The February issue of W Magazine arrives on newsstands Jan. 25 and the mag’s landed the first photos of socialite-turned-actress Rooney Mara in character as The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Last year, the star of The Social Network edged out competition from Twilighter Kristen Stewart and Oscar nominees Carey Mulligan and Natalie Portman for [...]
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Rooney Mara As “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo†W Magazine Feb. 2011
January 12th, 2011 |
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Rio Tinto and China: Digging with the dragon
December 16th, 2010 |
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A mining firm snuggles up to its biggest customer
MOST Western mining firms are happy to sell minerals to China but like to keep the dragon at arm’s length. Rio Tinto, an Anglo-Australian outfit, is different. Not only is China its biggest customer; Chinalco, a state-backed Chinese aluminium firm, is its biggest shareholder. On December 3rd Rio announced a joint venture with Chinalco to hunt for minerals in China and extended an iron-ore joint venture with Sinosteel, another state-backed firm.
Rio’s ties with China are complex. In 2007 Rio nearly choked on Alcan, a Canadian aluminium firm it bought for a disastrously expensive $38 billion. That emboldened BHP Billiton, the world’s biggest miner, to launch a takeover bid for Rio. China, afraid that the combined firms would wield too much sway over commodity prices, sent Chinalco to block the deal by buying a 9% stake in Rio in 2008. …
Little Dragon: 2011 U.S. Tour
November 22nd, 2010 |
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TOUR STARTS JANUARY 7 IN LOS ANGELES
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Immediately after wrapping up a surreal arena-tour opening for Gorillaz and De La Soul through Europe, Hong Kong,
Australia, and New Zealand to close off the year, Little Dragon will splash into 2011 for a proper solo tour of their
own. The dates begin on January 7 with two special shows in LA and onward through the US and Canada. Little
Dragon are ready to deliver their third and still untitled full length through a proper label home in North America in
May / June 2011.
LITTLE DRAGON TOUR 2011
1/7 LOS ANGELES, CA @ LA Museum of Natural History
1/8 LOS ANGELES, CA @ Echoplex
1/10 PORTLAND, OR @ Doug Fir
1/11 VANCOUVER, BC @ Fortune
1/12 SEATTLE, WA @ Nectar Lounge
1/14 FARGO, ND @ The Aquarium
1/15 NORTHFIELD (MINNEAPOLIS), MN The Cave @ Carleton College
1/16 CHICAGO, IL Tomorrow Never Knows @ Lincoln Hall
1/17 TORONTO, ON Wrongbar
1/18 MONTREAL, PQ @ Il Motore
1/19 BOSTON, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
1/20 BROOKLYN, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
1/21 NEW YORK, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
1/22 WASHINGTON, DC @ Black Cat
1/23 PHILADELPHIA, PA @ Johnny Brendas
1/25 ATLANTA, GA @ Masquerade
1/26 ORLANDO, FL @ Backbooth
1/27 TAMPA, FL @ Crowbar
1/28 MIAMI, FL @ The Electric Pickle
1/29 Sundance SALT LAKE CITY, UT @ Urban Lounge
1/30 AUSTIN, TX @ Parish
2/2 RIVERSIDE, CA The Barn @ UC Riverside
2/3 SANTA CRUZ, CA @ Rio Theatre
2/4 SAN FRANCISCO, CA @ Independent
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Little Dragon: Update & Video
October 8th, 2010 |
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DRAGONS & GORILLAZ FIND ACCORD
While the rest of Little Dragon is back in Gothenburg, Sweden putting the finishing touches on their newly recorded album, Yukimi Nagano and Fredrik Wallin are currently on the road with the Gorillaz in North America as special guests’ performing both “Empire Ants” & “To Binge” off the Gorillaz’s Plastic Beach. Little Dragon is the only group featured twice on the spring 2010 release from the Gorillaz. The remaining members of Little Dragon will join Nagano and Wallin on the road for an exclusive full band performance this fall at the Treasure Island Music Festival in San Francisco (10/16), and then on the road in Europe as support for the Gorillaz, opening all of the shows along the world tour (Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand) through the end of the year. They will complete mastering their follow up to Machine Dreams after the Gorillaz tour. The Dragons are also set to depart for their own solo tour across the US at the top of 2011.
