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What, you thought David Rosenberg has been on the wrong side of the market? Think again, he says

THE DOW IS BACK IN A BEAR MARKET! 
That is correct.  While the market did make a new high in ‘deflated dollar’ terms
just a short two-days ago, in gold terms, the Dow actually peaked on August 27
and is down 13.5% since then.  As an aside — just to show that the gold story is
not JUST a weak U.S. dollar, bullion prices rose a further 1.6% yesterday to yet
another new high even in the face of a 19bps recovery in the greenback (all sorts
of talk now that the Bank of Japan is set to intervene).   

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Hanukkah starts at sundown on Friday, December 11th, so for those of you celebrating, the planning/cooking may have already begun. We think making these marshmallow dreidels would keep kids occupied even longer than playing with an actual dreidel. That is, until they eat them. Get the instructions below.

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Filed under: Minivan/Van, Truck, Government/Legal, Mitsubishi

According to a report from Automotive News, Mitsubishi’s North American CEO Shin Kurihara would like to bring over the Japanese automaker’s funky little Delica van (right) and Triton pickup (above), believing that the two work-ready models may fill a desirable niche here in the States. So, why not wave a magic wand and make that happen? In a word: Chickens.

Sorry, come again? What do chickens have to do with vans and pickups? It’s all a bit odd, but back in the early Sixties, the United States levied a 25% tax on potato starch, Dextrin, brandy, and light trucks in response to French and German tariffs on imported U.S. chicken. Yes, really.

As such, importing any light trucks from overseas into the States can be an expensive proposition, taking away pretty much any chance of profitability. There may be ways around the issue as Ford has found with its Turkey-built Transit Connect, and Mitsubishi is currently considering its options, which, we surmise, may include bringing the vehicles in only partially assembled and finishing them here in the U.S. We’ll see.

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Thanks to the graphical issues plaguing the PS3 version of Bayonetta, PS3 gamers are being saddled with an arguably worse version compared to the one their Xbox 360-owning counterparts are getting. Sega and Platinum Games are apparently working overtime

Service activities will mark Kansas Day for students at seven colleges in the state, the Kansas Campus Compact has announced. The projects are part of KsCC’s “Commemorate Kansas/Serve Kansas” program.

“These creative projects are an indication that students and faculty at Kansas colleges and universities are aware of the importance of connecting their education with civic purpose that serves all of Kansas’ citizens,” Matthew Lindsey, KsCC executive director, said.

»Read the entire article in The Topeka Capital-Journal.

2010 is almost here and we need to make sure the holidays don’t catch us unprepared. Well, the New Year is a month away and with the amount of ‘holiday cheer’, otherwise known as marketing, every company, site and organization worth its salt even castaways on remote islands have no chance of missing it. YouTube is doing its part with an Advent-style calendar celebrating, what else, the viral videos of the year.

“We’d give you chocolates with it if we could: This week marks the launch of our advent-style calendar counting down some of the most memorable videos of the year on YouTube,” Mark Day, Marketing Programs Manager, wrote. “Without giving too much away, you can expect to see some well-known YouTube videographers on the countdown, along with breakout viral videos and a selection of the year’s biggest pop-culture phenoms and memes.”

Most people would’ve probably taken the chocolate. On the other hand, everyone loves a savory Fred video or maybe the occasional sleepy kitty clip, when Solitaire and Minesweeper just won’t cut it anymore. YouTube says all sorts of clips will make it to the countdown and not necessarily the most viewed videos of the years. In fact, the site makes it clear that the videos selection is curated and it gets to pick the videos without a particularly … (read more)

