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Hail to the holidays: Youth group returns to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for third time
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WINCHESTER -- For many people, singing at the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Singing there for the third time, then, must mean a charmed existence for a choir of local teens.
The Top of Virginia Youth Chorale has been practicing for weeks with the hopes of receiving an invitation to return to Washington this year after performing two days in a row last December. Only a few days ago they got their wish.
The 12-member choir will sing at a reception at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. on Friday.
Considering their hope of returning this year and the late news of the invite, it makes sense that one of the songs they'll sing, one of their favorite pieces, is "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day."
It's "a very old kind of carol," says choir director Patty Austin. The choir will also sing other Christmas carols, popular holiday songs and classics like "Ave Maria," "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" and "Angels We Have Heard on High."
In honor of the presidency, they will also sing "On Eagles Wings," by Michael Joncas, Austin said.
She and many members of the choir already have an idea of what to expect, having been through this before.
Last year they sang in the Visitors Foyer, Austin says, "Which was a really wonderful place to be. ... It brought out the best in the choir. It was very inspiring to be there."
A bust of President Lincoln and pictures of other presidents hung in the room around choir members, who were able to look out on the lights of the city as they sang for visitors arriving at and leaving the White House for the holiday reception, Austin says.
The president spoke each evening, she says, and greeted the crowd. The choir even posed with the Obamas for a photograph in the Diplomatic Reception Room, she says.
"It was very nice."
Seeing the photo in the choir room at the Shenandoah Conservatory Arts Academy building on the corner of Cork and Cameron streets in Winchester was enough to make newcomer Felicity Joy Caldwell hope the choir would return to Washington this month, her mother says.
"We just had our fingers crossed that again they'd be selected," says Joan Caldwell, of Front Royal. "She's very excited."
"She just joined in September, this is her first year," Caldwell says of 13-year-old Felicity. "She really loves it ... and it's such a great group."
The choir, which holds tryouts for membership, sent a letter of interest to the White House last year and submitted a recording of their work before receiving an invitation to sing several weeks later.
The reception was from 3 to 5 p.m. both days last year. Another choir, a string quartet and a guitarist also performed during the event.
Formerly under the direction of Janet Davis, the choir of youths ages 11-18 has been in existence for more than 28 years, Austin says.
"We try to do a good quality of music," she says.
At the academy, they "get a choral education and sight reading and artistry and just all the things that go into choral singing ... and vocal technique," Austin says.
The choir normally rehearses once a week on Mondays, performing several concerts throughout the year. Recently, members have met more frequently in anticipation of the White House holiday reception.
For more information about the Top of Virginia Youth Chorale, call the Shenandoah Conservatory Arts Academy office at 665-4602.


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Working with Cas
I have a simple test app to test out membase and to see how to work with it
I want to keep a list of all my users' ids, so I've defined this in my page_load
casUsers = mc.Cas(Enyim.Caching.Memcached.StoreMode.Add, "AllUsers", string.Empty);
the way I understand it is that if the key doesn't exist , it will create it
and if it does it will give me it's latest Cas
and when I add a user through the gui:
casUsers = mc.Append("AllUsers", casUsers, new ArraySegment (Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sUsrIDToAppend)));
now.. this works , but it also works when instead of casUsers i pass the number 7 for example, or anything else..
what am I missing here?
Thanks for reporting this issue, it was a bug in the client's Append/Prepend implementation.
It's fixed now, and the source is available at https://github.com/enyim/EnyimMemcached/commit/16d9e644e228026574c11239f...
I've built you a beta version of the library, so you do not need to mess with git.
- https://www.dropbox.com/s/y4ctu93cyms7gwn/Enyim.Caching.2.10-14-g16d9e64...
- https://www.dropbox.com/s/owjnvok4hc7h6n7/Membase.2.13-14-g16d9e64.zip
(official builds wil be available later this week or early next week, depending on the feedback of some other testers)
Let me know if you run into any more issues.
Hi Attila!
thanks for the quick response & fix !
I haven't had a chance to see if it works, because I'm having server issues
I have another question for you:
I want to implement a lock on one of my keys
according to this : http://www.couchbase.org/wiki/display/membase/Locking
I should use the 'add' & 'delete' commands to add a lock item
in your library add = Store with storemode.add?
and delete is Remove?
Hi, as to your solution, I've checked it
now if I pass a literal value such as 7, the cas operation fails as it should
but if i pass a non-initialized casObj.Cas (0), or just 0 to it , it works despite the fact that this
key/value has been used before and had a Cas different than 0
thanks :)
0 means 'no cas value', meaning the server ignores the cas
try ulong.MaxValue
cool , thanks :)


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As WHAS11 reported Wednesday, because the Louisville Zoo suspended train rides after a train derailment on June 1, the zoo has not had the benefit of train ride revenue, roughly $400,000 per year.
Still no word on the estimated cost from lawsuits, settlements or increased insurance premiums emanating from derailment injuries.
The "World's Largest Halloween Party" is their biggest annual fundraiser in its 30th year. Last year it generated $300K.
Here is the letter sent to Louisville Zoo members by Director John Walczak:
Dear Zoo Members:
I want to take this opportunity to thank you for choosing to be a Louisville Zoo Member. During these days of economic challenges, your ongoing support is so very important to all that we do here at your Zoo.
Many of your have shared your concerns with me and my staff about the changes in our World's Largest Halloween Party presented by Meijer. I felt this was an appropriate time to communicate with you about that and some other issues we are facing.
Financially, it's been a very difficult year for many of us. Across the country, zoos are seeing record drop offs in fundraising and other earnings that support basic operations. At the Louisville Zoo, we have experienced some significant budget cuts this fall and will for the first time in our history begin laying off some of our dedicated employees.
Zoo staff have begun the process of adapting to the current circumstances by refocusing resources on what is critical to our mission - guaranteeing that animals are well cared for and that education programs, guest amenities and member services are maintained at the highest levels possible. As the Zoo's most dedicated and enthusiastic supporters, we are asking you to adapt with us during this challenging time.
