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Airbnb Open: Show & tell
Company releases updates, answers criticisms
Airbnb unveiled new versions of its mobile apps and a series of additional features Tuesday morning during an event for hundreds of hosts in the sleek and expansive lobby of the company's new headquarters.
But the clear secondary purpose of Airbnb Open was to answer ongoing criticisms of the 5-year-old San Francisco company, which allows people to rent their apartments or rooms to travelers.
Various cities, including New York and San Francisco, have struggled to find the appropriate way to regulate the company's "sharing" business model, which enables homeowners, landlords and tenants to act as entrepreneurs in their own right.
Temporarily renting out spaces can sometimes violate traditional housing laws. There's growing concern that some landlords are taking apartments off the market for permanent city residents in favor of renting them for higher prices to Airbnb travelers. And guests have occasionally been known to vandalize apartments and aggravate neighbors.
But in presentations Tuesday - a few that dipped into schmaltz - the founders and executives argued that Airbnb serves a higher purpose than merely making extra money or finding cheap accommodations.
Gaming company Zynga, a block deeper into SoMa from Airbnb, says with a straight face that it is "connecting the world through games." In much the same way, Airbnb contends its hosts and guests are forming bonds across international borders, enabling people to take a trip without leaving their kitchen.
Various anecdotes of this sort were shared, including a tale of a host and guest who turned out to have both been Berlin Wall guards, but on opposite sides of the border.
The word "community" came up about a dozen times, but I'm not sure I heard the word "customer" (or revenue or profit).
"This is a new economy, the sharing economy," said Brian Chesky, chief executive officer and co-founder of Airbnb, noting the company now has 350,000 hosts around the world. "It's actually starting to feel like a revolution. It's a people-powered economy."
Or ... some people need places to stay and some people have extra space, and putting them in touch is a perfectly helpful service that isn't going to elevate the world to a higher plane. Who knows?
Chesky said the regulatory challenges have arisen because they've helped create a category that the law hasn't addressed in the past - not an individual and not a business, but a "micro-entrepreneur."
"There are no laws written for micro-entrepreneurs," Chesky said. "So right now, we're having conversations with local governments and there's good news: The more people hear about us, the more they love us. What they hear is, 'We're strengthening their cities.' "
Indeed, some progress is being made. But other legal battles are still raging. Early last month, Airbnb changed its tune on the issue of taxes, saying its hosts should pay the same ones long levied on hotels, though with some exemptions for people who earn under a certain threshold.
Meanwhile, San Francisco Supervisor David Chiu is leading discussions to legitimize the sharing-business model, while addressing some of the concerns about tenant protections and total housing stock. City sources say his legislation will probably be introduced toward the end of the year.
Things have proved trickier in New York City, where the law restricts rentals for less than 30 days if the owner isn't present. A judge ruled that one East Village resident was effectively operating an illegal hotel, though that decision was recently overturned.
Meanwhile, the New York attorney general is conducting a broad probe into the business, exploring how much is owed on the tens of millions in fees that top hosts have collected and the impact of effectively turning for-rent apartments into de facto hotels.
"Airbnb isn't standing up for average New Yorkers who rent out their apartments from time to time," an attorney general spokesman told the New York Times. "Airbnb is standing up for highly profitable, illegal businesses that make up a huge chunk of its corporate revenue."
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Ariana Grande + Patrick Schwarzenegger Play Romeo + Juliet in 'Right There' Video
Pop princess Ariana Grande, with some assistance from former rumored Taylor Swift BF Patrick Schwarzenegger, recreates and modernizes the classic Romeo and Juliet tale in her video for 'Right There.'
The romantic pair attends a masquerade ball, upping the drama whenever they steal a glance or have a dance. Grande, in her full pink gown, is the bell of the ball and she demonstrates her deftness with a paper hand fan.
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Release Date:January 15, 2008
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Even though the graphics for this game are low in quality, and the gameplay is somewhat lacking in exciting play, there are elements to this game that make it worth playing.
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CSI: Hard Evidence is a point-and-click style of adventure, similar to the old Myst adventure games. This game differs in a number of ways, however, from those archaic games. First off, you will be exploring through all kind of different crime scenes, so it helps to have a keen eye, and also know a little bit what it is that you'll be looking for. Even if you don't, though, and you just wave the cursor over the area, clues are edged in green when you position the cursor over them, so you can easily pick up what is important in a room.
Additionally, you will sometimes have to interrogate suspects, as well as interview them, to find important points. The conversation system consists of clicking on one of two different choices of questions to ask the person, and you can always ask the second question if you like. It seems kind of silly and useless, but it's there, nonetheless. Considering that police agencies often consider acquiring a confession to be one of the most important things that their agency does, you would think it would have a larger place in the game, but it doesn't.
Once you've acquired some clues, you take them back to the laboratory, where six different machines exist to help you perform pertinent tests on your clues. It is here that you will get the answers you need to help you solve the case, even if it's not in the most difficult or glamorous way possible. At least it's been improved in this version of a CSI game. An earlier version of a CSI game had the lab, but it was more difficult to handle and analyze the evidence. This improvement shows that the makers of the game are trying, if not extremely hard.
Even though the graphics for this game are quite low in quality, and the gameplay is somewhat lacking in exciting play, there are elements to this game that make it worth playing. Since you're solving a murder case, once you get into it you find yourself wanting to keep going, just to find out who the killer is and see them locked away. That's just for the one mission though; then you can walk away. But you don't, you select the next murder mystery and try to solve it. In that way, this game is a complete success. It has you playing, trying to figure out Whodunit?
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The four-week moving average of initial claims increased to 3,884 from the previous weeks average of 3,641.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Ken Siebert amassed 11 kills, seven aces, four digs, and a block in MIT's 25-9, 25-17, 25-17 win over cross-town rival Lesley University on Monday night. The nationally-ranked Engineers saw their record improve to 16-4 overall and 10-0 in the North East Collegiate Volleyball Association (NECVA) New England Division, while the Lynx moved to 1-18 on the year and 0-11 in conference play.
