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Invest in Africa, Zuma tells business
8 May 2013
President Jacob Zuma, addressing the South Africa-Nigeria Business Forum in Cape Town on Tuesday, encouraged South African companies to do more business in Nigeria and on the continent.
Zuma told the high-profile gathering of South African and Nigerian government and business leaders that the government had put a number of measures in place to support outward investments by local companies, including the relaxation of cross-border financial regulations and tax requirements.
Noting that similar measures applied to foreign companies wanting to invest in African countries using South Africa as their base, Zuma said the South African Reserve Bank had over the last few years approved nearly a thousand "large investments" into 36 African countries.
Tuesday's forum, hosted by the Department of Trade and Industry, coincided with the state visit of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, and also preceded Wednesday's opening of the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting in Cape Town.
Earlier on Tuesday, Jonathan and Zuma held talks in Cape Town, after which Nigeria and South Africa signed a raft of cooperation agreements.
Jonathan, also addressing the business forum, said it was imperative for Africa's two biggest economies to work together for the advancement of the continent.
Zuma echoed this, saying South Africa and Nigeria needed "to work together and complement each other, to push an African agenda which puts regional economic integration, economic and infrastructural development at the forefront.
"Already, the economic linkages are encouraging," Zuma said, with over 100 South African companies currently doing business in Nigeria, and a number of Nigerian companies having shown "keen interest" in investing in South Africa.
The two countries set up a bi-national commission in 1999, at the same time signing a bilateral trade agreement and a promotion and protection of investment agreement.
Zuma told the forum that Jonathan's visit, and the World Economic Forum on Africa meeting, both came at a time when the outlook for the continent was highly positive.
"Over the last decade, six of the world's 10 fastest growing economies were in Africa," Zuma said, and sub-Saharan Africa, with an expected annual growth of five percent, was projected to continue its move from a developing region to a hub of global growth.
The process of establishing a continental free trade area - bringing together the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, the Southern African Development Community and the East African Community - "should encourage the business sector to look even more favourably within the continent for investments", Zuma said.
"This will be Africa's biggest free trade bloc, with a single continent-wide market estimated to be worth a trillion US dollars. The 26 African countries involved have an aggregate GDP of $860-billion and a combined population of 600 million people."
South Africa and Nigeria had to ensure that their economic success "contributes visibly to the ultimate goal of a successful and prosperous continent," Zuma said.
"As the business community in the two countries, you have our full support. We urge you to invest in the continent, and more directly, in South Africa and Nigeria, and boost African growth and development while obtaining returns on your investment."
SAinfo reporter
Source: http://www.southafrica.info/africa/nigeria-080513b.htm
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Best Kinds of Tea | Top Tea Varieties List - Ranker
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Matcha Japanese Green Tea
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China
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Source: http://www.ranker.com/list/best-kinds-of-tea/ranker-food
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New Order: On Kickstarter, Old Tech Is Finding Second Life
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The Secret Iron Man 3 Closing Titles You Didn't See in Theaters
As fun as Iron Man 3 was, when the screen goes black and the titles come up you're smacked in the face with a whole other kind of fun?the awesome motion-heavy sequence from Creative Director Danny Yount. And if you thought that was cool, you should see what he originally had planned.
Yount has an expansive interview over at Art of the Title, which you should go read. You can also see videos (which we can't embed here, sadly) of some mock ups of his original idea for the treatment, using footage from all three films. Here's where he explains how things turned out differently:
Would you have done anything differently?
I wanted the color to feel cheap but they wanted it to be film-accurate so we had to pull back on that. I also wanted more campiness and ?70s style tonally but that would have stepped on the film footage too much.
On top of that, additional unused titles, these created by Ash Thorp, were uploaded to imgur a few days ago, showing a totally different treatment from Yount's here. Here's a sample of what those look like:
If you're an Iron Man nerd, it looks like we won't be seeing much of Shellhead for a while, so eat this up while you can. [Art of the Title, imgur]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/the-secret-iron-man-3-closing-titles-you-didnt-see-in-493802611
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With Warming Climes, How Long Will A Bordeaux Be A Bordeaux?
A worker harvests cabernet sauvignon grapes at a vineyard near Bordeaux, France, in September.
Caroline Blumberg/EPA/LandovBordeauxs and Burgundys haven't changed much since the days when famous wine-lover Thomas Jefferson kept the cellars of his Parisian home well-stocked with both wines.
