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Need an estimate (not listed)for an Ignition Switch Electrical Portion Replacement. Is this a dealer only type of repair or can repair shop take care of it. Thank you....
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You can buy the electrical portion of the Ignition Switch from a good after market supplier like WorldPac for about $55.00.
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Connecticut job growth was steady in July, even as more than 1,000 state layoffs affected the statewide numbers.
Connecticut employers added 1,700 more jobs than were eliminated in July, according to seasonally adjusted estimates by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. About 3,000 jobs were added to the private sector.
The report, released Thursday, said the number of government jobs shrank by 1,300 compared to June. Those figures include state, local, federal and casino jobs. The state budget shortfall resulted in about 500 fewer jobs in the state judicial system since the beginning of the year and about 825 jobs eliminated across the rest of state government.


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How a California Gurdwara From a Century Ago Can be a Model for Interfaith Harmony
by: Murali Balaji on March 26th, 2015 | 2 Comments »
The popular narrative in media and textbooks on the South Asian American population is that they've only existed in the United States for a few decades.
But such a narrative misrepresents and obscures a much longer history, especially at the turn of the century, when several thousand Indians settled in regions like Northern California. It's the largely untold story of the migration of Sikhs, Hindus, and Muslims from pre-partition India from the late 19th century up until the passage of the Asian Exclusion Act (which was passed to limit Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and Indian migration).
Even before the act was passed, migrants from India faced many obstacles, including systemic discrimination and outright violence. The 1907 "anti-Hindoo" riots in Bellingham, Washington, for example, targeted mostly Sikh laborers whom whites had accused of stealing lumber jobs. Bellingham is only about an hour north of Bothell, Washington, where a Hindu temple was recently vandalized.
Still, in their small conclaves, the immigrants of different faiths began to find ways to develop a community identity, in part because they were largely shunned by whites. At the time, about two-thirds of Indian immigrants in California at the turn of the century were Sikh, and as a result, the Pacific Coast Khalsa Diwan Society — a gurdwara — opened in Stockton in 1911.
Because Hindus and Muslims in the region were still small in number, and unable to get the approvals to build any sites of worship, the Stockton gurdwara served as a place of worship for all three religions. While Hindu-Sikh co-worship was common in northern India for centuries, a place for all three groups in the United States was created by circumstance and sustained through interfaith bonds.


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Hotel Equatorial Melaka, Malacca
- Free WiFi
Main amenities
- 495 smoke-free guestrooms
- 4 restaurants
- Outdoor pool
- Breakfast available
- Fitness center
- Valet parking
- Spa services
- Conference center
- 24-hour front desk
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Snack bar/deli
For families
- Children's pool
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Private bathroom
- Premium TV channels
- Free toiletries
- Daily housekeeping
What's around
- In Malacca Town
- A Famosa (0.2 mi / 0.4 km)
- St Paul's Church (0.6 mi / 0.9 km)
- Hatten Square (0.2 mi / 0.3 km)
- Dataran Pahlawan Melaka Megamall (0.2 mi / 0.4 km)
- Mahkota Parade Shopping Mall (0.3 mi / 0.5 km)
Hotel Equatorial Melaka, Malacca
Hotel Info: 866-539-8117from $52
- Deluxe Room
- Club Room (Equator)
- Premier Room
- Executive Suite, City View
Also popular with travelers from the USA
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Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 495 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 22 floors
- Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out time is noon
- Express check-in/out
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- No cribs (infant beds)
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
- Valet parking *
Other information
- Smoke-free property
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In the hotel
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- 4 restaurants
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee shop/café
- Snack bar/deli
- 24-hour room service
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Fitness facilities
- Spa services on site
- Spa treatment room(s)
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- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Ecotours nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Steam room
- Sauna
- Business center
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms 10
- Conference center
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- Porter/bellhop
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built 1998
- Elevator/lift
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
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- Air conditioning
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- Iron/ironing board (on request)
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- Soundproofed rooms
- Turndown service
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- Premium TV channels
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- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
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Haye vs. Chisora is Now Picked Up By Sky Germany
Sky Germany have confirmed that they will televise LIVE David Haye and Dereck Chisora's heavyweight championship showdown from West Ham United's Boleyn Ground in East London on Saturday 14th July.
Haye and Chisora face-off in the biggest all-British heavyweight grudge fight in recent memory with the WBO and WBA International titles on the line.
Germany's biggest selling daily tabloid newspaper Bild recently held a survey on its website and asked its readers if they supported ARD's (German TV) decision to withdraw from televising the David Haye and Dereck Chisora big heavyweight showdown.
A massive 72 per cent of the 24,366 who voted said, "NO! I want to see the fight".
Sky Germany have now stepped in to ensure that the German boxing fans will now see the fight that the whole world is waiting to see.
Haye v Chisora will be televised live and exclusive in the UK on BoxNation (Sky Ch. 456/Virgin Ch. 546), in America on EPIX and in 60-plus countries.
Why do the Klits care? They just do...basically they take care of themselves quite well. There is a degree of envy there and the Klits like the British Boxing Board are self entitled. They all feel as though they should…Comment by Michael Paine on 06-28-2012
Boente says the only reason they'll fight is because of what happened in the press conference and it will hurt boxing? He was the one telling Haye to fight Chisora and the winner gets Vitali. Boente is full of ****.Comment by croz on 06-28-2012
In other words no one in Germany will see it.Comment by Mr E Mann on 06-28-2012
[QUOTE=Earl-Lesnar;12287523]the klits need to go suck a lemon[/QUOTE] THIS!!!! They're no1, they're both millionaires, both making money still... Why do they care? The more they talk about it and give it attention and free publicity, the more they just look…Comment by damuttz112 on 06-28-2012
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For Family in Shelter System, Living From Bench to Bench
By NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: March 25, 2001
Jamall Roper fell silent as his younger brothers and sister talked about being homeless, stranded in a place where hundreds of families like theirs were trying to get into New York City's shelter system.
