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HONG KONG, Oct.迷你倉 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. market investors can reveal the performance of company insiders from insider trading reports. Today's reports will cover the following stocks: Facebook , Rite Aid , Alcoa , Verizon , Bank of America , and Microsoft .(Logo: photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100419/HKM001LOGO )(Read full report by clicking the link below, you may need to copy and paste the full link to your browser.)Report Highlights:Facebook Inc : By the end of last trading session, shares of Facebook rose 2.10% (or US$1.08) to US$52.21 with 71.35 million shares exchanging hands, compared to daily average volume of 84.10 million. Insiderslab.com found company VP, Gen. Counsel & Secretary, Colin Stretch, sold his shares at a price of US$50.01 on October 16. Investors may want to find out how Facebook insiders like CEOs, CFOs and Directors are thinking about the future of the company. Check this insider trade report for FB here.Read Full Report: .insiderslab.com/PR3/101813A/FB/Facebook.pdfRite Aid Corporation : By the end of last trading session, Rite Aid shares soared 4.09% to US$5.35 with about 36.85 million shares exchanging hands for the session, compared to its average volume of 36.41 million shares. Insiderslab.com found company Sr. EVP, CFO, CAO, Frank Vitrano, sold his shares at a price of US$4.99 on October 14. Investors may want to find out how Rite Aid insiders like CEOs, CFOs and Directors are thinking about the future of the company.Read Full Report: .insiderslab.com/PR3/101813A/RAD/RiteAid.pdfAlcoa Inc : By the end of last trading session, Alcoa shares earned 0.70% to US$8.59 with about 20.52 million shares exchanging hands for the session, compared to its average volume of 26.50 million shares. Insiderslab.com found compan儲存 Director, Ratan Tata, purchased his shares at the price of US$8.39 on October 10. Insiderslab.com believes that it is a clever way to check if insiders like CEOs, CFOs, and Directors in Alcoa are starting to sell more company shares. See insider trade report for AA here.Read Full Report: .insiderslab.com/PR3/101813A/AA/Alcoa.pdfToday Insiderslab.com also observed abnormal trade volume for the following companies; insiders may involve trading in these companies. It will take some time for insiders to report their trades. Read these reports and add these companies into your Insider Trade Radar.Verizon Communications Inc. :Read Full Report: .insiderslab.com/PR3/101813A/VZ/Verizon.pdfBank of America Corp :Read Full Report: .insiderslab.com/PR3/101813A/BAC/BankofAmerica.pdfMicrosoft Corporation :Read Full Report: .insiderslab.com/PR3/101813A/MSFT/Microsoft.pdfInsider Filing Source Reference: All observations, analysis and reports are based on public information released by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.About Insiderslab.com:Insiderslab.com covers insider trade data in major stock markets in the U.S., Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Singapore. Insiderslab.com features a team of experienced data analysts striving to provide the investment community with the tools, software, and data necessary to carry out more effective investment research.Important Disclaimer:Please visit insiderslab.com/disclaimers/disclaimers.php for details.Photo: photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100419/HKM001LOGOInsiderslab.com; Insiders.hkCONTACT: Insiders.hk, Insiderslab.com, info@insiderslab.com,Support@insiders.hk, +1-778-2976120Web site: .insiderslab.com/indexPR.php/ insiderslab.com/disclaimers/disclaimers.php/.insiderslab.com//.insiderslab.com/media/news/1500//mini storage

