China's tallest building nears finish in Shanghai

SHANGHAI (AP) ? A topping-out ceremony was held Saturday for China's tallest building in the financial hub of Shanghai when the final beam was hoisted to the top of the skyscraper and installed in a flag-waving ritual.

At 632 meters (2,073 feet), the Shanghai Tower in the city's Pudong district is the world's second-tallest building, surpassed only by Dubai's Burj Khalifa, which soars 829.8 meters (2,722 feet).

After the ceremony, workers will move onto the building's interior construction. Once it is completed next year, the Shanghai Tower will have retail and office space, a luxury hotel and likely a museum.

"I'm very proud," Wu Weiming, who helped installed the last beam, told reporters.

Designed by U.S. architectural firm Gensler, the glass-and-steel, 121-story building takes on a transparent and spiral form.

China's booming economy has fuelled a building frenzy, including some of the world's tallest buildings. The Shanghai Tower replaces the Shanghai World Financial Center ? completed in 2008 ? as the country's highest building.

The Shanghai Tower is the last piece in a group of super-tall skyscrapers in Shanghai's Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone, which includes the Shanghai World Financial Center and Jin Mao Tower, both among the tallest in the world.

And in the south-central city of Changsha, developers are in the midst of building Sky City, an 838-meter (2,749-foot) structure that would overtake Burj Khalifa.

This summer, China also unveiled the world's largest building in terms of floor space in the western city of Chengdu. The New Century Global Center edged out the previous record-holder, the Dubai airport.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-tallest-building-nears-finish-shanghai-053442291.html

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Asian shares, dollar soft after tepid U.S. jobs data

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Source: money.ca.msn.com --- Sunday, August 04, 2013
TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares were tepid and the U.S. dollar was on the defensive on Monday after data showed U.S. employers slowed their pace of hiring, while the New Zealand dollar tumbled after a food-safety scare affected dairy exports of the country's largest company. ...

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How Twitter trolls bullies mar social outings

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Source: www.asiapacificstar.com --- Saturday, August 03, 2013
Twitter is the chirping chatterbox of the internet, trolls are its dark underground denizens. The collision of the two is driving a debate in Britain about the scale of online hatred and the limits ... ...

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Tens of thousands of Spanish shipbuilding jobs at risk

Barcelona News.Net - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

The crash investigators of the Spanish train derailment case have said that the driver had ignored three warnings of over-speeding in two minutes before the train plunged off the tracks on the treacherous turn. According to New York Daily, a court statement revealed that the driver was talking on the phone to a colleague when he received the first automatic warning in his cabin for a speed ...

Neymar assures great relationship with Messi

Barcelona News.Net - Friday 2nd August, 2013

Barcelona's new star signing Neymar has said he enjoys a great relationship with fellow striker Leo Messi and insists that he expects the good relation to continue in their time together at the club. One of the big questions that has arisen over Neymar's arrival at the Camp Nou Stadium is how he will get on with Messi, who is without question the 'top dog' at Barcelona, while Neymar is the 'New ...

Barcelona Only Fabregas can decide his future

General Sources - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

New Barcelona manager Gerardo Martino declared transfer targeted Cesc Fabregas must make the final decision on his future. Fabregas has been long been rumoured to be heading back to the Premier League with champions Manchester United continually tempting both Barcelona and the 26-year-old with increasing bids. The Old Trafford club are reported to have made a third bid amounting to 40 ...

Barcelona humiliate Neymar?s old club as Fabregas shines

General Sources - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

Barcelona with a fine assist but a goal eluded the Brazil forward as the Liga champions crushed his former club Santos 8-0 in the Joan Gamper invitational trophy. The 21-year-old, who completed a high-profile move to Spain at the end of May, came on at half-time at the Nou Camp and set up Cesc Fabregas to score his second of the night before shaving the crossbar with a fierce effort of his own ...

Tens of thousands of Spanish shipbuilding jobs at risk

wsws.org - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

Spanish shipbuilders are warning that as many as 87,000 jobs are under threat as the result of a recent European Commission (EC) ruling that nearly EUR3 billion in tax breaks given to the industry were illegal and must be repaid.The EC launched a two-year investigation in 2011 in response to complaints from shipbuilders in the Netherlands and elsewhere in the European Union (EU) of unfair ...

