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Cayman filmmaker takes up new commissioner post

Brittany Kelly (CNS): Brittany Kelly has been appointed as the new Film Commissioner for the Cayman Islands Film Commission (CIFC). She will be responsible for managing the administrative functions of the commission secretariat as well as strategic planning, partnership development and marketing and promotions, officials said. An award-winning writer/producer with experience in the film industry…

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Praj Industries, NOCIL, Affle India, Chola Invest, Safari Ind and more: B&K lists top stocks picks for July

June closed with a notable 6 percent gain for the Indian market, its highest monthly increase in 2024 and the largest since December 2023. This surge reflects strong investor confidence bolstered by positive economic signals, expectations of policy consistency, and renewed foreign investments.

Looking forward, experts anticipate the bullish momentum in the Indian market to persist. If you're uncertain about your investment choices, B&K Securities has released its top 10 stock picks for July. Let's explore them:

Affle India: B&K has maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a target price of ₹1,474, implying an over 9% potential upside. The brokerage anticipates any disruptions to be temporary, with RMG (real money gaming) expected to recover in the upcoming quarters. Management's efforts in revitalising developed markets have shown positive results, offsetting revenue declines in the Indian market. Valuation-wise, the stock trades at a FY26E P/E of 42x. Projected growth rates include a revenue, EBITDA, and EPS CAGR of 22%, 26%, and 24% respectively from FY24 to FY26E. It advises utilising dips or corrections to accumulate more of the stock.

Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company: The brokerage has a ‘Buy’ rating on the stock with a target price of ₹1,600, indicating an over 14% potential upside. B&K forecasts CIFC to achieve a 26.4% AUM growth CAGR from FY24 to FY26E, with management guiding for 25-30% growth in FY25. They anticipate a 23 basis points expansion in Net Interest Margin (NIM) over FY24-26, expecting margins for the VF (vehicle finance) business to improve from current levels. Credit costs are projected to normalise to 1.1% over FY25-26, supported by multi-year low-stress book asset quality. Return on Assets (RoAs) and Return on Equity (RoEs) are forecasted to range between 2.6% and 2.7% and approximately 21%, respectively, with AUM and Profit After Tax (PAT) achieving CAGRs of 26% and 33% over FY24-26E.

Neuland Laboratories: The brokerage upheld a Buy rating with a target price of ₹7,500 per share (2% downside). In its bullish scenario, incorporating the BMS molecule KarXT, B&K's target rises to ₹10,250 (33% upside). Although the current target price suggests limited upside, the brokerage remains optimistic about achieving its bullish target due to the compelling long-term prospects of the stock.

NOCIL: The brokerage has a Buy rating on the stock with a target price of ₹354, indicating a 24% upside. From a modest FY24 base, earnings are projected to nearly double (1.8x), with Core Return on Capital Employed (RoCE) expanding from 10.5% in FY24 to 18.9% by FY26E, predicted B&K. It added that the company is expected to sustain its debt-free status and enhance free cash flow generation, driven by robust operational profits and no debt repayment commitments.

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Carambolas, IDA deja un panorama desolador en Louisiana🌪️

• Cultura internacional sobre fenómenos climáticos

• Revista de Tracking en el train climático

Por BBC y Reef Rock 🌏 edition

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Strategist says copper’s ‘raging bull’ run is just beginning, and picks four stocks to cash in

Strategist says copper’s ‘raging bull’ run is just beginning, and picks four stocks to cash in

Freeport-McMoRan oil and gas drilling in Los Angeles, part of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. Mario Anzuoni | Reuters The copper bull run could be just beginning, according to investment research firm CFRA, as Chinese demand, the push toward decarbonization and South American supply risks converge. Copper has been trading near all-time highs in recent weeks and, after slipping on a warning…

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「債務の罠」に注目する人々が見落としている、あるいは過小評価しているのが中国によるコロンボ周辺の開発だ。スリランカを訪れコロンボに少しでも滞在すれば、中国によるコロンボの開発は誰でも実感することができる。最も大規模なのはコロンボ・ポートシティ・プロジェクト（現在の名称はコロンボ国際金融シティ、CIFC）だ。コロンボ中心地に近接する沿岸部を埋め立てて広さ2.7平方キロの人工島を建設中だ。世界中から優秀な人材を集め、シンガポールやドバイのような金融都市を作るという。島にはオフィス地区だけでなく、ホテル、ショッピングセンター、エンターテイメント施設、学校、住宅地区なども建設される予定だ。埋め立て地とコロンボを結ぶ新都市交通機関も構想され、数万人の雇用が創出されると見込まれている。 現在進んでいるのは、埋め立てのみで、金融シティに関してはあくまで計画であり、実現するかどうかもわからないし、実際にスリランカ国民の所得が増えるかどうかもわからない。しかし、大規模な埋め立てがコロンボ市民の目前で日々進行するさまは圧巻で、内戦中の十数年にわたる低成長・停滞に淀んでいたスリランカにとって、希望を抱かせるのに十分な迫力である。 　 さらにコロンボの街中には中国の建設するビルがそこかしこにある。中国人労働者向けの、漢字が書かれた看板があるので一目瞭然だ。これらのプロジェクトに直接従事するスリランカ人は決して多くないかもしれない。しかし、日々大きくなってゆくビル、埋め立ての進む現場に接すると、訪れたこともない、遠いハンバントタの港がかすんで見えても仕方ない。 ラージャパクサ政権時は中国からの資金を元手にしたインフラ開発が進み、好景気を下支えした。一方で現政権は、バランス外交を標榜して前政権との違いを明確にしようとしたものの、すぐに頓挫した。お金が足りなくなったからだ。そのせいだろうか、2017年の経済成長率は3.1％、南アジア諸国の中で最低だった。現政権としては、中国に借金を��し、中国から新たな融資や投資を得て開発をスピードアップして実績を作り、2020年の大統領選挙に臨みたいのだ。

