow the council etc were/are aware of the type of dressing/surface was required for horse use, looking at the photo's sent there doesnt seem any impediment to other users, the question remains are the public "invited" to use the access or is it by choice? there is a difference.
The upgrading could act as an impediment to horse riders because of the type of road surface, if as is stated road stone is washed away or moved, through constant use, one might assume that Tarmacadam is the next choice of surface, this then could see an end to the bridle path because the surface can be dangerous, however, the surface is a bonding material which does include stone, the surface it is assured is a porous one, the only worry is the design because of the camber(tilt), therefore I would suggest that because of the tilt there is uncertainty of the surface drainage.
I would demand that someone from the council and National Parks makes a statement as to the safety of the upgrading and that any mishap will be fully compensated and to disclose the certificate to show public liability,not just for horses but all that access the land/bridlepath, the Parks have stated that the use by cycles will be monitored to prevent nuisance.
Having made contact with the Parks office I am sure that all information has not been disclosed for public consumption, also the public liability certificate must be disclosed on demand by the public, which, needs itemised and not as councils insurers say that we insure all council owned properties, that is rubbish, it is the cover for the works on Meon trail that is required to include the safety certificate.
We the undersigned are concerned about the urbanisation of a local beauty spot that has been enjoyed by the local community for generations. We wish it to be preserved for generations to come.


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World War Z (2013) - Marc Forster
Gerry Lane left his job as one of the United Nation's topinvestigators to be closer to his family. Father of two young girls, and loving husband, Gerry has settled in nicely being the homemaker of the family. When a global pandemic presents itself, crippling countries overnight, Gerry is called back into action to help save humanity from what can only be described as an impending Zombie apocalypse. Marc Forster's World War Z is the latest film to go through production problems which were made very public by the media. Fortunately, whatever problems were prevalent seem to have been either fixed or overblown, as World War Z is a fast-paced, thrilling blockbuster that succeeds far more than it fails. The film wastes no time throwing the viewer into the mayhem, getting to the outbreak within the first 10 minutes of the film. What I was most impressed with was how well the film handled the government response to the epidemic. While so many films pretend that our government would respond is a nonsensically humane way, World War Z captures the touch decisions and moral complications something this catastrophic would entail. The best example of this being how the military threatens to take Gerry Lane and his family back to the mainland if he doesnt help, saying "Everyone on this ship is vital to our survival and performs a valuable service". I could see some people having a problem with the CGI zombies, but they were well designed - moving like insects, consuming everything in their path. The film has a few painfully ex-positional moments and struggles a bit with the drama centered around getting Pitt back to his family but the biggest problem lies in its rating. While I totally understand the desire to make the film PG-13 for box office reasons, there are just far too many sequences that were noticeable altered via editing or framing to avoid the violence. World War Z is an enjoyable blockbuster thriller that is rather epic in scale, I just wish it could have been rated R.

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The mouth of the Tuiraeth was many miles behind, left to empty itself into the ugly and dead sea, and Brandyé Dui-Erâth was alone, and cold. Some way inland from the sea he had found meagre grass, and running water, and here he lived amongst the hard stone and moss. Ever restless, he wandered aimlessly along the coast, not wishing to look upon the dark waters, yet unwilling to lose sight of the coast for fear of becoming lost himself.
How he might become lost he knew not, however, for he knew not where he was. He was far from the Perneck and the last trace of what he had for all his life known as home, and was indeed as exiled as the Fortunaé could have desired. Comfort was nearly forgotten, now but a stray memory of firelight and tea and rich tales. His chin grew thick with bristles, though he knew it only by touch, for there were no mirrors to be found, nor even a pool of calm water.


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For U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District Deputy Commander Maj. Jordon Davis, the 2019 Black Engineer of the Year's (BEYA) Modern Day Technology Leader award has dual meanings.
"It validates everything I have done as an engineer and encourages me to go forward and continue to do great things for the Army and my family," Davis said.
Although he has received numerous military awards throughout his 13-year career, Davis said the BEYA award is the first national award he has received solely based upon his engineering achievements, which makes the award extra special from a professional perspective.
On a personal level, Davis said the award has even greater meaning because it is another first in a lifetime of firsts.
"I was the first in my family to graduate from college and to earn two graduate degrees," he said. "I do what I do for my daughters, my cousins and my nephews. If Jordon Davis can do it, then they can believe they can do it, too."
Davis' oldest daughter, who will graduate from high school in May, is an example of that as she will receive not only her high school diploma but her associate's degree when she walks across the stage.
"I do what I do for them, because I don't want a generation to be lost again," Davis said, explaining that his mother has a high school education and that growing up he didn't have many role models until he joined the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps as a freshman in high school.
"It taught me to: No. 1, be someone in life and No. 2, to be someone as a military officer in engineering," he said.
The engineering part came naturally to him as a child he was constantly taking things apart and putting them back together and he even taught himself how to fix his mother's dryer, Davis said.
As a leader in the Corps of Engineers with a vested interest in the Corps' future, Davis has a unique understanding of the challenges associated with recruiting and retaining young science, engineering, technology and math (STEM) professionals.
"We are great at developing talent, but we aren't great at hiring it," he said.
In order to remedy the situation, Davis said the New Orleans District is at all local and regional job fairs. Furthermore, the District has taken the initiative to sign memorandums of understanding with major engineering institutions like the University of New Orleans, Tulane University and Texas A&M University.
"Human resources is game of offense and retention," he said. "You have to reach out to the talent and you have to make them feel part of the team and create buy-in."
Every day is a training day, and an employee should be better at the end of Day 50 than they were on Day One, he said.
Additionally, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District's Thomas West, a geotechnical engineer, received a "Most Promising Engineer" award the Black Engineer of the Year award conference as well.


