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2. Nene Imagination Puzzles are described as "puzzles without borders" because there is not one right way to put them together. Their Animal & Friends sets are a great choice to get girls (and boys) interested in problem solving and logical thinking in a very accessible way at about age four on up. Tiles of Infinity puzzles are for kids a little older (as well as adults) and provide two simple shapes that can be put together to create a nearly endless number of patterns.Here is their website.
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Get a mamoth data base of business linksAhem. " for all the ..." What? That's it. But you can look up importers (and exporters) by commodity, say here an asparagus importer in Florida...
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Product Description :-Fresh Asparagus Hts 0709200000 Temperature: 1 C Ventilation: Closed Humidity: Off Controlled Atmosphere Freight PrepaidI believe that is on the bill of lading too, and in any event it is valuable info for a start-up. But marginally valuable since your Freight Forwarder already knows all this info, so these reports are best for finding names of freight forwarders, not buyers or sellers.
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“Rather than recruit someone with the requisite experience, Brenner sought out Beale in what appears to be a decision based solely on their personal friendship rather than any experience or credentials,” said conclusions of the report by Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.The Republicans want good government? So when yet another scamster is exposed, we are told this person, the highest paid, really had no effect...
“The standards followed the routine open, transparent and public process, providing opportunities for public and interagency review and comment prior to their finalization.”So a process can be transparent while the rationale is secret? Never mind, nothing will change. The problem is people actually have to live under these regulations. You cannot get clean air by regulation. You get it by law. The automobile is an invention. It can be improved to be zero emission. It can be replaced with mag lev. Both would occur if property rights were enforced, with its bundle of rights. Instead we get an agency where pollution is codified and made permanent. Only anarchists can keep the air clean.
Republican investigators said Beale “took ownership” of the EPA 1997 national air quality standards, though much of the underlying data remain secret.
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Intellectual property is the foundation of our economy. If we put that at risk with weak security, we are going to be paying for it for years.Well, he can't be right on everything... if you want security, you open source everything. For a fellow who is the target of a violent regime, it is odd he implicitly supports a regime of violence, IPR.
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...Seth Klarman. The latter is proprietor of the $27 billion Baupost Fund and can fairly be described as one of the greatest hedge fund managers ever. He is also so eminently sensible that he recently returned several billions to his investors—owing to a dearth of reasonable investment opportunities.Stockman goes on to talk about the coming bust.
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Hidden in this story, however, is the key fact that demolishes the argument in favor of software patents: "the mid-90s." Before that, software patents were rare or nonexistent. And guess what: The era from 1950 through 1995 featured one of the most innovative and fruitful tech explosions in history. Billions of lines of software were produced, the world was transformed, and it was all done without patent protection.But it was Reagan who got the new laws passed. Even Thos. Jefferson, USA's #2 greatest president, got things wrong in his time, but in this case, just as Reagan got the credit for the benefits of Carter initiatives, it was Reagan who advanced the harm of patents for software.
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The event grew five percent percent bringing together over 67,000 industry members, more than 2,600 exhibiting companies and the most first-time exhibitors in the event’s history. From food and beverage to supplements and beauty to household and pet products, the event provided a window into the many categories driving the growth of the global natural products industry.
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With 635 first-time exhibitors at the event, there is tremendous energy, innovation and funding surrounding food entrepreneurs today. Many Natural Products Expo West first-time exhibitors are ‘home cooks,’ passionate moms and nutrition-focused athletes who have launched their own products.
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• Labeling Transparency: Consumers are asking for transparency with regard to food/product labels, claims and certifications, including non-GMO and organic.
• Food tribes: The growing gluten-free, vegan, paleo and other special diet communities are fueling the healthy eating movement and changing the way people view food and community.
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On the contrary the holders of newly printed money who don’t produce any real wealth will weaken the ability of wealth generators to produce wealth by diverting to themselves bread and shoes thereby leaving less real wealth to fund the maintenance and the expansion of the infrastructure.If it can be newly printed, it ain't money. Getting back to Mish on deflation, Shostak as well demonstrates there is nothing on the other side of these investments. There is no way to calculate how bad things are until people realize there is no asset to match most of what is called "money" owed.
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Too late, a snap election has the Crimeans voting themselves back into Russia after 50 years. Putin should have had them vote themselves into independence, which would have confounded his opponents.Now comes this:
President Vladimir Putin has signed an order that Russia recognizes Crimea as a sovereign and independent state. The Autonomous Republic of Crimea held a referendum on Sunday with over 96% voting for integration into Russia.The Western Press is not even mentioning the formation of this new country.
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None of the above remotely has anything to do with a "savings glut". There was no "savings glut" in 1933 and there sure isn't one today.I recommend the whole article. Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
Ironically, it was the explosion of debt, not the lack of savings that fueled the Great Depression and the Global Financial crisis. Margin debt and speculation soared in the late 1920s and is at an all-time high again now.
Only by confusing the expansion of credit and money printed out of thin air with savings, can one propose a "savings glut" thesis.
Realistically, debt does not equal savings and credit is not the same as money. To suggest, as Pettis does, that "excess thrift is a much more serious problem than insufficient thrift" is ridiculous.
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“We have to fight for it [independence],” Giovanni Dalla Valle, head of the Veneto independence movement, told RT. “We will do it in a peaceful, diplomatic way. We do strongly believe that when the majority wants to be independent there is nothing they [the Italian government] can do.”
Veneto independence activists say they have been inspired by secession movements in Scotland and Catalonia.
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So the miraculous recovery of housing prices in these markets is not all that. Its another housing bubble—this one based on an institutional form of sub-prime rather than dodgy retail mortgages. Specifically, the meth labs of Wall Street have already concocted a new variant of toxic waste in the form of securitized rents. Stated differently, they are now slicing and dicing rental income streams based on model assumptions about average occupancy, tenant turn-over, rental rate increases, repair costs and much else. All of it is untested and probably unknowable since this industry—detached home rentals— was only born yesterday.He is not calling a bust yet, but he unfortunately asserts that mostly housing price increases are a good thing.
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