India’s historic Moon mission lifts off successfully

India has launched its third Moon mission, aiming to be the first to land near its little-explored south pole.

The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft with an orbiter, lander and a rover lifted off at 14:35 on Friday (09:05 GMT) from Sriharikota space centre.

The lander is due to reach the Moon on August 23-24.

If successful, India will be only the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, following the US, the former Soviet Union and China.

Thousands of people watched the launch from the viewer’s gallery and commentators described the sight of the rocket “soaring in the sky” as “majestic”. The lift off was greeted with cheers and loud applause from the crowds and scientists.

“Chandrayaan-3 has started its journey towards the Moon,” Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) chief Sreedhara Panicker Somanath said.

The third in India’s program of lunar exploration, Chandrayaan-3 is expected to build on the success of its earlier Moon missions.

It comes 13 years after the country’s first Moon mission in 2008, which carried out “the first and most detailed search for water on the lunar surface and established the Moon has an atmosphere during daytime”, said Mylswamy Annadurai, project director of Chandrayaan-1 .

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NYC Realtor Linda Stein Killed By Assistant Natavia Lowery

New York’s finest were forced to shift through a long line of suspects when a well-known and wealthy woman was murdered in her Upper East Side home.

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Linda Stein, 62, was found dead by her daughter on October 30, 2007, face down in the living room floor of her luxurious Fifth Avenue apartment. According to NYPD detectives Kevin Walla and Pete Panuccio, the location of the woman’s death — one of the country’s most affluent and sought-after areas — immediately made it a headline-grabbing case.

Media outlets were already on the scene when investigators arrived at the 18-story building. And upstairs, there appeared to be no signs of a break-in.

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“The apartment was nice; well-maintained,” NYPD Det. Angelique Loffredo told New York Homeicide. “[There] wasn’t really any kind of upset in the apartment, no mess. Nothing was in the sarray or anything like that.”

Detectives observed that Stein had her hoodie over the back of her head, was surrounded by a pool of blood, and there appeared

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Land ownership questions draw a big crowd in Kings County

A grassroots land-protection group is calling on the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission to investigate the ownership of land in the Kings County area of ​​Prince Edward Island.

More than 200 people attended a public forum in Montague on Saturday, organized by the Coalition for the Protection of PEI Lands.

“This is a big issue within Three Rivers,” said Shane MacDonald, one of the speakers at the meeting. “A lot of people have been waking up to the actual mass of purchases of large corporations in the Three Rivers area or even just Eastern PEI”

The meeting focused mainly on land owned by two Buddhist monasteries in Kings County, as well as land owned by corporations or individuals that coalition organizers believe to be affiliated with the Buddhist movement on PEI

The coalition has concerns over what it sees as a concentration of land ownership, and the impact of rising land prices on the local community.

“Multiple properties being sold and resold to non-residents is giving us massive inflation,” MacDonald told CBC News on Monday. “There’s evidence to see that a lot was sold a year ago for $20,000 and then sold for $100,000 a year after that. That’s a

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Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust (LON:SREI) Shares Pass Below 200-Day Moving Average of $44.86

Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust Limited (LON:SREI – Get Free Report) shares passed below its two hundred day moving average during trading on Tuesday . The stock has a two hundred day moving average of GBX 44.86 ($0.58) and trades as low as GBX 39.65 ($0.51). Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust shares last traded at GBX 40.65 ($0.52), with a volume of 198,852 shares.

Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust Stock Up 2.2 %

The company has a current ratio of 2.91, a quick ratio of 2.91 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 48.31. The stock has a market capitalization of £203.23 million, a PE ratio of 338.75 and a beta of 0.59. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is GBX 43.62 and its 200-day simple moving average is GBX 44.86.

Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust Increases Dividends

The business also recently declared a dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 30th. Investors of record on Thursday, June 15th were issued a GBX 0.84 ($0.01) dividend. This is an increase from Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust’s previous dividend of $0.82. This represents a dividend yield of 1.88%. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, June 15th. Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust’s payout ratio

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Lawyer hired for land program at UAPB

Amy Pritchard has been hired as a consultant attorney in a program that provides educational resources and technical assistance to Black forest landowners to protect and to retain their family land for future generations.

She will work for the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Keeping it in the Family (KIITF) Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Program.

Pritchard has served as a partner for the KIITF Program since its inception in 2016. In that capacity, she has helped educate Arkansas forest landowners through the program’s in-person and virtual outreach meetings.

“As a legal consultant, my main responsibility is to provide legal education and information to family landowners and help family landowners to address and prevent problems associated with heirs’ property,” she said. “I started hearing about heirs’ property when I was a legal aid attorney and law professor nearly a decade ago. This type of property leaves families without the clear titles that allow for active management of the land, thereby limiting any economic returns.”

