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When must the court allow amendment of plaint at any stage of proceeding in the suit for specific performance of the contract?
As pointed out above, the plaintiff in
the said application has stated that in the belief that the
phrase "any other relief" in the prayer clause would
include this relief, he omitted to claim the said relief. It
cannot be said that this was not bona fide or that the
amendment application was filed with ulterior motive.
However the question is whether the provisos to Sub-
section (5) of Section 21 and Sub-section (2) of Section
22 of the Act leave no alternative to the Court but to
allow the amendment at any stage of the proceeding
irrespective of the fact that the reliefs for compensation
and refund of earnest money are barred on the day
when the amendment is sought, as submitted by Mr.
Deopujari. It will be convenient to reproduce Sections 21
and 22 of the Act to understand these submissions.
"21. (1) In a suit for specific performance of a
contract, the plaintiff may also claim compensation for
its breach, either in addition to, or in substitution of,
such performance.
(2) If, in any such suit, the Court decides that
specific performance ought not to be granted, but that
there is a contract between the parties which has been
broken by the defendant, and that the plaintiff is
entitled to compensation for that breach, it shall award
him such compensation accordingly.
specific performance ought to be granted, but that it is
not sufficient to satisfy the justice of the case, and that
some compensation for breach of the contract should
also be made to the plaintiff, it shall award him, such
compensation accordingly.
(4) In determining the amount of any
compensation awarded under this section, the court
shall be guided by the principles specified in Section 73
of the Indian Contract Act. 1872.
(5) No compensation shall be awarded under this
section unless the plaintiff has claimed such
compensation in his plaint:
Provided that where the plaintiff has not claimed
any such compensation in the plaint the court shall at
any stage of the proceeding allow him to amend the
plaint on such terms as may be just, for including a
claim for such compensation.
Explanation: The circumstance that the contract
has become incapable of specific performance does not
preclude the court from exercising the jurisdiction
conferred by this section.
22. (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained in the Code of Civil Procedure 1908, any
person suing for the specific performance of a contract
for the transfer of immoveable property may, in an
appropriate case, ask for-
(a) possession, or partition and separate
possession, of the property, in addition to such
performance ; or
(b) any other relief to which he may be entitled,
including the refund of any earnest, money or deposit
paid or made by him in case his claim for specific
performance is refused.
(2) No relief under Clause (a) or Clause (b) of Subsection
(1) shall be granted by the Court unless it has
been specifically claimed :
any such relief in the plaint, the court .shall, at any
stage of the proceeding, allow him to amend the plaint
on such terms as may be just for including a claim for
such relief.
(3) The power of the court to grant relief under
Clause (b) of Sub-section (1) shall be without prejudice
to its powers to award compensation under Section 21.
Sub-sections (1), (2) and (3) of Section 21 of the
Act correspond to paras. 1, 2 and 3 of Section 19 of the
Specific Relief Act, 1877 and Sub-sections (4) and (5) of
Section 21 of the Act are newly added. It appears that
there was no provision corresponding to Section 22 in
the Act of 1877 and this section is a new addition to the
provisions on the subject of specific relief. It is obvious
that Sub-sections (4) and (5) of Section 21 and the
whole of Section 22 have been introduced in the Act in
order to avoid multiplicity of suits and proceedings.
Section 21 and 22 enact a rule of pleading. The only
question which falls for consideration is whether in
enacting the provisos to Sub-section (5) of Section 21
and Sub-section (2) of Section 22 the Legislature
intended to cast a duty on the Court to permit the
amendment contemplated therein without leaving any
discretion to it. This is more so because of the word
"shall" having been used in both these provisos.
7. Obviously these two provisos deal with the
question of permitting the plaintiff to amend his plaint.
It is not as if in the absence of these provisos a plaintiff
would not have been permitted to carry out an
amendment in his pleading by introducing a relief for
compensation and refund of earnest money. Rule 17 of
Order VI of the Code of Civil Procedure (hereinafter
referred to as "the Code") does confer power on a Court
to allow a party to alter or amend his pleading in such
manner and on such terms as may be just. This rule
does not stop at that, but it further says that all such
amendment should be made as may be necessary for
the purpose of determining the real question in
controversy between the parties. It is pertinent to note
that this provision which empowers the Court in its
discretion to permit a party to amend his pleadings,
was already on the statute book when the Specific
Relief Act, 1963 was enacted. It can, therefore, be
presumed that when the latter legislation was on the
anvil the Parliament was aware of this power of the
Court to permit amendment of pleadings. It cannot be
successfully urged that a suit for specific performance
falling under the provisions of the said Act would not be
governed by the provisions of the Code of Civil
Procedure. It is, therefore, clear that to such a suit the
provisions contained in Order VI, Rule 17 of the Code
would apply and a plaintiff who has earlier failed to
incorporate the reliefs for compensation and refund of
earnest money could seek the permission of Court to
introduce these reliefs by way of amendment. If the
legislature intended that allowing such amendment
should be left to the discretion of the Court, it would not
have enacted the provisos to Sub-section (5) of Section
21 and Sub-section (2) of Section 22. It is well-known
that the legislature normally does not enact a
superfluous provision. It is therefore not possible to say
that by enacting these two provisos the legislature once
again wanted to invest the Court with discretionary
power of permitting amendment of pleadings which
power already existed under Order VI, Rule 17 of the
Code. This gives a clue to the intention of the legislature
in enacting the two provisos and particularly using the
word "shall" in both of them. In the context which I
have stated above, it appears clearly to me that the
legislature did not intend merely to confer
discretionary power on the Court to permit a plaintiff
to amend his pleading to introduce these two reliefs at
any stage of proceeding, but it intended to make it
obligatory and imperative on the Court to allow such
amendment. As I have said above, the very idea in
enacting Sub-sections (4) and (5) of Section 21 and
Section 22 including Sub-section (2) thereof was to
avoid and do away with the multiplicity of litigation. In
my view, therefore, these two provisos do not merely
confer discretionary power on the Court, but they make
it obligatory on the Court to permit such amendments
which come within their purview."
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
WRIT PETITION NO.9713 OF 2016
Madhav Housing Private Limited Vs Suchita Baburao Chavan
CORAM : K.K. TATED, J.
DATE : 28 FEBRUARY 2019.
Heard learned Counsel for parties.
2. By consent of both the parties, matter is taken on
board for final hearing at the stage of admission.
3. By this writ petition under Article 227 of the
Constitution of India petitioner/original plaintiff is challenging the
order dated 12.07.2016 passed by the Court below Exhibit-28 in
Special Civil Suit No.336 of 2014 rejecting plaintiff's application
for carrying out amendment in the plaint.
