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Dr. Malhotra is a graduate of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences which is considered one of India`s most prestigious medical schools. He did his residency in Internal Medicine at New York Medical College-Metropolitan Hospital Center where he also was the Assistant Chief Medical Resident and Delegate of the hospital to the Committee of Interns and Residents. After finishing his Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the North Shore University Hospital he worked as an attending in Iowa where he was also an adjunct clinical faculty at the University of Iowa`s Carver School of medicine.
Dr. Malhotra rejoined the division in 2008 and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Zucker School of Medicine. He is a Fellow of both the American College of Physicians and Infectious Diseases Society of America. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. In addition to serving on many hospital committees he is also presently the General Secretary of the Long Island Infectious Disease Society.
His Research Interests include Novel diagnostic methods for Infectious Diseases, Clinical Prediction Rules, Mycobacterial and Respiratory Viral Infections. He has published many journal articles, book chapters and presented at national conferences. He also serves on the Editorial board of peer reviewed journals.
Respiratory viral infections and impact of respiratory panel on antibiotic use and length of stay; analysis of pleural fluid by genome sequencing in empyema; clinical prediction rules for pulmonary tuberculosis; and early markers for sepsis in patients with intracranial hemorrhage
North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York
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New York Medical College, Metropolitan Hospital Center, New York
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2003-2004 Assistant Chief Medical Resident New York Medical College Metropolitan Hospital Center Internal Medicine residency program
2002-2003 Delegate of the Metropolitan Hospital Center to the Committee of Interns and Residents New York Chapter
1997-98 General Secretary, Students Union All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi India
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And then there was tuna; the quintessential lunch time sandwich. I think we can all agree that someone died and left the tuna sandwich in charge and appointed the ham sandwich to be the substitute when tuna is MIA. As a child I sometimes hated getting this sandwich because it was so smelly, you always got the "eww tuna" from other kids. It was a true love hate relationship because secretly loved the sandwich. This tuna sandwich will make anyone proud to tout this smelly lunch to work or school.
Simplest of ingredients, quick steps and a little time is all you need for this sandwich. I say time because
1, The tuna needs time in the refrigerator to be infused with all the seasonings you mixed in
2. The roll also needs time to set in the shape before slicing
I remember when I was younger, a bakery called 'Simply Delicious' (now Heavenly delight) made the absolute best tuna sandwiches. They cut their veggies super fine and the flavor of the tuna was so good and slightly spicy. Ever since having their sandwich I have always tried to make mine the same way. I shred my onions and chop my sweet peppers as fine as possible. I wish this was the tuna sandwich I got as a kid. Our childhood tuna sandwich had way too many chunky onions, tomatoes and peppers in them (sorry mom)
This is the new and improved Tuna sandwich. It is quite delicious especially with a bag of potato chips on the side. Try this one out.
Ingredients (printable recipe list)
2 6oz cans Chunk tuna in water
1/3 cup chopped sweet peppers
½ small onion (shredded)
1/3 cup mayo
¼ teaspoon black pepper
¼ teaspoon paprika
Large round loaf bread
Greedy tips:
- Make sure to strain the tuna of all the excess water
- Leave the prepared tuna in a sealed container in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes before assembling the sandwich. Overnight is best.
- No need to add salt, mayo already has salt and so does the canned tuna
- In my recent days of tuna making I have been using smoked tuna instead of regular tuna in addition i recommend using smoked paprika and adding about a teaspoon of honey for a bit of sweetness
- If you like pepper jelly add about a tablespoon of it instead of the honey
Get yourself one of these cute little lunch trays/plates I got a small one and I love it, will be using it to display all my lunch ideas for the rest of the month.
Left is a small 7x9 on the right is a large 9x11
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Lingonberry Christmas Tilda
Tuesday, 22 December 2015
Magnolia Tilda.......... Lingonberry Christmas Tilda
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About the lecture (during the international conference on Literatures without Frontiers)
Frank Willaert (UAntwerp): Lotharingia Lost. The end of a literary region in the later Middle Ages
The old kingdom, and later duchy, of Lotharingia, belongs to the losing side of not only political, but also literary history. This territory, which during the reign of his eponym Lotharius II (reigned 855-869) extended from the North Sea to the Vosges and from the river Scheldt to the Rhine, ceased to exist as a distinct political entity as early as 939. But though it crumbled into a multitude of lesser territories, it lingered on for centuries as a memory and as a dream, which was even able to repeatedly mobilise political ambitions until Charles the Bold's untimely death before Nancy on the 5th of January 1477.
Nowadays, what once was Lotharingia belongs to five independent countries, in which five official languages (French, German, Dutch, Luxemburgian and Frisian) are spoken, all of them studied in as many philologies. The construction of these 'Nationalphilologien' is, in my view, one of the main reasons why literature in medieval Lotharingia has never been studied as a whole.
In the first part of his presentation, he hopes to be able to show that it does make sense to deal with medieval vernacular literature in a Lotharingian context, bydiscussing some cases taken from religious, epical and lyrical literature from the twelfth and thirteenth century. In the second part, he will try to demonstrate that this approach becomes gradually less appropriate as soon as one starts investigating literature from c. 1300 onwards. He will also try to indicate some prevailing factors which may have played a role in the gradual decomposition of Lotharingia as a distinct literary entity.


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Air Supply
Cheap Concert Tickets has tickets available for all upcoming Air Supply concerts. The members of Air Supply are Graham Russell (their guitarist) and Russell Hitchock (at vocals). In the early 1980s they rose to popularity in the United States with an astounding eight Top Ten hits. They are known for their softer toned music and they hail from Melbourne, Australia. Even though they have been performing since 1975, they still have a large following of fans that span the globe. Add code CHEAP for extra savings on any Air Supply concert tickets.
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Big Bird's Talking Bingo is a 1992 Sesame Street bingo game produced by Golden. Each player gets a bingo card with letters of the alphabet printed on it; Big Bird acts as the caller. A recall feature plays back all the letters called in alphabetical order.
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Following on last night's breathtaking new full-color photo, we have even more exciting news to report. Pluot is finally revealing its secrets to scientific observation! Here is an artist's rendition of what we know so far about its internal structure.
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Pluot captured in amazing new photo!
As New Horizons' science mission reaches its suspenseful climax, researchers in Northern California are busy analyzing a flood of new data about this mysterious object. Approaching closer than ever before, we can see its dimpled contours and subtly mottled colors in unprecedented detail (click for the full resolution photo). Better yet, we have detected our first traces of the nearly spherical body's atmosphere: a mix of tangy volatile aromatics emanating hundreds of micrometers from its surface. What an amazing day for science. Our team can't wait to ingest all this new data!
Objects Found on the Beach That Looked Like They Might Have Been My Wife's Lost Glasses, But Weren't
Eyeteleporter and Pinhole Selfies
From a planet not far from the Telestereoscope, two projects have just entered our universe…
The Eyeteleporter, a wearable cardboard periscope that displaces your vision about two feet in any direction:
And Pinhole Selfies, a delightful mashup of retro tech with millennial idiom:
Hat tip to Brock Hanson for the links.
Update: I just realized that the pinhole selfie photographer, Ignas Kutavicius, is the same fellow who invented the amazing solargraphy technique of capturing the sun's movement with a long exposure pinhole camera. Brilliant!
Painterly rendering in your pocket.
My friends Dan Wexler and Gilles Dezeustre have just released a new app for your iPhone/iPad. It's called Glaze. It's a painterly rendering filter for your photos, and it's really cool. It's based on the traditional brushstroke-based model pioneered by folks like Paul Haeberli, Pete Litwinowicz and Aaron Hertzmann, but it adds some neat new twists: face detection to guarantee that eyes and other important features come out with the right amount of detail; a genetic algorithm for mutating and doing artificial selection on painting styles; and a really slick iOS interface that makes all of the above completely effortless and transparent. It also runs blazingly fast, considering all the work that must be going on under the hood. They'll be giving a talk about the details at SIGGRAPH next week. (Here's an abstract of their talk… wish I could go!)
What I find the app does best, so far, is to turn my garbage photos into beautiful art. This, for example, is a picture my thumb took by accident as I was putting away my phone. The original photo was blurry, out of focus, and weirdly composed. But the painting's handmade feeling makes your eye linger on the details, and the results are just lovely. (Everyone's Instagram is about to get a lot prettier!)
Photos from the eclipse
Solar Eclipse May 2012, a set on Flickr.
What a great eclipse! We made makeshift safety goggles out of the Mylar I'd bought, some cardboard, and whatever was kicking around the house. The goggles worked like a charm. For shadow projections, a simple kitchen colander turned out to be the perfect device.
Reminder for next eclipse: must shoot some timelapse of those crazy shadows.
Dragon wrap party… in 3D!
Just got back from the wrap party for "How to Train Your Dragon" in Hollywood. At one point, a bunch of us animators were hanging out on the dance floor, and there was this line of people all taking photos of us at once. These two photos, by Jen Stern and Lilian Ku, must have been shot within a fraction of a second of each other. So I stitched them together into an animated gif. Check us out in 3D!
Cheese ice cream with hot guava sauce
The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais is famous for its cheese, and infamous for its cheese-loving citizens. A popular snack here is queijo de Minas with a slice of guava jelly. So when I saw this item on the menu, I had to try it. The cheese in question has a very light, subtle, slightly tangy flavor, so the result was somewhat reminiscent of a cold slice of cheesecake. Verdict: surprisingly delicious!
Tropical fruits of Brazil
I'm in Brazil for a couple of weeks, Visiting family. My favorite thing about Brazil is the abundant fresh fruit, stuff you never hear about in the States. Shown here: figs, passionfruit juice, and atemóia, which is a hybrid between the cherimoya and the pinha. The flavor is sweet and wonderful and hard to describe, somewhere between a pear and a pineapple, and the texture is slightly chewy and fleshy like a lychee nut. I could eat these all day.
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The trip from the forest to the living room is a short one thanks to Tree Land Christmas Trees. This company imports its Noble Fir, Grand Fir, and Frasier Fir trees straight from North Carolina and Oregon, and within days of being harvested they end up poised in one of 10 lots scattered throughout the area. Tree Land Christmas Trees sees the act of picking out a tree as a ritual as much as a purchase, and so they welcome families to stroll through their lots, inhale the fresh smells, and pick out the tree that will decorate their home for the duration of the holiday season. The helpful staff will even tie the tree to customers' vehicles or schedule deliveries for customers whose cars or bike baskets can't accommodate the tree. Largest tree lot in Colorado! Main lot 1720 south Santa Fe ion Denver, Over 500 trees standing, wreaths, Garland, Stsnds, tree food and more!
In the spirit of the holidays, Tree Land Christmas Trees also makes it a point to donate trees to families in need.


