Seems my relatively little insulin needs have skyrocketed in the last two months, to the point where nothing I ever did in the last 3+ years works anymore. Not my ratios, sensitivey rates, basals etc….nothing. How the **** can everything just change so fast when everything else has stayed consistent?
Is the $490 price-tag of the enTourage eDGe electronic book reader holding you back from ordering? Maybe a bit of free, useful software will lessen the budgetary pain. enTourage today announced that the eDGe will ship with integrated Documents To Go from DataViz, which saves you up to $30 from adding yourself later. With the included Android software, eDGe owners can view, create and edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, as well as view Adobe PDF documents.
If you’re not familiar with the eDGe, you might be wondering just how an e-book reader can handle document input. The eDGe is unique with its dual-display — one is a traditional eInk touchscreen for reading books while the other is a standard LCD running the Google Android mobile operating system. As I read it, the Documents To Go functionality would only appear on the LCD, not the eInk screen. The dual-functionality is clever, but at nearly three pounds in weight might not satisfy the portability needs of some.
Todas as fotos desta primeira parte do thread são do forista GRGM. Eu alterei um pouco as legendas.
1 – O edifício da direita é o Ministério Público
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3 – o edifício da esquerda é o Unibanco.
4 – Edifício Sampaio Moreira, de 1924
5 – O Martinelli, de 1929.
6 – Banco do Brasil… Tem 143 metros e é de 1955.
7 – Banespa – O mais alto edifício do mundo fora dos EUA quando construído.
8 – O hall de entrada do Banespa
9 – O lustre tem 13 metros de altura e 1,5 tonelada!
10 – Largo do Café
11 – À direita está a Bovespa (Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo)
12 – Bovespa no centro.
13 – Edifícios antigos e o Unibanco.
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15 – Estatua na Praça do Patriarca.
16 – Unibanco de novo
17 – Praça do Patriarca
18 – Praça do Patriarca e o pórtico de entrada da Galeria Prestes Maia (subterrrânea).
19 – Interior da Galeria Prestes Maia. Essa é a estátua de Moisés, em uma de suas laterais.
20 – Edifício Matarazzo, atual Prefeitura de São Paulo. É projeto do arquiteto italiano Marcello Piacentini, o arquiteto favorito de Mussolini.
21 – Edifícios na Praça do Patriarca
22 – Otros edifícios
23 – À esquerda está o edifício dos Correios e à direita o "Mirante do Vale", o edifício mais alto do Brasil, de 1960.
24 – Viaduto Santa Ifigênia, de 1913 em estilo art-nouveau e totalmente importado da Bélgica.
25 – Viaduto do Chá no centro.
26 – Várias vistas dos edifícios do vale do Anhangabaú.
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31 – Praça na estação "São Bento" do metrô.
32 – Rua perto da Bovespa.
33 – Theatro Municipal
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The well known Japanese electronics producer Panasonic’s Indian arm, Panasonic India revealed its intentions to enter the country’s automotive market by 2012.
The company said that it already has a good position on India’s in-car entertainment (ICE) systems market and, at the present time, is negotiating with the country’s top carmakers in order to sell its products to them. Panasonic intends to introduce these products in late 2011 and has consequently set a high financial goal.
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RSS readers are already a dime a dozen in the Catalog, and it’s only the beginning – Palm opened the flood gates at CES 2010, allowing any and all developers to submit their wares on Palm’s virtual shelves. Feeds ($4.99) by Delicious Morsel of Twee fame is a fully featured RSS reader that integrates into your Google Reader account. Feeds offers functionality that others don’t such as the ability to download articles for reading when you’re without connectivity, but do these features justify the rather steep asking price?
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) released the call for submissions for the Amanda Burden Urban Open Space Award. The award is given by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) in partnership with Amanda Burden, New York City’s Planning Commissioner. The winner, the site selected as the most outstanding public space that ”enriches and revitalizes a community” in the U.S., will receive a $10,000 cash prize. According to ULI, the prize is “intended to celebrate and promote vibrant, well-used urban open spaces.”
To enter the award competition, the space must be outdoors, at least 10,000 square feet in size and have been open to the public for at least one year and not more than ten years. The award seeks to recognize a public space that is:
The application deadline is February 19, 2010.