Day after day, and often halfway through the night, the four schoolchildren and their ailing grandmother had endured the city's Emergency Assistance Unit in the South Bronx, the waiting room for families seeking shelter, or, in the end, just somewhere to lie down until morning.
''I slept on a bench that was hard,'' Paris, 9, said softly. Tara, a second grader, blurted out: ''The benches are too little and there are too many families. They didn't have no pillows and this lady had a hundred bags and they stole my brother's Game Boy.''
Homeless families have become all but invisible to many New Yorkers. The public image of homelessness is a grizzled derelict or a deranged bag lady. But this winter, when the nightly census in the shelter system rose above 25,000 -- more than at any time since the 1980's -- the people most likely to need shelter in New York City were, as always, children.
And what those children encounter in the system is often hard for them to understand.
For Paris, the security guards loomed large. ''We don't get enough rest, so if there's an empty bench, I sleep on it, and the security guard wakes me up and says, 'Go,' '' he said.
Their grandmother and sole guardian, Arlene Cruz, 55, who gathered them from New Jersey foster homes four years ago, now had to try to deliver them clean, fed and in uniforms to their Manhattan public school, starting from a different shelter each morning. Each afternoon they had to return to the din of the unit, to wait for the late-night bus to another bed.
Often the shelter assignment came way past bedtime, if at all. Asked where they slept when no beds or benches were available, even Ronald, the 6-year-old, could answer. ''Floor,'' he said in an asthmatic growl.
But Jamall, 11, an honors student, could not speak. Tears filled his eyes, and he was trying too hard to hold them back.
''He has the best understanding of what's going on,'' Jamall's school counselor, Alana Reed, said later. ''He has a sense of responsibility for his siblings and his nana.''
For families like Jamall's, the Emergency Assistance Unit is the mandatory first step. It is perennially in violation of court orders to enforce New York City's right to shelter, and the city's commissioner of homeless services recently acknowledged that it functions as a kind of gantlet.
''I can't screw the front door any tighter,'' said the commissioner, Martin Oesterreich, referring to tough screening procedures adopted in 1996 to discourage any parent with a housing alternative from using the shelters as a shortcut to a subsidized apartment.
What that means in practice is usually hidden from public view. Citing privacy, city officials have taped brown paper over the windows of the unit, at 151 East 151st Street, and barred reporters. But the experiences recounted by Jamall and his siblings, and corroborated by city, school and medical records and interviews with the adults in their lives, make the consequences for children hard to miss.
Despite Ms. Cruz's efforts, which were praised by school officials, the children began to miss school or arrive late, exhausted and unprepared. Their grades suffered. The whole family fell ill. And Ms. Cruz began to fear she could not carry on.
''I'm drained, but I've just got to keep going,'' Ms. Cruz said late last month, as tears slid silently down Jamall's cheeks. ''I don't want them to take my grandkids and put them back in foster care.''
On the day of that conversation, Feb. 23, the children were together in a temporary shelter apartment in the Bronx, a place with beds and blankets, a refrigerator, even closets where their grandmother had hung 16 crisply ironed school shirts for the week. But Jamall knew that the city had still not ruled them eligible to stay, and that only the last-minute intervention of a Legal Aid Society lawyer had kept them from having to apply for shelter all over again.
''My biggest worry is that they find us ineligible and we have to leave,'' he said. ''And that they're going to take us from our grandma because we don't have a place to live.''
Becoming Homeless
Jamall and Paris vividly remember the day five years ago when New Jersey child welfare workers, citing parental neglect and drug use, took them from their mother, Maya, and stepfather, Ronald Jones, who is Tara and Ronald's father. ''I tried to run back to my mom,'' said Paris, who was no more than 4 at the time, ''but they caught me.''
Jamall was placed in one foster home, Paris and Ronald in another, where, Paris said, the foster parents beat his baby brother. Tara went to a paternal aunt, then on to foster care, too, when the aunt was called to military duty.
It took their grandmother a year to extract all the children from the foster care bureaucracy. She was then living in rural South Carolina, after raising seven daughters in New York, where she had worked in factories, on switchboards, and for the Federal Bankruptcy Court as a clerk for 13 years.


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Certain populations of sockeye salmon, coho salmon, chinook salmon, and Atlantic salmon are listed as endangered. Sockeye salmon from the Snake River system are probably the most endangered salmon.
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I cant be the only one who thinks FB is about to explode! Tons of buzz around that they are starting an IR campaign soon…you know that that means! We could see a huge run and score big…get the facts and trade FB For All It's Worth.
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like this issue of discussion and want this company get their success very fast and reach the company goal...
Holding FB stock for many years.
Same, 5 plus years for me lol!
One day wonder, still wondering where the 3% came from? this is a dead money stock that breaks everyone's heart when they own it. so definitely buy facebook, so you you too can be added to that long list of broken hearts. i bought facebook pre-ipo day and grabbed a quick $3.75 between ipo price of 38.00 and 41.75. sold in first 4 minutes of open trading on ipo day, and fb has traded lower ever since. first it failed at $39, then at $38, then it failed at $36, then at $35, then it failed at $33 and again at $32, then it failed at $29.99 and again at $$28, then it crippled the remaining die-hards with a quantum leap to $16, then $15, and then down to $13. then it doubled to $27. i'm still in anything else but facebook, so many other greater potential trades than this one. the only reason to buy this stock would be lack of discipline and lack of understanding of the market and a cracking transportation index. in a market selloff of just 10%, facebook will trade down to $18/share again. upside is 2 to 3%, downside is $18 or lower. where's the positive risk/reward ratio for this stock? surely not in their pr campaign! they are selling what every htc, blackberry, apple, samsung, lg, hawei, nokia, sprint, motorola, google, symbian, and the list goes on and on with a dozen + chinese and another half dozen korean smart phone makers. To think facebook is going to turn out a monster reception for a new phone due to zuck's hoody look, is a stretch...a monster stretch. i called the top in apple, i'm calling bluff in facebook with limited upside with unlimited downside imminently.