TOUR DATES NORTH AMERICA LITTLE DRAGON SUPPORTING THE GORILLAZ ON TOUR EUROPE ASIA AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND
GORILLAZ TOUR FEATURING FRED WALLIN AND YUKIMI NAGANO OF LITTLE DRAGON, WITH NERD AS SUPPORT
10/8 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
10/10 Camden, NJ @ Susquehanna Bank Center
10/11 Fairfax, VA @ Patriot Center
10/13 Detroit, MI @ Fox Theatre
10/14 Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre
10/16 Chicago, IL @ UIC Pavilion
10/17 Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
10/20 Dallas, TX @ Verizon Theatre
10/22 Austin, TX @ Frank Erwin Center
10/24 Denver, CO @ Wells Fargo Theatre
10/26 Phoenix, AZ @ Dodge Theatre
10/27 Los Angeles, CA @ Gibson Amphitheatre
10/28 San Diego, CA @ Viejas Arena
10/30 Oakland, CA @ Oracle Arena
11/2 Seattle, WA @ Key Arena
11/3 Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena
W/ MORE SPECIAL GUESTS TO BE ANNOUNCED
11/11 Dublin, IRE @ O2
11/12 Manchester, UK @ Evening News Arena
11/14 London, UK @ O2 Arena
11/15 Amsterdam, NL @ HMH
11/16 London, UK @ O2 Arena
11/17 Birmingham, UK @ NIA
11/18 Brighton, UK @ Centre
11/21 Berlin, DE @ Velodrom
11/22 Paris, FR @ Zenith
11/23 Paris, FR @ Zenith
11/25 Antwerp, BE @ Lotto
12/3 Hong Kong @ Asia World Arena
12/6 Perth, AUS @ Burswood Dome
12/8 Adelaide, AUS @ Entertainment Centre
12/11 Melbourne, AUS @ Rod Laver
12/16 Sydney, AUS @ Entertainment Centre
12/19 Brisbane, AUS@ Entertainment Centre
12/21 Auckland, NZ @ Vector Arena
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Dragon Group proposes renounceable and non-underwritten rights issue
September 30th, 2010 |
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Dragon Group International is proposing a renounceable and non-underwritten rights issue of up to 896,325,824 new ordinary shares at $0.02 each, with up to 896,325,824 free detachable warrants.
Each warrant carrying the right to subscribe for one new ordinary share at US$0.03 each on the basis of four rights shares with four warrants for every one existing share held by shareholders of the company.
In the minimum subscription scenario, based on 552,253,768 rights shares with warrants to be issued, the net proceeds of the rights issue, after deducting estimated expenses of $0.6 million, is expected to be $10.4 million.
Electronic Arts likely to release Dragon Age 2 tomorrow
July 9th, 2010 |
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Electronic Arts has said that its subsidiary company Bioware will develop Dragon Age 2, a complete sequel to the RPG franchise that was launched in 2009. The company reported that the game will be soon revealed and may be announced tomorrow. The press release from the company says that it had picked up the publishing [...]
All Good/Forecastle Previews
July 8th, 2010 |
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By: Dennis Cook
JamBase Associate
Editor
How you holding up? It’s only July, kids, and there’s MANY more sets and sunrises to enjoy before summer comes to
an end. Eat some high fiber cereal, take your vitamins and pack enough beer. We’re far from over this season! Let’s
dive into two primo offerings this coming weekend.