You may not have realized that the "World's Largest Halloween Party!" is the Zoo's largest fundraiser - raising funds for daily operations rather than capital projects like new exhibits. It is also a favorite fall activity for Zoo members, attracting as many as 90,000 visitors, approximately 75% of which are Zoo members. With rising event costs, the current unpredictability of sponsor income to offset expenses, and safety and capacity issues on the very crowded popular nights, we needed to revaluate the event for 2009. With the suggestions of over 1,000 members who participated in a fall 2008 survey and in light of new financial pressures, we have made some modifications for 2009, which we want to be sure you are aware of and understand.
Of the fourteen Halloween event nights this year, seven of them (October 9-11 and 15-18) will continue to be free to Zoo members and the persons covered under the membership. We hope this change not only lessens the congestion during the final weeks, thus improving the experience of all our guests, but also helps provide for a more successful fundraising effort.
If you are not able to take advantage of the free member nights and still wish to enjoy this event, I encourage you to consider supporting this important fundraiser along with non-member visitors by coming to the remaining nights and bringing your friends and family. We've kept ticket prices at the 2008 level with $6.50 discount tickets available through local Meijer stores.
Many of you have asked about 2010. At this point, we plan to continue offering - free or discounted - admission to the Halloween Party. However, we will need to evaluate the 2009 event and the upcoming challenges before making final decisions about next year.
From renewing your membership to shopping in the gift shops and food concessions to riding the carousel or the new 4-D Ride, plus joining us for free or paid fundraising events, every zoo activity you participate in provides critical support to the Zoo. These and other activities provide the important revenue streams that sustain the Zoo's mission. As members, you appreciate better than anyone the importance of what we do - from animal care and conservation to education programs and fun community events. We truly value all of your support and hope the connections you can make with family, nature and wildlife are worthwhile.
If you have any questions about the Halloween event, you can find updates and Frequently Asked Questions on the Halloween page of our website, plus our Membership Department also stands ready to assist you. Thank you again for your support and flexibility as we all adapt to current challenges.
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According to Lisa Myers of NBC news, Democrats are starting to get worried about the testimony delivered by the Benghazi whistleblowers on Wednesday. Myers says she has been the recipient of phone calls by Democrats who are trying to undermine that testimony.
"There is something called Benghazi going on," Myers said on Friday's MSNBC Morning Joe program. "And I think the Democrats now are starting to worry about it. I started–I got calls from a number of Democrats yesterday trying to undermine Greg Hicks's testimony, saying he wasn't demoted, etc. So I think they feel that some damage was done by those three witnesses on Wednesday."
This after the progressive media establishment is finally starting to report that even as the attacks in Libya were underway on Sept. 11, 2012, the Obama administration was actively re-writing events to put a political spin on the story to help coverup what was really going on.
ABC's Jonathan Karl, for instance, has reported that the administration re-wrote talking points twelve times to remove any and all information that the attacks were a terror attack. Rather quickly, the story went from that of an al Qaeda-sponsored attack to a mere "protest" over some unconnected Youtube video.
Even this far removed from the attacks, Democrats are desperately spinning this story claiming that there is no coverup despite the seemingly obvious facts pointing to the opposite.
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Area simulcast bettors looking for horses with connections to Tampa Bay Downs in this weekend's 30
Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita are likely to start with 3-year-old colt Verrazano, the favorite in Friday's $1-million Dirt Mile.
Verrazano won the Grade II, $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby on March 9 in a virtual tour de force, adding victories in the Grade I Wood Memorial at Aqueduct and the Grade I Haskell Invitational and Grade III Pegasus, both at Monmouth. While the classic distance of a mile-and-a-quarter has proved his downfall (14
in the Kentucky Derby and seventh in the Travers), a victory in the Dirt Mile against older horses would elevate the Todd Pletcher-trainee into consideration for an Eclipse Award as Champion 3-Year-Old.
Win or lose, Verrazano will be retired after the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile to stand at Ashford Stud.
Before examining other Tampa Bay Downs connections Friday and Saturday, it is worth taking a look back at last year's Breeders' Cup, also held at the fabled Arcadia, Calif., track at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains.
A year ago, bettors who pounced on horses with Tampa Bay Downs connections reaped a financial bonanza. Most notable was a victory in the $5-million Classic by Fort Larned, who had started twice in Oldsmar for trainer Ian Wilkes to begin his 4-year-old campaign, winning the $60,000 Challenger Stakes on March 3.
While Fort Larned benefited from his foundational work on the Tampa Bay Downs main surface, then-5-year-old French-bred mare Zagora employed victories in a pair of Grade III, $150,000 local turf stakes – the Endeavour and the Hillsborough – to begin preparing for her eventual coronation in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf under the care of trainer Chad Brown.
To many long-time Tampa Bay Downs followers, the most heartwarming 2012 Breeders' Cup triumph came in the $1.5-million Xpressbet Sprint, when jockey Willie Martinez piloted 13-1 shot Trinniberg to a dramatic victory. The leading jockey at Tampa Bay Downs during the 1991-92 season, Martinez fought to keep his composure when fellow Puerto Rico native John Velazquez – the Hall of Fame jockey on runner-up The Lumber Guy – tapped Martinez with his whip as the horses jogged out after the finish, complimenting him on his first Breeders' Cup victory.
Still another Tampa Bay Downs connection – perhaps best described as once-removed – was realized in the Filly & Mare Sprint, won by then-4-year-old filly Groupie Doll, who is partly owned and trained by Oldsmar conditioner William "Buff" Bradley.
Tampa Bay Downs' well-regarded turf course and its burgeoning stakes program make future Breeders' Cup successes likely. But with 14 races over two days and 161 horses set to compete, it's largely a matter of speculation (but fun, to be sure) what effect racing or training seven months earlier at the only Thoroughbred track on Florida's west coast might have on the outcome.
