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Directors of IITs in Kharagpur, Madras, Bombay, Delhi and Kanpur are also part of the panel, which is expected to submit its report in two months.
The committee, sources said, has been specifically asked to suggest changes in the composition of the Board of Governors (BoG) of IITs. As per Section 11 of the IIT Act, the BoG has nine members, all of whom are either directly or indirectly nominated by the government. In contrast, each IIM, under the new IIM Act, has 15 members of which five represent the institute's alumni.
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The panel will also examine whether the BoG should be empowered to amend the institute's statutes that govern day-to-day functioning. Currently, no amendment, repeal or addition to the statutes is possible without the approval of the President, who is the Visitor of all IITs.
The move to examine autonomy for the IITs stems from a presentation made by a team from McKinsey and Company to HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar in August. The meeting was arranged at the behest of one of Javadekar's colleagues in the Council of Ministers, who is an IIT alumnus. The McKinsey presentation pitched for more autonomy for the IITs, especially a change in the composition of the BoG.
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Apart from empowering the 20 business schools to award degrees to students instead of postgraduate diplomas, the IIM Act, which came into effect on January 31, gives the institutes unprecedented levels of autonomy. For instance, the IIMs are now free to appoint their own chairmen and directors. Also, the government representation on the board of each IIM has gone down significantly.
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Ep 65: Cause & Effect Ripples in the Stock Market: Oil, the Federal Reserve, and the Dollar
Hey this is Sasha Evdakov, it is December 17th, 2015 and welcome to another episode of let's talk stocks, where I share with you how to evolve and transform as a trader and within your trading.
In this week's episode, the core focus is about cause and effect ripples in the stock market. Basically it's how the market moves, what is the cause and what is the effect and how that pertains to everything that's happening within your stocks.
It's an important lesson to really hone in and focus on because there's a lot of chatter that's happening lately, especially between oil, the Federal Reserve and the US dollar.
Lots of news
There's a lot of news, a lot of gossip, a lot of headline that are occurring and it may be impacting your trading decisions and it's something to be aware of, of how the news pertains to your trades and your stocks and your environment, and seeing a deeper picture about this and how it really applies is vital to understanding your trades and how stocks move and behave.
As we go into the lesson, I do want to cover the market and how it's doing, we did have the Federal Reserve that announced certain news yesterday about the interest rates going up, and they're by about a quarter percent.
And what they say typically does move the markets because it trickles down, so if you look at the market, a lot of things over the last week actually were just waiting for the Federal Reserve over the week.
What happens is a lot of the traders, what they do is they pair their positions. That's one of the reasons why I also decided that ok, we're going to turn down a lot of my positions as well and since we're getting close to the holidays, then we won't be putting on any new positions here until the new year, and that's just also to get a little break as well from everything.
But you can see that people were taking a lot of positions off right here, as indicated by this bar and the break of this support line. So we broke it before right here, right around November 15th, 16th and then we got back above it.
The same thing happened here, was that we broke lower, a lot of people were waiting for the federal decision and then we got it and then some certainty came in and the stock market popped a little higher, and then today we get again a reaction that goes and counteracts that decision, so on the day that they announced it, the stock market went higher. On the day after today, the stock market went lower.
So why does that happen and why does that move the markets? Or how does this play into the whole market as a whole between the causes and the effects? Is this the thing that's leading it? Is it oil prices, or is it the dollar and the way that the dollar is moving?
The news only want to entertain viewers
That's the core of this week's lesson. And you have to understand that there's going to be a lot of chatter that happens on the news. There's going to be a lot of chatter that happens that the news will bring in experts that had it right and then experts that had it wrong, depending on the direction that things move.
And they do this because it builds viewership; it builds viewing time for them and for their channel.
They're not really there to educate you, per se, that's not their ultimate goal and focus. They're there to entertain you, and one of the ways to entertain people or get readership or viewership is to discuss things negatively.
Typically they say that 9 out of 10 headlines on the news or anywhere really are negative, and that's because it drives a viewership, it drives readership, and this is the same thing that happens in tabloids.
It's also one of the things that happen in reviews, reviews of books, reviews of products, blog websites that do reviews, anything that's negative drives a lot more readers and viewership, because people are interested in these things, it spikes a little curiosity in our own mind and brain and it makes us wonder, it counteracts some of those things that are naturally inherent in us.
Where in fact most human beings they want to do the right thing, they want to do the positive thing, but if they can satisfy some of that taboo craving from the negative side, or put a little doubt in their mind to counteract and balance that seesaw effect, then they want to go after and read about it.
This in your trading is going to be a very horrible thing to do, and that's because when we start looking at the news, when we start reading about how things pertain to the cause and effect, such as when we look at Exxon Mobil here, when we see how it's been driving and moving lately, oil stocks have been moving lover.
And there will be experts out there on TV, there will be experts out there on articles, news, radio, talking about how oil prices are moving lower, and when oil prices move lower, they move the markets lower.
Then there will be other exerts, or during other times of the month, year, day, where oil prices move higher and they lead stocks move lower. So there's the inverse that happens, both situations happen, meaning stocks move up when oil prices are down, and stocks move up when oil prices move up as well.
So both things happen and the news portrays this and believes that this is a one way action, cause and effect.
Volume and price
Those of you that have studied my course on the green course stock trading foundations or the technical analysis course. You know that I really heavily focus on cause and effect and in order to explain this as easy as possible, into volume being the cause and effect being the price.
What happens here is when we start reading and looking at the volume and you can do this on any stock really, and let's just take a look at any kind of stock, company whether it's MasterCard, whether it's Apple.
You can see here we have down volume bars that are fairly huge relative to the average 20 day average, 49.3 million, and this cause creates this effect, ok? It creates an effect for 10 – 15% selloff.
We can do the same thing with marathon oil, same thing when you look at the stock charts right here, you see the cause right here with a rise in volume, here is the effect. The effect that happens with prices, and we continue… Look at this volume coming in.
