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Expert Roundtable 3 India and China: Partners?
This summer, BusinessWeek brought together 13 of the smartest people we could find for an online roundtable on the past, present, and future of China and India (). On each of eight days, we posted a new question. Economics Editor Peter Coy moderated the discussion. The experts communicated both with us and with each other on everything from geopolitics to generation gaps. Now we're sharing the discussion with you -- and invite you to offer your comments. Please note that not all 13 participated every day, and comments have been edited for style and clarity.
Are India and China rivals for world markets and resources, or will they tend to be business partners?
Donald Straszheim
China and India are natural business partners to each other and to every one else in the world. Any country in the world that neglects China and India does so at their economic peril. India has caught the growth bug -- and they caught it from China. It is obvious to all observers that China's economy and society are dramatically better off than in the past, and that there are benefits of this to the society as a whole and to the governing parties.
To the extent they compete for resources, fine. Each will use these resources to some economic end that will make us all better off.
Oded Shenkar
Yes, China and India are competitors but also natural business partners. The complementarities between the two, e.g., China's competitiveness in computer hardware and India's competitiveness in software and IT services drive rapidly growing reciprocal trade and investment which is likely to outpace global averages in the years to come.
This is also a reminder to the rest of us not to apply a narrow bilateral lens to recent economic and geopolitical developments but rather prepare for the coming global realignment.
Viveca Chan
China and India are ideal business partners more so than competitors. I agree with Oded that the two are complementary. China has the hardware and production capability and India the software and technology edge. If these strengths can be combined by more bilateral cooperation and mutual investments, it will increase competitiveness of both countries. China and India also have a lot of similarities so they can share experience and knowledge. Both have great diversity in income between the rich and the poor, the have and the have-nots. Both have a big rural population who are still living at subsistent level. Both are big countries with multiple dialects, climates, regional cuisines, and tastes.
In China, we find Indian expertise is often more applicable than that from developed western worlds. This may be why we see a lot of Indian planners who do well in China. They tend to have a better grasp of the complex market dynamics. China entrepreneurs and businesses are also very interested in selling to and sourcing from India. Haier for example, has a big presence and organization in India. From both the macro perspective and talent perspective, India and China can benefit by working closely as partners
Subroto Bagchi
I do not think China and India are "natural" business partners. There is a social memory in India that [inspires a] lingering trace of caution about China. It goes back to the perplexing military move China made against India during the Nehru days. What perplexes two generations of Indians is why and how Chinese leadership decided to surprise India. It shook up a whole nation that was espousing "non-alignment." In 1962, in a sense, Indians were shaken up from a state of innocence.
This followed a long spell during which, though conflict did not take place, there was continued suspicion of geopolitical motives. China has always militarily supported Pakistan and India gave shelter to the Tibetan cause. As a result, the climate for cooperation has always been overshadowed by clouds of non-understanding. Only in the last few years have a few Indian businesses gone ahead and started exploring China and Chinese merchandise has started getting into India.
I would call two countries "natural partners" only when there is wider people-to-people contact and comfort. Both nations have a long way to go to achieve that. But, the reason for establishing such a relationship has long existed -- the problem is the [climate] has not. The future seems to point toward a time when we may see the two coming together.
Manoj Singh
The answer has to be yes. India and China could be business partners, surely! Let's look at it on three levels: historical, entrepreneurial, and economic compatibility.
Historically India and China have a number of similarities. Both are ancient civilizations, have led the world as its richest point in civilization at different times – only to fall down in the second half of the second millennium. Both kickstarted their re-entry into modernity in the middle of the last century.
India and China accounted for more than 50% of world gross domestic product in the 18th century and to my mind, there is no doubt this will be repeated. Trade synergies will emerge over the next few years as India and China continue to exert their muscle.
From an entrepreneurial standpoint, Indian businessmen and corporations are already looking at China and at cooperation at the enterprise level. A large number of business leaders and corporations have already established a base in China and are looking to grow and leverage the advantages that China offers. There is a natural "partnership" between the Indian spirit of entrepreneurship and the Chinese desire to create wealth, and their socio-cultural similarities will make this partnership easier.
Economic compatibilities exist with Indian companies in the IT, pharmaceutical, and auto-component manufacturing industries already setting up plants in China. And China could look at India among other markets for glass, ceramics, electronic components, plastics, and other materials. There are definite synergies around India's software and China's hardware capabilities -- and both countries need look not only at joining forces and increasing their strength in the global economy but at the captive market of 2.5billion consumers they share.
