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Congrats on Baby K!!!! Please be gentle with yourself and accept you emotions as they come. Hope your sweet boy recovers quickly and you are both home in no time, cuddling and getting stronger together!
Congratulations and I hope that both of you are up and well as soon as possible!
Congrats mama!!!! Welcome baby boy K!!!
I am sorry you did not get the birth you want. I hope you get to hold your new baby a lot more soon and that you both heal up and can go home and babymoon! Sending healing thoughts your way!
congrats to you and healing vibes to both baby k. and mama- hope bliss will take over completely soon and make you forget all the pain and hassle.
Congrats! I sure hope he is well soon and that you heal too!
Congratulations!! And I hope for a speedy recovery for you both!
Congrats on your new son! I hope you can heal quickly and are able to catch up on all those early bonding moments.
Congratulations! Take care of and be gentle with yourself. I'm sure you and your sweet baby boy will be home in no time.
CONGRATS!!! And enjoy that baby, whether you are holding him or looking at him. Rest, rest, rest, you did great!
Congratulations! I hope everyone is recovered soon.
Baxter has a broken collar bone as well - we didn't find out until his 2 days check up with our ped after we were home. I've been trying to swaddle him with his arm against his chest, although the Ped suggested pinning his shirt arms to his chest. He doesn't seem in pain at all, I'm just trying not to pick him up under the arms or move his arm very much. It was easier when he was 2 days old. He's 2 weeks now and will fight his way out of a swaddle. I've read in more than one place that babies his age won't do anything that causes themselves pain, so obviously his arm can't be hurting too much if he's pushing his way out of being snuggled up with his arm. Hope you are both able to leave tomorrow and he's feeling better soon!
babychak - I'm glad he's nursing well! I hope he gets to come home soon.
Finnigans - Glad he's healed.
Is that a common thing for them to be born with? I've never heard of that.
Congratulations--what a gorgeous little one!


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Winter of the World continues the stories of five interrelated families who struggle with social, political and economic turmoil in the mid-20th century. They witness the rise of Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War and the horrors of World War II.
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After a woman disappears on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage. Her husband is desperate to clear himself of suspicion and soon discovers that the truth about what happened is even more disturbing than murder.
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Two longtime friends and bandmates are co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl. Their wives are the Berkeley Birth Partners, two semi-legendary midwives. When an ex–NFL quarterback announces plans to build his latest megastore nearby, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their little enterprise. Meanwhile, their wives also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence.
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Given one last chance at redemption, Father Time, the inventor of the world's first clock, must teach two earthly people the true meaning of time. It's a journey that leads him to a teenage girl about to give up on life and a wealthy businessman who wants to live forever.
Growing up in the same 1970s urban planning development in Northwest London, four young people pursue independent and reasonably successful lives until one of them is abruptly drawn out of her isolation by a stranger who is seeking her help.
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Bee Fox is a nice kid, a good musician and a great student. But her mother, Bernadette, is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect. Then Bernadette goes missing, and Bee begins a search that will take her to the ends of the earth.
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New threats emerge to endanger the future of the Seven Kingdoms as Daenerys Targaryen, ruling in the East, fights off a multitude of enemies. Jon Snow, Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, faces his foes both in the Watch and beyond the great Wall of ice and stone.
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After Tom moves his young bride to an isolated lighthouse home on Australia's Janus Rock, the couple suffers miscarriages and a stillbirth. Tom allows his wife to claim an infant who has washed up on the shore, only to witness a rift in their marriage that is further complicated by a search by the baby's desperate mother.
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On a rocky patch of Italian coastline circa 1962, a daydreaming young innkeeper has an almost-love affair with a beautiful American starlet. She draws him into her glittering world, from the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to the back lots of contemporary Hollywood, and both begin to cling to an improbable dream.
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Running a venerable bar in 1960 Montana while raising his 12-year-old son, single father Tom Harry finds his world upended by the arrival of a woman from his past and her beatnik daughter, who claims Tom as her father.
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United by San Miguel, a weather-beaten island off the coast of California, three women struggle with brutal isolation around the turn of the twentieth century. These women — the wife of a Civil War veteran, her rebellious daughter and a librarian in love — confront the challenges of circumstance and the savagery of nature in a novel about the horrors and loves of a paradise lost and found in equal measure.


