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Japanese synthetic rubber producers are beating their traditional Asian rivals by capitalising on a sharply depreciated yen to increase their exports in Asia, industry sources said on 2 May.
The Japanese yen has depreciated by more than 20% against the US dollar since October 2012 and this is proving to be a bonus to Japanese synthetic rubber producers as they take advantage of cheaper currency to boost their exports in Asia, industry sources said.
The Japanese yen (JPY) has dropped to around JPY 97 to US$1, compared with around JPY80 to US$1 in October 2012. "We increased our exports in the first quarter of 2013 by about 10% compared with the fourth quarter of 2012," a Japanese synthetic rubber producer said.
Japanese synthetic rubber makers including styrene butadiene rubber (SBR), butadiene rubber (BR), and ethylene-propylene diene monomer (EPDM) producers are posing stiff competition to their traditional rivals, the South Koreans and Taiwanese, by offering synthetic rubber products which are $50-100/tonne (€38-76/tonne) lower than their rivals.
"We hear from our customers that they can buy Japanese SBR about $50-100/tonne lower than other suppliers' prices, and customers will not hesitate to buy Japanese premium product at lower prices," a northeast Asian SBR producer said.
Japanese synthetic rubber producers, in recent years, had tended to stay at home to focus on their domestic market because strong currency made it difficult for them to compete in the export arena even with the premium quality they had to offer.
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"We are seeing more Japan-origin SBR, BR and EPDM available at competitive rates now," a customer in India said.
Spot offers of non-oil grade 1502 SBR from Japan were heard at $2,100-2,200/tonne CFR (cost and freight) Asia compared with other suppliers' offers which are $50-100/tonne higher, industry sources said.
Similarly, BR from Japan was heard available at around $2,200-2,250/tonne CFR Asia compared with other suppliers' offers about $50-100/tonne higher, another source said.
Japanese EPDM producers likewise have also dropped their prices in recent months to compete with other Asian producers, industry sources said.
"The cheaper yen has made it possible for the Japanese EPDM makers to offer lower prices and they have dropped their prices quite significantly since last December," a synthetic rubber distributor based in southeast Asia said.
Medium ENB (Ethylidene Norbornene) grade EPDM cargoes from Japan are available at around $2,950/tonne CFR Asia for May shipments, down by $400/tonne from early December 2012 when prices were at around $3,350/tonne CFR Asia, ICIS data showed.
Japanese synthetic rubber producers include Asahi Kasei, JSR Corp, Mitsui Chemicals, Sumitomo Chemicals, Ube Industries and Zeon Corp.
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My mouse and keyboard also have "Microsoft" written all over them … because much to my surprise it was the only wireless mouse/keyboard combo I could find in a major US electronic store (Frys) that works with XP (on my desktop) and Windows7 and Mac OSX (I use both on a MacBook Pro)
thanks for all the response guys Im going to head out to best buy later and look at a few.
I have the trackpad, and love it…
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Chargers' Turner could use some fury to go with usual sound
Norv Turner was seething, holding his temper as if he had a lion on a leash. The strain was showing. The agitation was obvious. The head coach of the San Diego Chargers stood before the cameras Sunday afternoon like a fuse looking for a light.
He had lost a game. Next time, perhaps, he should try losing his poise.
The coach who can't seem to please some of the people even some of the time might be better served by letting spectators see him snarl. While witnesses testify that Turner's postgame dressing room remarks were replete with adjectival obscenities following Sunday's 23-20 loss to New England, his public turn at the podium was comparatively mild and excessively measured.
"I just don't think we gave ourselves a chance in this football game," he said, at a volume level below venting and far below volcanic. "You do the things we did in the first half with the football ... and you're not going to win making those mistakes."
Turner was stating the obvious here — that four turnovers are too many against a quality opponent — but without the fist-pounding fury so many fans equate with leadership. This is one man who might win friends by being unfriendly; by bristling, by barking, by demonstrating that he's not necessarily the same dude behind closed doors that so much of his public perceives.
And it might trickle down to his team.
In the wake of another astonishing defeat, this one made possible by a repeated failure to play all the way through the whistle, the Chargers were appropriately contrite and inadequately angry. Both rookie Richard Goodman and veteran Jacob Hester accepted responsibility for the mental lapses that resulted in egregious turnovers and stalled successive second-quarter drives. New kicker Kris Brown was anguished and accountable about the field-goal attempt that clanked off the upright in a last-minute, game-tying opportunity.
But amid all of the disappointment, there didn't seem to be a lot of disgust. The Chargers continue to carry themselves as if their 2-5 start were an aberration rather than an abomination, and they convey all of the urgency of a teenager with weekend homework.