Both governments need to look at their natural economic compatibility and their growing influence on the world economy and use this advantage to create a sustainable economy and start the process of creating wealth for the needy that still exist in both countries.
Rajni Bakshi
A somewhat tangential observation, not a direct response to the question posed: Out there in the everyday bustle of the bazaar there doesn't seem to be a "China" and "India" in any monolithic sense. An example: This last week shops in Mumbai have been besieged by demand for a Funskool toy called "Bay Blade," which is out of stock. Some retailers are now selling a Chinese-made look-alike at a premium. Mumbai shopkeepers, their unseen suppliers in China, and several link-agents in between are making money. Meanwhile Funskool India is presumably losing out.
Perhaps the partnerships and competition will take shape not so much between nation-states but between entrepreneurs of differing scale, speed, and savvy.
Subir Gokarn
There is a body of evidence that supports a "gravity" theory of trade between any pair of countries. This means that trade volumes are directly correlated to the combined size of the economies and inversely to the distance between them. By this yardstick, China and India have enormous potential for trade and current volumes are just a fraction of that potential. Of course, when we get down to the level of specific commodities and services, the picture may get a little blurred.
China's and India's comparative advantages in manufacturing overlap significantly; at this point, China has achieved greater competitiveness in most, if not all, of the overlapping sectors. Language barriers make trade in services a lot more difficult than it has been for India with the U.S. and other English-speaking countries.
Nevertheless, from a macro perspective, the combined size of the economies and their relative proximity do make them "natural partners" and their economic diplomacy must take this into account.
Saurav Adhikari
I do not think India and China are "natural" business partners. The needs of the two countries are different. However statistics show growing trade and a favorable trade balance for India! Given India's increasing services trade and China's trade in manufactured goods there is an asymmetry here. But each one is trying to move in the other direction -- India toward manufactured goods and China toward services. So there will some conflict here till a balance is found. Till then both will focus on their natural directions. That seems to be more natural for the next decade.
Wenran Jiang
As I see it there is a difference between whether India and China are NATURAL business partners and whether they will TEND TO BE business partners in the coming years.
I beg to differ from the polarized positions that see the two either as natural business partners or as not. I doubt if there is a set of factors that we can put together to measure any two countries or two peoples as natural business partners. The arguments put forward so far to support one view or the other are mainly pick-and-choose type of emphases that do not necessarily share the same variables.
The U.S. and China have a huge trade volume. Are the two peoples therefore natural business partners? The EU as a whole has now surpassed both the U.S. and Japan in terms of trade with China, and continues to grow. Are Europeans and Chinese natural business partners?
In fact, if we measure by the intensity of economic activities, China would be a natural business partner with everyone now. But that was not the case 30 years ago. Some factors of history, language, religion, geographic proximity, culture, and political system may play a role, but business partnerships in today's world are primarily socially acquired, humanly constructed, market-regulated, profitability-driven and historically conditioned. In this sense, it is not whether India and China are NATURAL business partners but rather under what conditions they can BECOME business partners.
Looking at the development stages of the two countries and the international environment surrounding them, India and China are and will continue to be both competitors and business partners in the foreseeable future. It is quite obvious that the two are competing for low-end manufacturing jobs that tend to flow from higher-wage places to lower ones in a globalizing marketplace. When more FDI goes to China, the rest of the world will get less. Even when the wage-level is similar, many other factors come into play. So far, China has proven to be very innovative in certain manufacturing sectors, outperforming others not just by cheap labor cost but also by efficient management from materials supply to production to distribution to international marketing. But India is catching up fast.
It is also clear that when rapid growth is projected for the economies of these two giants over the next few decades, they will have to compete for energy and other natural resources. On a per capita basis, both countries are energy and resource poor, and there are already indications that high energy prices are hurting both. Whereas China may absorb some of these high costs from its $600 billion and growing foreign reserves, the same cannot be said about India. Beijing and New Delhi have certainly recognized that and so some initiatives, especially from India, have been taken to strengthen India-China (plus Japan and South Korea) cooperation in the energy area. They hope is to form a buyers' bloc to have some influence over OPEC policy and the international oil market.
Although the Chinese rhetoric about "South-South cooperation" used to have a strong political tone, it is now more about real business partnerships based on market and profit calculations. The majority of Chinese enterprises are totally market driven and they do cut-throat capitalistic operations with a ruthless attitude. So whenever they find it complementary with Indian enterprises, they will be ready to do business as they do with others. And there are many opportunities emerging.
