We are delighted to announce that the Opening Keynote will be delivered by Dr Wang Wen, Executive Dean, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China.
Environmentalists have declared partial victory: though Coca-Cola's plan to decorate the town with banners has been scaled back, there are still too many billboards for strict green tastes.
Since he began to informally announce the network at farming conferences and on social media, he's received a steady stream of inquiries from interested farmers.
A few days later Mr Kyl changed tack and announced there would not be time to consider the treaty properly before the end of the lame-duck session, citing unnamed but "complex and unresolved issues".