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Brexit. According to The Economist, Vote Leave designated as the official pro-Brexit campaign group claimed that business was evenly divided, yet most polls by trade associations found big majorities for staying in the EU before the referendum.
A survey by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) demonstrated that 80% of members supported Remain and only 5% agreed with the Leaving position.
In response to claims that it represents only big companies, the CBI pointed out that it speaks for 190,000 members, mostly small and medium-sized enterprises, and that 71% of SMEs wanted to stay.
The Institute of Directors and the British Chambers of Commerce found most in favor, and a majority of the Federation of Small Businesses narrowly backed Remain.
Hilary Jones, a director at UK cosmetics firm Lush said the company worries about the economic impact. She comments that the firm’s Dorset factory will continue to produce goods for the UK market. The new plant in Germany will produce products for the European market.
By August the vote share prices in the UK had recovered, with the FTSE 100 trading higher than before the referendum.
The broader FTSE 250 index, which includes more British-based businesses, remained about 1.5% lower than before the Brexit vote.
Retail sales figures for July were up in the same period last year, defying predictions of a post-Brexit slump. Besides the UK industrial output grew at the fastest rate for 17 years in the April-to-June quarter, up 2.1% compared with the first quarter of the year.
The Office for National Statistics
Said “very few” respondents have been affected by the uncertainty from the referendum vote.
However, the Bank of England has announced additional measures to stimulate the UK economy amid uncertainty over Brexit and worries about productivity and economic growth, cutting interest rates from 0.5% to 0.25%, a record low and the first cut since 2009.
Another key plank of its stimulus policy buying up UK government bonds has run into trouble after the Bank failed to find enough sellers of long-dated government debt.
Four of the biggest US banks have committed to helping maintain the City’s position, but HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world, indicated that will move up to 1,000 jobs to Paris, the BBC understands.
Some UK exporters say they’ve had increased orders or inquiries because of the fall in the value of the pound.
Pest control firm Rentokil Initial says it could make £15m extra this year thanks to a weaker currency, but many UK companies are willing to keep the profit planned before these sudden events.
There Are Many Sides To This Coin
Some businessmen agreed with Brexit such as James Dyson, of the eponymous manufacturing firm, and Alan Halsall of Silver Cross, a pram maker who believes EU rules hamper the export of his products.
Many small firms think that, since they do not export at all, they should be exempt from Brussels rules.
But Paul Drechsler, president of the CBI noted that 25 years of single-market integration created a supply-chain network so dense as to make such compartmentalization impossible.
There are also expectations about Japanese firms in Britain that may switch investment to continental Europe, and there is no doubt that an absolutely important element to consider for exporters is the importation fees from the EU.
Plus, as The Economist asserts, Britain’s manufacturing sector is quite small; the last big decline in the pound in 2008 and 2009 did not eliminate the current account deficit.
A lower pound means higher inflation, which apparently could lead to “Brexit taxes” in the form of higher petrol prices, and thus a squeeze in living standards.
In the Netherlands, many companies believe Brexit could be a positive thing for the country’s economy.
Strategic Consultant Cor Molenaar.
Thinks several international companies want to operate in the EU, will now skip the UK and settle in the Netherlands.
“Because there is no language barrier, US companies see England as the gateway to Europe. New e-commerce companies prefer to settle in the UK. But with Brexit, there will be import fees from the EU, so exports from the UK will become more expensive”. He said.
“Will the UK still be that interesting for these American companies? They will undoubtedly find another country as their starting point.”
He also said the Netherlands is a friendly country for the US. It has good logistics and the Dutch speak English well.
“Warehouses will be built near Venlo and there will arise a huge logistic hub. Amsterdam is already the internet hub for Europe and will only become stronger.”
But an important element is all the protectionism policies involved in EU regulations. As the Brexit Movie explains widely, corrodes markets, and hinders the entrepreneur’s competitiveness. It’s been breaking the UK’s competitiveness potential.
According To The 2016 Country Report.
The United Kingdom is provided by the E-commerce foundation. UK ranks fourth on the Logistics Performance Index (LPI), only behind Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
This reflects perceptions of a country’s logistics based on, and efficiency of the customs clearance process, and quality of trade. Besides Transport-related infrastructure and ease the quality of logistics services.
Any local or foreign retailers need to understand UK customer habits and expectations. Which are typically higher than they are in the rest of Europe.
These companies realize that the UK focus on the market is – price-driven -. So understanding how customers respond to pricing and promotions is key. After all, EU law still stands in the UK until it ceases being a member.
The UK will continue to abide by EU treaties and laws, but not take part in any decision-making.
The terms of Britain’s exit will have to be agreed upon by 27 national parliaments. A process that could be taking some years, considering Article 50 has not been used yet.
So adaptation and flexibility are values that will make a difference in the company’s behavior. Their success was upon British consumers.


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According to construction database TOPHOTELPROJECTS, Japan will experience steady growth in the coming years, supported by expansions in Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo.
Our researchers report that 72 hotels with 17,730 rooms are currently in the pipeline across Japan. We take a closer look at the country’s development slate and highlight some schemes worth pursuing.
Opening hotels in Japan by year
Before the end of 2021, five more hotels with 1,085 rooms will open their doors in Japan. For 2022, 28 launches with 4,733 switches are already underway, followed by another 14 schemes with 2,915 rooms in 2023. An additional 25 projects and 8,997 switches are in the works for 2024 and beyond.
Of the 72 new hotels in Japan, 43 will be four-star hotels, while the remaining 29 will target the five-star market.
Top urban growth markets
Osaka, one of the country’s major economic centers, will acquire eight new hotels in the coming years, adding 4,553 rooms to the city’s offering. More than half of that impressive number stems from one gigantic project by chance – the 2,500-key MGM Resort Osaka.
Elsewhere, and just a short drive from Osaka, Kyoto’s cultural hotspot will get seven new hotels with 995 rooms. The capital, Tokyo, will witness the opening of six hotels with 1,348 rooms soon.
Global hotel brands expand in Japan
All three of the fastest growing hotel brands in Japan hail from North America.
Fairfield Inn & Suites, from Marriott International, leads 11 active projects to provide 900 new rooms. Meanwhile, the world-famous Hilton Hotels & Resorts Worldwide subsidiary, Hilton Worldwide, will add five hotels and 1,747 rooms to its offering in the Land of the Rising Sun.
Finally, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts Canada is currently working on three projects comprising of 495 rooms.
Exciting new hotels in project pipeline in Japan
Let’s start with Hoshino Resorts Omo7 Osaka Shin-Imamiya, which is scheduled to open opposite a major train station in the second quarter of 2022. From here, guests will have easy access to Kansai International Airport as well as popular downtown areas. On top of its convenient location, the hotel will benefit from vast green spaces, multiple restaurants, a cafeteria and open spaces for public events.
Located in the foothills of Mount Fuji, Fuji Speedway will provide guests with easy access to events at the new Motorsports Village facility. Once the property opens, it will feature 120 rooms and suites, a 500-square-meter flexible party room, a 200-square-meter conference room, fine dining restaurants, bars, an indoor pool, fitness center, spa, and landscaped pool. Hot spring shower facilities. Guests will also have access to the on-site Automotive Museum, to celebrate the Fuji Speedway’s historical significance.
Finally, in early 2023, Four Seasons Resort and Private Residences Okinawa will begin welcoming guests. The 120-room beachfront resort is located along the island’s west coast, just 31 miles from Naha International Airport. Its facilities will include an all-day dining restaurant, specialty restaurants, a lounge, shops and recreational facilities, as well as public parks and gardens.