After exchanging points to start the match, MIT mounted a 20-4 run which resulted in a 21-6 lead. Lesley picked up three out of the next five points to extend the set, but the Engineers scored the final two en route to the win.
The Lynx established a 4-1 edge in the second stanza, until the Cardinal and Gray put together a 7-2 spurt to take the lead. Lesley continued to attack and eventually went ahead, 15-12, courtesy of a 7-1 run. After knotting the game at 17, the Engineers rattled off eight unanswered points, including three consecutive aces by Siebert that sealed the set.
The final frame was a back-and-forth affair as it featured 10 ties and five lead changes. A pair of kills by Christian Domingo coupled with two MIT miscues resulted in a 15-14 advantage for the visitors. Billy Evans notched a kill and an ace to put the Engineers in front for good as they wrapped up the set with a 25-17 victory.
David Thomas posted a match-high 15 kills as Patrick Vatterott registered five kills and a block for MIT. Evans finished with two aces and a block while Daniel Sngiem collected four digs. Tim Lee and Evan Wang shared setting duties, distributing 31 and five assists, respectively.
Domingo paced the Lynx with six digs and five kills while Zachary Almeida-Beers bolstered the defense with five digs. Stephen Siragusa rounded out the squad with nine assists.
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Management of Heart Failure
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Table of contents
Section 1 Prevention and evaluation of heart failure.
1 Preventing heart failure (Barry H. Greenberg, MD and Denise D. Barnard, MD).
2 Biomarkers in heart failure (Leo Slavin, MD, Thomas K. Ro, MD and Alan S. Maisel, MD, FACC).
3 Imaging the failing heart (Nico R. Van de Veire, MD, PhD and Jeroen J. Bax, MD, PhD).
Section 2 Treatment modalities.
4 Neurohormonal blocking agents in the treatment of patients with left ventricular dysfunction and heart failure (Ruchika Dutta, MD and Barry H. Greenberg, MD).
5 Digoxin, diuretics, and vasodilators in heart failure (Dawn Lombardo, MD).
6 Management of comorbidity in chronic heart failure (Justin A. Ezekowitz, MBBCh, MSc, FRCPC and Michael A. McDonald, MD, FRCPC).
7 Emerging therapies for heart failure (Barry H. Greenberg, MD and John G.F. Cleland, MD, FRCP, FESC, FACC).
Section 3 Device and anti-arrhythmic therapy of heart failure.
8 Preventing sudden cardiac arrest in the heart failure patient (Sanjiv M. Narayan, MB, MD, FRCP, FACC).
9 Cardiac resynchronization therapy: indications for treatment and strategies for optimizing results (Sanjiv M. Narayan, MB, MD, FRCP, FACC).
10 Treatment of atrial arrhythmias in heart failure patients (Mark D. O'Neill, MB, BCh, BAO, DPhil; Matthew Wright, MBBS, PhD; Pierre Jaıs, MD; Sebastien Knecht, MD; Isabelle Nault, MD; Seiichiro Matsuo, MD; Shinsuke Miyazaki, MD; Andrej Pernat, MD; Amir Jadidi, MD; Frederic Sacher, MD; D. Wyn Davies, MD, FRCP, FHRS; Jacques Cl´ementy, MD; Michel Haıssaguerre, MD and M´el`eze Hocini, MD).
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Section 4 Individualizing treatment of heart failure.
12 Recognising and managing the patient with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (Margaret M. Redfield, MD).
13 Treating systolic heart failure (Vijay U. Rao, MD, PhD and John R. Teerlink, MD, FACC, FAHA, FESC).
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Woman Steals SIM Card, Downloads $200K Worth of Data
Stealing a SIM card out of a power meter is impressive enough, but 33-year-old Kylie Maree Monks outdid herself when she racked up a $200,000 data bill on the card in under four months.
This week, she pleaded guilty to computer-related fraud, owning stolen property and making a false declaration.
The SIM card was removed from an Aurora power meter and was pre-equipped with a wireless data connection. Monks used the card from November to February, with most of the charges coming from downloaded movies, music and phone calls.
The Aurora company became aware of the problem after they received a bill for $193,187.43. In addition to serving an 18-month jail sentence, Monks has been ordered to pay the hefty bill.


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Hold up your right hand, look this page straight in the eye, and answer truthfully: At this moment, is your computer completely backed up?
Did you answer "yes?" Congratulations, you statistical freak. Skip to the next article.
If you're like the huge majority, however, your backup is out of date or nonexistent.
And that situation is getting more dire every day. The world wants us to snap more pictures, download more movies, play more music, shoot more video. Well, great. But if something's worth snapping, downloading, playing or shooting, then it's also worth backing up.
So you buy an external hard drive. And another. And another. After a while, your desk looks like mine, festooned with a hideous archipelago of mismatched drives, each with a cable and a power cord.
And by the way, those drives are not, themselves, backed up. Most contain the original files I've offloaded from the computer for long-term storage. If one of those drives dies, I'm out of luck.Continue reading the main story
Boy, does Drobo have a suggestion for people like me.
See, corporations don't go buying external drives from Best Buy. They use RAID arrays (Redundant Array of Independent Disks). That's a passel of drives congregated inside a single metal box; clever software makes them look to a computer like one big drive. Or three smaller ones, or 50 little ones — however the highly paid system administrator decides to chop them up.
As a bonus, thanks to a fancy encoding scheme, the files on a RAID system can be recovered even if one of the participating hard drives goes to the great junk drawer in the sky. (That's why it's R for "redundant.")
For several years now, a company that calls itself Drobo (short for "data robotics") has been pursuing a single dream: make RAID arrays for noncorporate people. High-end types, small businesses and creative professionals with little technical expertise and no technical staff.
And next week, it will offer two new models: the Drobo 5D ($850 list) and the Drobo Mini ($650).
