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August 3, 2013 1:00 am

The interim dividend will be payable on August 30, with record date on August 16 and closing date on August 19.

This follows the company's announcement of net sales of Bt15.06 billion in the first half of this year, up 11.8 per cent from Bt13.48 billion in the first six months of 2012. Consolidated net profit attributable to equity holders posted an increase of 35.6 per cent year on year to Bt2.83 billion from Bt2.08 billion in 2012. Earnings per share for this period amounted to Bt12.32 as compared with Bt9.08 for the same half of last year.

SCCC's net sales were supported by strong demand for cement and other construction materials, while cement prices in domestic and border markets trended higher, particularly in the second quarter. The demand for building materials has been on the rise because of infrastructure projects, real-estate development and an uptrend in commercial construction activities, according to the company's press release yesterday.

Production costs remained relatively stable in spite of higher electricity rates, wages and transport costs, mainly thanks to favourable coal prices and to various improvement projects, such as thermal-energy optimisation, waste-heat recovery and alternative fuels. Consequently, the operating profit margin improved to 22.2 per cent in the first half of 2013 compared with 18.8 per cent for the same period of 2012.

In terms of outlook for the remainder of the year, SCCC expects market demand to stay strong until year-end and production costs to rise because of the maintenance of the kilns planned for the current half.

SCCC is a leading cement and building-materials supplier employing more than 3,600 people.

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Israel opens new 'virtual embassy' in Gulf | Morocco World News

By Omar Bihmidine

Morocco World News

Tangier, July 29, 2013

In an innovative attempt to closely connect with the Middle East, the Foreign Ministry of Israel has developed a ?virtual embassy? in the form of a Twitter account, reported Israeli media.

For the purpose of strengthening its ties with Gulf countries, Israel aims at seeking and encouraging dialogue, tolerance, peace, and genuine understanding.

During the 2012 annual Herzliya Conference, Rafael Barak, the Foreign Ministry Director-General, hailed the crucial role virtual social networking plays in bridging the gap between countries.

?We are exploring government, people and societies ? trying to skip over the borders and using the new media to create virtual embassies,? Rafael Barak said in an interview.

The Twitter account, which is called ?Israel in the Gulf Cooperation Council? intends to go beyond borders and ameliorate its poor diplomatic relations between Israel and the Middle East. Given Israeli?s fear to lose its allies? trust, it is seeking to seize any opportunity at hand to re-build peace, be it virtual or real.

According to Haaretz, Youram Murad, head of Digital Diplomacy Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel, is administering the official page of the virtual Israeli embassy to GCC countries.

Israel?s decision to open this virtual embassy is also a clear sign that the country is seeking to equally strengthen Israeli-Palestinian ties.

After Israel?s failure to convince the Muslim world that it is a country of dialogue and peace, it is now attempting to approach Arab countries in a more subtle manner.

In 2000, Israel-Palestine tensions forced Israel to close its offices in Oman and Qatar. For Israeli high-ranking officials, resorting to virtual diplomatic relations can be the best solution at hand.

According to Haaretz English website, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Kuwait are, strategically speaking, among the countries Israel is seeking to befriend for the aim of silencing Arab?s anger over Palestine-Israel tense relations.

In the absence of official diplomatic relationships with the GCC, the brainchild of Israeli diplomacy, Gary Koren, noted that Israel is also aiming to ?reach out and open lines of dialogue?.

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92% Frances Ha

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In your twenties you decide on the final version of you. Sophie is working on it; Frances is stuck in her crazy, clueless, can't-pay-the-rent stage.

It's a tribute to Gerwig's performance, somehow both clumsy and elegant, that she wins us over despite ourselves, that we come to appreciate her aimlessness in a goal-oriented society ...

This is an odd film (creepier than it knows), and even if you feel the atmospheric company of Dunham-ism, with a little of Whit Stillman, Henry Jaglom, and Woody Allen, the core influence on Noah Baumbach's film is fifty years older or more.

Baumbach usually builds his films around difficult protagonists, but Frances is entirely endearing, at once silly and deep, hopeless and promising.

The dialogue and editing are zippy and generally charming, combining with the tart observations of 20-something culture to create a nice frisson.