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fast package management
We have been working hard to get package management stack changes in so we can have them in one of the next alphas.
This started sometime last year, when Michael Schröder started to show some people a new solver which was much faster than current libzypp solver. At the same time, he designed some memory and cpu efficient structures and file formats to deal with the huge amounts of metadata. The solver operated later over this optimized pool.
One of the features of the solver is its simplicity. Current libzypp operates over a dependency problem at the resolvable level while the sat solver converts the pool into a set of rules and then operates the problem as a boolean satisfiability problem, which makes it codebase concentrate only on this, making it much smaller and simpler. The error messages on conflicts are supposed to be more human friendly too.


If all you want right now is an uplifting story about the indomitability of the human spirit:
The tribal inhabitants of Ethiopia’s Omo Valley are resourceful, resilient people with beautiful teeth. They transform garbage into treasured adornments, literally weaving the by-products of throwaway consumer culture into their traditions and rituals to create “vibrant postmodern couture.” Style is integral to their daily life, with self-decoration and ornamentation establishing one’s identity and place within the tribe. Beauty is valued so highly that the tribespeople make time among the other tasks required to survive their harsh environment to craft elaborate wigs, headpieces, and jewelry.
If grim truths and the difficult realities of human existence are more your thing:
The tribespeople of Ethiopia’s Omo Valley are adorning themselves with the symbols of their own inevitable destruction. The bottle caps, the wristwatches, the SIM cards, are all spillover from the industrialized, modern world encroaching on their ancestral homelands and eroding their traditional ways of life. The tribes of the Omo Valley are fast approaching full contact with the western world, a process only sped up by the busloads of tourists now coming by to take pictures of “the trendy tribespeople.”


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, the new album from Avril Lavigne, will be released on March 8, 2011. The singer’s fourth solo record,
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. Lavigne has sold 30-million records, released three fragrances, and become something of a magnet for the tabloid magazines. With her record being released so close to this spring’s Juno awards, look for Lavigne to make an appearance at the big Toronto show.

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The State Control Centre (SCC) is Victoria’s primary control centre for the management of emergencies. It’s main purpose is to provide a facility to meet the State Control Centre’s priorities and objectives. A key part of this is the delivery of up-to-date information so that decisions can be made quickly and easily within succinct time frames. So, when Erbas Engineers approached DIB Australia for an AV solution for this unique space, attention to detail and a clear understanding of the clients needs were paramount to the success of this project.
The State Control Centre required an AV solution for a Video Wall that was simple to use, but could display many different configurations. This was a unique, custom AV installation that required attention to detail, including testing of equipment and configurations to make sure everything would work well once installed. This included achieving an amazing 2.5mm bezel from screen to screen.
After much consultation with the client, an AV solution was determined, which involved the creation of a Video Wall, using a total of sixteen LG 55LV35A 55” LCD TV panels. This would create four 4 x 4 configured video walls, with the ability to be used as individual screens or 4 large 110” video walls. A total of 20 different inputs could be selected with multiple end users controlling the system so a simple user interface was important to the client. As is the approach with all DIB Australia installations, creating simplicity and ease-of-use of the AV system is key. With this in mind, an Extron 10” Colour Monitor (TLP Pro 1020T) with simplified custom controls to enable the system to be used easily and effectively. Ipad control of the system was also a desired feature enabling the end user the freedom to move around the room and make changes as required from any location.
This simple-to-use control panel was the interface to other key components in the system, including the Extron IPCP Pro 550 processor and a Kramer VS-3232DN Modular Matrix Switcher, which was used to handle the multiple inputs, including video signal routing within the system.
Training was also provided by DIB to the relevant staff at the State Control Centre to ensure the system was utilised to it’s full potential.
For assistance with your custom audio visual requirements, contact a DIB Audio Visual Solutions Consultant today Phone (03) 9457-4800 or contact us

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Looks like one project, not two:
Below are the 12 inches added in between the “triplexes” after the DPD Director had already approved a single building as two separate projects.
How and why was this approved as two projects? It’s obscene the city participates in this gamesmanship just so the developer can avoid public notice, design review and SEPA.
For this project and others like it across Seattle, why isn’t anyone representing the community’s interests and enforcing public notice, design review and SEPA?


