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by Barbara Sherf
Do you have some spare time on your hands and a desire to save money by exchanging that time for other needed services? If so, you will probably be interested in Time4Time Community Exchange, a new time-trading bank serving greater Northwest Philadelphia. It will hold a half-price membership special at a Kick-Off Party on Sunday, April 7, at the Center on the Hill in the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, 8855 Germantown Ave.
Time4Time, a volunteer organization, normally charges membership fees of $30 a year for an individual and $40 for a family. But organizers are offering a special "2-for-1" membership deal for those attending the opening event from 3 to 5 p.m. if they bring another individual or family with them.
To sweeten the deal, every new member will also receive free time credits to begin trading. Local businesses and organizations can also join Time4Time. They can earn time credits in a number of ways, like sponsoring an event, and they can then cash in their time credits by having Timebank members help them out. Weavers Way Co-op and the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill are the first organizations to come on board as a Time4Time Community Partners.
For those not familiar with the concept, a simple Google search points to it as being the brainchild of law professor Edgar Cahn, a legendary anti-poverty activist and author of "No More Throw-Away People" and "Time Dollars." In his books, Cahn describes how trading services — from weatherization and healthcare to knitting instruction and car repair — can strengthen communities. Now an international movement, a time bank arrangement is more than bartering; it is a circle of people who share skills for time credits instead of money.
Time4Time's founders are Betsy Wallace, a retired lawyer from Wyndmoor; Jackie Yorko, a Mt. Airy resident as well as Director of Center on the Hill; Ambler resident Bob Wenger, a computer network consultant; Mt. Airy resident Meenal Raval, owner of Philly Electric Wheels and co-founder of PhillyFreecycle; Wyndmoor resident Mickey Leone, Co-Director of SoundStage School of Music, and Nick Ferrante, an information technology consultant and Blue Bell resident.
On a recent afternoon at the Center on the Hill, armed with glossy brochures (designed by Mt. Airy graphic designer Malcom McAtee in exchange for time credits), Wallace explained how the system works.
"It is really quite simple," Wallace explained. "At Time4time, all work is equal. The important thing is how long it takes for you to do the work. If I spend an hour helping a Time4Time member solve a computer problem and another time bank member spends an hour preparing a meal for someone else, then we each get one hour of time credit each for our work. Each of us can then bank those credits and seek other services offered by fellow time bank members."
All of this back and forth banking is made possible through special software called Community Weaver, developed by the national umbrella organization, Timebanks USA.
Time-banking differs from bartering in that some forms of barter are taxable by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). According to Wallace, the IRS has ruled that time credits are not taxable because time banks value all work equally and because the work is done for a charitable purpose and on a non-contractual basis.
Currently there are over 300 time banks in 36 countries worldwide, with nearly 25,000 members logging in approximately 1.8 million hours. For a directory and to browse the myriad services, go to timebanks.org.
In Pennsylvania, there are 18 time banks already established, including exchanges in West Philadelphia, Media, Phoenixville and the Lehigh Valley.
"There was a small group in Fort Washington and another in Cheltenham that fizzled out," said Wallace, "but we believe this area is ripe for embracing this idea now."
When Raval heard about the concept, she set up a Time4Time table at the Mt. Airy Village Fair last September. "On that day alone, about 60 people registered their interest in time banking. We hope to have 150 people or more sign up on or before the opening in April," Wallace said.
When Yorko heard about the concept, she offered space and resources at the Center on the Hill and signed on.
"It's a great idea," she said. "Personally I would rather do personal training with someone than rake leaves. I'd rather do something I enjoy, and this system allows you to do that," she said, offering a printout from Timebank Media in which a host of services are offered from yoga to graphic design to French and sewing lessons.
For more information, visit Time4TimeXchange.org. For more details about the April 7 kick-off event, call 215-247-4654.
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Improving first-quarter results from some of China's biggest steel and cement firms suggest that Beijing's economic recovery plan may be starting to filter through into corporate profits.
That would bring a leavening touch to data released this week indicating that China's factories are expanding less quickly than expected, more evidence that the pace of recovery is slowing despite a boom in credit supply.
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Earnings growth for China-listed companies averaged 10.5 percent for the first quarter, a big improvement from losses in the same period last year of about 10 percent, but still short of the 16.5 percent expected, according to research from CLSA-Fortune Securities.
"Commodities-related companies have all shown some kind of improvement ... but it's still very much a company-specific story at this point," said Shumin Huang, an investment manager with the Greater China team at JP Morgan Asset Management, who declined to make any specific stock mentions.
Most market watchers expect an increase in demand for building materials as the first quarter credit boom translates into fixed asset investment, which should pick up modestly in the second quarter as more infrastructure projects start.
Faced with the possibility of an A-share delisting were it to record a third straight annual loss, Angang Steel Co Ltd <0347.HK><000898.SZ> made 550 million yuan ($89.21 million), its first quarterly profit in more than a year.
Angang shares in Hong Kong are now down 19 percent on the year, versus a 4.5 percent slide on the China Enterprises Index of the leading Chinese listings in Hong Kong.
Although Angang has underperformed the H-share benchmark in the previous three years, it is still trading at 36 times its forward 12-month earnings, a 238.9 percent premium to its median, according to Thomson Reuters StarMine.
Lower fuel prices plus cost cuts the company started implementing in the fourth quarter last year helped. Standard Chartered analysts said Angang's steel inventory declined 10 percent from its peak in mid-March, but industry officials remain cautious.
Late last month, the China Iron and Steel Association warned its members to rein in expectations for the rest of the year. An anticipated increase in demand would not be enough to justify big rises in production in coming months, it said.
There are also signs of a moderate pickup in cement prices, which some stock-pickers see as a barometer of economic activity in China.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch economist Ting Lu said in a note on April 24 that reported increases of 10 to 15 percent in cement prices were "beyond what seasonality could explain" and in some regions of central China, cement prices were close to the peak recorded in the fourth quarter last year.
Analysts have tended to favor Anhui Conch Cement Co Ltd <0914.HK><600585.SS> over its fast-expanding rival China National Building Material <3323.HK>, whose quarterly earnings have raised more questions about the success of its aggressive acquisition strategy.