But now, some worry that the regional rules and traditions that have defined top winemaking regions like Champagne, Burgundy and Chianti for centuries could melt away as climate change takes effect.
The main concern is that grape varieties that have brought renown and reputation to certain appellations ? the syrah grapes of the French Rhone Valley, or the cabernet sauvignon of Bordeaux ? may no longer thrive in those places several decades from now. Some people say there is little reason to fear, but others are already thinking ahead about which grape varieties will work best in their regions under forecast temperature changes. And it's possible that old wine standards and definitions, revered like religion for ages, could be rewritten as winemakers adapt to a warmer future.
"As grape-growing suitability moves northward, I believe the winemaking regulations of Europe could break down quickly," says Lee Hannah, a University of California, Santa Barbara-based climate specialist with Conservation International. He co-authored a recent study in the journal Science forecasting how climate change might reshape the global winemaking map.
Already, climate change is creating new winners among Europe's winemakers. In southern England, warmer temperatures are credited with setting off a sparkling wine boom. In Germany, where Riesling and Gewurztraminer have long been superstars, new grape varieties are beginning to thrive, says German viticulturist Hans Reiner Schultz, a professor at Hochschule Geisenheim University.
"The pinot noir we're growing is now fit to challenge the French," Schultz says.
Meanwhile, winemakers in other parts of the continent are feeling the heat, and there is increasing discussion about changing the rules to allow them to introduce grape varieties that are currently prohibited but likely to thrive under future climate conditions.
And grape growers, who must look ahead decades to when their vines will be in prime production, may soon be planting new varieties of vines known to produce fruit better in warmer, drier climates. Experimental government vineyards are already doing this.
"Changing grapevine varieties is absolutely an option, not in a short term, but by 2050 to 2070," Kees Van Leeuwen, of the Agricultural University of Bordeaux, tells The Salt. "We are currently experimenting in our research center [the Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin] how later-ripening varieties behave in the Bordeaux climate."
Late-ripening varieties are considered the best candidates for helping regions adapt to climate change. That's because, in general, the later that grapes ripen, the better their sugar-acid balance ? an important component in winemaking.
When grapes ripen especially early ? as they do in warm years ? they may fail to develop the acidity necessary for making good wine. This means that many grapes that currently ripen in the optimal harvest time of September might, in a warmer future, become relatively useless to some winemakers who use them today.
Leeuwen says changing French laws on regional grape use won't be easy, and could take as long as 15 years.
Other regulations are already breaking down ? such as laws forbidding irrigation. The practice is considered taboo by many, and some wine critics feel it can result in watery-tasting wines.
But in exceptionally hot and dry conditions, watering vines can help increase the yield of fruit. And in 2006, the French government decided to do away with its prohibition on irrigating. Anti-irrigation laws have also been loosened in parts of Spain, says Schultz.
"When they changed the rule [in France], it was like a second French Revolution, because many people were very, very opposed to this," Schultz says. Now, he adds, "there is no more talk of prohibiting irrigation."
That rule change comes at a cost, says Leeuwen. He says irrigation can increase the soil's salinity level, which can be harmful to grapes. In Bordeaux and other fine wine regions, where the richness of the dirt is credited for the quality of the wine, the consequences of irrigation could be dire. Leeuwen says salinity buildup in some southern Australian vineyards is causing winemakers to abandon them.
But Michel Chapoutier, a winemaker in the Rhone Valley, has more confidence in the future. He thinks current regulations already give winemakers all the leeway they need to use different grape varieties to adapt to climate change. A Bordeaux will still be a Bordeaux, he argues, without a change in rules or a compromise in quality ? winemakers will merely have to adjust their blend ratios.
"Bordeaux [winemakers] will lower their amount of merlot and will raise their amount of petit verdot, while the Southern Rhone will lower their amount of syrah and raise their amounts of grenache and mourvedre," Chapoutier says.
Lamberto Frescobaldi, of his family's winery in Tuscany, says he believes old traditions should not be allowed to hinder winemakers from adapting to climate change ? even if it means permitting new grapes in their wines. But he doubts that Tuscan winemakers will ever let sangiovese, the main variety of the region, slip to the wayside.
Schultz, too, expects that historically dominant wine regions will do everything they can to avoid giving up the grapes that have defined them for centuries.
"Burgundy without a pinot noir or chardonnay," he says, "would not be the Burgundy we know."
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