 I was still reading at 3 a.m. last night).
In War and Peace, Prince Andrew has just returned from his audience with the Emperor Francis to find his comrades in disarray. Tolstoy, as advertised, is an acute judge of human ambition, both on the individual and collective level.
By the way, Dailylit.com has just released its thousandth title, The Odyssey. Like War and Peace, it’s free. Others cost money. This will never be my new favorite way of reading, but it’s been an interesting and rewarding experiment.
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Hi, Keir
What a concept–and it would clearly keep me from skimming all the battle scenes (which is what I did when I read it in the early 70s)! There may be something to this!
I would never skim the battle scenes, but I can imagine “accidentally” turning an extra page during some of the society scenes! I wonder if there’s a He Reads/She Reads column in this?
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[...] of REaD ALERT, spelling out my lack of enthusiasm for e-readers, I forgot to mention something: I am reading War and Peace via e-mail. A grievous omission? Perhaps. But the break from more mundane business has become so integrated [...]
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Quoted material should be attributed to: Keir Graff, Likely Stories (Booklist Online).Shares of The Macerich Company (NYSE:MAC) were up 5.5% on Tuesday. The company traded as high as $18.47 and last traded at $18.47. Approximately 65,045 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 99% from the average daily volume of 5,199,552 shares. The stock had previously closed at $17.50.
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The firm has a market capitalization of $3.95 billion, a P/E ratio of -15.68, a P/E/G ratio of 3.98 and a beta of 1.92. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.41, a current ratio of 1.19 and a quick ratio of 1.19. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $19.05 and its 200 day simple moving average is $17.88.
Macerich (NYSE:MAC) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, November 3rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.50 EPS for the quarter, topping the Zacks’ consensus estimate of $0.43 by $0.07. The business had revenue of $212.14 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $200.58 million. Macerich had a negative net margin of 19.58% and a negative return on equity of 5.39%. The firm’s revenue was up 14.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $0.52 earnings per share. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that The Macerich Company will post 1.97 EPS for the current fiscal year.
The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 3rd. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, November 9th were issued a $0.15 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, November 8th. This represents a $0.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 3.24%. Macerich’s dividend payout ratio is presently -52.63%.
Institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Profund Advisors LLC grew its stake in shares of Macerich by 3.9% during the third quarter. Profund Advisors LLC now owns 15,738 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $263,000 after acquiring an additional 584 shares during the last quarter. FIL Ltd grew its stake in shares of Macerich by 13.6% during the third quarter. FIL Ltd now owns 5,407 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $90,000 after acquiring an additional 647 shares during the last quarter. Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. grew its stake in shares of Macerich by 4.6% during the third quarter. Crossmark Global Holdings Inc. now owns 16,137 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $270,000 after acquiring an additional 710 shares during the last quarter. Cadence Wealth Management LLC grew its stake in shares of Macerich by 9.3% during the third quarter. Cadence Wealth Management LLC now owns 10,931 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $183,000 after acquiring an additional 931 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc. boosted its position in Macerich by 6.1% in the third quarter. Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc. now owns 19,121 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $320,000 after buying an additional 1,092 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 72.87% of the company’s stock.On Wednesday the 23rd of October, our senior hurling team played Carnew, a team from Wicklow, in the South Leinster quarter final in Ballyhale.
Scoil Aireagail got off to the better start with the first point coming from Mikey Jones. Ronan Coffey then added another point to our scoreboard. The Carnew backs were already under severe pressure and Ballyhale managed to succeed with another two quick points from Andrew Fitzpatrick and Kevin Farrell.
The first goal of the game came when a 65 dropped short on the edge of the box. A flick of the hurl from Andrew Fitzpatrick saw the sliotar end up in the Carnew net. The Wicklow boys were getting frustrated with great defending from Jack Kenneally, Eugene Aylward and Brian Phelan not giving their markers any easy shots towards goal, in addition to Aaron Roche on goal making sure the Wicklow scoreboard stayed goalless. Three more points from the full forward line, Kevin Farrell, Andrew Fitzpatrick and Ray Cody, put a ten point gap between the teams. Before the Carnew backs had time to settle, Kevin Farrell snatched a goal. Great team work from Scoil Aireagail then lead to a powerful goal from Ray Cody, which gave Ballyhale a comfortable score of 3-8 to 2 points going into the second half.
Five minutes into the second half Scoil Aireagail got the scoreboard rolling again with a superb shot from Andrew Fitzpatrick, which left the Carnew net shaking. Mikey Jones then added a well deserved point. Scoil Aireagail were in were well in control of the game when Andrew Fitzpatrick scored Ballyhale’s fifth goal and a well earned hat trick for himself.
Scoil Aireagail now had the game in the bag, it was only a matter of finishing off the job. Substitutes Ryan Bland, Dylan Doran, Conor Frisby, Liam Drea and Mícháel Reade were introduced. The five lads stepped up to the pace of the game with Dylan Doran and Micheál Reade scoring a goal each. Micheál then scored the closing point of the game, to leave the final score at 7-13 to 3 points to Scoil Aireagail.
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