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April 16th, 2012

Songza, a social Internet radio service, is today launching apps for Android, iPhone and Web that give listeners access to playlists for most any genre Replica handbags, activity or mood.

Songza co-founder and CEO Elias Roman said he envisions Songza as a music concierge. So the interface is not oriented toward search (like Spotify) or artist-specific channels (like Pandora) — or a virtual communal listening experience, like fellow social music service Turntable.fm.

Instead, users have access to a selection of the 75,000 streaming playlists people have already created on Songza, like “Up All Night” or “Walking on Sunshine.”

In case the directory isn’t doing it for you, there’s also an activity feed of friends’ listens and a “just for you” section of personalized recommendations. You can’t create new playlists from the mobile apps — that’s a Web-only feature.

Roman said Songza is “working with other social services to keep a listening history,” which would seem to refer to Facebook’s expected upcoming music integrations.

Songza recently raised an undisclosed amount of funding led by Deep Fork Capital.

Consumption Dinnerware at Demian Repucci

March 8th, 2011

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The ‘Consumption’ Porcelain Dinnerware accumulation consists of a set of 4 10.5” diameter nice pearly porcelain banquet plates. Each panel is decorated with a graphic representation of a particular statistical facet of our universal food expense. Hopefully the design of these plates ambition help to corner conversations at the dinner chart to one aboveboard lecture above our countries eating habits.

MB&F Horological Machine No.2 Cover

March 6th, 2011


On Sunday 18th November, the Hour Glass hosted a small supper party at a Japanese restraurant with Max Busser and his MB&F No.2 as the visitor of honour. I was kindly invited to photograph this monumental chip, the second from this fashionable mark and yet it has brought some applaud with collectors from entire over.

Max has repeatedly kindly admitted to model his see because me and the image here namely shared with magnificent satisfaction. The MB&F No.2 namely what I phone a "uncomplicated complications" – a tautology of course merely because me it accurately describes the retrograde minute manoeuvre with double moons. While every of the function it features do no rate as a lofty complication, altogether – in its form cannot be narrated as a easy watch. While it follows above from the toubillon of the No.1 Replica Handbags, this see does no sallow in comparison to its elder brother. It traits well on the wrist Replica Watches, cozy but only for those who are able to handle with the consideration it brings.

More to come in days forward while I am able to complete the post processing of the images. So come behind soon.

- HT

Postscript – I recently published this Black & White Montage of portraits of Mr Maximilian Busser I captured during the launch nightfall here in Singapore. Click it to see the web edition.

Hapa above the Hill namely Back

March 2nd, 2011

If you live in Boulder, you understand Hapa. It’s the place to dine Magic Mushrooms and Multiple Orgasm Rolls, nectar Purple Haze Sake, and listen to some of the best DJ sets in Boulder. The food may be somewhat Americanized, but it’s still very tasteful. Fknow next to nothing ofme period now, there have been 2 Hapas in Boulder — an ashore jewelry Street, and one aboard the college-crazed “Hill.” The audience namely very different at every to say the least. I’ve all enjoyed the experience by Hapa on the Hill; Ken Yuasa, the director, always does a great job of staffing it with great people. Needless to say, I was both excited and disappointed while Hapa on the Hill closed its gates behind the spring semester to do a huge remodel. Ken has shared photos with me throughout the process, and they actually did a number on the place — not merely has it been distended to be over double the size (the age one was pretty small– not a wrong thing necessarily), but they’ve also joined superfluity of orange and black Hapa flair Replica Handbags, not to advert a huge new bar. I’ve included a photo here of the ‘almost finished’ product, but you get the fancy. Today it reopens with — for Ken put it — a “soft fire.” If you’re in Boulder, pate up to the Hill and try to make sure the launch isn’t so soft Omega Museum Watches, will ya?

Shanghai halts sale of suspected ‘dyed’ oranges

December 11th, 2010

SHANGHAI: Shanghai authorities have ordered fruit vendors to stop selling oranges that have allegedly been dyed with a toxic wax, Chinese media said Friday, in the country's latest food safety scare.

The Shanghai government has ordered tests on the oranges after consumers complained their skin was turning red after coming in contact with oranges sold in local markets replica handbags, the Oriental Morning Post reported.

Industrial dyes can damage people's memory, immune systems and cause
respiratory problems fake watches, the newspaper said.

“Tissue (paper) turns red when you wipe them and if you hold the oranges in your palm, it will turn red,” a consumer surnamed Hu told the newspaper.

An unnamed seller at a wholesale agricultural products market told the newspaper that some oranges had been dyed with a toxic industrial wax so “they look fresher and sell at higher prices”.

Shanghai authorities have ordered sellers to pull the oranges off their shelves and are conducting tests, the report said.

It was unclear whether the oranges were dyed by sellers in the city or producers in Jiangxi province in eastern China, the report said.

The Chinese government has come under increasing pressure from its citizens as well as countries such as the United States and Japan to improve the standard of its food and medicines.

In a scandal in 2008, at least six children died and around 300,000 fell sick after consuming milk powder laced with the industrial chemical melamine, which was added to make products appear higher in protein.