Consider the 20
edition of the Breeders' Cup, held at Santa Anita in 2003. Back then, it was a one-day affair consisting of eight races. Among the 90 horses that competed, only one had raced at Tampa Bay Downs, and that in a single race: 3-year-old gelding Cajun Beat, who had finished sixth in that spring's Tampa Bay Derby.
Area simulcast players who picked up on the local connection were rewarded with a $47.60 win payoff when Cajun Beat – owned by Satish Sanan's Padua Stables in partnership with John and Joseph Iracane – sped home under jockey Cornelio Velasquez to win the Breeders' Cup Sprint.
If you're at Tampa Bay Downs on Friday, expect a heightened decibel level if Verrazano lives up to his backers' expectations and wins the Dirt Mile. Here are the other horses with local connections seeking Breeders' Cup glory:
Another Dirt Mile entrant, from the barn of trainer Kenneth McPeek, Golden Ticket finished second in the 2012 Tampa Bay Derby.
Fort Larned is back to defend his 2012 victory in Saturday's Classic for trainer Wilkes and jockey Brian Hernandez, Jr.
Groupie Doll is favored to defend her title in Saturday's $1-million Filly and Mare Sprint.
Tampa Bay Downs trainer Thomas Proctor is represented by 5-year-old mare Marketing Mix, one of the favorites for the $2-million Filly and Mare Turf on Saturday, and 4-year-old gelding Old Time Hockey in Friday's $500,000 Marathon. Both Proctor horses are owned by Glen Hill Farm.
Two-time leading Tampa Bay Downs trainer Kathleen O'Connell will saddle Scandalous Act in Saturday's $2-million Juvenile Fillies.
H. Graham Motion, another Tampa Bay Downs trainer, sends out long shot Qushchi in the Filly and Mare Turf. The race has also drawn Kitten's Dumplings, the 3-year-old filly who finished second in the Grade III, $150,000 Florida Oaks at Tampa Bay Downs.
Royal Delta is looking for her third consecutive Breeders' Cup victory in Friday's $2-million Distaff (formerly the Ladies' Classic). The champion 5-year-old mare raced in the Suncoast Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs two years ago, finishing ninth in her second career start.
Tampa Bay Downs trainer Chad Stewart and his wife Laurie bred and previously raced 4-year-old gelding Tightend Touchdown, a challenger in Saturday's 1-million GEICO Turf Sprint. Also entered is Havelock, a 6-year-old gelding who finished third in 2012 in a turf handicap in his lone Tampa Bay Downs appearance.
Bahamian Squall, a 4-year-old colt entered in Saturday's $1.5-million Xpressbet Sprint, was a close-up fifth in the 2012 Ocala Breeders' Sales Sophomore, part of the Florida Cup.
Teaks North, a 6-year-old gelding who ran fifth in the Grade III, $150,000 Tampa Bay Stakes on the turf here in 2011, is in Saturday's $3-million Turf.
The gates open at Tampa Bay Downs each day at 11 a.m. for full Breeders' Cup action and simulcast wagering from other tracks. The 2013-14 Thoroughbred meeting at Tampa Bay Downs resumes Dec. 4. The barn area opens Monday.
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Two-minute BTS steadycam shot from "Hugo".
Yet another mondo print I'll never own.
So I cannot recommend anything higher than Lynn Ramsey's "We Need to Talk About Kevin". In fact I recommend you not even view the trailer, but see the film cold. Truly has everything a good story and a creative, daring film should have.
The whole Sha-bang
Alright so I FINALLY finished up with all the movies and such that I wanted to see from last year. This is a first that I've done this quite this fast, but it feels fucking awesome. Probably because the last few I saw I really, really loved. So this is my Favorite 20 plus all my SIDE B picks and my worsts. Which is other stuff I thought was awesome. I don't like recommending just a bunch of the same type of movies. It's like pushing a ton of the same times of music or books onto people. Options are what's important. So for those you care, here's a bunch movies I liked from last year that MAAAAAAYBE you'd like as well. Spinning wheels…
1. Drive
2. Take Shelter
3. Moneyball
4. Beginners
5. The Tree of Life
6. (TIE) Tabloid & Young Adult
7. Carnage
8. Project Nim
9. Contagion
10. Bullhead
11. Hugo
12. The Skin I Live In
13. The Descendants
14. Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
15. War Horse
16. Rango
17. 13 Assassins
18. Uncle Boonmee: Who Can Recall His Past Lives
19. Martha, Marcy May, Marlene
20. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
SIDE B! (aka a bunch of other stuff I really dug as well for whatever reason.)
The Muppets| Cave of Forgotten Dreams| 50/50| The Robber| I Saw the Devil| My Week with Marilyn| Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol| Attack the Block| Meek's Cutoff| Hanna| The Guard| Red State| The Artist| Super 8| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows—Part 2| Midnight in Paris| Immortals| Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen| Anonymous| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo| Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy| Cedar Rapids| A Very 3D Harold & Kumar Christmas| The Adventures of Tintin| Fast Five| Insidious| Hobo with a Shotgun.
1. The Roommate
2. Big Mommas Like Father, Like Sun
3. (TIE) Jack & Jill and Just Go With It
4. Hop
5. Abduction
6. Cowboys & Aliens
7. Another Earth
8. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn— Part 1
9. Battle: Los Angeles
10. The Thing
If you liked 'The Cove' I highly recommend James Marsh's "Project Nim". A flooring piece of work that chronicles the life of Nim, the first Chimp humans took and attempting to teach sign language and raise as a human child. The film has an unsettling current that flows through the entire running time.
I can't be the only person out there more impressed by the BAFTA nominations than the Oscar nominations.
"Drive" really divided people last year. I get it, I totally get it. Its not going to be the populous favorite. Not yet at least. I never really got into my thoughts on the film aside from lists and random fan art. For me "Drive" was one of the perfect movies at the perfect time. It's a story I've seen before in new skin thanks to Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling and it works. It's violent without neglecting humanity. It never goes out of its way to explain itself nor its characters. And it has a slow pace, but when it kicks off its extremely aggressive.