Anhui reported a 22 percent decline in quarterly profit from a year earlier, but Macquarie analysts said China's largest cement maker paid lower production costs. CNBM posted a worse-than-expected 48 percent decline in quarterly net profit, largely due to interest payments on its debt.
Analyst sentiment is shifting on Chinese companies but remains particularly slow on the materials sector. Only 39 percent of the 148 companies in the materials sector recorded an increase last week in their Analyst Revision Model, a StarMine measure of analyst sentiment.
Corporate earnings have largely been flat for the past two years, and investors are concerned that the shrinking margins and high inventories that were the major problems for China Inc last year are dragging into 2013.
Almost three-quarters of China-listed companies and 54 percent of all Hong Kong-listed companies that have posted their earnings for last year missed market expectations, according to StarMine.
67 percent of the 138 China-listed companies that reported first quarter earnings missed expectations, according to StarMine.
"We are expecting a sequential recovery in the second quarter, but bear in the mind the first quarter is a historical low season," said William Fong, who helps manage about $4 billion worth of assets in a set of Barings China funds.
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It's a food blog so think "YELP!" Simple Clean, but fun. Something I can brand for the site, book, stickers, etc. Its a food blog that follows myself and friends as we eat around towns. There are reviews from me and from bloggers.
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Primeira Liga: Estoril 1 Academica 1
Academica grabbed their first Primeira Liga point of the season with a 1-1 draw away to Estoril at the Estadio Antonio Coimbra da Mota.
Marco Silva's Estoril side, who reached the UEFA Europa League group stage with a 4-1 aggregate win over Austrian side Pasching in midweek, had won their opening two games of the season and climbed to third with the point on Monday.
Academica had lost their opening fixtures but took the lead with a fine goal in the 16th minute.
Brazilian midfielder Cleyton picked up a pass from Marinho on the right flank and cut into the box before cleverly turning past his marker and slotting underneath Vagner.
The hosts had won their previous five games in all competitions and pushed for an equaliser, but went in at the break frustrated and a goal behind.
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Substitute Seba burst down the right wing, jinking into the box, only to see his low effort parried away by Ricardo, but Luis Leal was on hand to pounce on the rebound and turn home the equaliser.


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Training Seminar on Nano Technology and its ApplicationsActivity by N.M. Sanjaya Hettigedara | added on Sep 30, 2011 | Sri Lanka
A Training Seminar on Nano Technology was held on 30th September 2011at the Institute of Chemistry Ceylon with the participation of over 100 industrial sector representatives. - Report by Mr. A.M.Jayasekara, Programme Officer IYC 2011 (Sri Lanka)
The Training Seminar on Nano Technology and its application was held on 30 September 2011 at the Institute of Chemistry Ceylon with the participation of over 100 industrial representatives and graduate students. The Chairman of the organizing Committee was Dr. Sisira Weliwegamage, Sr. Lecturer, College of Chemical Sciences.
The Chief Guest Hon. Tissa Vitharana, Sr. Minister of Scientific Affairs was pleased with the achievements made by the Institute of Chemistry Ceylon over the years and he thanked the Institute for Organizing this important seminar.
Addresses were delivered by Prof. Sotheeswaran, the President of the Institute of Chemistry Ceylon and Prof. J.N.O.Fernando, Hony. Rector of the College of Chemical Sciences and Mr. N.M.S.Hettigedera, Chairman of the Steering Committee IYC 2011(Sri Lanka). Mr. Hettigedera explained the progress made by the National Secretariat towards achieving the goals of IYC 2011. Therefore, this was also an important opportunity to create awareness of the IYC 2011 activities among a good cross section of Scientists.
Keynote address on Nano Technology Towards Basic Human Needs was delivered by Prof. RMG Rajapakshe, Senior Professor in Chemistry, University of Peradeniya and visiting Professor, Research Institute of Electronics,Schizuoka University Japan.
Following presentations were made:
Principles and historical background-Dr. MNS Kottegoda, Sr. Lecturer, University of Sri Jayawardenepura and Sr. Scientist, Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology.
Nanotechnology towards new materials development- Dr. Jeewanthi Premaratne, Sr. Lecturer, University of Keleniya and Sr. Scientist, Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology.
Nanotechnology in energy production and storage-Dr. AR Kumarasinghe, Sr. Lecturer, Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka and Sr. Scientist, SLIN.
Nano Technology Liquid Crystals- Prof. ADLC Perera, Professor in Chemistry, University of Peradeniya
Nanotechnology research at University of Peradeniya, Medical industrial and other applications- Prof. R.M.G.Rajapakshe, Sr. Professor in Chemistry, Visiting professor, Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University Japan.
Carbon nanotubes and their applications- Dr. Varuni Seneviratne, Sr. Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of Peradeniya
Instrumentation in Nanotechnology- Mr. CH Manoratne, Research Officer, Industrial Technology Institute
Nanotechnology and Environment- Dr. USK Weliwegamage,Sr. Lecturer, College of Chemical Sciences, Institute of Chemistry Ceylon.
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NAB isn't until next month, but I am already tired. It seems as though companies are trying to get the word out on their new offerings even earlier than usual. While some product makers want their info out there immediately, others like Harmonic Omneon's Geoff Steadman feel that it's hard to be heard over the clutter of news being introduced at the show.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a beloved film for most children of the 80s, myself included. I fondly remember that weird green VHS tape and my stuffed E.T. doll.
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With software suites continually offering an expanded toolsets and features, it can be easy to overlook the foundations of what makes a good edit. A good edit tells a story, a good edit has rhythm, and a good edit is invisible. No amount of visual trickery will disguise a bad cut and advances in hover-scrub technology will not correct poor rhythm and visual discontinuity.
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As it became clear at the weekend at the Middle East Film and Comic Con, the appetite for all things in the Marvel Cinematic Universe shows no sign of abating, handy since the release of Avengers: Endgame is around the corner.
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At this moment in time, post-production workflows are moving towards single-application solutions. FXHome's HitFilm Pro 12 is one of those full-suite applications making collaboration in one single software possible. An all-in-one editor, compositor, and VFX suite with audio editing and color grading capabilities built in as well, HitFilm Pro 12 should be considered for your next motion graphics-heavy project. We take a look at several of its key features in this review.