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Heikal Gani & Kyle Vucko of Indochino
When the T&P Team spotted this stylish duo at the Ferry Building, it came as no surprise to find out that these two young men are the founders of the menswear company, Indochino. Talk about hitting the Trig & Polished scouting jackpot! These men are experts in mens fashion. They look great and the suits … Continue reading
Love the "looks like I'm wearing a tie, but I'm really not" shirt. I spotted Rich in front of San Francisco City Hall. He immediately stood out from the crowd, as the others were wearing baggy jeans and oversized tees. Black and blue are one of my favorite color combinations and Rich does it well … Continue reading
Trig and Polished at the Ferry Building
This trig man was spotted from across the street as he stood out from all the business suits and tourists in his stylish ensemble. My eyes zeroed in on his black wool coat and then when I saw the rest of the outfit, I told my assistant, Alexandra, that we had to get his picture. … Continue reading


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Are Parking Garages Headed the Way of Horse Stables?
"The clamor for more spaces continues from some quarters of [D.C.], beating back [Planning Director Harriet] Tregoning's drive this year to unhitch developers from mandates to create more parking when they put up new buildings," notes Ashley Halsey III. "But by the end of the 21st century, parking garages may go the way of the horse stables that were an omnipresent part of the city 100 years ago."
"Shared cars might be driven 95 percent of the time and parked 5 percent of the time. That's clearly where we're headed," Tregoning said. "If the 95-5 happens, whole streets that now have parking on them won't need it. We'll have wider sidewalks. We'll have more bike parking. It will be really lovely."


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"We're off to a strong start in fiscal 2017, nearly tripling our total revenue year-over-year in the first quarter and affirming our guidance across the board," said
Murphy continued, "We're on track to commercialize our second tissue, the kidney proximal tubule, at the end of September. We're pleased with the momentum of our early access program for kidney tissue research services, having recently signed our first customer orders, with significant interest from additional biopharmaceutical companies to study the effects of drug exposure using our kidney model. Kidney is a natural expansion of our preclinical solutions portfolio, showcasing the power and versatility of our technology platform."
Murphy concluded, "Our long-term plan is sustained by reaching attractive and growing markets with critical unmet needs, extending our position as first mover in the 3D bioprinting space, and capitalizing on our technology leadership to grow our product and service offerings."
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TV5's Mga Nagbabagang Bulaklak
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TV5 Kapatid Channel launched it's second primetime drama series, Mga Nagbabagang Bulaklak after the success of Babaeng Hampaslupa (The Hapless Woman). This is the story of two sisters, Dahlia (Arci Munoz) and Daisy (Ritz Asul), who were dragged in the complicated world of show business in their pursuit of their dream to become successful dancers. The two were greatly influenced by their mother, Rosal (Sheryl Cruz) who was a former dancer.
Mga Nagbabagang Bulaklak is directed by Jon Red and will air its pilot episode on March 21, 2011 right after "Babaeng Hampaslupa" on TV5 Weeknights.
- Arci Munoz as Dahlia
- Ritz Asul as Daisy
- Sheryl Cruz as Rosal
- Richard Gomez as Apollo Ortega a.k.a Mr. A.
- Ruffa Gutierrez as Orchidia Ortega a.k.a. Ms. O
- Valerie Concepcion as Violet
- Phillip Salvador as Mr. D
- James Blanco as Eros
- Jay Aquitania as Hector
- Carla Humphries
- Victor Basa
- Allan Paule
- Jean Saburit
- Mel Martinez
- Luningning
- Milagring
- Mariposa
Find out if Nagbabagang Bulaklak can truly make your primetime sizzle.
Watch the trailer of Nagbabagang Bulaklak here :
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Members' Exhibition Preview: MARY BAUERMEISTER The New York Decade
- Thursday, January 29, 2015
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Join Linda Muehlig, exhibition curator and Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Painting and Sculpture, for a special exhibition preview of MARY BAUERMEISTER The New York Decade before it opens to the public.
This exhibition is the first to concentrate on the work of German artist Mary Bauermeister (b. 1934) during the decade she lived and worked in the United States from 1962 to 1972. Inspired by five works in SCMA's collection, and featuring loans from private and public east coast collections, the show highlights Bauermeister's signature optical lens boxes, assemblages, stone reliefs, drawings, and other works.
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The story (the link to the full story below) opens describing how Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut shares her personal battle with ovarian cancer and how Indiana Senator Evan Bayh talked about his mom's death from breast cancer.
Then, only a few sentences later, the "news" article -- and I use the term "news" lightly -- says:
"When it comes to the debate over health care reform, the personal medical narrative has become something like a key card: You can't get in without one. Advocates on both sides of the health care debate are stockpiling real-life stories from average citizens. But in the world wrought by talk-show confessionals and reality TV — and in a political environment where an admission of economic pain and suffering may score some points — members can be counted on to invoke their own medical sagas as well."
Now let me make sure I'm understanding this correctly: people's personal narratives are equated to talk-show confessionals and reality TV? So, like, when I was throwing up from chemo, that was equivalent to me being on yet another Jerry Springer "Who's Your Daddy" saga?
Since when has fighting cancer, or any condition for that matter, become a "saga"?
The personal narrative of one's own experience with illness or discussing a loved one is one of the most refreshing concepts to emerge. Everyone is telling his or her story lately -- thanks to vehicles like the blogosphere -- because the truth is this: many politicians don't care much about healthcare topics....until it hits home for them personally.
In fact, many people are walking around clueless all over the place, denial-zombies -- until illness strikes their loved ones or themselves...or celebrities. But even then, as I discussed in a previous blog, denial is this fog that creeps over even those whose family and friends have an illness.
Here's why the personal narrative is so important: because people afflicted with an illness or condition are NOT heard by society. That's why the personal narrative has become so popular. People want to hear the stories of those who are suffering -- because it keeps us human and humane, and for those of us who have struggled/are struggling with a condition, it reminds us that we are not alone in our suffering.
Where's the "saga" in that?
Oh, and later in the article, it gets real good when NY Congressman Peter King says that "...everyone has a story sadder than yours...we are in the age of Twitter, where we are supposed to let the world know what you're doing every day,...but I have a certain zone of privacy not just to protect yourself but to not be imposing on other people."
Yeah, Mr. King, you are imposing your pro-denial views on me, and I resent it.
But to give this online publication credit, it avoids becoming strictly a propaganda piece by quoting Molly Daniels, Vice President Advocacy Field, for the American Cancer Society Action Network: "What I've heard time and time again and what we've heard throughout the organization -- people want to share their stories, so it doesn't happen to other people."
We need the personal narrative because we live in a culture where people are so consumed with brushing ugliness under the carpet, that they don't want to hear the voices emanatiing from underneath it.
I think I'll Twitter now, Mr. King.
Beth L. Gainer is a professional writer and has published an essay on her breast cancer experience in the anthology Voices of Breast Cancer by LaChance Publishing. She teaches writing and literature at Robert Morris College in the Chicago area. She can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com. She also blogs on the adventures of her cats, Hemi and Cosette, at http://www.catterchatter.blogspot.com/.