Refn's liking to 80s style which helped make several of his past films as inspired and fresh feeling was in full effect without being obvious. Its a lot of slight tricks. Its simple storytelling with a dynamic style and fantastic performers on every level. The music is so counter what we get in these sort of movies and THANK GOD! I'm tired of the same synth electric rock/tones. Overall it was theatrical experience I loved and a film that stayed with me strongly for months. Anyways this is the Alamo Drafthouse and Mondo's limited poster for it going on sale Thursday.
Spielberg and Co. during the film of #WarHorse
Happy New Year peeps! Here (at long last, for me) is my Top 20 films of 2011. I'll probably be doing some posts about ones I sadly missed (stupid limited releases and slow expansion…) but then again its the same story every year. Anyways enjoy interested parties!
Sony really did appear to have a particular marketing scheme for this and furthermore they've delivered and catered more to fans than to the presses. Viral sites that ask interested parties to go around certain cities and find art and other pieces from the movie, signed by Fincher that they can keep. Plus over the weekend they raffled off tickets to various screenings of the film across the country for today. Truly I haven't seen such service done to fans like this before. It's nice.
Now for everyone else we have a very Fincher-sque music video for Karen O and Trent Reznor's cover of Immigrant Song. Much like what was done with the opening credits of 'Se7en' and somewhat so of 'Fight Club' we see the various themes of the story placed out and melded together in a disorienting and interesting manner. I believe the first full blown reviews will start coming out tonight and into tomorrow. The film was also on AFI's best films of the year list which was released yesterday. As for us normal ass folk, we're waiting till the 21st. Or midnight of the 20th for the overly excited.
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Tumblr, a light-blogging platform, is a runaway success. But it's block of IP addresses are blocked by the Great Firewall, leaving China's netizens without such a simple, elegant solution… until now. Last weekend, I received a beta invitation from DianDian (点点), a new startup with an experienced team. I immediately recognized that we now have a perfect Tumblr clone in China.
The Mastermind behind DianDian
DianDian (点点) means bit-by-bit in in Chinese, but the rise of its founder Jack Xu has been meteoric.
DianDian founder Jack Xu is considered a genius in the Chinese social networking industry. At 20, he graduated in computer science from Tsinghua University (China's top university) and founded ChinaRen [a youth SNS in China]. After five years, he joined Sohu, a leading Chinese portal, where he became the Technical Director. In 2005, Jack left Sohu to join the social network then known as Xiaonei, which has since become RenRen, China's largest real-name social network. Jack was the Chief Interactive at RenRen [and OPI's Kaixin], responsible for managing both sites' massive expansions from 2005-2009. In 2009, Jack left RenRen to become COO at yet another Chinese internet giant: SNDA Online. With his success in SNS, Jack is considered a prodigy of social in China. And now he's now focused on building a Tumblr clone.
After reviewing DianDian's interface, TechRice interviewed Jack Xu about his startup.
DianDian's Interface
DianDian offers the same dashboard design as Tumblr, but the beta version does not yet have pages such as Directory and Goodies, and the types of contents can be shared are only limited to Text, Photo, Blog, and Video [Text is an even shorter form of Blog].
Still in beta, DianDian offers only 3 standard themes for the user profile, with a user descriptions and followers underneath "most recent posts." Like on Tumblr, users can also open mini-blogs within their main account, and co-author with other users.
So far, DianDian copies about 80% of Tumblr's functionalities. It's common for Chinese startups to begin with a pure copy and later localize, if necessary (see Zhihu, Quora clone and XiaoNei/RenRen, Facebook clone).
Will Tumblr's Model Work in China?
My first impression of DianDian, aside from its likeness to Tumblr, is how much the user experience resembles Sina Weibo, with short, quick contents, including embedded multi-media files and a scroll-down newsfeed. Here is my question-and-answer with Jack Xu, founder of DianDian.
1). Why will DianDian be attractive to users when they already have established social blogging sites like Sina Weibo?
DianDian is a simplified Lite-Blog [Tumbleblog] social community, as for Sina Weibo [microblog] they are more focused on media broadcasting [building media platform]. DianDian's own focus is on the mass users and their original UCGs [user generated contents], and sharing and customization of these contents.
2). Who do you see as the main competitors to DianDian in China?
轻博客是一个新的概念,目前处于教育市场,市场导入这个阶段。这个领域在中国才刚刚开始,感觉暂时还是一个蓝海,当然不排除未来有更多的网站提供轻博客社区这样的服务;对点点网团队,我们要方向跑得更对,速度跑得很快!Lite-blogging is still a new concept in China, a market in its infancy, a concept that needs to be imported to China.Because it's a new concept for the Chinese market, we feels that it's still a open market for the taking without distinct competitors yet, though of course we will not rule out the possibility of more sites offering lite-blog service in the future.As for the DianDian team, we need to run in the right direction, and run faster!
3). Sina Weibo has launched voicemail Weibos via mobile and video upload via mobile is coming soon. What is DianDian's planned strategy in mobile?
新浪微博做得非常成功,给我们创业者很多启发。新浪微博团队把让微博这个新兴的产品逐步大众化,值得我们学习。摆在我们面前的问题,如2年前新浪面临的问题一样,如何把微博这个产品 引爆流行。我们未来几个月会发布在iphone, android的原生客户端,以及针对手机优化的网页版本。在这个上面我们有一些创新,敬请期待!Sina Weibo is very successful and it inspires us. Sina Weibo's team introduced and popularized a trendy and innovative product, so we will learn from them. The challenge before us now is the same that Sina faced 2 years ago when Weibo was first introduced: how to find the explosive tipping point for the product in terms of user volume.As for mobile strategy, we will be introducing iPhone and Android apps in a few months. And we will also launch customized WAP versions of DianDian. From there onwards, we will be pushing a series of our own innovations, so stay tuned!
DianDian has been online for less than a month, so it's too early to tell whether it will succeed. But Jack and his team are certainly excited about introducing the lite-blog model in China.