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Prosecutor: Father killed wife, two children before setting fire to Long Branch home and killing self
LONG BRANCH, N.J. (WABC) -- A father killed his wife and two children before setting fire to their Long Branch home and killing himself, prosecutors said Friday.
According to the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, the causes of death for a family of four found in the fire are still pending, but they had injuries that are consistent with gunshot wounds.
The victims were identified as Lyndon "Shane" Beharry, 35; Beharry's common-law wife Amanda Morris, 29; and their children, 7-year-old Brandon Beharry and 4-year-old Brian Beharry. The manners of death of Morris and the two children have been ruled a homicide. Lyndon Beharry's sole injury was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
"Lyndon 'Shane' Beharry's sole injury was determined to be a self-inflicted gun-shot wound," said the prosecutor in a news release.
The fire at the family's Long Branch home on Joline Avenue ignited in more than one spot, and it didn't appear to be accidental, said Marc LeMieux, first assistant Monmouth County prosecutor, on Wednesday.
Rescuers attempted to enter the house but were pushed back by the flames. "Police tried to get in but the house was fully involved," Long Branch Public Safety Director Jason Roebuck said.
When firefighters were able to get inside, the victims were "found in the same upstairs bedroom and they were struggling to survive," said Marc LeMieux, first assistant Monmouth County prosecutor.
They were taken to Monmouth Medical Center where they died.
Lyndon Beharry worked for the city's public works department. "He was an excellent mechanic and a very good-natured person," department director Fred Migliaccio told the Asbury Park Press.
The outside of the home showed little fire damage and all of it was confined to the second floor.
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Welcome to the monthly SFR Brigade's Amazon Tag Party. Please find the list of this week's participating titles below. All you need to do is click on the title and it will take you to the relevant Amazon page. Happy Tagging!
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My "First Look" post about Sharon Lynn Fisher's GHOST PLANET is live at Heroes and Heartbreakers!
The "First Look" feature is a way for bloggers to share an interesting tidbit about forthcoming books. GHOST PLANET sure gave me plenty to choose from, but I decided to zero in on the story's intriguing high concept premise. It kept me riveted, I tell you.
Students grades 5-12 are encouraged to become a scientist for a day with this essay contest about Saturn.
I grew up on comic books, devouring the adventures of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman like candy. There were a lot of heroes I loved to follow, from Green Arrow to the Avengers to the X-Men, all of them taking place in a world something like our own but just *that* bit different. And by different I mean twisted enough to allow the existence of superheroes.
When I started writing the first in the "Blaze of Glory" trilogy I wanted to show a reason why superheroes would exist and battle on an almost daily basis with the good guys always winning but never quite managing to keep the bad guys in jail. And the bad boys (and girls) always somehow escaping to fight another day while the good citizens continued to work around this nonstop destruction and fighting. It took a bit of time to figure out the reason but I got it - all the fights were fixed!
By the time I got to the third book in the trilogy, "Heroes Lost and Found" releasing October 2nd, I knew there had to be some sort of final end in sight for our intrepid team of supers who had managed to break their chains and earn their freedom from their captors - a resolution and, in a way, a new life ahead of them. Which brings us to the final fight, the final battle for Jo and Hunter as they figure out who they are, where they are going and how they're going to get there.
Jo Tanis is still recovering from her near-death experience in Las Vegas when she receives a mysterious postcard from Harris Limox, who claims to have a promising lead on the whereabouts of the Controller. Over her boyfriend/guardian Hunter's objections, she sets off to a sleepy Oregon town to ferret out the truth.
The Controller is more than just a disgruntled super. He's a rogue Guardian who was presumed dead and is now armed with a slew of high-tech hardware that not only makes him physically superior to the supers—and therefore almost impossible to destroy—he's got the ability to detonate the implants in the back of all supers' necks.
In Oregon, Jo meets a surviving Alpha super, Kit Masters, whose wild plan to capture the Controller could put an entire town of innocents at risk. But instead of successfully talking her former idol out of his disastrous bid to regain former glory, Jo finds herself betrayed and trapped in her worst nightmare.
Fight her former teammates, or die.
And who is, in the end, a superhero.
Heroes Lost and Found: 4 out of 5 stars "Brisk and playful, Nantus achieves the perfect balance between romance and explosive action..."
Heroes Without, Monsters Within: 4 out of 5 stars "This sequel … surpasses the storytelling of the original. Nantus knows how to work with setting; the scenes in Las Vegas are vivid and accurate while the supers' secret lair is homey and comfortable."
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© President and Fellows of Harvard College
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British (London, England 1828 - 1882 Birchington-on-Sea, England)
La Donna della Finestra
Alternate Title: The Lady of Pity
100.7 x 74 cm (39 5/8 x 29 1/8 in.)
framed: 137.2 x 111.1 x 9 cm (54 x 43 3/4 x 3 9/16 in.)
Signed: l.r.: D.G. Rossetti. 1879
exhibition label: back of canvas: Southport Centenary Exhibition, 1892, Lent by W. R. Moss, Burnthwaite, Heaton, near Bolton
label: back of canvas, printed and handwritten: [handwritten in black ink:] La Donna della Finestra / (from Dante's Vita Nuova) / [printed:] painted in oil / by / Dante Gabriel Rossetti / The copyright of this picture is the exclusive property of / the Artist
exhibition label: [no. 91, lent by Moss]
exhibition label: [lent by Moss]
label: Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, Liverpool and Manchester
inscription: lower edge of back, blue pencil: Product of England.
inscription: u.r., under surface of paint: Frame to cover this.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Created, 1879, Sold to Frederick S. Ellis, 1879.
Frederick Standridge Ellis, London, 1879, Sold at Christies?, 1885. Ellis paid £420 to Rossetti.
C.? Flower, Purchased at Christie's sale, 1885. The work was no. 91 in the sale, where Flower (per annotation) paid £535.10. The painting was sold as "property of a gentleman" (presumably Ellis).
W. R. Moss, Bolton, Lancashire, England.
Mrs. W. R. Moss, Bolton, England?, from her husband W. R. Moss, 1923, by descent?. Published in 1923 as belonging to Mrs. Moss.
Lieut. Col. W. E. Moss, Sonning-on-Thames, England, Sold at Sotheby's, London, 1937. Object was lot 39 and sold for £300.
Scott & Fowles, New York, Sold to Winthrop, 1938.
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Purchased from Scott & Fowles, 1938, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum, 1943. Winthrop paid $4000 + 2% NYC sales tax
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
Standard Reference Number
Surtees 255
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
European and American Art
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William Sharp, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Macmillan and Co. (London, England, 1882), pp. 116, 256-259, 263; chronology, no. 298
William M. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Designer and Writer, Cassell & Company, Ltd. (London, New York, 1889), pp. 107-109
Frederic George Stephens, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Seeley (London, England, 1894), pp. 74-75
Oliver G. Destrée, Les Pré-Raphaélites: Notes sur l'Art Decoratif (Brussels, Belgium, 1894), p. 90; chronology, no. 375
A. G. Temple, The Art of Painting in the Queen's Reign (London, England, 1897), p. 120
Henry Currie Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Illustrated Memorial of His Art and Life, George Bell & Sons (London, 1899), p. 197, no. 289, repr. opposite p. 196
Percy H. Bate, English Pre-Raphaelite Painters (London, England, 1899), repr. facing p. 46
Elisabeth Luther Cary, The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina, G. P. Putnam's Sons (London, England, 1900), p. 104; no. 188 in chronology
Ford Madox Hueffer, Rossetti: a critical essay on his art, Duckworth & Co. (London, England, 1902), p. 150
Henry Currie Marillier, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, an illustrated memorial of his art and life, George Bell and Sons, Ltd. (London, England, 1904), p. 139; repr. before p. 139 (cropped); no. 374 in chronology
Kirk Bryan, Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (London, England, 1904), vol. 4, no. 283-288
Jarno Jessen, Rossetti, Velhagen und Klassing (Bielefeld and Leipzig, Germany, 1905), p. 92; fig. 69
Henry Currie Marillier, Rossetti, George Bell and Sons, Ltd. (London, England, 1906), p. 94
Richard Muther, The History of Modern Painting, J. M. Dent & Co./E. P. Dutton & Co. (London, England and New York, NY, 1907), p. 166
Ernest Radford, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, G. Newnes Ltd. (London, England, 1908), pl. 53
Gabriel Mourey, D. -G. Rossetti et les Preraphaelites anglais, H. Laurens (Paris, France, 1909), p. 37
Chefs-d'oeuvre de D. G. Rossetti, A. Perche (Paris, France, 1912), repr. in b/w p. 60
Paget Toynbee, Chronological List with Notes of Paintings and Drawings from Dante by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Torino, 1912), no. 86
Masterpieces of D. G. Rossetti, Gowans & Gray, Ltd. (London, England, 1923), repr. in b/w p. 60
Evelyn Waugh, Rossetti, His Life and Works (London, England, 1928), pp. 211-212
Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 85, p. 93 ff
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Letters, ed. Oswald Doughty and John Robert Wahl, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1965-1967), pp. 1643-1644
Virginia Surtees, The Paintings and Drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882): A Catalogue Raisonné, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1971), no. 255, repr. as pl. 383
