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While Michael Moskow said some additional firming may be necessary, the usually hawkish William Poole indicated that he would back a rate cut if the economy stumbled. Elsewhere, the yen was little changed by the expected Bank of Japan decision to keep borrowing costs unchanged. Meanwhile, the BoJ's governor Toshihiko Fukui said he is not ruling out a possible interest rate increase before the end of the year, noting that the Japanese economy is expected .
What: Annual Parade of Homes hosted by the Home Builders Association of Charlotte. Tour features more than 100 homes, priced from $134,000 to more than $2.5 million. Some are furnished models.When: Final weekend. Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. today, 1-6 p.m. Sunday. Where: Mecklenburg and surrounding counties. Plan books with maps and directions available at participating Bi-Lo, Lowes Foods and Harris Teeter stores. Books also available at all featured homes. Admission: The tour is free and self-guided, so you can start at any home. Information -- including list of participating builders -- www.hbacharlotte.com. Symphony designer showcase What: 35th annual Symphony Guild ASID Designer House, featuring rooms by more than a dozen of the area's top interior designers.
The Irish Independent reports that each peak-time journey on Dublin's Luas tramway costs the taxpayer around 6, even when the savings from fewer car journeys are counted, the annual Dublin economists' conference was told. Robert Wattt of Indecon said there were serious doubts as to whether any more Luas lines should be built, given their high costs and limited capacity. It had been shown in other cities that dedicated busways could carry five times as many passengers as the Luas 6,000 per hour, while Metro and DART lines could carry over 50,000."At present, there is not enough demand to justify the Metro line to Swords and Dublin Airport," he said. "But housing and commercial development could take place along the line to make it competitive. Luas does not have the capacity." He said there was not enough data available to assess the value of major projects in the Government's Transport 21 plan, most of which was not costed in any case.
Stellar Satellite Communications Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of ORBCOMM Inc., today announced the introduction of the DS300-D and DS400 dual-mode ORBCOMM satellite and GSM communicators. The first to be commercialized is the DS300-D, which features expansion ports that allow the addition of external GSM and Zigbee wireless modules. The DS300-D will be followed shortly by the DS400, which incorporates GSM and Zigbee wireless communication devices and a DS100 satellite subscriber communicator in a single enclosure. Where the DS300-D is designed mostly for high value asset tracking, the DS400 is specifically designed for heavy equipment and fleet management applications. The DS series of satellite subscriber communicators are the result of a joint engineering and manufacturing effort between Stellar and Delphi Electronics and Safety, which continues to produce reliable and cost effective products for the ORBCOMM market.
This week candidates for the library board were asked to address the issue of the renovation/expansion of the Main Library building. Each week the order of their answers will rotate so that each will have an opportunity to be near the beginning of the article. These are the questions we asked: Imagine that you have been elected to the board and also are chosen to be the chairperson of the building committee. What would your first steps be? What do you consider a reasonable timetable for having a plan ready for a referendum? What are your thoughts about extra expenditures for maintaining the building in the interim? What do you see as one essential component of a renovated building? Which components do you see as negotiable? What would your recommendation be for the issue of closing the building during a renovation? Andrew Greene and Jonathan Kahn are vying for one seat.
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