In addition to the cash prize, the winning project will be recognized in an awards ceremony held in conjunction with ULI’s Spring Council Forum, as well as showcased in ULI’s publications and conferences. Learn more about how to apply
Also, check out the Project for Public Spaces’s Great Public Spaces site, where you can nominate a great public space.
Lastly, The Huffington Post recently posted “Landscape Architecture around America,” featuring multiple parks and gardens around the U.S. You can vote and see which public spaces were listed in the top five by Huffington Post readers.
Image credit: Central Park ice skating rink, New York City. Wired New York.
What’s cooler than a hover-capable, electric-powered, super-quiet personal VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft? If you answered “absolutely nothing,” do read on, because NASA is preparing to oblige you.
The space agency’s Puffin aircraft design will be officially unveiled tomorrow, showing just how far personal, electrically propelled flight could change the ways we live and get around.
The Puffin is something of a personal V-22 Osprey, complete with vertical-takeoff and landing capability (but minus the squad of Marines). But rather than tilting the rotors forward for horizontal flight, the whole craft — cockpit and all — pitches forward, meaning the pilot flies from a prone position. During takeoff and landing the tail splits into four legs that serve as landing gear, and flaps on the wings deploy to keep the aircraft stable as it lifts and descends.
Don’t let the cuddly name fool you; as far as specs are concerned the Puffin is no slouch. Its 12-feet height and 13.5-feet wingspan mean it’s big, but of manageable stature. In theory it can cruise at 150 miles per hour and sprint at more like 300 miles per hour. Since the craft is electrically propelled it doesn’t need air intake, so thinning air is not a limitation, meaning it can reach — again, in theory — 30,000 feet before limitations on battery power force it to descend (clearly the pilot would need a pressurized cabin or oxygen tanks at that altitude, but we’re just talking raw physical capability here).
The Puffin’s range would be the most limiting characteristic, at just 50 miles, but that’s simply a matter of battery density. Batteries are growing more dense by the day, so in coming years that range could be drastically improved.
Of course, the Puffin is so far just a cool digital rendering in a NASA-branded video, but let’s not forget exactly who put men on the moon before we call the concept unfeasible. The coolest thing about the Puffin design is that it shows just how electric flight could revolutionize personal transportation. Aside from the military applications (super-stealthy troop insertions with very low thermal signatures?) the quiet, uncomplicated, low-powered electric lift — just 60 horsepower gets pilot and craft airborne — shows how a world in which everyday folks get around modern cities via personal aircraft may not be as sci-fi as was once thought.
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The High Priestess of Homemaking knows her way around the kitchen, and it seems domestic goddess Martha Stewart, 68, is no stranger to working the stripper pole either.
Ryan McBride wrote:
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, a Cambridge, MA-based firm with a lead product candidate for chronic constipation, said in an SEC filing that it has set the price of its proposed initial public offering at $14 to $16 per share. The firm is aiming to sell 16.7 million shares of common stock in the IPO, which would make the stock sale worth up to $266.7 million—a good deal more than the initial $172.5 million estimate that the firm gave when it first disclosed plans for the maiden stock offering in November 2009. The company may also sell an additional 2.5 million shares to cover potential over-allotments. Plans are to trade the stock on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “IRWD.”
During my years as a reporter covering the wireless industry, there’s one story I kept revisiting in various ways: while developed nations slowly replaced landline telephones with cell phones, developing countries completely skipped traditional telephone infrastructure and got their first communications via cellular. The reason is pretty simple — the cost of connecting every home with a landline is a lot higher than dropping a cellular base station every couple of miles.
Now during my greentech reporting, the same idea keeps coming up, but this time for the power grid and distributed solar in developing countries. Will developing countries that have not yet built out the power grid to much of their population completely skip the traditional power infrastructure and turn directly to distributed solar for power generation? Several analysts and executives recently have told me “yes,” and it’ll happen sooner than we think.