A Drobo is just a sleek, glossy, black empty shell. You have to buy internal hard drives to insert like cartridges. Online, for example, you can snag a couple of 2-terabyte drives for $110 each. That ought to hold a few baby pictures.
Once the drives arrive, you start to understand the nosebleed Drobo price tag — because there's no setup or configuration. You don't even have to attach the drives to rails or caddies or fiddle with screws, as you do with professional RAID systems; you just shove them in like frozen waffles going into a vertical toaster. The Drobo automatically assimilates them into your increasingly large virtual drive.
Also unlike most RAID systems, the drives you buy can be different brands, speeds and capacities; Drobo is an equal-opportunity enclosure.
The Drobo 5D has slots for five drives — standard 3.5-inch, SATA internal drives, which these days come in capacities up to 4 terabytes each. The new Mini, the first Drobo that could be called portable (7 x 7 x 2 inches, suitable for peripatetic video editors and photographers), has four slots. They accept 2.5-inch laptop drives, which, these days, offer a maximum of 1 terabyte each (about $80).
Here's the big payoff: As your life fills with files, you can fill your empty slots with more drives. Once you've filled them all, you can eject one of your smaller drives and replace it with a more capacious one. None of that requires copying files, reformatting a drive or managing anything. The Drobo system automatically recognizes new drives and makes them, too, part of the suddenly larger virtual hard drive. This breezy, suit-yourself flexibility is unheard-of in traditional RAID systems.
Here's the other payoff: Drives die. When that happens, you don't lose any data. In its RAID-y way, the Drobo auto-reconstructs everything that was on the corpse drive. You keep using all your files as if nothing had happened, even as the Drobo starts redistributing your files so that they're protected against another drive failure, which can take hours or days.
Drobo's trade-show reps are fond of this parlor trick: As a movie plays from a Drobo, they eject one, then two drives, simulating crashes of those disks — and the video doesn't skip a frame.
Now, so far, this description could apply to all Drobo models; they're distinguished primarily by the number of drives you can insert (4, 5, 8 or 12) and the kinds of connectors to your computer they offer (Ethernet, FireWire, USB, iSCSI). Each has a magnetically attached front door, a color-changing status light ("all is well," "getting full" or "dead drive — replace me"), and horizontal blue lights that serve as a "fuel gauge" for your virtual drive's capacity. On the Mini, the status light is a cool glowing band of light around the margins of the front panel.
What the two new Drobos add are Thunderbolt connectors, which hook up to recent Mac models. They also offer USB 3.0 jacks for connecting with Windows machines. (Both kinds of cables come in the box; at these prices, they'd better. Then again, a Thunderbolt cable alone costs $50, so it's a nice thought.)
The point is speed: USB 3.0 is about five times as fast as USB 2.0, and Thunderbolt is about twice as fast again.
Copying a 2.3-gigabyte folder of music files from a MacBook Air to a Drobo 5D took 35 seconds over the USB 3.0 connector, 19 over Thunderbolt. Backing up a single 520-megabyte video file took 5.5 seconds over USB 3.0, 3.5 over Thunderbolt.
The 5D and Mini also offer a slot for a solid-state drive (basically, flash memory, with no moving parts) that it uses for acceleration. If you install one, the company says you'll notice that large libraries of photos or music will get faster the more you use them. The SSD stores smallish data bits — photo thumbnails, music album data, and so on — so they're delivered to your computer much faster.
If you're rich, you can fill the Mini's drive slots with expensive but fast SSD's instead of traditional hard drives.
Now, there are some noteworthy flies in the Drobo ointment. First, the price is steep; at $850, the Drobo 5D costs $250 more than the Drobo S (an identical model except that it has FireWire instead of Thunderbolt and lacks the SSD slot).
Second, these babies connect to one computer, not your whole network. You can access it from other machines using Windows or OS X file sharing, but that requires the main computer to remain turned on.
Third, any storage or backup that's right there in your home or office is vulnerable to fire, flood or thieves.
Finally, the data protection in RAID systems requires a huge sacrifice in disk space. On a Drobo, you lose the storage of your largest entire drive (the calculator at http://j.mp/V5hhTc shows how much you'll lose). If you buy four 1-terabyte drives, for example, you wind up with only 2.7 terabytes free for your storage. The rest is used to protect that data.
Pessimist: "One whole drive sacrificed? What a ripoff!" Optimist: "A complete backup of my files that doesn't require double the space? Amazing!"
(Drobo also lets you turn on an option that maintains all your files even if two of your drives fail. As you'd guess, this option requires an even greater storage sacrifice.)
Now, clearly, a Drobo is absurd overkill for many people. If everything in your world fits on your computer's built-in hard drive, one cheap external drive may be all the backup you need.
But if you traffic in drive-busting files like photos, music and videos, or if losing your files would kill your small business, a Drobo might make good future-proofing sense.
In either case, that's enough reading. Go home and come up with a backup system that you'll actually keep current.
The State of the Art column on Thursday, about a data storage system for corporate users that is known as RAID arrays (redundant array of independent disks), misstated what Drobo, the company that is introducing the system for non-corporate users, based its name on. It is data robotics, not disk robot.


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Post time each day is 12:30 p.m. Track gates will open at 9:55 a.m.
The Dec. 20 program will offer the final Fiesta Friday. Food and drink specials will be available between 2-4 p.m. and Gold Club members can enter to win a $100 mutuel voucher.
Part of the Golden State Series, the $200,000-guaranteed Soviet Problem is the main event on the Dec. 21 card.
Restricted to 2-year-old fillies bred or sired in California, the Soviet Problem, which had its inaugural running in 2012, is at seven furlongs over Cushion Track.
It will also be the final $150,000-guaranteed Pick Six Saturday. Should the pool exceed $200,000, $1 Happy Hour food and drink specials will be available at Whittingham's Pub and Betfair Players' Lounge.