瑞安房地產旗下佛山嶺南天地．御苑，存倉於日前來港推售首批十伙單位，面積介乎一千六百至二千九百方呎，入場價由二百二十萬元人民幣（約二百六十四萬港元）起，更特別為港人提供不同的付款優惠。佛山嶺南天地．御苑，為瑞安嶺南天地的第三期住宅項目，位處禪城核心地區，項目居高臨下盡收城市的動靜景觀，北鄰國際級古建築文物群東華里，南面則是剛改造完成的省粵劇博物館及兆祥公園。鄰近佛山地鐵一號�祖廟站，前往城市各區均有預算，約半小時可達廣州，另外距離高鐵站僅二十分鐘車程。鄰近地鐵站項目提供四座共二百零八伙的分層單位，每幢樓高二十至二十三層，提供三房至五房間隔，樓底高約三點一五米，預計於明年底入伙。而最近來港推售的涉及其中十伙，面積介乎一千六百至二千九百方呎，售價由二百二十萬元起，該盤並委託中原為港區代理。該三個示範單位正開放予公眾參觀，位於四座的四樓，包括兩個連裝修及一個清水房。設計師以普普風格及異域風格為示範單位作布置儲存並以黑、白色作設計主調，糅合嶺南文化及國際色彩之氣派，讓人眼前一亮。一站式資產管理項目特別引入香港專業物業管理服務，以全天候二十四小時為住戶提供酒店式服務；同時引入一站式資產管理，為住戶解決一切租務管理相關事宜，如房屋空置管理及保潔保養、內部設備維修及整改、代收代繳費用等，打造一站式資產管理模式，讓業主輕鬆無憂。瑞房佛山項目副總監文德純說，「嶺南天地」一至三期中，包括住宅、商鋪及酒店的投資總額，共超過七十億元人民幣，當中二期的住宅項目已套現逾十億七千萬元人民幣，而一期已售罄，二期住宅項目已售出九成，當中也不乏香港人買家，佔總買家量約三成。有不少一期及二期的住客查詢第三期住宅項目，截至上周日相關查詢已超過二百宗。「佛山嶺南天地」位處佛山襌城，發展商源用「上海新天地」保育的方式，改造祖廟東華里片區內的具嶺南風格的歷史建築，保留騎樓、鑊耳牆、青磚屋、石板路、蜿蜒街巷等嶺南建築特色，同時注入現代商業元素。迷你倉

Architect Ben van Berkel's openness and 'can do' stance towards rules and regulations makes him a go-to guy for his clients.迷你倉最平 By Tay Suan ChiangDUTCH architect Ben van Berkel is on a roll. His firm, UNStudio, recently completed Ardmore Residence, its first project in Singapore. Three more are in the works - the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) campus, The Scotts Tower condominium, and mixed use development V on Shenton. SUTD will be ready in 2015, while the other two are expected to be completed in 2016. For a small country, this is a fairly large number for a foreign architect to have. Asked if he is surprised by it, the amazingly down-to-earth architect says instead, he is very honoured. "I feel very comfortable to be working in Singapore," he says. "Ten years ago, I didn't think I would have projects here."He adds: "A lot of people ask me why I like working in Singapore when there are so many regulations to follow. But I tell them, there are even more regulations in Holland. I see them as a challenge rather than as restrictions."Perhaps it is because he constantly "strives for a form of uniqueness" that makes him so popular. "I go for a goal, a story, with each project," he says.For Ardmore Residence, it is about playing up the views which the apartments enjoy. The apartments come with double-volume balconies where the living and dining areas are on one side and bedrooms on the other. The facade has intertwining lines and surfaces that seamlessly incorporate sun-screening. From a distance, the tower appears to adopt vastly divergent contours when viewed from different perspectives, which is what Mr van Berkel intended. "Even though the Residence is private, I see it as a public building as people will see it. It becomes a landmark in its vicinity, so I need to give it some form of identity," he says.He finds it fascinating - "what people do in their lives - the way they live, work . . . their patterns of behaviour."As an architect, he says, he also has to look into the future, to see how people will work and live. The way humans behave is part of his design philosophy. He cites the example of SUTD, where the building can no longer be like Cambridge or Oxford campuses, each building separated from the other."Today students like to be closer to each other, therefore, I made the SUTD campus compact," he says. "There are also plenty of public spaces within campus, where students and lecturers can meet and exchange ideas."Because of his various projects, he is in Singapore at least five times a year. "Singapore has radically changed over the last six迷你倉years, and there are high-quality projects. I can see there is a lot of urban planning in the city", he says.Apart from Singapore, the firm has been leaving its mark on other cities. In fact, about 90 per cent of their work is overseas, with about 11 per cent in the Netherlands. "Ten years ago, it was the other way around," he says. "So I have had to change our culture of working."Mr van Berkel, 56, finds it difficult to name his favourite foreign city where he prefers to work. "I've had good experiences in Singapore, because I can fit in easily. And it is clear that I can produce quality architecture in Singapore."In China, he finds it a more complex process and of South Korea, he says it has been a positive experience. The firm is known for buildings such as the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart and the Galleria department store in Korea. An