All Good Festival :: 07.08.10-07.11.10 :: Marvin’s Mountaintop :: Masontown,
WV
This mid-Atlantic darling genuinely lives up to its catchphrase name. With no overlapping music on its twin Dragon
and Crane Stages, All Good encourages one to settle in and enjoy the musical adventure they’ve programmed for
you, cutting back on the gypsy wandering one experiences at most summer fests. Umph’s Jake Cinninger has dubbed
to performance space “the concert bowl,” and it’s all-too-easy to imagine stretching out on the grass as headliners
Furthur, Widespread Panic, Umphrey’s McGee and Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi rock ya for a little
while. Here’s a few suggestions for sets you should be out of your tent in time to enjoy.
1. Femi Kuti & The Positive Force ::
Friday :: 3:45-4:50 PM :: Dragon Stage
While his father is currently the toast of Broadway, Femi Kuti is breathing hot life into the musical tradition Fela
began. A fiery blend of dance-ready African rhythms, political themes and tight, large group musicianship, Femi &
Positive Force are lethal live. Come prepared to kick off your shoes and dance.
2. Dr. Dog :: Saturday :: 2:40-
3:40 PM :: Dragon Stage
If The Beatles had decided to NOT retire from the road and instead suss out ways to transmute their studio brilliance
into equally brilliant live performances, well, it might have sounded a good deal like Dr. Dog. While the band’s
presence has grown rapidly on the national stage, based on what JamBase heard at High Sierra, many fest veterans
haven’t experienced their life-affirming concert performances yet. This is soul-deep music that arms one with small
kernels of wisdom and puts a warm breeze beneath your heels.
3. The Lee Boys & The Travelin’ McCourys :: Sunday ::
12:15-2:15 PM :: Dragon Stage
Sacred steel meets bluegrass and southern rock. It’s a gosh darn beautiful combination and a far cry from the way
these boys play when Del is leading the charge. A real conversation that expands one’s musical horizons takes place
when this bunch assembles onstage. Not to be missed, and a grand way to get your Sunday rolling.
Check out JamBase’s 2009 All Good review for fuller picture of what awaits you on Marvin’s
Mountaintop.
Continue reading for our picks for Forecastle Festival…
Forecastle Festival :: 07.09.10-07.11.10 :: Waterfront Park :: Louisville,
Kentucky
The 9th Annual Forecastle Festival, located in the heart of one of the great cities of the South, takes its
name, according to the fest’s website, from a sailing term meaning “a superstructure at the bow of a ship where the
crew is housed. Hard at work in the boundless blue sea, a place where workers unite after a hard day of labor. A
place where the people come together.” Sounds nice, and it won’t be hard to have a good time with headliners like
Widespread Panic, Smashing Pumpkins, Spoon and The Flaming Lips providing the
soundtrack for one’s revels. And there’s a lot of other golden moments waiting to happen on Forecastle’s four music
stages. Here’s three keepers we want to steer attendees towards.
1. Lucero :: Friday :: 10:30-12:00
midnight :: East Stage
While many of you will be glued to Widespread on the main stage, another American rock ‘n’ roll great will be playing
a short distance away. Over the past 12 years, Lucero has married punk to southern rock and quality singer-
songwriter sensibilities. Anchored by Ben Nichols and Brian Venable, the band is as real as a
heart attack and tuneful as the best Drive-By Truckers and The Replacements, just two kindred spirits to this
exceptional band.
2. Devo :: Saturday :: 7:30-8:45
PM :: West Stage
The term “devolution” didn’t exist before these spud boys invented it. Not many bands alter the general social
lexicon AND cover the Rolling Stones with aplomb. Devo is playing with real energy and wit these days, perhaps
reveling in the fact that they were already living the present moment decades before us all. You don’t want to tell
your grandkids one day that you missed a chance to see these guys live.
3. Joe Purdy :: Sunday :: 1:00-
1:45 PM :: West Stage
Very quietly but with sure, strong steps, Purdy has crafted one of the finest, heaviest songbooks of any American
singer-songwriter going. His beautifully broken voice, his vaguely hobo-esque appearance and especially his insight
into the human condition leave a profound impression.