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"Light Turrets excel at generator and flag defense."
The Light Turret is an unlocked pack for the Medium Armor. The Light Turret is a deployable turret that will automatically shoot at enemies once it has locked onto them. In order for the Light Turret to function, the generator must be operational. The Light Turret can only be deployed at least 20.48 meters away from any other deployed Light Turrets. It takes 2 seconds for the Light Turret to deploy before it can start firing.
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Modularizing a Large Commercial Code Base
Part I: Defining goals, picking features, asking questions
In 2017, we (painfully) migrated our entire 1.5 million LOC codebase consisting of 450 maven modules to Java 9.
Now we are on 11 and plan to stay on this LTS version for a while.
We have benefited from the few small new language features (for example, more seamless
try-with-resources blocks and
var), new and refined APIs (collection factories,
Optional) as well as some improvements in the JVM itself (string performance improvements), but a few of us wanted to see if we couldn’t adopt the Java Module System.
Our gut feeling was that the improved accessibility restrictions offered by the module system would benefit our ability to design and maintain our software.
Step 0: Getting third-party dependencies in shape
A sensible prerequisite for doing anything with modules is that your third-party dependencies at least have sensible module names. If they do not, they will have an automatically generated name, based on the jar file name and that can lead to unpredictable and brittle dependencies.
An intrepid developer took it upon himself to slowly move all our dependencies to a compatible state. This involved upgrading third-party party libraries, badgering maintainers of open source projects, providing patches and pull requests, and sometimes getting rid of dependencies that are no longer maintained.
Step 1: What do we need, what do we want to avoid?
After reaching that baseline, we needed to seriously consider the hurdles and ramifications of pursuing this any further. What did we expect to gain from using Java modules? Does it work with our tooling? Does it work with our deployment? Does it work with CI? We assembled a ragtag team of eager individuals and banged our heads together.
Module system features
Here’s what we thought about the module system’s core benefits.
(Having the module system verify that all dependencies are present.)
We have a well-oiled build pipeline and rarely have problems with missing/duplicate dependencies at run time.
(Only being able to access another module’s API if it is exported.)
This is what we looked forward to the most! With it, we can effectively document public vs private API (within our own subprojects) in code and make sure what one developer wrote as a module-internal API is not reused across module boundaries by somebody else without considering the ramifications.
Another aspect is that the accessibility rules prevent inadvertent access to indirect dependencies. Within our own subprojects that is a recurring challenge that we can get rid of this way.
module-info.java in every module as a condensed view of the JAR is easier to review and analyze than package imports or Maven poms.
(Creating custom JDK runtimes for reduced deplyoment size.)
Cadenza is pretty big, with about two hundred dependencies, and needs most, maybe even all of the JDK anyway, so we’re not expecting a big gain here.
Module system risks
It’s not all rainbows and unicorns, though. There are quite a few challenges that we expected:
- dependencies that misbehave on the module path
- complicated execution scripts by having to split module and class path
- varying tool support that makes builds in IDEs and build tools behave differently
While discussing this, we quickly came to a consensus that we wanted to reap the benefits of the module system at compile time but we saw no pressing need for run-time modules. If possible we would build and develop using Java modules and at run time everything would still be on the class path.
We hoped that this would reduce the amount of issues we would run into while still getting all the benefits of being able to better specify our APIs and hiding our implementations. While not sure how well this works with various tools it seemed worth a shot.
Step 2: Usage guidelines
With that settled, we discussed what features we want to use and how:
- Module names: We decided on a reverse FQDN notation, similar to package names. This seemed the most consistent and the least likely to cause problems down the road. Where possible, the module name would be a prefix of the package name, in cases where the package names are really old and terrible, we may choose something more fitting.
exports: We obviously need them to make this work at all.
- Implied readability with
requires transitive: One of the problems we want to fix is the inadvertent use of transitive dependencies. Unfortunately we have a few, err, “poorly modularized” artifacts that many others depend on and that would likely
requires transitivemany others, meaning hidden dependencies would be back in force. We hence decided against using this feature.
- Optional dependencies with
requires static: This only differs from
requiresat run time, so there’s no reason to use it.
- Qualified exports with
exports to: They allow something in between private and public APIs, which we felt was a mostly unnecessary dilution of the module system’s promises of strong encapsulation. We only allow it as a temporary solution for cases where subprojects that are being modularized are too closely coupled and decoupling would take too much time and hinder the modularization effort. Each use should be explained with a comment.
- Reflective access with
opens toand services with
provides...withThese are run-time concepts that we can ignore since we only want to use the module system at compile-time.
Step 3: More questions that need answers
We also came up with a set of questions we needed to answer before we could proceed:
- How does Maven deal with modules? How does it deal with unit tests? Does Maven create synthetic test modules? Does it execute them on the class path?
- Since we try to be IDE agnostic and in practice use both IntelliJ and Eclipse, we needed to answer similar questions for those tools.
- How many split packages do we have? And how do we deal with them? Split packages are anathema to modules. You can not have the same package in multiple modules on the class path. This would not be a problem at runtime since we only use the class path, but it would bite us at compile time and maybe unit test time.
- Will we shoot for a “big bang” migration or do it over time? Related to that: Should modularization leave behind “perfect modules”, which takes longer, or do we prefer a result closer to the current state, where some subprojects are “poorly modularized”?
- How deep do we explore? / When do we just start doing it?
What answers did we come up with? Did we manage to do the migration? Find out in one of our next installments!


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(FROM HOLLYWOOD REPORTER) ? The CW dramedy Reaper, which stars Bret Harrison as retail slacker/bounty hunter for hell Sam Oliver, has been renewed for a second season. It will join fellow sophomores Aliens in America and Gossip Girl on the net’s slate for next year, returning for a 13-episode midseason run, likely paired with Supernatural on Thursday nights after Smallville wraps its run. Renewal was anything but a sure thing prior to the re-up announcement on Monday (May 12), just a day before the network’s upfront presentation. The show, which also stars Tyler Labine, Missy Peregrym, Rick Gonzalez, and Ray Wise as the Devil, has become something of a cult-favorite (fans launched a campaign to save the series by sending socks to the network, in honor of one of the character’s names), but it has struggled in the ratings, averaging about a 1.0 in adults 18-49. The first season finale airs Tuesday, May 20. (Hollywood Reporter)
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text: Laparoscopy has become the procedure of choice for routine gallbladder removal. A serious complication of this technique is the occurrence of gas emboli due to insufflation. It is associated with a high mortality rate of around 28%. The present systematic review intends to provide more insight into causes, symptoms and risk factors for this specific complication and to explore which measures should be taken to treat and prevent it. The Cochrane library and Pubmed were used as sources. Articles and their references were selected when they were related to the subject in sufficient detail.

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Hip-Hop Group Black Sheep To Perform At Halftime On February 28 When Pistons Host 76ers
Black Sheep, the hip-hop duo from Queens, NY made up of Andres “Dres” Titus and William “Mista Lawnge” McLean, is best known for the 1991 hit song “Flavor of the Month” and its first album A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing. The album charted three times on Billboard.
Black Sheep was the first hip-hop act to appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno after the departure of long-time host Johnny Carson and, in 2008, their single “The Choice Is Yours” ranked #73 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs. The song was also featured in the commercial for the 2010 Kia Soul.
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Nigerian midfielder Usman Mohammed is pretty much excited to join Tombov, who just gained promotion to the Russian Premier League.
The Rio 2016 Olympics star said the move marks a new beginnng for his career.
“I am excited I will be playing in the Russian top flight next season with a club whose ambitions matches mine. This is a new beginning with me.” Mohammed said.
He will team up with Nigeria U23 winger Blessing Olabiran. The midfielder has helped Armenian club Pyunik to be crowned champions with three matches left to be played.
Mohammed, 25, has scored twice in 10 matches. He has previously played in Portugal, Spain and Norway.
The defensive midfielder has featured for Nigeria at the 2015 AFCON U23, CHAN 2016 and the 2016 Rio Olympics, where the country clinched a bronze medal.