ongoing project is the construction of Raffles City in Hangzhou. "I've learnt how to communicate at each city through different mechanisms," he says. He adds that often it pays to have a proactive attitude, to inform clients more than they would expect. "I have learnt to be a social scientist to bring projects together. The role of an architect is now that of a multifaceted communicator."Mr van Berkel entered the architecture scene "fairly late, when I was 25". He dabbled in interior, graphic and furniture design, before finding his calling in architecture. "What I did for graphic design would be seen in books and then that was it," he says. "But with architecture, it is a designed project for life. Architecture gave me more ambition to grow."He studied architecture at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Architectural Association in London. In 1988, together with his business partner Caroline Bos, they started Van Berkel & Bos Architectuurbureau. Ten years later, the firm changed its name to UNStudio, short for United Network Studio, referring to the collaborative nature of the practice. Mr van Berkel is still active in furniture design. Among the pieces he has created include chairs for brands such as Offecct, Walter Knoll and Wilde+Spieth. "Furniture design is very tactile. You feel the product and it is close to the body," he says. "In comparison, architecture is further away, in the background."But the two have similarities. "You have to find the right material and bring the details together. Just like how I make prototypes of chairs, we do the same for buildings by creating mock-ups." He adds: "Often the time spent on creating a good piece of furniture is the same as time spent on good architecture".taysc@sph.com.sg儲存

從前打機，儲存不是要等家人睇飽電視的深宵時段，就是要自設私家電視。現在，身旁的阿爸阿媽、姨媽姑姐也棄零創意電視劇，轉投低頭族行列，日日轉珠、Candy Crush。在這全民皆（手）機的年代，你是堅守□○△X的一群，還是愛手指掃一掃？記者：陳劭敏攝影：林�鈞、黃子偉、劉永發、陳國良手機遊戲：極速成功感手機遊戲有多普及不在此贅述，單是看每日面書上有多少123猜猜猜的求助個案，或是神魔之塔神獸卡分享，要不撫心一問日花多少時間在小小屏幕上，答案清楚不過。在4As廣告公司TBWA擔任Digital Arts Network總監的Jan，因工作需要閱Game無數，他說一個手機遊戲要成功，一定要夠細：「大多數人玩手機遊戲都是在交通工具車廂或是洗手間，打機的時間可能短至三數分鐘，要切合這些使用環境，遊戲一定要走Bite-Size（小巧）。」手機遊戲每個關卡或任務只消耗幾分鐘，能在短時間內為玩家帶來成功感，或是可隨時離開、接關；而電視遊戲閒閒�也花上數小時，性質大不同，也是前者能廣納機迷的優勝之處。像《Puzzle＆ Dragons》和《神魔之塔》一類的轉珠遊戲大熱，在市場上相類似的遊戲多不勝數，要突出，不容易，「遊戲的成敗取決於細節，可能這個遊戲的過關音效較好，轉珠過程流暢一點點，就已經脫穎而出。」勝負差之毫釐，看來還是自創一條血路更輕鬆，繼轉珠後下一熱潮會是甚麼？「天知道！如果我能預測的話我已把它推銷給所有客人了！」像《Angry Birds》的廠牌Rovio，原來在炮製出這瘋魔全球的小鳥前，已研發了近五十個遊戲，經歷了五十次的失敗，「每次研發手機遊戲程式都像一個實驗，不停失敗、不停嘗試同時不停探索，然後忽然有一天就中了！」商場玩食鬼手機程式除了顛覆遊戲界，同時也為廣告業帶來衝迷你倉，傳統廣告媒介如電視、報章、廣告牌等都是單向式，只能吸引受者短速注意；反之透過手機遊戲作推廣，更能帶出深入訊息和品牌風格，是故越來越多客戶選擇後者，在廣告業界是The next big thing，甚至已是The biggest thing。Jan曾替不少品牌設計遊戲，從前設計廣告要把十個訊息融為一句醒目標語；現在則要逐步鋪排，在遊戲過程中提供趣味或是知識，誘發受者行動，可能是填表格或�優惠。Jan的其中一個設計就是讓玩家在商場內登入，然後跟隨遊戲中的食鬼在實景「吃」優惠。全民皆機手機已不再單是用來打電話，打機可能更重要。本報做街訪，受訪者中十個有九個都會玩手機遊戲，而幾乎全數都不玩電視遊戲，而最受歡迎的遊戲始終是《Candy Crush》。女生最愛《123猜猜猜》熱門免費排行：#4Emoji謎語遊戲，設有多國版本，包括中文、英語、德文、法文等。謎底多是城中熱話，貼近生活。設有分享功能，可上載謎題到facebook。《Candy Crush》熱門免費排行：#1導致低頭族數目急升的遊戲之一。女生打機愛過關，盡攬少女、中女、家庭主婦玩家。相信讀者們也收過不少求車飛的電話訊息。轉珠大熱《Puzzle& Dragons》 最高營收排行：#1（日本）《神魔之塔》被指抄襲的遊戲，由日本廠商開發，iOS版本在日本AppStore銷售額排行榜長期佔據頭三位。《神魔之塔》熱門免費排行：#5背景為神話故事，玩家以轉動符石位置過關，並收集召喚獸，有超過四百個關卡。由80後香港人曾建中開發，縱被轟抄襲依然無損其受歡迎程度。經典復刻《Final Fantasy IV》熱門付費排行：#12在家用遊戲機大受歡迎，移植到手機平台依然支持者眾。系列其他作品都會先後移植，即將移植的將會是第六集。 self storage

Source: Albuquerque Journal, N.mini storageM.Oct. 18--Thursday was a busy day at Pecos National Historic Park, which opened for the first time in 16 days due of the federal government's partial shutdown."We're all really happy. It's great to come back and be able to do what we do well," said Dennis Carruth, superintendent of the park about 20 miles east of Santa Fe that features the ruins of a pueblo and a nearly 400-year-old Spanish mission church.During the federal government shutdown, Curruth added, "The hardest thing I had to do was to tell people, 'I'm sorry, but you can't visit your national park.' "Carruth said most of the 17 federal employees that work at the site were back on the job Thursday."We're doing what we need to