The price of the food

The future of corn and soybeans traded on exchanges in Chicago (CBOT) ended on the rise, driven by the floods in the Mid-west U.S., conditions that threaten the predictions of both crops. The commodity recorded records in stock for the seventh consecutive session.

The July contract corn recorded increase of 22.75 cents, to $ 7.3175 per bushel, reaching achieve record for the first ending of $ 7.3750 per bushel.

The December contract on the next crop, showed high of 25.50 cents, quoted at U.S. $ 7.65 per bushel. The contract in July of 2009 reached a historical maximum for the cereal, from $ 7.8450 per bushel.

The contract for July soybeans rose 23.50 cents, quoted at $ 15.60 per bushel. On November the crop advanced 18.50 cents, to $ 15.31 per bushel.

At the beginning of the stock trading, soy, corn and wheat had a falling pressured by the realization of profits.

But the wheat also closed high, influenced by the movement in soybeans and corn and by technical buying.

The July wheat gained 31 cents, to $ 8.82 per bushel.

France Grand Prix - Magny-Cours

The victory of Felipe Massa at the French GP, held this Sunday, broke a long fasting of Brazil in Formula 1. With the victory in Magny-Cours, the Brazilian driver of Ferrari came to 48 points and took the lead in Formula 1.

The last time a Brazilian took over the leadership in Formula 1 was in May 23, 1993, with Ayrton Senna. On that occasion the three times world champion won for the sixth and last time the GP of Monaco with McLaren’s car.

However, the Brazilian driver wasn’t at the time with the best equipment and lost the lead of the competition in the next stage in Canada (June 13 of that year). Senna had to be happy at the end of that year with the vice championship.

After Senna, the Brazilian who came back to get closer to fight for top positions was Rubens Barrichello, during its passage to Ferrari (2000 to 2005), but the driver was not able at any time disturb the ex-partner, Michael Schumacher.

The best results of the current driver of Honda were two vice championships - 2002 and 2004. Barrichello is the holder of the title to have had participate in  

Felipe Massa still has ten GPs to maintain or try to enlarge the gap to break another fasting. Since 1991, when Ayrton Senna won the champioship Brazil is not a world champion in F-1.

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Update » I just received an email from Entrecard crew saying “we’ll settle with a warning” and they returned my credits back to my account.

Two days ago I realized that it was missing plenty of credits from my account, after wonder a while what have had cause that I went to transactions page to check if I had sent someone credits by mistake and then I found a message saying “SPAMMING - STOP OR YOU’LL BE REMOVED” and 4,000 was took away from my account.

Entrecard is being a very important source of traffic to my blog lately however Entrecard crew hurt me really bad.

I sent an email to Graham Landon (Entrecard founder) asking for a explanation about the situation. See the email below »

Just after a send the message he answered me back in a very rude way. check the email below »

You received about a hundred different complaints over the last few months. Stop spamming people or we’ll close your account, seriously.

The funny part about this story is that I released the contest last week and before this contest I’ve never had sent a message using Entrecard website. It’s impossible the complaints to have happened months ago if I wasn’t even using the service.

Another funny fact is that before May 24th I thought I’ll lose my credits if I drop cards instead of earn credits. So, before this date I didn’t even drop cards using Entrecard.

After I talk to some of my friends that are bloggers they told me that they’ve heard about situations like that involving Entrecard site. I hope this isn’t a strategy to make the user come back to the site and try to get the credits back.

One of my friends even quit Entrecard because the site changed the whole idea of community and started to monetize in every single way.

To tell the truth I didn’t quit Entrecard because I’m having a contest running and I have to pay 10,000 Entrecard credits to the winner. If Entrecard and I don’t settle the situation I don’t know if I will continue being a member of the community after the end of the contest. The deadline of the contest is the end of July.