A black-and-white salute to the French New Wave (the score is borrowed from Georges Delerue, composer of many a Truffaut and Godard film) that manages to be very much of this moment ...

There's little doubt that many people will find her insufferable, and almost everyone will experience moments of acute discomfort. But this is a wonderful performance that never becomes ingratiating.

Like Ethan Hawke's recent Before Midnight (aimed at people in their 40s), Frances Ha will engage its literate-minded target audience fed up with disaster blockbusters.

The hilarious, touching Frances Ha is lubricated by the same juice that allowed Jean-Luc Godard's Bande ? Part to slip so smoothly through the streets of Paris.

A film that's well aware of its own hipness, but never too cool to laugh and cry.

Frances Ha might well strike some viewers as ridiculously twee and tiresomely indulgent to its immature heroine. Not me, though. I'm happy to be enchanted.

Gerwig's last jaunt to Europe was in Woody Allen's feeble and disjointed To Rome With Love, and even Allen himself might acknowledge that here she is despatched across the Atlantic in a far more successful cause.

A perky cinematic pick-me-up starring the endearing Greta Gerwig who co-wrote the screenplay with director Noah Baumbach, her boyfriend.

I'm not sure what Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha is about, which is one reason I like it so much.

Frances is only adequate as a dancer but her enthusiasm bridges the gap between aspiration and ability. She deserves an A for effort. The film gets one for attainment.

It's a likable movie, with some nice moments of both comedy and pathos, and beautifully shot, but for me the reverence for its heroine was not completely earned, and the arrowhead was missing: the decisive jab of satire, of insight, of love.

This film may look like one of those annoyingly mannered independent films, with its wacky young cast and arty-farty black and white photography, but it's actually a fresh, smart and very funny comedy.

Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig have carved out, with effortless elegance and ease, a cinematic space for a woman to be, unapologetically, herself.

Frances Ha both acknowledges and earns its place in the tradition of the New York bourgeois comedy, encoding the angst of social mores in witty dialogue. Make no mistake: the cinematic slacker has come of age.

An unlikely feelgood crowd-pleaser - Frances Ha is sweet, funny, darling and almost unbearably lovely. And thankfully, everyone enunciates.

Brilliantly directed and beautifully shot, this is an utterly delightful, warm-hearted and very funny comedy with a wonderful script and a terrific central performance from Greta Gerwig.

Despite Gerwig's natural appeal and talent as a performer, Frances' self-absorption and flakiness begin to grate.

When is a film a throwaway sketch that's so good it's frameable? When it's Frances Ha.

Much of the reason why Frances Ha is a far more well-crafted and enjoyable piece of cinema than either Lola Versus or Damels in Distress.

The story becomes chaotic and disjointed, but that's the point: Frances is tumbling towards her 30s with no sense of direction and this is where Gerwig excels, deftly pulling you along on a bumpy ride.

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Lansdale minister performs Montgomery County's first 'licensed' same-sex wedding

By GARY PULEO
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LANSDALE ? When Craig Andrussier, an independent ordained minister, stands in front of two men or two women who want to be united in marriage, he sees something many other people of the cloth might not.

?The way I look at it is that any two people in love who want to spend the rest of their lives together deserve to have a marriage,? said Andrussier Friday, two days after the Lansdale resident made history by performing a marriage ceremony for the first same-sex couple to be issued a marriage license in the state of Pennsylvania.

Andrussier filed the license in Norristown after a lesbian couple hired him as their wedding officiant, following the announcement by Register of Wills D. Bruce Hanes that he would issue a marriage license to any same-sex couple who wanted one.

?I?m glad they were able to reach me and that I could help them out,? he said. ?I didn?t realize it would escalate into what it did.?

The wedding was held at an undisclosed location in North Wales. Afterward, Andrussier said, he hurried to Norristown to file the paperwork personally, rather than putting it in the mail, because he did not know if or when Hanes? decision would be overturned.

The nondenominational minister wasn?t sure how things would unfold in the courts for the couple, but he was glad to participate in the exchange of vows between the two women.

