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Bizarrely I hadn't heard of them until this morning, and they are the leading free stock site, apparently.
Still, you can't beat free.
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Somali Pirate Stock Market
Like some sort of weird take-off from Catch-22's Milo Minderbinder, it appears that now "everyone can own a share" of one of the Somali pirate groups, as set out here:
As for the pirate stock exchange, it seems like just another natural step for Somali communities that increasingly depend on illegal activities for economic subsistence. Somali pirates put a percentage of their ransom money back into their communities to pay for hospitals and public schools. Reuters quotes a woman who contributed a rocket-propelled grenade to one group of pirates and eagerly anticipates the dividends.Spokesmen for the pirates assert that the demands of investors have caused them to raise ransom rates.Bet those "margin calls" will be a little tough, though.
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Modern Café Life
How café life has changed. No longer a cup of tea and a fried egg sandwidge; but good coffee, a pannini, and a laptop. Yet another Caffé Nero candid. And I thought mono plus a little grain added a certain irony to the modernity. Cinematic 21:9 aspect and viewed best at full res.
EDP Renewables Invests in the US Wind Market
The third largest wind producer in the US, with 2.5 gigawatts of capacity, EPDR, the wind energy department of the Portuguese company Energias de Portugal (EDP.LS) is planning to invest $4 billion in the US wind market by 2013.
Lately, business in the US has had a positive effect on EDPR's stock price. They outperformed market expectations, posting a 19% rise in 9-month profit. This is influenced by their new wind turbines that are predominantly being installed in the United States.
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| POLL QUESTION BACKGROUND Should Wisconsin DNR continue the pheasant stocking program? Wisconsin raises some 50,000 pheasants annually at the State Game Farm in Poynette and stocks them on public hunting grounds for put-and-take hunting. The program was cut back several years ago, then restored to its current level. Wisconsin hunters killed an estimated 323,000 pheasants last season and 360,000 in 2007, so it is clear that most of the pheasants shot are wild birds, not those raised and released by the DNR. Is it time to use the money now spent on the pheasant-stocking program to create more habitat for wild pheasants?Improvements to the State Game Farm, including a new hatchery and increasing cooperation with another state agency, are key recommendations coming out of an internal evaluation of the Department of Natural Resources’ pheasant stocking program.“We want to assure (that) all we do delivers high quality ring-necked pheasants to hunters using the most fiscally responsible means possible,” said Bob Nack, State Game Farm director.“Constructing a new, fully-equipped hatchery, as recommended in the report, would underscore DNR’s support for continuing production and stocking of pheasants from the State Game Farm in the long term,” he added.Many hunters rely on pheasants released by DNR on public hunting grounds to pursue their sport. Birds are hatched and reared at the agency’s State Game Farm near Poynette. The facility has been located at Poynette since 1934 and was last upgraded in 1982 with the addition of environmentally controlled breeding and rearing barns.Pheasant stocking will take place on 71 properties in 28 counties during 2009. Pre-season stocking takes place during the week prior to opening day (Oct. 17 in 2009), with most properties stocked twice per week for the first three weeks of the season and once per week for the next month. In addition, the State Game Farm provides 800 to 1,000 pheasants annually to DNR sponsored Learn to Hunt Pheasant programs.The program review looked at pheasant production alternatives and the Day-old Chick (DOC) program, evaluated the infrastructure at the State Game Farm along with future goals and strategies, and explored increased cooperation with the state Department of Corrections in raising pheasants.The current hatchery has been in use since 1934 and the incubators are 1950’s models. Despite the facility’s age, Game Farm staff has done a remarkable job of maintaining aging equipment and producing high quality ring-necked pheasants, noted Mr. Nack.The State Game Farm also provides day-old chicks to conservation clubs enrolled in the DOC program. Cooperating clubs sign an agreement that states they agree to provide all labor and costs for raising the birds.Under this agreement, the clubs may either release pheasants on private land open to public pheasant hunting or on approved state-owned lands or release birds on private land closed to public hunting, but they must return a percentage of the pheasants they raised back to DNR.The DOC program currently involves 34 conservation clubs in 21 counties and the Game Farm normally provides about 35,000 rooster chicks to these clubs.Both the DNR stocking on public lands and the DOC program “are extremely important to Wisconsin pheasant hunters,” noted the Game Farm director. Based on the Wisconsin Pheasant Stocking Program Evaluation, DNR’s Wildlife Management Bureau is recommending to:
WRAP UP: The evaluation of Wisconsin’s pheasant stocking program was conducted by Bob Nack, State Game Farm director, Poynette; Scott Hull, DNR upland gamebird specialist, Madison; and Marty Johnson, DNR wildlife biologist, Sturtevant; in cooperation with DNR’s Pheasant Committee; Don Bates, CWD operations supervisor (and former Game Farm manager), Dodgeville; and DNR South Central Region wildlife supervisor Eric Lobner, Fitchburg. The state legislature in 2006 directed 60 percent of the revenue generated from pheasant stamp sales to the propagation and stocking of pheasants on state-owned lands. That same year, the cost of a pheasant stamp increased from $7.25 to $10.00 and in 2007 a stamp was required for all pheasant hunting statewide. Pheasant stamp fund revenue dedicated to pheasant propagation was about $400,000 in 2008 and will likely increase in the future. CONTACT: For more information, contact the Game Farm office at 608-635-8120. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Australia markets 5 Nov: 'sentiment driven.. a lot of nervous offshore investors sitting on huge profits'
Australia shares up 1.1 pct on global recovery bet
Published: 05 Nov 2009 17:44:20 PST
MELBOURNE, Nov 6 - Australian stocks advanced 1.1 percent on Friday, boosted by solid company earnings and better economic news that sparked a rally on Wall Street.
Trading has been volatile this week with investors seizing on each piece of new U.S. data for clues on the strength of the recovery there and the implications for global growth.
"The market is running on raw emotion at the moment," said E.L. & C. Baillieu Stockbroking head analyst Ivor Ries, pointing to the stronger-than-expected U.S. jobless claims figures on Thursday.
"It is very choppy, sentiment driven. You've got a lot of nervous offshore investors sitting on huge profits. The first bit of bad news in a global macro sense and they sell Australia, and vice versa," he said, noting the same offshore institutional investors were buying back in on Friday.
The local market has surged 75 percent this year in U.S. dollar terms, he added.
The benchmark S&P/ASX index <.AXJO> rose 55 points to 4,563.0 at 0011 GMT, after losing 0.7 percent on Thursday.
New Zealand's benchmark NZX 50 index <.NZ50> rose 0.6 percent to 3,163.3.
STOCKS ON THE MOVE
* Upmarket department store retailer David Jones Ltd <DJS.AX> lifted 4.6 percent to A$5.43 after positive broker comments on its quarterly sales results.
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* Australian toll road operator Transurban Group <TCL.AX> jumped another 6.1 percent to A$5.56 after soaring nearly 20 percent on Thursday, when it rejected a $4.4 billion buyout approach from two Canadian pension funds, but left the door open to a better offer. [ID:nSYD544423]
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* Respiratory equipment maker ResMed Inc <RMD.AX> rose 2.2 percent to A$5.52 after it reported better-than-expected quarterly profit that jumped 50 percent [ID:nSYD387849]
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DYLAN BAKER IN DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHER MAGAZINE
I'm featured in a 4-page article in this months Digital Photographer magazine (www.dphotographer.co.uk). The article focuses on my creative commercial stock photography and features some great shots of models Katie, Jessica and 'Gladiator' Daniel Singh that you may have all seen on this blog recently.
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