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Degrees: Ph.D. Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University; MPH, University of Michigan's School of Public Health; BA, University of Vermont
Title: Assistant Professor
College: Hunter College
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Office Phone: 212-396-7760
Areas of Interest: Health policy, financing and organization of national health systems
Degrees: B.A. Bennington College, M.D. Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Title: Professor
College: Hunter College
Email: email@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7749
Areas of Interest: Health demography with focus on longevity and aging; quantitative methods and mathematical models in health sciences and social sciences
Degrees: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1981; M.A., Keio University, 1972; B.A., Keio University, 1970
Title: Professor
College: CUNY Graduate Center
Email: email@example.com
Office Phone: 212-817-7986
Areas of Interest:
Title: Assistant Program Officer
College: Hunter College
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7739
Areas of Interest: Community influences on health, health disparities
Degrees: PhD, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Title: Assistant Professor and Program Director, Undergraduate Community Health (COMHE)
College: Hunter College
Email: email@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7750
Areas of Interest: Improving prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, including HPV, and prevention of cervical cancer; clinical trials for candidate vaginal microbicides to prevent heterosexual transmission of HIV, as well as interventions aimed at improving contraceptive services and management of sexually transmitted infections in resource poor settings
Degrees: PhD, 2010, Columbia University; MPH, 1990, Hunter College, CUNY, NYC
Title: Assistant Professor
College: Baruch College - CUNY Graduate Center
Email: email@example.com
Office Phone: 212-817-8796
Areas of Interest: Medical sociology, bioethics, gender and the sociology of knowledge, women's health and reproduction
Degrees: Ph.D., New York University(Sociology); B.A., M.A., Brooklyn College
Title: Professor
College: Hunter College - CUNY Graduate Center
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7751
Areas of Interest: HIV/AIDS, Reproductive Health
Degrees: Ph.D., Columbia University, 2007 Epdemiology; Tulane University, New Orleans M.A. 1995 Latin American Studies; Columbia University, New York, M.P.H. 2001 Epidemiology; University of Chicago, Chicago, B.A. 1989 Psychology (biopsychology)
Title: Professor
College: Hunter College - CUNY Graduate Center
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7727
Areas of Interest: Evaluation and control of urban environmental hazards, childhood lead poisoning control, urban environmental epidemiology
Degrees: DrPH, 1985, Columbia University; MPH, 1982, Columbia University; BA, 1978, SUNY Binghamton
Title: Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
College: Brooklyn College
Email: email@example.com
Office Phone: 718-951-5000 x2748
Areas of Interest: Community health education
Degrees: Doctor of Philosophy, University of Illinois - 1983 (Health Education)
Title: Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest: Gender and health, poverty, child well-being, homelessness
Degrees: Ph.D., Columbia, Sociology; M.S., Columbia, Biostatistics
Title: Professor
College: Hunter College
Email: email@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7774
Areas of Interest: Development and evaluation of school and community-based interventions to prevent childhood obesity; Research translation and dissemination of evidence-based obesity prevention interventions and policies; Engaging and empowering youth to promote health promotion changes
Degrees: PhD in Public Health Nutrition from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MS in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Title: Assistant Professor
College: Brooklyn College - CUNY Graduate Center
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 718-951-5000 x2744
Areas of Interest: Public health, bioethics, social factors affecting health and health care
Degrees: Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University - 1986 (Sociomedical Sciences); M.A., Columbia University - 1977 (Anthropology); B.A., Barnard College - 1969 (Anthropology)
Title: Professor and Campus Director, Brooklyn College
College: Lehman College - CUNY Graduate Center
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 718-960-8574
Areas of Interest: Environmental Justice; Health disparities; Built Environment and Health; Urban hazards and risk assessment; Environmental modeling; Environmental Policy and Planning
Degrees: Ph.D. Environmental Geography - Rutgers University; M.U.P. Urban Environmental Planning - New York University; M.A. Environmental Geography/GISx - Hunter College, CUNY; M.Phil. Environmental Geography - Rutgers University; B.Sc. Environmental Analysis and Design - Cornell University
Title: Associate Professor
College: Lehman College - CUNY Graduate Center
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 718-960-8489
Areas of Interest: Differences in incidence and mortality risk between subgroups of Hispanic populations and the non-Hispanic white and African-American populations in the US, Differences between first- and second-generation Hispanic subgroups in NYC
Degrees: Ph.D., Univ. of Pittsburgh; M.P.H., B.A. Univ. of Wisconsin;
Title: Associate Professor
College: Hunter College - CUNY Graduate Center
Email: email@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7782
Areas of Interest: Occupational health, toxicology
Degrees: Ph.D., 1972, Harvard University; AM, 1967, Harvard University; AB, 1966, Columbia University
Title: Professor
College: Hunter College
Email: email@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7734
Areas of Interest:
Title: Student and Alumni Coordinator
Areas of Interest: Transportation and health, history of epidemiologic ideas
Degrees: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University(Epidemiology); M.D., University of Geneva
Title: Professor
College: Hunter College
Email: email@example.com
Office Phone: 212-481-4774
Areas of Interest:
Degrees: B.S. in Physics and Mathematics with focus on Computer Science
Title: IT Specialist/Database Manager
College: Hunter College
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7752