And if you don't believe me just go ahead and study charts more in depth and then you will be a believer after that. But I've talked about marathon oil, I've talked about a lot of these oil companies in the past, and we've talked about this critical line and this stock is continuing to sell off even further, for $12 marathon oil that used to be at a $40 double tap over here.
This can go much lower, the same with a lot of these other companies, like Exxon mobil and so forth. Just because gas prices are cheap at $1.80 a gallon here and there, that doesn't mean things can't continue moving lower. There can be some serious trouble.
If you're looking to purchase on the scale of one side or the other, are you more favorable to purchase it now rather than somewhere up here or back there? Of course, because they were at a hundred and you're getting a more favorable price.
The market is what it is
But getting back to the cause and effect, we like to justify as humans in the behavior of what's moving the market, what's driving the market, and that's a curiosity that always hones in to us as a trader, especially when we're just getting started and I used to always wonder, when I used to have mentors, I always wondered, ok so why is the market moving now? Why is the market moving now? Or next week it'd be, so what's driving the market now?
And I constantly kept thinking about it, constantly kept wondering, and asking my mentors what's going on? What's happening?.
And a lot of the times the answer I kept getting was: it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what's driving the market. The market is what it is.
And that's one of the reasons they use the phrase "the market is always right". The market is always right because it's a reflection of what's going on and what's happening in the current state.
Rather than figuring out the reason of why, it's irrelevant of why it's leading this way or moving that way, or moving sideways, moving up, moving down. It really doesn't matter.
The justification mechanism
And the reason for that is because really we humans try to figure out this justification mechanism. We try to pin something for the move. Whether that's to the up side or the down side, so if we're playing to the long side, and we're playing on the S&P here, to the up side and now the market starts selling off, let's say in this region, we try to figure out why is it doing that?
If it's oil prices, or if it's the Federal Reserve, why is that? The reason if it is, ok that soon should be over and then the market should continue moving higher again, because I'm long.
This happens all the time in a lot of things that we do. It's that self-justification mechanism, because we're always trying to figure out the why.
And when you start digging deeper into this, there's no single cause and effect.
I understand that in the course, in the courses that I've spoke at and taught. It is a simple way to explain cause and effect in the market, is that the volume is the cause and the effect is the price.
And really as you're getting started and understanding the picture, that is really what you should focus on. Don't tie in so many other factors; because it's only going to confuse you, it's going to spin your head around multiple times, really dizzy, like a carrousel and you don't want that to happen.
Go back to the fundamentals and keys, as far as volume being the cause and the effect being the price. But there's a lot more that ties into this, as you get deeper and as your understanding of cause and effect grows.
As you mentally grow with your understanding, now you can start applying it at a deeper level.
Some of you might be thinking that I'm already talking beyond or over your head, but you'll get there, and you might need to re-watch this lesson multiple times or many years later, one or two years later to really digest and understand what's going on and what's happening underneath.
Some people never really get it. They always assume that one cause equals this effect. And a lot of the programming that happens, programming meaning in society from news channels, from our day to day life, it programs us to think linearly in cause and effect terms.
Multiple factors contribute to an effect
If we want a long, healthy lifestyle, it's eating right the only thing that you need to do in order to live a long and healthy life? Probably not, and you can all agree with me on this, that it's not just about the things that you do, but also the things that you don't do. So it could be eating the right food, it could be exercising properly, being consistent with that, and even having a healthy loving relationship socially.
It could be that having those friends can drive your moral, and by having a better moral allows you to live longer.
There was a study done not too long ago that's saying married couples or couples in a healthy relationship, typically, at least the man lives an extra ten years longer. I can't remember if the woman lives the same age or they actually live longer themselves, but I know that the man typically lives an extra ten years longer if they are married or in a healthy loving relationship, or have socially healthy relationships.
Looking at this to have a long and healthy life, it's not just about eating the right food. It's about doing the right things and not doing the correct things as well, such as not smoking, not drinking alcohol, all these kinds of things play into all of this cause and effect, and it's not one thing points to the other.
When we come into the stock market, we're typically engrained and retrained to try to figure out a cause and effect because we get tied emotionally to this, we try to justify it, whether that's the us dollar, whether that's the federal reserve.
Looking at the Dow Jones, the same thing we're looking at what specific company is it that's creating the effect.
What company is taking the Dow Jones lower? And here you can see Apple right here picking up volume, right here is our break, here is our volume picking up and you can see that here is our linear way of thinking, of saying ok, this is the cause and this is the effect, here's the effect that's coming in. when in fact there could be multiple different causes.
This is an easy way, looking at the charts, this is an easy way of dissecting exactly what's happening in the company, and this is why I teach it this way.
As your understanding becomes deeper and for my coaching students, I try to push them a little bit more out of the box.
And as your understanding grows a little deeper, you might have multiple different causes to create that effect. So let's say apple for example has supply chain problems, they also have distribution problems, there's a few other problems that are underneath, their fundamentals are potentially great. they have a large cash flow, but they're not doing anything with that cash, at least not anything to the extreme. So the cash is sitting there.
Again, there's different things that contribute to that. In addition we're creating tops over here, ABCD, which if you've been following me for at least a year, you know that we're coming into that ABCD patterns that's already completing that motion and that move.
There's a lot of factors that contribute to an effect. So you need to start looking at things at a deeper level.
Things don't happen in a linear way
And when you start hearing these things on the news especially, reading into what the fed does when you ask me "ok what do you think the fed is going to do?" "What is going to happen to my stocks?" "What is oil going to do?" "What do you think is going to happen with the oil?" "What do you think is going to happen with the future of oil prices?" "Should I get into Exxon Mobil?"
And the fact is that as you start looking into all these things, it's not just a linear way of thinking, you have to go deeper into that level, you have to go deeper into dissecting the analysis of what's going on and what's happening.