Challenges associated with heirs’ property status are the leading cause of involuntary land loss among Black farmers, Pritchard said. Heirs’ property refers to family-owned land passed down without a will and held by

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Realtor.com Reports Weekly Active Inventory Down 2% YoY; New Listings Down 21% YoY

by Calculated Risk on 7/09/2023 08:12:00 AM

Realtor.com has monthly and weekly data on the existing home market. Here is their weekly report from economist Danielle Hale: Weekly Housing Trends View — Data Week Ending July 1, 2023

Active inventory declined, with for-sale homes lagging behind the year ago levels by 2%. As we report the surge in inventory that occurred in 2022 as higher mortgage rates were priced out by many home shoppers, the number of homes for sale was not kept up. With 1 in 7 homeowners choosing not to sell this year citing high mortgage rates, and even 4 in 5 home shoppers (82%) report feeling locked-in by their existing low-rate mortgages, the housing market is not getting the influx of homes for sale that it typically does, and this is reflected in what’s available for sale. We expect inventory in 2023 to continue to struggle to keep pace and likely decline for the year as a whole.

New listings–a measure of sellers putting homes up for sale–were down again this week, by 21% from one year ago. The number of newly listed homes has been lower than the same time the previous year

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Land Ownership Makes No Sense

“There’s no such thing as a good landlord” is a rallying cry of angry renters. In the future, it might be conventional morality that is simply wrong to own land.

In our times, owning land seems as natural as owning cars or houses. And this makes sense: The general presumption is that you can personally own anything, with rare exceptions for items such as dangerous weapons or archaeological artifacts. The idea of ​​controlling territory, specifically, has a long tenure. Animals, warlords, and governments all do it, and the modern conception of “fee simple”—that is, unrestricted, perpetual, and private—land ownership has existed in English common law since the 13th century.

Yet by 1797, US founding father Thomas Paine was arguing that “the earth, in its natural uncultivated state” would always be “the common property of the human race,” and so landowners owed non-landowners compensation “for the loss of his or her her natural inheritance.”

A century later, economist Henry George saw that poverty was rising despite Increasing wealth and blamed this on our system of owning land. He proposed that land should be taxed at up to 100 percent of its “unimproved” value—we’ll get to that in a moment—allowing other forms

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Janet Yellen arrives in Beijing on a mission to find common ground for the US and China

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen landed in Beijing July 7 on a four-day trip aimed at finding common ground for a mutually beneficial economic relationship between the world’s two largest economies.

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen landed in Beijing Thursday on a four-day trip aimed at finding common ground as rivalry between the US and China becomes increasingly adversarial.

Yellen’s trip marks a deepening thaw in ties between the US and China and comes weeks after Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Beijing in last month, which was the first high-level meeting between the two countries after months of tensions.

“The two sides are basically talking, trying to find the strategic space for both sides to operate, and this will be very good for the rest of the world,” Andrew Sheng, a distinguished fellow at the University of Hong Kong’s Asia Global Institute, told CNBC Thursday.

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Yellen’s trip comes just days after China abruptly imposed export curbs on chipmaking metals and its compounds, escalating Beijing’s technological war with the US and Europe.

Before leaving for China, Yellen had a “frank and productive discussion” with Xie Feng, the Chinese US ambassador, according

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TD Securities Lowers Dream Office Real Estate Investment Trust (TSE:D.UN) Price Target to C$15.00

Dream Office Real Estate Investment Trust (TSE:D.UN – Free Report) had its price target reduced by TD Securities from C$17.00 to C$15.00 in a research report sent to investors on Wednesday morning, BayStreet.CA reports.

A number of other brokerages have also recently weighed in on D.UN. CIBC cut Dream Office Real Estate Investment Trust from an outperform rating to a neutral rating and dropped their price objective for the company from C$20.00 to C$17.50 in a research note on Thursday, April 13th. Cormark raised Dream Office Real Estate Investment Trust from a market performing rating to a buy rating and dropped their price objective for the company from C$20.50 to C$17.00 in a research note on Thursday, May 18th. National Bankshares raised Dream Office Real Estate Investment Trust from a sector performance rating to an outperform rating and dropped their price objective for the company from C$18.50 to C$16.00 in a research note on Tuesday, April 18th. Finally, Canaccord Genuity Group dropped their price objective on Dream Office Real Estate Investment Trust from C$16.00 to C$15.50 in a research note on Wednesday, May 17th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have assigned a buy

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HOW TO THRIVE IN A RECESSION

As we find ourselves on the brink of an economic downturn, it’s normal to be experiencing a little anxiety. The headlines are dominated by news of job losses, syndication deals not meeting projections, and businesses closing up shops, all painting a pretty grim picture of the financial landscape.

The fear many have in times of economic uncertainty often stems from not knowing the future. However, history has shown that those with the right mindset and strategy can succeed during these downturns. Some even look forward to such challenging times with excitement and optimism.

I believe that as a community, we can do better.

We can choose to face these challenges bravely. The key is not just surviving a recession, but to thrive by having a healthy mindset that embraces challenges and perceives this season not just as a crisis, but as an opportunity.



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1. Recognize the Reality: Embrace the Economic Winter

Last year the GDP showed multiple quarters of negative growth. The last few months have seemed split – tons of negative news and at the same time showing some positive signs (S&P 500 approaching a fresh 52-week high).

To

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