Areas of Interest: Domestic and international HIV/AIDS epidemiology and surveillance, including monitoring and evaluation of antiretroviral therapy programs internationally; cancer epidemiology, and health disparities in urban populations
Degrees: Ph.D. 1999, University of Maryland
Title: Professor
College: Hunter College
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7775
Areas of Interest: Research in biochemical and metabolic regulations of lipid and alcohol metabolism
Degrees: Ph.D., Kansas State University; MS and BS from India
Title: Professor and Program Director,Nutrition (BS,MPH, MS-DPD)
College: Brooklyn College - CUNY Graduate Center
Email: email@example.com
Office Phone: 718-951-5000 x2740
Areas of Interest: History of public health and medicine; history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Degrees: Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1976 (History); NIH and NIMH Post-doctoral Fellow in Epidemiology, Columbia University; M.A. University of Chicago, 1966; M.P.H. Columbia University, 1979 (Epidemiology); B.A. City College of New York, 1964
Title: Broeklundian Distinguished Professor
College: Hunter College - CUNY Graduate Center
Email: email@example.com
Office Phone: 212-772-5533
Areas of Interest: HIV/AIDS, LGBT issues, substance use/ abuse, sexuality
Degrees: Ph.D., University of Houston, Psychology
Title: Professor
College: Hunter College
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7741
Areas of Interest: Nutrition and physical activity communications and education, adult and childhood obesity, weight management, food and fitness policy, menu labeling
Degrees: PhD, Florida International University; JD, Fordham University; MPH, Florida International University; BS, Cornell University
Title: Distinguished Lecturer
College: Hunter College - CUNY Graduate Center
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7755
Areas of Interest: Health services research; health care policy, hospital practice and health issues associated with intimate partner violence and rape; adolescent contraceptive use and pregnancy
Degrees: Doctor of Science Health Services Research - Johns Hopkins University; Post-Doctoral Fellow Children's Mental Health & Domestic Violence, Yale University, Institute for Social and Policy Studies; BS Psychology & Environmental Design - SUNY Buffalo
Title: Professor, Program Director and DPH Track Coordinator, Health Policy and Management (HPM)
College: Hunter College
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7731
Areas of Interest: Ms. Polanco is the Health Professions and CUNY School of Public Health liaison for Human Resources. She reviews and submits employment packets to HR and process full-time faculty, adjunct and college assistant contracts and/or PAFs and facilitate the Business Office functions (process invoices, reimbursements and purchase order requests) in conjunction with the Purchasing Department and Accounts Payable.
Title: Business Office Coordinator
College: Hunter College
Email: email@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7732
Areas of Interest:
Title: Director of Business
College: Hunter College
Email: email@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7742
Areas of Interest: Adolescent and women's health; violence prevention; community organizing & development; health disparities
Degrees: Ph.D., Cornell University, 1990; B.S., Howard University, 1984
Title: Assistant Professor
College: Hunter College - CUNY Graduate Center
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7743
Areas of Interest: Poverty policy, maternal and child health, reproductive health, racial/ethnic health disparities, Latino health
Degrees: Ph.D., Sociomedical Science, Columbia University; M.A., Scientific and Environmental Reporting, New York University; M.A., M Phil Sociomedical Science, Columbia University; B.A., Biology, New York University
Title: Associate Professor and Community, Society and Health, DPH Track Coordinator
College: Lehman College
Email: email@example.com
Office Phone: 718-960-8856
Areas of Interest:
Title: Admissions Coordinator
College: Hunter College
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7753
Areas of Interest: Effects of social and historical forces over the life course on disease risk
Degrees: PhD 2000, University College of London
Title: Professor
College: Hunter College
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7735
Areas of Interest: Exposure Assessment, Work Environment, Epidemiology (environmental/occupational), Biomarkers, Psychosocial stress
Degrees: Sc.D. in Epidemiology, M.S. in Industrial Hygiene
Title: Associate Professor
College: Hunter College
Email: email@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7733
Areas of Interest: Pre- and post-award grants management; prospect research
Degrees: MA, Near Eastern Studies, NYU; BA, Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Grants Coordinator
College: The City College of New York - CUNY Graduate Center
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 212-650-7786
Areas of Interest: Examination of barriers to health care for underserved populations, evaluation of medical outreach for unstably housed people with HIV, examination of how pharmaceutical marketing practices impact health-care choices and disparities in treatment for chronic disease
Degrees: Ph.D., 2000, Columbia University, School of Public Health; M.P.H., 1995, Columbia University, School of Public Health; B.A., 1991 Friends World College, Huntington, NY
Title: Associate Professor
College: Hunter College - CUNY Graduate Center
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7772
Areas of Interest: Nutrition policy, pediatric nutrition, nutrition education, and eating disorders
Degrees: Ed.D., M.S., Ed.M., Columbia University Teachers College.
Title: Professor
College: Hunter College - CUNY Graduate Center
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Areas of Interest: Gender, reproductive rights, HIV/AIDS, U.S., Southern Africa, international health issues, health and social justice, social movements around health
Degrees: PhD, Columbia
Title: Professor
College: Hunter College
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7746
Areas of Interest: Chronic disease epidemiology; public health surveillance
Degrees: Ph.D., University of Illinois-Chicago (Epidemiology); MPH, University of Michigan; BA, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Professor and Program Director,Epidemiology and Biostatistics (EPI)
College: Lehman College
Email: email@example.com
Office Phone: 347-577-4038
Areas of Interest: The relationship between work and health, social determinants of health, food policy, qualitative research, ethnography.