do to reopen the park and make sure it's safe for visitors. We're also catching up on administrative work that we've fallen behind on -- paying bills and catching up on mail," he said. "We've got our ruins preservation crew working on stability -- doing patch work from all the rain we had. With the shutdown, all of that had stopped."Carruth said two rangers stayed on during the shutdown to patrol the park and spot check water systems and furnaces, and he came in periodically to check emails and participate in conference calls.During that the time, none of them were being paid. But an amendment to the legislation that was approved by Congress on Wednesday night provides that federal employees will receive back pay."Trust me," Carruth said, "we would have liked to earn our money. I'm just glad that our people here were able to recoup the money that would have been lost through no fault of their own."Visitors to the park were happy, too.The government reopening helped salvage vacation plans for Barbara MacNemar and Shelton Cannon, of Millersville, Md., who were making their first visit to New Mexico."Part of the reason we came to New Mexico was to see the national parks," MacNemar said, adding that seeing pueblo ruins were also on their agenda. "This is the last day of our trip, so we're glad we were able to see this one."Earlier this year, MacNemar purchased a pass that gave her access to any national park in the country. She was disappointed, though, she wasn't able to use it to visit Bandelier and Petroglyph national monuments (both of which opened Thursday) during the shutdown, before having to go back to Maryland.Bill Swanstra and Renee Benser-Swanza left their home in Gladwin, Mich., on a three-week vacation Oc迷你倉. 2, the second day of the government closure. "There was a lot of disappointment along the way," Bill said.The couple wanted to visit the Eisenhower and Truman presidential libraries in the Midwest, but they were closed.One of their main destinations was the Grand Canyon. They happened to be in Flagstaff when the state of Arizona opened the canyon to visitors last Saturday."We had to make a detour and go back," Bill said. "We're glad we were able to see this one and the Grand Canyon."Ohio residents Rex and Peg Lavoie were headed to Arizona to work as volunteers at Tonto National Monument.Now retired, the couple spend most of their time traveling around the country in an R.V. and volunteering at parks and monuments, usually someplace cool during the summer and somewhere warm during the winter months. They are between seasons now, not required to report to Tonto until Nov. 1."I'm glad the parks are open now. I was hoping not to have to stay homeless," Rex quipped."This is our natural time off," Rex said. "Having the time and not being able to go to the parks has been frustrating."Kathy Wood and Rosemary Busterna of Northglenn, Colo., were equally annoyed. "The frustrating part is the national parks belong to us, and we couldn't go see them," Busterna said.Wood said she and Buster-na had planned their trip for a year and several national parks were on their itinerary."We came down to see a bunch of national parks and this is Day 1," she said. "We had to adjust our plans, but it looks like we'll get to see them."Bright and earlyRudy Buse serves as a volunteer at the Pecos National Historic Park visitor's center. He said one visitor, a man from Belgium, was at the park gate at 7 a.m."We don't open until 8," Buse said.The Belgian was the first of 55 visitors to the park for the day."That might be a little less than normal," he said. "I don't think a lot of people expected it to be open the first day."Buse said many visitors expressed gratitude that they were able to visit. "A great number of them say, 'So nice to have you open,' " he said.Almost on cue, the door to the visitor's center opened and a man from California stepped in."I just wanted to say hi," he said. "Glad you're back."Parks reopenStaff puts out the welcome mat for happy touristsPage A1Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.) Visit the Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.) at .abqjournal.com Distributed by MCT Information Services文件倉