I first started thinking about the idea after writing a profile about the startup Duron, which has developed a $130 solar panel, LED, and cell phone and radio charging device and is selling “several thousand” of these devices per month, according to co-founder and President John Howard. Duron is backed by investors Idealab and the Quercus Trust and Idealab board member Jack Rivkin recently raised this idea in a blog post in which he quoted a friend as saying:
India must skip the classic infrastructure build expected of them. They have to find another way. Otherwise they will never bring all the country up to developed world standards and achieve true participation in the 21st century. They did it with cellular phones. Why not with other basic systems?
Howard, who before founding Duron did a lot of telecom research work at McKinsey, agrees with Rivkin’s post, and told me in an email that “there are many interesting parallels between landlines/cell phones and grid/distributed generation.”
Building out the power grid can be prohibitively expensive, which is why in many countries, like Haiti, less than three quarters of the population have grid access. Pike Research’s Clint Wheelock says just for the transmission portion alone it can cost at least $500,000 per mile. And that’s without the distribution portion and any kind of the grid intelligence (smart grid) that is getting all of the investment this year.
Bloomberg New Energy Finance solar analyst Nathaniel Bullard, who called the distributed solar/cellular metaphor “apt,” said that according to the firm’s data some developing countries in Africa with very low grid access will be getting 50 percent of their power needs from distributed solar in the next decade. In addition, Bullard says that the cost of solar doesn’t necessarily have to come down in price for the market for distributed home solar in developing countries to grow. These home solar systems are replacing kerosene lighting and disposable batteries, which can be expensive and take up a disproportionate amount of a residents’ expenses, pointed out Bullard.
One of the biggest barriers to the growth of this market is residents’ access to capital. A $130 solar charging kit might not seem expensive in the developed world, but Duron is working on partnering with micro finance companies. Similarly the micro-lenders behind the Grameen Bank have helped install over 2,500 solar energy stations in shops in Bangledesh by loaning shop owners the money.
Once home solar installations reach a tipping point, residents will more easily see how the upfront capital can save them money in the long run and also be a game changer for how they use electricity on a daily basis. Cheap cell phones have reached that tipping point and done the same thing for communications.
And like cell phones in the developing world — Nokia has made a killing off of selling phones to millions of customers who live on less than $1 a day — distributed home solar also has the potential to be a huge market. Investors like Idealab and Quercus Trust wouldn’t be investing in companies like Duron if they didn’t think so.
Image courtesy of kiwanja’s photostream Flickr Creative Commons.
Google’s new found moral fiber in the censorship debacle in China has made a lot of waves and has split opinions on the motives behind the move. The future of its search engine in China is as unclear as when Google made the announcement but, as the dust begins to settle, some details are beginning to shape up.
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On Tuesday night, E!’s First Lady of Late Night, Chelsea Handler, stopped by for what will likely be her final appearance on The Jay Leno Show. Perhaps not surprisingly, the outspoken star has something to say about the late night fray going on over at NBC. We’ve got two words for you: Team Ellen!
El Opel Astra sigue acumulando precios y el último que ha recibido es el de “Mejor coche del Año 2010” en la Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias. Este galardón se uno a los otros que ha ido acumulando, entre los que destacan el “Mejor Coche del Año de ABC 2010”, el “El Coche del Año de los Lectores 2010” del Grupo Editorial Prensa Ibérica o el “Volante de Oro” que concede la revista AutoBild.
El Opel astra ha sido el ganador casi por mayoría absoluta con un 41,6% de los votos emitidos por los 13 miembros del jurado, compuesto por especialistas del motor de Canarias que representan a sus respectivos medios de comunicación. En las carreteras canarias es un coche que ha tenido una gran aceptación, con unas cifras de ventas importantes.
El premio, organizado por la Asociación de la Prensa Deportiva de Las Palmas y Tenerife, es el quinto año que se entrega. Distingue al automóvil que reúne unas condiciones óptimas para los ciudadanos canarios, valorándose aspectos como la Seguridad, tanto activa como pasiva, los Acabados, la Estética, Equipamientos, Tecnología, Ecología, Innovación, Costes de Mantenimiento, Relación Calidad/Precio y Servicio Posventa del Concesionario o Importador de la marca para el archipiélago.
