221. The bottom line: do the best you can with the land you have
October 13, 2012
There is a lot of talk and hype about the rising price of farmlandthroughout North America. Farmland will always be a goodinvestment, but in this volatile economic environment, it may beprudent to look at investing in the land you already have ratherthan buying more. The return could be signific...
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222. Mississippi ag commodities post record values in 2010
October 12, 2012
Mississippi ag commodities post record values in 2010 By Linda Breazeale MSU Ag Communications MISSISSIPPI STATE -- Mississippi farmers are finding out not onlywhat a difference a year makes, but also what a difference a decademakes. Agricultural economists with Mississippi State University sExten...
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223. Hollande election: future of austerity in europe in doubt
October 10, 2012
What replaces it, though, was anything but clear. The newly powerful in France and Greece want to roll back the spending cuts and tax increases that havedefined Europe's response to its 3-year-old debt crisis. Butcampaign rhetoric is likely to prove more extreme than anyreal-world reversal of th...
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224. Usa. owens corning reports first quarter in line with company'sexpectations
October 09, 2012
Owens Corning (NYSE: OC) today reported that consolidated net salesincreased 9 percent to $1.35 billion in the first quarter of 2012,compared with $1.24 billion in the same period last year. First-quarter 2012 adjusted earnings, based on the company'sexpected full-year effective tax rate of 25 per...
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225. Usa. west marine reports improved q1 2012 operating results
October 09, 2012
West Marine, Inc. (Nasdaq:WMAR) today released unaudited financialresults for the first quarter of 2012. First Quarter 2012 Highlights: Net revenues were $121.5 million, an increase of 6.7% versus lastyear. Comparable store sales increased by 4.3%.
Pre-tax loss was $10.6 mil...
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226. W. va. superintendent on shortlist for norfolk schools
October 08, 2012
By Steven G. Vegh The Virginian-Pilot May 7, 2012 Ronald Duerring, the longtime head of West Virginia"s biggestschool district, is one of the finalists to become Norfolk"ssuperintendent. William Thaw, chairman of the Kanawha County School Board,confirmed Monday that Duerring said he is one of ...
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227. Teen charged with assault after incident outside school bus
October 08, 2012
- A 16-year-old boy was charged April 28 with third-degree assaultafter he got in a fight with another juvenile after they got offtheir school bus, police said. The injured juvenile contacted Greenwich police and was treated by Greenwich Emergency Medical Service at the scene of the April 26 incid...
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228. Opinion: how long before the kickstarter bubble bursts?
October 08, 2012
[ Kickstarter's earned plenty of funding for game developers over thepast several months, but will this new-found funding model last?Gamasutra contributor Nicholas Lovell provides his thoughts on thematter and outlines some imporants risks developers and backersneed to be aware of .] 2012 has seen ...
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229. Acm user conference seeks the magic in user interfaces
October 07, 2012
Echoing the words of science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke,former YouTube user experience director Margaret Gould Stewartadvised an audience of design researchers to think about creatingmagical experiences for their users. "Magic disrupts the notion of reality. It elevates good design intogreat...
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230. China dissidents escape more exciting than shawshank redemption
October 04, 2012
BEIJING -- The woman who drove blind Chinese activist ChenGuangcheng to Beijing after his dramatic escape from house arrestin eastern China told how she sat down with security officersafterwards to watch the jailbreak movie, The ShawshankRedemption. He Peirong said that five days after picking up ...
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