Additionally, if there is a single perfect ticket in the Pick Six – purchased either on track or through Television Games Network (TVG) – the holder of the ticket will receive a bonus – a new Prius courtesy of Toyota of Orange.
Commemorative pins honoring the Charles L. Whittingham Memorial Handicap will be distributed – one per paid admission while supplies last.
The pins feature the silks of Dorothy and Sam Rubin's Dotsam Stable, which became world famous due to the exploits of John Henry, the gelding who rose from humble beginnings to win 16 Grade I races and earn nearly $6.6 million.
Trained by Hall of Famer Ron McAnally, John Henry won the Hollywood Invitational – known as the Whittingham since 1999 – in 1980, 1981 and 1984.
Another Golden State Series event, the $200,000 King Glorious Stakes, is the feature attraction Dec. 22, the final day of racing at the legendary venue.
Named for the winner of the 1988 Hollywood Futurity, the King Glorious is for 2-year-olds bred or sired in California and will be run at seven furlongs over Cushion Track.
Like the Soviet Problem, named for the multiple stakes winning daughter of Moscow Ballet owned and bred by John C. Harris and Don Valpredo, the King Glorious was offered for the first time a year ago.
One hour (11:30 a.m.) before post time, Hall of Fame trainer Jack Van Berg will sign copies of his book "Jack: From Grit to Glory'' at the Betfair Hollywood Park Gift Shop.
Commemorative pins honoring the Sunset Handicap will also be given away – one per paid admission while supplies last – on closing day.
Hall of Fame trainer Whittingham and owner Mary Jones Bradley enjoyed much success together over the years, including a 1973 victory in the Sunset by Cougar II.
A Grade I winner on turf and dirt, the Chilean bred's one-length win over Life Cycle more than 40 years ago was the sixth of a record 13 Sunset victories for Hall of Fame jockey Bill Shoemaker.
There will also be drawings for gift cards and other special prizes throughout the day. A pair of $50,000 starter allowance races – the Valley Lass and Auld Lang Syne – are scheduled to bookend the 10-race card.
The opening race in the condition book for Dec. 22, the Valley Lass honors the first horse to win at Hollywood Park. The 2-year-old California bred filly took the opener June 10, 1938 under jockey Silvio Coucci.
The Auld Lang Syne is scheduled as the finale. Both races are set for one mile on turf.


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Stocks Set to Open Little Changed on Syria Uncertainty; Krispy Kreme Plunges 13% as Earnings Miss
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Stocks are set for a modestly higher open this morning after the U.K. said it wouldn't participate in attacks on Syria.
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures have gained 4 points, while the Standard & Poor's 500 has risen 2.4 points and the Nasdaq Composite is up 5.5 points.
British parliament refused to get involved in Syria yesterday, leaving open the possibility that the U.S. would be forced to strike without support from one of its key allies. Already, the U.N., the Arab League,Russia and China have refused to back attacks. The uncertainty has caused crude oil prices to fall 0.8% to $107.95.
Consumer spending rose just 0.1% in July, below forecasts for an increase of 0.3%.
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts (KKD) has plunged 13% to $20.20 in pre-open trading after the company reported a profit of 14 cents a share, below forecasts for 16 cents.
Bebe Stores (BEBE) reported a loss of 14 cents a share, more than the 13 cent loss forecast by analysts, and said it would experience a loss in the low- to mid-teens during the current quarter.
Pacific Sunwear of California (PSUN) said it earned a profit of 2 cents a share, above forecasts for a breakeven quarter, but said it would lose money during the current quarter, when analysts had expected another quarter of treading water.
Big Lots (BIG) has gained 1.8% to $35.26 after the company reported a profit of 31 cents a share, better than analyst forecasts for 24 cents.
General Electric (GE) has gained 1.6% to $23.47 after the Wall Street Journal reported it is looking to sell its GE Capital retail lending business.


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Judging from a lot of the reader comments Don Tennant gets on some of his blog posts, there's a lot of stress out there. Fortunately, the Anxiety Disorders Association of America wants to help.
A survey that ADAA conducted back in 2006 showed that even then, workplace stress was a problem. Among the findings:
If things were that bad before the recession, imagine what they're like now. So ADAA has identified some helpful tips for managing stress at work.
Take Action to Avoid Mobile Device Geolocation Risk Actions organizations and individuals can take to limit the risk associated with geolocation technology.
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HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Mainland Chinese shares surged Monday to lead Asian equities by a wide margin after a regulator said the country will grant foreigners greater access to its stock markets, with financials fronting the rally.
The Shanghai Composite Index 000001, +0.49% jumped 3.1% to end the day at 2,311.74, its highest finish since June 18, while the Shenzhen Composite Index surged 3.6% to 918.33. The advance more than recovered the losses they suffered Friday, when investors locked in profits.
Elsewhere, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index HSI, +0.32% climbed 0.6%, South Korea's Kospi 180721, -0.69% rose 0.5%, Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index XJO, -0.55% gained 0.2% and Taiwan's Taiex XX:Y9999 inched up 0.1%.
The rally in China followed comments after Guo Shuqing, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, reportedly said the country could substantially increase the amount foreigners are allowed to invest in local equity markets.
Reports of strong recent inflows into global equity markets and hopes that strong liquidity would further push up stocks also aided the broad advances.
Japanese markets were closed Monday for Coming of Age day, but the yen lost more ground against major rivals, extending its steep recent losses on hopes for further monetary easing.
Ben Kwong, chief operating officer at KGI Asia, said other Asia markets were also feeling the effect of yen weakness in the form of additional liquidity, given that Japan was a source of cheap money.
"Investors are looking for excuses to buy rather than sell," he said, and are focusing on an economic recovery in China and the subsequent better performance of mainland Chinese yuan-denominated stocks, known as A-shares. "A-shares are up, and companies involved in A-shares benefit from that," Kwong said, citing the example of brokerages and insurers.
In Monday's trade on mainland bourses, Sinolink Securities Co. 600109, -0.88% in Shanghai and Ping An Bank Co. in Shenzhen jumped by the day's 10% limit.