Barcelona crush Santos 8-0

Soccernet - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

Lionel Messi was a familiar face among the goalscorers as Barcelona thrashed Santos. In an awesome display of attacking football, Barcelona scored four goals in each half to send their Brazilian visitors home with the heaviest defeat in the tournament?s 48-year history. Leaving new man Neymar ...

Martino insists that Cesc Fabregas must decide on his future

Barcelona Daily News - Saturday 3rd August, 2013

Barcelona midfielder scored twice in his club's 8-0 thrashing of Brazilian outfit Santos on Friday. Reports from ESPN suggest that the new Barca manager Gerardo Martino has asked Fabregas to remain at the Nou ...

Moroccan police break up protest against royal pardon of Spanish paedophile

General Sources - Friday 2nd August, 2013

By Aziz El Yaakoubi Rabat (Reuters) - Riot police broke up a protest by hundreds of Moroccan demonstrators late on Friday against a royal pardon for a Spanish paedophile serving a 30-year sentence for raping and filming children as young as 4. In running clashes with the demonstrators, baton-wielding police prevented them from gathering in front of the Moroccan parliament in the centre of ...

Campbell wins gold in Barcelona

sportal.com.au - Friday 2nd August, 2013

Australia boasts both the men's and women's 100m freestyle world champions after Cate Campbell claimed gold in Barcelona on Friday.The 21-year-old touched in 52.34 seconds after turning first, and finished 0.55 seconds ahead of Swede Sarah Sjostrom.Dutchwoman Ranomi Kromowidjojo held off American superstar Missy Franklin to clinch bronze.It is the first time since the 1960 Olympics ...

World Briefing | Europe Spain Alarms Warned Trains Driver Before Accident

International Herald Tribune - Friday 2nd August, 2013

At least three alarms went off inside the train that crashed last week in northwestern Spain moments before it derailed, prompting the panicked driver to activate the brakes three times even as he talked on the telephone with another employee, an examination of the ...

Bara pay homage to legendary keeper Antoni ?Cat of Maracan? Ramallets during Gamper Trophy

Barcelona Daily News - Friday 2nd August, 2013

In a wonderful homage to their late legendary goalkeeper Antoni Ramallets, the Barcelona goalkeepers Victor Valdes andJos Manuel Pinto wore his name on their backs (they each played a half) instead of their own in tonight?s Gamper Trophy at ...

Pre-Season Friendly Barcelona 8 Santos 0

soccerway - Friday 2nd August, 2013

Barcelona produced a scintillating performance to thump Santos 8-0 in Gerardo Martino's first game in charge at the Camp Nou on Friday. Neymar - who moved to the La Liga champions from Santos for a reported fee of 50million in May - would have been impressed as he watched from the bench as his new team-mates surged into a 4-0 half-time lead. Barcelona invited the Brazilian side to ...

Barcelona 8-0 Santos Blaugrana savage Brazilians in eight-goal rout

General Sources - Friday 2nd August, 2013

Santos 8-0 at Camp Nou.Strikes from Lionel Messi, a Leo own goal, Alexis Sanchez and Pedro put Barcelona firmly in control at the halfway mark before second half goals from Fabregas (2), Adriano and Jean-Marie Dongou gave the Catalan side the biggest-winning margin in the tournament's history.Gerardo Martino was able to welcome back Barcelona's Confederations Cup stars and he named a ...

Soccer-Neymar shines but fails to score on Barcelona home debut

General Sources - Friday 2nd August, 2013

Cesc Fabregas to score his second of the night before shaving the crossbar with a fierce effort of his own late on. World Player of the Year Lionel Messi ...

Barcelona vs. Santos Score Grades and Post-Match Reaction

General Sources - Friday 2nd August, 2013

Friday's match between Barcelona and Santos will go down as nothing more than a preseason friendly, but there's a good chance it will serve as a gauge for just how strong the current La Liga champions can be this season. The Catalan club scored four goals in each half to record an 8-0 victory and recapture the Joan Gamper Trophy in front of an inspired crowd at Camp ...