"We've been in situations just as bad," linebacker Shaun Phillips said. "The key to football is obviously winning your division. That is our goal. ... If we win our division, everything takes care of itself."
That's a big "if" that has grown that much bigger as the Kansas City Chiefs have improved to 4-2. Next Sunday, while the Chargers are chasing Tennessee's wondrous Chris Johnson, the Chiefs will be doing battle against winless Buffalo.
"The biggest key to our success in the future is that we continue to believe we're going to get it done and get it fixed," said Antonio Gates, the tight end. "And I know we will. The guys that made their mistakes, the mistakes are fixable. You look at them and go, 'Wow, if they don't do this or they don't do that, this will probably be a whole different ballgame,' and I think that's the positive that you can take from the game."


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Expressional clustering based on 254 MUC1-CD-associated genes is associated with survival of lung adenocarcinoma patients. A. 3-dimensional representation of the centroids generated by K-means clustering. Each point forming a cloud surrounding the centroid represents a patient assigned to the cluster corresponding to the centroid. B. 5-year survival of patients assigned to each cluster.
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Brooklyn Nets hire Jason Kidd as coach
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The Brooklyn Nets hired Jason Kidd as their coach Wednesday, bringing the former star back to the franchise he led to its greatest NBA success.
Kidd retired earlier this month after one season with the New York Knicks, his 19th in the NBA. The Nets decided to hire him to replace P.J. Carlesimo despite his absence of coaching experience.
"Jason Kidd has a long and legendary history with the Nets and with the city of New York," Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov said in a statement. "He has the fire in the belly we need, and has achieved as a player everything the Brooklyn Nets are striving to achieve. We believe he will lead us there. Welcome home, Jason."
The move reunites Kidd with the franchise he led to consecutive NBA Finals in 2002-03, when they played in New Jersey. He spent 6 1/2 seasons with the Nets, averaging 14.6 points, 9.1 assists and 7.2 rebounds, and is their career leader in numerous statistical categories.
"Jason is a proven winner and leader with an incredible wealth of basketball knowledge and experience," general manager Billy King said. "This will be a natural transition for him to move into the role of head coach, as he embodies the tough, smart and team-first mentality that we are trying to establish in Brooklyn."
Terms of the deal that made Kidd the 18th coach in franchise history were not disclosed. The Nets will introduce Kidd on Thursday during a press conference at Barclays Center.
Carlesimo wasn't retained after leading the Nets into the playoffs, where they lost to the Chicago Bulls in the first round. He went 35-19 after replacing Avery Johnson, who was fired in December.
The 40-year-old Kidd was considered one of the smartest players in the NBA, which he believes will help him make the transition into coaching.
"This is a tremendous opportunity to be named head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, and it's a role I have been studying for over the course of my playing days," Kidd said. "Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable, and that's how I expect to coach this
basketball team."
The Nets interviewed him this week and chose him as their coach after talking with Indiana Pacers assistant Brian Shaw earlier Wednesday.
Kidd has a close friendship with Nets point guard Deron Williams and the respect of many in the organization for his achievements as a player. He is second on the NBA's career list in assists and steals, won an NBA title with Dallas and has two Olympic gold medals.
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"Please prove that you're human."
Read the blurry letters, add up some numbers, and now, tell us how you feel.
CAPTCHAs, mini-forms designed to protect websites from spammers, bots and other malicious online entities, have gotten increasingly clever over the years. They've had to, since computers got better at recognizing blurry letters, spammers are more sophisticated and bots have gotten sneakier.
And so, we, the actual humans who just want to send an email or see a page, are inconvenienced by something that's supposed to make life easier.
There are several varieties of CAPTCHA. There's the blurry letter CAPTCHA, a series of random letters or words in the box you must decipher through various forms of distortion. It's a tough balance to strike. The blurrier the letters, the more difficult it will be for a computer to recognize the text – and the same is true for humans.
Then there are the CAPTCHAs asking you to solve a math problem. They have to be hard for a computer to read because computers tend to be pretty good at math. But the problem has to be simple, because nobody's going to pull out a calculator to fill out a web form. Stalemate again.
And now a new trend: CAPTCHAs that give you an example of a situation and ask you how you feel about it.
An interesting concept – it's a bit difficult for a computer to parse emotion, but some of the questions are bound to have relative answers and someone could compile a database of "right" answers for every situation.
Regrettably, it's not possible to simply dispose of these things. Everyone's inboxes would soon be flooded with garbage and websites would come tumbling down due to the sheer volume of machine-submitted spam.