4. Learned Counsel for petitioner submits that in the
present proceedings they have filed Special Civil Suit No.336 of
2014 before learned Civil Judge, Senior Division, Nashik for
specific performance of contract. He submits that at the time of
filing plaint it remain on their part to make appropriate
alternative prayer for damages. Hence, plaintiff has filed
application under Order 6 Rule 17 of Civil Procedure Code, 1908
on 25.02.2016. That application was rejected by the trial Court
only on the ground that petitioner/original plaintiff was not due
diligent at the time of filing a suit. He submits that trial Court also
specifically recorded in the order that, trial of suit was not started.
In spite of that, the trial Court rejected their application under
Order 6 Rule 17 of Civil Procedure Code, 1908.
5. The learned Counsel for petitioner submits that as per
Sections 21(5) and 22(2) of Specific Relief Act, 1963 they have to
make specific prayer for damages. Sections 21(5) and 22(2) of
Specific Relief Act, 1963 reads thus :-
"21 (5) No compensation shall be awarded
under this section unless the plaintiff has
claimed such compensation in his plaint:
Provided that where the plaintiff has
not claimed any such compensation in the
plaint the Court shall at any stage of the
proceeding, allow him to amend the plaint
on such terms as may be just, for including a
Explanation: The Circumstance that the
contract has become in-capable of specific
performance does not preclude the Court
from exercising the jurisdiction conferred by
this section.
22 (2) No relief under clause (a) or
clause (b) of sub-section (1) shall be granted
by the Court unless it has been specifically
claimed:
not claimed any such relief in the plaint, the
Court shall, at any stage of the proceeding,
allow him to amend the plaint on such terms
as may be just for including a claim for such
relief."
6. The learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that in
view of Section 21 and 22 of the Specific Relief Act and under
Order 6 Rule 17 of Civil Procedure Code, plaintiff filed the
application for carrying out amendment to claim damages in
alternative to the main prayer. He submits that the trial Court
instead of deciding their application on merits, dismissed the
application only on technical ground of due diligence. The learned
Counsel for the petitioner submits that there is no question of
delay on the part of the petitioner to make the application for
carrying out amendment. He submits that our High Court in the
matter of Manohar Dhundiraj Joshi Vs. Jhunnulal Hariram
Yadao and Others 1983 0 MhLJ 369 held that in the case of Specific Relief Act in
view of Section 21 and 22 of the said Act amendment can be
allowed to claim in alternative damages. He relies on paragraph 5
and 7 of the said authority which reads thus :
"5. It is not disputed before me that on the day when
the application for amendment to the plaint was made,
the claim for compensation and refund of earnest
money would have been barred by limitation. This Court
in (Parbhudas v. Lallubhai)1, (Bai Kamala v.
Shankarrao)2, and (Chunttal v. Abdul Dawood)3 and
the Privy Council in (Bhagwanji v. Alembic Chemical
Works)4 have held that an amendment of plaint
introducing a new claim which would have been barred
by limitation at the time when the leave was sought
cannot be allowed, unless there are exceptional
circumstances. However, in (A.K. Gupta & Sons Ltd. v.
Damodar Valley Corporation)5, the Supreme Court has
laid down that as a general rule a party is not allowed by
amendment to set up a new case or new cause of action,
particularly when the suit on the new cause of action is
barred. But at the same time the Supreme Court has
further held that where the amendment does not
constitute the addition of a new cause of action or raise
a different case, but amounts merely to a different or
additional approach to the same facts, the amendment
would be allowed even after expiry of the statutory
period of limitation. In laying down this rule the
Supreme Court has observed as follows (at page 98):
"(8) The principal reasons that have led to the
rule last mentioned are, first, that the object of Courts
and rules of procedure is to decide the rights of the
parties and not to punish them for their mistake
Cropper v. Smith6 and secondly, that a party is strictly
not entitled to rely on the statute of limitation when
what is sought to be brought in by the amendment can
be said in substance to be already in the pleading sought
to be amended (Kisandas Rupchand v. Rachappa
Vithoba)7, (approved in Pirgonda Hongontla Patil v.
Kalgonda Sttidgonda)8.
(9) The expression "cause of action'' in the
present context does not mean'' "every lad which it is
material to be proved to entitle the plaintiff to succeed"
as was said in Cooke v. Gill9, in a different context, for if
it were so, no material tact could ever be amended or
added and, of course, no one would want to change or
add an immaterial allegation by amendment. That
expression for tile present purpose only means, a new
claim made on a new basis constituted by new facts.
Such a view was taken in Robinson v. Unicos Property
Corporation Ltd.10, and it seems to us to be the only
possible view to take. Any other view would make the
rule futile. The words "new case" have been understood
to mean "new set of ideas"; Dornan v. J.W. Ellis and Co.
Ltd.11. This also seems to us to on reasonable view to
take. No amendment will be allowed to introduce a new
set of ideas to the prejudice of any right acquired by any
party by laspe of time.
The question now therefore arises is whether by
seeking to include the relief for compensation and
refund of earnest money the plaintiff was trying to set
up a new case or new cause of action or it amounted
merely to a different or additional approach to the same
facts, A look at the application for amendment would
show that the plaintiff wanted to introduce para 7(a) in
the plaint, in which he states certain facts on which the
claim for compensation is based. Obviously these facts
were not in the plaint and in the absence of these facts
the plaintiff would not have been entitled to the relief at
least for compensation. Hence in so far as the additional
relief for compensation is concerned, it has to be said
that the plaintiff introduced a new case or a new cause
of action as contemplated by the Supreme Court in
Gupta's case (supra). Since this relief was barred by
limitation the plaintiff would not have been allowed to
amend the plaint to introduce it. However, the same
could not be said with regard to the refund of earnest
money. In that respect no new facts or new cause of
action was being set up by the plaintiff and this relief is
being sought to be introduced in the plaint only as an
alternative relief to the relief for specific performance
for which the suit had been filed. Normally the plaintiff
in a suit for specific performance would be entitled to
refund of earnest money, if the relief for specific
performance is refused since this is just and equitable.
Hence applying the principle in Gupta's case (supra) it
would not be possible to say that the amendment with
regard to the inclusion of relief for refund of earnest
money could have been refused solely on the ground
that the said relief was barred by limitation on the day
when the amendment was sought. It is not possible to
uphold the submission of Mr. Ghate that the application
was not bona fide. As pointed out above, the plaintiff in
7. The learned Counsel for petitioner also relies on a
judgment in the matter of Vidyabai and Others Vs. Padmalatha
and Another2. In this case, the Apex Court held that if trial is not
begin, the Court can consider the application for carrying out
amendment. On the basis of this authority and the submissions
made by learned Counsel for the petitioner, he submits that this
Hon'ble Court be pleased to set aside the impugned order dated
12.07.2016 and allow the petitioner's application below Exhibit-28
under Order 6 Rule 17 of Civil Procedure Code, 1908. He submits
that if this writ petition is not allowed irreparable loss will cause
to the petitioner. He further submits that because of amendment,
cause of action is not going to be changed in the original suit.