EU faces double whammy of political turmoil in Italy Spain

Middle East Times - Friday 2nd August, 2013

Europe's southern eurozone faces the double whammy of political turmoil in Italy and Spain, where both governments are at risk of being toppled by corruption ...

Spanish train driver got three signals to slow down officials say

Fox 23 - Friday 2nd August, 2013

Policemen patrol at the scene of a train crash, which killed nearly 100 people, on July 25, 2013 at Angrois near Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez, Getty ...

LDS missionary involved in Spain train accident continues to serve

Deseret News - Friday 2nd August, 2013

Elder Stephen Ward was one of the people injured in the train crash in Spain on July 24. Despite the horrific nature of the accident, Elder Ward is eager to continue ...

711 a.m.Spain Driver Received 3 Signals to Slow Down

Congoo - Friday 2nd August, 2013

Investigators say the driver of a Spanish train that crashed, killing 79 people, received three warnings to reduce speed in the two minutes before the train hurtled off the tracks. A court statement Friday says the driver was talking on the phone to a colleague when he received the first ...

Spains Bankia sells Indra stake to state holding company SEPI

Reuters - Friday 2nd August, 2013

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish nationalised bank BFA-Bankia (BKIA.MC) said on Friday it sold a 20.1 percent stake in technology company Indra (IDR.MC) to state holding company SEPI for 337 million euros ($447.6 million). The sale netted BFA-Bankia, ...

Video Ryan Lochtes Love of Racing Helped Him On Day Six in Spain

Swimming World - Friday 2nd August, 2013

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Spaniards Worries About Political Corruption

Prensa Latina - Friday 2nd August, 2013

Madrid, Aug 2 (Prensa Latina) Corruption of the political class classified as the second greatest disappointment for the second consecutive month for Spaniards, barely beaten by unemployment, the Center for Sociological Research (CIS) revealed today. According to a poll by the CIS, that scourge remained in July as the second worry, being mentioned by 37.4 percent of those polled, a 5.2-percent ...

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Agriculture and Invention in 1863: Handy Machines from the Archives of Scientific American [Slide Show]

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These devices were designed to reduce the labor or increase the profit of farming

By Daniel C. Schlenoff

Agriculture was the biggest industry in 1863. Out of a population in the U.S. of almost 34 million, about half lived on a farm. Thanks to the patent system in the U.S., a farmer spending long hours breaking up soil for planting, or caring for flocks of sheep, could try and figure out a way to use machinery to make any of his tasks easier, quicker, cheaper or more profitable. A patent on such a machine could, and very occasionally did, bring in a lot of money. Most of these inventions, however, were simply impractical or too expensive. The concepts behind the agricultural machines of today, however, are pretty much the same ones that you can see in this slide show of inventions from 1863. Enjoy.

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'Love Potion No. 9' singer sues over Clovers' name

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Harold Winley performed the hit song "Love Potion No. 9" with the R&B group The Clovers more than a half-century ago, but now the 80-year-old says another group is trying to keep him from performing using the Clovers name.

Winley, now a Florida resident, says he was in his teens when he and four others started performing as The Clovers in the Washington area. The group played at the city's Apollo Theater, eventually signed with Atlantic Records and celebrated when "Love Potion No. 9" became their biggest hit in 1959.

Two groups later performed as The Clovers, including one that trademarked the name in the 1980s. A dispute led to the lawsuit that was filed earlier this year in Washington. Both sides will meet Monday to try to work things out.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/love-potion-no-9-singer-sues-over-clovers-214229643.html

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SolarCity Corp. to raise $201 million in debt

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Source: www.bizjournals.com --- Friday, August 02, 2013
SolarCity Corp. signed deals to raise money by borrowing and by selling shares. The San Mateo company (NASDAQ: SCTY) filed with regulators to raise $201.25 million in Debt by selling convertible senior notes due in 2018. SolarCity also registered to sell 2.8 million of its shares, though it didn't guess how much it might raise in such an offering. ...

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