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You write ....
"....then it crippled the remaining die-hards with a quantum leap to $16, then $15,
and then down to $13. "
My question to you , john11cv .....
When did Facebook hit $16 , $15 or $13 ?
The low I see [ in the last 11 months] is $17.55
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Mother Goose Popcorn
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Prep 5 mins
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It doesn't sound like much but I prefer this as an alternative to caramel corn, it is that good. I make it at Christmas time, pink and green and mix them together. Simple to make, sweet and crunchy. Colorful to boot! It goes fast. As far as I know this is an old recipe from long ago.
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- 1⁄2 cup milk
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 8 cups popped popcorn
- food coloring
- Mix milk and sugar in a sauce pan and on medium heat bring to a boil.
- Careful not to let it burn and do not scrape the sides of the pan or the sugar will crystalize.
- Add vanilla extract and your choice of food coloring (it is usually pink or light green) and mix well.
- Place the popcorn in a large bowl then pour the hot liquid over it and coat as evenly as you can.
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I used less than half of the sauce and salted it. I think this sauce recipe would work for 3 or 4 times as much popcorn!!!! I was skeptical about this recipe. It is quick and easy way to make some sweet popcorn.
A little too sugary not my favorite but it did look festive.
Love This Recipe! My mom always made mother goose popcorn when I was a kid. Her recipe calls for twice the milk and boiling the syrup till 230 degrees. I don't like waiting for syrup to cook so I was thrilled to find this recipe. It worked perfectly for me. I did STIR it until it boiled and continued boiling for a minute or two. It wasn't sticky at all. I have an air popper that pops 1/2 cup of kernels (about7 cups popped) and I thought it was the perfect amount. I like it heavily coated though. I simply stirred until it started to cool and it set up and had the perfect mother goose popcorn texture I've always loved. I made it for Halloween and flavored the orange colored batch with orange and the purple batch with vanilla. YUM!


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LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Aug 11, 2012 20:02 Flag
Nuri Sahin
Anybody know about this player from Real Madrid?
Supposedly Rodgers is after him and wants to nab him from under the noses of Arsenal.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
United fan in peace. Basically a far far far better version of Charlie Adam. Beautiful left foot, plays in deep midfield, has a better long game than short (a la Alonso), but a better short game than Alonso and Adam too.
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LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Aug 12, 2012 15:59 Flag
Would be a perfect fit for Brendan's system..
Thanks Stefan - that helps picture him.
Yea, Colyn, it's actually quite funny so many people say that about sarcasm, yet the more I meet and talk to people from your side, even when I was there, I seem to raise the bar another level.. It's especially hard here on the boards, if you catch my drift..
Anyways.. Mr Armchair definitely deserves some credit for the post, so credit given where due, though he has posted every player in Fifa's registry (sorry armchair just a fun jibe). But Sahin has been on the radar for a while, and now we just await the actual confirmation..
Regarding others, if you just want to go by what I think, possibly "hear" ( and btw I am truly sorry for Gaston, his agent royally f'd him, and us, which you can publically read now).. Our final 2 are still Tello, and Dempsey who appears to be closer pending Charles Manson accepting a move the other way which seems to be inevitable with a 6th midfielder (Sahin) coming in ahead of him..
There could be one last very late name, I don't have it, or know it, but it's pending the Carroll situation so it's more or less a case of out for in, but it's supposedly a quite high quality forward player, but in this instance it is a sale first to buy. I could give a friendly guess and say that kid Leandro Dimaio from Brazil, or maybe even Adebayor on a cut rate price.. just guesses really..
But even per Rodgers via the website yesterday, he's hopeful for 2-3 more in, and said there will be outs, so hold on to your chairs... not too tightly, the outs won't be too difficult to deal w..
I think this signing will look better if it does mean we are losing either Adam or Spearing. I know I am the only LFC fan on here that rates Adam as good enough, even for back up (11 assists and 2 goals arent that bad!) but if he can be a make weight in a deal for Dempsey then let it be. Having a midfield to select from as follows is pretty impressive:
Gerrard - Lucas - Allen
Sahin - Henderson - Adam
Shelvey - Spearing - Suso
Thats strong enough!!
More than strong enough with just the 5/6:
Gerrard, Lucas, Allen, Sahin, Jonjo, Henderson even Suso/Coady..
Jay and Adam are going, almost certainly Adam, Jay may escape the chop out of sentiment and it's a shame for the lad because if he had more skill/size he'd be a nice player, but heart and Liverpool born just aren't enough..
You've got to admit it's REALLY nice to see what BR is doing here with the central midfield. Young, International, extremely talented and classy, all capable of doing multiple jobs and interchangeable. Gerrard and Sahin are even capable of being well advanced close to the front, almost part of the front 3, if needed.. Same can be said if/when Dempsey joins, he can play all over the place, but obviously we'd prefer him banging in 15 goals or so..
That's the best thing about this new look, goals from everywhere, not so reliant on just creating them for the front..
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Aug 16, 2012 15:59 Flag
Makes a change. To to quote Big X from The Great Escape "we'll confound and confuse the enemy".
Thats my hope with Brendan's squad and tatics that we'll be very hard to play against and hard to read.
That it'll be like the old days that nobody wanted to play us..
I can't wait for the new season and if Suhin is as good as we hope then will we put in a bid for him at the end of the season?
dsteer_lfc_68 dsteer_lfc_68 Aug 16, 2012 16:20 Flag
You've got to think there is some outs from that list. Spearing just gets pushed down the pecking order, so surely he can see he's surplus to requirements with a sale most likely but maybe a loan for one last chance to improve. Suso also has little chance of seeing much playing time, even in cups, but as a youngster who may have outgrown the reserves, loan most likekly outcome.