I've even established a TechRice account on DianDian, so I'll keep you posted as unique local innovations are introduced.
Very interesting….
As a strong Tumblr user I'd love to see this take off in China but its just too eerily similar. Will wait and see how they differentiate
Ok, we only need a Chinese LinkedIn right now.
http://techrice.com Leo Chen
There is one. It's called Ushi.cn
http://techrice.com Leo Chen
There is one. It's called Ushi.cn
How does a person get an invite? I'd love to start using this ASAP!
Here is another one, http://catfan.me
I don`t think this site is a clone, it`s greatly different from others. I love this site.
Dennis Chu
um… have read "LinkedIn Blocked in China. Oh Happy Day for Chinese Copies!"…was wondering why it seems to me that you don't have better things to blog about but copycats? I mean this Diandian is Tumblr copycat. Is there no non-copycat startup in China or you just turn a blind eye about them?
The Chew
Why don't China think of something original for a change, rather than continuously ripping off others creativity!? I don't see any creditable achivements with taking off Tumblr or any other service that is blocked by China
Thats exactly why Chinese gov block the sties, allow the copy cats to do business. And it can really fool their people.
By the way, Tumblr ISN'T blocked in China. Fortunately. So this DianDian is just a concurent for Tumblr, not replacement. Chinese users post on DianDian stuff that is "safe for work", and as for Tumblr, they post there porn and other stuff that is censored in China. With one nuance: they don't tag porn pics, to avoid filtration by keywords. Though I don't know for sure, is Great Firewall filters Tumblr tags.
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My kids made "Indoor Barbeque Chicken" for lunch on Saturday -- with the help of their new Nintendo DS game, "America's Test Kitchen: Let's Get Cooking." It was delicious!
Mom Julie says: Saturday was a big day around our house. My kids -- ages 6 and 9 -- cooked lunch, while Mommy and Daddy supervised. What a treat!
The DS game "America's Test Kitchen: Let's Get Cooking" ($19.99; rated E for Everyone) makes cooking so easy and fun. We tried the game on the new Nintendo DSi XL with an extra-large screen ... so the recipes were even easier to read. The chef's voice could be clearly heard through the speakers, and he talked the kids through each and every step.
The game allowed us to assign tasks to each child -- so we could specify that our daughter couldn't be around knives, for example. My husband minced the onion, and I turned on the stove. But with our supervision, the kids were allowed to flip the chicken breasts in the pan and mix the ingredients for the delicious homemade barbecue sauce.
This game was fun for the whole family, and the lunch was really delicious. The kids were so proud that they'd made lunch all by themselves.
We can't wait to try out the other 299 recipes!
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New blogger at Miss Lopez: Miss Stena from Philippines [en]
Hello! This is Miss Stena! The picture was taken in the Philippines. But now I am living in Sweden. Check out my next picture from the beach in the Philippines!
Hello! I am the new assistant of Miss Lopez.. I came from the Philippines, it is home to a wide range of beautiful sites and entertainment.. Filipinos speak a combination of Tagalog, Spanish and English.. The Philippines has some Spanish, Chinese, and American background as well.. A little bit of everything.. I am so happy to be given the opportunity to work with Miss Lopez and I am looking forward in helping her with the company in anyway that I can.
Today I have been working with Miss Lopez new project: Miss Lopez Städ for Sweden. More on the Philippines on my next post…
Hope you will enjoy this as much as me..! Viva Feel Good Womanhood all over the world!!!
Handsome beauty for women to improve your sex appeal this Fall-Winter 2011-2012 [en]
Hello mis amigos & amigas! Miss Lopez is back with more fashion news this time…after an interesting weekend and an hour more of sweet sleep today. Nice! I love it!
You know, these days of gender equality men take, or at least are supposed to care of their children, clean and cook. But at the same time they do not wear skirts or make-up (in general). Actually if they do, they are considered gay or eccentric!!!!!!!!!!!!. (I like it!) At least this is the common idea among most of the population. In contrast, if a woman takes a manly styling it is not considered as a lesbian. Why do you think is so? I think the key lies in history. It´s not just about icons in art & fashion from the past like: Édith Piaf, Lauren Bacall, Jean Seberg, Diane Keaton…I believe there is a socio-cultural reason: in most of the civilizations is the woman who has had to fight for their freedom so one of her arms has been to be more like them physically. Here from Miss Lopez we do not think you have to try to look like a man to get equal rights but it can be just fun!
But Yes, we Women demand equal rights like men and at the same time we want to remain feminine and feel beautiful, seductive and captivating…so What can be more attractive than the ambiguity?…Cool! Interesting question, don´t you think so? And YOU, what do you think?
Get inspired by handsome beauty style for women! Check Penelope Cruz´s new style!
From Balmain catwalk Fall Winter 2011-2012…as many other designers this new season. Masculine Style is IN! & Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool too!
Venture Up the Handsome Beauty in YOU! Have Fun & feelgood!
By the way Sleep Well & Sweet Dreams by Miss Lopez!
Breaking News: Now Learning Spanish by Miss López. Check Loba! [en]
Well, you know LOPEZ is a Spanish surname deriving from Latin Lupus that means wolf, now Lobo for the masculine and Loba for the femenine in the Spanish language nowadays…Lisen to Shakira singing in Spanish in "Loba". I like it, do you?
And you, would you like to learn more Spanish with Miss Lopez?…
Coming soon…
Hasta la vista Amigos!!
Miss Lopez with Maud Olofsson, Swedish Minister for enterprise & energy at Ambassadorer´s seminar [en]
Hello! Better late than never…so here comes a new Miss lopez´s post. Did you miss me?
Do you know Maud Olofsson, Swedish Minister of enterprise & energy is going to travel all the way to USA from Sweden to work together at the White House in Washington with Hillary Clinton helping women entrepreneurship in the world? Now you know ´cause it´s true! I must say I love politics to make a difference for better and together change the world! Viva women entrepreneurship!