Marina Henderson, D. G. Rossetti, Academy Editions/St. Martin's Press (London, England and New York, NY, 1973), p. 93, text p. 92-93
John Bryson and Janet Camp Troxell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Jane Morris, Their Correspondence, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1976), repr. in b/w p. 101, no. 63; pp. xvi-xvii, 9 n. 13, 99, 100 n. 1, 103, 105, 107 n. 2, 117, 149, 175 n. 1; repr. in b/w as no. 63, p. 101
Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Casa Editrice G. C. Sansoni (Florence, Italy, 1984), no. 518, repr. p. 335
Corrado Gizzi, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, exh. cat., Mazzotta (Milan, 1984), pp. 201-202, repr.
Alicia Craig Faxon, "Dante Gabriel Rossetti and His Models", The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies (May 1985), vol. V, no. 2, pp. 54-67, repr. in b/w fig. 10
Theresa Byington, "A Technical Study of Five Oil Paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1987), Unpublished, passim
Susan P. Casteras, "Rossetti's Embowered Females in Art, or Love Enthroned and The Lamp's Shrine.", Nineteenth Century Studies (1988), vol. II, repr. in b/w fig. 16, p. 48; text p. 47, 49
"Read On", The Connoisseur (December 1989), repr. in color, p. 34
Alicia Craig Faxon, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1989), p. 197; repr. in color p. 26 as fig. 10, detail p. 27 as fig. 11
Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 81, color plate; pp. 128, 158, repr. b/w cat. no. 69
Tanita Hiroyuki, ed., Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan, 1992), repr. in color p. 19
Dominique Jarrassé, Les Préraphaélites, Herscher (Paris, France, 1995), p. 56, repr. in color p. 57
Stephen Wildman, Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England, exh. cat., Art Services International (Alexandria, VA, 1995), pp. 312-314
Susan P. Casteras, "Victorian Vignettes: Daniel Maclise's Scottish Lovers and Marie Spartali Stillman's 'La Pensierosa'", Bulletin/Biennial Report 1995-97, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Elvehjem Museum of Art (Madison, Wisconsin, 1998), p. 38, fig. 8, b&w repro.
Maria Teresa Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charta (Milan, 1998), no. 518, pl. 19, repr. p. 35
Mary Warner Blanchard, Oscar Wilde's America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1998), repr. in b/w fig. 120, p. 162
Jan Marsh, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet (London, 1999), pp. 503, 505, 510
Vanessa Muller, How Botticellian! (Munster, 2000), pp. 84-85, 91-94; repr. in color as Abb. 9
Debra N. Mancoff, Jane Morris: The Pre-Raphaelite Model of Beauty, Pomegranate (San Francisco, CA, 2000), pp. 77-78, repr. in color as plate 35
Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), pp. 196-197, cat. #57, color repr.
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), no. 190, pp. 423-424, repr. in color
Julian Treuherz and Elizabeth Prettejohn, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, exh. cat., Thames & Hudson (London, 2003), p. 92; under no. 144, repr. in color as fig. 121
Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 190, pp. 436-437, repr. in color
Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, 2003), p. 306
Gail S. Weinberg, "D. G. Rossetti's Ownership of Botticelli's 'Smeralda Brandini'", The Burlington Magazine (January 2004), vol. CXLVI, no. 1210, pp. 20-26, p. 26; fig. 20
Richard Wendorf, After Sir Joshua: Essays on British Art and Cultural History, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2005), pp. 85-86, repr. in color as fig. 23
Laurence Roussillon-Constanty, Meduse Au Miroir: Esthetique Romantique de Dante Gabriel Rossetti, ELLUG, Universite Stendhal (Grenoble, France, 2008), pp. 145, 148
Martina John, Rossettis Dante: Bild-Text-Relationen und Literaturrezeption bei Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Verlag Ludwig (Kiel, 2015), pp. 316-332, pl. 20
Stefan Weppelmann and Ruben Rebmann, ed., The Botticelli Renaissance, exh. cat., Gemäldegalerie Berlin (Berlin, 2015), pp. 41, 78, 221, repr. p. 77 as fig. 37
Mark Evans and Stefan Weppelmann, Botticelli Reimagined, exh. cat., V & A Publishing (London, 2016), pp. 41, 78, 221, repr. p. 77 as fig. 37
Melissa Buron, Truth & Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites and the Old Masters, exh. cat., Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (San Francisco, 2018), p. 129, fig. 41
Winter Exhibition: Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School, Including a Special Selection from the Works of John Linnell and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/01/1883 - 02/28/1883
Southport Centenary Exhibition, Municipal Gardens, Southport, 01/01/1892 - 12/31/1892
Pictures Ancient and Modern by Artists of the British and Continental Schools, including a Special Selection from the Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, New Gallery, London, 01/01/1897 - 12/31/1898
Art and Industrial Exhibition, Wolverhampton, 01/01/1902 - 12/31/1902
Loan Exhibition of Works by Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, 09/14/1911 - 11/30/1911
Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946
Pre-Raphaelite and Early French Symbolist Art in the Fogg Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/16/1973 - 02/25/1973
The Pre-Raphaelites: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/04/1980 - 07/15/1980
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Centennial Exhibition from the Harvard Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/12/1982 - 09/11/1982
Paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Technical Study, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/24/1987 - 09/18/1987
Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 09/14/2002 - 12/08/2002
A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004
Artist of original: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
X-radiograph(s) of "La Donna della Finestra"
This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Cindy Williams Extends Guest Starring Role In Menopause The Musical At Harrah's Las Vegas
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Due to popular demand, Cindy Williams will extend her run as a guest star in Menopause The Musical® at Harrah's Las Vegas. Originally scheduled to perform through Labor Day weekend, Williams has received such a positive audience response that show producers have asked her to continue performing through December 16, 2017.
Famed for her role as Shirley Feeney in the iconic television comedy Laverne & Shirley, Williams' second Vegas run marks the fifth time she has performed in Menopause The Musical®, having previously appeared in the Tampa, Fla., Laguna Beach, Calif., and New Haven, Conn. productions. The actress plays the role of the fifth girlfriend, joining current cast members Vita Corimbi or Kittra Coomer, Earth Mother; Jacquelyn Holland Wright, Soap Star; Lori Legacy, Iowa Housewife; and Lisa Mack, Professional Woman. Monica Heuser understudies all four roles.
In addition to guest starring in Menopause The Musical®, Williams has released her critically-acclaimed book, "Shirley, I Jest!: A Storied Life," which is now released in paperback, and she also recently filmed an episode of the popular television show, "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire."
"I am having the time of my life performing in Menopause The Musical!" said Williams. "I love this show, this incredibly talented cast and the audiences we get to perform for, and I look forward to calling Vegas home for another few months."
"The audience has spoken and they want more Cindy Williams!" added one of the show's producers, Kathi Glist. "It has been such a joy having Cindy in the show and we are so excited that she is extending her run through December."
Menopause The Musical® is the longest-running scripted musical in Las Vegas history and has played almost 5,000 performances in the city and just celebrated 11 years in Las Vegas. In "The Hilarious Celebration of Women and The Change," ® four women at a lingerie sale have nothing in common but a black lace bra AND memory loss, hot flashes, night sweats, not enough sex, too much sex and more! This joyful musical parody set to classic tunes from the '60s, '70s and '80s will have you cheering and dancing in the aisles! Join the sisterhood and see what 11 million women worldwide have been laughing about. Men love it, too! Since 2001, the show has partnered with Susan G. Komen® to raise funds to fight breast cancer.
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Nuclear power in the U.S. may be on the road to revival as the government is set to provide funding for the first new reactors in more than three decades. The Department of Energy is expected to announce today it will grant a $6.5 billion loan to build two nuclear reactors in Georgia, according to a Reuters report. Southern Co. has been negotiating with the Obama Administration for the past four years to secure a loan to build reactors at its Vogtle nuclear plant, which it co-owns with two other companies. A conditional agreement was struck in 2010 for $8.3 billion, but a $1.8 billion loan to co-owner Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia remains outstanding.
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Why the wealthy are heavily focused on real estate
Real estate averages 27 per cent of the investments of the ultra wealthy.
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With markets roiling in 2016 and commodities lingering in low-price limbo, the holdings of high-net-worth investors can serve as indicators of where the rest of us might consider parking our nest eggs. It turns out that a good chunk of wealthy peoples' investments is in real estate.
"Real estate is generally accepted as an alternative investment [by high-net-worth investors]," says Simon Jochlin, portfolio analytics associate at StennerZohny Investment Partners, part of Richardson GMP in Vancouver.
"It has the characteristics of an inflation hedge: yield, leverage and cap gains. It does well in upwardly trending markets, it pays you to wait during market corrections and typically it lags equities in market declines – it buys you time to assess the market."
While the definition of high net worth can be flexible, in Canada and the United States it is generally considered to be someone who has at least $1-million in investable assets.
Thane Stenner, StennerZohny's director of wealth management and portfolio manager, says a good way for determining what the wealthy do with their investments is to look at reports from Tiger 21, an ultra-high-net-worth peer-to-peer network for North American investors who have a minimum of $10-million to invest and want to manage their capital carefully.