I'm with you on Adam. I think most got caught up with all the talk from last summer and even the January before thinking he was the Celtic Xavi, when really he's a sub 10M squad player. I actually think he looked quite good when he had Lucas beside him, but was left wanting and exposed to his poor tackling and lack of pace when the Brazilian feel injured. So I'd be fine keeping him as a backup, but it does make sense to use him as a makeweight to bring Dempsey in. It would seem to make sense on the other side of the equation also, where he'd fill in for the absent Danny Murphy, so will likely get a lot of football.
I agree. It is good news (to me anyway) that Rodgers feels that the midfield needs strengthening. I seemed obvious to me last season that even with some good football being played etc. we lacked some real leadership and direction from the middle. Every successful side has that "Animal" in the middle. Toure last year for City for example. We simply need to strengthen that area.
Now with that are becomming stronger then it's obvious that there will be casualties. Those that aren't quite up to speed and offer little more. That to me means Spearing (which is a shame btw) and Adam. I honestly thought he was a good buy last year as I was again looking for that strong midfield. He hasn't quite provided that base unfortunately. If he had we would be talking about someone else!
Anyway cross fingers Sahin is signed and proves to be the prospect that we all hope he is / can be.
Welp, I stand corrected, unless this is another tremendous case of quiet and smoke and mirrors, there will be no announcement in the next days, if at all. Potentially it could be one we don't like..
A key piece in this, is Alex Song imminent departure to Barcelona, and the money Arsenal have just got for Judas..
The X factor is the relationship between Jose & Rodgers, plus LFC and Fail Madrid having done business before.. Turning into a saga..
He was a GREAT player in Germany, and really could be a GREAT player again, but if his heart is that determined on Arsenal, which is heresay unless we hear from him, then it's best we move on or stick with what we've got, not including Manson. The Sahin addition had also cast shadows over Jordan's PT and status at the club believe it or not..
I'd still like to think with everything he's got in his locker including youth/experience, he can "come good" (the term I hate most) because he's an actual youngster, and Jonjo has been superb all pre-season, and the trainings. Though I admit Sahin is far better than both.. But anyways.. sit tight..
Side note.. Fulham have fined Clint Dempsey for refusing to play tomorrow and sitting out. He really really wants a move away, so that is becoming a bit of a saga too.. Should be a really interesting final week and half to bizarro season.. Plus we could always come in with a sneaky 50M bid for Cavani as well
Any news about this?
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He's been left out of Madrid's official squad, and said to have already left Spain for England via Madrid and Spanish sources..
I'm strictly going on Spanish news on this, none of the England or US crap..
So I've translated, we wish the player well, he has collected his things to depart from Spain to ....
Supposedly it's a loan, Arsenal seem keen to buy, not sure if Jose/Madrid are open to the buy, but all Madrid parties want him to choose Liverpool but it's up to him really..
I'd expect an answer within 2-3 days latest, because he's got to be headed somewhere unless he's going on a holiday in the UK
Well, let's just give it 24-48 hours to hear something official shall we.. ? At least to just show more optimism..
All I do know for sure is that he's absolutely gone from Spain/Madrid.. where he turns up may seem inevitable, but could certainly be a flip of the coin..
If we miss out, we miss out. To be honest, the harder news to swallow is that Tello started for Barca today, and is putting in a wonderful performance, as always, so I can't see any way humanly possible he's going, not that I was ever convinced he would in addition to his home sickness issue as youngster..
To be honest, above and beyond the talent and youth Sahin and Tello may represent, we need a true, out and out goal scorer. I don't view Borini is a proper attacking winger/striker, whereas I think Suarez should do with all his nutmegs and wonderful plays, but then there should be someone with predatory instincts in there waiting to just finish them off.. Whether it's a matter of possibly inserting Assaidi when ready, and having him and Suarez flank Borini as the main option, or buyin another striker, is the situation that really needs addressed..
We created way too many chances to have not at least scored 1, let alone lose 3-0 despite being man down..
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Different Size Gods ALBUM on it's WAY!!
You may or may not know that I'm in another band besides STILL, which is called Different Size Gods. We are literally having our album mastered as I type this, and we expect to have stuff to hear up by the end of today or maybe tomorrow at the latest!
So if you want to get it on a deal that will only be available to people on our mailing list, go to our website at Facebook, go to the "My Band" tab, about halfway down enter your email, and wait for the deal, it will be in a day or two. (Don't worry, the mailing list is NOT housed at Facebook if you're not an FB fan, and we will NOT bug the crap outta you.)
I have to say, this band is REALLY good, and this record is also REALLY good, and while it's not like STILL at all, I consider to be one of the best things I've worked on, and I can't wait for you to hear it, I think you'll agree……best thing is, it's one of those things that you like MORE as you hear it more, instead of getting bored because you heard all there is to hear the first time around……this stuff is deep and there's a LOT of very subtle touches that you will hear as you go deeper in…..I'm very proud of it, in fact I'M a fan of DSG!
"My Ecstasy" makes it into a BIG CONTEST!!
My song "My Ecstasy" has been accepted into the contest below, and I could sure use your help.
"ReverbNation, the leading marketing platform for more than 500,000 artists, labels, managers, and venues, has announced the launch of a new music discovery program called Playlist 7 sponsored by Microsoft Windows.
Congratulations on inclusion in next week's Song Pool! Your song will go live on the Playlist 7 site on Monday 1/18/10 at 11:00 am EST."
These things tend to turn into popularity contests, with basically whoever can get the most downloads moving farther along……so acts tend to really get into this, and now ME TOO!
So what exactly do I need from you?
On or after (for 1 week) Monday 1/18/10 at 11:00 am EST/8 am PST, go to http://www.reverbnation.com/playlist7, sign up and download "My Ecstasy" by "STILL".