8. On the other hand, the learned Counsel appearing on
behalf of respondent/original defendant vehemently opposed the
present writ petition. He submits that in view of Order 2 Rule 2
and 3 of Civil Procedure Code, 1908 there is no question of
allowing the application filed by the plaintiff for carrying out
amendment. He submits that bare reading of the plaint and the
Order 2 Rule 2 and 3 of Civil Procedure Code shows that plaintiff
2 (2009) 2 SCC 409
has relinquished the part of his claim. Therefore, that cannot be
permitted. Hence, there is no question of allowing the plaintiff to
carry out amendment in the plaint. Hence, the trial Court has
rejected the petitioner's application to carry out the amendment
on the ground of due diligence. Hence, there is no substance in the
present writ petition and same to be dismissed with cost.
9. I heard both the sides at length. It is to be noted that
in the present proceedings, plaintiff has filed suit for Specific
Performance. It remain on their part to make the prayer for
damages in alternative to the main prayer before commencement
of trial. Amendment is not going to change the nature of suit.
10. Considering the submissions made by learned Counsel
for the petitioner and judgment of this Court in the matter of
Manohar Dhundiraj Joshi (Supra), I am of the opinion that
petitioner has made out case for allowing this Writ petition. Hence,
following order :-
a) Order dated 12.07.2016 passed by the learned
Civil Judge, Senior Division, Nashik below Exhibit-28 in
Special Civil Suit No.336 of 2014 is set aside.
b) The application filed by the petitioner/original
plaintiff below Exhibit-28 under Order 6 Rule 17 of Civil
Procedure Code, 1908 is allowed.
c) Petitioner/original plaintiff is permitted to carry
out amendment in the plaint as per application below
Exhibit-28 on or before 30.04.2019 and serve the amended
copy of plaint on other side.
d) Liberty granted to the defendant, if they so
desire, to file their additional written statement if any with
copy to other side on or before 15.06.2019.
e) Writ petition is allowed accordingly.
f) No order as to costs.
(K.K. TATED, J.)
Labels: amendment of plaint, bombay high court, S 22 of specific relief Act, specific performance of contract


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Harry Street: Mass killer dies while serving sentence for firearms and explosives
The 70-year-old who shot five people dead in 1978 moved to Denbighshire before returning to Birmingham and starting a campaign of harassment against his neighbours
David PowellCourt reporter
Harry Street, who lived in a residential home at Llys Meirchion in Henllan near Denbigh, after his release from prison
A mass killer who shot five people dead in 1978 has died while serving an indefinite sentence for firearms and explosives offences.
Harry Street, who lived near Denbigh after his release from Broadmoor hospital, was detained under the Mental Health Act in October after six guns, dozens of home-made bullets and a makeshift bomb were found at his home.
The 70-year-old, who is thought to have suffered a heart attack, was pronounced dead on Christmas Eve after being taken ill at the high-security Ashworth Hospital on Merseyside.
Formerly known as Barry Williams, Street killed three of his neighbours in West Bromwich and a couple who ran a petrol station in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, during a shooting spree on October 26,1978.
He was later diagnosed as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and committed to Broadmoor in 1979 after admitting five counts of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
But he was freed subject to monitoring in 1995.
There was an outcry when it emerged he had been released to a hostel in Birmingham just six miles from the scene of his first shootings. He then moved to a residential home at Llys Meirchion in Henllan.
He moved to an address in Hall Green, Birmingham, in 2005, and began to wage a campaign of harassment against his neighbours two years later.
West Midlands Police arrested Street in October last year after a "veritable arsenal" of guns and bullets was found in a cupboard at his home.
At Birmingham Crown Court, Street admitted one charge of making an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) between January 1, 2013 and October 14, 2013.
He had earlier admitted three counts of possessing prohibited firearms including pistols and a revolver.
He also admitted a further charge of causing his neighbour to be in fear of violence between December 2009 and October 16, 2013.
He admitted throwing items at his neighbour's garden and roof, banging and drilling on walls, threatening violence and driving past and threatening him at the new address he had moved to.
Three further charges of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life and one of possession of homemade bullets with intent to endanger life were ordered to lie on the file.
Sentencing Street on October 6 this year, Mr Justice Blair told the pensioner he would be detained in a maximum security hospital and may never be released.
Mr Justice Blair ordered the pensioner to be detained in conditions of high security due to the nature of his previous offences and his ability to procure and modify weapons.
A spokesman for Ashworth Hospital said: "A patient in long-term care at Ashworth Hospital has been admitted to general hospital after becoming acutely physically unwell.
"He died in hospital at 9.49am on December 24 2014."
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Our Buses – Blackpool Transport
It was business as usual when Blackpool Transport replaced Blackpool Corporation in 1974 under the recently appointed manager Derek Hyde. The last of the 55 AEC Swifts was entering service and more than half of the 13 One Man Operated (OMO) Trams introduced from 1972-1976 had similarly rescued the economics of year round operation of the sole surviving Promenade tram route. With operation of OMO single deckers now at their practical extent, consideration turned to buying double deck buses that could be similarly operated to convert further services. As a result no less than 64 Leyland Atlanteans replaced most of the remaining Leyland Titans between 1977 and 1984. These impressive vehicles seated up to 86 – compared to just 52 seats in the early post war double deckers.
Unlike most operators, Blackpool retained conductors on some of its busy routes – indeed the last bus route (the 14) kept them until 2000. As a result its last Leyland Titans soldiered on until 1988 by which time they were over 20 years old. They had been joined by 13 new to London Transport Routemasters between 1986 and 1989 and these survived, in mainly summer only use, until 1996.
Local bus services were deregulated and opened to competition in 1986 and Blackpool and Fylde battled for territory – and both made gains from Ribble. As part of their armoury Blackpool purchased 35 Optare City Pacer minibuses seating 19 seats – one fewer seat than the first buses of 1921. It purchased Fylde in 1994 and absorbed it completely in 1996 taking the fleet total to 208 buses. It has since rationalised operations, closing the former Fylde depot in 1999 and reducing the fleet size to 153.
From 2001 to 2010 buses ran under the Metro Coastlines banner with individual liveries for each route and the green and cream livery favoured since 1933 was dropped. Since 2010 the Blackpool Transport name has returned to use and a standard livery using black and yellow (favoured for minibuses since 1987) has been adopted.
Blackpool 334
No. 334 is typical example of Blackpool's 64 strong fleet of East Lancashire bodied Leyland Atlanteans acquired between 1977 and 1984. No. 334 itself arrived in June 1980, replacing 12 year old PD3s such as 529. It entered service the following month in an attractive livery of off-white with green roof, upper deck window surrounds, narrow band above lower deck windows and broad band on lower deck panels. It retained this style until June 1988 when it was painted into the post-deregulation scheme of cream with green roof, window surrounds and skirt. Another repaint followed in January 1991 and a further in June 1994 by which time the style had been revised to feature matt black window surrounds.