A China-India business partnership can [result in] a particular competitive advantage over the U.S. and other industrialized countries that have high labor cost. That could be a particular challenge for the rest of the world in the years to come. So a mixture of competition and cooperation in all areas will be the likely pattern of India-China relations.
The Participants
Saurav Adhikari
Corporate vice-president for strategy, HCL Technologies
Subroto Bagchi
Chief operating officer, MindTree Consulting
U.S. and India
Rajni Bakshi
Activist and author
Madhav Bhatkuly
Managing partner, New Horizon Investments
Viveca Chan
Group chairman & CEO, Grey Global Group
Hong Kong
Subir Gokarn
Chief economist, Crisil Ltd. debt-rating agency
Wenran Jiang
Associate professor and associate chair
Department of Political Science, University of Alberta Canada
Jiang Li
Research Manager, Media Communication Group, Microsoft Research Asia
Arun Maira
Chairman, Boston Consulting Group (India)
Oded Shenkar
Professor of management and human resources, Ohio State University Fisher College of Business
Manoj Singh
CEO, Deloitte, Asia-Pacific Region
Hong Kong
Donald H. Straszheim
Chairman & CEO, Straszheim Global Advisors
Wang Yong
Associate professor, School of International Studies
Director, Center for International Political Economy, Peking University


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The work of designer Leif Podhajsky responds to the state of mind of the spectator. It shows almost always a landscape, an object or a collage of a non-existing world in which time does not appear to occur. It communicates in a way that makes you want to explore the relationships within the compositions and trying to understand them. His way of working ensures that you draw your own position in doubt as a spectator, when watching the visuals. It causes a delusion in the real world.
Through this philosophy I designed 'Leif's Labyrinth'. The infographic shows the outcome of an investigation I did. By analyzing 66 album covers Podhajsky designed for various artists and bands that got my attention. The recurring elements Podhajsky uses created his recognizable style. You never immediately understand (if at all) what you are looking at. The characteristic design elements within the album covers are translated into symbols for the infographic.
Podhajsky often used structures such as reflections, layers/depth and repetitions to generate images. This creates a kind of maze that has a psychological effect on the spectator. Often you will be drawn into the work and you get into a non-earthly world to that which arose from Leif's fantasy. I therefore designed the infographic as a labyrinth. This way also the music source (analyzing album covers) and the psychedelic effect music can have on you, is translated into the design. A big maze you'll have to find your way through.
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An important aspect in the sketch and design phase of the infographic was the formal language. I wanted to use Podhasjky only as the source material and eventually design in my own style. There could not arise a collision between Podhajsky and me.
My graphic style is characterized mostly by certain simplicity in use of structures and colors. Because the subject and the use of the symbols themselves are complicated enough, the infographic had to look simple and entertaining. But is actually very technical and complex, as you look closer. Nevertheless, the information has to communicate clearly to the spectator. For this I used a legend, an umbrella title that covers the whole project in combination with a short subtitle. Now it's your turn to unravel the elements of the labyrinth.
*Joost van Vredendaal's work often looks at the interfaces between his own fascinations and social affairs. This often creates a universal language that simultaneously feels personal and autonomous. As a graphic designer, he relates well with text/typography, music and video technology. For more information please visit his website, and connect with him on iTunes (Joseph-v), LinkedIn, YouTube and Vimeo.


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Word on the street is that after Tiger Woods competes in the Master's Tournament this week he may be looking to renew his vows to wife Elin Nordegren. That might be a good idea considering that their original wedding vows have been pretty much tarnished beyond repair after all of that cheating stuff.
Tiger is hoping that by playing well in the Master's that he will be able to win back his fans and sponsors. And after he's won over our hearts and minds with his amazing golf skills, Tiger hope to regain the trust of his wife by recommitting himself to their marriage.
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- What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?
- Internet of Things: What it Enables
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What is the Internet of Things (IoT)?
The Internet of Things is the next stage in the Internet's evolution, where traditionally unintelligent items—such as thermostats, air conditioners, watches, etc.—begin communicating via the Internet, creating a seamless intelligence that enhances human existence. Imagine your home knowing that your car is approaching, so it opens the garage door, unlocks the door to the house, turns on music and warms the hot tub. Simple actions on your part can cause a cascade of actions perfectly tailored to your personal desires. This is just one example of what happens when everyday items are infused with intelligence and the ability to communicate with each other and with various disparate sources of information. How big will the Internet of Things become? According to Gartner we will have 26 Billion devices connected to the Internet by 2020, ABI says 30B devices by 2020, while Oracle says we will have 8B people and 50B devices connected by 2020.