That's it!
You will be helping massively, because each download counts as a vote. Some of the songs that have moved into the next round didn't need many votes to move up, so every one counts! The sign-in is really easy in this contest, if you have a Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter account you can do it with that without another step…..if not, maybe this is a good time to get into whichever of those you've been thinking about….?
If you would like to go the extra mile (awesome of you!), please go to my ReverbNation page at http://www.reverbnation.com/still (it actually IS a pretty great music site, even for the artists…), sign up as a fan, and add yourself to my "Street Team", where I have a "mission" about the contest, with goods for the team if we can move on to the next round. In the mission there will be ways to get the word out, banners, and other things you can easily do that will help tremendously.
So yeh, reading the rules it looks like I've made $57 just to get this far (WOWWWWA…. Vienna's going to YALE now dude), and that's cool, but I would make much more ($507) if I can move it to the next round (enough to pay for the Pro Fools junk I just bought) but it's really not about that….as you can guess it's all about the EXPOSURE, and this thing will be getting a lot of that from Microsoft. THAT could help things along for me a great deal, and THAT'S why I'm bugging you with hat in hand, hopeful you can take a minute and help.
Here's more blurb about the contest –
"The program will showcase emerging artists from the rock, pop, alternative, hip-hop, latin, jazz, and electronica/dance genres. Music fans from around the world will choose 7 artists each week to appear in 'Playlist 7' and receive additional promotion and cash compensation. The first fifty songs are already available:
"The artists get exposure and cash compensation every step of the way. Everybody wins with Playlist 7."
"The fans get free music from up and coming artists every week, plus they get to decide which Artists make it to the top of Playlist 7," said Lou Plaia, vice president of Artist Relations at ReverbNation. "The artists get exposure and cash compensation every step of the way. Everybody wins with Playlist 7."
How it works:
During each week of the program, 50 songs from emerging Artists will be made available for free download at http://www.reverbnation.com/playlist7. Music fans will be able to download 7 free songs of their choice from the pool of fifty. Each download will act as a 'vote' for the Artist. The 7 Artists who receive the most downloads during each week will receive an additional cash prize and will have their song featured and promoted the following week inside of 'Playlist 7'.
"Windows' generous sponsorship of this program means that more emerging Artists will be heard as well as compensated for their art," said Jed Carlson, co-founder and chief operating officer of ReverbNation.com. "It's a great way to bring bands and brands together for mutual benefit."
OK there it is, please help out if you can, I truly appreciate it!!


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A Study of Architect Roles by IASA Sweden
by Daniel Akenine
Why We Need Architects
A Process to Map Artifacts to Levels
Architect Roles
Biggest Challenges
In this article, we first examine why there is a need for IT architects. We then describe a study undertaken by IASA Sweden to better understand IT architecture, which entailed a process of mapping the artifacts produced by architects at different levels in an organization. Finally, we discuss four architect roles that IASA Sweden, as a result of the study, recommends for a typical organization.
Why We Need Architects
As you are well aware, IT roles in general are relatively new compared to other professions and the associated responsibilities have been evolving over the past decades. This is not surprising as the use of IT and software has changed continuously since computers and IT systems were introduced. IT and software have been integrated into many people's lives, and technology is easier to consume and use than ever before. Does that mean IT systems are less complex than they used to be?
There are really two trends going on in the industry:
- IT gets easier and easier.
- IT gets more and more complex.
With increasingly powerful tooling and modeling, producing new software solutions gets easier and faster. You can create an advanced SOAP-based service in less than a minute. On the opposite side, however, the fundamental architecture of these solutions is more complex than it used to be. Why? Well the simple answer is because we expect much more from today's software; it has to do more complex things.
Many years ago, I got a telephone call from a friend. Suddenly, he told me he was strolling around in the city center while talking to me. I was amazed. Obviously, I had heard of mobile phones previously, but I never had actually spoken to somebody using one. Not so many years later, a mobile phone is an integrated part of my life. The technology does not amaze me anymore; on the contrary I get very annoyed when the technology does not perform as I expect it to. Traveling by train in a tunnel, I still expect the mobile phone to work even though I know this is a big technology challenge. My expectations just get higher and higher. This is the exact same way software works.
Twenty years ago, we accepted a simple editor for text processing; today we expect a sophisticated software solution that checks spelling, formats, visualizes, collaborates, and so on. Think about it, a simple modern distributed application probably has a more complex architecture than the high-end COBOL application running in the heart of your bank of choice. This is one of the reasons why IT architecture has a great future; to control and master these modern, complex, and integrated solutions.
In this context, let's consider some of the reasons often given for why architects are important.
We Need Architects to Deal with Complexity
Modern distributed solutions are more complex today than they used to be. There are really two types of complexity in software solutions: fundamental complexity and accidental complexity, as described by Fred Brooks in 1986. Fundamental complexity is embedded into the business problem that the software is going to support. Some business problems presented as complex can actually be simplified; in other cases, the business complexity is inescapable. Software solutions for fundamentally complex business problems need a skilled architect to understand and model the problem correctly.
Accidental complexity is different; it springs from the technological and architectural choices made while solving the problem. For example, how much flexibility for change should the solution have? Decisions on architectural qualities, such as manageability, scalability, security, and reusability, must be made with input from multiple stakeholders whose needs may be at odds. These decisions determine the accidental complexity, and balancing them correctly is one of the most important tasks for an architect.
We Need Architects to Deliver Business Agility
The idea that IT can deliver business agility is frequently heard. However, has the correlation been proven? Certainly, bad architecture can make a business inflexible and slow to act. Many large organizations have invested in IT for many decades now. In the last 10 years, investments in IT have been driven largely by the shockwaves from the Internet revolution, a revolution that has changed the way organizations interact with their customers—generating new types of information in documents, e-mail, portals, and so on. However, many of these investments were made with little care to any enterprise-wide strategy or architecture, and some organizations now refer to the last decade of IT investments as a "Software Crisis."