Wheat turmoil to make rice prices volatile

November 28th, 2010

Major crop losses in key wheat-growing regions around the world are likely to lead to more volatile prices of rice in the coming months, experts at the International Rice Research Institute warned Wednesday.

The problem is compounded by flood damage in Pakistan’s rice-growing areas, as well as drought and floods in China, with the latter potentially causing a 5-10 percent output drop this year, they said.

"Overall, the global rice supply is tightening, but it is not as bad as what is happening in the major wheat-growing regions in the world," the Philippine-based IRRI said in its quarterly magazine "Rice Today."

"Given these supply uncertainties louis vuitton replica, (rice) prices are likely to be more volatile in the coming months, but nothing points to a repeat of the 2008 price crisis replica handbags," when rice prices rocketed to 30-year highs.

The price of wheat spiked to two-year highs in August when Russia imposed a temporary ban on 2010 wheat exports following drought and wildfires that are forecast to cut its annual output by more than 30 percent.

Neighbors and fellow exporters Kazakhstan and Ukraine were also hit hard, while heavy rain has wreaked havoc in major Canadian wheat-growing regions.

Meanwhile, global rice production for the same period is likely to rise 3.26 percent to 455 million tons, it quoted the US agency as saying.

The institute said higher rice stockpiles compared with 2008 may not be of much benefit because many are sitting in India and China, which, it said, are unlikely to release the stocks in the international market during any crisis.

AFP

China May economic data complicates future policymaking

November 27th, 2010

Economic data for May released Friday showed that China was eyeing rising inflation and slowing economic growth replica watch, indicative of what the "the most complicated year" meant for the country’s economy.

 Experts said the mixed bag of economic data would make it difficult for China’s policymakers in the coming months.

 China’s consumer price index (CPI) louis vuitton handbags, a main gauge of inflation, rose in May to 3.1 percent, the highest since November 2008, according to figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) Friday.

 The NBS also reported that growth of industrial value-added output slowed to 16.5 percent in May from 17.8 percent in April.

 Urban fixed assets investment for the first five months rose 25.9 percent year on year, 0.2 percentage points down from the first four months.

INFLATION QUICKENS

 The 3.1 percent CPI growth was up 0.3 percentage points from April’s rise of 2.8 percent. In the first five months, China’s CPI rose 2.5 percent year on year.

 The May figure exceeded the government’s year-average target of 3 percent set in March.

 The producer price index (PPI), a major measure of inflation at the wholesale level, rose 7.1 percent year on year in May, up 0.3 percentage points from April’s 6.8 percent.

 In May, the CPI in China’s urban areas increased 2.9 percent and in rural regions by 3.3 percent. Food prices, which accounted for about a third of the weighting in calculating the CPI replica handbags, rose 6.1 percent.

 China’s inflation has stood above 2.25 percent, the one-year deposit interest rate set by the government, for four consecutive months, which ignited growing expectations of interests rate hikes.

 NBS spokesman Sheng Laiyun said the higher inflation was because of a low comparison basis from the same period last year and was pushed up by food prices hikes.

 However, he said the inflationary pressure was easing and China had the basics for keeping prices under control this year.

 Declining commodities prices amid the European sovereign debt crisis would reduce the inflationary pressures replica louis vuitton, he said.

 "Although China faces quite a lot of pressure, the 3-percent target is still possible," he said.

 Lu Ting, China economist of the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, said in an e-mailed note that China’s rising inflation could be interpreted negatively by markets, and would be a risk for a few more months.

 "We don’t expect a knee-jerk reaction from policymakers: interest rates won’t be hiked until the fourth quarter this year," he said.

 Xiong Peng, researcher at the Shanghai-based Bank of Communications, China’s fifth largest lender, said that China’s CPI was expected to peak in June or July, and average at 3 to 4 percent for the whole year.

 The government was likely to postpone raising interest rates to the third quarter, he added.

 The People’s Bank of China, or the central bank, said new yuan-dominated loans in May fell to 639.4 billion yuan (93.6 billion US dollars) from 774 billion yuan in April.

Decisions loom on Potash bids

November 26th, 2010

Russian fertilizer company Phosagro is planning to bid for Potash Corp, according to a media report, rivaling BHP Billiton’s $39 billion offer, which is awaiting a crucial ruling from the Canadian government.

Phosagro Chairman Vladimir Litvinenko has asked Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to approve a potential deal and request financing from Russian banks, Russian business newspaper Vedomosti reported Wednesday.

Vedomosti, citing a letter from Litvinenko to Putin, said it was unclear how much Phosagro planned to bid for Potash.

Analysts said it appeared unlikely that Phosagro was able to make a rival bid financially.

A Sydney-based analyst replica handbags, who declined to be named, said he wouldn’t have thought the company was big enough to make an offer for Potash.

He said Russia’s biggest fertilizer companies, Uralkali and Silvinit, would be the only such firms big enough to bid for Potash.

Two Canadian newspapers reported Tuesday that bureaucrats were advising the government to allow BHP’s bid in the world’s largest fertilizer market, although rumors have swirled that Ottawa would block it.

The Canadian government was expected to announce its decision late Wednesday, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.

Reuters