?A marriage in Pennsylvania has to be between a man and a woman because there?s no documentation or wording stating what a civil union would be, so it would just be between two partners,? he said. ?A lot of it has to do with the wording in the bylaws of the state. So a commitment union would be two partners. I?m not a politician so I really don?t have any political view on this. I just happened to be available to perform the ceremony for them as the wedding officiant.?

Andrussier?s website (www.caweddingceremonies.com) notes that he creates ?each wedding ceremony custom fit to each and every couple and their desires and needs. As a result of this, a high percentage of my business is from referrals from friends or family who have participated in, or attended a wedding I have written and officiated.?

Business is now booming with referrals Andrussier may not have expected prior to last Wednesday.

?I?m willing to marry anybody as long as they have the marriage certificate and they want to spend the rest of their life together,? he said. ?If I have any more same-sex couples come to me I would marry them in a heartbeat as long as they had the license and were ready to go. I know there were 16 couples who were issued licenses and I have been contacted by a few who wanted to know if I was available on certain dates, but nothing?s been contracted.? Continued...

Whenever they decide to set the date, no couple will ever be denied the wedding ceremony of their dreams, Andrussier said.

?If two people love each other enough to spend the rest of their lives together I feel they should be allowed to do it,? he said. ?There should be no labeling. It seems anymore for everybody in this country everybody has to have a label or a tag ... whether you?re from another country, race, religion, whatever. We?re getting away from what the country was founded on.?

Calls went out to a few dozen Montgomery County ministers and priests at churches of all faiths on Friday, asking where they stood on the same-sex marriage debate.

Andrussier was the only one who responded.

LANSDALE ? When Craig Andrussier, an independent ordained minister, stands in front of two men or two women who want to be united in marriage, he sees something many other people of the cloth might not.

?The way I look at it is that any two people in love who want to spend the rest of their lives together deserve to have a marriage,? said Andrussier Friday, two days after the Lansdale resident made history by performing a marriage ceremony for the first same-sex couple to be issued a marriage license in the state of Pennsylvania.

Andrussier filed the license in Norristown after a lesbian couple hired him as their wedding officiant, following the announcement by Register of Wills D. Bruce Hanes that he would issue a marriage license to any same-sex couple who wanted one.

?I?m glad they were able to reach me and that I could help them out,? he said. ?I didn?t realize it would escalate into what it did.?

The wedding was held at an undisclosed location in North Wales. Afterward, Andrussier said, he hurried to Norristown to file the paperwork personally, rather than putting it in the mail, because he did not know if or when Hanes? decision would be overturned.

The nondenominational minister wasn?t sure how things would unfold in the courts for the couple, but he was glad to participate in the exchange of vows between the two women.

?A marriage in Pennsylvania has to be between a man and a woman because there?s no documentation or wording stating what a civil union would be, so it would just be between two partners,? he said. ?A lot of it has to do with the wording in the bylaws of the state. So a commitment union would be two partners. I?m not a politician so I really don?t have any political view on this. I just happened to be available to perform the ceremony for them as the wedding officiant.?

Andrussier?s website (www.caweddingceremonies.com) notes that he creates ?each wedding ceremony custom fit to each and every couple and their desires and needs. As a result of this, a high percentage of my business is from referrals from friends or family who have participated in, or attended a wedding I have written and officiated.?

Business is now booming with referrals Andrussier may not have expected prior to last Wednesday.

?I?m willing to marry anybody as long as they have the marriage certificate and they want to spend the rest of their life together,? he said. ?If I have any more same-sex couples come to me I would marry them in a heartbeat as long as they had the license and were ready to go. I know there were 16 couples who were issued licenses and I have been contacted by a few who wanted to know if I was available on certain dates, but nothing?s been contracted.?

Whenever they decide to set the date, no couple will ever be denied the wedding ceremony of their dreams, Andrussier said.

?If two people love each other enough to spend the rest of their lives together I feel they should be allowed to do it,? he said. ?There should be no labeling. It seems anymore for everybody in this country everybody has to have a label or a tag ... whether you?re from another country, race, religion, whatever. We?re getting away from what the country was founded on.?

Calls went out to a few dozen Montgomery County ministers and priests at churches of all faiths on Friday, asking where they stood on the same-sex marriage debate.