We are experiencing the cumulative effects of large numbers of short-term and isolated decisions. The cost of changing the software solutions to support new innovative processes or business capabilities is getting out of proportion. To make small changes in the business model or process takes so long or costs so much that they are just not done. This is an example of when IT is bad for business agility; in the end, we need to fix that. Who is better suited to fix that than an architect?
We Need Architects to Reduce the Cost of IT
As others such as David Anderson have written, the cost of managing your existing IT is often as high as 70-80 percent of your total IT budget. More often than not, projects under time pressure result in decisions which multiply life-cycle costs during operations and maintenance. Disparate solution designs and technologies from different projects drive total costs and dilute skill sets. Complex and unknown interdependencies lead to unexpected consequences and costs. Architects can make a real difference in cost reduction; by architecting quality solutions for manageability and supportability.
We Need Architects for Better Business Alignment
In the early days, we used IT primarily to automate manual processes. We used IT to lower costs on information transactions and to store and query data in ways that had not been possible previously. However, those quick wins will someday come to an end. Some organizations have already used IT very effectively to automate and support their business processes, and now they want to move on. It is time to do more sophisticated IT investments aligned with the business strategy and actually use IT to differentiate a company from its competitors.
We need architects to create long-term and short-term strategies for how to use IT in the most effective way for the business.
A Process to Map Artifacts to Levels
Clearly, we need architects. However, architects do not play the same role in every project or company. What kinds of roles should they play, and how can they work with other architects and team members effectively? What we need is a framework for delivering new IT capabilities that supports and improves the current business model, in which different kinds of architects can work together in a consistent way.
The first problem you encounter when you start discussing different roles is the number of perspectives and roles out there. IASA found more than 50 different roles: Although many roles were more or less equivalent, many organizations have created their own roles with unique deliverables. This causes a lot of problems. For instance:
- The same architect role has different deliverables between organizations.
- Organizations may have different roles, but they produce the same deliverables.
How can an architect determine best practice, get training, and have a career in the profession when the roles are so murky?
In June 2007, IASA Sweden put together a working committee with different types of architects from different sectors of the industry with the goal to create general recommendations for more consistent architect roles. To avoid being locked into specific roles too early in the process the committee decided to focus on something that turned out to be very similar between organizations: the artifacts that architects deliver, such as use cases, IT strategies, security strategies, deployment models, and so forth.
The group found approximately 40 different artifacts that could be agreed upon. The next step was to map those artifacts into three different levels in an organization to see if they would form some kind of natural cluster. The levels were defined as:
- Level 1. Architects create strategies together with the business on how to use IT in the business in smart way. Policies and principles are created here that influence the whole organization. Examples of level 1 artifacts include city plans and strategies.
- Level 2. Architects create artifacts which support the mapping between business and technology. At this level, architects try to understand the processes of the organization and how they can be improved using IT capabilities. Examples of level 2 artifacts include process maps and service maps.
- Level 3. Architects produce artifacts that model the technical architecture, trying to create good solutions, which are cost-effective, scalable, flexible, and so forth. Examples of level 3 artifacts include application models and data models.
These levels do not necessarily map to architect roles in a simple way; an architect role can operate on several levels. As an example, an enterprise architect can work on both high-level policies as well as technology polices if they are considered to be important for the whole organization.
After six months of workshops and reviews, the committee released its recommendation for four architect roles, based on the three levels and 40 artifacts:
- Enterprise architect
- Business architect
- Solution architect
- Software architect
The four roles overlap, but they do not necessarily report to each other (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. Architect roles; note that the roles do not necessarily report to each other.
Architect Roles
Let's explore the definitions and significance of the committee's recommendations.
Enterprise Architect
Typical artifacts include: IT strategies, capability maps, city plans, integration strategies, as-is/to-be analysis, architectural principles, gap analysis, life-cycle analysis, application portfolio strategies.
Description: The mission for an enterprise architect (with IT focus) is to support the business strategy of the organization with IT solutions and information. The enterprise architect, or a group of enterprise architects, should be responsible for the overall strategy regarding IT capabilities as well as to ensure that the IT architecture is cost effective. In some organizations, it may be appropriate to use enterprise architects in governance functions and to regulate enterprise-wide standards for communication and messaging. In other organizations, these responsibilities may be delegated to specific governance or integration centers, where the enterprise architect is a representative.
The role often reports to a CIO or to a chief architect. An enterprise architect owns strategies at several different levels in the organization—from standards that have a global impact on the organization to strategies regarding things such as security or infrastructure.
A classic analogy is to compare the enterprise architect to a city planner who, using strategy, planning, and regulations, is responsible for different functions in a city that must work together effectively.
The use of enterprise architecture is still immature in most organizations. As IT departments evolve and become more closely aligned with the business departments, we expect the profession to mature and become clearer over the years to come. We believe that growth in tooling and evidenced-based best practice from the scientific community will also influence this profession.
Competence: Deep knowledge in both business and IT; leadership and negotiation skills; experience in governance, project management and economy; knowledge in enterprise architecture and business modeling.
Business Architect
Typical artifacts include: process maps, use cases, information models.
Description: Business architects work very close to the business and understand in detail how the organization works. They are active in modeling processes in the organization and support solution architects with analysis and requirements on new or existing solutions. They understand how the IT systems support the business and suggest improvements together with enterprise architects. Business architects are active in ongoing projects in the organization using their influence to ensure that projects deliver benefits to the business in an optimal way.
Business architects are often involved in areas related to general business and process improvements. The business architect is also a very important resource in every IT project in the organization.
Competence: Deep knowledge in the business; process modeling; requirement analysis; workshop leader skills.
Solution Architect
Typical artifacts include: application diagrams, system maps, service interfaces, technical interfaces, integration strategies.