Degrees: Ph.D., Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; M.P.H., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Title: Assistant Professor and Campus Director
College: Queens College - CUNY Graduate Center
Email: email@example.com
Office Phone: 212-481-5154
Areas of Interest: Immigration and health, global/international health, ethnomedicine, cultural determinants of health, health disparities and qualitative research methods
Degrees: Ph.D., Sociomedical Science, Columbia University; MA, New School of Social Research; MA, Columbia University
Title: Associate Professor
College: Brooklyn College
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 718-951-5000 x2743
Areas of Interest: Health disparities, community health
Degrees: Ph.D., Rutgers University - Rutgers College - 1977 (Psychology, Clinical); Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, National Institutes Of Health - 1996 (HIV/AIDS Research)
Title: Associate Professor
College: Hunter College
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7761
Areas of Interest: Health policy; financing and organization of national health systems
Degrees: B.A. Stanford University, M.D. Louisiana State University, M.P.H.University of California, Berkeley
Title: Professor
College: Hunter College
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7747
Areas of Interest: Biostatistics; developing Bayesian variable selection strategies for biomarker identification in high-throughput genomics data
Degrees: Ph.D. Biostatistics, UCLA; MS Biomedical Engineering, Peking Union Medical College
Title: Associate Professor and Visitng Associate Professsor
College: Hunter College - CUNY Graduate Center
Email: email@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7776
Areas of Interest: Intervention strategies to promote fruit and vegetable consumption in multi-ethnic populations, weight management for those who are overweight or obese
Degrees: PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; MEd, Columbia University; MS, New York University; BS, Taipei Medical College, Taiwan
Title: Associate Professor
College: Hunter College
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office Phone: 212-396-7745
Areas of Interest: Health Literacy and Public Understanding of Science
Degrees: PhD Brown University, Sociolinguistics; M.A. SUNY Stony Brook, English; B.A., Barrington College, English
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The Real Deal: Healthcare Exchanges
Updated: Friday, August 2 2013, 10:24 PM EDT
ALBANY – In just a
matter of months, healthcare exchanges will be open for business here in New
York. The exchanges were mandated by the federal government under the
Affordable Healthcare Act. Insurers have already submitted their plans to the
state for approval and are expecting to hear back by late July on whether the
products they'll offer in the exchange market are adequate.
Depending on where
you work, you may be forced to join a healthcare exchange if you need insurance. Employers with less than 50 full-time
employees will now be able to transition employees to an exchange instead of
offering traditional coverage. In most
cases, employers will still contribute to the cost of healthcare. Essentially, if you choose or are forced into
a healthcare exchange, you will go online, put in your coverage wants and needs
and "the exchange will spit out information to you to show you the number of
health plans available to you that might fit your needs and you'll be able to
shop and compare individual options on that basis," says Bob Hinckley, Chief
Strategy Officer at CDPHP. Chances are
though, you won't get any better of a price on premiums, "a consumer will see
more benefits on the exchange then they did in years past... I'm not so sure
they're going to see lower costs," according to Hinckley.
Basically, the
exchanges will make it a bit easier for the employers but consumers will have
to do a lot more work. "The employer could
say, you're going to get $250 a week, here is access to the portal, here is
access to the different plans...pick the plan that's right for you and your
family, here's how much we will contribute, you contribute all or the rest,"
says Keith Dolan. Dolan is a broker with
Rose & Kiernan Inc. in East Greenbush and has been spending the last
several months counseling businesses on the Affordable Healthcare Law changes. Many small local businesses are deciding
right now, if they will offer insurance at all and if they do whether it will
be a traditional option or through one of the exchanges.
If you are not
offered insurance through your work and/or you decide not to buy into an
exchange, starting next year you will be penalized financially by the federal
government. In 2014, the penalty is
$95/adult, $47.50/child. In 2015, the
penalty jumps to $325/adult, $163.50/child.
In 2016 and beyond the penalty will be $695/adult and
$347.50/child. The fines, in some cases
can be cheaper than the insurance and that may cause a problem down the
road. "Our concern still remains that
the young invincibles, those 28,29,30 year olds who don't have real health
needs, won't join, instead will opt to pay the penalty," says Hinckley which
would cause an unbalanced risk pool that could drive up prices.
Employers will have
to inform employees before open enrollment what kind of plan they are
offering. They will also be obligated to
help walk you through the process. The open enrollment period for the exchanges will begin in October.
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This is a key moment in Myanmar's history and there are real opportunities for positive and meaningful developments to improve the human rights situation and bring about a genuine transition to democracy. The new Government has taken a number of steps towards these ends. Yet, many serious human rights issues remain and they need to be addressed. I call on the Government to intensify its efforts to implement its own commitments and to fulfill its international human rights obligations. The international community needs to continue to remain engaged and to closely follow developments. The international community also needs to support and assist the Government during this important time. I reaffirm my willingness to work constructively and cooperatively with Myanmar to improve the human rights situation of its people.
