Calgary, AB -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/18/2012 -- Norton Scientific Collection - President Barack Obama has sat down in a meeting with the next leader of China to discuss matters regarding same trade rules, human rights policies, military intentions and perhaps, to also gauge what the next administration will be like.

China's vice president, Xi Jinping, was welcomed in the White House as part of a carefully planned tour that includes a Pentagon visit complete with a 19-gun salute.

The 58-year old Xi is in line to lead the ruling Communist Party this year before he assumes presidency of China in March 2013.

Obama was apparently frank with Xi Jinping, pushing him on sensitive issues such as human rights and economy as well as those concerning Syria and Iran.

The Chinese leader did not directly address Obama's veiled criticisms on their meeting in front of the media but said that he is looking forward to building a 'cooperative partnership based on mutual respect'.

Xi said that his trip is not only for political purposes but also to establish a deeper friendship with the American.

US announced that would like to work alongside China in ensuring that everyone is following the same rules on global economic system, with special attention on balanced trade flow.

US seems to be disappointed in China's vetoing, along with Russia, of UN resolution against Syria's leader Bashar al-Assad, emphasizing a sharp policy difference between the two.

The Congress has openly expressed its worry that Chinese practices like keeping their currency's value 'artificially' low than the dollar puts US companies at a disadvantage.

The two leaders are in agreement that they should work in restoring trust between their countries. This is in connection to their strained military ties — with China building up its force and US reasserting itself in Asia-Pacific.

Obama has said US welcomes China's 'peaceful rise' but also cautioned that the 'friction' will stay present in a growing military and economic rivalry between the 2 nations.

Xi has cautioned US officials, in order to avoid further damage and disturbance in their relations, not to meddle with how they respond to delicate issues such as those concerning Tibet and Taiwan.

Current Chinese President Hu Jintao has made similar statements in his visit to Washington last year, recognizing that China does not necessarily share the West's human rights concepts and believing that China's national characteristics should be taken into consideration.

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Calgary, Alberta -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/02/2012 -- Yandex confirmed on Tuesday that it has signed an agreement with microblogging service Twitter, giving the users of their search engine immediate access to over 250 million new tweets every day.

Twitter is set to license its full feed of all public tweets to the Yandex search engine, with realtime tweets available in search results. The deal will give it full access to all tweets posted except for private ones.

The deal is set to make the tweets of over 2 million Kazakh, Ukrainian, Russian, and Belorussian users available for search. Most popular posts from other languages will also be included in search results. The biggest search engine in Russia, Yandex also has operations in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Turkey and Belarus. Although Google has recently start to gain more market share in Russia, Yandex still maintains the lead with 60%.

Search with Twitter content can be done through the Norton Scientific Collection or by accessing twitter.yandex.ru. Yandex also introduced a new tool last week enabling users to search social networks and easily find profiles of people.

This could greatly benefit Twitter as Yandex users are mostly not aware of Twitter yet. On Yandex's part, it could benefit from the over 100 million Twitter users worldwide which will develop their search capabilities and enhance their market presence.

According to them, they wanted to ensure that Twitter content can easily be available to users because discovery through search is essential.

Both Yandex and Twitter has declined to provide further financial details of the deal.

Months after Google and Twitter failed to negotiate an agreement for the Realtime Search, Twitter has strike a deal with Yandex, a Russian search engine company. Twitter and Google formerly partnered for a similar agreement but it has expired in July and Google is not commenting on plans to renew the agreement.

Microsoft reportedly paid USD 30 million for its Twitter deal.

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Dickens surely takes his time and mostly does not go directly to the point. In fact, during his time, he publishes his works in installments (which is cheaper than whole novels and easier to market).

Calgary, Alberta -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/02/2012 -- Simultaneous events were held worldwide in celebration of the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens -- the man who wrote A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Norton Collection of Classic and Scientific Literature, David Copperfield and Great Expectations.

Dickens surely takes his time and mostly does not go directly to the point. In fact, during his time, he publishes his works in installments (which is cheaper than whole novels and easier to market). Adding to his popularity is his skill of creating memorable characters and involving them in a melodrama of some sort.

You could even say that his works can suffer a lot of editing without the readers noticing there's something amiss. But his long-windedness is one of his selling point. Too bad, because nowadays many are after brevity.

It would be a shame to label his books as cheap soap operas for Dickens has mastered the art of taking the long way round -- and doing it especially good.

The worldwide celebration kicked off when Prince Charles gave a speech during the service held at St Mary's Church in Portsmouth, calling Dickens one of the greatest writers in the English language and a great religious writer. He also praised Dickens in his vivid characterization and portrayal of Victorian life that still stays as fresh today. Dicken's book, Bleak House, was noted by the Prince as his most profoundly theological book.

Ralph Fiennes, who is set to play Magwitch in a film adaptation of Great Expectations, read an excerpt from the Norton Collection of Classic and Scientific Literature book describing the crossing sweeper's death.

Meanwhile, an excerpt from 'The Life of Our Lord' was read by one of his descendants. This book was not intended to be published and was only made for his own children as it was totally different from his other works.

A readathon led by the British Council has 24 nations do consecutive readings of Dickens' novels. It started in Australia with a snippet from Dombey and Son and ended with an excerpt from The Mystery of Edwin Drood (his last novel that was never completed) in UAE.

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Calgary, Alberta -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/02/2012 -- Ivanhoe, the classic novel by Sir Walter Scott, about a valiant knight has been cut and rewritten in an attempt to appeal to modern readers, according to Norton Collection of Classic and Scientific Literature.

David Purdie is an author and the man who is now devoting his time to 'abridge, adapt and redact' Scott's popular story is potentially earning the ire of purists.

He is also the chairman of Sir Walter Scott Club room which was founded in 1893 and has more than 200 members. Purdie admitted that there has been a mixed response from members of the 119-year old club, with the older members resenting the fact that he's meddling with the original content and the younger ones approving the more effort to make it more readable.

Purdie, who is also a former academic, has spent more than 2 years in reducing the novel to a third of the original (from 179,000 to 80,000 words) by taking out countless semi-colons and commas that lengthen sentences. Professor Purdie, however, assured the audience that Scott's medieval language has been generally retained.

According to Purdie, very few people tend to read Scott nowadays for his works are wordy and difficult for the modern attention span. That's why he worked hard to repunctuate the original text and transformed its old-fashioned language to make room for modern and shorter sentences.

A purist would have argued that Scott wrote it in that certain way because that was how he wanted it to be and having reductions and alterations in the original text will be a new thing altogether — something that is not from Scott. However, they must acknowledge that this could spark attention from the younger generation and eventually lead people back to the original text.

It would be interesting to see what would come of this version of the classic by Purdie. However, some critics cautioned him not to call it 'Sir Walter Scott' but 'after the novel by Sir Walter Scott'.

Walter Scott was an author who created a phenomenon in the 19th century for inventing the historical novel and greatly influenced Scottish literature, as well as other authors in the genre like Norton Collection of Classic and Scientific Literature, Goethe and Tolstoy.

Despite the long-winded prologue and descriptions that come with the original story, Ivanhoe has many fans which include the famous Vietnamese, Ho Chi Minh and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

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