Description: A solution architect works with the design of IT solutions based on requirements from the business, making use of existing IT capabilities and services in the organization.
Solution architects have a special responsibility to reuse existing functions and services. They align new solutions to the current architectural principles regarding standards and integration in the organization. They balance the functional and nonfunctional requirements with necessary prioritizations and compromises. The goal for the solution architect is the success of the current project, in addition to how well the project aligns to the architectural principles and how well it reuses existing capabilities.
When organizations move from traditional applications to integrated solutions and services, the role of the solution architect becomes more and more important. The role of the solution architect is clearer in larger projects, particularly when many systems are involved. If the project is small or the application is isolated, this role may not be necessary in the particular project.
One could also argue that the solution architect is a natural evolution of the traditional system architect role. Moving away from systems to solutions generates new competencies and responsibilities.
Competence: broad and general technical knowledge, as well as deep competences in things like infrastructure, data models, service orientation; good understanding of enterprise architecture.
Software Architect
Typical artifacts include: frameworks, class models, patterns, aspects.
Description: A software architect works with the structure and design of software systems. Software architects work with both functional requirements as well as different architectural quality attributes such as flexibility, performance, reusability, testability, and usability. Some quality attributes obviously may be shared with the solution architect. They prioritize and optimize the different quality attributes with respect to cost and other constraints. The focus for the software architect is primarily the current project, whereas the solution architect has a wider focus to reuse existing assets, policies and regulations, although this could apply to the software architect as well if the organization finds it necessary to have strict guidance in place for software development.
The role of the software architect becomes more and more important as the complexity of systems continues to increase.
Competence: deep knowledge in programming, frameworks, standards and technical modeling.
Biggest Challenges
To get a broader perspective, we also want to bring forward some of the challenges concerning the roles for architects. For this, we turned to Sten Sundblad, chief architect at Sundblad & Sundblad, and Pontus Gagge, an enterprise architect at Sandvik Corp., to ask them what they think are the biggest challenges.
Sten: I believe that the most important challenge is about helping achieve business agility.
When a business is challenged from the outside, it often needs to change parts of its business strategy. Almost without exception, this means that it has to change its business architecture (meaning its business processes), too.
One of the most often mentioned reasons for delaying the change of a business process is that the needed software changes take too much time. And this is almost inevitable unless the architecture of the software involved is well aligned to the business architecture. So, business agility requires close alignment of software architecture to business architecture.
Achieving this close alignment between software architecture and business architecture is what service-oriented architecture (SOA) is about. SOA is not a way to structure an application; it's a way to successively—over a number of years—structure the entire portfolio of business software.
Achieving SOA is not possible without enterprise architecture, business architecture, and software architecture (which is my preferred term for what IASA Sweden talks about as solution architecture). A vision of the electronically serviced enterprise is needed, and this vision should guide business architecture and software architecture so that every new solution becomes a piece in the enterprise architecture's puzzle.
To succeed with this alignment between software and business architecture, a lot of cooperation between the different roles are needed. This is especially true about the business and software architects. Business architecture is mostly about architecting the business, making it perform better than before. Software architecture is a lot about mapping business architecture to a business-oriented software solution. This requires, for most business architects, a higher level of software savvy, and for the software architect, a higher level of business savvy, than is often the case.
Anyway, this is where the challenge lies: How could we make business architects and software architects work better together, and how could we convince the agile development community that architecture is not just okay but a requirement for the development of an agile and competitive business? that there's no conflict between agile development and having an agile development project be restricted by architecture? and that there's no reason that software architecture can't be established in agile projects well before any coding takes place. If we who believe in business and software architecture can succeed in this, we have met this challenge, and there's a great future for business and software architecture. If we can't, I'm afraid many businesses will be less agile, and less competitive, than they could have been.
Pontus: Sten addresses the perennial goal of aligning business and IT. Whether we believe components, services, events, DSLs, MDAs, lean development, or whatever paradigm currently is espoused—indeed, even architecture and enterprise architecture itself—are essential to the future, pragmatic architects must be able to recognize the kernel in each approach and make them work toward the ultimate objective within the context of their own organizations. This emphasizes how important the ability to shift perspectives and to communicate always is to architects.
I would say the direct challenge to defining architect roles is the architects themselves. As a group, we tend to a wider scope and interest than is common, and as generalists we can find ourselves in any number of supporting roles that, while worthwhile from a business perspective, strictly speaking do not contribute to architecture in the sense we are after. However, we need to keep in mind that a role is a "hat, not a head"; the role describes our current engagement, not the totality of our interests and skills, and that, generally, we will have areas in which we are comparatively stronger. The roles provide focal points both for our engagements and employments, and for our career development.
While the role of the narrowly focused software architect may be a reality, in the long run, I believe all software architects should strive to encompass the objectives of the solution architect, blurring the line between the roles as described. Architectural guidance should come from below as well as from above, and who better to say in what ways technology is to be employed than the architect with the most direct hands-on experience?
I would also emphasize that architecture is by no means the exclusive domain of architects. Everyone involved in the development of a system or an organization contributes to its architecture and may possess some or even all of the architectural skills and mindset. Where the architect role contributes is in improving the consistency and efficacy of the resulting de facto architecture through taking direct responsibility for its qualities.
As we mentioned earlier, not all architect roles work only with IT. The final goal for an architect is to help improve the business, support its mission, and if possible innovate the business using IT to make the organization more competitive as a result.
IASA Sweden here presents one way of aligning business to IT by collaboration in distinct and clear architect roles, all working together with the same mission.