Check out JamBase’s 2009 Forecastle review for insights into what lays ahead in year nine.
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Uncle Sam and the Dragon
June 17th, 2010 |
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Where America and China are viewed most favourably
KENYANS, it seems, are enthralled in equal measure by America and China, a finding from the Pew Research Centre’s Global Attitudes Survey that may reflect Barack Obama’s Kenyan ancestry and excitement about Chinese investment in Kenya. But for most of the other 20 countries polled, admiration for America and for China is mutually exclusive. France, which is often thought of as a hive of anti-Americanism, has a strongly favourable view of the United States. Like many other European countries it is wary of China. China’s greatest admirers, by contrast, tend to be countries that are predominantly Muslim. Russia is the exception to this, although that may be changing. Thanks to recent diplomatic efforts, Russia views America more positively than it did last year.
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HP Shows Off Its New High-End Z-Series Workstations
March 30th, 2010 |
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Innovation in professional-level workstations has always trickled down from business sectors that are constantly pushing the envelope to find newer, faster, more efficient ways to do things. Computer-generated movie-making is one of those sectors. At Raleigh Studios, the nation’s oldest independent studio (located literally across the street from world-renowned Paramount Pictures in Hollywood), HP unveiled its new line of pro-style workstations on March 23. Raleigh, DreamWorks and other movie studios have been using HP workstations to turn out hit projects including movies like DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon and Raleigh-housed television shows such as Castle and The Practice. When HP showed its new machines last week at Raleigh Studios, it caught the attention of a lot of current users who are planning to upgrade their workstations this year or next. Following is a slide show showing the new workstations and detailing their new features.
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HP, Intel Team Up with DreamWorks to Create ‘How to Train Your Dragon’
March 26th, 2010 |
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DreamWorks Animation SKG, well known for such hit movies as the Shrek series, Madagascar, Monsters and Aliens, Kung Fu Panda and Over the Hedge, opened the curtain on its latest computer-generated 3D movie project, How to Train Your Dragon on March 26. Along with IT partners Hewlett-Packard and Intel, the Glendale, Calif.-based studio hosted a group of about 100 international tech journalists and analysts on March 24 to demonstrate how HP’s new Z-series workstations utilizing Intel’s six-core processors now enable CG artists to create, play back, and render huge video files in the fastest times ever. These factors enable the artists to improve the quality of the work and get super-expensive projects like this one completed faster. DreamWorks spent about $150 million in a span of about 5 years just on Dragon’s CG production let alone marketing, distribution and related costs. Another mind-blowing fact is that this 3D film now takes up 100TB that’s right, terabytes of storage capacity in the studio’s data center farm, CTO Edwin Leonard said. Here is a slideshow explaining how new-generation CG works.
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Nuance Intros Variety of Mobile Dragon Solutions for Health Care
March 1st, 2010 |
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Nuance introduced a number of mobile solutions for the health care industry, featuring speech-recognition, voice-based search, voice capture and data structuring technologies.
– Nuance is introducing a suite of Dragon Medical Mobile solutions for the health care industry March 1. Building on solutions Nuance currently offers for Apple’s iPhone, the solutions are slated to arrive “in the spring.”
Nuances Dragon Medical Mobile Dictation application, based on its speech-r…
Trump Dragon Distillers posts 2.1% rise in net profit to $7.4m in 2Q
February 9th, 2010 |
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Trump Dragon Distillers Holdings, the producer and seller of baijiu products in Henan Province, China, says the group registered a 2.1% y-o-y rise in net profit attributable to equity holders of RMB35.6 million in the three months ended December 31, 2009 (2QFY2010).