It's multiple things. Think of it as throwing a lot of different colors of M&Ms into a bowl and trying to figure out how many of each color there is in a split second. That's what you're really trying to do when it comes to figuring out what's going on with your stock prices in cause and effect.
But for most people, what they'll do is they'll try to align every color M&M and figure out and count it out, but it's very difficult because someone else keeps pouring more and more M&Ms with multiple colors in that bowl. So it's hard to keep up because it's dynamically changing.
By now you should probably understand that cause and effect is not just linear. Cause and effect, such as tying stock market prices to oil prices, is not very valid. Which means, what is the news trying to do? Is it really even relevant to watch it? Not really. It's there for entertainment purposes.
It's not going to tell you which direction the things will move. The same thing goes with the dollar. The same thing goes with the Federal Reserve. Cause and effect.
Typically things do trickle down, and it's one of the reasons why news catalysts, like the Federal Reserve, do move the markets, because it is a large thing that can affect multiple things.
Looking at the federal reserve you can pinpoint a large cause and effect thing for that to happen.
For example, if lending and borrowing money now becomes more expensive, which is really what the Federal Reserve does to the economy, if now it costs banks more money to borrow money, or to have money to use money, now It costs the banks more, it trickles down to mortgage prices being higher or mortgage lending rates being higher, that trickles down to the regular person or the investor in buying a home, or the first time home buyer. Now not being able to afford a bigger house, or not being able to afford the house that they want, so they have to go to a smaller house, which also means they have less discretionary funds or money to travel, to buy the new tech toys.
That's how this affects the US economy and the global economy, because then you spend less internationally, because you might not take that international trip.
As you can see just with the interest rates, and that's why people make it a big deal, the news catalysts they make it a big deal, is that it trickles down multiple levels.
However when we watch these stories, or we read these stories, a lot of times they seem from our perspective like it's a linear cause and effect, such as because the fed does this, he market does that.
But remember that it trickles down to multiple levels, and you have to start looking at things as multidimensional effects when you're looking at the market.
And most traders when they're beginning, when they're just getting started, when I first started, I tried to figure out the reasons behind the move.
Focus on risk management
And a lot of times as I mentioned earlier, the reason behind it is irrelevant. All you can do is manage your risk at how you're trading the markets. That's really the whole goal of you trading, is to manage your risk and to figure out how best to manage that risk when prices don't move in your favor.
Because buying a stock, if we bought a stock, let's say the S&P over here, at this level, the 1900 dollar level, and just holding it and allowing it to run, that's easy, that's easy. Anybody can do that.
But knowing what to do, when the stock goes against you, that's when experience kicks in. Knowing when things go not in your favor, that's caller risk management. That's called knowing what to do when things don't go in your favor.
And the better you are at that, the better that you are predicting and dissecting of that risk to prepare yourself or the risk that's coming in the future, the better you'll be at trading, because you are not just a trader, but you're managing your risk, and that's why one of the simplest things and ways that I like to share with people is that when you buy a stock, whether is right here at this level.
When you buy a stock at this level, and it continues to move up a little bit, you sell half, ok? If you're scared, you just take half of your shares off, and now you're playing with a free hand and letting the rest ride as high as you can.
And then if something happens, you get freaked out, you panic, you get out 100% of your full position, and then you can get back in again later, at another time when you feel more comfortable.
Be prepared for the downs
But for many people what they do is they have no concept or plan when something goes against them, because they're not prepared for that. And they're not prepared because they're not thinking about the potential future of the effects, of what can happen, but as you start thinking, digging deeper, seeing the world a little bit differently, you start evaluating the risk a lot differently.
And I don't know if for you it'll be a light switch that comes on and say "wow, this makes sense" "Wow, somebody said something that now… Ok, I'm thinking things differently".
And maybe it'll make sense to you during this lesson, and now you start seeing the world a lot differently. Maybe for you it may never make sense, because you might always see things as linearly.
"That guy hit me, and now that car that I have is damaged, and it was all his fault, because he bumped into me".
When in fact it's potential, or possible that you hit your breaks a little quick, maybe you were driving incorrectly, or you were slowing down very gently, and because you came to a very quick fast stop, then they actually hit and bumped your car on the back side.
Pointing the finger at a single cause
There's a lot of different causes and effects. For many people we like to point the finger, we like to dissect the reasoning behind why, and for one it's again, that justification mechanism, it's that self-justification that we really try to get past, because we don't want to put the blame on us.
And that includes with losing trades. We want to put the blame elsewhere, putting the cause and effect on to someone else; it is their burden and problem.
That's one of the reasons why many people give their money to a broker. They give their money to a broker and that way, they are always correct.
Meaning, if I give my money to a broker and I give my money to a broker right here, and let's say the stock market goes up, now I am correct, because I chose the right broker, he did a good job and he made me money. So I'm in the right, I am correct; my actions resulted in a positive return for me.
On the other hand, if I chose a broker over here, they invested my money, and the market tanks and sells off, now I can justify and say, well it wasn't me, the broker in fact did a horrible job, but it was nothing on my part.
So we can justify it both ways to where we're still positive in either direction. It's not funny how that works out.
Read the volume
Looking at your stocks, when you're trading, learn to understand the cause and effect and start looking at things deeper. If you have the green course, if you have the blue course, review the cause and effect module and especially read the volume.
Because 80-90% of the cause and effect in the charts, in the stocks, whether you're looking at apple, whether you're looking at any kind of stock, there's marathon oil, it doesn't matter, you can choose Facebook, the cause and effect is going to be driven by the volume, because the volume is the reflection of what's happening in the market.
It puts together all those multiple causes, to show you those causes and get you that output and that effect. That is the beauty of learning and understanding and studying volume.
And that's why I typically preach it so heavily, but most people want the indicator, they want that easy entry and exit point. Whether that the Mat D, this and that.