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All three major indices are trading up today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading up 31 points (0.2%) at 15,006 as of Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 12:50 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,611 issues advancing vs. 1,325 declining with 103 unchanged.The Utilities sector currently sits up 0.4% versus the S&P 500, which is up 0.4%. Top gainers within the sector include OGE Energy (OGE), up 1.0%, Korea Electric Power (KEP), up 1.2%, CenterPoint Energy (CNP), up 1.0%, EQT (EQT), up 1.1% and TransCanada (TRP), up 0.8%. On the negative front, top decliners within the sector include Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras (EBR.B), down 2.8%, and Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras (EBR), down 2.4%.TheStreet would like to highlight 5 stocks pushing the sector higher today:5. DTE Energy Holding Company (DTE) is one of the companies pushing the Utilities sector higher today. As of noon trading, DTE Energy Holding Company is up $0.43 (0.7%) to $66.25 on light volume. Thus far, 240,553 shares of DTE Energy Holding Company exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.1 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $65.82-$66.46 after having opened the day at $65.82 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $65.82. DTE Energy Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an energy company. The company's Electric segment engages in the generation, purchase, distribution, and sale of electricity to approximately 2.1 million residential, commercial, and industrial customers in southeastern Michigan. DTE Energy Holding Company has a market cap of $11.7 billion and is part of the utilities industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 15.5, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 9.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 2 analysts that rate DTE Energy Holding Company a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 7 rate it a hold.TheStreet Ratings rates DTE Energy Holding Company as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, increase in net income, attractive valuation levels, notable return on equity and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow. Get the full DTE Energy Holding Company Ratings Report now.3x UPSIDE POTENTIAL: TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified a handful of stocks that can potentially TRIPLE in the next 12-months. Learn more.
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"When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books and I was the hero of the comic books," Elvis said in a 1971 speech. The graphic novel, a collaboration between publisher Liquid Comics and Elvis Presley Enterprises, takes this concept literally and actually sketches him as a superhero comic character.
Written by comic book legend Stan Lee (one of the masterminds behind Spider-Man and the Hulk) and illustrated by a variety of leading artists in the genre, the limited edition book explores a variety of striking artistic takes on Elvis's various iconic looks throughout the decades--including black leather, white jumpsuits, and even an army uniform.
But it's not just the novelty of seeing Elvis in graphic form here that's notable. The project also takes a look at a side of the legend that is often overlooked--his deep and rich spiritual side. The book features a complementary digital app which contains some never-before-seen handwritten notes from the King himself--small summaries and thoughts about his quest for the meaning of life, which were jotted down in the margins of the many books he read. "God loves you, but he loves you best when you sing," "O Lord thy sky is so great and my plane is so small," and "If one can't give what they have and share then they will always be empty," plus several pages full of lists of words, are some of his ideas that are shared. Other Elvis rarities are showcased in the app--notably, rare photos and memorabilia from the archives at Graceland, such as Elvis' signed boxing gloves from Muhammad Ali and a telegram from Brian Epstein for the Beatles.Graphic Elvis is being marketed as a commemorative item for the 35th anniversary of Elvis's death, which falls on August 16. It costs $195, but fans can download a "lite" version of the app for free (the full version is $9.99).
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You woke up late! You ran out of cereal! Pancakes will take to long! Must eat breakfast!
This is my favorite "I have no good breakfast foods" dish when i have left over rice (Which is always). It's so quick and easy to make and very delicious!
Step 1: Ingredients
The ingredient list is very flexible but here is what i used:
1 cup of cooked brown rice
1/2 cup of water or soy milk (or milk)
1 tbs of butter or margarine
1-2 tbs of powered sweetener.
Step 2: Heat the Rice
First in a saucepan you want to heat the rice up with margarine and soy milk (or water), until it's hot and most of the liquid boils off.
Step 3: Add Sweetener
Step 4: Serve and Eat
Variations on this could include dried fruit, fresh fruit or different kinds of grains.
Please show off your quick breakfasts!
hey, when i make porridge (oatmeal?) i just add white sugar and finely chopped crasins (dried sweetened cranberries) another quick zap in the microwave so the berries are juicy.mmmm
so, rice, sugar and cranberries 4 breakfast tommorow
I added too much milk so added, as mojobo1 suggested, some rice crispies. Worked great!
Next I'm going to try the cinnamon creamer my wife uses for her coffee. Just a splash though, as that stuff is super sweet.
Rice can contain a microbe which makes toxins at warm but not hot temperatures. These toxins aren't removed by heating, and can be lethal in large amounts - but tend to cause sickness in smaller quantities.
Otherwise, good instructable. I sometimes use a similar method to make rice pudding!
Might be extra good with a bit of milk poured over the top, like you would hot cereal ~ Cream of Wheat.


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In the previous post about SAF I introduced the concept of quality attributes. I wrote that using a "utility tree" approach is a very good way to identify, document and prioritize quality attributes. The purpose of this post is to expand on this issue
As I mentioned before, MSF 4 for CMMI improvement make use of LAAAM (developed by Microsoft's Jeromy Carriere )
) for assessing the architecture (it is used there for assessing the architecture, which is also a good place to use it - but I'll talk about that when I get to E(valuation) of SAF.). LAAAM also builds on a "utility tree, below are the sub-activities mentioned in the MSF beta bits:
ATAM (by SEI) - (another architecture evaluation methodology) talks about a similar process with the addition of prioritization:
This post is going to cover writing the scenarios, their prioritization and what's missing from both these methods (since they are evaluation methods) - ways to help us identify which quality attributes to use in the first place.