But group revenue decreased 9.5% to RMB210.3 million from RMB232.3 million in the previous corresponding period. This was due mainly to the decrease in overall average selling price (ASP) from RMB37.6 per kilogram in 2QFY2009 to RMB31.6 per kilogram in 2QFY2010, although sales volume had increased from 6,178 tonnes to 6,655 tonnes in the respective periods.
Fear of the dragon
January 7th, 2010 |
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China’s share of world markets increased during the recession. It will keep rising
MANY people start the new year by resolving to change their old ways. Not China. On December 27th Zhong Shan, the country’s vice-minister of trade, declared that China will continue to increase its share of world exports. Figures due out on January 11th are expected to show that China’s exports in December were higher than a year ago, after 13 months of year-on-year declines. China’s exports fell by around 17% in 2009 as a whole, but other countries’ slumped by even more. As a result China overtook Germany to become the world’s largest exporter and its share of world exports jumped to almost 10%, up from 3% in 1999 (see chart).
China takes an even bigger slice of America’s market. In the first ten months of 2009 America imported 15% less from China than in the same period of 2008, but its imports from the rest of the world fell by 33%, lifting China’s market share to a record 19%. So although America’s trade deficit with China narrowed, China now accounts for almost half of America’s total deficit, up from less than one-third in 2008. …
Nuance Offers Dragon Dictation for iPhone
December 9th, 2009 |
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Nuance offers a free (for now) Dragon dictation application designed to give users hands-free texting from their Apple iPhones.
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Speech and imaging solutions company Nuance Communication
announced its Dragon Dictation application is now available for free (for a
limited time) via Apples App Store for the iPhone. The app allows iPhone users
to speak e-mails and text messages instead of typing them, and also …
Nuance Offers Dragon Dictation for iPhone
December 9th, 2009 |
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Nuance offers a free (for now) Dragon dictation application designed to give users hands-free texting from their Apple iPhones.
– Speech and imaging solutions company Nuance Communication announced its
Dragon Dictation application is now available for free (for a limited time) via
Apples App Store for the iPhone. The app allows iPhone users to speak e-mails
and text messages instead of typing them, and it also works with th…
Carrefour in emerging markets: Exit the dragon?
October 8th, 2009 |
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Investors may force the world’s second- largest retailer to retreat to Europe
IN CHINESE, Carrefour happens to mean “Every Happy Family”, a piece of luck which has doubtless contributed to the French firm’s success in China, where it has operated since 1995. In Brazil, too, a market which Carrefour entered in 1975, the company is treated like a local and vies for leadership with a Brazilian firm. The group’s businesses in Brazil and China are substantial, fast-growing and produce generous returns on investment. Now, however, to the dismay of executives at the firm, two big shareholders are reportedly pushing for a sale of the Asian and Latin American businesses.
Colony Capital, an American private-equity firm which specialises in property, and Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH, a luxury-goods group, first invested in Carrefour in 2007, and now own more than 13% of its shares and around 20% of its voting rights, mainly through a joint holding company called Blue Capital. Like many activist investors, they were caught out by the crisis: Carrefour’s share price has fallen from around €50 ($67) when they made their purchases to €30 today. Their original aim was to spin off Carrefour’s property portfolio, which would have brought a one-off gain, but plummeting property values undermined the plan. …
Bioware nam otkriva informacije o CE verziji igre Dragon Age: Origins
August 14th, 2009 |
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Dragon Age: Origins Fans Sign Up for Free Downloadable Content, Unique Pre-order Packages and Exclusive Mass Effect 2 Content EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA – August 12, 2009 – Leading video game developer BioWare™, a division of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced the Dragon Age™: Origins Collector’s Edition and pre-order incentive program*. The Collector’s Edition [...]
Obama Axes Plan To Build Billion Dollar Tank In Shape Of Dragon (VIDEO)
July 14th, 2009 |
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You know those spending pie charts that are released every year and show (among other things) how much we spend on defense? Well if you were wondering where 20% of your taxes were going, it was to a dragon-shaped tank project spearheaded by th…