If given the choice, which one would you choose yesterday or tomorrow and why? 
If given the choice, I would definitely choose tomorrow.  I already know what happened yesterday.  And, to tell the truth, it was very uneventful.  Even if yesterday was exciting I would still choose tomorrow.  I experience pain and fatigue every day of my life.  So, in all honesty, I know that tomorrow will be a bit of the same.  However, I cannot predict what tomorrow holds.  It could be a good day or it could be a bad day.  But, there’s always hope for a better tomorrow.
My yesterday was filled with pain.  The rain plummeted to earth and splashed back up to heaven to recycle itself.  I thought that the rain would never let up.  Rain=pain in my life.  Fibromyalgia reared its evil head and rammed me right in the (fill in your own blank).  However, it’s still a day that I’m alive and breathing.  I have a wonderful man at my side.  And, I have great children whom I love dearly no matter how much they aggravate me at times.  Therefore, I put my head down and leaned forward into the wind and kept on going.
My chore list had to be modified because of the pain and fatigue.  I did one load of laundry, loaded the dishwasher, and then sat down with my crocheting for a half hour.  I then proceeded to pick up where I left off on my chore list.  Next, clean the bird cages and sweep the floors.  I paced myself in 15 minute intervals alternating cleaning and resting. What normally takes me 2 hours to accomplish now became a 3 hour and 45 minute job. 
By noon I was totally exhausted and had to go back to bed.  As I slipped into bed and pulled the comforter up,  a warm hand reached out and touched my shoulders.  That was the last thing that I remember until 5:30 that evening.  Yes, I had slept for 5 1/2 hours.  After all that time, I was still exhausted.  I wanted to stay in bed until next year.  But, with the kids home from school and more chores and responsibilities to be attended to, that was not an option.
The evening followed the same path as yesterday:  feed the kids, make sure their homework is done, make sure they bathe and brush their teeth, and get them to bed before 10 pm.  With  a whisper of a prayer on my lips, all went well.  Once the kids were in bed, it was quiet time for mommy.  I could fall fast asleep with no worries.  Ha, ha, ya right.  Now is the time when I’m so exhausted that I can’t sleep.  So, I stay up half the night writing, reading, crocheting, or watching TV just praying to fall asleep again and hoping that tomorrow will be a better day.
The hope of a better day is why I would choose tomorrow as apposed to yesterday.  The reality of the unknown is exciting in itself.  Tomorrow may be a bad day or it may not.  “What if” is always in the back of my mind.  Okay, so it’s in the front of my mind too.  A new day is always better, for me, than the past.  We can’t go back and relive the past.  So, “what if” tomorrow is a better day?  “What if” I have less pain than today or yesterday?
Perhaps yesterday was a bad day and tomorrow is our chance to make a change for the better.  Maybe today will be a little bit better than yesterday and tomorrow will be twice as good.

If you’re familiar with Lotus Notes/Domino, I’m sure SharePoint, in many ways, feels like a déjà vu. But because we don’t cover the Notes client or the Domino server (well, not on its own, though we cover several IBM Lotus products that run on top of Domino), I’ve never really compared them head-to-head.

I was discussing this with my colleague Apoorv Durga today, and rather than focus on the resemblances, or the fact that IBM is slowly phasing out Domino in favor of newer platforms, we tried to think up the most essential differences. Of course, this is comparing apples to oranges; but if you’re willing to think of both as "grown in orchards" and "considered a fruit," you can, in fact, compare them:

• Notes/Domino comes with a mail server; with SharePoint, you need to add Exchange (but SharePoint and Exchange are much less integrated with each other than the Domino components, and in fact, they sometimes compete for the same collaborative scenarios.)
• A technically inclined person can quite easily build impressive forms-based processing in Notes/Domino. In SharePoint, you really need a .NET developer much more quickly than you’d think.
• But if you do start developing things, it’s hard to get your Domino applications past the initial "rapid prototyping" stage — most custom applications in Domino start out as something that’s quickly whipped up, and then keeps being modified. (They’re also notoriously difficult to maintain once the original creator has left your company.)
• SharePoint is much more developer friendly; Visual Studio is a very capable development environment, and though Notes/Domino does have development tools, they’re comparatively basic.
• And on a very technical level: the Lotus NSF "databases" are not relational. There is no way to do a JOIN with Lotus "tables" (they’re called "views" in Domino). Really. It’s impossible to do a look-up in a list field to another field in another list. If you think that’s some incredibly technical detail that’s not very crucial, well, try to create a view of all of your employees, with one field that displays their phone number (taken from another list). You can’t, and I’ve seen several Notes/Domino developers on the brink of a breakdown trying to get around this. By contrast, SharePoint stores everything in MS SQL; it’s really easy to do lookups within a list field.

This is just what we came up with in one afternoon, and by no means as comprehensive as the comparisons in our Evaluation Reports. So what do you think? I’d welcome any additions or corrections in the comments below. Lotus Notes/Domino may be yesterday’s news compared to SharePoint, but it’s still alive and well in many enterprises — and I have a nagging suspicion Apoorv and I are not the only ones comparing notes.

[Update: 07 December] Sorry about the comment on IBM phasing out Notes/Domino,
which obviously didn’t come across as it was intended. I’ve therefore
decided to delete it (or rather, for the sake of transparency, to
leave it there but to strike through.) My colleague Tony Byrne has added some more
thoughts about Lotus and SharePoint here.