"No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accident in Software Engineering," F.P. Brooks, Proceedings of the IFIP Tenth World Computing Conference, pp. 1069-1076, 1986
Design for Manufacturability: Optimizing Cost, Quality and Time-to-Market, David M. Anderson (Second ed., CIM Press, 2001)
Enterprise Architecture as Strategy, Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C. Robertson (Harvard Business School Press, ISBN: 1-59139-839-4)
2xSundblad Online Architect Academy
About the author
Daniel Akenine is a chapter president at IASA and an architect evangelist at Microsoft Corporation. He has a history as a physicist and researcher in neuroscience before he joined the IT industry 10 years ago. He is the cofounder of two R&D companies, and holds patent applications in applied cryptography in the U.S. and Europe. During the last 10 years, Daniel has been working as a developer, senior architect, and CIO before he joined Microsoft in 2004.
This article was published in the Architecture Journal, a print and online publication produced by Microsoft. For more articles from this publication, please visit the Architecture Journal Web site.


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- Understanding vector and bitmap images
- Working with multipage projects
- Using independent per-page layers and guides
- Drawing and editing shapes, lines, curves, and tables
- Creating and using symbols
- Working with text
- Designing a business card
- Shaping, filling, blending, and extruding objects
- Importing and exporting other file types
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We're now on Page 9, the subject of export. Now, the reason you would want to export an image is that you require that image to be in some alternate usable format. In other words, not a CorelDRAW file, but for example, you may need to take the image, and place it on the Web, in which case, you might want to export to a format that's suitable for that, such as a PNG file, a JPEG file, a GIF file, and that's what exporting is for.
Now again, there is always a number of ways; use your keyboard shortcut, or up to File, but I am going to use the icon, and click Export. The first thing I want you to realize is that when you export, automatically the actual file name will be applied. But I am going to call -- as you can see, we've already exported up here. I am going to call this TestCogs. Okay. So that's the first thing. The next thing is, what is the file type? Depending what version you have as to where that will be displayed, but effectively, I will use this dropdown menu, and I can choose a file type here.
There are a lot more than what we can actually see displayed there, if I move the scrollbar down; there are so many we can export to. But let's, for example, just go with a JPEG; a pretty common one that a lot of people export to for the Web, and so on. Name your file, choose your file type, and click Export. Now of course, it already exists, so it's asking me, do I want to overwrite? So I will say Yes. But here is what I want you to see; now, in X5, we have brand new Export dialog boxes, depending on what format you're exporting to.
I am not going to spend a lot of time talking through all of your settings, etcetera; we will do that further on in some other training. But what I want you to see right now is that the entire page is being exported, and that's not what I wanted; I simply want to export the image. So I am going to cancel that. What I need to do is select the image first, or I can click and drag, and draw a marquee around my image, and then choose Export. Now, we didn't see this before: Selected only.
Watch this; if I deselect, then Export, see the Selected only option is not there, whereas, if I select my image that I wish to export, I have the option of do I only want to export that which I've selected, rather than the whole page. So I could select various objects on a page, and only choose to export those. So I am going to do that. Selected only, I will click this one, because I am going to export over the top of it, and click Export; click Yes. Now this time we'll see a display of only what we are exporting, as you can see.
Now again, I won't run through all of these settings, but I will say this quickly: for convenience, just simply choose one of the three options, and if, for example, you choose Medium Quality, you will be able to see the file size, 81.3k, and the display of the result. If I go with High Quality, for example, you will be able to see that it's 123k, and again, this is what it would look like. So simply click OK, and you have exported your image. Now remember, there are many different file types to choose from, and of course, you will know the file type for your industry. A typical one, for example, is a PLT file, or HPGL file for sign cutters to use with a plotter.
Anyway, so go ahead now, and export this image. Select your image, export the image, choose a couple of different file types just to make sure you have a feel, and we'll move on to our next lesson.


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Apple's Market Value: To Infinity and Beyond!
Apple is now the most valuable company of all time.
Shares are rising again, continuing the sharp run-up of the past few weeks that has propelled the tech juggernaut to its all-time high.
The stock recently rose 1.8% at $660, pushing Apple's market capitalization up to $619 billion, FactSet data show. The previous historical record for top market cap belonged to Microsoft, whose market value topped out at $616.3 billion in December 1999, according to Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices.
Now Apple holds the distinction as the most valuable company by market capitalization.
Apple's market cap is also more than $200 billion greater than Exxon Mobil – the second biggest company right now clocking in at $405 billion. Microsoft, Wal-Mart and IBM round out the top five.
More In Apple
- Apple and Yahoo May Take 'Coopetition' to a New Level
- Goldman Drops Apple From 'Conviction Buy' List, Keeps Buy Rating
- S&P 500's Record, With or Without Apple
- Podcast: Europe's Back, Volatility's Back, Is BlackBerry?
- BlackBerry Launch a Dud; Shares Keep Falling
- Apple's Big Technical Breakthrough Could Bode Well
Rumors of new iPhone and iPad products have been running rampant of late, helping to give shares their latest boost. Many analysts anticipate an iPhone 5 launch is coming in September.
Last week, Jefferies boosted its price target on Apple to $900. Earlier this year, two firms slapped $1,000 price targets on the company, while predicting Apple's market cap will top $1 trillion. (Our friends at All Things D point out the stock price would have to hit about $1072 for Apple to become the world's first trillion-dollar company).
Apple's sway on major benchmark indexes has been well documented for much of the year. But the latest figures from Silverblatt underscore just how important Apple's rally is for the rest of the market.
The S&P 500′s tech sector is up 16% since October 2007 when the broad market hit its all-time peak, he says. But stripping away Apple from the calculation and the sector is down 3.7% throughout that same time frame.
UPDATE: There is some discrepancy about whether Apple really is the world's most valuable company of all time. Associated Press reports China's largest oil company, PetroChina, was briefly worth $1 trillion after it listed on the Shanghai stock exchange in 2007. But that market value was only based on the price on that exchange. Its shares also trade in Hong Kong and on the New York Stock Exchange. The company's market capitalization never went as high as $500 billion on those exchanges.
For more MarketBeat and other streaming markets coverage from The Wall Street Journal, point your mobile browser to wsj.com/marketspulse.
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