Atlantean withdrawals began in 1989 and by 1994, Nos. 301-321 had been sold, although three (Nos. 310/335/342 were sold for scrap after fire damage). Blackpool then purchased neighbouring Fylde Transport and the new subsidiary included many vehicles much older than the Blackpool Atlanteans. Replacement of these took priority and it was to be 2002 before any more of the East Lancs Atlanteans were sold. Several were used by Fylde before it was subsumed into the Blackpool operation in June 1996.
No. 334 had a brief period of storage during May and June 1995 but was repainted in the revised livery (cream, green skirt and roof level stripe, black window surrounds). It was transferred to Fylde in April 1996 but did not receive the blue livery as this was shortly to be abandoned. It continued to run from Squires Gate depot in the main until it closed in April 1999.
Whilst at both Rigby Road and Squires Gate it saw a mixture of all day services and school contracts. No. 334 was one of five Atlanteans stored in November 2002, but brought back into use in January 2003 as more buses were needed for a tramway replacement service. The delivery of nine Dennis Tridents in May 2003 brought 334's career to an end. Its last day was 29 May 2003 when it ran on service 20 (Town Centre to Marton Mere Leisure Park). In June 2003 it was acquired by member Graham Oliver for preservation as part of the LTT collection and passed into Trust ownership in 2005.
Extensive restoration work started in May 2006 involving a complete repanelling and a full repaint was completed in August 2007.
Blackpool334-1
The London Routemaster bus is probably the most famous design of bus ever produced. Over 2,760 were built between 1954 and 1968 and hundreds of them still operated in all day service in the capital until 2005, even though large numbers had been withdrawn between 1982 and 1988. During this period many were snapped up by other operators, particularly after deregulation of the bus industry in 1986. The new privatised companies saw conductor operated RMs as giving them a competitive edge to win passengers.
The newly formed Blackpool Transport eventually bought 12. No. 521 was taken on trial in January 1986 before more were purchased. Initially it ran in London red, but in May it was the first to receive the 1930's red and white livery chosen for the Routemasters.
At first, 521 and other RMs were dedicated to service 12 to St.Annes to compete with Fylde Transport. However, as other Blackpool town services became one man operated the 12 followed suit and the RMs were confined to summer use on the Promenade. After the 1994 season they retired to depot but came out in 1996 for a park and ride service to Lytham Golf Championships. 521, with 522-524, then continued to be used for the Zoo service for the rest of that year.
In 1997, Blackpool Transport sold the RMs to Reading Mainline but following that company's take-over by Reading Transport, 521 passed to Walkabout Inns as a promotional bus. When surplus to their requirements it returned to Blackpool as part of the LTT collection. Over the winter of 2003/2004 it was re-panelled and paint stripped by LTT volunteers, being repainted in its vintage style red and white livery in June 2004. In November 2006 the bus was upgraded back to a class VI psv standard and was also used by the Trust's partner company for wedding hires and other events.
In December 2016, "521" was repainted back into 1970s style London red and white livery, allowing the bus to be more useful on wedding hires.
Deregulation of local bus services in 1986 not only resulted in Routemasters being used as a competitive tool by privatised bus operators, but high frequency minibus services were developed instead of high capacity buses on low frequency services that had become the norm. Hundreds of van conversions appeared throughout the UK to create 16-20 seat minibuses. By 1987, Optare produced the first purpose built and very stylish minibus on Volkswagen van chassis.
No. 575 is one of 35 Optare 'City Pacers' (including three ex demonstrators) acquired by Blackpool after deregulation – the majority in 1987/8. A distinctive identity was adopted using the "Handybus" name and a livery of black with yellow skirt. Several major urban routes were converted to use these minibuses, 575's batch of ten converting service 9 (Blackpool to Cleveleys) in 1988, replacing PD3s and precipitating their final withdrawal at the end of the summer season.
Interestingly, service 9 had been a haunt for the unique Blackpool centre loaders in their latter years. Single deck AEC Swifts were used from 1970 until 1977 when double deck Atlanteans took over. A brief return to conductor operation after deregulation saw PD3s making regular appearances. This is probably the only service where each type of Blackpool vehicle in the LTT collection would have operated at one time or other.
Optare later developed a replacement minibus – the Metrorider – and Blackpool evaluated an example in 1995 as a replacement for the early City Pacers. This led to several small orders which replaced 17 City Pacers during 1995/6. The remainder survived an influx of 14 Metroriders (used for further minibus conversions) in 1998 but were finally replaced by low floor Optare Solos in January 2000.
No. 575 survived until the last week of operation of the type in Blackpool – its last duty being on 25 January 2000. It initially joined the Thames Valley Training fleet in Eastbourne before returning north in March 2003 for preservation and was restored to original Handybus livery early in 2004. It was acquired as part of the core LTT collection in June 2005.


If you had told me a year ago that social media would have such an important role in the way people communicate, I probably wouldn't have been the only journalist -- or regular person -- to laugh in your face.
But when the great York County earthquake of 2011 occurred a few months ago, my first thought (after am I crazy?) was to I grab my phone and check my Twitter feed. Turns out I wasn't the only one who felt the jolt. And when I got a new apartment Monday, I may have Tweeted it before I called my parents. If anyone tells them, I'll deny it.
But it's impossible to deny that social media has changed the way we report, as well as the way we live our lives. I sleep with my phone next to my bed (don't judge). And when I left my phone at home the other day while I ran errands, I shuddered at the Foursquare check-ins I was missing.
I know I'm not alone when I say I text my family before I call. Why call my friends when I can text? And I'll Tweet if I know you'll respond there first. So why not have our YDR contact list change to embrace all the ways you can find us? It may be easier (and less intimidating) to Tweet at someone than to pick up a phone and call the newsroom.
So for the past month or so (when I'm not working on elections, a post to come another day) I've been compiling a list of YDR staff Twitter accounts. Now, you, the lucky reader, can go to one page and follow as many staffers as your heart desires. I'm still working out the best way to link Facebook profiles, but eventually you'll be able to do that, too... .
So, if you've got a tip, shoot it to the reporter who likely is just as attached to his or her phone as I am. Tweet that picture of something you think is newsworthy. Or just use those 140 characters to say hi. We want to make it easier for you to find us in this social-media driven world. Anyone have any other tips or suggestions?


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Anthony Joshua will box at Wembley Stadium in September, defending his IBF, WBA Super and WBO world titles.
Anthony Joshua's next two fights will take place at Wembley Stadium.
The unified heavyweight world champion will return to the iconic London venue on September 22 and will be back seven months later on April 13, 2019.
The opportunity to fight in such an iconic stadium is normally a once in career opportunity, so to be given the chance to fight there again is amazing. Wembley just added a fourth lion to the den."
Joshua and promoter Eddie Hearn are yet to confirm whether the 28-year-old will be facing Deontay Wilder or WBA mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin next, but he will defend his IBF, WBA Super and WBO titles at Wembley next.