Internet of Things: What it Enables
The Internet of Things, through coordinated learning, integration of disparate data sources and action, creates a personal orchestra of actions that seamlessly enrich your life. It also enriches your engagement with various things, people and the various companies that create the tapestry of your life. Think of it as things, people and companies working in harmony to tailor every experience and interaction to your personal tastes, all automatically.
Imagine you sit down at a slot machine and insert your affinity card. The slot machine welcomes you by name and, knowing that you were just watching the Nascar race in your room, modifies its graphics to look and act like a Nascar themed slot machine. It knows your favorite drink and orders one for you. Knowing that your wife and kids are in the room, it may offer them a free movie so that they don't disturb you. After an hour of play, it recognizes that you have lost $400, so it comps you with a $100 gift certificate to the local restaurant, also tailored to your personal dietary preferences. This is a typical day in the life of the Internet of Things.
From the user's perspective, all of these actions simply happen without any involvement from him. In reality, they involve coordination between various databases, web services and devices. Certain actions or combinations of actions might trigger other actions. In the example above, the loss of $400 in a defined period of time triggered a search for the user's dining preference and generation and delivery of a coupon for the complimentary meal certificate.
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Internet of Things: Communications
The Internet of Things is comprised of an almost infinite array of devices and data sources that need to communicate. Devices may communicate with each other in a peer-to-peer (or device-to-device, or D2D) manner, using technology such as proximal ad hoc connections where devices discover one another and interact. This may lead to service federation or chaining. There may be a central controller or application, such as a home controller, that devices can connect to in an ad hoc fashion, either directly or via service chaining. These central applications or controllers may or may not be connected to the Internet. Devices may also discover various gateways (e.g. WiFi or mobile phones) that provide connections to some central hub. Some device may have autonomous connections such as an automobile, enabling it to communicate without a gateway such as a mobile phone. Other devices will leverage low-power radio or chirp networks enabling autonomous connectivity.
In case the communications options aren't diverse enough, there is also the type of communication to consider. Some communications are 1-way, while others are 2-way. In the case of 1-way communications, the data can be pushed from the device (such as device status information) or to the device (such as updates to the device's local information, firmware or software).
In short, device communications will create an increasing flood of data, by virtue of their sheer numbers and the amount of information they can create and consume. Most people, if asked, would identify Twitter as the leading creator of of Big Fast Data, or large amounts of data flooding in at very high velocity. However, automobile data, even at this nascent stage dwarfs Twitter's data volume and velocity. A single car can generate data from all of its various systems—brakes, suspension, engine, etc., and any number of onboard sensors—on a second-by-second basis. This is just one example, but there are many such things that are beginning to generate a flood of data.
Internet of Things: Data Management Requirements
Just as the Internet of Things involves weaving together multiple connected devices, the data requirements are defined by weaving together disparate data sources. It requires the integration of customer data, billing information, device data, web services data (e.g. weather and traffic data), and more. The diversity of the data is just one of the challenges, but it is a significant one.
In addition to data diversity, data volume and velocity are considerable challenges. The Internet of Things generates a massive flood of data that dwarfs human generated data such as Twitter and Google. Devices generate a flood of data that must be ingested, evaluated for trend data and anomalies, and used to trigger various actions. The two primary characteristics of the data flood are volume and velocity. The velocity challenge puts a massive load on data management technologies, because the data may be pouring in at a rate of millions of elements a second. One might consider using in-memory systems to handle this velocity, except that it also presents the twin challenge of data volume. The data must be stored to provide a historical context for evaluating trends over time. With memory costing 465-times more than disk-based storage systems, in-memory is simply too expensive for managing this volume of data. Even systems using high-powered compression systems cannot make in-memory systems affordable at this data volume.
The next challenge facing data management in the age of the Internet of Things is real-time data processing. Much of the value of the Internet of Things is the ability of everyday items to respond to your actions, more or less in real-time. Since this response is often an orchestrated effort leveraging a variety of device inputs and other data, the ability to process the data and respond in real-time puts an extra load on the data infrastructure. In these near-real-time scenarios, systems like Hadoop, which are based on a time-consuming batch process simply do not work.