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If yesterday's decline continues, SPY should find support in the 257-263 area, write Marvin Ap...
Buy Levels are Key for 2013
01/03/2013 10:00 am EST
Focus: ETFs
The stock market's powerful start to 2013 has important implications for stocks in the first quarter of 2013 says Moneyshow's Tom Aspray and picking a good buy level is the key to success.
The stock market has started off the year in an impressive fashion as the S&P 500 had its best daily gain since late 2011. The final agreement was disappointing on many levels, but for investors who have been fixated on the fiscal cliff for the past few months, it has been a frustrating time.
Since early in November (Don't Jump Off the Fiscal Cliff) I have been trying to convince investors that selling in fear over the potential impact of any political or economic debate should not be part of any sound investment plan. Instead one should have a clear plan of what they are willing to risk before they buying. This often will force the investor to buy closer to support.
The difference between success and failure in the investment markets can often be traced to the entry level. Though the setback into the November lows was a bit sharper than expected, there were no signs that a major top had been confirmed.
The positive signals from the market internals in 2012 has favored buying stocks or ETFs that are outperforming the overall market if they drop back to support levels where the risk can be better controlled. In late November, I referred to this as smart buying as often times buying too high means that longs are stopped out just before prices turn around.
The current analysis of the NYSE Advance/Decline line still favors buying stocks at support as it has for the past few weeks. The recent correction allowed us to add new long positions at good levels, but unfortunately the thin year-end selling also stopped us out of some positions. Now is a good time to adjust stops in the Charts in Play portfolio and one sector has now joined the list of market leading sectors.
Chart Analysis: The daily chart of the Spyder Trust (SPY) shows the up gap opening Wednesday and the strong close above the December highs.
- There is minor resistance now at $146.52-$147.16 and then the September high at $148.11.
- There is psychological resistance at $150 with the 1st quarter R1 pivot resistance at $150.58.
- The upper trend line on the daily chart (line a) is now at $152.
- The NYSE Advance/Decline closed at new multi-year highs Wednesday as the series of higher highs in 2012 has continued to support a positive outlook for stocks.
- In early 2012 (line 1), the A/D line broke through its resistance, line b, as it was leading the SPY higher.
- There was another upside breakout last July (line 2) as the resistance from March-April, line c, was overcome.
- The move in the A/D line through resistance at line d, in December provided another bullish signal as it is consistent with new rally highs in the SPY.
- The uptrend in the A/D line was briefly broken in November before it resumed its uptrend. This low now represents an important level of support.
The Select Sector SPDR Materials (XLB) gapped through the long-term downtrend, line f, on Wednesday as it is already close to the 2012 high at $38.57.
- The Quarterly R1 resistance is at $39.91 with the April 2011 high at $41.28.
- The relative performance has also broken its downtrend, line g, which completes the bottom formation (line h).
- The weekly RS analysis (not shown) is now also positive suggesting it is leading the S&P 500.
- The daily OBV has moved through its downtrend from the March 2012 highs, line i, but is still well below those highs.
- The weekly OBV (not shown) looks ready to close the week back above its WMA.
- There is initial support for XLB now at $37.60-$38, with the quarterly pivot at $37.12.
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Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) had a low of $27.89 in October, but has now just exceeded the September high of $34.35. The 127.2% Fibonacci target from the recent correction is at $36.16.
- The weekly starc+ band is at $36.55, with the 161.8% Fib target at $38.42.
- The monthly starc+ band is at $40.12.
- The weekly relative performance broke through its resistance, line a, last September indicating it was a market-leading stock.
- The RS line moved back above its WMA in early November.
- The weekly on-balance volume (OBV) completed a major bottom last summer as resistance at line c was overcome
- The OBV held well above its WMA on the recent correction and continues to look strong.
- There is initial support now at $33.80-$34.20 with the quarterly pivot at $32.97
Marathon Oil Corp. (MRO) was recommended at the same time as VLO as longs were established at an average price of $30.19 when MRO pulled back to $29.70 on November 8.
- MRO made new rally highs in late November at $31.95 before dropping back to a low of $29.73 on December 10.
- As MRO again turned higher, I recommended a stop at $29.62 just below support at line d.
- On Monday, the low was $29.60, hitting the stop.
For United Parcel Services (UPS), longs were established in early November at $72.17 (including commissions).
- The upside breakout in December surpassed the resistance at line e, in the $74.50 area.
- This was well above both the September and October highs.
- This made the prior December lows at $72.73 look like good support.
- The correction from the December 19 highs was clearly sharper than expected as Monday's low at $72.58 hit the stop at $72.64. (Earlier, a $0.47 dividend was paid.)
- UPS opened Wednesday at $75.09 and closed on the highs.
What it Means: The stock index futures are a bit lower in early trading, and I would expect some consolidation or a pullback in the next few days. This should be a good buying opportunity.
In December, new positions were established in the Select Sector SPDR Consumer Discretionary (XLY) and positions were added in the Select Sector SPDR Financial (XLF) and Select Sector SPDR Health Care (XLV). Positions were also added in homebuilding (XHB) and retail (XRT).
The buy levels for the five stocks recommended in 5 More Stocks For Your Stocking were hit with only McDonald's Corp. (MCD) being stopped out for a 2.6% loss. My stop at $87.22 was apparently too tight as the low was $86.81.
As I discussed in two articles last year, stop placement can be more of an art than a science and that is why I included Marathon Oil Corp. (MRO) and United Parcel Services (UPS), so that you can learn both when my stops work and when they don't.
In hindsight, the stop in UPS was too tight, while I think my stop in MRO would have held in the majority of instances.
How to Profit: For Select Sector SPDR Materials (XLB), go 50% long at $38.06 and 50% at $37.72, with a stop at $35.86 (risk of approx. 5.3%).
For Valero Energy Corp. (VLO), on longs from $29.27, use a stop at $32.54. Though the chart looks strong and a rally to $38-$40 is possible, I would stick with my original plan and sell ½ at $35.98 for at 22.9% gain.
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"I drank cheap [wine] in college, and then I went to Scotch," explains Black of the first steps of his journey. "By the time Scotch took off, I was done with it. 'Oh really, the Glenmorangie that was $12 a bottle is now $50? Fuck you.'"
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As promised, I have a new beta version of the Micromite firmware which fixes some of the things that did not make it into V5.04.09. You can download it from:
The idea of the beta versions is to test new features and bug fixes that have the potential break something else within the interpreter. I will keep updating the beta version until it is stable and then make it into a final release. If you find any issues or bugs in this beta please report them in this thread and I will try to fix them ASAP.
New in this version (compared to V5.04.09) is:
- Further optimised the internal memory management. This improves the speed of string operations by up to 10% over and above the considerable speed improvement already in V5.04.09.
- When pressing the enter key (Ent) on a GUI NUMBERBOX the resultant number displayed will be automatically formatted with the same number of digits after the decimal point as the number entered using the keypad.
- Fixed a number of bugs which caused the CtrlVal() function to return an incorrect value for a NUMBERBOX or TEXTBOX when called from within the MM.KEYPRESS subroutine. I must have had a very "bad hair day" when I originally coded this function.
- As part of the above fix CtrlVal() will always return a floating point value for NUMBERBOX - even within the MM.KEYPRESS subroutine (previously it was documented as returning a string inside this sub).
I have tried to reproduce the bug reported by Mike (KeepIS) where a GUI NUMBERBOX would crash MMBasic when a SETTICK timer was also running. It seems to work fine for me so if you see this Mike I would be grateful if you could test this beta version - maybe I accidentally fixed the issue while working on the MM.KEYPRESS issues.
Next on the list is to revise the TEXTBOX keyboard layout for Grogster.
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The CtrlVal issue in NUMBERBOX that I highlighted has been fixed - thanks. Not sure about KeepIs's problem with timer interaction as I am unable to test that.
... all the Maximites, almost all of the MicromMites, all the MM Extremes, all the ArmMites, and loving it!
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Hi Geoff.
could I ask you to consider an enhancement for the RTC command to harmonise the operation of the two counterpart RTC commands in that they both work with the date/time system values?
when setting the time, could it be that if you don't specify the argument string, SETTIME takes the current DATE$ and TIME$ values?
when setting the RTC under software it is a chunk of code to split out the values so currently, we have to:
what I am proposing is that the above is still supported (for legacy code on new firmware) but in the event of a zero argument count, RTC SETTIME uses DATE$ and TIME$ so the command would also support
... which is neater and establishes a common mode of operation between the two commands. I don't know what is involved - nothing is ever impossible for the man that doesn't have to do the work
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How about what I have implemented on the STM32H7 port?
If you set time$ and the RTC is enabled then it automatically updates the RTC. Likewise date$. Then you can get rid of the command RTC SETTIME altogether.
I've also implemented reading the RTC as part of the "NEW" command so the use of RTC GETTIME becomes much less important.
Finally, I've implemented a "DAY$" function that returns the day of the week automatically calculated from the date.
Code freely available of course. This made particular sense on the STM32H7 as it has a built in RTC with external battery backup that keeps running even when the chip isn't powered.
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that sounds quite nice - I didn't specify above but I was referring specifically to the Mk2 (170 chip) - how would you determine the "RTC enabled"? You could probe the I2C bus at wake up but then MMBasic doesn't know what is attached to the pins - you might be using them for something else and could potentially cause a problem... suppose there is a mains relay connected - eek!
I think in an arena where the hardware is more controlled/more pins (like STM and MMX), it is great to have that level of support but the flexibility of the 170 (not just but is the only one I use without going to a MMX) means you can't make any assumptions about what is connected to pins. The 170 can be short on pins and I have two specific examples where I use the I2C pins purely as 5V tolerant I/O. I wouldn't want anything playing with the pins without my express say-so.
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CaptainBoing wrote:
when setting the time, could it be that if you don't specify the argument string, SETTIME takes the current DATE$ and TIME$ values?
That could be done and I will have a look at it.