Understand that those are light indicators and they have false positive signals, and you have to understand how those work and operate.
After you understand the cause and effect, the volume, the price, the action, the behavior, then you can go ahead and add those additional indicators, but they may only guide you another 5% in your whole decision making process, the other 60, 80, 90% would be something like the volume, the other things that you study, the international markets, the global economy, learning about how these things move together.
When you start putting all these pieces together, the light bulb might just go off, and you might say "wow, I got it" "Wow, now I understand".
You can apply this to a basic concept of living a longer, healthier life. You have to remember that it's not just exercising, it's not just eating right, it's not just not smoking, it's not just having healthier relationships.
It's about multiple thing working together, working correctly, to get you to that destination, just like a car, just like a bicycle, it's about having the two tires, the frame, having four tires in a car, having that frame, having the engine, the radiator, everything working together to move you and propel you forward.
There's no need to understand everything
You don't need to understand how the car works and operates specifically within those components, but you need to know how to drive it.
You don't need to understand exactly what's going on underneath the stock market, but you do need to understand how to manage your risk and your money, how stocks move, how a car moves, you need to understand those concepts, but you don't need to understand the full driving force behind it. You need to understand what's causing the move for you to be able to manage the risk.
Hopefully that makes sense and hopefully you really are starting to digest and come out of this a little bit better, a little bit smarter, a little bit wiser, maybe allow you to grow into a better trader, and if not, you might come back to this lesson, save it and say "hey, I need to come back and listen to this again sometime in the future, in a month, two, three months, five months"
It's a profound thing because once you get this, once you understand how things behave and act in the market, it really applies to the world around us. So understand that everything that you're getting, all this noise, all the things that are being fed into you, from the cause and effect of oil prices, the dollar, the Federal Reserve, is a one way, one linear connection that many people try to pinpoint.
And it's an easy way to understand things. It's an easy way to say that this is the reason, this is why, this is happening, but it's really not the right reason. It's not the full story. You're getting a small fraction and piece of that story.
Looking at your own investments, think deeper, start evaluating the cause and effect, especially volume, if you haven't studied the volume with me, then go back to some of the other lessons that we have ad work on the volume, because it really will shed a large light for your trading, for your risk management, and just go back and study some more, so that way you have a clear understanding of why things move the way that they do, and then you can make your trading decisions, but it doesn't necessarily matter why they're moving, what matters is how they're moving and how you're positioned so that way you can manage your risk.
Whether it's oil prices, whether it's the dollar, whether it's the federal reserve. It doesn't really matter, it could be terrorist attack, it could be gas prices, it could be a software company, it could be somebody died, it could be some CEO announced something.
It really doesn't matter. There's a lot of things that will fuel that cause and effect, all you need to understand is how to drive the vehicle so that you can move forward and progress. That's what you need to know.


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Gay Essential Review: The Watermelon Woman at Outfest
The Watermelon Woman is an independent film from 1996 that had a 20th Anniversary screening at this year's Outfest in Los Angeles.
Cheryl Dunye, the film's writer and director, also stars in the film as herself (or some version of it). The Cheryl in the film is a young, black lesbian working in a video store in Philadelphia with her best friend Tamara (Valerie Walker) – who is also young, black and lesbian.
The Cheryl in the film is also an aspiring filmmaker — in that she has a desire to make films, but doesn't know what she wants to make films about. She's partial to movies from the 1930s and 1940s that feature black actresses who often weren't even credited for their roles (and those they were credited for were largely subservient, stereotypical and unflattering in nature). So the Cheryl in the film knows that the film she wants to make should be something along those lines because most of the stories of these black actresses have never been told.
One day she comes across such a film that features what she considers to be the most beautiful woman she has ever seen on the cover. Billed only as "The Watermelon Woman", Cheryl decides to make a film about her and embarks on an all-consuming research project to find out who this woman is and what her story was and/or still is.
Cheryl starts off by interviewing her own mother (played by Dunye's real-life mother Irene) as well as other family members, friends, students and scholars. Her efforts not only lead her to the watermelon woman's actual name (Fae Richards) but also to surprising discoveries about Richard's private life – which in some ways mirrors Cheryl's own.
These interviews are intertwined with the ongoing narrative of Cheryl's daily life while she tries to make progress on the film. In the latter, a relationship develops between Cheryl and a customer at the video store – a white woman named Diana (Guinevere Turner) who had taken an instant liking to Cheryl.
The Watermelon Woman is one of the first films (if not THE first) about a black lesbian that is written, directed and produced by a black lesbian. As such, it not only takes on the rather uncomfortable topics of opportunities for black women in film, the portrayals of black women in film and the place of black women in the ongoing history of film, but approaches them from a uniquely personal perspective.
By the end of the film, the lines between reality and fiction are blurred in that Cheryl in the film and Dunye herself with the film itself are both making points about black women in film. And though the ending is rather abrupt, both Cheryl in the film and Dunye with the film itself are effectively able to get these points across.
The events of the film are largely fictional. And while some people viewing the film will realize this before the end of the film, I did not. I bought into the story of The Watermelon Woman because knowing what I know of Hollywood history as it relates to black women, it would not surprise me if there actually was a black actress in the 1930s and 1940s who was billed only as The Watermelon Woman and relegated only to certain roles that Hollywood producers of the day believed audiences of the day would accept seeing them in.
Unfortunately, even seventy and eighty years later, not much has REALLY changed in Hollywood — except that NO studio would EVER get away with billing ANY actress as The Watermelon Woman.
At least I hope not.


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Unfortunately snails will breed at every opportunity that they have, the correct water, an abundance of food and they will multiply, with some species this can be at an alarming rate as the lay thousands of eggs with each batch. If we control their food input this is often enough to keep the snail population in check so make sure that you only feed the fish the correct amount of food each session, if you do accidentally overfeed, syphon out the excess.