Every quarter the network surveys its members, who number about 400 members across Canada and the United States. Some of the participants are billionaires, and most have a keen eye for business, Mr. Stenner says.
Though the Tiger 21's Asset Allocation Report for the fourth quarter of 2015 found that its members were becoming cautious about Canadian real estate, they still on average put 27 per cent of their investment into real estate, the largest portion of their allocations. The next largest were public equities (23 per cent) and private equity (22 per cent) with smaller percentages going to hedge funds, fixed income, commodities, foreign currencies, cash and miscellaneous investments.
The real estate portion declined by 1 percentage point from the previous quarter. "While this is the lowest we have seen this year, it is at the same level observed in the fourth quarter of last year, which consequently was the high of 2014," the report said.
"Real estate is very popular and one of the reasons, in my opinion, is that investors can actually see and touch their investment," says Darren Coleman, senior vice-president and portfolio manager at Raymond James Ltd. in Toronto.
In his experience, real-estate investors, wealthy or otherwise, seem to behave with more logic than those who focus on markets. "For example, if you own a rental condo, and the one across the hall goes on sale for 30 per cent less than you think it's worth, you wouldn't automatically put yours on the market and sell, too, because you think there is a problem. Indeed, you may actually buy the other condo," he says.
"And yet when a stock drops on the market, instead of thinking of buying more, most people automatically become fearful and think they should sell."
Real estate also allows for considerable leverage, Mr. Coleman adds: "Banks love to lend against it. Over time, this lets you own a property with a much smaller investment than if you had to buy all of it at once."
At the same time, Mr. Jochlin says there are disadvantages to real estate that investors should beware of. Property is not particularly liquid, so if you need to sell you could be stuck for a while.
"It's also sensitive to interest rates and risks from project development," he says. There are administrative and maintenance costs, and an investor who buys commercial rental property will be exposed to the ups and downs of the entire economy – look at Calgary's glut of unleased office space, for example.
"Timing is key. You do not want to chase the performance of a hot real estate market," Mr. Jochlin says.
"Buying at highs will significantly reduce your overall return on investment. You want to buy in very depressed markets at a discount. In other words, look toward relative multiples, as you would an equity."
As to how one goes about investing in real estate, Mr. Jochlin says it depends. The factors to consider include determining whether your investment objective is short- or longer-term, your liquidity requirements, your targeted return and whether you have any experience as a real estate manager.
"Sophisticated high-net-worth investors have a family office, and thus a specialist to manage their real estate assets," he says.
How the rich buy real estate
The wealthy don't necessarily buy and sell real estate the same way ordinary investors do, says Mr. Stenner. Ordinary people buy something and hope that when they sell it they'll get a better price. Meanwhile, they like to do things like live on the property or rent it out, whether it is residential or commercial. If it is vacant land they might build something. Not always so for high-net-worth (HNW) investors, Mr. Stenner says. While everyone who invests hopes their investment will rise, Mr. Stenner says that in real estate, HNW people tend to fall into four categories:
"The real estate developer is looking for substantial returns from individual/basket real estate projects, typically 30-50 per cent IRRs [internal rates of return]," Mr. Stenner says. Developers are highly experienced investors who often take big risks, looking at a raw, undeveloped property and envisioning what it could look like with, say, a shopping mall or office tower. This requires lots of access to capital and a strong stomach, as there can be huge delays and setbacks.
Income Investors
"These HNW investors typically look for a stable, secure yield, tax-preferred in nature and structure if possible, with modest capital growth potential," Mr. Stenner says. They take the same businesslike approach to property as the developer-types, but they're more conservative, focusing on cash flow and long-term profit as opposed to getting money out after a development is complete. Often they're building a legacy that they hope to pass down through generations. Mr. Stenner says lower net worth people can emulate income investors, for example, through REITs that are based on apartment buildings.
These HNW investors tend to look for more short-term higher risk, higher return "asymmetric" payoffs. Income from the investment or project is secondary — they're in it for the quick buck. Often they see real estate in contrarian terms – investments to look at when the market is low and to sell on the way up, rather than hold. After 2008, many HNW investors bought up depressed-price housing in the U.S. Sunbelt. The sizzling Vancouver and Toronto markets might be the opposite of what they're looking for right now; commercial property in the stagnant Canadian economy that can be purchased for low-trading loonies right now might be more interesting.
This refers to HNW investors who lend capital to developers or opportunistic investors, for a fixed return, plus as much asset coverage from the property as possible. They fund mortgages, invest in real estate financing pools or put money into companies involved in this type of investment. "Because wealthier investors tend to have more liquidity, this also creates more optionality to deploy capital in various ways, while using the real estate as collateral or protection," Mr. Stenner says.
Being a lender is a way to diversify. In addition, money lent in this way puts the lender high up in the creditor line if something goes wrong. If things go right, it generates income as the mortgage is paid back to the HNW investors or the funds they buy into.
Source:DAVID ISRAELSON SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL PUBLISHED FEBRUARY 18, 2016 UPDATED MAY 16, 2018
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Canada's Top 25 Best Places to Live in 2018
25. Whitby, Ont.
Rank in 2017: 103
Estimated Unemployment Rate: 5.7%
Average Household Net Worth: $817,453
Property Tax: 11.1%
Total Days Above 20°C: 100
Crime Rate Per 100,000:* 3,251
Family Doctors Per 100,000:* 81
See more stats about Whitby, Ont. here.
24. New Tecumseth, Ont.
See more stats about New Tecumseth, Ont. here.
23. Newmarket, Ont.
Rank in 2017: 56
See more stats about Newmarket, Ont. here.
22. Bonnyville No. 87, Alta.
Total Days Above 20°C: 86
See more stats about Bonnyville No. 87, Alta. here.
21. The Nation, Ont.
Family Doctors Per 100,000:* 142
See more stats about The Nation, Ont. here.
20. Whistler, B.C.
Average Household Net Worth: $1,460,422
Crime Rate Per 100,000:* 14,137
See more stats about Whistler, B.C. here.
19. St. Albert, Alta.
Rank in 2017: 7
See more stats about St. Albert, Alta. here.
18. King, Ont.
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17. Lévis, Que.
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16. Toronto, Ont.
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15. Fort St. John, B.C.
See more stats about Fort St. John, B.C. here.
14. Saugeen Shores, Ont.
See more stats about Saugeen Shores, Ont. here.
13. Mont-Royal, Que.
Property Tax: 1.4%
See more stats about Mont-Royal, Que. here.
12. Red Deer, Alta.
See more stats about Red Deer, Alta. here.
11. Camrose, Alta.
See more stats about Camrose, Alta. here.
10. Halton Hills, Ont.
See more stats about Halton Hills, Ont. here.
9. Saint-Lambert, Que.
See more stats about Saint-Lambert, Que. here.
8. Westmount, Que.
See more stats about Westmount, Que. here.
7. Canmore, Alta.
See more stats about Canmore, Alta. here.
6. Milton, Ont.
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5. Lacombe, Alta.
See more stats about Lacombe, Alta. here.
4. Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Que.
See more stats about Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Que. here.
3. Russell Township, Ont.
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2. Ottawa, Ont.
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1. Oakville, Ont.
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Source: Moneysense.ca – MoneySense staff Jul 31, 2018
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Here's a Look at Mississauga's Hottest Neighbourhoods
It's no secret that it's expensive to live in Mississauga. Recent data released by the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) indicates that, as of December 2017, detached houses were running buyers approximately $910,216 (up from the high 800s in November and down from the $1 million mark they hit in winter 2017).
And while the market could cool or stabilize in 2018 due to the Ontario government's Fair Housing Plan and the OSFI stress test (a test that some say could disqualify up to 10 per cent of prospective buyers from the market), the fact remains that Mississauga is a desirable city to call home—and therefore a costly one.
But while the city might contain housing that's (unfortunately) too costly for many residents (hence the city's affordable housing plan), it's still attracting buyers.
Zolo, a tech-powered brokerage company, has some interesting stats about the Mississauga market and what neighbourhoods are the most highly sought after.
The stats point out the obvious—home prices are, generally speaking, getting higher and higher every year. According to Zolo, the asking price of homes for sale in Mississauga has increased 11.09 per cent since January last year. Also, the number of homes for sale has increased 75.28 per cent.
According to Zolo's current data, the median asking price for a detached low-rise is $1.1 million. Other home types are also expensive, with sellers asking about $660,000 for a townhome and $429,000 for a condo
While those prices are indeed high, they're not terribly surprising. Bordering Canada's biggest and arguably most economically and culturally successful (sorry, Vancouver and Montreal) city, Mississauga has a lot to offer. Besides proximity to Toronto, Mississauga offers a low unemployment rate (nine per cent, according to Zolo) and a slew of ambitious development projects (the LRT and Inspiration Lakeview and Port Credit initiatives, to name a few).