One thing that worries me is that it has a certain circular illogicality about it. I mean, GETTIME sets the Micromite time from the RTC (which is supposed to be always correct). Then, SETTIME does the opposite and uses the Micromite time to set the RTC - now the Micromite is assumed to be the one that is correct.
This sort of illogicality is not good in a programming language.
There is also the question of how did DATE$ and TIME$ get to be set correctly in the first place? If the settings were entered by the user then why cannot this data be used to set the RTC (which can then be used to set the Micromite's clock).
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it's down to the vigilance of the programmer
There is something "complete" and pleasant where functions have a part-counterpart relationship, like VAL/STR$, Unixtime/HumanTime etc... GETTIME writes Date$/Time$ so could SETTIME read them? I think that focusing such actions all through system values feels like object orientated - I know DATE$/TIME$ are not real objects in the true sense of programming but they can be made to feel like it with a more symmetrical approach (I would love a single DATETIME$ "object" if you are feeling bold
wow! inbuilt NOW$ function)
The validity of the time origin is a moot point really as it is only down to the application - all my MMs run UTC wherever they are so in the UK their clocks are only "right" 50% of the time. I have one in Hyderabad, India which is 5.5 hours slow from local perspective. I try to keep things at UTC +/- 2 secs everywhere and DS3231 can do that reliably for several months. As part of my "patrols" I always check the time with
and tweak as necessary. There are plenty of ways to make this more elegant I suppose but that isn't my point here.
So long as not-too-much time is allowed to elapse between setting them and stashing in the RTC, the set values are trustworthy.
The problem with all of this, of course, is the MM (170) is fairly stuffed so change for change-sake is difficult to justify.
it's an idea that's all
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On the MX170 where the system time is controlled by a free running oscillator, not a crystal, it is handy to keep RTC and system times separate.
Having RTC SETTIME default to system time if no arguments are included would be good but that is as far as I would go.
When I want to control the system oscillator with CLOCKTRIM, I like to read system time followed by RTC GETTIME then compare the before and after times and use the difference to adjust CLOCKTRIM.
If I regularly talk to the mites from a PC, I use the PC time to update the mite and don't use a RTC. I can still do the trimming with CLOCKTRIM if desired.
It all started with the ZX81....
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agree with that. best not to get too ambitious on a system with a small amount of firmware space... and it is "only" a micro-controller. easy to forget that when you have the luxury of MMBasic in that arena.
... as an aside on obtaining time rather that having an RTC:
I have a controller in my garage that does lights, door, alarm, pipe warmer etc. It is controlled from an android app on my family members' phones to a Bluetooth module (HC-05? can't remember now). CLOCKTRIM means I get a drift of just a few minutes a week so the outside lights still reliably track enough of the daytime to come on around dusk and go off at dawn. It doesn't have an RTC but rather picks unixtime from transmitted commands and sets its date/time, "just in time".
If Len(b$)>=16 Then ' commands look like $D1505054337041!
if Left$(b$,1)<>"$" Or Mid$(b$,16,1)<>"!" Then FlushIO:Goto BadFrame
On Error Skip 1: Date$=Left$(dt$,10) ' set the clock (UTC)
On Error Skip 1: Time$=Right$(dt$,8)
' parse the command
Select Case Mid$(b$,2,1)
Very similar method to what you describe above; I also have a snooker/pool hall table-timing product in a few clubs around UK. Each installation has anything from 9 to 22 slaves (using HC-12s) and the master is the only thing with a reliable clock (PC). Every poll/discovery cycle starts with a broadcast of the time from the master. I don't even bother with CLOCKTRIM on the slaves as they have their times set every 5 minutes or so.
ELSEIF dst=999 THEN ' broadcast only
SELECT CASE cmd$
IF LEN(pl$)=19 THEN
IF MID$(pl$,9,1)="," THEN
ON ERROR SKIP 1:TIME$=LEFT$(pl$,8)
ON ERROR SKIP 1:DATE$=RIGHT$(pl$,10)
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I'm hesitant to leap into a discussion amongst MM giants but in contributing to answers to Geoff's rhetorical question of "where do Date$ and Time$ come from" I have a base station with a GPS module purely for date and time (RTC sentence) - every two hours it broadcasts (via HC-12s) the current GPS value (corrected for UTC offset and DST) so that everyone is on the same page. The slight lag between GPS and remote device is not critical in my case and with two COM ports (GPS and HC-12) my base's MM170 is OK.
I have dispensed with my RTC (the batteries do die and even after trying I couldn't control the drift as effectively/easily as the above method).
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Another day, another beta (V5.04.10 Beta 2). You can download it from:
This version has a revised keyboard layout for the GUI TEXTBOX as per Grogster's suggestion. I have added an extra three keys down the right hand side and that allows for the addition of a number of permanent keys that are available on every layout of the keyboard. These are the delete/backspace key, the cancel key, and period (".").
To squeeze in the extra keys I made each key slightly narrower and reduced the space between keys. The result still looks OK (to my eyes at least). While doing this I realised why the original keyboard was 10 keys wide. With an 800 pixel wide screen each key was 80 pixels however with 11 keys wide each key now occupies 72.727 pixels and that fraction of a pixel was a real pain to deal with.
I would be grateful if people could play with this as I am anxious to find out if the new layout has broken anyone's program.
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hi geoff,
is there any chance of slipping mouse-control (using the X-11 extenstions) into the editor? as a first step, just have clicking on a given location cause the cursor to go to that location.
i've tried adding this support within gfxterm, but the timing is just too tight to get it working reliably. i do have mouse-wheel up/down map to the up/down keyboard arrows.
rob :-)
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup peanut butter at room temperature (smooth is what I used)
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1 large egg, at room temperature
1 tablespoon milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup peanut butter chips
1/2 cup chocolate chips
For sprinkling: 1 tablespoon sugar, regular or superfine
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, combine the flour, the baking soda, the baking powder, and the salt. Set aside.
In your mixing bowl, beat the butter and the peanut butter together until fluffy. Add the sugars and beat until smooth. Add the egg and mix well. Add the milk and the vanilla extract. Add the flour mixture and beat thoroughly. Stir in the peanut butter and chocolate chips. Place sprinkling sugar — the remaining tablespoon — on a plate. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls into the sugar, then onto ungreased cookie sheets, leaving several inches between for expansion. Using a fork, lightly indent with a crisss-cross pattern (I used the back of a small offset spatula to keep it smooth on top), but do not overly flatten cookies. Bake for 10 minutes. Do not overbake. Cookies may appear to be underdone, but they are not.
Cool the cookies on the sheets for 1-2 minutes, then remove to a rack to cool completely.
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The thin line between better and best
Editor's note: To mark the 40th anniversary of Title IX, espnW is celebrating the top 40 female athletes of the past 40 years, as chosen by an industrywide panel of journalists and women's sports experts. Every Monday through Friday from now through June 22, we'll count down the list, honoring a different athlete each day on "SportsCenter" and at espnW's Title IX section. Here, ESPN columnist Johnette Howard, one of 24 voters on our panel, reflects on some of the difficult choices in selecting the best of the best.
Billie Jean King never likes to lose at anything, even now as she roars along at age 68 atop two knees she recently had replaced. So it's safe to say she'll want to see exactly where she ranks on espnW's list of the 40 greatest female athletes of the past 40 years.
The simple fact this list even exists means that the conversation about women's sports -- one that King has helped push forward for decades -- is coming full circle. King set out to change the world, and by championing Title IX, she opened doors for everyone who came after her.
So many of the athletes in the Top 40 were children of Title IX, even those who grew up far from U.S. shores, facing different cultural and political obstacles. Title IX isn't just an American phenomenon; it has raised the bar for women the world over.
Which is why voting was so hard. Far and away the most difficult part was reconciling athletic achievement with cultural impact. It struck me in looking over my own ballot that I've seen or covered all 40 athletes in their day -- yet I still felt compelled to rank Billie Jean No. 1, even though the criterion was athletic accomplishment, pure and simple.
I was sure I had overranked her. I guess we'll find out whether I did. But I just couldn't get past the fact that King sparked social change, the same way Muhammad Ali and Jackie Robinson did. Without her unflagging advocacy, it's hard to see how the women's sports boom would have happened.
Of course, if you asked me whether King at her best would have beaten Martina Navratilova or Serena Williams at their best, I'd have to confess, probably not (and then duck if Billie Jean were in earshot). But part of the beauty of a list like this is the debate surrounding it. After all, everyone has his or her own touchstones and memories.
And the voting process, at least for me, was all about memories. Every name triggered images that came flooding back. Emotions rose up. I wrestled long and hard with how high to rank Mia Hamm, because of both her individual brilliance and her role as the biggest star on the most important women's team America has ever fielded. Who can forget the day Hamm and the rest of the U.S. women's soccer team played their 1999 World Cup final against China? More than 100,000 people packed the Rose Bowl, at the time the largest crowd to see a women's sports event.
Then again, if athletic achievement really is the only measure, it's easier to make a case for Jackie Joyner-Kersee as No. 1. Is there a better all-around athlete than a gold-medal-winning heptathlete? The woman won six Olympic medals across four different Games and still holds a world record -- pretty impressive.
But if extended runs of dominance are the benchmark, how do you top someone like Navratilova or Annika Sorenstam? No, wait how do you not put Steffi Graf ahead of both Navratilova and Chris Evert, since Graf won more majors than both of them and gave Martina fits?
Who's better or best is often just a gut feeling, a personal eyeball test. Otherwise, how could you possibly compare a golfer to a skier to a swimmer to a diver? And then you have to consider different eras. When it comes to women's basketball, l lean hard toward contemporary players. But I went the other way with gymnasts; I still think Nadia Comaneci was the best ever.
Also, how do you weigh the novelty of an athlete's accomplishments? Quite a lot, if you're me. Julie Krone was the first female jockey to win a Triple Crown race. She has to be in the Top 40, right? Lindsey Vonn, the World Cup and Olympic ski champion, is the best American ever in a sport in which American women have rarely excelled. That has to count for something.
From the fields to the hardwood, from the pool to the slopes, there were too many amazing athletes to fit into only 40 slots -- athletes who've inspired millions of girls and women around the world with the message that it's possible, even life-changing, to sweat and strain in pursuit of their dreams.
See what you started, Billie Jean?