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It’s a great time to be a reader of nonfiction, with an array of books coming out on a variety of topics and catering to different reading tastes and levels of knowledge. Even just looking at books published in the first two months of 2022, there are hundreds to choose from and it’s hard to get a handle on which ones are worth your time. In this article, I’ve collected together all the ones I thought looked interesting and try to give a flavour of them, so you can decide if they appeal to you. One useful tip: with an Amazon Kindle—whether you own one or just download an app onto your phone or desktop—you can order a sample (the first 10%) of a book which is usually enough to get a good sense of it. It’s a strategy that I recommend for anyone because people’s taste in books—both in what they like to read about and how they want that information presented to them—varies wildly.
It’s looking, so far, like a good year for history, with a nice selection of books published in the UK in the first couple of months of 2022 (and more to come throughout the spring: I’ll do an update in early March). The Last Emperor of Mexico particularly appealed to me, just the madness of a Habsburg archduke, in line to the Austrian throne, somehow thinking that taking on this position thousands of miles away was a good idea, and the general setting, in 19th-century Mexico, a history I’m not familiar with. While we’re on the Habsburg family, there’s also a new biography of Maria Theresa, the Holy Roman Empress who ruled swathes of Europe for 40 years in the 18th century as well as having 16 children. It’s by German historian Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, a specialist on the Holy Roman Empire, and quite apart from insights it gives into women and power is quite a nice route into the complicated European history of that period. (Afterwards, if you want to move into the 19th century and Germany’s Second Reich, Katja Hoyer’s Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire, was published in the US in December).
On British history, Penelope Corfield has a book out on The Georgians (normally neglected at school, but that’s a pity: the 18th was a lively and important century, with lots going on). There’s also Conquering the Ocean, by archaeologist Richard Hingley, on the Roman invasion of Britain (the first question to ask: why did they do it?). Edging back into the Bronze Age, How to Build Stonehenge by Michael Pitts also looks really interesting.
On social and cultural history, a book that’s been getting quite a bit of reviewer attention is Worn: A People’s History of Clothing, by Sofi Thanhauser. Unlike the author, I’m not someone who delights in clothes per se, but I do love anything that sheds light on how people lived in the past and clothing is a vital part of that (I now know, for example, what kind of underpants people wore before stretch fabrics were available). Another book that may interest some is Sweat: A History of Exercise by Bill Hayes. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of the book: it reads more like a book about writing a book about the history of exercise than a book about the history of exercise—the author goes to the library to do his research between mad sessions at the gym—but quirkiness is good, I guess.
New books on Russian history include two Stalin-related ones, the Georgian dictator remaining ever popular as a subject of interest. Not surprisingly given my job, I was particularly intrigued by the one on his voracious reading habits: Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books. It’s by British historian Geoffrey Roberts, author of several books on the Russian leader (plus one on Zhukov). The other book is only tangentially related to Stalin, and is more of an insight into the agony of intellectual life under his rule: Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin’s Russia by Elizabeth Wilson. You’ll have come across Maria Yudina (or a fictionalized version of her) if you’ve watched the movie Death of Stalin.
When things started going wrong in Kazakhstan earlier this year, I started dipping into a few books about it and found its history fascinating. The vast, wide-open steppe made it a place of herders for millennia, but during the Soviet era it was also a convenient location for deporting entire populations, locating gulags, and carrying out nuclear testing, which is what Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb focuses on. It’s by Togzhan Kassenova, a Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in the United States, but also a Kazakh. She writes of her “immense gratitude for the privilege of telling the story of my land and its people.” It’s scholarly and yet touching. Also, as many world powers seem to be heading closer to war rather than away from it, it’s perhaps hopeful that in the not-too-distant past a country that had more than 1,000 nuclear weapons when it became independent ended up nuclear-free.
If you’re interested in Asian history, Eugene Y. Park, Professor in History at the University of Nevada, covers the entire history of Korea across the millennia—from the earliest humans to arrive there to the present day—in Korea: A History, a nice survey of a country that’s often overlooked compared to its bigger neighbours but important to understanding not only East Asia but successful transitions to democracy.
A new book of Chinese history, Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern, looks at the script and the people who made possible its simplification and adaptation in the 20th century (wonderful and evocative as Chinese characters are, having thousands of complex symbols representing words has drawbacks). I recently read a thriller set in Tibet at the time of its initial invasion by China in 1950-1 by Lionel Davidson, so I also found myself very drawn to a book about that whole period in Tibetan history by Jianglin Li: When the Iron Bird Flies: China’s Secret War in Tibet. (Also: if you want an introduction to the other outlying region the Chinese Communist Party has treated very badly, Xinjiang, In the Camps: Life in China’s High-Tech Penal Colony by Darren Byler is out in paperback in February).
On India, the distinguished historian Ramachandra Guha—whose book India After Gandhi has been frequently recommended on our site—has a new book: Rebels Against the Raj. It’s about the foreigners who gave up everything to help India gain independence. It’s written partly as an antidote to a world that’s currently “governed by paranoia and nationalist xenophobia, with the rise of jingoism in country after country,” Guha says.
Excitingly, Garrett Graff, who put together a brilliant oral history of 9/11 (the best audiobook of 2020) has done the same for the Watergate scandal. His Watergate: A New History, is out on the 15th of February. Also of interest in contemporary history is They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents by Neda Toloui-Semnani, about the Iranian Revolution. It’s a heartbreaking tale, very much also about her feelings as she goes about her day and does research on her family and the past.
One thing that really struck me about the books being published in early 2022 is how many science books are coming out that are fun to read, often by top scientists. This Way to the Universe: A Journey into Physics is a nice introduction to physics (including the history) by American theoretical physicist Michael Dine. The End of Genetics looks at where we are in genetics and is by David B. Goldstein, Professor of Genetics and Development and director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. It’s a gripping and accessible book (though his conclusions are a little scary, especially as I carry a genetic mutation myself). There’s also a book about nuclear fusion—potentially the answer to all our energy problems, but still a work in progress—by Alain Bécoulet, Head of Engineering at ITER, the world’s largest fusion experiment. It’s called Star Power.
There are also some nice introductory books. Geometry: A Very Short Introduction is by Maciej Dunajski of the University of Cambridge and is ready to take anyone along for the ride: “I assume little prior mathematical knowledge…but you should be willing to use a pencil, paper, compass and ruler as you read”. If astronomy interests you, MIT Press has a new book in its ‘Essential Knowledge’ series: Supernova by Or Graur.
One of my favourites is an upbeat book about death: This Mortal Coil: A History of Death by biochemist Andrew Doig. The first chapter is entitled “What is Death?” which turns out to be a great starting point for a highly readable book that really does put the work of the Grim Reaper in perspective.
If skeletons are your thing, forensic anthropologist Sue Black’s latest book is out in paperback: Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind. It won the ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction award last year, awarded by the UK’s Crime Writers’ Association. While we’re on the subject of crime, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them by scientist, teacher and writer Neil Bradbury has gone down very well with readers (including Sue Black) as both entertaining and informative.
Dark and Magical Places is really fascinating on the neuroscience of navigation, written by someone who seems to have an even worse sense of direction than I do, scientist and author Christopher Kemp. Another book that’s been very well-received is Otherlands by palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday, taking us on a trip into pre-human history and written almost as a work of nature or travel writing. If you’ve always wondered what it would have been like to live in Alaska during the Pleistocene or Liaoning in China during the Cretaceous, this is the book for you.
I always look out for psychology books as I find it fascinating reading about what my brain might be up to and am always slightly battling anxiety. The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Change Your World by science writer David Robson looks at how our expectations about what will happen affect outcomes (short answer: quite a lot). Emotional: The New Thinking About Feelings by theoretical physicist and bestselling author Leonard Mlodinow is told with gripping stories (even if, thanks to Lisa Feldman Barrett, I already know some of the underlying science he’s conveying).
A crisis can also be an opportunity, and one of the notable effects of being forced to work from home during the global pandemic has been to shine the spotlight on whether working in an office every day of the week is something we want or indeed need—and if it’s not, to make sure we don’t go back to how things were before. This is something Julia Hobsbawm has been looking at as Chair of the Demos Workshift Commission. As she pointed out on taking charge, “Covid presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to shift the dial on the manifest problems around working life.” The book promises to be an important contribution at a pivotal moment.