In addition to real-time or near-real-time demands, time predicates are an integral aspect of many Internet of Things data requirements. For example information from your car's braking system should be time-stamped so that the data can be evaluated to determine trends over time. You might, for example, see that the system is showing wear and braking response is declining, indicating that it is time to change your brake pads. Time predicates are an integral capability for much of the device data generated via the Internet of Things.
Much of the data generated by an Internet of Things demands transactional integrity and high-availability. Device data often triggers certain financial actions such as billing for usage, or usage tiers. For these reasons, a common requirement is transactional integrity—ensuring that each action is registered once and only once and that any failure in the process results in a roll-back and resubmission of the entire transaction. A capability that goes hand-in-hand with transactional systems and real-time demands is high-availability. You don't want the system to go down, and you cannot afford to lose data in a worst case scenario.
Another data management challenge is the multiple use cases of the data. Device data may be used operationally—triggering certain actions in real-time—and it may also be leveraged to glean analytic insight regarding trends and for predictive purposes. These demands typically require very different tools, and introduce a significant data integration challenge.
Data Architectures for the Internet of Things
Most data architects look at the diverse set of requirements above and begin assembling a collection of specialized data stores and a flow of data between these stores. The typical architecture involves the following components:
SQL Database: Low-volume and low-velocity data such as customer data, billing, inventory and the like are typically stored in a SQL database that provides transactional integrity and some level of fail-over or high-availability for the mission-critical data.
NoSQL Database: The NoSQL database is typically used to address the fast data ingest problem for device data. In some cases, there may be a stream processor—e.g. Storm, Samza, Kinesis, etc.—addressing data filtering and routing and some lightweight processing, such as counts. However, the NoSQL database is typically used because, unlike most SQL databases, which top out at about 5,000 inserts/second, you can get up to 50,000 inserts/second from NoSQL databases. However, NoSQL databases are not designed to handle the analytic processing of the data or joins, which are common requirements for Internet of Things applications. NoSQL effectively provides a real-time data ingest engine for data that is then moved to Hadoop using an extract, transform and load (ETL) process.
Hadoop: Hadoop provides the low-cost storage and analytic processing to handle the sheer volume of device data. However, Hadoop's batch process can take 6-48 hours, knocking it out of the real-time analytics space. Hadoop vendors are working to minimize this impact with incremental batching and in-memory systems but these create other challenges (rigidity and cost). The bottom line is that Hadoop provides a low-cost high-volume data warehouse, but it doesn't address high-velocity data or ad hoc analytic processing.
ScaleDB: Database of Things™
ScaleDB is a dual-purpose database: delivering both transactional processing and analytic processing. By leveraging a storage tier—similar to Hadoop HDFS, but optimized for fine grain ad hoc database processing—that delivers parallel processing similar to MapReduce, ScaleDB is able to deliver best of breed analytic performance, while at the same time delivering more traditional SQL-based transactional functionality.
ScaleDB also delivers unparalleled data ingest support, that even NoSQL cannot touch, handling 1,500,000 inserts per second. Most shocking is that this performance is achieved using low-cost SATA disks. In fact, a cluster based on hardware costing less than $10,000 delivers a sustained 1.5M inserts/second and queries 20M rows/second. ScaleDB, which acts as a clustering infrastructure for MySQL, supports all MySQL tools and applications, providing a built-in ecosystem.
ScaleDB is fully transactional and does not have a single point of failure (SPOF), making it highly available. All data is mirrored, to avoid data loss and deliver high-availability (HA).
ScaleDB is also a time-series database. It is highly optimized for the storage and querying of time-series data. This is critical for time-sensitive device data and for analytics used to find or predict time-based trends in the data.
Knitting together SQL, NoSQL and Hadoop tools, which is time consuming, presents programming challenges, and results in a fragile system. ScaleDB delivers a single unified data management solution. It delivers the performance, scale and cost-efficiency needed to make it the database for the Internet of Things or, more appropriately, the Database of Things.
Note of thanks to Ivan Chong at Informatica for his market insights and IoT examples.


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Apple iPad 5, iPad mini 2 release date leaks out
0. phoneArena posted on 15 Oct 2013, 07:41
The release dates for new iPads, Macbook Pros and the futuristic Mac Pro have leaked out and it looks like Apple will be ready to fully overhaul its portfolio for the Holiday season…
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. Tommy1960i (Posts: 119; Member since: 11 Oct 2013)
All I need is retina display, a better processor, more ram, better gpu and a better camera.