Meanwhile, thanks to those who contributed technical insights in the comments. I have some follow-up questions that I’ll address there.

The mint that produces the gold American Eagle coins is running low. This chart, courtesy of Ed Steer, tells the whole story. Buyers are snapping them up at levels not seen in years.

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Filed under: LA Auto Show, Crossover, Kia, South Korea

Perhaps the most important fact about the all new Kia Sorento isn’t that it’s a “right-sized” compact CUV. If Kia’s boundless enthusiasm is any indication, the most important fact is that the 2011 Sorento is the first Kia designed and built in entirely in the USA. In fact, Kia claims that their all-new West Point, Georgia manufacturing plant will not only create 2,500 jobs (eventually – 1,200 for the moment), they say it is the most advanced Kia manufacturing facility in the world.

Then there’s the vehicle they just started building in Georgia sixteen days ago, the 2011 Sorento. Kia’s calling it “right-sized,” and pointing out that Americans are leaving their biggie SUVs in droves and moving to CUVs, specifically compact CUVs. But not that compact – the Sorento is designed to sit five adults comfortably or seven full-size persons “occasionally.” That’s our kind of euphemism! The Sorento, however, is not just a schlepper. It’s got a MacPherson struts in front and a multi-link suspension setup for the rear.

Coupled to a 276 horsepower V6 and an all-new built in-house six-speed automatic, the Sorento is able to get up and boogie a bit. Or at least as much as a top heavy CUV can boogie. Check out our First Drive of the Kia Sorento (a pre-production model from Korea) for more details. Long story short, a base Sorento will start at under $20,000 – about $1,500 less than the outgoing body-on-frame model.

Hyundai’s making a big media push, taking out a Sorento ad in Times Square that will be visible when the ball drops on New Year’s Eve. They’re also put together a short commercial some of you may have seen in movie theaters over the weekend. This spot, featuring a young all-American boy on a bicycle, will be airing until January. Kia is also co-sponsoring the Chick-fil-A and the Outback college bowl games. As Kia mentioned repeatedly during the presentation, they feel the brand’s got some momentum going. If the Sorento drives and works anywhere close to where Kia says it will, they might be right.

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SAI Hydraulics Canada Ltd. is located in the heart of Montreal, CN. SAI Hydr. Canada has provided sales and service to the Canadian marketplace since 1969. They are a full service subsidiary and are capable of providing products ranging from seal kits to complete units. SAI USA works in conjunction with SAI Hydraulics Canada Ltd. providing support for Canadian/U.S. company needs large and small. Some of the industries served in Canada are forestry, agriculture, and oil. They are continually looking for new emerging markets and working to better support existing customers. SAI Hydr. Canada Ltd. is an important component in providing quality support for SAI products throughout Canada. Their staff is always pleased to welcome new customers and projects into the SAI family of products. Please contact us with your requirements.

This new product is very hard to hear! The low noise coaxial-drive (Koaxdrive) KD 32 planetary gearhead from maxon motor is setting new standards in operating noise and torque levels. Measuring 32 mm in diameter and with a torque of 6.5 Nm, it is ideal for use in noise-sensitive, highly demanding applications.

The new Koaxdrive KD 32 combines the best of two proven gearing technologies, namely worm and planetary gearing. Special attention has been focused on the first gear stage, as this is where the greatest peripheral speeds occur and therefore noise. Our completely new, patent-protected design has enabled us to substantially reduce this noise. The, worm-formed motor pinion drives the three offset planetary wheels. These interlock with the internal gear which has straight cut teeth. The plastic planetary wheels are largely responsible for reducing noise levels.
All additional stages are set out as a completely “normal” straight-cut planetary gearhead. This unique torque conversion makes operation very quiet – even with high loads.

With an outer diameter of only 32 mm and a coaxial arrangement on the drive and output shaft, the Koaxdrive is designed for compact applications. A number of efficiency levels with the same reduction ratio increases the wide variety of applications: In the 11:1 to 1091:1 range, many reduction ratios are available as standard. maxon motor also offers high reduction ratios in one stage. A new, innovative coupling element is assembled on the motor side so that the motor shaft is not subjected to axial load. Maximum flexibility is created by the motor shaft diameter not being of primary importance. Input speeds of up to 8,000 RPM can easily be reached.

maxon’s modular system enables the Koaxdrive KD 32 to be assembled with various maxon motors. These low-noise combinations are ideal for hand tools and instruments that are used principally on or near patients in the medical technology sector.