Among other notable gainers, Citic Securities Co. 600030, +0.10% rose 6.9% and Haitong Securities Co. 600837, -0.17% advanced 7% in Shanghai, while Hong Yuan Securities Co. CN:000562 and Guoyuan Securities Co. 000728, +0.00% added 6.2% and 5.5%, respectively, in Shenzhen.
Also contributing to the rally, Shanghai-listed shares of Great Wall Motor Co. 601633, +2.13% 2333, +3.67% GWLLF, -11.27% climbed 6.2% after a Xinhua news report Saturday cited a company spokesman as saying the vehicle maker was targeting sales of 700,000 units this year, up from 620,000 units in 2012. In Hong Kong, the stock added 5.1%. Read: Great Wall shares jump on upbeat guidance report.
Financials also outperformed in Hong Kong, where BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd. 2388, +0.66% BHKLY, +0.62% rose 3.2% and Ping An Insurance Group Co. 2318, +0.66% PNGAY, +0.00% gained 2.9%.
Missing out the rally, logistics giant Li & Fung Ltd. 494, +1.60% LFUGY, -4.22% plunged 15.4% after warning core operating profit for the past year could tumble as much as 40%.
The gains in broader Asia came after Wells Fargo & Co. WFC, +1.34% kicked off the fourth-quarter reporting season for major U.S. banks Friday, posting revenue and earnings that topped analyst expectations, but with lower net interest income. Read: This week could make or break financials' rally.
Crédit Agricole's Hong Kong-based strategists said that earnings out this week, especially from the financial sector, would help dictate the direction of global stock-market action and appetite for risk-taking over the coming days.
"Hope and faith in global economic recovery, helped by data releases in the U.S. and China in particular, have helped to calm markets, while there is little angst as yet about the looming debt-ceiling/spending-cut negotiations in the U.S." they said.
In Seoul, meanwhile, Hyundai Motor Co. 005380, +2.35% HYMTF, -15.71% advanced 1.5% and heavyweight Samsung Electronics Co. 005930, -2.62% SSNLF, +0.00% added 1.2% to lead broad market gains.
In Sydney, real-estate firms saw some buying, with Mirvac Group MGR, -0.32% MRVGF, +5.13% up 1.3%, Stockland Australia SGP, +0.45% STKAF, +8.37% adding 1.4% and Fkp Property Group AU:FKP US:FRKPF 3.2% higher.


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|Oracle Workflow Developer's Guide
Release 2.6.3
Part Number B10284-02
A business event is an occurrence in an internet or intranet application or program that might be significant to other objects in a system or to external agents. For instance, the creation of a purchase order is an example of a business event in a purchasing application. You can define your significant events in the Event Manager.
Oracle Workflow provides several predefined events for significant occurrences within the Business Event System. See: Predefined Workflow Events
When an event occurs in an application on your local system, an event key must be assigned to uniquely identify that particular instance of the event. Then the event must be raised to the Event Manager.
You can raise an event by any of the following methods:
Additionally, the Event Manager can receive events sent from the local system or remote systems.
When you define an event in the Event Manager, you must assign it a unique internal name, which is case-sensitive. The suggested format for these internal names is a compound structure of identifiers separated by periods (.) as follows:
This format allows you to organize the events you define into a classification hierarchy.
You can also define event groups that let you associate any events you want with each other and reference them as a group in event subscriptions. An event group is a type of event composed of a set of individual member events. The internal names of event groups should follow the same format as the names of individual events. Once you have defined an event group, you can register a subscription on the group rather than having to create separate subscriptions for each individual event within it. The subscription will be executed whenever any one of the group's member events occurs.
Note: Event groups cannot be used to raise events. You must raise each event individually.
Any detail information needed to describe what occurred in an event, in addition to the event name and event key, is called the event data. For example, the event data for a purchase order event includes the item numbers, descriptions, and cost. The event data can be structured as an XML document.
The application where the event occurs can include the event data when raising the event to the Event Manager. If the application will not provide the event data, you should specify a Generate function for the event that can produce the complete event data from the event name, event key, and an optional parameter list. The Generate function must follow a standard API. See: Raise, Oracle Workflow API Reference and Standard API for an Event Data Generate Function.
The Event Manager checks each subscription before executing it to determine whether the subscription requires the event data. If the event data is required but is not already provided, the Event Manager calls the Generate function for the event to produce the event data. If the event data is required but no Generate function is defined for the event, Oracle Workflow creates a default set of event data using the event name and event key.
Note: If the Generate function is costly, and you want to return control to the calling application more quickly after raising the event, you can defer all the subscriptions that require the complete event data. Then the Event Manager will not run the Generate function until those subscriptions are executed at a later time. See: Deferred Subscription Processing.
If you use a program to create event definitions automatically, the program can set its own name and brief identifier as the owner name and owner tag for the events. The program can then use this identifying information to locate the events that it owns. You can use the Edit Event and Edit Group pages to update the owner name and owner tag manually if necessary.
Each event is assigned a customization level that determines whether you can update the event definition. Oracle Workflow uses the customization level to protect Oracle Applications seed data and to preserve your customizations in an upgrade. An event can have one of the following customization levels:
See: Access Protection for Business Event System Data, Oracle Workflow Administrator's Guide.
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If you follow me on Twitter or are my friend on Facebook, you might already know the news. I am joining Microsoft next week as a Data Technology Specialist in St. Louis. It was really hard to leave my job as a DBA at Bryan Cave. Bryan Cave was my world for 8 years, but I know that they will be fine and it is time for me to move on.
I learned so much during those years and, surprisingly, my personality also changed during that time. I am now comfortable speaking in front of a large group of people, often without preparing anything in advance. I can't imagine doing anything like that 10 years ago. See, you can change if you really work at it!