一家是鐵了心要退出智能手機市場，儲存一家是明確將“決勝智能手機”作為當前第一大任務。今年以來，市場已經多次傳出聯想收購黑莓的消息，但每次都被證偽。但對於昨日外電最新的報道稱，聯想集團正積極考慮對黑莓發起全盤收購要約的說法，聯想並未明確否認。聯想集團中國區品牌溝通宣傳推廣總監郭彤彥昨日在接受南都記者採訪時，並未直接否認上述報道，只是強調“聯想目前不對市場傳聞做評論”，黑莓至今為止也未對這一消息予以置評。從兩家公司對傳言採取的不同以往的應對措施來看，似乎二者好事已近。聯想收購一箭雙雕在PC市場取得一哥地位之後，聯想自然將目光瞄準了市場規模更大、發展更為迅猛的智能手機領域。“決勝智能手機”也就成為聯想今年的主攻方向。從今年初開始，市場就不斷傳出聯想有意收購黑莓的消息。當地時間本周四，外電援引消息人士的說法稱，聯想集團當前正考慮收購黑莓，聯想集團已經與黑莓簽署了一份“保密協議”，使聯想集團有權查閱黑莓的賬目。盡管聯想和黑莓雙方此前多次都對傳言予以否認，但這一次雙方的態度要曖昧許多。知名IT評論員賈敬華在接受南都記者採訪時表示，聯想要在智能手機領域有所作為，必須有類似當年收購IB MPC業務的動作。“黑莓一方面有相當的品牌知名度，一方面有3000多項與移動設備有關的專利和專利申請，這都是聯想所欠缺的。通過收購，聯想迷你倉以一箭雙雕。而黑莓目前的市值不到50億美元(最高峰時市值超過830億美元)，因此，對於聯想來說，黑莓無疑是個理想的收購標的。”潛在對手多，有監管障礙除了聯想，對黑莓感興趣的買家還有多家，這也使得聯想收購黑莓存在諸多變數。黑莓大股東Fairfax金融控股9月份向黑莓提交了暫定的私有化要約，欲以47億美元私有化這家公司；黑莓聯合創始人麥克·拉扎里迪斯和道格拉斯·弗雷金在上周表示有意參與競購黑莓……。也就是說，即使聯想下決心要收購黑莓，也將面臨諸多競爭對手的攪局。“對聯想有利的是，這些潛在對手中，除了黑莓聯合創始人之外，其他都是投資類公司，並不是實業型公司，這使得黑莓的股東在做決策的時候，很可能更傾向于選擇聯想。”賈敬華分析指出。此外，聯想如果要收購黑莓，還會面臨另一大難題，那就是來自加拿大和美國政府的嚴格審查。黑莓的主業包括兩大塊，一是手機終端硬件業務；另一塊就是安全網絡服務業務，這項業務每天都要處理數百萬封機密的企業和政府電子郵件。美國、加拿大等國家的相關部門，對來自中國的企業的收購，一向都是戴著有色眼鏡，往往會以安全為由，否決收購案。因此，有觀點認為，出于安全考慮，黑莓很可能會被拆分出售，安全網絡服務業務可能會出售給北美企業，而手機終端業務則可以出售給聯想這樣的企業。採寫：南都記者 高凌雲 實習生 賈小軍self storage

仁伯爵綜合醫院急診大樓將於廿三日（下周三）開始逐步運作，mini storage寬敞舒適的候診空間，一體化就診系統，完善硬件設備，優化交通配套等，配合新實行四級分流制度，相信能有效提升急診服務效率，縮短患者的輪候時間。近百病床七十車位隨著本澳社會發展，居民及遊客對急診服務需求倍增，山頂醫院擴建急診大樓由一○年尾動工至今年九月交付，耗時近三年。白色設計的急診大樓與粉色山頂醫院大樓互相呼應，新大樓高四層，總建築面積達十四萬平方米，比原急症室大三倍，原有的廿五張病床增至九十六張，並臨時提供七十一個車位，方便駕車人士到達。現時衛生局急診單位共有二百六十一名醫護及助理人員。一樓為新急診服務中樞，首階段投入使用的包括求診登記、候診、診治以及救護車服務、搶救等。居民從當日起使用急診服務，先到大堂內掛號，再分流至各候診區，室內環境寬敞舒適，較舊急診部擠迫感覺大為改善。救護車亦到達此樓層，搶救室病床增加至六張，較原來增加三倍，並設有X光系統。隨後於三十日急診觀察病房四十三張病床將投入使用，設有開放式或雙人床獨立室，護士站設在病床房中央，方便觀察患者情況。大樓儲存面層為於加思欄馬路入口，設有巴士站方便居民到達，內設領藥處提供夜間服務，由晚上八時至翌日上午九時，方便居民在社區藥房關門後仍有藥可用，急診化驗室提供血液化驗等；廿四小時門診區，平時可分流普通病人，亦能為突發事件起分流應對作用，觀察室提供四十三病床，將於日後投入使用。二樓中心及東北翼為兒科急診，內設候診、診症區、退熱區及觀察病床等，掛號處及候診區以大型落地玻璃提高採光及觀感效果，亦能讓小童在此活動，紓緩家長及病童的緊張感。天面則是與主大樓大堂入口相對，外側花園暫闢作車位，私家車位三十一個，殘障人士車位一個及三十九個電單車位，亦已開放使用。婦兒急診下月底用山頂醫院醫務主任李偉成介紹，首運行期間將與舊急診部一同運作，確保急診服務順利過渡，並為即將舉行的第六十屆大賽車提供醫療支援服務；至十一月下旬，兒科及婦產急診部亦將遷入，急診藥房亦一同遷入大樓地面層運作，並加調醫護人手確保急診大樓運作。相信急診大樓投入使用，能增加急診部的服務能力，並為應對大型災難及不同的突發性公共衛生事件提供完善的硬件設備，並為居民提供更優質的緊急醫療服務。迷你倉

By MENG JING mengjing@chinadaily.文件倉com.cn It seems that just being China’se-commerce king isn’t good enough for Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.After helping more than 80,000 online retailers sell goods across Chi- na, the company plans to team up with more brick-and-mortar stores with the goal of revolu- tionizing the nation’s retail industry.Ahead of Singles Day, which falls on Nov 11, Alibaba has for the i rst time invited about 30,000 offline stores to participate in the nation’slargest online shopping spree.Shoppers are encouraged to check out the real items in physical stores, put their favorites into online shop- ping carts by scanning two-dimen- sional bar codes and buy their choic- es on Nov 11, when huge discounts will be of ered.“With more and more people shopping online, the business of brick-and-mortar stores has been challenged by online rivals. We want to put an end to that by integrat- ing the online and ol ine shopping experiences,” said Zhang Yong, chief operating oi cer of Alibaba.With the growing popularity of mobile Internet use, the line between online and ol ine shopping will be blurred.