Highlights from Anthony Joshua's titanic heavyweight title fight victory over Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley Stadium
Joshua said: "I am returning to Wembley after two mega fights in Cardiff. I want to thank the supporters from Wales and Great Britain and also the people of London for patiently awaiting my return.
"Being north London born and raised, it is in my blood. The opportunity to fight in such an iconic stadium is normally a once-in-a-career opportunity, so to be given the chance to fight there again is amazing. Wembley just added a fourth lion to the den."
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Joshua's last two huge heavyweight showdowns have taken place at Cardiff's Principality Stadium.
His stoppage win over Carlos Takam in October 2017 and unification points success over Joseph Parker in March drew an overall crowd of 150,000, but he will be looking to repeat the historic 90,000 Wembley sell-out that saw him stop Wladimir Klitschko in sensational fashion in April 2017.
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Image: Anthony Joshua beat Joseph Parker in his second successive fight in Wales
James Taylor, Senior Commercial Manager, Wembley Stadium, said: "Wembley Stadium is home to the biggest and best sporting events and it is fitting that one of the world's leading sports stars returns to fight under its iconic arch.
"AJ's last appearance at the national stadium was a record-breaking event which will be remembered as one of the highlights in the venue's history. We look forward to welcoming Anthony and his thousands of fans back to Wembley for two huge fights in September and April."
Image: Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is looking forward to two more 'incredible nights' at Wembley
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has ensured it will be possible to have capacity crowds at both events by working closely with Transport for London who will postpone planned engineering works and provide additional staff.
Khan said: "That incredible night last year when Anthony Joshua defeated Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley in front of a record crowd will go down as one of our city's greatest sporting events.
Image: Anthony Joshua will always be remembered for his sensational 11th-round stoppage of Wladimir Klitschko
"I am absolutely delighted that Wembley is set to host these next two chapters of AJ's remarkable career. We have once again worked closely with Transport for London to make sure this can happen and to allow for tens of thousands of boxing fans to travel to Wembley Stadium for the fights.
"I have pledged to bring the biggest bouts in world boxing to London and these epic showdowns will cement London's reputation as the best city in the world for top-class sport."
Image: Eddie Hearn is 'honoured' to be taking Anthony Joshua back to Wembley
Promoter Hearn has been in discussions with WBC champion Wilder about an historic undisputed title fight with Joshua but, with the WBA ordering a defence against Povetkin, is just delighted to ensure that the British superstar will be boxing back at the country's biggest venue.
Hearn said: "I'm extremely honoured to get the opportunity to promote two more shows at the national stadium and delighted for British fight fans that Anthony has made this commitment to them.
Barry Hearn has revealed that Deontay Wilder has been offered a contract to fight Anthony Joshua on April 13, 2019 at Wembley
"I don't think anyone will ever forget that night of April 29 against Klitschko and we plan to bring two more dramatic events to Wembley Stadium in September and April. Images from these AJ events make our country the envy of the boxing world and long may it continue."
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В музеї широко представлені предмети побуту: рублі і качалки, жлукто і бодня, макітри і копистки, миски на миснику, різьблене ярмо і батіг, перші праски і калькулятори.

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 Музей. Сайт смт Вільшани
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by Ron Emoff Ph.D.
Ohio State University at Newark
School of Music and
People throughout Madagascar maintain a strong reverential connection to their ancestors, whose spirits may be called upon to enter into the present to resolve problems and to heal illness. Music performance provides a vital means of communicating with these ancestral spirits, thus of evoking the past and the power emergent in it. This project results from intensive ethnographic research that Ron Emoff performed on the east coast of Madagascar from 1993 through 1995. Dr. Emoff's fieldwork focused upon connections between musical performance, spirit possession, ways of recollecting the past, constructions of power, and perceptions of the colonial era in Madagascar.
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DVD - Disc One Video Segment 1 (2:10-6:10) Basesa
Video Segment 2 (6:11-9:24) Sodina/famadihana
Video Segment 3 (9:25-22:02) Betsimisaraka tromba ceremony
Video Segment 4 (22:03-30:33) Antandroy tromba
Video Segment 5 (30:34-36:30) Betsimisaraka tsaboraha
Video Segment 6 (36:31-41:00) Fahavoazana
Video Segment 7 (41:01-49:44) Lutheran exorcism
Video Segment 8 (49:45-53:36) Finale
DVD program is continuous, but above provides reference to contents DVD Running Time: 53:36
CD - Audio Tracks - Disc Two
1. Tananane Tanana Tamatave - 4:03
2. Afindrafindrao - :55
3. Hira taona - 3:48
4. Tromba Composition (A) - 2:23
5. Tromba Composition (B) - 7:02
6. Valse - 4:03
7. Antandroy song - 4:51
8. Toerana roa - 3:26
9. Tromba Composition (C) - 5:43
CD - Notes, Maps, Photos
(Disc Two) 24 Page Essay by Ron Emoff containing photos, maps, full track listing, glossary and bibliography on PDF format.
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Online Degrees Blog The Impact of HyperDocs on Education
The Impact of HyperDocs on Education
HyperDocs, say their creators, are "digital lesson plans that are designed by teachers and given to students. They provide access for students to all content and learning in one organized digital space. It's not about teaching technology, it's about using technology to TEACH."1
Educators Lisa Highfill, Kelly Hilton and Sarah Landis created HyperDocs and introduced them in 2013. Frustrated by a dichotomy often found in classrooms—students are asked to be creative, collaborative, critical thinkers and communicators while being told to sit quietly and create prescribed final products—they developed interactive online documents (including but not limited to Google Docs, Slide Decks, My Maps and Forms) intended to replace worksheets as a means of instruction delivery, with the goal "to engage, educate, and inspire learning."2
DitchThatTextbook.com, the online extension of Matt Miller's book by that title, notes:
"The beauty of HyperDocs lies in the creation of the doc itself. The creator considers the needs of the students, how they will engage in the content, what ways they can reflect on their own learning, and how they can show what they know.
HyperDocs LOOK engaging because they are. Kids enjoy completing them and while they are learning, collaborating, creating, and reflecting in their doc the teacher is given the gift of time to connect with students and engage in quality conversations with them about their learning."3
The internet is replete with accounts of how HyperDocs have changed and are changing teaching and education. Before we sample them, however, here's another point of clarification. As educator Summer Pettigrew notes, HyperDocs "aren't documents with hyperlinks. They are so much more than that. We go from writing plans in a book for us to designing lessons in a shareable, editable document for the students."4
Read on to explore HyperDocs' impact on education.
Customized Learning Design
Pettigrew, who teaches fifth grade math and science in South Carolina, first encountered HyperDocs at a point when she was hungry to create personalized educational experiences for her students. She credits them with transforming her "from lesson planner to learning designer.
"My teaching game was forever changed," she said. "HyperDocs are for all students. From your general population to your special populations, [they] will allow you to spend more time with students on an individual or small group basis, knowing the rest of your class is engaging with rich content that is carefully designed to meet their needs."4
Educators can customize HyperDocs for individual students and protect their privacy in doing so.