On the 16th of September I have had the pleasure to assist to Women Entrepreneurship seminar with Ambassadorer in Stockholm so first of all, check the pictures. I hope you like them!
Swedish Minister of enterprise & energy, Maud Olofsson and Miss Lopez with Ambassadorer from Swedish Agency of Growth.
I loved lisening to her! Such a good words she said about women entrepreneurship in Sweden.
Here Maud Olofsson giving the Ambassadorer´s awards to the best ones…
Having a debate and on their back the pictures of Maud olofsson with Princess Victoria of Sweden. Really Nice!
Karin Klerfelt from Astarcan and Maud Olofsson
Delicious Scandinavian salmon for lunch. You´ll love it too!
And after this intense and interesting day for women etrepreneurship I went to a party where I met my old pupils in Spanish. Do you know I am a teacher too? Learn Spanish with Miss López & Feelgood!
And as Maud Olofsson said: "Sweden is to be the world's best country to live, work and run a business in. Our innovative capacity and entrepreneurship will create the jobs of the future. Our objective is to enable people and businesses throughout the country to grow and develop through their own efforts."
Then I am happy to be in Sweden…Check my new project too: Global Kompetens
Cool to get so muh inspiration from Maud Olofsson, don´t you think so? Let´s work together for a better world & feelgood!
Cool to be Spanish, didn´t you know? `cause it´s true! [en]


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What Clegg can learn from the Business world about staying on top
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What is Nick Clegg good at? He had certain attributes which were suited to getting to the top of the political pile. Cameron has some of these attributes and Gordon Brown didn't really have them. But when it comes to staying on top, the necessary attributes can be very different and Cameron has shown he has them and people like him and perhaps Clegg doesn't have them.
When looking at the attributes that are needed for staying on top there has been a lot of research done in the business world and a new book will be looking at some of these. While all leaders need confidence and conviction, both of which Clegg has a lot of, these do not continue to carry you once at the top. So if there are any lessons for political leaders what would they be for Nick Clegg?
Humility: An important attribute for leaders once they have reached the goal of being in office as confidence is required to command respect, but humility is the necessary counter-balance to earn it. Humility in a leader has been shown in business many times – for a seminal piece of work see here. How would you rate Clegg on a humility scale? If humility is modesty, lacking pretence, not believing that you are superior to others then I am not sure he comes across that well and perhaps he would benefit from this attribute.
Intellectual Curiosity: Often leaders start by asking questions and then find themselves on side of the ordinary person but as leaders mature they then begin to answer them taking them away from where they wanted to be. Perhaps this is happening in the Lib Dem leadership as they seek to offer answers to a concerned membership.
Optimism: Clegg was originally seen as a very optimistic leader and many people liked him for it. He continues to say he is an optimist but leaders are expected to dissent, find the holes in logic, and predict pitfalls. After a while this attitude can become difficult to shift and we have seen Clegg doing some aggressive attacking of Labour and their policies as this is part of his job. The problem is that it doesn't make him seem very optimistic and nor does it attract Labour voters.
Vulnerability: Power, strength, and confidence are attributes that leaders are expected to project to voters. But vulnerability humanises leaders, creating a "pull" of people towards you. People who ask for help often find others rallying behind them, fueled by a feeling of being needed and collectively working towards success. Clegg doesn't so much attract people to help him out as turn people away right now so perhaps a little vulnerability from him would help?
Authenticity: Politicians are all too often over-positioned and under-authenticated. You can lose the authenticity in yourself and in the true purpose behind your party. Worse, you can start believing the spin around you and then people can see what you are saying is not their experience and then they are not listening anymore.
Openness: Tony Blair said that openness is the key to success in politics and despite what we might think of him, he was a successful politician in terms of winning elections. Welcoming things that might not fit the traditional mould may be an important part of staying on top.
While there are many reasons why people view Clegg as they currently do, we have a choice, to campaign for a new leader or to support the one we have. Perhaps if Clegg were to display some of these attributes then there may be an improvement for people to want to support him?


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The 8yo holds an entry in the Grade One John Durkan Memorial Punchestown Chase on December 9th and will be put in the Listed chase over three miles and one furlong at Aintree 24 hours earlier.
Murphy was pleased with Quito De La Roque's third place behind Kauto Stone in the JNwine.com Champion Chase at Down Royal four weeks ago - his first racecourse action since last Christmas.
"He's in the John Durkan and we'll give him an entry at Aintree in the three-mile Listed chase the day before," said the Co Wexford trainer.
"We'll stick him in there and have a look. It will give us another option and it looks like he'll run in one or the other. He ran well at Down Royal and I'm hoping he'll come on a bit for it."
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Apologies for my delay this week. I was on one of those really special trips that make you sad to be going home no matter how much you love it. Luckily, we have hundreds of fun options right here in our own backyards to cheer me up and remind me how amazing life is in Bushwick! Here are a few fantastic choices for all of us.
Art! "STOREFRONT is pleased to announce On Display, a three-person exhibition curated by Hrag Vartanian (ed note: Yay!) featuring paintings by Sharon Butler and Cathy Nan Quinlan with sculptural objects by Joy Curtis." 6-9pm
Nearby Centotto Gallery will hold a 2nd opening for its current show Spazi Segreti, or Mendacity, Mood from 7-10pm and an afterparty will follow both openings at The Narrows. (And folks – if you still haven't gone there… jeez, go!)
Music + Dancing at Beauty Bar's Rainbow Dreams Quattro: "straight off the boat from Barcelona and Paris, we're bringing you a SPECIAL LIVE performance by Marco Tulio Thrash." Plus, a new overhead projector and if you know me you know that I love overhead prjectors! 'Twill certainly be fun.
REFUGEnyc teams up with ROYALPINK to celebrate their 2 year anniversary with HEAVY: warehouse party. "A night dedicated to the HEAVIER side of the spectrum with drops so low and bass heavy madness." Go early, stay til dawn.