“Rather than having e-commerce, the entire retail industry will be digi- talized in the future,” he said, adding that Alibaba wants to help digitalize traditional ol ine retailers and help them be more Internet-savvy.He didn’t go into details, saying that Nov 11 would be just kind of a test. He said that the compa- ny plans to cooperate with more offline stores and give them digi- tal upgrades, either on their supply chain management or membership management.h e competition between online retailers and brick-and-mortar stores is getting increasingly i erce in China.Alibaba’s Tmall and Taobao market- places reported a combined 19.1 bil- lion yuan ($3.12 billion) in daily sales for their Double Eleven promotions, double the revenue generated by the United States’ Cyber Monday, which is the Monday at er Black Friday, the Friday following h anksgiving.The change in shopping habits comes as almost half of China’s pop- ulation now has direct access to the Internet. Of that number, nearly 80 percent own smartphones or tab存倉ets.China’s e-commerce market grew at an average rate of 71 percent from 2009 to 2012, and its value is expect- ed to reach 3.3 trillion yuan by 2015, said a report released by consultancy Bain & Co on Wednesday.However, chain retailers have had a tougher time over the past sev- eral years. The total sales of listed retail companies rose 12.2 percent year-on-year in 2012, a much slower growth rate than in recent years.Their aggregate net profit decreased 7.7 percent from 2011, the i rst drop in recent years, said a report titled “China Power of Retail- ing 2013” released by consultancy Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd in August.“h e booming online retail sector is grabbing market share from tra- ditional retailers with its advantages of lower prices, convenient payment systems and door-to-door delivery,”said Long Yongxiong, a consumer and transportation industry joint leader at Deloitte China.Under assault from e-commerce firms, the profit margins of the physical retail industry in China fell from 5 percent in 2005 to about 2.5 percent last year, a Kantar Retail report said.In Alibaba’s view, there can be a win-win situation for online retailers and their ol ine counterparts as long as brick-and-mortar stores go the digital route.Wu Qian, senior director of Tmall.com, Alibaba’s online marketplace, painted a picture of the future of the retail industry.“All shopping malls will be equipped with Wi-Fi. As soon as you enter a mall, your mobile phone will automatically send you a message about the location of the stores you may like, which is based on your pre- vious shopping preferences online,”she said.“There will be fewer and fewer cashiers because people will pay online, and shopping carts will be smaller as there will be home deliv- ery.”With more and more people shopping online, the business of brick- and-mortar stores has been challenged by online rivals. We want to put an end to that by integrat- ing the online and ol ine shopping experiences.”ZHANG YONG CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, ALIBABA ‘ ‘PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY Tmall Vice-President Wang Yulei discusses the company’s plans for Singles Day at a news conference on Tuesday.儲存

Source: Milwaukee Journal SentinelOct.自存倉 17--It's hard to believe any songwriter would pen a tune in honor of American military leaders from the Iraq or Afghanistan wars, but 150 years ago many marches were written for generals and colonels.During the Civil War, music was more than a way to move armies quickly onto battlefields or remember the dead; it was also a form of propaganda. At a time when illiteracy rates, especially in rural areas, were high and communications were limited, sheet music was a way to convey information and to rally people."Even if you couldn't read, you could sing," said Robert Curtis, a retired University of Georgia history professor and sheet music collector.Curtis is coming to Milwaukee this weekend to speak about the role of sheet music in the Civil War. Sheet music collectors are meeting Friday and Saturday for the American Sheet Music Conference at the Irish Fest Center, 1532 N. Wauwatosa Ave. in Wauwatosa. Because of the Civil War sesquicentennial, sheet music from that era will be spotlighted."People find the Civil War so interesting. It was so complex. When President Lincoln heard 'Dixie,' he liked the song and often sang it," said Barry Stapleton, director of the Ward Irish Music Archives, which is hosting the conference.The Ward Irish Music Archives at the Irish