Economist journalist Sebastian Mallaby takes on venture capital in The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption. Venture capitalists do determine our future in many ways, so this is well worth reading. For me, it’s the difference between Five Books (run on a shoestring but freely available to any English speaker anywhere in the world) and Blinkist (which has raised over $35 million from venture capitalists, and constantly bombards me with Twitter ads about what Elon Musk is reading). The Founders by Jimmy Soni is a book about Paypal and its billionaire founders–Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman—though its subtitle “The Company that Made the Modern Internet” suggests that it might be a bit too boosterish for my own tastes.
For the more literary-inclined readers of nonfiction, there’s a newly translated biography of Dante by Alessandro Barbero (though bear in mind that Dante is so embedded in Italian culture, that the book may be a little too granular for the Anglophone reader who isn’t quite as familiar with The Divine Comedy). Also, if you’ve never read Ulysses by James Joyce, there’s a really nice guide to reading it just out by Patrick Hastings, who runs the Ulysses.com site. He also gave us some tips on how to embark on this project in a Q&A. Maybe if there’s another lockdown I’ll finally be able to knock Ulysses off my bucket list, a project I last attempted when I was 22.
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Leaked ducts are reason to various serious issues. A study shows, on average 10% of your air supply is leaked out on a monthly basis making it a top energy wastage source of your home. But detecting air duct leakage isn’t plain & simple easy. You need to be careful and observing in order to find out if there’s any air duct leaking or not. In this article we will discuss about four signs that will help you to identify if your ducts are leaking.
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The lyrics of Bruce Springsteen run heavily throughout this story about a Pakistani British teenager in the ’80s who’s struggling with a sense of hopelessness until he discovers Springsteen and finds the courage to be himself.
The breakout star is a guy named Viveik Kalra. He sang “Born to Run” for his audition, and does a dance sequence to it in the movie. There’s also a scene where he sings “Thunder Road” to a girl he likes after becoming an obsessed Springsteen fan.
Bruce loved the script so much that he actually gave them permission to use 17 of his songs in the movie. And when he saw the film for the first time, he told the director, quote, “Thank you for looking after me so beautifully.”
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Deutsche Bank AG Reaffirms Buy Rating for eBay Inc. (EBAY)
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY)‘s stock had its “buy” rating reiterated by stock analysts at Deutsche Bank AG in a note issued to investors on Wednesday. They currently have a $40.00 price target on the e-commerce company’s stock. Deutsche Bank AG’s price target suggests a potential upside of 26.98% from the stock’s current price.
EBAY has been the topic of a number of other research reports. JPMorgan Chase & Co. reiterated a “hold” rating and issued a $34.00 target price on shares of eBay in a research note on Tuesday, September 27th. Cantor Fitzgerald restated a “hold” rating on shares of eBay in a research note on Sunday, August 14th. Hilliard Lyons began coverage on eBay in a research note on Tuesday, August 30th. They set a “long-term buy” rating and a $35.00 price target on the stock. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. set a $34.00 price target on eBay and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, September 8th. Finally, Susquehanna restated a “positive” rating and set a $34.00 price target (up previously from $32.00) on shares of eBay in a research note on Thursday, July 21st. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, twenty-two have issued a hold rating, sixteen have assigned a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company. The company presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $33.45.
Shares of eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) traded up 0.13% during mid-day trading on Wednesday, hitting $31.50. 6,345,294 shares of the stock were exchanged. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $31.95 and its 200 day moving average is $27.32. The firm has a market cap of $35.56 billion, a P/E ratio of 19.36 and a beta of 1.17. eBay has a 12 month low of $21.52 and a 12 month high of $33.19.
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eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) last released its earnings results on Wednesday, July 20th. The e-commerce company reported $0.43 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.42 by $0.01. eBay had a return on equity of 29.12% and a net margin of 22.00%. The business had revenue of $2.23 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.17 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm posted $0.42 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was up 5.7% compared to the same quarter last year. Analysts expect that eBay will post $1.89 EPS for the current fiscal year.
In other eBay news, Director Robert Holmes Swan sold 50,000 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, July 25th. The stock was sold at an average price of $30.65, for a total transaction of $1,532,500.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director now directly owns 425,288 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $13,035,077.20. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Also, SVP Jae Hyun Lee sold 11,768 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, July 26th. The stock was sold at an average price of $31.00, for a total value of $364,808.00. Following the sale, the senior vice president now directly owns 120,977 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $3,750,287. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. 7.40% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.
A number of hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Quadrant Capital Group LLC boosted its stake in eBay by 0.8% in the second quarter. Quadrant Capital Group LLC now owns 5,596 shares of the e-commerce company’s stock worth $125,000 after buying an additional 42 shares during the last quarter. Fulton Bank N.A. boosted its stake in eBay by 0.7% in the third quarter. Fulton Bank N.A. now owns 9,042 shares of the e-commerce company’s stock worth $298,000 after buying an additional 63 shares during the last quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. boosted its stake in eBay by 0.3% in the second quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 28,938 shares of the e-commerce company’s stock worth $676,000 after buying an additional 91 shares during the last quarter. Rathbone Brothers plc boosted its stake in eBay by 0.4% in the second quarter. Rathbone Brothers plc now owns 33,545 shares of the e-commerce company’s stock worth $785,000 after buying an additional 140 shares during the last quarter. Finally, FineMark National Bank & Trust boosted its stake in eBay by 2.4% in the second quarter. FineMark National Bank & Trust now owns 6,200 shares of the e-commerce company’s stock worth $146,000 after buying an additional 143 shares during the last quarter. 82.00% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
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The European biotechnology industry welcomes the EU Commission's decision to approve biotech maize 1507 (1) for import and processing, including for use in animal feed throughout the European Union. This decision follows after the EU Council in September was unable to reach the required qualified majority to approve 1507 maize.
The product is already approved in 12 other countries around the world and meets all the EU's regulatory requirements, including a positive safety opinion from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
"Acting in accordance with EU regulations and the positive safety opinion of 1507 maize given by EFSA, the Commission has today given its decision to approve 1507 maize," says Simon Barber, Director of the Plant Biotechnology Unit at EuropaBio, the EU Association for bioindustries (2). "While we welcome today's decision, it is unacceptable that a minority of Member States continue to delay the process for approving safe new biotech products which have been given the all-clear by EFSA. We urge Member States to play by the rules that they themselves established and vote on new biotech products according to their safety evaluation given by the EU's own institutions."
Before imports derived from 1507 maize can enter the EU, the 1507 maize must also undergo another separate approval process to authorise its use in food. The approval of 1507 maize for food use is expected in early 2006.
1507 maize is genetically modified with a Bt gene, making it resistant to certain insect pests and was jointly developed by Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., a subsidiary of DuPont, and by Dow AgroSciences.
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If there is one film any fan of Disney should see, it’s Disney’s own documentary, Waking Sleeping Beauty. Comprised of tons of archival and personal footage, the documentary takes a no-holds-barred look at the state of The Walt Disney Company in the early 1980s when Hollywood big shots Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg and all showed up in the parking lot with their fancy cars and turned the company and the animation department on its ear, taking it from the lows of The Black Cauldron to the highs of a series of animated films that helped to define a generation.
November 30, 2010 will see the release of all three critically acclaimed documentaries which offer insights into historical periods of The Walt Disney Company rarely seen by those outside of it.
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story is an intimate journey through the lives of Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman, the astoundingly prolific, Academy Award®-winning songwriting team that defined family musical entertainment for five decades with unforgettable songs like “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocous” from Mary Poppins, “I Wanna Be Like You” from The Jungle Book and the most translated song ever written “It’s a Small World (After All)” from the Disneyland attraction. The feature-length documentary, conceived, produced and directed by two of the songwriters’ sons, take audiences behind the scenes of the Hollywood magic factory and offers a rate glimpse of a unique creative process at work. It also explores a deep and longstanding rift that has kept the brothers personally estranged throughout much of their unparalleled professional partnership.
Disney twenty-three magazine gives readers exclusive sneak previews of three of the most highly anticipated movies of the year in its all-new Summer issue, which premieres April 19 with three different covers to celebrate Disney-Pixar’s upcoming Toy Story 3.
For the first time in its history, Disney twenty-three has created a split run of three covers, featuring three of the most popular characters from the Toy Story movies: Buzz Lightyear, Woody and Jessie. Magazines will be shipped directly to Gold-level members of D23: The Official Community for Disney Fans; Disney twenty-three is also available at select Barnes & Noble and Borders bookstore locations, online at DisneyStore.com and throughout the Disneyland® and Walt Disney World® Resorts.