As for now, the median listing price of a home (and this is all home types combined) sits at $585,000. The median selling price is only a little below asking at $570,000—so sellers are, on average, walking away with enviable profits.
In Mississauga, homes typically sell in less than a month (again, this is all home types combined).
And while homes are expensive, they're not Toronto expensive.
"There was a time when you could buy a house in Mississauga for just under $100,000. That's no longer the case," Zolo writes. "Still, buyers know there are good deals in this western GTA city, with most properties selling for significantly less than surrounding areas. But to grab a piece of Mississauga's real estate, you need to act fast.
So, which neighbourhoods are the best to invest in?
According to Zolo, the city's top five neighbourhoods are Streetsville (#1), Applewood (#2), City Centre (#3), Port Credit (#4) and Lakeview (#5).
As for why, the neighbourhoods—beyond being well-known—are hot, Zolo's data suggests the homes are selling quickly (25-36 per cent are selling within 10 days or less) and for more than asking price (11 to 17 per cent).
Another interesting fact is that, as of now (and this could change), Mississauga remains a city of homeowners.
According to Zolo's data, 25 per cent of residents rent while 75 per cent own their homes. While rental rates are increasing, the data suggests that—at this stage, least—renting is still cheaper than owning. According to Zolo, renters pay an average of $1,062 a month while homeowners pay about $1,519.
So while it's impossible to say where house prices will stand in 2018, it's hard to dispute the fact that Mississauga is—and will remain—a popular (and likely expensive) city to call home.
All images courtesy of Zolo
Source: Insauga – by Ashley Newport on January 10, 2018
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Canadian housing bear warns proposed mortgage rule changes may close the Bank of Mom and Dad
A former MP and popular finance blogger is warning a federal watchdog's proposed changes to the mortgage qualification process could have a dire impact on housing markets across Canada.
Garth Turner, whose Greater Fool blog has ruffled more than a few feathers, suggests a move to "stress test" all uninsured mortgages, rather than just insured mortgages with downpayments of less than 20 per cent, will curb demand considerably.
"It's been seven years since we've had consistently rising interest rates and we've never had this kind of stress test before," Turner tells BuzzBuzzNews.
"I just can't in honesty tell people, that 'Oh, you know, go to Cambridge or Montreal or Halifax or Edmonton for a bargain property because I think properties are going to be feeling a downward tug," he continues.
SEE ALSO: The Bank of Mom and Dad: the ways Toronto parents help theirs kids buy homes
Last month, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions published a draft of its reworked Guide B-20 — Residential Mortgage Underwriting Practices and Procedures, which included the broader stress test proposal.
By stress testing all mortgages, Turner suggests a large chunk of the prospective-homebuyer population will be pushed to the sidelines as they will no longer be able to finance their purchase, thus reducing demand and, ultimately, leading to outright price declines.
It's a regulatory change that Turner is convinced will take place before the end of the year.
"We all have the same mortgage rates coast to coast, we all have the same mortgage approval regulations coast to coast, so these are universal changes that are going to affect every buyer in Canada," Turner says.
Currently, a homebuyer can go to an alternative or sub-prime lender or even the Bank of Mom and Dad to borrow money to boost their downpayment to 20 per cent or more, avoiding any stress test. But the new regulations would close this loophole.
"Credit is going to be drying up somewhere between 17 and 20 per cent simply because of the stress test alone, and that's a pretty significant number of people to take out of the market," he adds.
"The only workaround is going to be the people who get mortgages from non-bank lenders," says Turner, citing provincially mandated credit unions as an example.
He refers to some credit unions as "time bombs," estimating a number of them have 90 per cent of their assets tied up in residential mortgages.
"Talk about risk: it's flashing red."
Source: BuzzBuzzHome.com – Josh Sherman Aug 22, 2017
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SOLD: Uptown Home Sold For $1 Million Over Asking!!!
With so many house selling way over asking in Toronto these days, the tendency is to declare the expression meaningless. The value of a home, so the argument goes, is better judged by what nearby properties have sold for.
That's mostly sound reasoning, but once in a while we get a bit of inside baseball from realtors about Toronto home sales, and this sheds some more insight on the wild prices that are being fetched of late.
This elegant and well equipped home at 375 Glencairn Avenue, for instance, just sold for $1,165,000 over asking after being on the market for seven days. During that period realtor André Kutyan of Harvey Kalles tells us that 165 people came through the home.
Of the army of potential buyers who toured the property, nine made offers, which drove the price way up from its listing at $3,595,000. Worthy of note is that the listing price mostly reflects the sale prices of other nearby homes sold over the last 30 days.
The sample size might be too small for this to prove a trustworthy metric (only five other homes sold within 1,500 metres during this period), but one thing's for sure: there was a ton of interest in this property.
Address: 375 Glencairn Ave.
Type: Detached house
Lot size: 50 x 219.66 feet
Realtor: André Kutyan
Hit the market at: $3,595,000
Time on market: 7 days
Sold for: $4,760,000
Why it sold for what it did
This house has a lot going for it. It's been recently renovated, the enormous basement features a wine cellar, games room, mini movie theatre, and sauna, multiple bedrooms feature en suite washrooms, and the finishes around the house are top of the line.
Was it worth it?
There are plenty of very nice homes in Lytton Park, but this one stands out when compared to recent listings. That alone was likely enough to start the bidding war that drove the price up into the ultra luxury range.
Lead photo by Realtor
Source: BlogTo.com
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How Does Toronto Compare
Source: Genworth Canada
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Canada's top-5 most expensive homes currently for sale
Affordability is a major issue for many Canadians, especially those trying to buy a home in major cities. However, these properties – currently for sale and curated by online real estate company Point2Homes — are in an a class of unaffordability entirely their own.
#1: $42,000,000 — 4351 Erwin Drive, West Vancouver, BC
This 7 bedroom mansion in Vancouver offers oceanfront views of Stanley Park. It also boasts 10,000 square feet and its own private beach.
#2: $38,000,000 — 2106 SW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC
This property offers views of the Gulf Islands, as well as its own private park and two golf greens on its 4.25 acres.
#3: $30,000,000 — 242004 Range Road 32, Calgary, AB
Making our way east, we find our first property outside beautiful British Columbia. Nestled in the mountains, this 160 acre property offers everything an outdoorsman – and woman – would want.
For those who prefer the indoors, the sprawling home contains a music conservatory (for the young, budding Beethoven, naturally), a two-storey library, and an indoor pool.
#4: $26,000,000 — 12133 No 3 Road, Richmond, BC
Unsurprisingly we're back in BC, which is home to this five bedroom Tuscan-like villa. While it may not have its own winery, it does offer ponds, gardens, a swimming pool, and a tennis court.
#5: $25,000,000 — 76,84,91 Trail's End, Lake Joseph, ON
This a dream-worthy cottage on Lake Joseph has its own bar.
But who needs a beer when you can crack a cold beer on that dock?
This is just small sample of the country's priciest homes. To see the rest, check out the original report by Point2Homes, which includes the country's most expensive listing: A three home package deal that will run you nearly $50 million.
Source: MortgageBrokerNews.ca – by MBN 16 Mar 2017
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Big banks are freaking out about Toronto real estate
Add Canada's largest bank to the growing chorus of lenders worrying about unsustainable price growth in Toronto.
"You're seeing 20% house price growth in a market where you shouldn't see that much," Dave McKay, the chief executive of Royal Bank of Canada, recently told the Financial Post. "That's concerning. That's not sustainable. Therefore, I do believe we are now at a point where we need to consider similar types of measures that we saw in Vancouver."
Vancouver, of course, made headlines last year when it announced a 15% tax on foreign homebuyers – a policy that was met with equal parts derision and support from industry players.
The move is thought to have played a role in dampening Vancouver's hot housing market; a similar one could have a similar effect in Toronto, depending on how much influence foreign buyers actually have on propping up prices (no rock solid data yet exists).
RBC joins the Bank of Montreal in stoking the fire of fear that Toronto's market is blazing out of control.
"Let's drop the pretence. The Toronto housing market—and the many cities surrounding it—are in a housing bubble," Doug Porter, chief economist for BMO Bank said in a recent report. "Everyone may have a slightly different definition of what a bubble is, but most can agree it's when prices become dangerously detached from economic fundamentals and start rising strongly simply because people believe they will keep rising strongly, encouraging more buying."
According to Porter, Toronto's real estate market could experience a similar downturn to the one that occurred in the 1980s.
"Prices in Greater Toronto are now up a fiery 22.6% from a year ago, the fastest increase since the late 1980s—a period pretty much everyone can agree was a true bubble—and a cool 21 percentage points faster than inflation and/or wage growth," he said. "And, the ratio of sales to new listings was a towering 93.5 in the region last month adjusted for seasonality (and was above 100 in Hamilton, Kitchener and the Niagara Region)."