So is there a better way?
Using the Internet's ability to correlate huge amounts of information, including patterns of behavior, some companies, Google among them, are starting to display CAPTCHAs selectively – only when a visitor acts like a spammer, or if an IP address is recognized as belonging to a known troublemaker.
So the dark cloud of unbounded data collection has a silver lining; it's generally fairly easy to tell if there's a real person or a machine at the other end of the line.
At least for now.
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And Yet It Moves is an award-winning physics-based platform game in which players rotate the game world at will to solve challenging puzzles. Tilting the world turns walls into floors, slides into platforms, and stacks of rocks into dangerous hazards.
Players navigate through a paper collage world created with colorful pieces of cardboard and set to distinctive music. With four different environments and unlockable modes, And Yet It Moves is a platformer that will provide gamers with endless challenges.
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My post on the Cars 2 thread has me thinking.
How much do you pay for cinema snacks in the US? Over here it's getting outrageous - last time I took Steven I paid £7 for a regular popcorn and drink for him. That's about $10. And a UK regular is a small in the US.


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Even if Nelson Cruz is suspended, the Rangers are not going after Michael Bourn
Jan 30, 2013, 9:39 AM EDT
Believe it or not, there are players besides Alex Rodriguez subject to MLB's investigation of the Biogenesis clinic. Players like Nelson Cruz, whose loss due to a suspension would be a way more significant to the Rangers than A-Rod's would be to the Yankees (heck, A-Rod could serve his suspension while on the disabled list, Edinson Volquez-style).
But even if the Rangers do face the loss of Cruz, T.R. Sullivan reports that they're not gonna panic:
No, the Rangers have not renewed their interest in free agent outfielder Michael Bourn, according to industry sources. Even if the Rangers do lose Cruz until the beginning of June, the plan is still to go with what they have right now.
That may mean either Mitch Moreland or Mike Olt has to play the outfield.
Probably helps that, if discipline does come to Cruz over this, it will likely take a few months for it to happen. Makes perfect sense in my view not to panic to the tune of $80 million or whatever it is Bourn wants these days.
- vivabear - Jan 30, 2013 at 10:22 AM
Nelson Cruz has braces…this explains it. The HGH continuing to make his jaw grow, making braces necessary.
- tuberippin - Jan 30, 2013 at 11:41 AM
Thanks for that well-researched opinion, Doctor.
- vivabear - Jan 30, 2013 at 1:58 PM
Apparently you missed the 30 for 30 about the 1988 Olympics Men's 100M final? And the sarcasm in my comment.
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Interested to hear what Nolan Ryan has to say….unless he only makes public comments about Josh Hamilton.
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Gatlinburg's premier sports recreation facility, Rocky Top Sports World, is anticipated to reinforce the economy and create a sports vacation market, taking advantage of the city's proximity to the tourist-laden Smoky Mountains.
CLEARWATER, Fla., March 10, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Sports tourism is an economic trend that is on the rise within the tourism industry – Dev Pathik, CEO of the Sports Facilities Advisory (SFA), recently commented in a Forbes Sports Money segment on the growth of youth competitive sports, which is largely the impetus for the sports tourism surge. The Rocky Top Sports World facility in Gatlinburg, TN, set to open its doors summer 2014, has been developed with the help of the SFA to attract new visitors to the area and boost the overall economy. SFA officials anticipate a $40 million economic impact for Gatlinburg within the first five years of Rocky Tops' opening. Under SFA's leadership, the facility has already attracted bookings totaling more than 30,000 visitors into the market for year one.
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Recent press indicates that some sports tourism facilities are reporting their busiest season for sport tourism to date – attracting large crowds to the area and filling local hotels (1). Other reports show sports tourism is helping alleviate some counties of their budget woes, such as Chesterfield County, in Richmond Virginia which expects sport tourism events to bring millions of dollars to the county in the form of of taxes from hotels, restaurants and shops (2). According to Pathik, sports tourism is ideally suited for existing tourism destinations that are family-oriented and that offer a wide range of hotel room rates, recreation amenities and dining and entertainment options – criteria which the city of Gatlinburg met due to its close proximity to the Great Smokey Mountains National Park, which saw more than 9 million recreation visits in 2010, the highest of any of the 58 national parks (3).
"Rocky Top Sports World is part of a national trend that cities are engaged in to achieve new levels of visitor spending through sports tourism – Disney Wide World of Sports began this trend in 1997," said Pathik. "Many tournament and event organizers are frustrated with cities that require teams to travel from one field to another between competitions – having everything in once place and having world-class playing surfaces is one key differentiator."