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At Geneseo... there’s no place like here for excellence
Join a community that promotes excellence through learning and engaging with top-notch faculty. Pure and simple, it’s a place that celebrates and inspires the joy of discovery—learning, earning and creating something new every day and in all sorts of ways. Inside the lab. Outside the classroom. On the stage. And the fields of competition.
And why? Because our strong and enduring reputation continues to attract talented and accomplished students from across New York and around the word. And when they’re here, students are inspired to expand their thinking and their options, gaining a global perspective that puts new ideas in context…..but leaving enough room for creativity and yes, room to dream a little! We are a community of connected learners that sustains and inspires students while they are here and well beyond. And want to know how do we define excellence? With stories like these.
SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Student Health and Counseling was recently designated as a Medical Home by the Accreditation Association of Ambulatory Health Centers (AAAHC). Of the nearly 4,000 higher education institutions in the U.S., only 17 have achieved Medical Home accreditation, considered by the AAAHC as the highest achievement for primary care.
SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Music will host a “unity-community sing” of Ludwig van Beethoven’s on Sunday, May 5, in Wadsworth Auditorium. Volunteer singers will join the Geneseo Symphony Orchestra, the Festival Singers, Geneseo’s town/gown choir, and professional soloists.
Kathryn Hochstetler, a professor of international development at the London School of Economics and Political Science, will deliver this year's Roemer Lecture on World Affairs. Her talk, “Responsibilities in Transition: Emerging Powers in the Climate Change Negotiations,” will take place at 2:30 p.m., Thursday, April 11, in the Doty Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Evelyn Welch '19 has always been interested in the medical field, and chose to study biology and pursue a minor in human development to learn about the body and mind. She also loves to act, dance, and play music. She explored all her passions during her four years at Geneseo and found her career path along the way.
Leah Christman '19. an English literature and Honors Program major, has won a 2019–20 U.S. Student Fulbright award. She will serve as a Fulbright-Nehru English Teaching Assistant (ETA) in either a middle or secondary school in a community in India.
Nolberto Jaramillo ’21, biology, and Daniel Brush ’20, chemistry, have been awarded 2019 DAAD RISE scholarships to intern this summer in German research laboratories. Jaramillo will work in Erlangen, Germany at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität in the Bosserhoff Laboratory. Brush will be researching in Giessen, Germany with the Schreiner Research Group at Justus-Liebig-Universität.