According to the Toronto Real Estate Board, the average Toronto house cost $770,745 in January – up from $630,193 in January 2016.
And with the average single-family low rise home now selling for $1,028,395, it's no surprise economists are getting anxious.
Source: MortgageBrokerNews.ca – by Justin da Rosa 28 Feb 2017
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Don't underestimate the value of a real estate broker when buying or selling a house
Buying or selling a house on your own sounds like an easy task, but anyone who has tried it, quickly learns how difficult it can be and how much the experience of a licensed real estate broker can simplify the process.
"In a way, anyone can sell a house, but it doesn't mean that you will have an easy transaction or get a fair price," said Daniel Dagenais, a Realtor® in Pointe-Claire and president of the Greater Montreal Real Estate Board's (GMREB) Board of Directors. "There's no point in selling your house and feeling like you're king because you did the transaction yourself and didn't pay any commission, but you actually sold it for cheaper than it's worth."
Dagenais outlined several key attributes that real estate brokers bring to the table when it comes time to buy or sell a house.
Brokers set fair prices for buyers and sellers
Real estate brokers in Quebec have access to the listings not only of houses for sale, but also those with the prices of houses that have already sold and those that have expired. Armed with that information and their own experience, they can quickly establish the right price for a house.
"The best price for a house is not necessarily the highest price, but is a fair price," said Dagenais. "Sometimes buyers are not well educated about the market and they see something for sale and they end up paying too much money. I think this happens with buyers who are not using a broker."
Brokers negotiate on behalf of their clients
Negotiating a closing price when buying or selling a home can be stressful. Real estate brokers conduct many transactions throughout the year and are emotionally detached when negotiating on their client's behalf.
"A lot of people think they know how to negotiate," said Dagenais. "This may be the case, but even for a good negotiator, a broker acts as a middleman who has a certain distance in the process. When you have a Realtor® making an offer and he's asking another Realtor® to respond, it's much easier than for the Realtor® trying to negotiate directly with a buyer or seller who becomes way too involved emotionally."
Brokers have specialized knowledge of legal requirements
There is a lot of legal paperwork required to complete a real estate transaction that can overwhelm someone not trained how to do it properly. As part of their training to obtain their license in Quebec, real estate brokers spend a full 45 hours learning the intricacies of filling out the necessary forms to buy and sell a house.
"Filling in the forms properly is crucial. If you make one little mistake, maybe you don't put the comma in the right place, it could jeopardize the transaction, create a lawsuit or just create dissatisfaction," noted Dagenais. "We might have only a few hours to get an answer back so it has to be on the spot and you have to be very comfortable with all aspects of filling in the forms properly."
Brokers are highly trained
Before they can buy or sell houses, real estate brokers must undergo close to 400 hours of training that takes about four or five months to complete. They must then pass a government-regulated exam in order to get their license. Before 2010, the exam was multiple-choice, but now students have to write long-form answers. To keep up with changes in the industry, brokers are also required to take 18 units of continuing education every two years, which amounts to 18 to 36 hours of additional training.
Brokers follow a code of ethics
Real estate brokers must act ethically in their dealings with the public and any who fail to do so can be fined by the Discipline Committee of the Organisme d'autoréglementation du courtage immobilier du Québec.
Dagenais also noted that real estate brokers are subject to a code of ethics and are covered by professional liability insurance that provides financial protection to consumers in case of unintentional fault, error, negligence or omission committed by a broker.
Brokers have access to specialized technology
From drone photography to virtual reality, the real estate industry follows the latest tech trends to help bring buyers and sellers together, but their biggest technological strength is their extensive database system of properties for sale.
"The most important tool is the database system that allows us to see all of the data of all the properties," said Dagenais. "We can really evaluate properties on the market."
Brokers are part of a network
Real estate brokers represent both buyers and sellers and work with each other to bring the two together.
"The key really is collaboration and we have an industry that is providing all the tools for collaboration. For real estate brokers, it's kind of unique that when you accept a mandate to sell a property, you also include a portion of your compensation that you will give to a competitor who brings you the buyer. The high level of collaboration between brokers is really a unique feature of Quebec's real estate industry.''
"When you hire a real estate broker, you are really hiring 13,000 brokers," said Dagenais, alluding to the number of brokers working in Quebec, "plus the visibility and access to Centris.ca with close to 100,000 available properties."
Source: Mark Stachiew, Special to National Post | February 22, 2017
'Trapped Wealth' Drives Toronto's Speculative Real Estate Dilemma
Toronto's housing boom is unrelenting.
Prices in Canada's largest city surged more than 20 percent over the past year, the fastest pace in three decades, data released last week show. Some of the city's neighboring towns are posting even bigger gains.
It's become a matter of considerable alarm. Stability is one concern: if the market tumbles, so will Canada's economy. Pricier real estate also drives away less-affluent, younger people and boosts the cost of doing business, eroding competitiveness.
"I don't think anybody is cheering," said Doug Porter, the Toronto-based chief economist of Bank of Montreal, who used the dreaded "bubble" word last week to describe the market. "I don't see who benefits other than real estate agents. It's trapped
So, what's driving the boom? The housing industry — builders and brokers — claim lack of supply is the main culprit. Others, Porter included, see demand as the problem. Lately, evidence is mounting that speculation is behind the jump.
Supply Constraints
Builders say they are being held back by everything from regulations to prohibitive taxes and land restrictions. Ontario's greenbelt region around Toronto is one example.
This is no doubt true for one segment of the market: single-detached homes. Just over one-quarter of the 176,000 homes built in Toronto over the past five years were single-detached. That's well down from the 1990s, when they accounted for almost half of all construction.
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Unabated Demand
Supply constraints don't explain the price gains for condominiums, which have seen a flood of new completions. The average sale price of a condo is up 15 percent year-over-year. That's after builders completed more than 54,000 apartment units over the past two years, easily a record supply for Toronto.
Canada's recent census results, released this month, also provide some evidence against the shortage argument. Occupied private dwellings have risen by 7.2 percent in Toronto over the past five years, faster than population growth.
The census, however, doesn't say what type of homes are being built. Plus, there is also the recent puzzle of disappearing listings.
Listings Ratio
New listings in Toronto fell 17 percent in January from a month earlier, the biggest one-month decline since 2002. Sales as a share of new listings rose above 90 percent, smashing the record.
Is this a sign of a bubble? Are sellers holding off putting their homes on the market to see where prices settle? Has supply become so tight that potential sellers are pulling out of the market altogether since they have nowhere to move to?
"The market is thinning out basically, you know what that means," said David Madani, an economist at Capital Economics in Toronto, said in a telephone interview.
So, if home sellers are not driving demand, is it first-time home buyers?
It's tough to argue yes. The federal government has been tightening mortgage rules for a decade, and took some significant steps in October. But the moves — which particularly hit first-time buyers — have done little to curtail the recent run-up.
"If it's not sellers, if its not first-time buyers, then who is buying?" said Robert Hogue, an economist at Royal Bank of Canada. "We can't say for sure, but by deduction it's got to be probably investors are buying quite a bit."
Policy Response
If speculators are the cause of Toronto's stratospheric home-price gains, it makes it difficult for the federal government to intervene, since its primary tool is mortgage insurance rules that don't apply as much to investors.
One possibility may be to clamp down on the country's unregulated private mortgage industry — so-called shadow banking. There may also be other avenues, such as curbing foreign investment. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government hasn't shown much interest in such a move, partly because it would affect the national market, not just Toronto.
In fact, the only place where government steps to rein in prices seems to have worked has been in British Columbia, which introduced a 15 percent tax on foreign buyers in August. Vancouver home prices are down 3.7 percent over the past six months. Still, that's a paltry retreat in a market that long ago ceased to be affordable for most Canadians.
The British Columbia experience shows that while stability of the market may be an achievable goal, affordability is a more daunting challenge.
"If policy success is measured by affordability, not sure we're quite there yet," Hogue said.
Source – Canadian Real Estate News Copyright Bloomberg 2017
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The Cornwallis Code is a body of legislation enacted in 1793 by the East India Company to improve the governance of its territories in India.  The Code was developed under the guidance of Charles, Marquess
Cornwallis, who served as Governor of Bengal from 1786 to 1793.