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(Bridgton, Maine – September 19, 2016) A cool, foggy early fall morning turned into a day perfect for hiking and cycling for the nearly 250 enthusiastic Trekkers who participated in the 16th annual Loon Echo Trek held on Saturday, Sept. 17 at Shawnee Peak Ski Area in Bridgton to benefit Loon Echo Land Trust.
Organizers and Trekkers alike were thrilled with the sunny skies and comfortable temperatures for the organization's primary fundraising event of the year. "The weather was perfect for today's Trek," said Event Coordinator, Tracy Burk. "Once the fog burned off, hikers enjoyed spectacular views while traversing Pleasant Mountain and bikers enjoyed views along the scenic bicycle routes."
Loon Echo Land Trust currently protects over 2,000 acres of land on Pleasant Mountain, land that hikers were able to enjoy during Saturday's Trek. The Trek continues to be a great way for people to support land conservation in the Lakes Region of Southern Maine.
Nearly 200 cyclists were registered for the Trek, and chose between 25, 50, 80 and 100 mile routes through some of Maine's most beautiful scenery. Century and 80 mile riders had a challenging ride through Evans Notch with a 1,200 foot vertical descent. Cyclists raved about the course and loved riding on all the back roads where the traffic was minimal. They enjoyed the well-stocked rest stops, the helpful and friendly volunteers, and the all new post-Trek taco bar, massages and Allagash beer, free to all Trekkers.
Over sixty hikers participated in either the 4.5 or 6 mile hike trek over Pleasant Mountain and Loon Echo's conservation land. Hikers were treated to three rest stops along the way, each stocked with gourmet treats.
Nearly a dozen hearty people participated in the third year of the Hike and Bike Combo, which includes completing either the 4.5 or 6 mile hike, followed by the 25 or 50 mile bike ride.
Over $60,000 was raised from the event, including entry fees, pledges raised by participants, and business cash and in-kind sponsorships. Top individual fundraisers were Jill Rogers (Byfield, MA) who raised $1,750 and Wendy Newcomb (Sebago, ME) who brought in $800. They were rewarded their choice of a season pass to Shawnee Peak Ski Area, a season pass to Five Fields Farm, a weekend getaway at Migis Lodge, a weekend stay at Camp Wigwam's Alumni House, or an overnight retreat at The Oxford House Inn.
Proceeds help Loon Echo Land Trust protect land in the northern Sebago Lake region to conserve its natural resources and character for current and future generations. Currently, Loon Echo protects over 6,600 acres of land and 28 miles of trails open for public use.
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Dr Jin Lee is a 3rd year registrar completing his specialist training with the Australian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians. Having completed two years of training in Newcastle, he returns home to Sydney to join Hills Sports Medicine.
Jin has been awarded the Ken Crichton Fellowship for 2018 and will be working with the Canterbury Bulldogs as part of his fellowship. In addition to his position at the Bulldogs, Jin has been serving as the team physician for the Fiji Bati Rugby League since 2016 and was fortunate enough to travel to the 2017 World Cup as their doctor. During his time in Newcastle, he worked with the Newcastle Knights Rugby League Club and worked as a match day and assistant doctor for the Newcastle Jets in the A-league. Other opportunities have included providing medical coverage for the Sydney 7's Rugby Union, Greater Sydney Rams, Wallabies test matches, Cricket Australia working with the Australian intellectually disabled cricket team and the 2018 Sydney International Tennis.
He is currently completing his Masters of Sports Medicine at the University of Queensland. In 2017 Jin published his research paper in the field of concussion, titled "Effects of exercise on Sport Concussion Assessment Tool – Third Edition Performance in Professional Athletes."
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Batman Arkham Knight is releasing next month on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Even though the Arkham series came to be on last-gen consoles, the last entry in the Arkham franchise will not be released on older hardware.
The primary reason behind this are the hardware limitations, Batman Arkham Knight just won't be what it is now if it was developed for PS3 and Xbox 360.
This isn't the first game ditching last-gen systems, The Witcher 3 and Evolve among other titles have done the same.
Batman Arkham Knight developer Rocksteady has come-out to tell us what exactly the next generation of consoles have done to help the game's development. What is it that wasn't possible on last-gen systems?
For instance, Rocksteady explained how data streaming helped them with Batmobile.
The thing that this generation gives you is streaming," Ginn said. "So when you're driving through Gotham City at 100-miles an hour, the city needs to move past you quickly. And when that city is very highly detailed — because you can stop and get out and go and look at the rain coming down a lamp post, and it's all there — but when you're driving quickly it needs to move past you very, very fast.
It was further revealed that moving the Batmobile at such speeds would never have been possible on last-gen systems. Batmobile is considered a fast and powerful machine and if it wasn't moving at top speeds, what is the point of even adding it to the game?
..because in your mind, the Batmobile moves at high speed, it's a fast car, so if we can't make the car move fast in the game there's no point having it in the game at all. That's certainly why we had to commit to the newer consoles.
By now, millions of people have made the jump from PS3/XB360 to PS4/XBOne, and they want to see what their new machines are capable of. While I do feel bad for those who won't be able to play the game, but you will have to agree that Batman deserves a proper send-off, and new-gen consoles are more than capable of providing it.
Batman Arkham Knight is heading to PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on June 23.