Goodbye Blue Monday hosts the ExperiMENTAL music festival all day Saturday and Sunday - check the site for deets.
Art it up once again at Famous Accountants' Opening Reception for TUNNELING: curated by Will Pappenheimer: a spiraling group show featuring works by 11 artists and collaborators exploring the idea and aesthetics of "tunneling" in its various interpretations as a hallucinatory, near death, out of body, religious, …underground, confining, degenerating, myopic, transitional, liberating experience or cultural moment." If you haven't gone over to Gates Ave yet, you're missing out on all the fabulousness that made L Magazine name FA the Best New Brooklyn Gallery last week!
It's a big night at Bushwick Starr. Local celeb turned indie superstar Sharon Van Etten will be back for a night of music with the amazingly talented Mike Visser (he'll break your heart and the lift you right back up again) … AND Reggie Watts! Go.
Tandem will host an after party for PS1′s Warm Up. Plan on staying awhile – it sounds awesome.
Another opportunity to dance it out locally: "Nininja Party: DJ Monchan (Dailysession/Vinylmania) 's monthly secret bare foot dance party. Tripped out music Experience – Disco,Soul,House,Funk,Breaks!" Cedar Party Room at 17 Cedar Street."
Check out Roberta's Tiki Disco party featuring Andrew Pry Ortega, James Friedman, Lloyd Harris, Eli Escobar.
Lady Magma has organized an all-star benefit night at K&M to help out Bushwicker Noah Gould's father. All-you-can-eat BBQ $5, suggested $10 at the door (give what you can) for 6 bands and good karma.
Remind yourself what Feburary feels like and get outdoors to watch some films! Moviehouse CinemaParque presents: A Crushing Love. "A moving documentary tells the story of activist single mothers who managed to be parents and effect broad-based social change at the same time. Plus Latino selections from the Ultra Short 30-Second Film Festival: Art By Chance."
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text: Autonomous filing cabinet signifies our everlasting data trail Culture 27 June 14 by Liat Clark Tweet I know what you did last summer.Jaap de Maat A filing cabinet is following people around the Royal College of Art to remind us our data is everywhere -- and it will follow us everywhere. I Know What You Did Last Summer is Jaap de Maat's final year project, the finale to a two-year-long MA in Information Experience Design. And anyone visiting the RCA this weekend will certainly get a dose of that design experience, as the clunky metal cabinet trundles towards them, stalking their every move. "We hit some people, but that's just bruises," de Maat tells us. "Because it's funny, people just accept it." There's probably a whole other dissertation in this statement -- our acceptance of pain in the face of hilarity. But for now de Maat's focus has been on themes of loss and the void. In the last chapter of his dissertation on these themes, Additive Subtraction, he debates online data storage. For so long, de Maat was fixated on the appearance of the digital world, as a graphic designer. But throughout his career he has grown preoccupied with what we can't see: "the spaces between the letters". "Around the period I wrote it Snowden came out with his bombshell and I was quite shocked people mainly worried about the surveillance," de Maat tells us. "After more research I kind of wanted to make the point not so much people surveying us, but the fact it gets stored forever.""I thought of the example of a lady that wanted to be teacher, but at the end of her course she didn't get a certificate because they'd Googled her and saw pictures of her drunk on the internet. They said that was inappropriate for a teacher. People need to be aware of online storage."Enter, a trundly old pile of metal. Rescued from the confines of the office, it is now roaming around the RCA's halls, much to the delight of passersby. Inside the cabinet is an electric wheelchair that's had its wheels sawn off and replaced with superior alternatives. Then a motor and Arduino board were integrated, and distance sensors dotted around the cabinet ensure (most of the time) it doesn't bump into anyone, thanks to some programming using Max/MSP. A webcam watches the public's every move, and that data is sent wirelessly to the cabinet via a Bluetooth chip. Don't miss Mew is part cat, part theremin From the video embedded in this article, it seems the overarching response is that of sheer joy, with the public excited to be interacting with the seemingly ordinary object. "People are having a lot of fun playing with it," says de Maat. "They actually often treat it like a little dog -- they stroke it and put food in front of it. They are quite happy and find it funny."de Maat has already been invited to showcase it in Dubai, and has been awarded studio space by the Barbican, so he can tweak the friendly inanimate piece of furniture. He plans on continuing to teach, largely at Central St Martin's, and from his dissertation it's clear de Maat's curious mind is not done interrogating the vast issues he's touched upon here.In it, he points to a history of knowledge inadvertently being repurposed as a disastrous weapon. He gives the example of his homeland of Holland's 1930 census, constructed with good intentions to help run the country more efficiently. Instead, come 1940 it was used by the Nazis to more efficiently locate and remove the Jewish population and other unwanted minority groups.We must not be complacent, he warns, pointing rather depressingly to the fact that in September 2013, when he penned the dissertation some three months after Edward Snowden made his revelations in a YouTube video, it had just two million views. Depressing, because Miley Cyrus' Wrecking Ball video -- as artistically relevant as it is... -- spawned 100 million hits in five days. "The public is clearly not all that worried," writes de Maat.He concludes the dissertation by warning that is neither practical nor possible to prevent the world from leaving its trace online. The internet is not about to be switched off.Instead, he has an interesting proposal, that he intends on exploring further."It might be possible to disguise one's tracks by bombarding your online history with a mass of random data, which would dilute your personal information and subvert the possibility of the automatic creation of a profile."If that could somehow be facilitated by an autonomous piece of 80s furniture, all the better. If you want to check out I Know What You Did Last Summer it will be showing at the RCA's Stevens building until 29 June. 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Are we in the next dot-com bubble?
Some tech stocks have become ridiculously overvalued. Is your favorite about to tank?
For years, Amazon.com (AMZN) has been known as the ultimate "story stock."
Investors have been asked to overlook the e-commerce giant's relatively unimpressive cash flow metrics, assuming that the company will eventually deliver the bottom-line numbers that mature companies deliver.