5. scriptwriter (Posts: 396; Member since: 13 Nov 2012)
Android has you covered for all of this. Stop whining
8. Finalflash (Posts: 3527; Member since: 23 Jul 2013)
Don't intervene, it is the annual Apple fan ritual you are observing here. This is where they pray to Jobs' spirit to grant them wishes even they know won't come true for several years (at which time the wishes of that time will be made and completed in the following decade). This is their tradition and custom and a part of evolution, you cannot make them take the leap forward to Android, they won't be able to handle the shock of getting what they want.
9. E.N. (Posts: 2610; Member since: 25 Jan 2009)
Maybe you should start praying too cause Android tablets suck.
Without a good app ecosystem you're basically customizing all day.
10. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
Well, large tablets suck. 7" tablets aren't bad in terms of app optimization. Not many apps are optimized for 10" tablets though.
11. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
I doubt you're getting more RAM in the iPad 5, but the iPad mini 2 will get a bump up to 1 GB. The iPad 5 will probably have an A7X chip, which will most likely consist of 2 Cyclone cores clocked at 1.3 GHz and the PowerVR G6630 along with 1 GB of RAM, which will definitely be a beast. The iPad mini 2 will basically be a larger iPhone 5S; A7 chip, 1 GB RAM, Retina display, definitely sufficient enough for practical use, but doesn't have the same beastly GPU as the iPad 5.
2. Shatter (Posts: 2036; Member since: 29 May 2013)
Just now getting haswell = fail. I have had my i5 4670k since early June.
3. Dorothy69 (banned) (Posts: 498; Member since: 21 May 2013)
Well dag'on I'z hopin to see a pitcher of that futuristicly Mac Books Pro. Can ya'll uploads one so I can sees what it look like? I need to upgrades my old window Gateway and has my heart set on something sleek and shiny and all futuristics.
4. Shatter (Posts: 2036; Member since: 29 May 2013)
Just get a windows PC with a ssd and a decent CPU and lag will be non existent in the UI and everything loads instantly.
6. Dorothy69 (banned) (Posts: 498; Member since: 21 May 2013)
I thought bout gettin another window one but I was on the bus the other day and I saw this cute lil girl using one of those Mac things and she just looked like she was havin so much fun on it - praise Jesus!! I axed her what it was and she told me Macbook - at first sounded like she said Mac & Cheese so I told her "no darlin, I had my breakfast this mornin - thank you". But then she came correct and told me it was one of them Apple Macs. But I was just so amazed at what that child was doin on that thing - she was right-clickin and left-clicken and highlighten stuff and draggin stuff - she was a pretty little thing too. Anyway, I tried that new Window 8 - too many squares, makes me feel like Im starin at a jigsaw puzzle.
7. bukas4luv (Posts: 5; Member since: 15 Oct 2013)
Let's wait and see
12. amir1975 (Posts: 22; Member since: 18 Aug 2012)
Apple products are specially designed for St**id people, you pay 4 or 5 times more for a macBook pro, the same specs (new intel CORE i7 CPU + New Graphic chipsets from AMD or Nvidia + ...) can be found in a mid range LapTop with windows 8.
to be frank, people buy Apple not for the quality, not for design, not for performance, etc (cause you buy this TAG : MADE IN CHINA not MADE IN USA!) .. they just buy it to show it to each other, they think they are buying class!
that's truth, accept it, and also accept it if you are an apple fan boy. you are Stupid about American dream.
and Also, Americans with powerful propaganda, better know how to keep the market towards Apple.
Crazy World.
but i am not Crazy, i am not Stupid.


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Brazilian model Alessandra Ambrosio, 30, was seen heading to a Halloween party with her daughter Anja, 3, in Los Angeles, Calif. on Sunday (October 30). The mother-daughter duo got into the spirit and dressed up for the afternoon shindig.
The Victoria's Secret supermodel mommy sported a purple wig while her sweet tot made for quite the adorable little princess. The proud mom tweeted, "Princess Bela!!!"
Earlier this month, we spotted the pretty pair picking out pumpkins in sunny Santa Monica.


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Jason Moran Fats Waller Dance Party
Acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran and a select group of musicians will modernize "Fats" Waller's rhythmic stride style sound into contemporary dance music that will have the joint at South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center (SMPAC) jumpin' on April 26.