Fest Center is the largest public collection of Irish and Irish-American music in the United States. This week, much of the collection was placed online -- irishsheetmusicarchives.com -- though music post-1923, which is still copyrighted, will be somewhat restricted.The conference is open to the public, with as many as 50 sheet music collectors expected to attend. Aside from listening to period music played by musicians and looking at sheet music for sale by vendors, visitors will hear seminars on the importance of sheet music to both the Union and Confederate armies.Curtis is handling the seminar on the South where music publishing companies opened in places such as New Orleans, Nashville, Tenn., and Mobile, Ala., when access to publishing companies in the North was restricted during the war.Printing apparatus was smuggled through enemy lines into the South and later in the war it was difficult to get ink and paper to print sheet music, Curtis said. That is why much of Confederate sheet music now in collections can easily be spotted -- the paper is flimsier, often with ink of poor quality.Sheet music instilled patriotism, introduced n迷你倉w military leaders and explained secession, Curtis said."It tended to give voice to a lot of feelings that not only soldiers but people on the home front were feeling," said Curtis, whose ancestors fought for the Confederacy. "Late in the war when things started going bad, the music and lyrics tried to put backbone into the people to keep them going. It was an attempt to instill various emotions."Some sheet music was very colorful with beautiful artwork and would likely have been purchased only by the wealthy, explained Jeff Ksiazek, archivist at the Ward Irish Music Archives. Most of the sheet music features piano accompaniment, not full musical scores.As Ksiazek and Stapleton examined several pieces of Civil War sheet music in the archives this week, Stapleton pointed out the difference between smaller pieces of paper that included only lyrics, not music, and expensive sheet music -- tunes adorned with pictures of Gen. George McClellan standing next to his white horse and Gen. Thomas Sweeny, who lost his right arm in the Mexican-American War and commanded a brigade at Shiloh."These would have been pricey back in the day," Stapleton said of the sheet music, noting that the smaller, simple ones were "called penny ballads and would have been sold on the street for a penny."Though many people collect Civil War memorabilia, a much smaller number concentrate on sheet music, said Curtis, who has 400 to 500 pieces in his collection. He began collecting Civil War Confederate currency and bonds, but when he saw illustrated sheet music he became attracted to the artwork.By the 1920s, artwork mostly disappeared on sheet music published in America.Sheet music collectors often specialize by acquiring music from specific wars or universities or transportation such as nautically themed music, said Stapleton."Some are music buffs, a lot are historians interested in some aspect of history. Sheet music is a historical document," Stapleton said.Conference detailsWhat: The American Sheet Music Conference.Where: The Irish Fest Center, 1532 N. Wauwatosa Ave.When: Friday 4 to 7 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with music, seminars on Civil War sheet music and vendors selling sheet music.Cost: Admission is $5 per day.More information: irishfest.com/Music-Archives/American-Sheet-Music-Conferenc.htmCopyright: ___ (c)2013 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Visit the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel at .jsonline.com Distributed by MCT Information Servicesmini storage

