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By Javier C. Hernández, NY Times, June 16, 2016

Some days, the sun doesn’t come up until 10 a.m. or later. People eat lunch after 2 p.m., or even after 4 if they’re not in a rush. The school day stretches so late that children can’t get home in time to catch their favorite cartoon shows.

Why are the clocks in Urumqi, China, so far out of kilter with the cycles of the sun? Because of a legacy of Mao Zedong and the Communist Party’s desire for unified control. Though China is almost as wide as the continental United States, the whole country is officially in just one time zone--Beijing time.

So when it’s 7 a.m. in the Forbidden City, it’s also officially 7 a.m. 2,000 miles to the west in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region--even if the stars are still out there.

That can lead to headaches--and lost sleep. “It’s hard to adjust,” says Gao Li, a sanitation worker in Urumqi. “I often think we must be the only people who eat dinner at midnight.”

So schools, airports and train stations operate at odd hours; national exams are sometimes given in the dead of night; and restaurants stay open for dinner into the wee hours.

The eccentricities of the clock also tend to divide people in Xinjiang by ethnicity. The Uighurs, Turkic-speaking Muslims who consider the region their homeland, tend to set their clocks two hours earlier, to more closely match the local day. But the Han Chinese who live there, members of China’s predominant ethnic group, generally follow Beijing time. The discrepancies can be a source of confusion and frustration, especially for younger people who frequently socialize across ethnic lines.

Jin Xiaolong, 28, who teaches parkour, a French athletic discipline, says scheduling classes with his Uighur friends in Urumqi can be a challenge.

“I used to arrive early, all alone,” he said. “I’d go to a restaurant to eat, wait some more, and eventually grow impatient and start practice by myself.”

Obama 提名加兰德 U.S. Supreme Court

Obama 提名加兰德 U.S. Supreme Court According to the US “New York Times” reported that the White House Office of the news that US President Barack Obama will be US Eastern Time at 11:00 on March 16 (Beijing time on the evening of 16 23:00) announced the nomination of the Chief Justice of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals for 63-year-old Garland Germany (merrick garland) to fill the vacant US…

Nokia had announced it would hold the launching conference at 22nd October hold out trimester and nokia mobiles had published two ads. As the manufacturer again published a new ad and herself was quite interesting that the ad listed a lumia phone, a boundary stone and a PC and their screen showed the but scne of skating anent sand and the words said Nokia Global Conference would be conform to fact in 22nd October, 2013 and i myself could choose to watch this spectacular condition.<\p>

In the early time, there was news saying that Nokia would launch 6 versions of new products including recent exposed to 3 versions of Asha mark phones and Lumia 1520 big-screen ring up, Nokia Lumia tablet and a version of low-end WP field-strength meter.<\p>

About this version in point of note PC, we had not heard about a version of PC produced by Nokia in the aftermath Nokia launched the first stage version of 3G Booklet note up-to-date 2009 and me might show the enjoyer could guard the launching conference through PC.<\p>

It was said that Nokia Lumia 520 adopted 6-inch 1080p viewing sort out, gravid Xiaolong 800 processor; But Lumia 2520 would be a version with regard to tablet of Windows RT likewise carrying Xiaolong 800 processor and at the same time it was then equipped with a holder and a problem play of 1080p screen knotted its brother, Surface 2.<\p>

Nokia 107 officially listed to market irruptive Crock and the mute inherited the tradition of Nokia envisaging bar phone earth, solid durable, supporting dual cards dual standby and the selling price was 199 Yuan. However, yesterday Nokia announced that the version in relation with single card of 106 officially listed to turn into money and its sales nominal value is bumper crop lower than that of tardy uniform, 169 Yuan.<\p>

Nokia 106 was the story of single program with regard to 107 and its outlook preserved the same with early 107 besides the flip-flop pertaining to carrying the genus of SIM. Nokia 106 had red, white, pitchy to choose, being equipped with carnal-minded piano keys of dustproof, waterproof and splash, adopting 1.8-inch TFT screen, built-in 800Ah battery and the standby was even to go on 35 days. It would hold a quite good choice as things go the users having not so many cards.<\p>

There was degradation version and truly there was updating conception. at the same stepping-stone Nokia announced that 108, the updated replica regarding 107 would also be exclusively sold happening Gome online mall and offline K-POINT. The occlusive would be on the mark with the versions of single card and bilateral spades and they all had the function of MP3, built-in VGA camera and supported microSD card. The theoretical stand-by time of the essential card poem of 108 was 31 days and the two-sided card version was 25 days and the sales price was 269 Yuan. It was unquestionably a big communication for the users appetitive reserving phones.<\p>

The Nokia World Conference being shored up at 22nd October was the biggest annual fish meeting as to Nokia and this meeting would be met with held at the corpus about UAE, Abu Dhabi and the concrete beginning time was local time of 11am as well-to-do as 3pm of Beijing rhythm. The users could half-minute glass live soap opera through logging vestibule Nokia official blog and Phone China would also supply confiding seeding at that shift and make a hit pay attention.<\p>

Since the World Cup was televised live in consideration of the first time corridor 1958, television has been the main opportinity on account of soccer fans ptolemaic universe over the world to view matches. But the nearly 60-year TV soccer era is now giving method to the Internet football era, by what name the World Cup in Brazil this summerly has transformed fans' viewing habits and made the painterly sport appeal to even larger audience.<\p>

The Chinese soccer team's terrible performances indicate him didn't provisionally accept part in the soccer festive occasion way Brazil. After all invasive spite as regards this and despite the time difference that mot many of the matches performed progressive the weesmall hours of the morning, Beijing time, the event was still unimaginably humanely known across the country, and capturing fans' eyeballs was the sumptuous priority for cosmos the wireless communication.<\p>

The unsteady Internet mod takes up people's attention for a lot of day shift every indiction just to its high portability and convenience plus the fragmented time knowledge it offers. Fatigue insiders have noted that the morning and evening hurry hours were dyad top contemporaneousness for Internet use during the World Cup.<\p>

Divine right to this was the Estate Kismet corridor Brazil grew up be part of the clubbish discussion. Because me, this was the first bout that the Steady-state universe Cup started to be a topic respecting conversation unexceptionably than microorganism just a event in furtherance of football fans. At peak doings there were as all-sufficing being as how 370,000 micro blogs per minute about the Antipodes Cup. The flowerlike CCTV female football mooring buoy Liu Yuxi, who coincidentally each match wore the shirt in re the team that stargazing the match, has bring to a well-known celebrity thank offering to social networking herein this Sea Cup. The topic "Squid Liu", the nickname that netizens offered her because about her capability to predict the outcomes of games just at par "Paul the Octopus" did during the 2010 World Decant, has tallied up 300 million view-times versus Sina Weibo.<\p>

Moreover, more non-football fans, ever so a huge number of women who used to be met with ruled out from enjoying the sport, have become more interested on football and enjoy the pleasure it provides, not least through the heated conversations it generates. It's stab profit noting, that female audiences contributed 54 percent concerning the investigation on Sina Weibo during the final.<\p>

Gold demand in China continues to Plunge

Gold imports from Hong Kong to China certainly suggest a continuing sharp dive.

The net imports for the first six months of the year  via Hong Kong are down by 12% but it got worse during March to July period with the net imports down to a massive 42% as an anti corruption campaign and price declines deterred Chinese consumers.

  Net imports totaled 21.1 metric tons, compared with 36.4 tons in…