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Wanda wins with her 8:17 p.m. Tuesday guess "Charles Frederick Holder at the Valley Hunt Club?" (Wanda, you didn't link to any contact info, so please e-mail me at email@example.com and I'll tell you about your fabulous prize.)
In the 1910 photo above, Charles Frederick Holder sits in the library of his Pasadena home.
The rectangular photo above the mantel is of Catalina Island where he explored and fished. The man in the framed photo above the mantel is Charles Darwin, one of his heroes.
Born to a wealthy Quaker family in Massachusetts, Holder was an explorer, college professor, philanthropist, conservationist, sportsman, master swordsman and author.
It's not surprising that he had a love of the great outdoors and all things nature-related: His father, Dr. Joseph Holder, was the curator of invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. As a child, Charles hunted and fished with his father in locations along the eastern seaboard and spent hours on end exploring every corner of the museum; in 1871 he became his father's assistant at the museum and began writing about natural history.
When he was in his 30s, Charles was diagnosed with a lung condition. He followed the advice of his doctors and moved west, settling in Pasadena in 1885 with his wife, Sarah Ufford Holder.
They were active in Pasadena's civic and cultural affairs: He served on the boards of trustees of the public library and the public school system and was the first president of the Tournament of Roses, and she was on the board of directors of the Pasadena Children's Training Society, a home and school for what now would be considered foster children (it morphed into Hathaway-Sycamores).
Here's a charming illustration of the public library from Charles F. Holder's book All About Pasadena and Its Vicinity (1889, Lee and Shepard publishers):
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The public buildings of Pasadena speak well for its future. On Fair Oaks Avenue is the Young Men's Christian Association, a large and expensive building in course of erection. On Colorado Street near the extensive Carr estate the Union Club-House is rising, and returning to Raymond Avenue we find the Public Library building, the finest of the kind west of Denver. Here is a fine collection of books, and a reading-room containing all the papers and periodicals of the day. The reading-room is free to all visitors, and books are obtainable by paying a small monthly fee.
In the library are the rooms and museum of the Pasadena Academy of Sciences -- which eventually will contain some of the finest collections in Southern California, among which may be mentioned the H.N. Rust collection of antiquities, ranging from the mount builders of the West to the California aborigines; the Carr collection of fossils, representing the great and varied field covered by New York State; the zoölogical collections of Delos Arnold and C.F. Holder, while many other citizens of Pasadena propose to contribute their private collections, which will make the museum one of the most valuable in the State.
Holder co-founded, along with Dr. Francis Rowland, the Valley Hunt Club* in 1888.
Here's a photo of Holder circa 1889 with Valley Hunt Club foxhounds. The photo is in his book Life in the Open (1906, G.P. Putnam's Sons publishers):
In 1890, members of the Valley Hunt Club invited their friends on the east coast to an annual mid-winter holiday in Pasadena where they could watch chariot races, jousting, foot races, polo and tug-of-war under the warm California sun.
Here's a chariot race (that's Throop University on the right, which would become Caltech):
Holder had an idea for expanding the event:
"In New York, people are buried in snow," he announced at a Valley Hunt Club meeting. "Here our flowers are blooming and our oranges are about to bear. Let's hold a festival to tell the world about our paradise."
And the Tournament of Roses was born.
He and Rowland were the grand marshals of the 1910 Tournament of Roses.
Holder founded the Tuna Club of Avalon on Catalina Island, where he fished and explored for many years.
Here he is in a photo captioned "Mr. Holder fishing for sheepshead, Catalina Islands" from his book Big Game at Sea (1908, Hodder and Stoughton publishers):
He lost his life in 1915 as a result of a terrible automobile accident. He was 66 years old.
Garrett Newkirk wrote this in an article the day after Holder's death:
Dr. Holder was a man of the finest fiber, lover of all that is good, a hater of evil and despiser of shams. He will ever remain in the memory of those who knew him best as a type of the truest gentleman, a loving husband, a faithful friend, a patriotic citizen.In 1998, Holder was inducted in the International Game Fish Association Hall of Fame.
Many thanks to Pasadena Public Library, Pasadena Museum of History and Tournament of Roses.
* Please note I very rarely link to Wikipedia pages, but in this case it was necessary because the Valley Hunt Club's site is available to members only.


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Katy Perry has marvellous ones. And, well, John Mayer isn't exactly known for under-sharing. So it's true then - Katy and John are officially a thing now, seen leaving Chateau Marmont together last night in his car, clearly ready to go public. You can imagine how much that would have swollen his dick, right? No Shame Face for John Mayer this time! John Mayer adds yet another babe (I hate this word but it's fitting here) to his long list of babes including Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jessica Simpson, Minka Kelly, Jennifer Aniston, and Taylor Swift...
Who is actually quite friendly with Katy Perry. And while I know everyone should be over it by now (but not really because who gets over these things, actually ?) that might not only be awkward but, more importantly, think of the potential for Good Gossip. Think of what a front row at the MTV VMAs might look like with Katy and Taylor sandwiched between a Kennedy and a pissy-faced Mayer.
This is when you remember how young Katy Perry still is. She recently told ELLE that:
"I'm a woman who likes to be courted–strongly. Never say never, I guess you'd say. I'll let love take the lead on that."
That was Russell Brand's approach. He pretty much announced to the world, on stage with a microphone in his hand, that he was trying to get with her. Obviously it worked. She loved it. She was flattered by it. She would be flattered by a douchebag like John Mayer using big smart book words on her how attractive, stimulating, and "different" she is. Come on. You know that's his move. And you know her move too. Katy Perry in a power skirt all like "I am different, which is why it won't happen to me, what he's done to the others". If only they knew how many times this has already been written...
Still, if Jessica Simpson was "sexual napalm", how will he possibly describe Katy Perry? Really looking forward to that.


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|System: X360, PS3
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: Rockstar San Diego
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Rockstar Games
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: May 18, 2010
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1-16
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Mature
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
by Andrew Groen
April 2, 2010 - Throughout its development, Red Dead Redemption has been plagued with rumors of mismanagement and other development strife. It's rumored that the game will have been in development for over six years before its release this April. However, you'd never know it judging from the great demo that Rockstar put on display at PAX East.
