Fortune, July 2, 2012

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(1) Graham Webster, Why Are the Chinese Buying up Toledo?
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2 ... -china-real-estate/
(The entire text in print is short: "Last year Chinese investors paid $2.15 million in cash for a restaurant complex on the Maumee River in Toledo and $3.8 million for 69 acres of newly decontaminated land in the city's Marina District. Nearby, unnamed Chiese paid $3 million for a hotel that cost $42 million to build. Why Toledo? If you believe the buyers, it's the city's easy access to more investment opportunities in the Midwest. China's super-rich have good reason to diversify: Their domestic real estate market and banks are under scrutiny. Plus, foreign investors who put at least $1 million into a US business can be eligible to apply for a green card")

Note: Toledo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo,_Ohio
(founded in 1833 on the west bank of the Maumee River; the reason for this choice is buried in a welter of legends)

(a) Maumee River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maumee_River
(Historically the river was also known as the "Miami" in United States treaties with Native Americans; Maumee is an anglicized spelling of the Ottawa name for the Miami Indians, Maamii)

pronunciation:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maumee
(b) Americans pronounce Toledo (the city in Ohio and the province in Spain) the same. However, Spaniards pronounce their province differently--in "e" and "d."

(i) Toledo
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/toledo

The first pronunication is American while the second one (preceded with "also") is Spanish.
(ii) Spanish Pronunciation. StudySpanish.com, undated.
http://www.studyspanish.com/pronunciation/
(in th eleft column: Topic 6 Consonant: d)
(iii) Spanish/Pronunciation
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Spanish/Pronunciation


(2) JP Mangalindan, Replacing teh Mouse. The communication gap between man and machine just closed. Welcome to the era of guesture interface.
http://m.cnnmoney.com/primary/_4PuwWi-iRPzrA4IpB

Note:
(a) Oblong Industries
http://oblong.com/
(The g-speak™ platform)
(b)  
(i) Leap Motion is based in San Francisco.
http://leapmotion.com/
(video clip)
(ii) Press release: Leap Motion Unveils World’s Most Accurate 3-D Motion Control Technology for Computing. Leap device, sensitive enough to track individual fingertips, available for limited pre-order at just $69.99. Leap Motion, May 21, 2012.
https://live.leapmotion.com/pres ... logy-for-computing/