"They don't know that maybe their text … is at a different reading level," said Hilton. "Or they're able to use Read & Write for Google and just put headphones in, and that's just a little agreement between [that teacher] and that student."5 Further, HyperDocs' interactive structure alerts educators to areas in which students are struggling.
Heightened Collaboration
Indiana technology instructor Sean Fahey wrote on his blog that, in 2015, "I was searching high and low for possible ways to use the new Chromebooks my students would be coming to school with for the very first time. I knew that I didn't want to use the technology for the sake of using it. I wanted the technology in my classroom to be meaningful and benefit the students' learning."6
He watched a presentation on HyperDocs and "quickly realized I found a game changer when it comes to teaching with technology."
He had always valued collaboration in his classes, encouraging it through activities that emphasize how teachers and students help each other learn. He configured students' desks in groups to foster conversation, and had students complete most assignments by working in pairs.
After he began using HyperDocs, however, "a whole other level of collaboration began happening." Students would:
Divide up sections to read aloud for their group
Share the workload by assigning each other the different links within a section of the HyperDoc to explore
Share what they learned with each other
In reading his blog, one can sense his delight at these changes.
"Students were teaching other students how to use the technology," he wrote. "[Another teacher] shared how one of her students, who was sick and at home, signed into the HyperDoc assignment to collaborate and help the group with the work by making comments on a shared Google Doc. How amazing is that?"
Flexible, Student-Centered Learning
In her article, "Give students choice with HyperDocs,"7 educator Stacia Dirks acknowledged that, at first glance, a HyperDoc looks like just a Google Doc with links in it.
"But looking more closely, each link has a purpose. We aren't just providing a list of web searches for kids to meander through. The links are intentional, creating quality inquiry-based learning opportunities."
Rather than requiring students to read websites and spit out information, the HyperDoc format calls on them to "DO something with the information they are learning," and that something strengthens the four skills that Highfill, Hilton and Landis have valued from the outset: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity.
Dirks lauds HyperDocs for fitting smoothly into blended learning platforms, noting that their format allows for variety and flexibility, including:
Whole-group instruction time when needed
High-tech, low-tech, and no-tech activities
Independent, self-paced learning
Improved Student Engagement and Understanding
When he's not teaching or maintaining his blog, Indiana's Sean Fahey writes for DitchThatTextbook.com. In an article there,8 he gave examples of how HyperDocs can spark student engagement by utilizing the best learning tools from the web:
"Students used Google Maps Street View to discover and better understand the setting of a novel
Instead of a math practice worksheet, students completed a Quizizz game using homework mode; it was fun and competitive, but it also provided immediate feedback
Add a link to collaborative Google Slides so students are all creating and sharing what they have learned during the lesson
Use the embedded Google Drawing tools in Google Docs to create a drag-and-drop lesson-check activity
"HyperDocs have made me more of a facilitator," he said, which "gives me more small-group and one-on-one time with students. These individual interactions allow me to know my students better, build relationships, clarify misunderstandings, or help students develop a deeper understanding."
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1 Retrieved on May 3, 2021 from hyperdocs.co/start
2 Retrieved on May 3, 2021 from hyperdocs.co/about
3 Retrieved on May 3, 2021 from ditchthattextbook.com/the-hyperdocs-toolbox-14-engaging-example-activities/
4 Retrieved on May 3, 2021 from blog.schoolspecialty.com/hyperdocs-tool-student-centered-learning/
5 Retrieved on May 3, 2021 from cultofpedagogy.com/hyperdocs/
6 Retrieved on May 3, 2021 from faheystech.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-hyperdoc-effect-7-ways-using.html
7 Retrieved on May 3, 2021 from follettcommunity.com/s/article/give-students-choice-with-hyperdocs
8 Retrieved on May 3, 2021 from ditchthattextbook.com/9-reasons-why-hyperdocs-can-transform-your-class/
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Hanson, Hellogoodbye tour walks across U.S. for 'Use Your Sole' dates
Tours July 23, 2009 By Allison Reitz
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Hanson and Hellogoodbye will pound the pavement for a good cause this fall. Each night of the bands' Use Your Sole Tour will open...
Hanson and Hellogoodbye will pound the pavement for a good cause this fall. Each night of the bands' Use Your Sole Tour will open with a mile walk, with proceeds benefitting the fight against poverty and AIDS in Africa.
The co-headline trek begins September 30 at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, OK, and concludes more than two months later on November 8 at the House of Blues in Anaheim, CA. Other itinerary highlights include shows on October 5 at The Rave Eagles Club in Milwaukee, WI; October 11-12 at the House of Blues in Chicago, IL; October 15 at Nokia Theatre Times Square in New York, NY; October 28 at The Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA; and November 7 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, CA.
Presales begin July 23 for members of the official Hanson fan club. Tickets go on sale to the general public starting July 25. Steel Train and Sherwood will fill the tour's opening slots.
Fans can join all four bands on the tour in a mile-long walk prior to each night's performance. The walk is part of the Hanson brother's Take the Walk campaign, which organizes charity walks and collects donations to benefit a variety of international causes.
Along with the Hanson-founded campaign, the tour is sponsored by TOMS Shoes, which has a "one for one" guarantee. For every pair of shoes purchased through the company, a second pair is donated to a child in need. Since its founding in May 2006, the organization has donated more than 150,000 pairs of shoes.
The Hanson brothers — Isaac, Taylor and Zac — are currently working on their eighth album overall and fifth studio effort. The as of yet unnamed project is due for release sometime in 2010 and follows their 2007 release "The Walk." The record was a departure from the trio's earlier pop-heavy efforts, favoring socially conscious messages instead, and peaked at No. 56 on the Billboard 200.
Use Your Sole Tour itinerary:
(Dates are subject to change.)
September 30 Tulsa, OK Cain's Ballroom
October 1 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
October 2 Kansas City, MO Beaumont Club
October 3 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
October 5 Milwaukee, WI The Rave Eagles Club
October 6 Cleveland, OH House Of Blues
October 7 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
October 9 Indianapolis, IN Murat Egyptian Room
October 10 Detroit, MI The Fillmore Detroit
October 11 – 12 Chicago, IL House Of Blues
October 14 Boston, MA House Of Blues
October 15 New York, NY Nokia Theatre Times Square
October 16 Clifton Park, NY Northern Lights
October 19 Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live!
October 20 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
October 22 Charlotte, NC Amos' SouthEnd
October 23 North Myrtle Beach, SC House Of Blues
October 24 Lake Buena Vista, FL House Of Blues
October 27 Nashville, TN Wildhorse Saloon
October 28 Atlanta, GA The Tabernacle
October 31 Houston, TX House Of Blues
November 1 Dallas, TX House Of Blues
November 3 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
November 5 San Francisco, CA The Regency Ballroom
November 7 Los Angeles, CA Club Nokia
November 8 San Diego, CA House Of Blues


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Jessica Simpson's Movie "Major Movie Star" Opens…In Russia
Starcasm Staff October 29, 2008 Jessica Simpson, Major Movie Star
Jessica Simpson's comedy "Major Movie Star" is so bad that it is only showing in non-English speaking countries. The show opened in Russia on October 9 and was the number one grossing movie for the week. (What was its competition? Perhaps a documentary based on recent Russian military actions called "The Medvedevil Went Down To Georgia?") "Major Movie Star" is scheduled to open in Bulgaria in November according to Fox News.