Tonight I attended a .Net Rocks Road Show event with Carl Franklin in St. Charles, MO. I got there early and helped hand out swag. I felt like this was my first event as a Microsoft employee, even if a bit premature. It was about 14 years ago that I asked Carl for advice about creating a data-driven website. He had a very popular VB site at the time. He suggested Active Server Pages, and within a couple of months, I had a database driven real estate website up and running, complete with admin tools for the agents. That site is long gone, but I remember how exciting it was to actually make some money programming instead of just spending money on computers and books.
So now my life is taking another turn. I am sure it is the right one to take.


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InnovationCentre necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 99 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
CleanTech Innovation Exchange
The CleanTech BusinessClub is an initiative which encourages (new) entrepreneurship in terms of green energy, watermanagement and environmental technologies. The initiative is fully organised by entrepreneurs.
This BusinessClub offers entrepreneurs, companies and researchers the network to move themselves and the industry forward. Cleantech start-ups can grow faster and more solid through special partnerships with specialists.
THE KEY OF THIS CHALLENGE is that we are organizing a series of events to bring the network together and to learn form each other how they can accelerate their product towards the markt en therefore their companies growth.
The is event is called the "CleanTech Innovation Exchange".
What makes this event unique is:
- we are extremely focused on your personal and your companies growth
- we call you up before each event to see what your growth challenges are
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- entrepreneurs
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In times past, Granada was a hub of artistic flair, imagination, and creativity, to the extent that the architecture of Muslim Spain exists as amongst the proudest Spanish monuments to this day. Such passion and dedication permeated many other realms of artistic endeavour such as calligraphy and perhaps not as well known, pottery.
|The Alhambra Vase
Just a short drive north from the dazzling palaces and gardens of the Alhambra, there is a small town called Jun, which has a little palace all of its own. Everyone knows about the Alhambra. Hardly anybody has heard of Jun, even in Granada. That's too bad.
Jun's palace is called Pabellón de las Artes. And what is the connection?
We'll have to enter Jun's Pavilion of the Arts to find out.
A massive iron door slides open easily, and we enter a bright, spacious museum that, in the distance, curves to the left, leaving the last part out of sight.
Lining the walls and filling the floor-space are more than a hundred ceramic vases, jars, jugs, plates, oil lamps and chests, from the gigantic to the diminutive. Gracefully shaped, colored and gilded, decorated with intricate geometric, floral and calligraphic designs, all are in the 14th- and 15th-century style of the Nasrid period when the Alhambra was built: the last 200 years of Muslim rule, when the arts in southern Spain flourished as never before.
Anyone with an interest in Andalusian history entering here would rub his eyes in disbelief and delight. Nearly all these ceramic pieces are lusterware, made by a complicated process that was gradually lost from this land after 1492, when the Muslims were finally expelled from Spain following the Christian conquest of the Kingdom of Granada.
Ceramics with this transparent, metallic over glaze are called loza dorada ("golden pottery") in Spanish, though, strictly speaking, the pieces may be any of several tints—both silver and gold tinged with green are common. The earliest lusterware was created at the beginning of the ninth century in Basra and Chuff, in what is now Iraq. Soon afterward, the artisans of Samarra, 125 kilometres (75 miles) north of Baghdad on the Tigris River, started to create large quantities to supply the courts of the Abbasid Caliphate, from India in the east to Al-Andalus —Muslim-ruled southern Spain—in the west. The technique also soon flourished in Egypt. From there, some two centuries later, artisans of Al-Andalus learned enough to start their own production, reaching their apogee of beauty and sophistication in the period of the Alhambra.
At first, lusters were made by applying pure metals like gold, silver, platinum, tin and copper—each for its distinctive color—to fired and wholly or partially glazed clay ("bisque"), which was then refired at a lower temperature. The resulting combination of glaze base and metallic sheen enhanced the lines and colors of the decoration. Later, the technique was refined by using metal oxides, which were also applied on top of the glaze base with a fine brush. (In a different, far less expensive process, pigment-based lusters, developed in the 19th century, often characterize commercial ceramics and porcelains up to the present day).
|The Jugs of Alhambra
Jiménez explains his Alhambran luster technique in his typically exuberant fashion, which itself may be a legacy from the Moorish past. "I'm in a constant dialogue with all the elements of the cosmos: oxygen, earth, water, fire and time…. The process consists in converting metal into oxide and then oxide back into metal. Metal plus oxygen produces oxide. So if we now remove the oxygen from the oxide we added previously, we again get metal—a luster. The Arabs had this down to a fine art."
Complex lusters, he says, may require firing more than once—and some as many as six times.
Very few examples of the old lusterware have survived the last five centuries. One of the most famous is the enormous, amphora-shaped "Alhambra Vase" (also known as the "Vase of the Gazelles"), and a replica of it is a centrepiece in this Pavilion. Were I to make a guess as to how long it would have taken an artisan of Al-Andalus to produce it and all the rest of these riches, I would suggest a couple of lifetimes.
Wrong! They have all been produced by one man, and he is alive and well, and full of energy and ideas. Miguel Ruíz Jiménez is a short, bearded, powerfully-built man in his mid-50's. Said his wife, Ana, "He did it all himself, with his own hands. And he built the Pavilion as well. That alone took him 15 years!"
And he's filled his Pavilion only not with his art, but also a huge studio, an auditorium and research facilities. A stone's throw away, he runs a small factory that employs 24 people to produce the kind of decorative Andalusian pottery found in local shops. It is a separate world from his Nasrid-style lusterware, whose prices range all the way from € 100 to € 60,000 ($120–$72,000).
I thought a local Granada newspaper had exaggerated wildly when it described Jiménez as "a sketcher, welder, potter, wood carver, chemist, blacksmith, painter, writer, architect, sculptor and artist."
Jiménez likes to refer to what he does as "alchemy." In a way, this makes sense, for the origin of the word is the Arabic al-kimiya', which connotes transmutation. This is particularly apt for the lusterware, whose often golden color is achieved through a complicated, even arcane process.