Contract Compliance Technology and Contract Compliance Audits
Prior to approaching Profectus, the existing Microsoft database would crash frequently and be unreliable, resulting in delays in calculations and productivity.
- Adherence to Legal & Compliance requirements
- Improved transparency and system reliability
- More robust and cohesive systems across the business
- Delayed accrual calculation
- Overly manual processes
- Ineffective retention of key information
A combination of unreliable Microsoft databases and manual processing of claims and rebates meant the client experienced consistent delays in end of month accrual calculations. It was also difficult to securely store data at the appropriate levels.
The Profectus Solution
By automating the business’ RDM processes Profectus enabled the client to easily track and maintain a comprehensive claims workflow, with:
- Agreement automation of rebate management process
- Comprehensive payment/claims approval workflow
The client now enjoys a comprehensive claims workflow, enabling staff to automate and manage claim review and processing into ERP, which is efficient and easy to operate.


|Title||CHARACTERISTICS OF BACKPROPAGATION NEURAL NETWORKS EMPLOYED IN THE IDENTIFICATION OF NEUROTRANSMITTER RAMAN-SPECTRA|
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|Authors||Schulze, HG, Blades, MW, Bree, AV, Gorzalka, BB, Greek, LS, Turner, RFB|
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|Keywords||artificial neural networks, BACKPROPAGATION NETWORKS, DISCRIMINATION, GENERALIZATION, NEUROTRANSMITTERS, RAMAN SPECTRA, SPECTROSCOPY, TRANSFER FUNCTION, UV RESONANCE RAMAN|
We have shown that neural networks are capable of accurately identifying the Raman spectra of aqueous solutions of small-molecule neurotransmitters. It was found that the networks performed optimally when the ratio of the number of hidden nodes to the number of input nodes was 0.16, that network accuracy increased with the number of input layer nodes, and that input features influenced the abilities of networks to discriminate or generalize between spectra. Furthermore, networks employing sine transfer functions for their hidden layers trained faster and were better at discriminating between closely related spectra, but they were less tolerant of spectral distortions than the networks using sigmoid transfer functions. The latter type of network produced superior results where generalization between spectra was required.
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3000 East 1st Ave, Denver, CO 80206
Located inside the Cherry Creek Mall, Kona Grill serves up a fusion of American and Asian cuisine. Their happy hour is one of the best around with a nice selection of drinks and small plates (that’s not just fried food). There’s also an awesome patio and outdoor bar, along with numerous TVs and a massive fish tank.
Kona Grill Happy Hours: Mon-Fri 3-6pm, Mon-Thur 9-11pm, Fri-Sat 10pm-12am
Discounted food and drink specials
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Because of the relatively complex logistics of acquiring permits to Nubra Valley and the need for good guiding and safe drivers on precarious Himalayan roads, we recommend working with two outfitters that we have tested in the region. Jonny Bealby at Wild Frontiers (800-454-1080) has been organizing trips to Jammu and Kashmir for a decade. He can combine Srinagar (with stays on a Dal Lake houseboat) and Ladakh in week- to ten-day-long itineraries with a day’s road travel in between (from about $2,900 a person, excluding international flights). Bealby uses the best available accommodations, including the newly opened Chamba Camp Thiksey (from $2,300 for a minimum of three nights), in the Indus Valley. Steppes Travel (855-203-7885) is the other outfitter and is experienced in both winter and summer trips to Ladakh with its knowledge of the area derived from snow leopard treks that were first developed ten years ago by Ladakhi guide David Sonam. In addition to expert-led group departures (from $4,795 a person for ten nights, excluding international flights), Steppes now offers mobile-camping safaris in Nubra Valley led by Sonam (from $2,895 a person for six nights); the fully mobile Kaphila Camp can also be deployed in the Indus or Zanskar regions. For hiking, both Wild Frontiers and Steppes Travel partner with an outfit called Shakti Himalaya, which uses village houses converted into luxury homestays (from $4,500 for a minimum of six nights on a guided trip); both outfitters also use Stok Palace (from $275 a night for two people). For domestic flights from Delhi to Leh, the main providers are Air India, Go Air and, Jet Airways.
Ladakh Travel Guide
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The best outfitters for outdoor adventures in Ladakh.


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Welcome to the Animal Party GAMES PAGE !
Click on the many fun things to do below. More games are being created for this page as you read this, so check back again to see what’s new. If you find cool animal games on the internet, write and tell us and we’ll add a link here for them.
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Click HERE for A WHOLE BUNCH of fun games
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Help us put ethanol, agriculture and our communities in a position for economic prosperity
Uncertainty is everywhere in today’s world. Inflation and international crises far away from our small Iowa towns increase prices and leave us unsure about the future. When looking at gas prices specifically, it has become clear that Iowans need to invest in homegrown fuel. Ethanol is not just a transitional fuel; it is here to stay and is a vital part of our local economy.
As Iowans, we should take every chance to invest in this industry. Every other row of corn in the state goes to ethanol production; it is a valuable commodity we cannot afford to lose. The world is prioritizing low-carbon fuel. This means that despite being widely popular in the Midwest and across the nation, the ethanol industry has to adapt to low-carbon standards to remain viable.
Though some may not see this need or agree with decarbonization, I choose to view it as a free-market opportunity for ethanol that will bolster our rural community. There are domestic and export markets that are paying a premium for ethanol that has a low carbon intensity score. This allows us to purchase and process more corn at a higher price, supporting land values and corn prices and solidifying our local economy.
As many of you know, CORN, LP is a corn processing plant producing ethanol, corn oil, and livestock feed. These diversified products are interdependent for a viable operation, meaning if we lose the ethanol market, our operation will not survive.
CORN, LP partnered with Summit Carbon Solutions last year to secure our place in the low-carbon fuels market. Summit’s goal is to capture and permanently sequester CO2 at 32 ethanol plants across the Midwest. This will open up new markets for our fuel sales for years to come. Summit Carbon Solutions’ parent company is rooted in Iowa agriculture, leaving us to believe there is no better group to pursue this task.
An Ernst and Young economic impact study indicated that Summit Carbon Solutions will pay more than $2.5 million in property taxes yearly in Wright County. These funds would help our local community support roads, bridges, schools, fire departments, and more. When it comes to constructing the pipeline, those building the project will utilize local restaurants, hotels, hardware stores, and other local businesses to help spur economic growth.
I understand that some skeptics question if this is the best strategy to pursue. I would ask you to think about the future of agriculture and ethanol in Iowa. Both private sector companies and governments around the world will continue to prioritize decarbonization. Other states and communities will embrace this opportunity and reap the benefits of these changing markets. If we are left behind, I fear that it will become harder and harder to remain competitive.
I would like CORN, LP to continue to thrive in the coming decades when some will not.
Please join me in giving Summit Carbon Solutions a chance and allowing our farmers and communities to prosper.
Chris Boshart is the general manager of CORN LP in Goldfield.