I think I never mention about the relationship between cytogenetics and cancer research in this blog. Cytogenetic studies are proven that can assist to define the diagnosis and deliver clear prognostic differences in cancer. There are many cytogenetic studies of malignancy have been gone through and most of them are related to hematologic disorders. However, those studies constitute only small percentage of all cancer malignancies.
 

Clinical Value of Cytogenetic Studies in Malignancy Cancer

Recently, there has been a significant progress in knowledge of the recurrent abnormalities in many of solid tumors as well as hematologic malignancies. Consequently, the clinical value of cytogenetic studies in cancer malignancy has been appreciated after the cytogenetic studies of some solid tumors moving out of cancer research environment.
 
Apart from this, there would be little clinical value in doing cytogenetic studies in cancer malignancy if all the patients with a particular cancer died. The researchers only manage to probe the origins of cancer for those patients. However, after researching in all tumors type by using cytogenetic technique, the presence or absence of many of the genetic abnormalities found has been related to different responses to treatment. Since that, the genetic and cytogenetic studies start to be recognized as important and one of the best choices of treatment for a cancer patient.
 

Cytogenetic Studies Helps Diagnostic Investigation in Malignancy Cancer

Consequently, cytogenetic analysis of cancer malignancy is considered to provide rapid, accurate and specific results to aid the clinical professionals. This can help to choose the most appropriate type of treatment to the cancer patient in shorter time. However, John Swansbury stated that the diagnosis of a malignancy can be traumatic, and an accurate and early indication of every patient’s prognosis is valuable.
 
In conclusion, a cytogenetic study remains an essential part of diagnostic investigations of every patient with hematologic malignancy and certain solid tumors without denying the valuable contributions made by other genetic assays.

Reference: Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 220: Cancer Cytogenetics: Methods and Protocols. Edited by: John Swansbury © Humana Press Inc., Totowa, NJ
 

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This Good Question comes from reader, Kristen, just in time for party season: I’m throwing my first holiday party for some close friends and colleagues soon and was wondering if any readers or contributors at The Kitchn know of a great holiday punch to make for my guests. Thank you!

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KNOXVILLE — Florence Graves was born in India and received her undergraduate degree in economics from Bombay University. She lived in Dubai for 25 years before immigrating to Tennessee. She’s run a restaurant and a landscaping business, worked as a sous chef at Bonefish Grill and is now the executive assistant to the dean in UT’s College of Architecture and Design.

But her passion is cooking, and her dreams are to market a line of fusion sauces and launch her own restaurant chain.

Graves is one of 16 food enthusiasts — college students, retirees and working professionals in a variety of fields, including some already in the food service industry — who graduated Wednesday, Dec. 2, from the Culinary Institute at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

This is the fifth class to graduate from the institute since it started in October 2007.

“This is no ordinary graduation, because the students had to prepare their ‘final exam,’ which entailed the development and execution of the graduation meal,” said John Antun, founding director of the Culinary Institute and assistant professor of hotel, restaurant and tourism management. Antun, a certified executive chef with a doctorate in higher education administration, has spent more than 40 years in the hospitality industry and opened and operated four successful restaurants in the New York metropolitan area.

“The 16 graduating students worked on designing an elaborate culinary experience for their guests of the graduation and their instructors. This gave them the opportunity to not only prepare a fine meal, but also to show off to their friends and families,” Antun said.

The Culinary Institute at the University of Tennessee provides students with professional culinary instruction. Appealing to food service professionals and food hobbyists alike, the 10-month program offered by the Department of Retail, Hospitality and Tourism Management of the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences, covers topics including safety and sanitation, the art of tasting, knife skills and ice sculpting.

Students who complete the program receive a credentialing Certificate in Culinary Arts and the ServSafe Food Service Sanitation certification, valid for five years.

“I always had a passion for creating and experiencing different kinds of foods,” Graves said. “Coming from India and having lived in the Middle East, I felt very comfortable with Asian and Middle Eastern food. However, I wanted to learn about Western cuisine. I have an entrepreneurial bent and I thought this would be a valuable course to take if I want to have a food business of my own.”

With her new certifications, Graves has big plans.

“I have some ideas, one of which is commercializing fusion-type sauces,” she said. “My dream, however, is to own a chain of healthy multi-national fusion fast-food places!”