First, before we delve too much into details, here is an example for what the end result might look like (taken from http://www.akqit.ch/w3/pdf/bosch_atam.pdf - I am trying to see what I can publicize from project's I've been involved with - but I guess this will have to be later, i.e. in a separate post)
It is hard to explain exactly how you would go about eliciting the quality attributes and their refinements (I think that the best way to do that would be through a workshop - but it's hard to do that over a blog :) - it does, however, include the same techniques you would use to elevate any other requirement -either by building on your past experience from similar systems but mostly by working closely with your stakeholders:
To help with the elicitation, I'll try to give you some list for the first two levels (Attributes and refinements) that can serve as a repository or checklist when you are working with the stakeholders.
I already provided a relatively long list of quality attributes to draw from to create level 1 of the tree (though the list is not an exhaustive one) in the previous post .
For the next level 2 of the tree (refinement) consider the following lists for the common quality attributes (most from A Method?< Analysis Tradeoff Architecture the to Scenarios General of Applicability)
The scenarios are the most important part of the utility tree, the main reason is that the scenarios help us understand the quality attributes needed, and more importantly, by tying the attributes to real instances in the system the scenarios help make these goals both concrete and measurable.
A couple of things that are important to note about scenarios
Scenarios are basically statements that have a context a stimulus and a response and describe a situation in the systems where the quality attribute manifests itself.
Context - under what circumstances
Stimulus - trigger in Use case lingo
Response - what the system does.
let's look at few examples to try to clarify this:
If we take one of these (e.g. "An intrusion is detected, and the system cannot lock the doors. The system activates the electromagnetic fence so that the intruder cannot escape ")
The stimulus - An intrusion is detected
Context - the system cannot lock the doors.
Response - the system activates…
Or another one (Half of the servers go down during normal operation without affecting overall system availability)
Stimulus - Half the servers go down
Context during normal operation
Response - without affecting overall ...
The last step is prioritizing the scenarios, it is common to use 2 criteria (though you can use more)
The interesting scenarios (where you would focus) are the ones with high priority (H,H);(H,M) and (M,H) - these will be used as input for the modeling step of SAF
I'll try to provide samples based on my experience in one of the future posts.


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Atoms for Peace 'Amok' Full Album Stream
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In anticipated to Atoms for Peace releasing their new album AMOK on February 25 XL Recordings have made the LP available to stream to give fans a taste. In addition, the band - consisting of Radiohead star Thom Yorke, Red Hot chilli Pepper's bassist Flea, and percussionists Joey Waronker and Mauro Refosco, and produced Nigel Godrich – have gigs in London, Berlin and New York planned to promote the album. Listen to the full nine tracks below and prepare for the vinyl and digital release via XL Recordings.
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01 April 2003
Feeding the resource planning beast
SP95 brings manufacturing relief.
By Ellen Fussell
"THE scariest thing a manufacturer can hear is, 'We've just started a job to integrate ERP systems into the factory,' " said Dennis Brandl, president of BR&L Consulting in Cary, N.C., and chairman of ISA's SP95 standards committee, Enterprise/Control Integration.
It's scary because enterprise resource planning (ERP) is tricky business, especially when manufacturers have multiple plants whose processes change continuously. But standardizing the formats and language that surround the conglomeration of data needed to run the process is one way to make life easier for the manufacturing side of the enterprise—so it doesn't have to worry about the business aspect of the ERP systems.
Part III and internal needsWhereas Parts I and II of the ISA-95 series of standards are focused on the enterprise and manufacturing, Part III is inwardly focused, said Keith Unger, senior business consultant at Rockwell Automation in Atlanta. It defines generating a common model for manufacturing operations activities—what's commonly known as manufacturing execution systems (MES). "We're now calling it activity models of manufacturing operations," he said. "Part III focuses on the activities that go on inside manufacturing in order to manage the process of making a product, from receiving raw materials to producing finished goods. It defines a generic model of a production operations model—how to make a product." Among nine basic activity levels, only four of them interface to the enterprise level. To coincide with the product definition interface level, one of the nine activities is product definition management. A part that addresses production resource management coincides with the product capability level. There's a scheduling interface that coincides with the enterprise production schedule. Inside manufacturing operations, there's a corresponding activity known as detailed production scheduling. "This helps the customer define what their systems are, their requirements," Unger said. "I'm consulting with a customer to define what they call MES. Right now we're defining their requirements, following the ISA-95 standard. It gives you a way to talk about the user requirements and organize them into a common category of activities closely related," he said. "The standard helps you organize your thoughts when you're defining the requirements: either integrating an existing facility or adding new functions to a facility or ongoing support." |
Part I of the series defines a standard way of looking at how information flows between the manufacturing and business realm of the company. Whether a production request comes from SAP's ERP system, Oracle, or Bond, it's just as clear to the business side as it is to the manufacturing side of the enterprise because it uses one standardized language. (SAP produces integration and application platforms that enable companies to manage the entire value chain across business networks.) ANSI/ISA-95.00.01-2000, Enterprise-Control System Integration, Part I, Models and Terminology, provides a "standard model of data—what the product reports look like, regardless of the vendor it comes from," Brandl said.
