Today's holiday-shortened session again featured, if that is the right word, lower corn and soybean prices. The 4th of July holiday is typically the point at which traders make judgments about weather and crop prospects that set the course of prices into late summer. General Comments The U.S. Labor Dept. reported that 288,000 jobs were added last month, the fifth month in a row with job gains over 200,000 and an indicator of an economy in full recovery mode. The unemployment rate dropped from 6.3 percent to 6.1 percent. The signs that the U.S. is becoming healthy are in sharp contrast with the EU where the collective economy seems to be slowing again. U.S. stock markets liked the news. The Dow traded over 17,000 for the first time ever, a...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
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Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
From WPI Consulting
Like all marmots
An adult Vancouver Island marmot typically measures 65 to 70 centimetres (26 to 28 in) from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.