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While in NY recently, most of my time was devoted to family matters, but I did manage to steal a little time for myself and make it to Coney, to which I haven't been in years, just in time to catch The Mermaid Parade. Back in the early '80s when it first launched, it was a rag tag, if sincere, affair lasting all of 20 minutes. Now it is a commercially sponsored enterprise which was still going strong some three hours after it commenced and I attempted to leave. And attempted is the operating word since the police had completely cordoned everything off; you literally could not cross the street anywhere to get to the subway- not anywhere! Had to wait something like an hour packed like the proverbial sardine until the cops felt like letting us cross the street.
I didn't mind the occasional rain, and I usually don't mind the effort- if I at least get the one (photo); but I don't think I ever want to go through that again. I don't mind not being privy to whatever's behind some cooler than thou velvet rope, but I can't tolerate having my movement restricted indefinitely on a public street- that's my parade.


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New York Fashion Week – Zero + Maria Cornejo Fall 2012
This would have to be the fifth Zero + Maria Cornejo collection, so even if it took me a little while to find out about the talented Chilean designer, it was nevertheless exciting exploring her fashion aesthetic. For Fall 2012, Maria Cornejo delivered a new cocoon-type silhouette, together with utterly sophisticated prints and bolder pops of color.
Aside the easiness of the autumn looks, what I loved most about the collection were the relaxed, but well fitted silhouettes; the amazing color combo, between a bold citrus yellow, and a soft buttery grey; the leather accents; the highwaisted skirts; the oversized coats and the digitized prints.
Leather and fur accents, the playing with proportions, prints and structured tailoring, make absolute trends to follow during Fall and Winter this year.
My favorite looks of the collection were the lemony yellow oversized coat, paired with the buttery grey slim leather pants (second look above), together with the minimal black leather top, mixed with a structured black and white stripe print skirt, seen below:
Sticking to the more familiar neutral tones, Maria Cornejo did step out of her comfort zone however, by adding pops of bright citrus yellow, cobalt, green and purple, to the collection's color scheme, this season.
Models walked the runway sporting straight hair and neutral make-up with rosy cheeks, and amongst the accessories, ankle boots, knee-length boots, minimal silver jewelry and fur snoods, stood out the most, throughout the presentation.


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Dell CEO Michael Dell shared, during the company's Feb. 15 earnings call, that the company planned to enter the 10-inch tablet space later this year, with a device running Android 3.0, known as "Honeycomb." But according to a leaked document said to be Dell's product roadmap, Michael Dell was severely understating the company's plans.
According to the roadmaps, which were posted Feb. 16 by tech sites wpcentral and Android Central and purport to outline Dell's device plans through 2011 and into the first quarter of 2012, Dell is planning to launch three smartphones and - count 'em - six new tablets.
Let's eat dessert first: The first new tablet, planned for April, is called the "Gallo" and will run Honeycomb. Following it in in late May or early June will be the "Rosemount," running Microsoft's Windows 7 and featuring an HD display with a resolution of 1366 by 768. In October will come the Honeycomb-running "Sterling," and it seems - in time for the kickoff to holiday shopping - an update to the Gallo with handwriting recognition and "MLK."
In Dell speak, writes wpcentral, MLK stands for Medialess License Kit. "Normally that would apply to, say, Microsoft office, but we have a hunch that in this case it applies to a software update," states the site, pointing to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's presentation at Mobile World Congress this week. Ballmer announced that during the second half of the year, updates will be made to Windows Phone 7, including multitasking, the integration of Twitter with the OS's "People" hub and Office document sharing and storage via Windows Live Skydrive.
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On the roadmap for July is another MLK device, the "Streak 7 MLK: Android," which we take to mean, then, a version with an updated version of Android.
Kicking off 2012 wil be two more Honeycomb tablets, the "Opus One" and the "SilverOak," along with a Windows 8 tablet, the "Peju."
Regarding Dell's smartphone plans, the roadmap offers a few more details. Toward mid-April - with Android and Windows Phone 7 versions of the Dell Venue Pro already shipping - the roadmap shows a "Venue Pro MLK (Windows Phone 7)" with "additional features and enhancements."
That's followed in July by the "Wrigley," a "Windows Phone 7 Next Gen" phone with a 1GHz processor, a 4-inch WVGA display, an 8-megapixel camera and 720p HD video recording. A rectangular device, it features a slide-out QWERTY keypad along its short end (or width).
The "Hancock," by contrast - arriving in early August, late September - is a rectangular phone with its slide-out QWERTY keypad running along its long end, or length. It'll run a version of Android called "Ice Cream," which it's further rumored that Google will introduce at its developer conference in San Francisco this May. The Hancock boasts a dual-core processor, a 4-inch qHD (quarter high-definition) display, an 8-megapixel camera on the back, a 1.3-megapixel camera on the front and 1080p HD video recording.
Finally, a bit into October will come the Millennium, another Android Ice Cream-running phone with a dual-core processor, a 4.3-inch qHD display, an 8-megapixel rear camera, a VGA front-facing camera, 1080p video recording and DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) capabilities, meaning it can stream to other DLNA-capable devices, such as an HDTV.
During Dell's most recent earnings report, it was the enterprise-focused side of the house that did the major earning, helping Dell to enjoy, during its fiscal year 2011, the largest single-year revenue increase in the company's history. Its consumer phone and tablet efforts, however, have been less successful - its first smartphone designs were originally turned down by U.S. carriers and so launched instead in China and Brazil, and its first Streak tablet, unusually sized at 5 inches, met a lukewarm reception. This newest round of devices, however, may change things for the Texas computer maker.
"Customers are now seeing Dell in a fresh light," Michael Dell said during the earnings call. "We're heading into the new year with strength and optimism."