（アジアに浸透する中国）99年租借地となっても中国を頼るスリランカ（荒井 悦代） - アジア経済研究所

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Tobor the Great

This was a movie YouTube thought I ought to watch. It’s so bad even Leonard Maltin didn’t like it.

Two scientists, Dr. Harrison and Dr. Nordstrom, are concerned about the effects of space travel on the human body, and so they attempt to convince the Civil Interplanetary Flight Commission (think NASA, but with funding) to use an alternative form of test pilot.  No, sit down, dog- and monkey-lovers in the audience, I’m talking about a huge, unwieldy, unnecessarily humanoid robot!  Obviously, foreign agents want to steal this machine and turn it into a huge, unwieldy weapon instead of a huge, unwieldy astronaut, but Nordstrom’s grandson Brian saves the day using his special telepathic link with Tobor!

The movie does not believe we’re smart enough to figure out why the robot’s name is Tobor.  It spells it out for us, literally and on more than one occasion.

Tobor the Great is a children’s movie – the main character is eleven-year-old Brian, who is mostly addressed by his nickname, Gadget or Gadge.  He’s established as an engineering genius in his own right, who gets to hang around in his grandfather’s lab and make friends with this cool robot.  He’s what every white American boy in the 50’s was supposed to want to be.  All of which makes it sort of weird that we don’t meet him until nearly fifteen minutes into the movie.

Consider some better children’s movies.  In Coco, Miguel is the literal as well as the metaphorical narrator – we begin with his voice telling us the backstory.  Lilo and Stitch gives us one title character almost immediately, and then brings in the second as quickly as it can to get us to the point where they meet.  Of course, you don’t have to introduce the main character first in a movie, but if you’re going to put it off you have to do it skillfully.  Star Wars takes its time getting around to Luke Skywalker, but it’s already given us somebody to follow in the form of C-3P0 and R2-D2, who make good audience proxies because 3P0 doesn’t know what’s going on any more than we do.  Tobor the Great lets nearly a quarter of its running time go by before we finally meet Gadge, and even more before we get to Tobor himself, and that time is spent setting up what seems to be a rather different movie.

The opening does establish the need for Tobor, but it takes way too long about it.  We start with narration and stock footage about the American space program, which is as deathly boring as it always is in these movies. Maybe it seemed more exciting in the fifties, when space rockets were the coolest thing around.  Then we get into Dr. Harrison and his complaints about unsafe practices, which lead to his resignation and to him trying to dodge the press before meeting the likeminded Dr. Nordstrom.

These seem like strange things to put in a children’s movie. I feel that a lot more time is spent justifying the need for a robotic astronaut than is really necessary, and the early close focus on Dr. Harrison makes it seem like he’s going to be our main character – but he fades into the background once we get to Dr. Nordstrom’s lab and at the end he’s not much more than a completely unnecessary love interest for Gadge’s widowed mother.  In Star Wars the two droids stick around and participate in the plot for the whole movie – Dr. Harrison doesn’t.  The politicking within the CIFC is not something children are likely to be interested in, nor is the nagging newspaper man, and all of these scenes are just guys in suits talking.  Very little actually happens and none of it involves robots carrying off beautiful women like the poster shows us!

The annoying reporter is a particularly odd inclusion. His name is Mr. Gilligan, which Joel and the ‘bots would have found hilarious.  I went into Tobor the Great totally blind, having never heard of it when the thumbnail appeared in my YouTube recommendations, but if I’d read a plot summary or something beforehand, maybe I wouldn’t have expected Gilligan to play a major role in the plot.  As it was, I figured he was either a Soviet spy or would unintentionally pass information on to them – but he vanishes after the first press conference, and the question of whether he has the right to compromise national security in the name of selling newspapers is never dealt with.  Instead the spies are a bunch of guys we’ve never seen before.