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, ChinaNanchang, Jiangxi province
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Jiangling Tractor Company is/was a related company that produces agricultural tractors.
The history of Jiangling Motors Corporation., Ltd. can be traced to a truck repair shop opened in Nanchang in 1952 which operated under the name Nanchang Motors Repair Factory. In January 1993, the company entered into the Isuzu Joint Venture with Isuzu and Itochu. The joint venture acquired the non-exclusive right to produce the cab compartment and certain components of N-Series light truck and to assemble vehicles. The company was granted the approval of Jiangxi Province Economic Restructuring Commission to be reorganized to establish a joint stock limited company on February 20, 1993. JMC A shares and B shares got listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange on December 1, 1993 and September 29, 1995, respectively.
At the 2006 Paris Motor Show, Landwind returned to Europe and displayed an updated version of their sport utility vehicle, now called the X-Pedition, as well a compact MPV called the Fashion that would compete in the same size class as products such as the Kia Carens.
In late 2010, Jiangling released the first JMC-brand passenger car, Yusheng SUV. [1]
Model rangeEdit
- Jiangling Transit
- JMC Isuzu Truck
- Jiangling CV9 minivan
- Landwind SUV / Landwind Simen
- Landwind X6 (sport utility vehicle)
- Landwind X9 / Landwind Double Gate (sport utility vehicle)
- Landwind Fashion / Lufengfengshang / CV9 (compact MPV)
- JMC Baodian (Pickup)
- JMC Boarding pickup
- JMC BaoWei (SUV based on the older Isuzu Rodeo)
- JMC Carrying truck
- JMC Qingka ((licensed trucks based on Isuzu)
- JMC Transit (minibus, developed by Ford and JMC jointly)
- JMC Light Truck (small truck)
- pickup
- JMC Yunba (Van similar to the Toyota Hiace)
- Yusheng SUV
Production basesEdit
Production bases include a planned Ford plant in Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi province.[2]
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References Edit
|This page uses some content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Jiangling Motors. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Tractor & Construction Plant Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons by Attribution License and/or GNU Free Documentation License. Please check page history for when the original article was copied to Wikia
- ↑ "JMC, a Ford Partner, Releases First Passenger Car–Yusheng SUV", ChinaAutoWeb.com.
- ↑ Short Torque chinadaily.com.cn, 2010-12-20
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It was really good -- we will all miss Whitney.
Kyle! Great job!! I really love the part where you sing, "After all my strength is gone, in you I can be strong." The "goooone" part is really awesome You really excel with the high power notes, but at the same time your voice is so soft! Very versatile there. I like when the instruments first come in as well.
Great job with the pics! Nice slideshow; Whitney was so beautiful, and it's really such a shame she's gone. Nice job.
Was this recorded in the studio?
That was absolutely beautiful! You would made Whitney proud! Continue singing. You have an amazing voice.
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^LOL, are you serious?? I felt stupid for asking that question later! I was like, Duh of course it was in a studio! Wow. Yeah, it sounds that good! I really thought it was in a studio. The instruments sound great in the background!
I did some editing to make it sound like a "live performance" and did some mixing. But basically it's the track, and my voice combined... Nothing special. No crazy production on this one
^sounds awesome! I would like it, but I deleted my youtube account!
"I Look To You" - Cover, I Will Always Love You, Whitney! 1963-2012 - YouTube
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BENI – Bitter & SweetAugust 23, 2010 at 1:17 PM | Posted in BENI | Leave a comment
BENI – Bitter & Sweet
1. Bitter & Sweet: Intro
2. Kiss Kiss Kiss
3. Zutto Futari de (ずっと二人で)
4. Koi Kogarete (恋焦がれて)
5. Dakishimete feat. Dohzi-T (抱きしめて feat. 童子-T)
6. Anything Goes!!
7. stardust
10. Shinjisasete (信じさせて)
11. nice & slow
13. Beautiful World
14. Mou Nido to… (もう二度と・・・)
15. Kiss Kiss Kiss DJ HASEBE REMIX
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Bitter & Sweet is BENI's 4th studio album, but her first after she left Avex Trax and signed up with Universal Music Japan. It's also her first album under her new stage name BENI (previously it was Beni Arashiro). The album was released on September 2, 2009 and reached #5 on the Oricon Weekly Charts with 104,501 sold copies. It's BENI's highest ranked and best sold album to date.
I've never listened to any music by BENI before, but I must say she has a voice that I really like! The short Bitter & Sweet: Intro showcases that from the start, with it's stormy elements and R&B influences. Her adlibbing background vocals are doing their job as well, and this introduction certainly represents the album's midtempo R&B genre at it's best.
Chimes, snapping, a few synths and a piano are featured in the first full length track: Kiss Kiss Kiss, in which BENI's vocals in the chorus are so catchy when she sings the title words. I love the melody in this midtempo R&B song, it's so smooth and well flowing, and even though there isn't much variety, it's hard to say not to like this song. It seems to have that typical American sound to it, and I think it will totaly blow similar songs away like hell!
Another ballad right here, with Zutto Futari de (ずっと二人で), and I instantly don't understand the negative comments I read about this track. I hear elements that are hard to find in any song to date, such as the way BENI uses her voice and the melody in the chorus, the heavier percussion right after the chorus (and sometimes in the verses as well)… I love the way BENI presents a more aggressive side of her vocals as she belts out this song.
The more dreamy Koi Kogarete (恋焦がれて) is another midtempo track of the same sort as the two songs before it, and another single out of the bunch. I like the little synth chimes in the song, mostly throughout the chorus, and this track uses more of an acoutic guitar in it's arrangement. Another midtempo, but unique in it's own way, and the melody can totally get stuck in your head.