Rockstar tends to shy away from comparing its other franchises to its flagship series, Grand Theft Auto, but it's a comparison you're likely to hear a lot of once this Old West-themed, open-world action game hits store shelves. There's a good reason for that too: it's a pretty apt description. Playing through this demo we were actually constantly reminded of Rockstar's other would-be franchise, Bully - obviously, not in terms of content - but it's a game that tries valiantly (almost self-consciously so) to not appear like a GTA mimic. The truth is that Rockstar seems to have found a great framework for game structure (GTA, Bully), and they shouldn't be shy about that.
Thankfully, the comparisons with GTA stop after that. Even though the writers are the same guys who penned much of the GTA series, Rockstar San Diego appears to have finally crafted a an individually compelling work that's going to wow a lot of gamers.
The first thing that anybody who lays their hands on RDR is that the team at Rockstar San Diego has put a huge amount of time and effort into making the setting and the scenery authentic, believable, and immersive. That's not necessarily to say that RDR is hyper-realistic and mirrors the exact world as it was 100 years ago, rather it's an amazing digital representation of the world that old movies have described. Namely, Sergio Leone's classic 'spaghetti westerns' were obviously key inspirations (though it's kind of hard not to be inspired by those films when creating a modern western.)
A lot of what we saw had a tendency towards being heavy-handed, but it's clear that's a stylistic choice for Rockstar. Characters are very over-the-top, and cinematics tend to be exceedingly dramatized. In one particular instance, we approached a dusty town out in the wilderness with the sun setting just above the tops of the buildings. As we passed through the town's gate, a vulture flew from its post atop the entry sign.
This is the kind of heavy-handedness that's found throughout the demo we were able to spend time with. It's not so much reality as it is hyper-reality. It's not that they're being disingenuous about the era, but they're creating a more exciting version of The West that fits well with preconceived notions of how things were back then.
This hyper-realism is found all throughout RDR, not just the storytelling. Much of our down time between story missions was spent roping horses in the wild, hunting down animals on horseback, and avoiding posses. Clearly, John Marston is 'The Most Interesting Man in the World' because he can't seem to go 30 seconds without taking down a 6-man posse with 5 bullets, or taming a wild horse.
To accomplish these ridiculously amazing feats, Rockstar is utilizing the standard action game chestnut of time slowdown techniques. This isn't Timeshift, of course, so Marston isn't going to be pausing time or anything like that, but he can utilize slow-down techniques to aid in aiming. The way it works is, in effect, similar to Splinter Cell Conviction's 'mark and execute' feature. Though rather than marking them before entering a room, you do so in the heat of combat. The effect isn't like watching Sam Fischer breach and take out an entire room, but rather it's about achieving the incredible speed shooting that Old West gunslingers were famous for.
Of course, that's only for medium-distance kills or when fighting on horseback. When he gets close, Marston's got a wholly different approach. Rather than deftly taking out each target in an instant, up-close kills are gruesome animations where a gun might blast right through an enemy's abdomen or dispatch them in any number of unsightly ways.
Making these kills even more intense is the awesome sound design present in this game. Firing a gun feels visceral and intense, and firing a shotgun will practically blast you out of your socks. It should be noted though that the demo booth used high-end Turtle Beach headphones for sound. So, while the average user experience may vary, it was still an amazing feature.
After all this time, it seems like RDR's huge development window may have actually been worth it. This massive sandbox game looks positively fantastic in every regard. There's plenty to do in the wide open spaces, and the storyline looks just as interesting. It's estimated that RDR needs to sell several million copies just to break even on the massive investment that Rockstar has placed in its development. However, after getting this sneak peak, we're convinced this game has a very good chance of winning over gamers enough to at least come close to that mark.
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The FN keys do not work. The volume and mic buttons on the left side do not work. The ThinkVantage button does not work. The wireless switch does not work. The cpu fan stops spinning about a second after powering on.
My diagnosis:
Complete ACPI hardwareI failure.
Here's what I've tried:
update BIOS (I now have the most recent)
replace cooling fan - I later tested the old "broken" fan and found that it worked perfectly.
replace motherboard - My computer worked fine for about a month, then the troubles started again.
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As per the symptoms mentioned by you it can be issue with CPU fan(heat sink)
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No, the problem is NOT the CPU fan. I have 2 of them, and both of them work if they are plugged into an external source. As I already mentioned, the fan has already been replaced once and that didn't fix the problem.
The fan is only a minor symptom of a bigger problem: all the buttons on the top of my laptop stop working. For those of you who are unaware, these buttons trigger ACPI events when they are pressed. My CPU fan is also controlled by ACPI events. This is why I say the laptop is suffering from ACPI failure.
Also, have I mentioned that this problem comes and goes every couple of days? It's really weird. All my technical training points at the motherboard being bad. But I have already had it replaced once, and I still have the same problem. Does the motherboard have a design flaw? Am I just really unlucky to get two bad motherboards in a row?
Is there anyone out there with an L412 experiencing similar difficulties?
I recommend to reset the laptop to the factory defaults. ACPI-errors can be caused by corrupt/missing Thinkpad Power Mmanagement Driver, not working keys can be caused by the same reason plus missing/corrupt Hotkey Features.
I dual boot Linux and Windows and the problem exists in both, so resetting Windows to factory defaults won't fix the problem.
I could try resetting the BIOS, though, if you think that would help.
Maybe it helps - i don't know, whether you had made changes in BIOS concerning the powermanagement.
In BIOS-Mode under Config - Power for example
Yeah, I'll give it a try the next time it acts up again. I'm willing to try anything at this point.
Well, I tried resetting the BIOS, but it did not fix my problem. Any other ideas?
Did you "optimize" your Thinkpad with "Tune-up" or similar? - damages the stability more, than it helps
Do you use Fan control software? - Remove it.
Did you check the HDD/SSD-health (S.M.A.R.T.-values, Scandisk etc.)
Did you use a fresh Windows installation after replacing the main board?
Do you use other hardware controlling software like RM-Clock, NHC or similar? - remove them
Again, I am using both WIndows and Linux, and both have the problem.
On Windows 7 I have not done any optimizations beyod disabling all the windows services I don't need using services.msc. I do not use fan control software, or any other hardware control software. I did not put a fresh windows installation on after replacing the main board because the problem existed on the Linux half too, so I knew it was not a Windows problem.