Code contains
The code contained significant provisions governing, policing and judicial and civil administration. Its best known provision was the Permanent Settlement (or the zamindari system), which established a revenue collection scheme that lasted until the 20th century. Beginning with Bengal, the system spread over all of northern India by means of the issue of a series of regulations dated 1 May 1793. On these the government of British India virtually rested until the Charter Act of 1833.

The system, as codified in these regulations, provided that the East India Company's service personnel be divided into three branches: revenue, judicial, and commercial. Private trade was forbidden to the members of the first two branches, and they were instead compensated by a new and generous scale of pay. The land revenue assessment (the major source of revenue) was fixed permanently with zamindars, or hereditary revenue collectors. These native Indians, provided they paid their land taxes punctually, were treated as landowners, but they were deprived of magisterial and police functions, which were discharged by a newly organized government police. This "permanent settlement" provided the British with an Indian landed class interested in supporting British authority. The local administration was placed in the hands of the revenue collectors of districts. The judiciary was reorganized; there were district judges with magisterial powers responsible to provincial courts in civil cases and to courts of circuit in criminal cases. The law administered was Hindu and Muslim personal law and a modified Muslim criminal code. The higher ranks of the services were restricted to the British, thus depriving the Indians of any responsible office.

As a whole, the system gave social and political stability to Bengal at the price of neglecting the rights of the lesser landholders and undertenants and of excluding Indians from any responsible share in the administration.