Dakishimete feat. Dohzi-T (抱きしめて feat. 童子-T) is the first non-single track, and has more of a bounce to the chorus compared to the previous songs. I remember Dohzi-T as the guy who totally ruined Ayumi Hamasaki's debut EP (NOTHING FROM NOTHING) with her, but I'm glad he left this song alone a little more. He actually has some catchy raps in the bridge, but the real vocal stair remains BENI, who really puts something good into the chorus. As for the music: yeays for guitar riffs!
Finally BENI throws an upbeat and more aggressive track on me, Anything Goes!!. A track with more heavy synths and harder percussion is fairly placed after four tracks of the slower kind, and I wonder why this wasn't a single. No smoothness this time, but more of a showcase for BENI's other sides, as well as for her ability to reach short higher notes. The guy in the background annoys me, but hey, it's a catchy song so why would I cry about that?
The next track, stardust, is another upbeat track, and it reminds me of Koda Kumi's TABOO because of the electronic R&B influences. BENI sounds like she really found her spot in this genre, she's so enthousiastic. And what's with the high notes later up in the song? Hey BENI, keep on going like this, and your fanbase will grow… and grow… and grow xD
KIRA☆KIRA☆ is another midtempo track again, and it brings the smoothness right back again with snaps and all R&B beats. To me this track has more of a winter ambience to it, mostly because of the echoed chimes in the chorus, and I can imagine listening to this song in December. Some parts stand out very well, they really do, but overall this song is pretty bland compared to the rest of the bunch. It's not variated and more of the same.
I like the guitar introduction that leads into GO ON, and if I'm not wrong it features some piano melodies as well. In this more of an upbeat kind of track, BENI throws in some dominant synth riffs that make the R&B verses flow into a danceable chorus. BENI herself has some nice vocals in this song, and a constant beat accompanies her while she's singing the title words over and over again.
What a stupid way to begin Shinjisasete (信じさせて), and I'm not talking about the piano melody. I'm talking about that short synth-like string riff that you keep hearing throughout the verses and it totally distracts from BENI's vocals. In the chorus the focus luckily goes back to her, since the midtempo R&B beat takes over with a more likeable soft synth melody in the back. The piano stays featured all the way as well, and the whole adds something to this unvariated song.
What's up with nice & slow? Back to that stardust quality with more electronic synth influences, yet it's still a slower paced R&B track. The percussion is also a little heavier than usual, so this is another track that stands out a bit. I like her lyrics, especially when she sings 'put your arms around me, nice and slow', and her voice sounds pretty well blended with this track too.
Disonant strings and some kind of electronic sound lead into STAY, midtempo song #1,000,000 on this album. Yet there's a certain appealing quality that wasn't on this album before, and even the guy yelling 'eyyyy' in the background isn't annoying to me. To be honest, it adds a kind of smoothness again, and the melody of the chorus keeps playing inside my head.
Then there's Beautiful World, and yes, I agree with other reviewers that this is the best track on this whole album because of the first-timer elements in this song. The guy singing with BENI, can someone tell me who he is? They sound wonderful together! The track has such a flair to it, and BENI's belting works very well too. Her voice works very well with the background adlibbing and layered vocals.
Mou Nido to… (もう二度と・・・) is the response song to Mou Ichino… feat. BENI by rapper Dohzi-T. This song is more acoustic based, and there isn't really a beat in the first part apart from some snaps and a little bass once in a while. Later up a beat drops in to accompany the piano and acoustic guitar, and this is indeed a pretty song to be released as a single.
It's funny to hear some Spanish counting before Kiss Kiss Kiss DJ HASEBE REMIX starts off. I'm glad to hear this is not just some electronic dance crap, but actually a song remixed into a little more complicated arrangement. There's variaty in the percussion and the song is transformed, while the basic melody remained. It's not very different from the original, except for the beat and tempo, but the original appealed to me a little more. Still, I don't hate this, I actually like it!
So, basically… Bitter & Sweet isn't a recordbreaking album to me. It truly has some good stuff, it really does, and BENI rolls along smoothly with everything she does. The individual tracks can all appeal to me, but when I have to listen to the same influences too many times in a row, the album as a whole gets kinda bland. I was very into the first half of the album, since I hadn't listened to any music of this kind today. But as this review progressed, my interests failed a bit. It's such a waste, since all the material is good, but there's no variety in BENI's music at all. I know she just released a new album, and I definitly wanna hear if she improved even more. I keep my hopes up, because I know BENI is good.
Favorite tracks: Kiss Kiss Kiss | Zutto Futari de (ずっと二人で) | Koi Kogarete (恋焦がれて) | Beautiful World
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I'm not a big techie type when it comes to the background portion of blogging. I don't know lots of lingo. I don't have many answers for most of the problems or issues that might arise with a blog and social media. Like many of you—I have to just "wing it" OR GOOGLE IT! It's pretty much out of my realm of expertise when it comes to even writing an article about such things. However, I DO TRY!
I use Live Writer (referred to here and now,for this post as LW) to write my post and I like that it gives me different options for FONT, Watermarked Pictures and Writing off-line—just getting on the internet for me can be a major distraction. My mind just goes so many different directions. Once I see those flashing ads, or perhaps I read the title of your latest post in my sidebar…that's it; I take off on a rabbit trail and totally forget my train of thought. So using LW, for me; is the best thing I can do regarding the time I spend writing a post.
Recently, I changed the FONT on my blog posts— lw, like I said, gives a wide range of options. I like this one because it resembles my own handwriting. ;)
-some have said it is difficult to read. Not too many, but some. I don't know that ANY have come out and said that they liked it. (Maybe if it were BOLD TOO? Then possibly it would be easier. I am not sure.) But, If I used BOLD ALL THE TIME…how would you know when I'm using my 'passionate voice', huh? I'm afraid I wouldn't get my point across on some occasions. MY POINT IS… I want all to be able to read it. So except for occasionally, you know to make a point…I probably won't be using FANCY TEXT ANY longer.