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The Nitrogen Outlook For 2015
The 2015 outlook for the crop nutrient supplier industry in North America remains favorable, while investments in new nitrogen capacity by several North American plant nutrient providers figure to be a catalyst for a significant shift in North American supply and global trade flow beginning in the latter half of 2015.
2014 In Review
Dynamics in the North American nitrogen market during 2014 were defined by relatively low urea prices globally and higher and more volatile North American natural gas prices. The North American market entered the year with excess ammonia inventory due to a carryover from the poor fall 2013 application season and customer reluctance to take on inventory due to perceived price risk. Compounding those issues, the coldest winter in North America in 30 years resulted in record natural gas withdrawals, which increased short-term volatility in the price of natural gas, the industry's primary feedstock.
Despite those issues and wet field conditions heading into the planting season, spring 2014 proved to be exceptionally strong for ammonia application in North America. Brisk ammonia sales were realized by producers and those with significant ammonia storage assets were able to deliver on time to customers. In fact, given the strong agricultural demand, CF Industries shipped an all-time high 1.7 million tons of ammonia during the first six months of 2014.
North American growers produced a record corn harvest of more than 14 billion bushels during 2014. Even with corn prices trending lower, with a positive economic return on the incremental crop yield, growers applied nitrogen fertilizer in order to maximize their revenue per acre. Within this environment, robust ammonia sales took demand away from UAN solutions and favored producers who were in a position to shift production volumes to meet the market's changing preferences. UAN imports into North America were down from recent year levels as a result of the lower demand.
Globally, the market conditions of 2014 tested — and confirmed — the validity of the global urea cost curve and the rational, economic behavior of industry participants. Production curtailments and limited natural gas availability in some regions impacted supply for some nitrogen products. Supply interruptions stemmed from political unrest in the Ukraine and Libya to gas supply constraints in Algeria, Pakistan, Egypt and Trinidad. World ammonia prices rose significantly due to reduced supply out of Ukraine, Algeria and Qatar.
China had record urea production and exports (including record imports into North America). That country's 2014 tax policy had the effect of causing global price declines as its low tariff season approached and buyers anticipated additional tons coming into the market. However, prices recovered as those additional tons were absorbed, primarily by India tender activity.
Nitrogen Demand Outlook
The profit potential from planting corn, wheat and other nitrogen-intensive crops supports robust planting intentions and underpins what CF Industries believes will be positive nitrogen demand in 2015.
As a leading provider of nitrogen based plant nutrients, CF Industries anticipates that U.S. growers will plant 90 million acres of corn in 2015, approximately 1.7 million acres below the five-year average. Along with other crops, this level of corn planted acres should lead to total U.S. nitrogen demand of nearly 13 million nutrient tons in 2015, down about 1% from 2014.
North American growers continue to have a significant economic incentive to plant corn to help feed the growing world population and support the production of renewable fuels. Analysis from leading agricultural land grant universities has shown that U.S. growers have among the lowest delivered cost bases while also having attractive returns over variable costs. Together, these factors provide good profit potential, positioning U.S. growers at the low end of global corn production costs.
CF Industries believes nitrogen application rates in 2015 will be essentially unchanged from those of 2014. As a percent of corn revenue, 2015 U.S. fertilizer costs are projected at 20%, slightly above the 10-year average of 19%.
New Nitrogen Capacity
North America continues to require imported nitrogen to meet demand. Current projections suggest that approximately 35% of North American nitrogen demand during 2015 will be satisfied by imported products. In 2016, this level of imports will be reduced as domestic producers, including CF Industries, start up the first in a series of new nitrogen capacity additions beginning in the latter half of 2015.
This new nitrogen capacity figures to be a catalyst for a significant shift in North American supply and global trade flow over the next two years. With its extensive storage and distribution assets, CF Industries looks forward to keeping a steady supply of nitrogen fertilizer flowing to the farm level.


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Video: Eminem Set To Appear On 60 Minutes! (Preview)
Eminem is set to appear on 60 minutes this Sunday. Here is a short preview clip in which Em says there is no profanity in his house.
In another preview clip after the jump Eminem talks about breaking down words and makes a rhyme with "orange".
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I'm home alone again. Nina went to the seaside with her father on Friday and won't be back till late evening. I cooked a ham but we haven't made any eggs yet. I'm waiting for her as I am not in the mood for making Easter eggs alone... and she was really looking forward to do special ones this year. We are going to have lunch with my parents and my brother (and maybe his girlfirend - have I mentioned I am going to become an aunt in a few months???) tomorrow and since we always exchange some eggs on that day, I made some small paper baskets. They are big enough to hold one egg. I used K&Company and BasicGrey paper and embelished them with paper flowers, buttons, rhinestones and ribbon.
Happy Easter, everyone! Hope you are having a wonderful day.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Easter Eggs Paper Basket
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5 comments:
- criss said...
Happy Easter to you.
I like so much your work.
- April 12, 2009 at 6:04 PM
- Nena3110 said...
Kako su lepe!
How sweet they are!
- April 25, 2009 at 3:23 PM
- Creaceline said...
- May 4, 2009 at 12:35 PM
- lucky said...
odlične su kutijice! ti ne moraš brinuti što pokloniti nekome. super!
- May 7, 2009 at 11:49 AM
- DIDI said...
lej lej, je praznik čist mim, a men so tele košarice še vedno tko všeč... pohvale
- May 26, 2009 at 3:22 PM
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Previous studies have shown that opioids can reduce chronic breathlessness in advanced disease. However, physicians remain reluctant to prescribe opioids for these patients, commonly due to fear of respiratory adverse effects. The aim of this study was to systematically review reported respiratory adverse effects of opioids in patients with advanced disease and chronic breathlessness.
PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, CINAHL, ClinicalTrials.gov and the reference lists of relevant systematic reviews were searched. Two independent researchers screened against predefined inclusion criteria and extracted data. Meta-analysis was conducted where possible.
We included 63 out of 1990 articles, describing 67 studies. Meta-analysis showed an increase in carbon dioxide tension (0.27 kPa, 95% CI 0.08–0.45 kPa,) and no significant change in oxygen tension and oxygen saturation (both p>0.05). Nonserious respiratory depression (definition variable/not stated) was described in four out of 1064 patients. One cancer patient pretreated with morphine for pain needed temporary respiratory support following nebulised morphine for breathlessness (single case study).
We found no evidence of significant or clinically relevant respiratory adverse effects of opioids for chronic breathlessness. Heterogeneity of design and study population, and low study quality are limitations. Larger studies designed to detect respiratory adverse effects are needed.
There is no evidence of clinically relevant respiratory adverse effects of opioids for chronic breathlessness http://ow.ly/J6l730eQNCR
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Support statement. This project was funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMW) (grant number 836031012). Funding information for this article has been deposited with the Crossref Funder Registry.
Conflict of interest: Disclosures can be found alongside this article at erj.ersjournals.com
- Received March 30, 2017.
- Accepted August 18, 2017.
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Talon-tastic Thursday: Glitter Monster
Thursday, May 26, 2011
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A couple of weeks ago when Himself was in Las Vegas with work and I was feeling a bit sorry for myself as a result, I had a look in my stash for a nail varnish to cheer me up.
Obviously, I was going to pick a glitter polish for the job, but which one should I go for? That random gold from Tenerife? My Lancôme BB Sand? A Milani holo? A little Deborah Lippman number? My new and gorgeous OPI Bring On The Bling?
In the end, I decided I wanted multi-coloured super happy bling. I lashed on three coats of the L.A. Colors purple 'n' blue 'n' pink glitter I told you about a few weeks ago, and here it is for your viewing pleasure:
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All the economic alarm is exacerbating the tendency already rising among marketers to delay decisions on budgets and creative approaches until the last second. Unfortunately for monthlies, which often need about two months to get an ad into an issue, the "last second" is often actually well past their deadlines.
"I've been doing this for 21 years," said Gary Armstrong, chief marketing officer at Wenner Media. "You used to get a two-year schedule. And then it was a one-year schedule. Now it's planned quarterly. They get their budgets approved quarterly as well."
So advertisers say, "'We've got a product launch for the holidays,'" Mr. Armstrong added, "'but we can't get the budget approved until the first week of the quarter.' That's too late for monthlies."
The problem isn't so bad with a magazine's core advertisers, which are committed to longer schedules across multiple issues, publishers and agency executives said. And the most desirable titles don't feel this pinch too much at all. But the longer marketers sit on their hands, the worse things get for those titles in the second tier of consideration.
Indecision hurts
"Tier twos that are monthlies with much longer lead times are going to suffer, strictly because of the indecision that's out there," said Bill Koenigsberg, CEO of Horizon Media.
Even without the financial meltdown, monthlies are at a disadvantaged related to weeklies. Mediaedge:cia recently ran seven ad pages in Wenner's Us Weekly for a campaign promoting the Sony Ericsson Z750 phone, which was in stores but not getting satisfactory support from retailers.
"It was very much a last-minute project from the client," said Nicole Carmello, senior partner and communications-strategy director at Mediaedge. "They were able to get a budget to support it, but we needed to build awareness quickly. Looking at monthlies was not an option. The phone was already in the market."
The rough business environment is making every page matter more than ever. Across magazines as a whole, declines in ad-page sales are accelerating. Ad pages fell 12.9% in the third quarter from the third quarter of 2007, according to the Publishers Information Bureau. That's a sharper loss than magazines absorbed in the second quarter, which saw an 8.2% drop, or the first quarter, which slipped "only" 6.4%. Long lead times proved enough of a concern that the Magazine Publishers of America formed an "immediacy committee" in 2003 to focus on the subject. The committee no longer meets, but it helped frame the issue and identify opportunities to address it, according to Nina Link, president-CEO of the association.
"It put together some important next steps for publishers, in particular to take with printers, suppliers and retailers," Ms. Link said.
Extra day
The association, for example, is working with the Association of National Advertisers and the American Association of Advertising Agencies to encourage adoption of electronic insertion orders.
Earlier this year, Bonnier took over the preprint process from its printer in a bid to save money and time. "It could, in some cases, buy us a day," said Eric Zinczenko, group publisher of the Bonnier Outdoor Group, including Outdoor Life and Field & Stream.
It also delivered related benefits. "It allowed us to have better control of a magazine's materials," Mr. Zinczenko said. "By having prepress in-house, it allows us to check our advertiser's file and make sure their materials look fine."
Some magazine executives doubted there was much incremental advertising to gain or protect by further shortening lead times. "To drive faster lead times just for the sake of being able to get some more advertising?" said Jack Kliger, the former CEO at Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. who now is senior adviser to the company. "It's not going to make that much of a difference."
A lot of the lag time falls at the feet of wholesalers, Mr. Kliger added, pointing out that they're the ones responsible for getting titles from the printing plant to newsstands.
But where possible, shrinking lead times remains an ideal. "It makes sense to do it in terms of making your workflow efficient, to take advantage of digital technology, so that you eliminate as many intermediate steps as possible," Mr. Kliger said.