References

Legal codes
British East India Company
1793 in India

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Nachman Kahana (also spelled Kahane) () is an Israeli rabbi.

Biography
Kahana was born in 1937 and raised in Brooklyn, New York, where he attended a branch of the Novardok Yeshiva, where he was ordained. His father was Rabbi Yechezkel (Charles) Shraga Kahane, and his brother was Rabbi Meir Kahane, the founder of the Jewish Defense League and Kach.

Career
He worked as a civil servant in Israel's Ministry of Religious Affairs and has also led the Birkat Kohanim Institute, which has attempted to establish a database of reliable Kohanim in Israel. He is the founder of the Center for Kohanim.

He is currently the spiritual leader of Hazon Yichezkeil a member synagogue of Young Israel (Yisrael Hatzair) in the Old City of Jerusalem. Additionally he has founded the Institute for Talmudic Commentaries (המכון להסברת מפרשי התלמוד) through which he has published "Mei Menuchot" (מי מנוחות - Restful Waters) a Hebrew elucidation of the Tosafot commentary on several tractates of the Talmud. He has also been cited as collaborating on the recent and controversial attempts to resurrect the ancient Sanhedrin in the capacity of Av Beit Din (אב בית דין - Father of the Court House), which is the second in command to the Rosh HaYeshiva / Nasi ( נשיא/ראש הישיבה - Head of the Yeshiva/Prince). He has created a database of reliable Kohanim in Israel.

Writings

"Mei Menuchot" (מי מנוחות - Restful Waters) a Hebrew elucidation of the Tosafot commentary on several tractates of the Talmud.
"With All Your Might" based on Rabbi Kahana's weekly parasha and holiday messages of the past several years.

References

External links
http://www.nachmankahana.com

1937 births
Israeli Orthodox rabbis
20th-century Israeli rabbis
21st-century Israeli rabbis
American emigrants to Israel
Living people
Kohanim writers of Rabbinic literature
Religious Zionist Orthodox rabbis
20th-century Jewish theologians
21st-century Jewish theologians
Novardok Yeshiva alumni


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"The winner buys dinner," says Caroline Wozniacki.
Categories: Agnieszka Radwanska and Caroline Wozniacki
Tags: 2010 Indian Wells, Agnieszka Radwanska, Caroline Wozniacki
The cost of dinner will be on the line when good friends Caroline Wozniacki and Agnieszka Radwanska meet in the last four of the Indian Wells WTA tournament on Friday.
The pair, who first met in the junior ranks, regularly eat together on the circuit and they agree that whoever advances to the final will have to foot the bill for the next meal.
"If somebody wins something, it's buy the other one dinner," Radwanska told reporters after reaching her second semi-final of the year with a 6-4 6-3 victory over Russian Elena Dementieva on Wednesday.
"It's always like that," the fifth-seeded Pole added. "But if she wins, it doesn't make any changes with our relationship."
Second seed Wozniacki of Denmark, who battled past China's Zheng Jie 6-4 4-6 6-1 in the quarter-finals, agreed.
"The winner has to buy dinner, so I hope I'm gonna buy dinner," the 19-year-old said with a broad grin. "But she's a good friend. Tomorrow we're just going to relax, have fun and then we have to see what's gonna happen the day after."
Asked what they normally discussed at dinner on the WTA Tour, Wozniacki replied: "We don't talk about tennis.
"There are so many other things we want to talk about, so we prefer just to have a totally different conversation — clothes, fashion, make-up, nail polish, boys, everything."
The two friends have played each other only twice on the WTA circuit, Radwanska winning the first encounter 6-4 6-1 in Stockholm in 2007 and Wozniacki returning the favour by the same score at the same venue the following year.
"She's a good player," said world number four Wozniacki, whose father and coach Piotr was a professional soccer player in his native Poland.
"She's getting a lot of balls back. She's thinking. She's smart on the court. We're friends off the court, and we want to win and fight on the court.
"Once you start thinking: 'Okay, it's my friend, then what happens is you lose the match. So it's just important to stay focused and don't think about who's on the other side."
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* Study real newspaper articles about the crime.
* Find artefacts from Little Lon archaeological dig in game.
* Fully charged AR capable device & headphones (possible to share 1 device with 2 people).
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import org.scalatest.funsuite.AnyFunSuite

class arityizeTest extends AnyFunSuite {

  test("Compiles?") {
    @arityize(5)
    class Foo[@arityize.replicate T](@arityize.replicate x: T @arityize.relative(x)) {
      override def toString = List((x: @arityize.replicate)).mkString("(", ", ", ")")
    }

    val foo = new Foo2[Int, String](x1 = 3, x2 = "Foo")
    assert(foo.toString === "(3, Foo)")
  }

  test("Compiles defs?") {
    @arityize(5)
    def foo[@arityize.replicate T](@arityize.replicate x: T @arityize.relative(x)) = (x: @arityize.relative(foo))

    assert(foo2(1, 2) === 2)

  }

  test("Snap example") {
    object Whatever {
      def invoke(args: Any*)(a2: Any*) = ""
    }

    @arityize(10)
    class CuKernel[@arityize.replicate T](fn: Any, blockDims: Array[Int]) {
      def apply(workSize1: Int = 1, workSize2: Int = 1, workSize3: Int = 1)(
          @arityize.replicate t: T @arityize.relative(t)): Unit = {
        Whatever.invoke(Array(workSize1, workSize2, workSize3), blockDims, fn)((t: @arityize.replicate))
      }
    }

    new CuKernel2[Int, String](1, Array()).apply()(1, "2")
  }

  test("Snap example 2") {
    @arityize(2)
    class CuKernel[@arityize.replicate T](fn: Any, blockDims: Array[Int]) {
      def apply(workSize1: Int = 1)(@arityize.replicate t: T @arityize.relative(t)): Unit = {
        ???
      }
    }

    @arityize(2)
    def getKernel[@arityize.replicate T](
        name: String,
        blockDims: Array[Int] = Array(32, 1, 1)): (CuKernel[T @arityize.replicate] @arityize.relative(getKernel)) = {
      new (CuKernel[T @arityize.replicate] @arityize.relative(getKernel))(name, blockDims)
    }
  }

  test("Breeze LiteralRow") {

    trait LiteralRow[K, V] {}

    @arityize(6)
    implicit def tuple[V]: LiteralRow[Tuple[V @arityize.repeat] @arityize.relative(tuple), V] =
      new LiteralRow[Tuple[V @arityize.repeat] @arityize.relative(tuple), V] {
        def foreach[X](tup: Tuple[V @arityize.repeat] @arityize.relative(tuple), fn: ((Int, V) => X)) = {
          for ((v, i) <- tup.productIterator.zipWithIndex) {
            fn(i, v.asInstanceOf[V])
          }
        }

        def length(tup: Tuple[V @arityize.repeat] @arityize.relative(tuple)) = __order__
      }
  }

  test("ktakagaki's tuple-y stuff") {
    @arityize(22)
    case class TupleToDenseVector(tuple: Tuple[Any @arityize.repeat] @arityize.relative(TupleToDenseVector))

    @arityize(22)
    implicit def tupleToDenseVector(tuple: Tuple[Any @arityize.repeat] @arityize.relative(tupleToDenseVector)) = {
      new (TupleToDenseVector @arityize.relative(tupleToDenseVector))(tuple)
    }
  }

}

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Q: Is the opposite category of commutative von Neumann algebras a topos? By the "category of commutative von Neumann algebras" I mean the category of all commutative von Neumann algebras with normal unital $*$-homomorphisms between them (I don't want to restrict to separable predual as I think it would prevent the existence of finite products).
Of course, I don't really believe it is a topos. I would honestly be very surprised if it were but so far I can't find a clear-cut argument that would show that it is not a topos. Part of the problem is that products in this category are a bit tricky to understand.
On the other hand, it is not so far-fetched to suggest this, since this category has some topos-like properties: it's definitely a "category of spaces", it has a subobject classifier given by $\mathbb{C}^2$, subobjects of each object form a complete boolean algebra, it is extensive, and it might very well be a regular category (not so clear).
I don't think it is exact or cartesian closed (if it were any of these, that would make it a topos), but that's not something completely inconceivable either.
Does anyone have a clean argument to show that this category is not a topos ?

A: The opposite category of commutative von Neumann algebras is not a topos
because categorical products with a fixed object do not always preserve small colimits.
See Theorem 6.4 in Andre Kornell's Quantum Collections.

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