How large is the disconnect? The company delivered an all-time best $2.9 billion in free cash flow back in 2009 -- and won't even revisit that peak until 2015, according to Merrill Lynch. Amazon's $146 billion market value is roughly 50 times greater than the 2015 free cash flow projection.
To put that in context, a mature company such as Ford (F) generated an average annual free cash flow of $6.5 billion over the past four years and is valued at around 10 times that figure.
Of greater concern, Amazon is no longer the only "story stock" around. The top 10 or 15 Internet stocks have been on such a tear that they too are increasingly disconnected from any fundamental value.
The 40% gain over the past six months for the PowerShares Nasdaq Internet ETF (PNQI) is especially impressive when you note it's filled with large companies that already sported hefty market caps.
So what do these stocks look like in the context of 2014 and 2015 forecasts? The multiples are quite high.
To be sure, many of these dot-com companies are in the midst of an impressive growth spurt, thanks in large part to the impressive gains in mobile computing. The rapid growth in smartphones and tablet computers has paved the way for solid traction in mobile advertising and mobile transactions.
And it's wise to assume that the heady growth can last at least a few more years. That's why you need to look at how these stocks are valued in the context of 2015 projected results. By then, some of these companies' most impressive growth rates are likely to be behind them. And on the basis of 2015 forecasts, it's hard to get a grasp on their stunningly high multiples.
Facebook (FB), for example, trades for more than 20 times projected 2015 free cash flow, making the stock something of a bargain in this group. I recently argued that the social media giant deserved its solid second-quarter gains, but it's hard to justify any further upside.
But the real mania is taking place among the smaller dot-coms such as Pandora (P), Zillow (Z) and LinkedIn (LNKD). Their current valuations are so stretched that investors must be assuming that these companies will keep growing at a torrid pace for many years to come, eventually justifying their current valuations.
That makes this a good time for a reality check on their futures. Pandora, for example, will see stiff competition from Apple (AAPL), traditional radio chains such as Clear Channel, Spotify and perhaps smaller upstarts we haven't heard of yet. Moreover, investors are ignoring the profit challenges in this industry. Pandora is unlikely to generate even $50 million in free cash flow by 2015.
In a similar vein, my colleague Michael Vodicka laid out concerns around real estate firm Zillow, noting that the company is "battling a highly fragmented and regional market, intense competition and an industry with very few barriers to entrance." And it would likely be many years before Zillow's EPS appears reasonable in the context of the current $88 stock price.
The question for investors: Is all of this a redux of 2000, when the dot-com boom famously imploded? Not for companies like Google (GOOG), Facebook, Priceline (PCLN) and eBay (EBAY), as they have strong moats, high levels of recurring revenue, and the cash flows to back up their cause. It's the smaller dot-coms that are looking awfully bubbly. Investors appear so eager to latch on to companies with high revenue growth potential that they are increasingly ignoring the more sobering margin and profit structures those companies possess.
Risks to consider: As an upside risk, these are high-beta stocks, and a market surging to fresh all-time highs could take them higher in the near-term.
Action to take: Many of these net stocks are now "priced for perfection," meaning they must deliver stellar third-quarter results, strong enough to lead analysts to raise their forecasts. These companies simply can't afford a hiccup, as their nosebleed valuations would prompt investors to punish them if their earnings fail to measure up.
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Volkswagen is no stranger to special editions, but its Touareg SUV has remained largely unspecial in terms of exclusive trims or unique packages. That's changed with the announcement of the Touareg X, a 1,000-unit run based on the V6 TDI Lux trim – mid-range diesel model, between the navigation-equipped TDI Sport and the TDI R-Line.
The already special Touareg gets 19-inch "Moab" wheels, LED taillights (to go along with its LED DRLs) and "Touareg X" badging, while all 1,000 units will be painted Moonlight Blue Pearl. Tweaks in the cabin are equally light, with a black-on-black-on-black color scheme dominating - black Vienna leather, a black headliner and piano black trim. Aluminum bits make an appearance in the form of the door sills and pedals, although that's about it.
Other than those few aesthetic tweaks, the Touareg X is equipped largely like the Touareg Lux on which it's based. That means navigation, a panoramic sunroof, power seats, LED running lights, dual-zone air conditioning and heated power seats, among other tech pieces. Pricing starts at $56,170, making for a slight bump of $1,195 over the standard Touareg Lux.
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Beyond Metering: 10 Pretty Darn Interesting Stimulus-Funded Smart Grid Projects
This project in Austin is getting a lot of attention and in fact two of the people involved wrote about it for SGN recently. This initiative builds on Austin Energy's existing Smart Grid programs by creating a microgrid that will initially link 1,000 residential smart meters, 75 commercial meters, and plug-in electric vehicle charging sites. Perhaps as interesting as what they're doing is how this progressive not-for-profit entity is making the Pecan Street project happen. Read More »
UW, state should follow Austin's lead on energy
This week's Green Room takes a look at Austin's progressive energy strategy. What can Madison learn from Austin, Texas? A lot, perhaps, when it comes to producing clean energy. Austin has been experimenting with a new approach for generating electricity. The city recently unveiled the Pecan Street Project, described as "a community-wide collaboration to fully […] Read More »
Smart Money and the Smart Grid: An Inside Look at Austin's Pecan Street Project
Two years ago, an all-volunteer collaboration of technology companies, university talent and political progressives in Austin, Texas, set out to prove the viability of the emerging Smart Grid. The Pecan Street Project, named after one of the town's more eclectic streets, incorporated as a non-profit organization in 2009, and it has already become an exemplary case study for the structure and financing of alternative energy projects. Read More »
Is Texas writing the book on wind power?
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Simmons shuts Rotterdam, focuses on Amsterdam
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Simmons and Amsterdam
The capital of the The Netherlands is Den Haag / The Hague - not Amsterdam.
So SImmons's remaining one office is in the largest commercial centre but not the capital.
The Hague is not the capital of the Netherlands. It is the seat of government, including the courts and embassies but not the capital.