The plot of the movie is that a successful Hollywood actress (J Simpy) loses her money and then has an epiphany that joining the army would be a good idea. Ohhhh man! There is an aesthetic theory that claims things can be so bad that they're good (for example: William Shatner records, Melrose Place, kung-fu movies, Krystal/White Castle burgers), and we have to admit this sounds like a prime candidate! The Starcasm Netflix account already has a spot in it's queue set aside!
As a snarky celebrity gossip site, it's exciting to think that we might have the female version of David Hasselhoff on our hands! (We are willing to admit that Jessica Simpson might be fun to watch if you couldn't understand what she was saying) Perhaps her success will lead to more Russian movies like:
If so, more queue slots shall be reserved!
(If the movie poster looks familiar, we apologize. It seems the marketing firm that handled "Thelma & Lohan" is the same as "The Dukes of Moscow")
****UPDATE 10/31/08 – It's official. "Major Movie Star" will not make it into American theaters and will go straight to dvd. That was expected. What wasn't expected is that they've changed the title! (We assume for marketing purposes) OK folks, this is no joke. Are you ready? Drum roll…………….. "Private Valentine: Blonde and Dangerous." I guess they wanted it to sound like it at least has nudity. Poor Jess is learning that old adage the hard way: Those who can't do, look pretty and record music.
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RML Hospital extends working hours of operation theatre to cater to more patients
The decision was made seeing the high waiting list of surgeries, as revised timing will help the doctors to conduct more procedures in a single day. According to the Resident Doctors Association (RDA) there is also a need to increase the number of working doctors in the hospital to shed the load on the doctors.
NEET-PG counselling: Doctors demand action within 24 hours, warn complete shutdown of healthcare services
More than 2,500 resident doctors were reportedly detained as they were marching towards Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya's home over the delay in NEET-PG counseling in National Capital.
More doctors to join Hindu Rao protests
Senior doctors are expected to go on mass casual leave on Monday to express solidarity with the association, which also protested at Connaught Place in the evening.
Delhi: Kasturba Hospital doctors to go on strike over unpaid salaries
The Resident Doctors Association of North Delhi Municipal Corporation-run Kasturba Hospital has decided to go on strike from Wednesday for a week over non-payment of salaries and threatened to resign if salaries are not disbursed.
AIIMS RDA opposes proposal to review students tuition fees, patients' user charges
AIIMS RDA opposed the proposal, saying it strongly supports quality and affordable education for all sections of the society.
Safdarjung Hospital to run OPDs for 12 hrs a day, resident docs raise concern
At present, OPDs in most government hospitals, including in Safdarjung, run for five hours a day, from 8 am to 1 pm with special afternoon clinics being operational for certain ailments like diabetes.
Only 230 generic drugs available at AIIMS' medical store
The Medical Council of India, the apex medical regulator in the country, has warned doctors of action if they fail to adhere to its guideline.
AIIMS' resident doctors seek round-the-clock lab tests
Drawing the attention of the AIIMS director towards the issue of non-availability of facilities for conducting routine laboratory tests after 11 AM, the RDA termed it as "unfortunate".
Ad hoc doctors find it tough to get maternity leave
At a time when government is planning to increase the duration of maternity leave from existing 12 to 26 weeks, doctors working on ad hoc basis at Delhi's government hospitals claim they are told to quit job to plan a baby.


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The Trader Part II
"V" in This Battle; the War Continues -- Part II
Sept. 18, 2006 12:01 am ET
The Trader -- Part I
BY COMPARISON, THERE IS $55 BILLION IN health-care funds, or less than 4% of the sector's index weight. Dedicated sector-fund assets for technology, energy and financial-services make up similarly tiny portions of their industry's market value.
REITs appear to be too popular to come anywhere close to repeating their recent rates of return.
This heavy demand for real-estate equities in part reflects a zeal for scarce yield vehicles, particularly those that can increase their dividends over time. But more fundamentally it's a symptom crowding in the "alternative asset classes" that's raged since the stock-market bubble burst.
Pension funds and others are giddy for direct real-estate ownership as a supposedly noncorrelated asset class that benefits to some degree from inflation. The research firm Private Equity Intelligence recently reported that cash raised in real-estate private equity funds is on pace to set a record this year, with $32 billion raised so far and another $27 billion set to be raised, versus $45 billion in all of last year. This capital will be leveraged in the service of buying buildings around the world.
The same firm reports that in its survey of 300 current investors in real estate buyout funds, two-thirds said they plan to increase their allocation to the sector, with only 4% looking to trim exposure. All this will drive up purchase prices of properties, thus cutting potential future returns. Keep in mind, too, that unlike land, they are still making new commercial real estate. Just look at the cranes rising up on so many cities' skylines.
In an extensive report this month that attempts to test whether various alternative asset classes are in a bubble, JPMorgan's global strategy group suggests that commercial real estate is getting there but hasn't arrived yet. REITs' absolute and relative five-year price appreciation has reached levels last seen in the 1987 and 1997 peaks in the sector, which were followed by steep corrections. Yields relative to long Treasury bonds are also about where they were at earlier tops.
Here Again: The Dow Jones Industrial Average is at the threshold of its old five-year highs set in May and again knocking on the door to 12,000, as tame inflation data and a further slide in oil prices helped embolden buyers. General Electric was a leader, thanks to an analyst's upgrade and some asset-sale news.
But REIT leverage is far lower than in earlier peaks, JPMorgan points out.
Real estate is a slow-moving market. REIT stocks have remained in firm uptrends that have proven remarkably resilient. And we've been wrong on the group before. But the stocks are getting far too widely loved and too broadly owned for the risk/reward trade to stay favorable.
WELL, THEN, ISN'T THERE SOME WAY to play the strong commercial-real-estate market, benefiting from high employment and low vacancy rates, without competing with buyout firms for the buildings themselves?
Sure. An obscure vehicle is Interface (IFSIA), which makes modular carpeting, those floor coverings that come in tiles, on which you've probably spilled coffee if you work in a decent-sized office building.
It's a smallish company, around $700 million in equity market value with another $430 million of debt. The stock, just under 13, is off its highs above 15 early in the year but has more than doubled from its April 2005 low.
Modular carpeting, more efficient and versatile than broadloom, is in a nice secular growth trajectory. In the second quarter Interface had 12% top-line growth, orders rose 13% and the backlog was 20% higher than a year earlier. The Street expects the company to earn 61 cents a share this year and 86 cents in 2007. But Charles Kantor, a portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman, thinks next year's results will more likely be between 90 cents and $1 a share.