He has followed the authentic Arab tradition in the making of Alhambran glazed pottery," says Ana Carreño, editor of El Legado Andalusí, a cultural magazine based in Granada. His research is "serious and accurate," she says, "and his determination and effort over 25 years has led to recognition here in Spain and in the Gulf Arab countries through exhibitions, television programs and workshops".
Son of a simple granadino potter, Jiménez got clay on his hands as soon as he could crawl. By seven he was throwing pottery. What set his artistic passions afire more than 30 years ago was the discovery of the sensual loveliness of the old Andalusian art. "When I contemplated the vases of the Alhambra, I decided that I wanted to do this, and I started to research and study," he says. The path he took was very different from that of his father.
The task was gigantic: Jiménez studied chemistry, and he visited Nasrid masterpieces worldwide. There are, he says, no original, firsthand written sources. From Nasrid times, only the bare names of a few ceramists have been found—Suleiman Alfaqui, Sancho Almurci, Hadmet Albane, Felipe Frances, Abdul Aziz, Abel Allah Alfogey. Of their techniques, there is nothing.
In 1990, Jiménez published the story of his research and struggle to recreate, experiment by experiment, the period's ceramics in a self-published book titled The Epic of Clay. Here, his mystical streak comes out in prose as florid as his Nasrid arabesques: "Formulae and excessive pretension of technical precision are at times superfluous," he writes, "for meeting the complex challenge of combining substance and space in pursuit of an intuitive art and dreamed shapes when confronted by a series of subtle factors, as unforeseeable, as variable, as those that determine the tonality, texture, coloring, and metallic intensity of the tones and, more specifically, what is going to be the singular identity of the masterpiece."
A little further on he writes of the duende, the spirit or soul, required to make lusterware. "We must feel intensely and with the greatest profundity those indefinite factors that, although they take us to a foreseen outcome, oscillate during the whole process in a wide abyss of contingency."
To recreate the Nasrid masterpiece style, he found clays and minerals both locally and as far a field as China, South Africa, England and France. Over four decades he studied the materials, built Arab-style kilns and fired them to reach temperatures up to 1040 degrees Centigrade (1904°F). (Examples of Arab-type kilns can still be found in ceramics centers such as Paterna and Manises.) For as long as anyone knows, the potters of this region have used "mountain wood"—thyme, rosemary and gorse—to achieve high temperatures and just the right kind of smoke. Jiménez used the same, varying his materials, varying his temperatures, shifting the placements of objects inside the kiln.
He also taught himself to draw the intricate calligraphy, "profuse and complex symmetry of plant motifs, geometric stylizations, chain patterns, borders and trimmings, stars, polygons" and more, all replicating or inspired by Nasrid originals. One large vase, he explains, has a surface area of two or three square meters (40 to 60 sq ft) densely covered with designs that have to settle on the curvilinear, irregular and multifaceted surfaces. Sketch after sketch, drawing after drawing, rejection after rejection, it may require as many as 300 or 400 drawings "with the corresponding days and days of laborious work and continuous meditation."
Then, for a masterpiece like the Alhambra Vase, which weighs about 100 kilograms (220 lb) and stands 1.5 meters high(4' 10"), the throwing is itself a process no less mind-boggling that may take Jiménez as long as a month. During this time, the upper part must never be allowed to dry out, lest it become impossible to join with the other parts, while the lower parts must gradually dry in order to support the weight of the top parts.
"You humanize the piece with your hands," Jiménez says. "You mark on the vase your impressions of humanity and sentiment, mastery and culture." It was this attitude, he believes, that enabled him to match the master craftsmen of Al-Andalus.
The more I looked into how Jiménez works, the more I saw a spiritual dimension in his art. The relationship between him and clay and fire, though based on years of observation and science, incorporates at least as much feeling and intuition, of the kind that comes from a master's understanding of each step along a complex path.
These days, Jiménez's meditations are broken most often by his cell phone, which interrupts him with questions from customers, family, friends and foremen in the factory. Watching him made me wonder where Michelangelo would have got to had he possessed a cell phone.
In order to focus Jiménez's attention for a talk, we went to lunch—phone off—in a popular village restaurant.
I asked whether his large amphora-style vases were indeed exact copies of known originals or his own designs. He explained that it was a combination: "You have to assimilate the [known] pieces, interpret them and then reconstitute, adding some of yourself. It is like the construction of a building. There is some cement, the basic knowledge. So you use the elements you control to add something more. My approach is that if there are elements I don't know, I search for them, I learn them—or I invent them."
The initial firing of the pieces, he explains, is one of the most difficult stages. His favorite kiln for the big pieces is still the Arab, wood-burning kiln. "In order to manage the atmosphere in the kiln," he says, "you have to know how the air functions and moves in there, parameters, proportions, height, placement, and how things work between the combustion chamber and the firing section. When you fill the kiln, you have to place the pieces exactly according to how you want them done, at the speed you want, controlling with an opening below. To achieve an atmosphere for firing properly, air should circulate with a minimum of oxygen."
And the smoke plays an important part, too. "Smoke—I cannot explain it. You have to know the interior of the kiln. You have to dream with it, think about it burning. Then see how the piece turns out and compare it with the previous piece. To get there in the end is an interminable chain of study, trial, error and trial."
Although by now we know the answer to my question, I ask it anyway: "Could you achieve an exact replica?"
Jiménez replies: "My question to you is: What would that culture have been doing had it not been for the horrible interruption 500 years ago, those horrible wars? I could become a simple messenger from that time, or I could continue to advance that richness, sensitivity and culture, that discipline."
What Jiménez achieved, as I saw, were near replicas of great fidelity to the originals, and occasional improvements. Many are his own designs. "I copy, research, create an essence, and then at times I add something from our time, but with all respect toward what those people did 500 years ago."