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Once again I came mightily close to a major victory only to have it snatched from me. If only Chris Patterson wasn't such a wonderful cover tackler.
In the end the Irish came through stongly for me with a quite inspirational performance and the French got their win without really leaving second gear. At half time the Italians were beating Scotland and looked for all the world like they were going to stay within 8 points. Credit to Robinson's boys though, they played really well in the 2nd half and got the rewards they deserved. I've said it before (and been absolutely panned for it) but I have to believe that predictions based on sound logic will eventually produce results.
Once again I got all but one of my predictions correct, meaning that I made a minor loss. I'm starting to wonder if I should tweak my tactics. Right now my bets are all around even odds meaning that I need to win my accumulator to make a profit. Perhaps I should make some 2/1 or 3/1 bets so I don't need to get all my predictions right to win. The flip side is that I am losing just over £2 a week at the moment. That means that I only need to land one accumulator every 8 to 10 weeks to make a profit. I think I'll have a look at some longer odds bets before I make next weeks selections. Anyone out there had more luck than me this weekend? Let me know.
Week 4 results: Total Wager £10
Money returned £8.10Loss £1.90
Total loss after 4 weeks £8.40


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Phillip Island – August 2008
We departed Ballarat for Geelong. Following lunch in Geelong we travelled to Queenscliff staying overnight at the Kia Ora B&B.
Next morning we drove the car onto the ferry sailing for Sorrento before journeying to Flinders, the most southerly town on the Mornington Peninsula. The eastern cliff tops provide spectacular views across Western Port Bay to French Island, The Nobbies and Seal Rocks on Phillip Island. The western cliff tops look out on the rugged coastline of Bass Strait.
Departing Flinders we travelled around Western Port Bay to San Remo the entrance to Phillip Island. The Silverwater Resort proved to be excellent base for touring Phillip Island and the Bass Strait coastline to the east taking in Wonthaggi, Cape Paterson and Inverloch.
Phillip Island has many spectacular features for the tourist, Cowes, Cape Woolamai, the Grand Prix Circuit, the little penguins, Rhyll, Churchill Island and The Nobbies.


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You're 15, and everything is different. You're scared. You don't know who you are, you haven't had time to decide. You've spent all your time trying to live up what everyone wants you to be. Life is hard on you. Your peers are hard on you. You're even harder on yourself. You don't eat for days. You're severely malnourished. Your parents are worried. You hurt yourself. Everything is wrong, and you're unsure about the future.
You're nearly 17, and for some reason, you've convinced yourself that you're nothing. Maybe it's because that's all you've heard people say about you up until this point. How did you even make it this far? School is hard. You're taking college level courses almost exclusively to prove your worth. Whom are you trying to impress? Is it yourself? You're sick all the time. You aren't sleeping, you've taken on too much responsibilities and you don't want to admit it. People want to help, but you pretend to be handling things well. You're not handling anything well. You smile, because you would simply die to know someone worried about you. You don't think you're worth that concern. But your face is new, your dreams are big, your heart is full, and somehow, you're still able to smile.
It's your birthday, you're 18. Finally, an adult. But just barely. You don't know anything about this world, and that terrifies you. You've cracked several times under the pressure up until this moment, and you have no idea how you'll handle college in two months. You're at the top of your game. Colleges are fighting over you. You decided to attend an excellent university only owing $34 in tuition. It was almost a free ride. Your hard work has payed off. Still, you feel like a failure. Over the years, you're proud to say that you're the strongest person you know. You're reliable. People like you, or they say they do. You're actually quite popular and have many friends. You've made it your mission to learn everyone's name in school and make sure you could say you were their friend. You don't want anyone to feel alone like you did. You don't want anyone to say they didn't have a single friend. Even if it kills you, even though you're already stretched so paper thin, you do this. Maybe, for just a second, you feel hope starting to bloom in your heart. You want to cultivate that feeling, and help it grow. So you write that word, Hope, over everything. It's on your school books, it's on your clothes. You hang posters of that one word on your wall. You ink it on your skin with pen. You are finally choosing this over the blade. Hope wins out over despair at last. This shining moment is powerful, but brief.
You're 19. The girl of your dreams has shattered your heart. She wasn't who she said she was. You lose all your friends. You realize they were vultures all along, waiting for you to slip up. People didn't want to see you succeed. They wanted you to fail, so they could laugh at how hard you hit rock bottom. You made yourself too available, and now you're paying the price. This isn't how it was supposed to be. You burn down every bridge around you to keep yourself warm. You're stranded on an island in your own heart, and now no one can reach out to you. You cut yourself off from the world. Your health takes a turn for the worse, and you can't find a reason to even get out of bed anymore. You're alone again, more than ever.
You're 21. You've found the love of your life in an unsuspecting way. Your heart was closed off and guarded, and still, you fell. You fell hard. You move in together. You have a rough start, and work is terrible. Was this too quick, too soon? Aren't you both a bit young to have a mortgage and a car payment? You work 50 hour weeks and it takes a large toll on your health and relationship. You make it work. You take each blow head on, without flinching. You knuckle down and grit your teeth, waiting for the next hit to land. Together, you can do anything. This is the best you've felt in a while. But still… you're damaged goods. You've been so hurt for so long that you can't feel joy or sorrow or excitement anymore. You sit in silence for hours each day and lose yourself in nothingness. You tell people you're meditating, but really, you lost consciousness. You hate this life so much that you occasionally check out, you black out, and you wake up in weird places. Why are you in the bathtub? How did you get here? You live a sober life. You don't even drink caffeine. None of this makes sense.
You're 24. You have no idea what you're doing or where you're going. Your days are as empty as your heart. You're always in pain. Physically, emotionally, you're suffering constantly. You look back at yourself when you were 15, 17, 18, 19- you hated yourself so much back then, and you can't understand why. Before, all you saw in yourself was a waste of space, a burden. What you see now in that person is a kind, loving, determined, talented, honest, potential filled former self. What you wouldn't give to have that again. I'm sorry, Baby Gabu. I don't know where I went wrong. I'm sorry I couldn't love you then like I love you now. I wish I had known. I wish I had known what a good person you were, because then, we could have been friends. Who knows what life would be like now? Maybe, we wouldn't be so fucked. Maybe, we'd have a life, and one worth living. Maybe we could give all of ourself to those who still love us. But instead, our heart is shriveled and empty, and we have no idea how to fix it. We want to get better. We don't know how.
I'm sorry, Baby Gabu, the me that I once was. You were so good. I wish someone would have told you. I wish I would have told you. I know you're gone now, and all that's left of you are pictures and memories, but if it means anything, I love you. I love you so much. You deserved better. I'm sorry I failed you.


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UNION – Premiere Stages at Kean University will kick off its 2009 summer season with an interactive staged reading of Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods, a new play by Tammy Ryan, at 7 p.m. on Friday, June 26 and Saturday, June 27 and at 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 28.
The script was selected as part of the Premiere Stages Play Festival, a program created to nurture emerging dramatists in New Jersey and the greater metropolitan area. In the play, Gabriel, an optimistic and hardworking "Lost Boy" from Sudan meets Christine, a suburban mother in need of adventure. After an unlikely friendship blooms between the two, they forge an unbreakable bond that forever changes them.
Murphy-Dunn Theatre, located in Vaughn-Eames Hall on the main campus, will host the readings. Tickets are free.
The Staged Reading initiative provides plays with intensive development in preparation for full production. Following each reading, audience members will have an opportunity to share their views with the playwright and cast.
"The Staged Reading provides audiences with the unique experience of being involved in the birth of a new play. In the intimate discussions that follow, patrons listen and contribute," said John Wooten, Producing Artistic Director of Premiere Stages.
For tickets and further information, call 908-737-7469, or visit Premiere Stages online at www.kean.edu/premierestages.
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