Jason Moran has been described as "jazz's wild card, a probing conceptualist who transforms everything he touches into a bracingly contemporary statement" (SF Jazz). He is the Kennedy Center's artistic advisor for jazz and the recipient of a 2010 MacArthur Fellowship. He has received several "Rising Star" awards from Downbeat magazine's critics' polls and has released eight albums, both solo and with his group, the Bandwagon. Moran is known for collaborations among jazz and the visual arts, dance, documentary film and more.
Jason Moran: Fats Waller Dance Party is Saturday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m. at South Milwaukee PAC, 901 15th Avenue in South Milwaukee. Tickets are $12 - $29. Visit www.southmilwaukeepac.org or call (414) 766-5049 for more information.


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.. north cross west face, showing Adam and Eve at the centre of the head with David with a harp to the left and the Sacrifice of Isaac to the right. Daniel in the lion's den is shown at the top of the shaft with below that the temptation of St Anthony and at the bottom of the shaft are three figures. The western side of the base is decorated with some wonderful spirals. (http://www.megalithicireland.com/High%20cross%20castledermot.htm)
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Saturday, 04 May 2013 12:16 PM
YOLA, Nigeria — A health official says at least 24 people have been killed in ethnic violence in a rural town in Nigeria.
The attack happened Friday in Wukari, a town in Nigeria's Taraba state.
A state health official said Saturday that others were also injured in the violence that sparked during a funeral service that pitted the Jukun people against the Hausa Fulani. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he wasn't authorized to publicly release death tolls.
Officials later placed the town on a 24-hour curfew, forcing everyone indoors.
A similar round of violence in February in the town killed more than 20 people.
Nigeria, home to more than 160 million people, has more than 250 different ethnicities. Violence can start over politics, business, grazing rights, religion and other issues.
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The week of funerals for the 26 Sandy Hook victims continues with more hearses for babies. I cry when I think of not only the tremendous loss of these children but also a community that must say goodbye to so many in such a short period of time. But Newtown, Connecticut continues to amaze me with their goodbye to 7-year-old Daniel Barden, who reportedly wanted to be a firefighter. And even though he never got the opportunity to grow up and be one, firefighters from neighboring areas chose to bury him like he was.
Connecticut Post reports that more than 100 firefighters lined the driveway of Lima Church standing at attention in uniform, some of whom were playing bagpipes. They are reported to have come from New York City, Simsbury, New London, Lyme as well as other towns and cities to show their support for a fallen little man:
"We came here to show support," said John Cummings of Ladder Co. 45 in New York City and treasurer of the NYC Firefighters Brotherhood Association. Daniel had cousins who are New York City firefighters. Most got text messages Tuesday telling them Daniel wanted to be a firefighter, too. "We're here to show our support for this community like our community was deeply affected after 9/11. We're here to return the favor," said Lt. Eddy Boles, another NYC firefighter.
The tremendous tribute and gesture to Daniel and his family is another heart wrenching reminder to all that was lost last Friday. I'm just in tears.
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A Royal Caribbean press release offers the following:
"The sea trials included a test of the aerostat -- a helium-filled, blimp-like craft -- which was tethered to the back of the ship by a stainless steel cable. The aerostat producer, Lindstrand Technologies Ltd., was conducting an unmanned test flight of the aerostat, when a failure occurred and the aerostat separated from the ship and drifted away over open water. No one was injured during this incident and no damage to the ship occurred. The aerostat landed in the water and we are in the process of retrieving it.
"The aerostat was produced and being tested by Lindstrand Technologies Ltd., a U.K.-based company that has been building lighter-than-air vehicles on the same site for almost 21 years. Royal Caribbean is working with Lindstrand to evaluate the cause of the incident."
Turun Sanomat, a Turku, Finland-based newspaper, provides more details of the giant Goldfish-cracker-shaped balloon's escape. The publication is reporting that when the blimp came unmoored, the proper authorities were immediately contacted, including Swedish and Finnish military. This was done because the blimp posed a potential threat to air traffic (note: the threat to air traffic has been substantially reduced since the blimp is in the water).
Finland native Teijo Niemela, publisher of Cruise Business Review, translated the news report for Cruise Critic.
--by Dan Askin, Associate Editor
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Pasadena CA (JPL) May 29, 2014
Stars that are just beginning to coalesce out of cool swaths of dust and gas are showcased in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS).
Infrared light has been assigned colors we see with our eyes, revealing young stars in orange and yellow, and a central parcel of gas in blue. This area is hidden in visible-light views, but infrared light can travel through the dust, offering a peek inside the stellar hatchery.