Source: Albuquerque Journal, N.迷你倉M.Oct. 18--SANTA FE -- New Mexico's national parks and monuments, barricaded to the public for 16 days during a federal government shutdown, moved quickly Thursday to throw open their gates.Visitors from far and wide, barred from being able to take in some of the state's most photographed sights, were happy to come on in.At Pecos National Historic Park near Santa Fe, which is run by the National Park Service but is not counted as one of the state's 11 national parks or monuments, tourists were in good spirits as they took in the historic ruins.The government reopening helped salvage vacation plans for Barbara MacNemar and Shelton Cannon, of Millersville, Md., who were making their first visit to New Mexico."Part of the reason we came to New Mexico was to see the national parks," MacNemar said, adding that seeing pueblo ruins were also on their agenda. "This is the last day of our trip, so we're glad we were able to see this one."Earlier this year, MacNemar purchased a pass that gave her access to any national park in the country. She said she was disappointed she wasn't able to use it to visit Bandelier and Petroglyph national monuments.At Bandelier, near Los Alamos, visitors began showing up soon after the site was opened at noon."We've only been open an hour, and we're very, very busy," Bandelier spokeswoman Chris Judson told the Journal on Thursday afternoon.The buses that normally shuttle visitors to Bandelier's visitor center were not running Thursday but are expected to resume operations today, she said.At Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southeastern New Mexico, maintenance workers came in early in the morning to tidy up the main road leading to the iconic caverns. The park then opened to the public at its normal time."Everyone was salivating to go back to work," said park Superintendent John Benjamin, who had put his retirement on hold due to the partial government shutdown.He said employees were notified Wednesday that they should prepare to return to work if Congress approved legislation ending the government shutdown. Such legislation was adopted late Wednesday and quickl文件倉 signed by President Barack Obama.Eighty-five Carlsbad employees -- out of roughly 90 employees on staff -- were furloughed during the government shutdown, Benjamin said.Workers returning to their jobs Thursday morning found two minor incidents of vandalism that had occurred at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, one of which involved obscenities written on a "closed" park sign."I think most of our staff are considered suspects," Benjamin joked.Meanwhile, the largely volunteer staff at Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument near Silver City was excited to be back on the job, said Rodney Sauter, the monument's chief of interpretation and acting superintendent.About 30 visitors had made their way to the cliff dwellings by late Thursday afternoon, said Sauter, who described the attendance number as slightly lower than average.Unlike some other Western governors, Gov. Susana Martinez declined to reopen national parks during the shutdown by tapping state accounts, saying it was the federal government's responsibility to keep the park system running.Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado and Zion National Park in Utah were among the parks reopened at states' expense.In New Mexico, Martinez and top-ranking lawmakers have voiced concern about the shutdown's impact on tourism and other sectors of New Mexico's economy.State budget officials have said it's too early to tell how much money the situation in Washington, D.C., might have cost the state in terms of lost tax revenue.In addition to the National Park Service, other federal agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management resumed their New Mexico operations Thursday. Facilities and programs run by those agencies were also affected by the 16-day shutdown.Journal staff writer T.S. Lastcontributed to this report. Obama lashes out at GOPPresident says shutdown was a Republican-provoked spectacle that "encouraged our enemies" A2Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.) Visit the Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, N.M.) at .abqjournal.com Distributed by MCT Information Services存倉