Interface is paying down debt with free cash flow and recently sold a European fabrics unit. The pullback in oil prices is a positive, as the company is exposed to costs of petroleum-based materials. As a possible growth kicker, Interface struck a deal to develop Martha Stewart-branded carpet tiles for homes.
The stock has typically enjoyed a price-earnings multiple over the past 10 years above 16, so applying such a multiple to potential 2007 earnings near $1 a share implies possible upside above 20% in a year.
BURROWING THROUGH THE SAME SECTOR-FUND STATISTICS that make real estate look a bit too in vogue, it becomes apparent that telecom stocks remain enticingly unfashionable.
Telecom and real-estate stocks (the latter very broadly defined as REITs, thrifts, homebuilders and home-goods retailers) make up about the same proportion of the S&P 500 -- roughly $400, billion or 3.4%. Telecom-only mutual funds, though, have a mere $3.5 billion in assets, versus $65 billion for real-estate portfolios.
Traditional telecom stocks remain under-owned and largely disliked by big investors, despite the group's explosive run higher this year. The Merrill Lynch Telecom HOLDRS (ticker: TTH) -- a handy exchange-traded basket that is 75% in AT&T (T), Verizon (VZ) and BellSouth (BLS), which will soon be part of AT&T -- is up 22% so far in 2006.
In addition to the lack of interest among mutual-fund investors, big institutions seem indifferent as well. One handy way of gauging this is to look at where the big index-fund managers (who have to own proportional amounts of all big stocks) rank on the holders' lists of the erstwhile Baby Bells. The indexers -- Barclays, State Street and Vanguard -- are among the top three owners of each, AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth.
The mega-cap telecoms, obviously, offer relatively stable results, nice yields and an implicit call option on wireless-phone and bundled broadband growth.
Tactically, the stocks have run far in a hurry and seem ripe for a rest or a pullback, so there is probably no urgency to chase them. But when a sector goes from being hated, to performing well, to being loved, the process can take a long time and be quite lucrative. Just ask REIT and utility investors.


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The Mining Software Repositories (MSR) field analyzes the rich data available in software repositories to uncover interesting and actionable information about software systems and projects. The goal of this two-day conference is to advance the science and practice of MSR. The 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories will be co-located with ICSE 2019 in Montréal, QC, Canada.
This year, MSR will feature a new education track. The track will consist of a panel to discuss the latest teaching practices, a tutorial for newcomers to MSR, and a session to showcase community shared educational resources—these resources will be an open project that MSR researchers are welcome to contribute to like an open source project. Check the Track's page for more information!
"Qualitative Data Analysis in Software Engineering: A Hands-on Tutorial" by Christoph Treude from the University of Adelaide, Australia.
In an effort to encourage research on understanding and improving FOSS (Free, Open Source Software), MSR has established the "FOSS Impact paper" award. The award will be granted to papers that show outstanding contributions to the FOSS community. For many years, the MSR community has leveraged public data from FOSS projects, and in the process the community has contributed new insights, tools and techniques to assist FOSS projects in different ways. This award recognizes and encourages such line of research.
Authors can self-nominate their research papers for the FOSS award, after which the dedicated committee will evaluate these papers.
More information about the MSR 2019 FOSS Award will be added soon!
The MSR 2019 Award Recipients!
Katsuro Inoue for fostering a vibrant international community around software clone analysis and the development of the CCFinder clone detector, which has enabled countless others to do research involving code clones.
Emad Shihab for contributions to the state of the art in research and practice in software quality assurance as well as outreach and education efforts throughout the international MSR community.
Save the date: Rob DeLine's keynote on Sunday May 26th!
Rob DeLine, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, has spent the last thirty years designing programming environments for a variety of audiences: end users making 3D environments (Alice); software architects composing systems (Unicon); professional programmers exploring unfamiliar code (Code Thumbnails, Code Canvas, Debugger Canvas); and, most recently, data scientists analyzing streaming data (Tempe). He is a strong advocate of user-centered design and founded a research group applying that approach to software development tools. This approach aims for a virtuous cycle: conducting empirical studies to understand software development practices; inventing technologies that aim to improve those practices; and then deploying these technologies to test whether they actually do.
Title: We won! So what?
To quote our research community's succinct mission statement: "The Mining Software Repositories (MSR) field analyzes the rich data available in software repositories to uncover interesting and actionable information about software systems and projects." In the earliest days of this conference, this mission was a novel possibility that the flourishing Open Source movement created. These days, however, the practice of turning repository data into actionable insights and deployed models has become bog standard. So, congratulations to the MSR community for leading the way! But now what? MSR finds itself caught in a heated competition among industry researchers and data scientists to find novel ways to exploit data and apply models. Given the resources and energy that industry now invests in data science and machine learning, MSR cannot hope to succeed by working on the same types of problems, using the same techniques. It's time to pivot. Luckily there are hard open problems for which industry is hungry for results: How can we continue to get insights and build models while upholding privacy laws (GDPR) and user privacy preferences? How can we make trained models understandable to all relevant stakeholders? How can we ensure that our insights and models are not harmed by human biases like sexism, racism, political manipulation, etc.? The first half of this talk will describe current industry practice in data science and machine learning, based on recent studies. In the second half, I'll describe some difficult new problems, to prod energetic discussion about the future direction of MSR.


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Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked Indians on Thursday to "stand as a wall" with anger boiling over Pakistan's capture of a pilot as a crisis escalates between the nuclear-armed rivals.
Modi did not mention Pakistan by name during the address to party workers. But anger against the neighbor, with whom India has fought three wars since 1947, remains high. Protesters set ablaze Pakistan's national flag outside the country's embassy in New Delhi on Thursday. Police detained some but others ran away, witnesses said.
Claiming to be supporters of Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party the dozen men gathered outside the heavily guarded diplomatic mission shouting "Down with Pakistan" before setting fire to the flag dipped in kerosene. "Police tried to restrain them but they got into a car and quickly fled," one witness told AFP.
The rival neighbors have been urged by major world powers to exercise restraint after India and Pakistani fighter planes fought a brief skirmish on Wednesday morning over the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir. New Delhi said it lost one fighter jet and a pilot was missing in action, later confirming he was in Pakistani custody. India also downed a Pakistani jet, the foreign ministry claimed. Pakistan claimed to have shot down two Indian jets and denied it lost any aircraft in the dogfight.
Islamabad said its incursion across the heavily militarized border was in response to Indian warplanes bombing Balakot, well inside its territory, on Feb. 26. That attack was the "jaw breaking" response Modi had promised after a militant staged a suicide bombing in Indian-Occupied Kashmir on Feb. 14, killing at least 40 paramilitaries. New Delhi blamed the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad for the attack, and hit what it called a training camp for the militants in its aerial raid 12 days later.