Mayor of Gatlinburg, Jerry Hayes, says he is confident that the Gatlinburg area has all of the desired characteristics for a successful sports tourism facility and believes there is an opportunity for economic development in the city.
"Rocky Top Sports World will attract events and tournaments to the area that would not otherwise be here – and with these tournaments comes the opportunity for increased economic activity in within our community," said Hayes. "Being that Rocky Top Sports World is located at the gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the facility offers visiting teams and family members access to a unique sports vacation market – and the success of Rocky Top Sports World will influence our future plans to expand Gatlinburg's sports recreation offerings."
Rocky Top Sports World encompasses an 80 acre campus equipped to fit the needs of turf and court-based athletes. With indoor and outdoor facilities, the venue is one of the most significant sports tourism developments to open in 2014. The facility will house six youth basketball courts, twelve volleyball courts, and 7 soccer/lacrosse/football fields, as well as a championship football stadium. The indoor facilities are for a wide range of sports and special events. Outside, there are seven lighted, full-sized outdoor fields with state-of-the-art synthetic turf (4).
SFA developed Rocky Top's business model, management plan, economic impact and cash flow forecast. Upon funding by the City of Gatlinburg and Sevier County, SFA's management company was engaged to assume day-to-day operational responsibility including the booking and management of tournaments and events, as well as managing facilities to support its government client's objectives.
SFA officials encourage sport tourism as an effective way to boost local economies that, in turn, will benefit all users of public services. SFA's portfolio includes more than $3.5 billion in planned and operational facilities, as well as being the industry leader in the managing of such complexes. The company will assist in opening more than 1.5 million acres of additional indoor facilities, as well as 600 acres of outdoor facilities, within the next year.
For more information about the Sports Facilities Advisory and its suite of planning-funding-opening-management services, visit www.sportadvisory.com/home.html.
About Sports Facilities Advisory:
The Sports Facilities Advisory (SFA) is the leading resource in sports facility planning and management. The Sports Facilities Advisory has helped to plan, fund, open and manage dozens of multimillion-dollar sports complexes in communities throughout the USA and internationally since its founding in 2003. The company serves public and private clients. Its services fall into four main categories: plan, fund, open and manage, which encompass every phase from early stage feasibility studies to preparing financing documents, overseeing development and opening and full-time management services. SFA's success depends upon its mission to dramatically improve communities through the opening or optimization of sport and recreation centers. For more information, visit www.sportadvisory.com/home.html.
1. Visit My Smokies Announces New Facility for Sporting Events in Gatlinburgheraldtribune.com/article/20140219/ARTICLE/140219577 Web. Feb. 20, 2014. 2. Llovio, Louis, Sports tourism in Chesterfield helps offset some, but not nearly all, budget woes. timesdispatch.com/news/local/chesterfield/sports-tourism-in-chesterfield- helps-offset-some-but-not-nearly/article_c33b52f7-c729-56ae-a2ad-433a10da 2d2c.html, Feb. 4, 2014. Web. Feb. 20, 2014. 3. AcreageGreat Smoky Mountains National Park Covers 521,085.66 Acres. Of This Total. "Park Statistic." Nps.gov. National Parks Service, 08 Feb. 2014. Web. 21 Feb. 2014. nps.gov/grsm/parkmgmt/statistics.htm. 4. "Visit My Smokies Announces New Facility for Sporting Events in Gatlinburg." Prweb.com. N.p., 17 Feb. 2014. Web. 21 Feb. 2014. prweb.com/releases/2014/02/prweb11591765.htm.
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I do like flexible professions, and seeing how the Engineer works, it got me thinking... different professions have different ways of being flexible...
This is the most obvious, as the first 5 skills are normally due to the weapon you equip. Clearly, the warrior has far more choices of skills based on equipment with 9 weapons to choose from, and 19 different ways to combine them. But this requires you to decide before the fight what you will need, and equip it ahead of time. By contrast, the engineer has 3 weapons, and only 3 ways to combine them.
The elementalist has the attunement, which for a long time was thought of as the "flexible" profession of choice. Now we learn that the engineer has kits which works in a similar way except for taking a skill slot (I think). Also, thieves get stealing, elementalists get conjures, and rangers get forage.
Also, some skills have multiple functions. Attack chains. Minions can be disposed of. Turrets can be overcharged. Weapon spells can be ordered to do a finishing move. Signets have a passive and an active effect. Virtues can be kept or given.
Are you planning to take advantage of your profession's flexibility?
If so, how?
How will that impact gameplay?
Will players who don't take advantage of this be gimped?
Are some professions really not that flexible?
Will this make gameplay too complex?


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