Lunch is about finished. Jiménez switches on his phone. It rings instantly. He answers, hangs up, and it rings again. With an impatient expression, he switches it off. "I'm going to get rid of this thing, and my factory, and all the things that occupy too much of my time. I want peace and quiet, time to create. That's what I was born to do. I need time to express what I have to express." As a final word, Jiménez says, "I hope others lean on what I have humbly done and move ahead."
This article is re-printed from:
Author: Tor Eigeland, 'Andalusia's New Golden Pottery,' Saudi Aramco World Magazine. 2006 Vol. 54 No.1.
Image Sources:
Image 1 (Close-up design) source: www.miguelruizjemenez.com
Image 2 (The Alhambra Vase) source: www.asia.si.edu
Image 3 (The Alhambra Jugs): www.miguelruizjemenez.com


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If you are looking at venture funding for your first round, I would suggest that you consider an Angel round first. Why" A friend of mine just got early terms to raise $1 MM for 40% of the company in their first round of funding, and it was a preferred round with all of the standard VC protections. This seems fairly aggressive for a new company with bright prospects.
There are great angel networks throughout the world that will offer MUCH more reasonable terms, and, depending on the investors that you attract, you should be able to secure the necessary advice and counsel on business decisions. You can always save the venture round for later, if needed. Members, read on for some concrete advice...PRIVATE: Members Only (1601 Characters)


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Greetings and love again and again !!
3 brand new 7"inch are available from Darker shades of roots label.
The Shades - Rivers to the sea/ The Shades - Flowing stream dub
The Shades - Before the sun/ The Shades - After the skank
The Shades - All as One/ The Shades - Trodding and learning
Some extracts here:
(sorry for the bad quality recording, the scratchs and all are not due to the vinyls but to my tape player)
"An I-ncient tree planted by the river has been cut off at the base, but what they forget, is that the roots are still there, Rebirth !!"


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The names and some of the identifying details have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the client, but the essence is true.
Sarah entered my office. She was 40 pounds overweight, with the bent shoulders and apologetic, beaten, hunted look in her eye of a woman who has lived with an abuser for a very long time – 27 years. It's the look of a woman who has been blamed for everything from his cut in salary to his drinking and their son's shameful B+ average on his last report card.
Her personality, her spirit, her joie de vivre have been depleted, eroded as a result of living under the tyranny of threats, intimidation, severe punishment, shame, humiliation and constant criticism.
And lurking in the background has been the threat of physical abuse.
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Pressure continued to gather against a northwestern Missouri prosecutor after top state officials called for the state attorney general to intervene and for a grand jury to investigate the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl in the small town of Maryville.
And in separate interviews with the Los Angeles Times, the girl's mother and the county sheriff disagreed with each other on basic facts about the handling of the case, while the county prosecutor declined to discuss his part in the investigation.
Nodaway County has been at the center of a runaway controversy as a result of county prosecutor Robert Rice's decision to drop sexual assault and sexual exploitation charges against two former high school football players, both 17 at the time of the incident.
One boy, identified as Matthew Barnett, was accused of raping Daisy Coleman, then 14, who had consumed alcohol at his home late one night in January 2012. The other boy, Jordan Zech, allegedly videotaped part of the act.
Daisy was left on the front lawn of her home in freezing weather, lightly clothed.
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Jones, like Kinder, a Republican, went further and urged Koster to intervene. The attorney general's office has previously declined to do so, saying it did not have the authority.
Like the rape case that made Steubenville, Ohio, a household name, the Maryville case has forced local officials and small-town families to explain themselves in the court of national public opinion.
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She said her daughter was facing recriminations for coming forward. A college-age sister of one of the five boys in the home where the rapes allegedly occurred had started a Twitter campaign, Coleman said, which was aimed at humiliating her daughter. A victim's advocate, she said, expressed concern that Daisy would get "torn apart" by pushing ahead with the case.
Still, she said, both she and her daughter decided to push forward.
Coleman said her daughter testified at a June 2012 deposition on a separate charge unrelated to the rape case, but the prosecutor, she said, spent two hours grilling the mother not about the incident, but about a woman who had publicly criticized the prosecutor's handling of the case.
"I don't remember him asking anything about the case at all," Coleman said, adding that at one point Rice told her daughter she was "lying."
"This is the prosecuting attorney who was supposed to be protecting us, and he was chiming in with the defense attorney toward my daughter," Coleman said.
Coleman vigorously disputed Sheriff White's assertion that she had refused to answer questions from fire investigators about a fire that destroyed the family's home in Maryville after they had moved away. (The cause has not been determined.)
Coleman said that officials from the city of Maryville, Nodaway County and the Missouri State Highway Patrol came to oversee the scene of the blaze.
"I called Highway Patrol, because I was honestly afraid of the sheriff and what they might do, so I wanted to have someone else there," Coleman said. "I talked to all of them, answered questions from all of them, and the fire chief as well, and I called my insurance company for an additional forensic specialist to look at it."
Coleman said she welcomed the possibility of a new look at the case, though she said she felt a little overwhelmed.
"They [local officials] said it over and over again that it could never be reopened," she said. "So now I don't know ... what could really happen legally at this point."
White, meanwhile, had his own criticism for the hacker group Anonymous, saying that authorities had detected a "pretty credible threat" that someone had attempted to infiltrate the Sheriff's Department's computer server, forcing the department to temporarily take it down.
"They are truly a bunch of cowards, hiding behind--even their name, 'Anonymous.' What do you do with people like that?" he said. "They all need to get jobs and quit living with their parents."


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Being a new resident of the Tomahawk area (transplanted from Madison) - I am wondering about local farmers markets and where they might be located. I will not be able to start a garden this summer, but love to have home grown produce on hand. If anyone might know of local markets, please let me know. I appreciate it. Thank you!
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Tomahawk has 2 farmers markets each week; one at Washington Park behind the locomotive, and one on 3rd Street off Wisconsin Ave. I think they're Thursday and Monday or Thursday and Tuesday respectively. The Chamber office would know. Chamber phone # is 453-5334.
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