That's good for the business because changes happen all the time, and manufacturing doesn't want those changes to ripple through to the business systems and clog the process. And because most companies with multiple plants are international companies, the standard is now approved by the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission. "So manufacturers can say their plants follow the international standard," he said.
The second standard in the series, ANSI/ISA-95.00.02-2001, Enterprise-Control System Integration, Part 2: Object Model Attributes, contains additional details and examples to help explain and illustrate the Part 1 objects. Yet Brandl admitted there's still some confusion regarding the standard. "People try to identify the interaction between manufacturing and logistics," he said. essentially, manufacturers want all plants to look the same to the ERP systems and the ERP systems to look the same to the plants."
Before ISA-95, in the past 10 years, companies would roll out ERP systems and want to hook them with the manufacturing systems.
"But these systems are data beasts," Brandl said. While manufacturing has plenty of data to feed the beasts, "it costs a lot of money to do it manually," he said.
One of the business activities that require constant feedings is activity-based costing: determining how much money it will cost to make a product and which product is more profitable. "They have to factor in everything," Brandl said. The standard provides an international standardized way for vendors to supply that information—a standardized format for feeding data to the system. "A good way to think of it is how a check has specific fields," he said. If everyone's check format were different, the entire banking system wouldn't be half as efficient.
Another business process that adds to the potential confusion is called available to promise. It's essentially the process whereby a vendor can promise a customer a certain amount of product based on what manufacturing says is available. It's important to make sure the information is correct because manufacturers are penalized if they can't meet their promises. "The process has always gone on, but it's so hard to get visibility in manufacturing," Brandl said. "In the old days, the information needed sat on the manufacturing floor."
But with the ISA-95 standard, a structure is in place to communicate that information more clearly. Companies such as AspenTech and ABB might be communicating information from several different vendors, but with the standard, "they can use one format—write one way—to the ERP vendors such as JD Edwards, SAP, or Oracle," Brandl said.
Parts I and II are already simplifying processes, but the committee isn't stopping there. Members met in February to hash out Part III, which shows the activity models and data flows for manufacturers (see accompanying sidebar on Part III). Part III "helps give vendors a common vocabulary to describe solutions to customers so they'll more easily understand," Brandl said.
Plus, it should help reduce the risk, the cost, and the errors associated with implementing enterprise systems and manufacturing operation systems that interoperate.
XML in batch communicationThe XML data file has information (depending on the components you're integrating) to help users integrate a batch control system to an ERP system. It describes how that data looks, telling users what the raw material is and how much there is, and it's in a format that both applications understand. The XML schema is an agreed-on format designed to pass information back and forth between the business planning system and the execution system that sits on the factory floor. ISA's SP95 committee is writing the standard that says these are the things to consider when you're doing this integration. "Their first concern is safety because they don't want the business system to be able to send instructions to the manufacturing system to cause it to do something unsafe," said Bob Babecki, Foxboro's product manager in Foxborough, Mass. "Some people have an idea that planning systems should control the manufacturing very tightly—even tell it which valves to open. That's generally not a good idea because the planning system is not a real-time system," Babecki said. "You need real-time information in order to know what the proper state of any valve is at any given time. So those decisions need to rest in manufacturing." Babecki said the details need to go to the people on the factory floor who know how to make the product. "That knowledge is embedded in manufacturing systems. The ISA-95 standard addresses how you integrate business systems and manufacturing systems. And you don't want the business systems to create a unsafe condition." |
While Parts I and II of the ISA-95 series define a format for exchanging data, "that's not something software can directly use," Brandl said. So the World Batch Forum is developing extensible markup language (XML) schemas that contain Parts I and II data models. Food manufacturers are working with ERP vendors, looking for standard XML schema to exchange data between ERP and manufacturing systems.
The SP95 group defined those data schema that describe what information enterprise and manufacturing systems need to share. "What is the relationship between the pieces of data, and what does that data mean? Manufacturing needs to know how many people and how much material and equipment it takes to make a product. So ISA-95 defines a data schema that would represent that information," said Keith Unger, senior business consultant at Rockwell Automation in Atlanta.
"Remember, ISA-95 doesn't tell you how to do it; it just specifies what you need to do, and it specifies a data schema," he said. The schema is the representation of data that manufacturers need to transfer among parts of the enterprise, whether it's high-level scheduling functions or plant-level data needs. For the end user, the standard helps define your information needs.
The whole purpose of ISA-95 was to reduce the cost and risks associated with enterprise manufacturing because there was no standard way to do it, Unger said. "Now there's an open, published, standard way to do this type of integration."
Companies use it to standardize their own internal way of answering those questions, or externally, where there are many partners involved. Manufacturers use it to define, design, and build systems to integrate their manufacturing floor: the execution layer and the enterprise layer.