On the Linux half I am using a vanilla ArchLinux 64-bit kernel. I am not using any fan control software. I ran a SMART test about 4 seconds ago using smartctl and my HDD passed. I see no values in the test results that would indicate my drive is failing, but I can post the test results if you would like to see them.


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Many great players will find motivation wherever they can, even if they have to invent it.
That's what Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez has apparently done, saying he took pride in making his 13th Pro Bowl because it gave him an opportunity for "proving people wrong."
While we may have missed the line of people saying the 36-year-old Gonzalez — one of the most consistently productive players in the game — has lost a step, he apparently heard them.
They talk a lot.
"Because the older you get the more people start to doubt you," Gonzalez said, via Michael Cunningham of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. "Just because of human nature. 'You are getting old, there is no way you can move around like you used to.' I've been hearing that. 'Oh, he's lost a step, he's not as fast as he used to be.'
"It's nice to go out there and play well and tell them, 'What do you got to say now?' That's part of the fun is proving people wrong."
Of course, the criticism of his team is real, after winning a lot of regular season games but none in the playoffs. That's why the Falcons aren't up in arms about having just three Pro Bowlers (Gonzalez, quarterback Matt Ryan and wide receiver Julio Jones).
"I know there are teams with far worse records than we had and they had more guys in the Pro Bowl, but that's how it goes," Gonzalez said. "Who cares? Our goal is to play in a different bowl, not the bowl in Hawaii."
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A femoral hernia occurs in the groin area when abdominal tissue (such
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An Inviting Mini-World: How Nintendo Made Animal Crossing
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Chances are that if you know somebody with a Nintendo 3DS right now, you know somebody who's playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf. The game was already a smash hit in its home territory, where since its release in November, it's sold 4 million copies. Nintendo revealed via its Facebook page that five days after it hit the U.S. market, it had already shifted 200,000 units.
What makes the game so enduringly popular? Months after its initial release, you can find Japanese players still Tweeting fresh photos of their towns and their homes. How do you design for longevity? And why is the game gentler than its predecessors?
At last week's E3, Gamasutra sat down with Nintendo producer Katsuya Eguchi -- also the producer of the Wii Sports series -- to ask him some questions about the game's design.
It's a world with rules based on the way things work in the real world, in terms of economy and human relationships. How do you decide how those kinds of rules work in a game like this?
Katsuya Eguchi: We take these into consideration when making all games, but specifically with Animal Crossing, our intent was to create kind of a parallel world, a world that's kind of similar to your own but also different.
And you spoke about relationships. There are people in your real life that you like and some that you don't like. There are different personalities that you are drawn to and others that you might want to stay away from. Also, people look different, so all of the characters in the game are created to look different.
You mentioned the economy. We created stuff that you might want to buy, but in order to buy those things you have to make money, and in order to make money you have to work... our intent in creating in Animal Crossing was to create this mini-world that you live in, so certainly we take into consideration those rules that you have to live by in the real world, and those are reflected in the game as well.
By necessarily creating a world and creating rules, you also create a set of values. By what's valued in the game, what you value as a person is communicated through the game. Can you talk about that?
KE: You speak about values; everyone has different values. Some people might think a certain item has more value than another does, or may think it's worth it to spend bells on a particular item when someone else doesn't. It's all kind of like things in this life -- this value system.
Your town becomes a reflection of your values. The time you spend on relationships reflects how much you value that relationship. As someone creates their town it's a reflection of their values, and when you show it to people, it should be something that you want to be show off to people. It's something that you should be proud of.
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After starting off the week with a joyous personal milestone — the birth of his first child — Vanes "Nightmare" Martirosyan will look to finish it off with a professional one, his 31st victory in the ring.
Martirosyan (30-0, 19 knockouts) and his girlfriend welcomed son Andrew into the world on Monday, five days before he is to face Richard Gutierrez (26-7-1, 16 KOs) in a 10-round light middleweight bout at the WinStar Casino in Thackerville, Okla. tonight.
"It's a big week," said Martirosyan, who will be returning to action for the first time in nearly five months. "It's just a big fight because I have a new addition to my life, so I have a chance to go out there and put on a better performance.
"I'm just excited, I can't wait to fight and come home."
The Glendale native will headline the card, which will be broadcast live on Fox Deportes beginning at 7 p.m. PDT.
Martirosyan last fought on June 4, when he defeated Saul Roman via seventh-round TKO at the Staples Center to claim the World Boxing Council Silver light middleweight title and become the No. 1 contender for the WBC light middleweight belt held by Saul Alvarez.
In September, Martirosyan was proposed a blockbuster fight against No. 2 contender Alfredo Angulo in Mexico, but refused it. The match with Gutierrez, which is likely intended more to keep Martirosyan active than to further advance his case for title shot, was arranged immediately after.
Another plan that didn't come to fruition over the past month was Martirosyan's announced intention to switch trainers from the team of World Boxing Hall of Fame head trainer Freddie Roach and Glendale Fighting Club owner Edmond Tarverdyan to veteran trainer Buddy McGirt.
Martirosyan said that after one session with McGirt the decision was made, for unspecified reasons, to have Tarverdyan oversee the bulk of his training for Gutierrez at the GFC in between sparring sessions at Roach's Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood.
"Freddie was here and he started giving me advice," Martirosyan said. "We went to Buddy for a day and decided to stay with Edmond and Freddie. Edmond's been training me the most for the fight.
"I'll be better. More boxing, but better boxing. Aggressive and explosive, that's what you'll see [today]."
Between cutting his training off a little bit early for the birth of his son and then flying out to Oklahoma on Thursday, Martirosyan didn't quite get to finish camp as he normally would.
"We usually drop down the weight, we do two sessions of training and he gets in great shape the last week and we didn't have a chance to do that the last two days," Tarverdyan said.
Nonetheless, both fighter and trainer agree that Martirosyan is physically ready and prepared and, if anything, will get an emotional bounce going into the fight after becoming a new father.
"He is focused in a way, but in a way he just had his baby, so this two or three days has been crazy with Vanes," Tarverdyan said. "But our camp went good, we had good sparring at Wild Card. He is prepared.
