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Fine but not that Sharp on 2009-12-05
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tax regime in 2004, the V50 would have been more expensive than planned as the 30% rate applied to cars with engines of no more than 2.0-litre. Before that year, the demarcation line was 2.5-litre.
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een finally realised because a 2.0-litre petrol engine and automatic gearbox is now available.
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The only other two models left on sale in Thailand are the Chevrolet Optra Estate and Subaru Legacy Wagon,
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compact like the Chevy but with premium position and product attributes.
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could already be summarised as a fine choice for those who want more versatility than what saloons Toyota Camry and its like have to offer.
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the drivetrain disappoints the most in the V50. To put it bluntly, there isn't enough performance especially when you consider that estates are subject to load as well.
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ut what Powershift has apparently aided is fuel economy.
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he all-round disc brakes have sufficient stopping power.
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ut once you veer off smooth asphalt, the firmly sprung suspension becomes lumpy over road expansion joints, concrete-paved highways and rutted surfaces
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the ride can be a little punishing for those with sore backs.
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Handling, on the other hand, is generally tidy and substantially more convincing than in any of the Japanese cars in this price range.
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Which, in the end, makes the V50 a flawed family-mover.
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And in this price range, there isn't anything else to choose from if it's an estate you're after.
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Of course, you may argue that there are compact sport-utility vehicles like the Honda CR-V and Chevrolet Captiva that have the practicality of an estate, all-wheel-drive for driving security and
prices within the B1.5m bracket.
On the other hand, estate traditionalists say SUVs are unnecessary because off-roading is hardly on buyers' mind, the comparitively heavier bulk and 4x4 running gear worsen fuel consumptionand their higher bodies means more inferior driving dynamics.
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CX flies high on 2009-12-05
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NISSAN X-Trail
Price: B1.069m.
Specs: 2.0-litre inline-four with CVT automatic.
What is it: This is the second-generation X-Trail being imported from Indonesia via Afta trade benefits. In order to keep costs down, only the 2WD version is being sold to secure sales from the Honda CR-V and Suzuki Grand Vitara, both also having 2WD and 2.0-litre petrol motors.
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SUBARU LEGACY
Price: B1.98m for saloon and B2.05m for estate.
Specs: 150hp 2.0-litre flat-four with CVT automatic.
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VOLVO S40/V50
Price: B1.799m.
Specs: 145hp 2.0-litre inline-four with six-speed twin-clutch automatic.
What is it: Volvo's compact range of family cars has finally reached Thai shores via competitive prices due to importation from Malaysia. Like in the case of the Subaru Legacy, the V50 is the more outstanding car due to a sparse estate market in Thailand. Their highlights include unique safety features like blind-spot detection system.
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CK: Dioptric Adjustment Lenses for Canon EOS Digital SLRs on 2009-12-05
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Canon Professional Network - Dioptric adjustments on 2009-12-05
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Rob Galbraith DPI: Canon announces 16.06 million image pixel EOS-1D Mark IV on 2009-12-03
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mage sensor and ISO range Canon gave themselves a difficult task with the EOS-1D Mark IV: add over six million image pixels to the sensor while simultaneously increasing the extended ISO range by four stops.
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meant dropping the pixel pitch from 7.2µm to 5.7µm.
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In other words, Westfall is emphasizing that the camera's better high ISO image quality doesn't stem from the EOS-1D Mark IV's twin DIGIC 4 processors massaging the heck out of noisy RAW data and turning it into clean camera JPEGs. Rather, it's the fact the RAW data emerging from the sensor is noticeably less noisy in the first place.
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y comparison, Nikon has also just announced a camera - the D3S - that sports a top ISO of 102,400. But with a pixel pitch of 8.45µm, Nikon's job of achieving this ISO from its 12.05 million image pixel full-frame sensor, not to mention decent performance in the ISO 6400-12,800 range, seems like a walk in the park by comparison
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Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism? - NYTimes.com on 2009-11-22
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Saudi government officials,
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a market for farmland, as rich but resource-deprived nations in the Middle East, Asia and elsewhere seek to outsource their food production to places where fields are cheap and abundant.
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world’s arable land is already in use — almost 90 percent, according to one estimate, if you take out forests and fragile ecosystems
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one of the earth’s last large reserves of underused land is the billion-acre Guinea Savannah zone, a crescent-shaped swath that runs east across Africa all the way to Ethiopia, and southward to Congo and Angola.
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Kenya’s deal to lease nearly 100,000 acres to the Qatari government in return for financing a new port, or South Korea’s agreement to develop almost 400 square miles in Tanzania. But many other land deals, of near-unprecedented size, have been sealed with little fanfare.
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Over the 30 years between the mid-1970s and the middle of this decade, grain supplies soared and prices fell by about half, a steady trend that led many experts to believe that there was no limit to humanity’s capacity to feed itself. But in 2006, the situation reversed, in concert with a wider commodities boom. Food prices increased slightly that year, rose by a quarter in 2007 and skyrocketed in 2008.
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Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development
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Hamdi told me his view, that the only way to assure food security is to control the means of production.
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Lake Ziway, a teardrop in the furrow of Ethiopia’s Great Rift Valley,
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Over time, Al Amoudi, one of the world’s 50 richest people, according to Forbes, has used his fortune and political ties to amass control over large portions of Ethiopia’s private sector, including mines, hotels and plantations on which he grows tea, coffee, rubber and japtropha, a plant that has enormous promise as a biofuel. Since the global price spike, he has been getting into the newly lucrative world food trade.
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according to the World Bank, as much as three-quarters of Ethiopia’s arable land is not under cultivation, and agronomists say that with substantial capital expenditure, much of it could become bountiful
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who will reap the benefits?
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Decades ago, they said, during the rule of a Communist dictatorship in Ethiopia, the land was confiscated from them. After that dictatorship was overthrown, Al Amoudi took over the farm in a government privatization deal, over the futile objections of the displaced locals.
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The succeeding Communist dictatorship, which took ownership of all land for itself and pursued a disastrous collectivization policy, was toppled in the aftermath of the droughts of the 1980s
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Under the present regime, private ownership of land is still banned, and every farmer in Ethiopia, foreign and domestic, works his fields under a licensing arrangement with the government
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One thing that is very clear, that seems to have escaped the attention of most investors, is that this is not simply empty land,” says Michael Taylor, a policy specialist at the International Land Coalition. If land in Africa hasn’t been planted, he says, it’s probably for a reason. Maybe it’s used to graze livestock, or deliberately left fallow to prevent nutrient depletion and erosion.
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IIHS news release on 2009-11-21
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Välgörenhetskoncert med Rapsody in rock i Huahin -16 Januari : Välgörenhet • Thailand Forum on 2009-11-21
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2009 2008 2007 2006 Toyota Fortuner Fortuna new used buy low price 4x4 Toyota Hilux Vigo based SUV PPV Thailand top pickup exporter Nissan Navara, Mitsubishi L200 Triton on 2009-11-15
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Tech Tips - The Digital Journalist on 2009-11-13
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