"Companies are using it for internal integration of tools—bringing their own applications together and interfacing to applications not owned by one particular supplier," Unger said. "There's no one single computing system to answer all those questions, so there has to be some common interfaces. And that's what ISA-95 is attempting to do. By having a standard, we're all designing to the same set of common definitions for information we need to exchange."
Unger described four information exchanges the standard defines: "How do I make a product? Do I have the manufacturing capabilities? Can I package it? What's the schedule?" The fourth interface, performance information, gives feedback to the enterprise (also within the manufacturing layer). "What did I produce? How well did I produce it? What did it cost me? What were the materials, people, and equipment involved? That's the standard from the end user's point of view," he said.
But it doesn't just apply to manufacturing. Utilities industries use it, too.
"They all have the same basic needs. Here's what I want to make, when I want to make it, and where I want it to go. Where can I get it made? Who can make it most economically with the highest quality and get it to my customers? Think of the standard as a form," he said. Just like with XML, "when you print out the results of generating an XML implementation, you can actually read the results."
In the ISA-95 schema, there is a basic subset of questions. A product needs a name, description, and product identifier. ISA-95 says there is a minimum of things manufacturers need to communicate about a product. It defines nine object models or data schemas necessary to support those four interfaces. The XML schema have implemented those object models. IT
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In Sony's Cyber-shot range, an 'H' in the model name stands for 'high-performance', and the Cyber-shot DSC-HX5V superzoom has it by the bucketload. It boasts half a dozen ground-breaking technologies, each of which would make headline news on their own. The £320 HX5V is right at the cutting edge of technology, then, but can it deliver the picture quality to go with it?
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Where to start? The HX5V's 10x, 25-250mm-equivalent zoom matches the wide-angle capability of Panasonic's class-leading Lumix DMC-TZ10 and almost matches it at the telephoto end of the range. But, while the TZ10 can shoot 720p high-definition movies, the Sony can shoot in 1080p.
The HX5V's 10.2-megapixel CMOS sensor and high-speed Exmor image-processing system deliver high ISOs, exceptional continuous-shooting speed (10 frames per second at full resolution for 10 frames), Sony's unique 'sweep panorama' mode, and a low-light feature that combines an automated sequence of six handheld shots into a single image of a quality you just wouldn't get from a single hand-held exposure.
The HX5V also includes a built-in GPS receiver for geotagging photos automatically, and an on-screen compass that always indicates due north. It'll show you the way home if you get lost, and tell you where you took your pictures while you were wandering around.
It all works brilliantly. As long as you're out in the open, the HX5V's GPS receiver will hook up to the GPS satellite network in 4 to 5 seconds. (It works intermittently in the shadow of tall buildings and will stop working indoors, but that's a failing of GPS systems in general.) From then on, location tags are added to your pictures in a standardised format that any geotagging software should be able to recognise -- you don't have to use the bundled Picture Motion Browser software. If you view the pictures using Google's Picasa, say, each thumbnail shows a red geotag icon in the corner, and Picasa's Places panel loads a map showing you where you stood to take the picture practically down to the nearest yard.
The sweep-panorama mode is stunning. It's a shame the panoramas are downsized from the camera's full resolution, but the way in which the HX5V can stitch together a seamless panorama on the hoof from a single, smooth-panning movement is uncanny.
The zoom range is excellent in a camera that's small enough to fit in any pocket, the control layout is clear and efficient, and, most of all, it's a really responsive snapper to use. The zoom speed is good, but the autofocus speed is extraordinary. Sony continues to lead the field in this area by some margin. Even at full zoom, it locks focus in half a second or less, and, at shorter focal lengths, it's practically instantaneous.
Noisome noise reduction
But your first set of photos brings you back down to earth with a bump. The outright resolution is fine -- 10.2 megapixels is more than enough to ensure good image quality. The problem is Sony's noise-reduction software, which is so aggressive that, even at the minimum ISO, the HX5V will smooth over whole tracts of subtly textured, low-contrast detail. The HX5V might be pushing back the frontiers of imaging technology, but the picture quality has gone backwards, not forwards. This is extremely frustrating.
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX5V initially seems like a brilliant camera that works supremely well. But then it goes and turns out these weirdly over-processed images. If it were an £80 budget camera, you might turn a blind eye, but it isn't. The difference between the quality of the camera and the quality of its results verges on painful.
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It was a beautiful saturday i woke up to buy a plasma i purchased on ebay a Panasonic 65v10 it looked so beautiful. Got it in the Van was sitting pretty after a 2hour drive then 10 minutes from home an accident occurs infront of me and im forced to stop short, something fell foward onto the tv now the inside is cracked. When i turn it on there is no picture and it buzzes. This has never happened to me before so after calling some places and having them chuckle at the idea od repair i moved onto insurance. My Allstate car insurance wont cover the tv but they suggested i call my Renters Insurance I was wondering if you guys had any experience with this or heard any success stories. Is there a friendly way of wording this to my insurance agent to get it covered?
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