The dark patch to the left of center is swaddled in so much dust, even the infrared light is blocked. It is within these dark wombs that stars are just beginning to take shape.
Called the Serpens Cloud Core, this star-forming region is located about 750 light-years away in Serpens, or the "Serpent," a constellation named after its resemblance to a snake in visible light.
The region is noteworthy as it only contains stars of relatively low to moderate mass, and lacks any of the massive and incredibly bright stars found in larger star-forming regions like the Orion nebula. Our sun is a star of moderate mass. Whether it formed in a low-mass stellar region like Serpens, or a high-mass stellar region like Orion, is an ongoing mystery.
The inner Serpens Cloud Core is remarkably detailed in this image. It was assembled from 82 snapshots representing a whopping 16.2 hours of Spitzer observing time. The observations were made during Spitzer's "warm mission," a phase that began in 2009 after the observatory ran out of liquid coolant, as planned.
Most of the small dots in this image are stars located behind, or in front of, the Serpens nebula.
The 2MASS mission was a joint effort between the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, also in Pasadena.
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Chicago • The nation's first full face transplant patients are growing into their new appearances literally.
Medical imaging shows new blood vessel networks have formed, connecting transplanted skin with the patients' facial tissue, a finding that may help improve future face transplant surgeries, doctors announced Wednesday.
Dallas Wiens, the first U.S. man to get a full face transplant, is a remarkable example of that success. The 28-year-old Fort Worth man attended Wednesday's annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America with his new wife and golden retriever guide dog. Despite still visible facial scars from the March 2011 surgery, he looks and sounds like a recovered man.


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It appears the downturn in the economy has taken its toll on another Sheridan landmark. Sheridan Media's Ron Richter
has more.
The Historic Sheridan Inn opened in 1893, reveled by many as the finest hotel between San Francisco and Chicago. The Inn has certainly seen its share of ups and downs throughout the years, as revolving ownership and several bankruptcies and closures are all part of the building's historic legacy.
The Sheridan Heritage Center, a non-profit organization, took over ownership of the building in 1998. Despite a feverish campaign to renovate the Inn and turn it back into a fully operational hotel, it appears the home of Buffalo Bill Cody has once again fallen on hard times.
Sheridan Heritage Center Treasurer Renee' Obermueller explains.
Obermueller says that the future of the Sheridan Inn remains up in the air.
As far as how much funding is needed to finish the renovation?
The loan that was defaulted on was taken out in 2008 in the amount of $1.8 million. The notice to proceed with foreclosure was due to the fact the the Sheridan Heritage Center could not keep up with the monthly payments of $7,000, and owed the bank over $1.4 million on the loan.


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A SILVER saucer appears to be hovering in the sky above a sleepy East Lancashire village in this quick snap taken on a mobile phone.
Aron Sacks was looking out of his bedroom window in the village of Stacksteads when he saw something strange floating in the sky.
The 34-year-old grabbed his mobile phone and snapped the mysterious object before it disappeared into the murky grey seconds later.
He claims that it hovered in the sky for a few seconds before silently zooming off at high speed.
The carpenter, who works for JJ Ormerods Limited in the village, said: "I've never seen anything like this before it was amazing. I was just looking out of the window to see what the weather was like and I spotted it in the distance. I grabbed my phone and took a quick picture and then when I looked again it had gone – it was quite spooky."
Sightings of UFOs run in the family, with Aron's father Mike, claiming to have seen numerous unidentified objects hovering in the skies over their home.
The 69-year-old, said: "I saw UFOs a couple of times during 1978 and 1979.
"The first one was at about 2am in the morning when we were woken up by the brilliance of some lights in the night sky.
"When I looked out there was an object 600ft up. It was a carousel shape and it was travelling at about 80mph towards Lee Mill Quarry. There were six people who saw it that night and its not really that surprising as this is UFO valley."
Mr Sacks made his way to the quarry along with two police officers, but after looking for several hours they failed to find anything. Four months later, in February 1979, Mr Sacks said he saw a 'pulsing' object out of his bedroom window.
And then in May 1979, as he watched the sky with a friend, he said a craft appeared in the sky just feet away from them.
Mr Sacks said: "It was absolutely amazing. There were lights shining from it and there were huge big jet black triangle things beneath it."
In 2008, Mike, was interviewed on Five's Britain's Close Encounters about the three sightings in Rossendale between late 1978 and mid 1979.