No está nada mal para un vehículo insignia dentro de una marca. El Opel Astra es uno de los modelos más vendidos de la marca germana y los premios concedidos siempre ayudan no sólo a dar publicidad al modelo, sino a que los posibles compradores se fíen de este jurado para tomar una decisión en caso de tener dudas entre varios coches. Una buena noticia para Opel sin duda.
Fuente | Opel
Voy a abrir este hilo para poner mis aportes urbanos. Espero las disfruten como yo disfrute tomandolas
| Wayne State’s Cynthia Bir, associate professor of biomedical engineering, and Albert King, distinguished professor and chair of biomedical engineering, observed the Congressional hearings on head injuries in football held at the WSU School of Medicine Jan. 4. |
| The second round of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s hearings into helmet-to-helmet impact injuries in football was held at the Margherio Family Conference Center at Wayne State University’s School of Medicine Jan. 4.
The committee, headed by Congressman John Conyers, is investigating the affect of concussions on National Football League (NFL) players with an eye to improve its rules and helmets. Their real interest is to protect amateur youth players in college, high school and middle school, says Albert King. Those players and organizations look up to the NFL as their role model. King did not testify, but you can say he was an interested observer. As chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department and former director of the Bioengineering Center, King and Wayne State have been at the forefront of head injury research in the country. It has studied head injuries for decades and has either led or been involved with the medical school in more than a few NFL-supported research studies. The NFL is under scrutiny by Conyers and Congress as former players clamor for changes in the game rules. An increasing number of retired players are being diagnosed with dementia, disabilities and even early deaths due to brain injuries. While the Wayne State studies commissioned by the NFL over the years studied concussions and the dynamics of the players’ head injuries, King said he was never able to persuade the NFL to study the helmets to make improvements. Congress is fighting back by “trying to beat up on the NFL for not paying enough attention to the effects of repeat-concussions these football players are having,” King says. In the past, the NFL has rested on claims by its Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee that there is no solid scientific evidence linking repeated concussions and brain injury symptoms cropping up in later life. But the key question posed by Conyers at the hearing at Wayne State is not whether the dots can be connected, King says, but ‘Why, with the mounting evidence, hasn’t the NFL done something to improve the helmets?’ King says he decided to submit proposals directly to Conyer’s office to see if he can work to obtain congressional appropriations to conduct research using NFL helmets for the express purpose of improving them. |
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Intent on putting 2009 – and its devastating 41-percent sales plunge – into distant memory, Smart USA is rolling out its first lease incentive program designed to kick-start sales (along those lines, former Saturn general manager Jill Lajdziak was appointed as president of the company just two weeks ago). Smart has run pilot leasing programs in the past, but this is the first program offered nationwide.
Launched two years ago, sales of the tiny Fortwo were initially strong. However, as the novelty wore off the unimpressive subcompact and gas prices dropped, customers grew cold. The failing economy only made matters worse. First year sales were 24,622 units. In 2009, Smart USA moved just 14,595 cars.
The terms of the Daimler Financial Services deal include a 36-month/10,000-mile lease with less than $2,000 out of pocket. Payments are $169 plus tax. The program is scheduled to run through the end of February.
Gallery: Review: 2009 Smart ForTwo
[Source: Automotive News – Sub. Req.]
Report: Smart looking to stem the gloom with first U.S. lease program originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Slowly but surely the app count trudges forward, with several new apps and a dozen or so updates hitting the App Catalog in the period of time that we humans refer to as ‘yesterday.’ There’s no telling how beings that may operate out of linear time may look at the pace, but for us it’s not bad. Of course, we’d prefer faster, plentiful, and better…er, but we’ll also take what we can get. As per usual, we’ve got the list of yesterday’s App Catalog activity after the break. Click it, you know you want to…
This short film was produced by a group of Visual Learning Lab interns from the University of Nottingham. Based on a series of interviews conducted by VLL interns with fellow students on learning in HE, and in particular visual learning and related technology uses, this film presents findings and recommendations from the interview analysis by the VLL interns. The film is meant as a critical tool for triggering and supporting discussions about visual learning in HE by staff and students. It deliberately represents the students perceptions of visual learning. It is not meant to be representative, but offers a snapshot of some students views.
via YouTube – Student Voice – a film about visual learning.