"He should take [the birth of his son] as a motivation and get the big victory,"
While an upset loss would certainly be disastrous for Martirosyan, a win over Gutierrez would not be considered one of the former Olympian's finest or most significant by any stretch.
Once a strong prospect, who brought a 21-0-1 record into an International Boxing Federation Inter-Continental welterweight title bout with Joshua Clottey in July of 2006, Gutierrez has gone 5-6-1 since losing to Clottey in a 12-round decision. Over his last nine fights going back to 2008, Gutierrez has gone 2-6-1 and has lost his last three.
Still, Martirosyan can ill-afford to take the veteran out of Miami by way of Colombia lightly, nor come away with anything less than a convincing victory at that if he wants to stay on track for a title shot early next year.
"Gutierrez [is], you know, tough, he's been there," Tarverdyan said. "He's a good fighter, he has experience."
Said Martirosyan: "He's a tough guy, he comes straight forward and wants to fight. We'll see what happens."


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It's Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 30th birthday today. He brought the word "unfriend" into the vernacular, and he has redefined CEO attire as T-shirts and hoodies (at least in his wardrobe). Zuckerberg created Facebook about 10 years ago at the age of 20 in a Harvard dorm room. The social network hit 1 billion users in 2012.
Here's what Google+, Twitter and Facebook have to say about Zuckerberg's birthday.
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text: In message from Rob Ross <rross at mcs.anl.gov> (Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:47:22 -0600 (CST)): >Hi Isaac, >On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Isaac Dooley wrote: >> >>Using MPI_ISend() allows programs to not waste CPU cycles waiting >>on the >> >>completion of a message transaction. >> >No, it allows the programmer to express that it wants to send a >>message >> >but not wait for it to complete right now. The API doesn't specify >>the >> >semantics of CPU utilization. It cannot, because the API doesn't >>have >> >knowledge of the hardware that will be used in the implementation. >> That is partially true. The context for my comment was under your >> assumption that everyone uses MPI_Send(). These people, as I stated >> before, do not care about what the CPU does during their blocking >>calls. >I think that it is completely true. I made no assumption about >everyone >using MPI_Send(); I'm a late-comer to the conversation. >I was not trying to say anything about what people making the calls >care >about; I was trying to clarify what the standard does and does not >say. >However, I agree with you that it is unlikely that someone calling >MPI_Send() is too worried about what the CPU utilization is during >the >call. >> I was trying to point out that programs utilizing non-blocking IO >>may >> have work that will be adversely impacted by CPU utilization for >> messaging. These are the people who care about CPU utilization for >> messaging. This I hopes answers your prior question, at least >>partially. >I agree that people using MPI_Isend() and related non-blocking >operations >are sometimes doing so because they would like to perform some >computation while the communication progresses. People also use >these >calls to initiate a collection of point-to-point operations before >waiting, so that multiple communications may proceed in parallel. Let me ask some stupid's question: which MPI implementations allow really a) to overlap MPI_Isend w/computations and/or b) to perform a set of subsequent MPI_Isend calls faster than "the same" set of MPI_Send calls ? I say only about sending of large messages. I'm interesting (1st of all) in - Gigabit Ethernet w/LAM MPI or MPICH - Infiniband (Mellanox equipment) w/NCSA MPI or OSU MPI Yours Mikhail Kuzminsky Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry Moscow > The >implementation has no way of really knowing which of these is the >case. > >Greg just pointed out that for small messages most implementations >will do >the exact same thing as in the MPI_Send() case anyway. For large >messages >I suppose that something different could be done. In our >implementation >(MPICH2), to my knowledge we do not differentiate. > >You should understand that the way MPI implementations are measured >is by >their performance, not CPU utilization, so there is pressure to push >the >former as much as possible at the expense of the latter. > >> Perhaps your applications demand low latency with no concern for the >>CPU >> during the time spent blocking. That is fine. But some applications >> benefit from overlapping computation and communication, and the >>cycles >> not wasted by the CPU on communication can be used productively. > >I wouldn't categorize the cycles spent on communication as "wasted"; >it's >not like we code in extraneous math just to keep the CPU pegged :). > >Regards, > >Rob >--- >Rob Ross, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National >Lab > >_______________________________________________ >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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When former Washington Redskins coach Mike Shanahan pulled the plug on Robert Griffin III with three games left to play, one of the reported reasons for the benching was an attempt to maintain credibility in the locker room.
Was Griffin playing so poorly that teammates no longer believed in him?
Not so, according to cornerback DeAngelo Hall.
"A lot of guys in that locker room kind of raised the question, like, 'Why are we doing this?'" Hall said Tuesday evening on Fox Sports 1's "Fox Football Daily," via The Washington Post. "Kind of like what you heard Kyle (Shanahan) say: 'I want my starting quarterback out there.' A lot of the players in the locker room, those were their sentiments."
Football legend John Madden wasn't alone in questioning the integrity of Shanahan's bizarre decision. Hall made it clear that the idea of "protecting" RGIII for the offseason was a peculiar notion.
To Shanahan's credit, Redskins players didn't realize the coach-quarterback relationship had deteriorated until the benching.
"And then it wasn't until RG(III) really spoke about it," Hall continued, "saying, 'I don't think Mike likes me,' and things like that, that we in the locker room really started to notice it."
Despite reports that an "operatic" Griffin had alienated his receivers and some members of the offensive line, Hall remains confident that the 2012 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year has what it takes to lead the Redskins on and off the field.
"Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely I think so," Hall said. "From the first day that kid came into that locker room, all he wanted to do is impress us, try to prove to us that he would do anything to help us win football games. It was never about him."
Now shifted from Mike Shanahan's tutelage to Jay Gruden's, Griffin has an opportunity to press the "reset" button on his stalled career.