Andrussier was the only one who responded.

Source: http://www.mainlinemedianews.com/articles/2013/07/29/king_of_prussia_courier/news/doc51f6535723a6e527661835.txt

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China orders production cuts in several industries

China?s government has ordered companies to close factories in 19 industries where overproduction has led to price-cutting wars, affirming its determination to push ahead with a painful economic restructuring despite slowing growth.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued orders late on Thursday to more than 1,400 companies to cut excess capacity that has led to financial trouble for manufacturers.

The affected industries include steel, cement, copper and glass. It requires some companies to close outright.

The ministry said it aims to eliminate ?backward production capacity,? indicating it also is meant to improve efficiency in energy and resource use.

Other industries targeted include coke, calcium carbide, aluminum, smelting of lead and zinc, paper, alcohol, monosodium glutamate, citric acid, leather, printing and dyeing, chemical fiber and batteries.

The production glut is in part a lingering cost of the multibillion-dollar stimulus that helped China rebound quickly from the 2008 global crisis. Beijing pumped money into the economy with a wave of spending, much of it financed by state banks, on building new subways, bridges and other public works.

Higher revenues for state-owned construction companies and suppliers of steel and other building materials propped up inefficient producers and encouraged some to expand.

In the cement industry, Thursday?s order calls on companies to shut down facilities with annual production capacity of more than 92 million tons. Steel producers were ordered to eliminate 7 million tonnes of production capacity.

Communist leaders are trying to reduce reliance on investment and trade. However, a slowdown that pushed China?s economic growth to a two-decade low of 7.5 percent in the latest quarter prompted suggestions they might have to reverse course and stimulate the economy with more investment to reduce the threat of job losses and unrest.

?This detailed list shows the government is serious in its efforts to restructure the economy and is prepared to tolerate the necessary pain,? Nomura economist Zhang Zhiwei (???) wrote in a report. ?This reinforces our view that aggressive policy stimulus is unlikely in 2012 and that growth should trend down.?

An investment boom and government subsidies to industries such as solar panel manufacturing prompted producers to expand rapidly until supply exceeded demand. Companies have been forced to slash prices, often to below production cost.

The government?s overall measure of prices charged by producers has fallen for the past 16 months, threatening a growing number with financial ruin. A major solar panel maker, Suntech Power Holdings Ltd (??), was forced into bankruptcy this year.

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Break out the Apple TV, the Breaking Bad finale is a Netflix exclusive in the UK and Ireland!

The long awaited finale to Breaking Bad is almost upon us, and while U.S. fans will be able to watch on regular TV, UK and Ireland fans are going to need to resort to Netflix. The video streaming service has snagged exclusive rights to the final half of season five of the smash hit show, which means you're going to need to either watch it on your Mac or PC, your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or better still, your Apple TV.

On the one hand, it's a kick in the face to folks who are eagerly awaiting these episodes that may not be Netflix subscribers, because they're going to have to pay up for at least two months worth of subscription to watch it to the end. At the other end of the scale, it's a pretty monumental moment for online TV services. Breaking Bad is big TV, and for Netflix to secure an exclusive broadcasting deal is perhaps a pre-cursor to more of this kind of thing in the future. Importantly, the traditional Netflix model of dumping all the episodes at once won't happen here; one per week will be posted so we don't have to worry about spoilers.

There's an ever increasing market out there for the Netflix type subscription model; ie free of the cable companies. Online content has seen a big push in recent months and years, and the Apple TV in-particular remains a perfect conduit to that content. Maybe, just maybe there's a future in this yet. Let me know what you guys think, though. Is this a step forward, or just a big old snub to folks who haven't yet decided they want to take their TV online?

Breaking Bad will be available on Netflix UK and Ireland from August 12. New subscriptions are available for ?5.99 per month.

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Saturday Golf for Obama

President Obama is playing his usual round of Saturday golf with his usual roundup of junior aides. He stopped briefly at the White House following his event at the Korean War Memorial today before heading out to the course at Fort Belvoir in Northern Virginia. It?s? -

Read More Keith Koffler is a veteran White House reporter. His website, White House Dossier is dedicated to preserving freedom by holding the White House to account.

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