Once all this is over with, though, we do finally get to see Tobor strut his stuff.  Nordstrom and Harrison work on programming him to do things like type reports to be sent back to Earth and dodge meteor showers (as all 50’s space rockets had to do), while Gadge sits and watches… and does very little else.  You’d think this part of the movie would continue the thread of Gadge being the equal of the adult scientists, maybe overlapping with him and Tobor bonding, but there’s almost none of either.  Why set up Gadge as a prodigy if you’re not going to make use of it?  At the climax we expect Gadge to save the day by figuring something out, as he showed he could do earlier.  Instead he just shuts his eyes and thinks really hard at Tobor, like Ichi trying to summon Gamera. It works, but it’s not as satisfying as it could have been.  At the end the movie has neatly avoided almost all of its potential and anything that might have been cool to watch, and failed to give us anything it seemed to promise.

To make things even worse, Gadge is played by one of those insanely cloying 50’s child actors who say things like “oh, gosh!” and “gee whillikers!”  I cannot imagine anybody actually talking like this.  Actor Billy Chaplin sure makes it sound fake as hell.  While Chaplin is a decent actor physically, everything he says sounds stilted and unnatural, like he’s reading it off notes while trying to project his voice to a full auditorium.  The adult actors are much better, which just makes Chaplin look all the worse by comparison.

Tobor, on the other hand, is wonderful, in the ‘stupid cardboard movie robot’ way that makes Torg from Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and the delightfully awful robot of Devil Girl from Mars so much fun.  It’s got lots of blinky lights and moving parts, and stamps around with a pretty convincing sense of weight.  Unlike some movie robots it actually moves at a good clip when it wants to, perhaps helped by the fact that it has working knees.  The movie makes the point that Tobor is a large and dangerous piece of kit at the same time as it’s able to be gentle and dexterous, which reinforces the idea that it would be frightening as a weapon.

My favourite part is when Tobor drives a car.  I wonder if the guy in the costume could see anything. That must have been a hell of a day on set.

What you want me to get back to, though, is the bit where the robot is psychic.  Yes, that’s actually the premise of this movie, a telepathic robot!  I’m not sure how plausible that would have seemed in the 50’s, even in such an explicitly silly movie.  Dr. Nordstrom doesn’t expect the reporters to believe in it without a demonstration, and yet the same decade also produced films like The She-Creature that present such ideas with an entirely straight, albeit incompetent, face.  Psychic powers as hard-ish sci-fi seems to have gone out of style by the 90’s, and nowadays it sounds like something you’d see in the Weekly World News.

Man, I miss the hard copy Weekly World News.  It was so nice to have that little isle of humour in the sea of garbage that was (and still is) the supermarket tabloids.  Remember Hilary Clinton’s space-alien lover?  Classic.

The function of telepathy in this story is not just to give Gadge a way to summon the robot after the spies break Nordstrom’s control mechanism.  It is also a means whereby Tobor may acquire human traits and emotions.  How to make a robot feel things is a perennial problem in science fiction… a lot of the time the mechanism is simply glossed over, as an artificial intelligence becomes more human by interacting with humans. Emotions are just chemicals in our brains, though, and the more we learn about how they work, the harder it gets to justify a machine feeling them.  In Star Trek: the Next Generation Data and Lore have a special bit of hardware that must be installed to enable emotions, and really seem like they’re better off without it. In Saturn 3, Hector has a processor made of cloned brain cells that can produce their own chemistry, as well as a direct neural uplink to its programmer.

As such solutions go, I actually kind of like how Tobor the Great goes about it, even if the mechanism is silly.  Rather than having emotions of its own, Tobor senses and mirrors those of the humans around it.  When Gadge is panicking, worrying that Tobor is out of control, Tobor panics and goes around smashing things, thus making for a self-fulfilling prophecy. When Gadge thinks of Tobor as a hero, the robot comes to his rescue, carrying him to safety like a rescued princess, and responds to the anger and rage of the spies by turning these emotions back on them and beating them up.  This is quite different from many ‘emotional machine’ stories, in that it doesn’t actually require Tobor to be in any way self-aware.

Unfortunately the movie is not very consistent about this. There’s a scene in which Tobor gets frustrated and breaks stuff after being put through too challenging a simulation, which does imply that the robot has an intelligence and emotional capacity of its own.  This bit has a purpose, as it serves to make us worry that Tobor will be unable to tell the difference between friend and foe at the finale, but it just doesn’t fit with the way this machine is treated in the rest of the movie.

Like many others both from MST3K and from the Episodes that Never Were, Tobor the Great has a couple of good ideas at its core.  It even predicted how much easier and safer it is to send robots into space than people, although those robots don’t look much like the lumbering humanoids of 50’s sci-fi. Sadly, the film is uneven, rushed, and poorly-acted, and nothing particularly fun or exciting happens in it. Various people over the years have seen its potential and Tobor has starred in a couple of comic books and an unproduced TV pilot, but these never went anywhere either.

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