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text: >Good morning! >With the intention to run my chessprogram on a beowulf to be >constructed here (starting with 2 dual-k7 machines here) i better get some good advice >on which network to buy. Only interesting thing is how fast each node >can read out 64 bytes randomly from RAM of some remote cpu. All nodes >do that simultaneously. I'm very glad that parallelised chessprograms are developed, but I'm regretted that chess programs don't have coarse-grained parallelizm ... :-( I thought that every processor can handle some big part of moves tree. Unfortunatelly I can't win Deep Fritz 8 also w/o parallelization :-) >The faster this can be done the better the algorithmic speedup for >parallel search in a chess program (property of YBW, see publications >in journal of >icga: www.icga.org). This speedup is exponential (or better you get >punished exponential compared to single cpu performance). >Which network cards considering my small budget are having lowest >latencies can be used? >quadrics/dolphin seems bit out of pricerange. Myrinet is like 684 euro > per card when i altavista'ed online and i wonder how to get more than >2 nodes to work without switch. Perhaps there is low cost switches >with reasonable low latency? One idea for "low price & low latency interconnect infrastructure" may be ATOLL (//www.atoll-net.de), because it has no "external" switches. But I don't know about commercial availability of ATOLL hardware just now. >Please note MPI is probably what i'll use, though i keep finding online >information about 'gamma'. Is that faster latency than MPI >implementations? You can use MPI over GAMMA having more low latencies. Yours Mikhail Kuzminsky Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry Moscow >Note normal 1Gbit cards for normal network traffic. >Each node is a SMP or NUMA node and not only multiprocessor also >multithreaded. >I welcome any advice, >Best regards, >Vincent Vincent Diepeveen


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Welcome to the Asia Stocks live blog, a running account of what the region's share markets are doing, along with other news. Today, investors give a thumbs-up to their first look at this month\'s Chinese manufacturing data, as HSBC\'s flash PMI shows an unexpected swing back to growth territory.
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- 8:25 pm
- Japan stocks off to strong start
- by Michael Kitchen
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Japanese stocks are starting the week on yet another high note, with the Nikkei Average opening 0.5% higher, as a weaker yen and some company-specific news help send the index to its highest level since late January. The broader Topix, meanwhile, is up 0.3%, as the blue chips outperform the rest of the market.
The dollar is back above the 102-yen level, currently buying ¥102.11, against ¥101.95 at this time on Friday. Among the forex-sensitive names showing strong gains on the back of the weaker currency are Sony (up 1.3%), Fujitsu (up 1.1%), and Trend Micro (up 2.1%).
Auto makers are mixed despite the softer yen, however, as Toyota Motor falls 0.7%, and Honda loses 0.5%, but Mazda rises 0.4%, and Nissan adds 1.2% after a Nikkei news report that it and German peer Daimler AG will soon announce a joint venture to build luxury subcompact cars in Mexico, starting in 2017.
A couple of other Nikkei news stories are also moving shares. Fast Retailing is up 1.3% on a report that its Uniqlo clothing chain is making its first price increase in its 30-year history.
A separate report that retailer Takashimaya will post a 25% rise in quarterly operating profit is helping its shares to a 0.7% gain. Takashimaya's March-May results are due out later this week.
More generally, buying by foreign investors also appears to be helping the market, with Dow Jones Newswires reporting that ahead of the open, foreign brokerages were net buyers of Japanese equities for the fourth consecutive session.
Still, preliminary data on Chinese manufacturing for the current month, due out later in the morning from HSBC, could move Japanese shares if there's a surprise.
- 9:02 pm
- Australia stocks enjoy iron advance
- by Michael Kitchen
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Australian stocks are climbing in early action this morning, with miners leading the advance, thanks to some favorable commodity-price movement.
The ASX 200 is up 0.7%, taking a bite out of Friday's 0.9% loss.
As Reuters reports Chinese iron-ore futures are making their biggest daily gain in four weeks, we have BHP Billiton up 0.8%, Rio Tinto up 1.7%, Fortescue Metals up 1.9%, and Altas Iron up 3.9%.
Likewise, copper futures are extending their gains, though gold is weaker, translating into a 1.9% pullback for Kingsgate, and an 8.3% plunge for St. Barbara, which also announced it was naming a new chief executive.
Shares of casino operator Echo Entertainment are up 3.6% on news the company is creating a joint venture with Chow Tai Fook Enterprises and Far East Consortium Australia to propose a new entertainment precinct and integrated resort at the Queen's Wharf Brisbane site.
And recently battered stock in broadcaster Ten Network are bouncing 6.1% higher as the Australian Financial Review reports that U.S.-based Providence Equity Partners is examining a bid for the company.
Of course, Chinese manufacturing data out later in the morning could change the situation in Sydney, given that China is Australia's top trading partner. Stay tuned…
- 9:07 pm
- Markets check -- 10:07 a.m. in Tokyo
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.3%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.6%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.3%
- 10:03 pm
- China data: Surprise! It's growth!
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HSBC's closely watched preliminary read on the Chinese manufacturing sector has trumpeted unexpected strength, as the gauge swings to growth from contraction, hitting a seven-month high and sending stocks climbing.
The headline number of the "flash" version of HSBC's China manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index has jumped to 50.8 from a final reading of 49.4 in May. It is the first time since December that the HSBC PMI has printed above the 50 level that separates growth from contraction, though the Chinese government's version of the PMI is already in expansionary territory.
The flash result — which is typically based on 85%-90% of the total responses used for the final report — is also well above a consensus expectation for a 49.7 reading, according to a Bloomberg News survey.
Among the report's subindexes, overall new orders has also swung to an increase, while new export orders are maintaining their growth from last month, though at a slower rate. The data set's employment subindex remains in contraction, but at a slower rate than in May.
"The improvement was broad-based, with both domestic orders and external demand subindices in expansionary territory. Inventory reduction quickened, and the employment subindex also showed signs of stabilization," wrote HSBC chief China economist Hongbin Qu in comments accompanying the data.
Markets cheered the surprisingly strong read: Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index is trading 0.6% higher compared to a 0.3% gain ahead of the numbers, while the Shanghai Composite is up 0.2% from a 0.1% pre-data advance.
Japan's Nikkei Average trades 0.5% firmer compared to a 0.3% improvement before the release, and Australia's ASX 200 has gone from a 0.5% gain to a 0.7% gain. Likewise, the Australian dollar has risen to 94.26 U.S. cents from 93.96 U.S. cents.
- 10:12 pm
- Hong Kong, Shanghai go crazy for the China data
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Investors in Hong Kong and Shanghai are buying up shares after HSBC's preliminary China manufacturing report showed an unexpected swing to growth. Both the Hang Seng Index and the Shanghai Composite Index are widening gains, up 0.6% and 0.2%, respectively.