The other thing has to do with using my iPhone. You might remember, I'm relatively NEW to the SMART PHONE phenom.(good-one here) I've only had about 7 mos (at this time) you can read about that Here.
I was on my phone this morning and I was reading a few blogs that I have subscribed to—those are the first ones I read in the morning; usually from my iPhone, while it's quiet waiting to holding Little 'V'…(grand baby) before he wakes up to take his bottle. Anyway- couple things about that. Subscriptions are low. Apparently, there is an issue with Yahoo. I am not getting some of the daily blogs that I subscribe too, including my own. So- I'm trying to figure out exactly which ones those are and will try and follow them some other way.
As for you—if you've not been getting my posts in your mailbox—you can follow me on Bloglovin' or you can click on the coffee pot in the upper right with the 'heart and + sign' (Thanks to Claudia for pointing out these issues to me…because I'm just that clueless!)
I also check my email with my iPhone—I don't like the yahoo email the way it is now…it lumps 'LIKE' emails together and once I respond to them (these emails are the comments from my blog I'm referring to) then it lumps my replies into that stream as well. Several of you have Gmail accounts. I'm thinking of switching trying it and seeing if it is easier. I've not done the research yet… ANY THOUGHTS?
Back to emails and response. I'm not a great texter—it is much much easier to fire off an email from the desk top with these EYES AND ARTHRITIC FINGERS OF MINE! Not to mention—TYPOS!!! When I try to type out a comment on your blog PHROM MY iPhone…my Phat Phingers just can't hit the keys or they hit the wrong keys-PHRUSTRATING!!! At times it's like I am speaking another language! I wouldn't be a bit surprised if you think I'm leaving you SPAM! There are times, your comment gets past me and I may not respond to you for weeks or EVER… it's because it has become lost in the SEA of emails that have washed up in my email account or I have so much to say on the matter and my phat phingers just won't do!
That's pretty much "it" on the techno Phront…
Any thoughts on this? Ideas? Suggestions? There is a suggestion box at the bottom marked "comments" …
Til next time, Be Blessed!


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Mark Ricketts | State of emergency and the money question
A state of public emergency is not an easy call for any prime minister, especially when it involves a parish that includes a tourism Mecca like Montego Bay. While tourism is diversified with competing locations, Montego Bay captures the essence and flavour, and even tradition, of Jamaica's invitation to the world. It's our Havana, London, Paris, and for that to be sullied by police-military operations, the abridgement of rights, and restrictions of business hours, the Government must have reached the end of the line.
While the reality on the ground might be somewhat comforting to visitors as they are reassured of safety by our men in uniform, it is the negative image that captures so much of the conversation in our major overseas markets. And, as always, the medium is the message.
As Government responded to the criminal elements with a statement that enough is enough, the violence producers responded with an islandwide bloodletting last weekend. It was as if they wanted to impress the nation that their weaponry is intact and the Wild West has yet to be won.
It also sent a chilling reminder to the Government as to why it introduced the state of emergency in the first place: killings in St James were at record levels; murders islandwide opened the year, not with a whimper, but a bang; a daring shoot-out on the road to the Montego Bay airport earlier; and the ominous travel advisory from the US government.
Every time the issue of crime comes up, the Government does everything but allocate adequate resources. They tried ZOSO, which had ample security personnel in two operational zones. There were no murders in the zones, but, after a day or two, there were no major arrests either. The adequate number of security personnel forced the criminals with their guns and ammunition to relocate.
Now, wouldn't it make sense to hire many more policemen, and, for a year, co-opt as many soldiers as possible and blanket Jamaica so the criminals have no place to run and hide? Muhammad Ali and Joe Louis understood this: Control the ring size and the opponent has nowhere to go.
What worries me with the state of emergency and curfews in some hotspots is that an initial flurry of finding guns and detaining people could lull the Government into not wanting to spend the requisite funds to modernise the force, hire the cops needed, and pay them properly. Already in Parliament, the minister of national security was bragging how the criminals are on the run, yet those who committed the horrific murders islandwide last weekend; the 'shottas'; the thousands of gang members; and the kidnappers in Clarendon who have been beheading people are still out there.
No, Mr Minister; no, Mr Prime Minister; no, Jamaica; to cauterise crime, large budget allocations must be made. The state of emergency is a sad image for our beautiful country and should be seen as a needed, but desperate short-term solution because we have been pussyfooting around.
The minister of finance, in a very engaging speech at Mayberry's Investor Forum, listed several positives the economy is now enjoying. Among these, total reserves were an impressive, US$4 billion and net international reserves stood at US$3.4 billion.
Our bonds are oversubscribed on the international markets, facilitating further access. Governments have extracted from the IMF an inching down of the primary surplus-to-GDP ratio, giving the country a little more wiggle room in satisfying its structural benchmarks and maintaining its commendable performance as far as macroeconomic stability goes.
Minister Shaw implied that US$790 million is undrawn at the IMF, and said up to December, revenues exceeded expectations by $13 billion.
It is pointless articulating these achievements unless they can be ploughed into a Jamaican landscape currently bereft of good roads; adequate courthouses; optimal production in an agriculture sector beaten down by rain; and an adequate crime-reduction plan.
Surely, a large-scale capital and recurrent budget allocation must be a priority to finally convey to the society that safety and security of its citizens is Government's No. 1 priority in 2018.
High-tech fight
At my age, I am betrayed by technology, so rather than wing it, I sat down with the director of the Mona Geoinformatics Institute, Dr Parris Lyew-Ayee, on the grounds of the University of the West Indies and asked him for a wish list of the current tools and technologies that the police would need as a matter of urgency to bring down homicides this year. For simplification, he suggested four sections: first, station-level operations, with all police stations having computers, Internet connectivity, operating systems, and databases that are conducive to the collection and dissemination of data.