Graves might even get some help from her husband, Tom Graves, director of operations for the Center of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the College of Business Administration.

Here are the newest graduates from the Culinary Institute:

• William Bradford Arp II, Knoxville
• Summer A. Belk, Vonore
• Marc E. Bliss, Knoxville
• William E. Bolton, Clinton
• Matthew Bushnell, Maryville
• Misty A. Dagley, Alcoa
• Samuel William Davis, Knoxville
• Trevor Ian Dunlap, Knoxville
• Florence F. Graves, Knoxville
• John S. Hill, Knoxville
• Brandon Foster Johnson, Knoxville
• Shannon Kupferer, Knoxville
• Robert B. Schildt, Greeneville
• Justin P. Solomon, Knoxville
• Jacob Stugart, Mocksville, N.C.
• Dustin Blair Thomas, Lenoir City

For more information about the Culinary Institute, see http://culinary.utk.edu/.

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Some men with low levels of vitamin D in their blood are at particularly high risk of developing heart disease and weakened bones that can lead to osteoporosis, researchers report.

In a study of more than 1,000 men, those with low levels of both vitamin D and the sex hormone estrogen were at significantly increased risk of having cardiovascular disease, says study head Erin Michos, MD, a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins.

“They were also at dramatically increased risk of osteopenia,” or bone loss that can lead to osteoporosis, she says.

“Our results suggest that vitamin D supplements, which are already prescribed to treat osteoporosis, may also be useful in preventing heart disease,” Michos tells WebMD.

Men with low levels of vitamin D and testosterone, on the other hand, were not at heightened risk for heart disease or osteopenia.

Role of Estrogen and Vitamin D

The new findings build on previous studies showing that low levels of vitamin D and estrogen, a sex hormone found in differing amounts in men and women, are independent risk factors for developing plaque-laden arteries and weakened bones. Read more…

We’re actually starting to put together a trend of jobless claims numbers below 500k. No doubt this is at least one good sign on the unemployment front.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The tally of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits fell unexpectedly for the fifth straight week, a hopeful sign that the job market is slowly improving.

The Labor Department says first-time claims for unemployment insurance dropped by 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 457,000, the lowest total since the week of Sept. 6, 2008.

Wall Street economists expected an increase, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.

A Labor Department analyst says the closing of state unemployment offices for last week’s Thanksgiving holiday was responsible for some of the decline.

The number of people claiming benefits for more than a week rose by 28,000 to 5.5 million. Analysts had expected a decline.

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There was a lot of reasonable concern earlier this year when a much needed federal shield law proposal appeared to ignore participatory journalists and only cover those employed by major media companies. After people complained about this we were relieved to see Senators Chuck Schumer and Arlen Specter change the bill to cover participatory journalism as well. As they realized such a law should be about protecting acts of journalism not some arbitrary definition of journalists.

Unfortunately, it looks like some other Senators disagree. Karl Bode alerts us to the news that Senators Dianne Feinstein and Dick Durbin are specifically trying to limit the bill to only covering major media journalists. It’s hard to see any rationale for such a move, but it does seem rather obnoxious. One of the fundamental points of a strong media is the ability to protect their sources. Without that, it’s that much harder for the media to actually hold anyone accountable, since sources will be more afraid to reveal important information. Why would Senators Feinstein and Durbin be so against protecting the process of journalism?

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Filed under: Sedan, Europe, Plants/Manufacturing, Mercedes-Benz, Luxury

Fluctuations and disparities in currency exchange rates have grown to become a significant factor in determining where foreign automakers in particular assemble their vehicles. Mercedes-Benz is among those carmakers most cognizant of these effects, and it has been assembling select models in the United States to meet local demands. Now the German automaker has announced that, for the next generation of its popular C-Class sedan due in 2014, partial production will shift to its assembly plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where the M-Class, R-Class and GL-Class crossovers are already built.

The shift in production – which is set to comprise no more than one-fifth of global C-Class production – will not only help offset currency rates, but also afford greater flexibility in meeting local customer demand. The move is expected to further upset Germany’s automotive workforce, which has grown restless in the wake of General Motors’ collapsed sale of Opel.

In addition to the partial shift to Alabama, German production of the remaining four-fifths of C-Class production is set to switch places with the SL-Class roadster, the former moving from Sindelfingen to Bremen and the latter vice-versa. Full details in the press release after the jump.

[Source: Mercedes-Benz]

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