Chinese banks are posting substantial gains across the board, with the biggest winners including Bank of Communications (up 1.7%), China Citic Bank (up 1.5%), China Minsheng Banking (up 1.3%), Agricultural Bank of China (up 1.1%), and ICBC (up 0.8%).
Other financial stocks are also well bid, as China Taiping Insurance Holdings is rallying 3%, and brokerage firm Haitong Securities is advancing 2.7%.
Meanwhile, energy shares also appear to be benefiting from the bette
r-than-expec ted economic data, with coal stocks scoring solid gains. China Shenhua Energy Co. and Yanzhou Coal Mining are both notching a 0.8% gain, while state oil giants Petro China and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (a.k.a. Sinopec) are up 0.7% and 0.3%, respectively.
- 10:18 pm
- Markets check -- 10:18 a.m. in Hong Kong
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.4%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.4%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.1%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.9%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.5%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.3%
- 10:58 pm
- China to raise fuel prices for fourth time this year
- by Laura He
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China, the world's second-largest consumer of oil, is set to raise fuel prices today, marking the fourth price increase in 2014 so far.
The National Development and Reform Commission is scheduled to conduct its 12th oil-price review of the year, and according to estimates by the state-run Xinhua News Agency, the authority is projected to increase gasoline and diesel prices by 160 yuan ($26) per metric ton starting at midnight, in response to climbing global oil prices.
In Hong Kong, shares of PetroChina are rising 0.7%, and Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co. is advancing 1%. But China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., better known as Sinopec, is dropping 0.3%.
- 11:49 pm
- Markets check -- 12:49 p.m. in Tokyo
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.1%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.3%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) flat (at break)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.6%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.4%
Mumbai (Sensex) flat
Taipei (Taiex) down 0.3%
- 12:52 am
- China data: Stocks' jubilation winds down
- by Michael Kitchen
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The excitement on Asia's stock markets over the surprisingly strong result for HSBC's preliminary Chinese manufacturing report is now dying down.
The Shanghai Composite has ended the morning session just above the flatline, while the Hang Seng Index's gain has slimmed back to 0.3%, and it's a similar story across the region. (Australian equities are still up 0.6%, but that has more to do with commodity prices).
Meanwhile, the economist community has begun weighing in on the data, and the broad consensus is: It's gotta be the stimulus.
Yes, Beijing's so-called "mini-stimulus" of small-bore measures — such as increasing railroad spending, trimming reserve requirements for some banks and so forth — is now being widely pinned to the apparent recovery for China's factories.
Here's a sampling of some of the economists' reaction:
TD Securities strategist Prashant Newnaha
Noting that the HSBC flash PMI hasn't jumped so quickly over a two-month period since November 2010, Newnaha sees the June report as suggesting annual economic growth of around 7.25%-7.5%, "which is bang on the government's 7.5% target for this year."
"The odds of a China hard landing have been overstated. While overcapacity in property and investment is likely to be a headwind, spending on infrastructure projects and the government focus on consumption are unlikely to trigger a growth recession," Newnaha writes.
Bank of America-Merrill Lynch economists Ting Lu and Xiaojia Zhi
Lu and Zhi offer a similar take, saying the robust data will improve sentiment as the chances of a hard landing dim.
"Today's HSBC flash PMI reading will surely boost market confidence. Our recent client meetings suggest that global investors have become less concerned about a hard landing or financial collapse in China," they write.
Given the success of the mini-stimulus, meanwhile, they "expect Beijing to continue rolling out more measures to stabilize growth."
Capital Economics China economist Julian Evans-Pritchard
The strong PMI result is really about what's going on in China, rather than foreign demand for the nation's goods, Evans-Pritchard says.
"The strength appears to reflect a recovery in domestic demand. While the export orders component is still consistent with healthy external demand, it fell back to 50.6 from a four-year high of 53.6 last month," he writes.
And like the others, Evans-Pritchard also sees the gains as thanks to the mini-stimulus, which "appears to have eased downwards pressure on manufacturing and industrial output."
Barclays economist Jian Chang
The Barclays economist also sees the data's story as one of the mini-stimulus supporting small enterprises.
HSBC's PMI tends to focus more on the smaller manufacturers, while the government's version is said to more closely track the larger, state-owned players.
Still, she also tips the government PMI for June to rise to 51.2, up from last month's 50.8.
And like the team at Merrill Lynch, she predicts further government action, though on the monetary front rather than just fiscal spending: "We continue to look for more monetary easing and expect two cuts in benchmark interest rates, of [a quarter percentage point] each, in the third and fourth quarters."
- 12:56 am
- Markets check -- 1:56 p.m. in Tokyo
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) flat
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.3% (at break)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) flat (at break)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.6%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.5%
Mumbai (Sensex) down 0.2%
Taipei (Taiex) down 0.4%
- 1:34 am
- Hong Kong vs. Beijing
- by Michael Kitchen
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The political temperature is rising in Hong Kong, as pro-democracy activists stage a referendum on how to ensure free elections, and Beijing warns the territory not to take things too far.
And now, some analysts are telling investors to take care to protect their Hong Kong portfolios from political fallout as the national government plays hardball.
In his column this week, Craig Stephen looks at what he sees as a collision course between the free-market port and China's Communist rulers.
Read more on Stephen's take, as well as his outlook on where this is all headed, here.
- 1:39 am
- ... And in other news
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Here are some more news items making headlines in Asia today:
Japan PM Abe's 'third arrow' seeks hard target
Beijing's overhauls get short shrift
Taiwan's jobless rate falls to six-year low
- 1:59 am
- China's dog-eating festival sparks clash
- by Laura He
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China's heated nationwide debate about dog-eating has evolved into a violent conflict between animal lovers and supporters of the traditional food.
Several diners at a dog-meat restaurant were attacked by dog lovers Saturday night in China's southwestern city of Yulin, where a high-profile dog-meat festival has stirred national attention. One diner was injured during the fight, according to a report by the state-owned China News Agency.
Read more about the raging controversy over Yulin's annual dog-meat festival in this MarketWatch report.
- 4:17 am
- Markets check -- 4:17 p.m.
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.1% (closed)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) down 1.7% (closed)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) down 0.1% (closed)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.6% (closed)
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.4% (closed)
Taipei (Taiex) down 0.5% (closed)


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