Second, there are central activities, centred around the Officer of the Commissioner of Police, which take into account mobile, investigation, area divisions, MOCA, and traffic central. Here we are looking at greater technology solutions handling big data from CCTV systems, which integrate public and private video networks, and synchronising public data systems from hospitals, tax offices, and the judicial system. Such inter-agency connectivity would better aid investigation, monitoring, surveillance, and serve as deterrents.
Third, there is more sophisticated technology where one can focus on the big picture in areas of counterterrorism and anti-gang activity. For example, ShotSpotters mounted at key points across the country can identify where gunshots originated and better direct response.
Police cars should be equipped with GPS systems that can both allow for central tracking of the police fleet, and aiding in navigating to where they are needed quickly. Then there are drones that give law enforcement a chance to hover, thus allowing persistent situation awareness.
But the police also need a proper command and control centre to facilitate and direct joint intelligence operations.
Fourth, there must be a proper dedicated telecommunications system which facilitates speed and reliability in the collection and dissemination of data, and in sending alerts, both to the general public and within members of the security forces.
But, Dr Lyew-Ayee is insistent that, "as a condition of securing these current tools and technology for the police, there must be months of up-front training in order to build a data culture, and a confidence in capabilities, and for responsible parties to hold the security services accountable based on technology."
It can be done, it must be done. Crime cannot remain unchecked.
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text: frog34 978 Posted October 28, 2018 2 hours ago, SuperJoint said: Collins is caught in the same trap many of his RB colleagues are caught in: pigeon-holed into a specific, rigid role that - regardless of the reality on the field - shall not be altered. The Ravens appear to shrug at the effort Collins puts into his runs - grabbing an extra couple yards every single time he's tackled. Instead they have a chart that says after x# of carries Collins must be removed. Why not hire a robot as the OC. Any TD he gets will be off-script in this micro-management-centric system. This. OCs don't feel the game anymore. Jordan Howard had two nice runs in the OT against the Dolphins. Predictably he was taken out, and Cohen/Cunningham went nowhere with their attempts. Many other teams with that dreaded approach as well. Not only the pass-friendly league, but also this bad approach with RBs is the reason for rushing stats being down across the league. Unless you are Todd Gurley of course. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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I'll get straight to it and talk about the skills here and if possible get them hopefully changed or improved. I really like this game and want to see it imrpove.
The Fire mage's fire elemental has a 2 minute reuse time but only last 30 seconds. The problem here is it doesn't last forever like the warlocks or necromancers summons this is a big problem because whats the point of this spell then? Not only doesn't it last long not even long enough for 1 fight but you can't cast the thing for 1 and a half minutes later. Not to mention it starts off at 8 points requirement that is very steep. This skill seems useless and it shouldn't be. Yes it's powerful IF you spend half your point on it to keep it at your level only problem is a caster can't afford to spend points on skills that won't help him most of the time.
I'll try to keep this short and just talk in general here. A lot of the skills seem useful but almost all of them suffer from high reuse time but low duration and it's not like putting more points in them increases the duration, this is a BIG problem because if you spend half your points on that skill you don't want to be caught 80% of the time not using it. Examples :Arcane Focus, Magic Shield, Holy Shield, Energy Shield, Kodiak, ect
Also the hunger on npcs seems to be way to high and too often it would be better if they don't go poor all the time.
This is something I wish would be added into the game and that is town guards. Not overly powerful ones just meat shields that has more health than the normal npcs so that they can buy you some time to run back to town after you have used up your stone.
If you've been playing for a while, you might want to try out my balance mod. I've dealt to different degrees with most of the stuff you mention here.
Also, in the mod, you're not as pressed for points as a mage as you are in the vanilla game -- you can quite easily invest in several spells.
Just a note though: I'm (slowly) working on rebalancing the mage spell powers in the mod, as they were last balanced when I started the mod a long time ago. As a result, they're currently too powerful relative to the monsters.
I also tried to deal with NPC hunger and to reduce the chance of them dying from it, or of being dirt poor.
Hi Bluddy I've actually been looking at your mod and yeah it seems like you've got everything covered but it would be nice to see these changes in the game itself. The reason why I say this is people(friends) look at the demo and then go well this isn't right and doesn't buy the game which is sad. It is rare to find a rpg that is multiplayer ,doesn't require a internet connection , played over LAN with persistent characters and the mechanics of this game is what people want.
I'd bet if soldak made another expansion and added and improved on the game the game will take off.
It would be nice to hear the developers thoughts on this...
Stephen A. Hornback
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Shadow's sitting on a pretty huge patch for DC which hopefully he can complete and release once the Drox beta is out.
While balance modifications are out of the question - that takes a continuous, ongoing (and almost never-ending) process, I think the hunger stuff can probably be addressed. If starving NPCs only die after a *long* time, and other NPCs can be made to help them more often, I think the problem will be solved. The problem with getting NPCs to help other NPCs is that the game currently does not differentiate between different quest types. So an NPC might decide to prevent another NPC from starving, or he might decide to collect stuff for one of your collection quests instead -- they're treated the same way. Because of this, you can't increase the percentage chance that NPCs will solve quests by too much -- they'll be solving all of your quests for you. You have to differentiate between helping starving NPCs (any normal town will not let its citizens starve to death) and doing other quests.
The other possibility is to just makes it such that NPCs can't die from hunger. They could become weaker and grouchier, but not dead.
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BTW if Shadow does do another add-on for DC, I don't think it requires another class. Probably the weakest element of the game over time (and it's an amazing game, don't get me wrong) is that the skills don't change as you upgrade them -- you just get more of the same stuff. Instead of investing time into creating another class, skills should be allowed to change over levels. So fireball at level 8 could spit out 2 bigger fireballs, or a skeleton at level 10 could make undead critters who join your ranks. It wouldn't be too hard to do this if the current skill system was modified slightly, but of course coming up with all the extra skill effects would be a lot of work -- enough to justify it being an expansion.
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