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Chik Chak Shabbat
Celebrate Shabbat, community, and diverse traditions with this lyrical tale, illustrated with a lively and whimsical touch.
When Goldie Simcha doesn’t joyfully throw open her door to welcome everyone in to her apartment for a meal of her famous cholent, her neighbors wonder what could be wrong. Little Lali Omar knocks on the door to 5-A, only to learn that Goldie was feeling too sick on Friday to cook, and everyone knows you can’t make cholent in a hurry, right away, chik chak! But it just isn’t Shabbat without cholent. What can her neighbors do to save the day? In an uplifting story that warms more than your heart, Chik Chak Shabbat offers a cholent recipe that keeps Goldie’s sharing spirit alive.
Mara Rockliff is the author of many books for children, including The Busiest Street in Town and Me and Momma and Big John, winner of the Golden Kite Award. Mara Rockliff lives in eastern Pennsylvania with her family.
Kyrsten Brooker is the illustrator of many award-winning books for children. She lives in Edmonton, Canada.
Rockliff’s lovely, unassuming story of tradition and multicultural community is smartly paired with Brooker’s oil and collages. At once homespun and stylish, the pictures speak to the possibilities for human connection in a modern, urban setting.
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Delightful. ... As warm and comforting as a bowl of cholent, this does a fine job of showing how the American mosaic can also be a satisfying whole. Brooker’s illustrations, which are reminiscent of Gabi Swiatkowska’s work, are full of wit and emotion that bring the story alive.
—Booklist (starred review)
This charming story is a celebration of multicultural America and friendship. ... Brooker brings this sweet story to life with full-page, oil-painted, cartoon-style illustrations heavily detailed with clipped-out magazine photos: tableware; cleverly pieced patterned paper clothing; food and dishes. She has infused each character with distinct personality and presents them as a large, caring family, strengthened by their differences, enjoying the Sabbath together.
—School Library Journal
Brooker's oil paint and collage art presents a richly textured assortment of folk and apartments. A warm, cozy and loving depiction of shared culinary traditions around an inviting table.
A warm and cheerful tale of multicultural togetherness centered on the ever-popular subject of food. Brooker’s combination of oil paint and collage evinces its usual tactile dimensionality, with touches of patterning balancing the robust cheer of her characters’ faces and the geometry of the apartment building’s architecture provid- ing structure and a bit of theatricality.
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U.S. housing prices won't just hit the bottom this year -- they'll rise by 2 percent, according to a report by Capital Economics released this week. But that doesn't mean the market is in great shape.
The optimistic report, written by Capital's property economist Paul Diggile, expects cash buyers and small and large investors to increase transactional activity, bringing up prices. In other words, the recovery would be fueled by people who wouldn't need a mortgage, which has been difficult to secure for those without great credit.
This begs the question: Are rising prices really an indication of a housing recovery?
Despite the positive forecast, we do not think that the housing market will return to health overnight, wrote Diggile. Tight credit will continue to frustrate many households’ ambitions of homeownership, while widespread negative equity will prevent others from moving up the housing ladder.
Some historical perspective: After the Great Depression, home prices rose steadily, and there were housing booms in the 1970s and 1980s. Then, between 1997 and 2006, prices surged around 83 percent, adjusted for inflation, according to Yale economist Robert Shiller, co-founder of the influential S&P/Case-Shiller Housing Index. Experts began speculating whether a soft landing or crash was imminent.
As we now know, those overheated property values were an illusion, fueled by subprime mortgages. And the result was a financial implosion that not only wiped out homeowners' equity, but dragged down Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and almost all of Wall Street. There wasn't merely a price imbalance, but a supply imbalance. Many Americans were buying when they should have been renting, and now there are swatches of empty, foreclosed homes around the country.
But the Capital report suggests that excess inventory won't be a problem moving forward. The number of new and existing homes on the market has fallen 20 percent in the past year, because many sellers are waiting out the weak market. The number of buyers has also increased modestly. A sustained price increase could break down the reluctance of entering the housing market, causing more sellers to list their homes, said Diggile. But he expects increased sales activity to offset additional listings.
The report reiterates the well-worn maxim that real estate is local. New York is drastically different from Las Vegas, and Washington, D.C., is a world away from Atlanta. A nationwide uptick in home prices could create a psychological boost for the market and perhaps affect the presidential election in the fall. But the disparity between local markets will almost certainly continue, meaning a real estate recovery will be spotty at best.
It will likely be months before prices do climb. The next Case-Shiller index, which will draw from April data, will be released at the end of June, and prices are expected to continue to slide.


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According to a report on TUAW today, smugglers in Hong Kong are coming up with new and inventive ways to try and smuggle iPhones into China in a bid to avoid Chinas heavy import tax on the devices. This time around it seems as though some hapless criminals have been caught using beer bottles, of all things, to hide iPhones inside. Covering the story, Chinese TV said that the smugglers shoved three iPhones at a time into some pretty large beer bottles, before resealing the bottles with tape, in a bid to conceal their precious contents. In total, more than 200 iPhones were hidden in the bottles in an attempt to get them into China illegally. You can see what went on in the video at the top of the post, which is taken from the Chinese-language news report, which shows the large beer bottles neatly cut in half, with the iPhones hidden inside. The customs agents got lucky this time, but it seems like theyre fighting a losing battle with the smugglers most of the time.
Source: iPhones smuggled into China in beer bottles | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
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Update: WWE Diva Ashley Massaro granted release to care for sick daughter
Update: Ashley’s request has been granted by the World Wrestling Entertainment as of Wednesday, July 9th.
Originally posted July 6: Former Survivor contestant Ashley Massaro has asked for an early release from the World Wrestling Entertainment so that she may care for her 7-year-old daughter. In her latest blog entry, the 29-year-old stated that she found out that her daughter is "not well" and that she "can’t be on the road with WWE when my own flesh and blood needs me." No further information is known but Ashley, a single parent, also shared that,
Ashley joined the WWE in 2005 when she was the winner of the RAW Diva Search for that year.
Source: Ashley’s MySpace Page; Photo by Jemal Countess/WireImage.


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FIFA football tribunal success follows similar case involving coach René Hiddink
Blaser Mills Law has successfully represented its client, Dutch football coach Martin Koopman, in a dispute before the FIFA Football Tribunal involving Koopman’s former employer, the Football Association of Maldives (FAM).
It follows Blaser Mills Law’s recent success in a similar dispute between FAM and another Dutch coach René Hiddink.
In the latest case involving Koopman, the Players’ Status Chamber of the FIFA Football Tribunal has handed down its decision, entering judgment in favour of Koopman in his financial claim against his former employer.
Ashley Cukier of Littleton Chambers represented Koopman in the proceedings.


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Barmac Copper Oxychloride
For the control of: Fungal and bacterial diseases in fruit and vegetable crops, citrus, stone fruit, pome fruit and ornamentals.
Mix the required amount of product with a small volume of water then add to the spray tank under agitation. Product can be added to full volume of water if necessary. If the product is to be used in a mixture with an emulsifiable concentrate add the product after making the emulsion. Do not mix with alkaline materials such as lime sulphur.
APLICATION: High volume Dilute Spray
This product may be applied as a high volume dilute spray to fruit tree crops and some row crops. The spray volume will vary according to the treated crop and should be increased when spraying large or dense plants to ensure thorough coverage. The spray volume should also be increased throughout the growing season as the crop increases in size. Suitable spray volumes for mature crops are as follows: Bananas, Tobacco, Vines and other row crops - 200 to 1100L/ha. Pome and stone fruit - 1100 to 4000L/ha. Citrus 4000 to 8000L/ha.
Concentrate and Ground Application Sprays:
This product may be applied as a concentrate spray through low volume air blast equipment or as a ground application through spray booms. Adjust the rate to ensure that the correct amount is applied per hectare from the particular equipment used. Use the higher rate on larger plants and when weather conditions favour the development of disease.
This product is compatible with a wide range of other fungicides and insecticides. The labels of these other products should be consulted prior to mixing. Do Not mix with alkaline materials such as lime sulphur.
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