Why Good Investors Never Mix a Blueberry Pancakestack with Bedtime ---Thread June 9, 2015

OK campers, back home in Texas still thinking of yesterday's big get together w/ the grandkids where I got to show how to make their own rainbow in the backyard sun w/ a garden hose and now helping my daughter & son'n'law move to DC which is probably why I just woke up out of this goofy dream where we walked over to my daughter's really neat friend's house to see the grandkids in the basement and I was going to show how it was possible to make a spoon stick to my cheek and the tray had all kinds of spoons that wouldn't work and by the time I found one and COOL, it was like welded on! -- the WeirdAlYankovic beepob song was starting the big party so before I could find the grandkids I double taked to see dang! Eric Holder, dancing with German President Merkel so I figured me and the wife needed to clear out so I saw the wife over in the Greek Temple side of the basement ballroom and ran to her but was stopped by some friend of my daughter's really neat friend telling me that because of the riots outside she thought she should call me a cab but I couldn't remember who she was 'cause we kept being interrupted by the members of the IMF (hi Pete, nice to see u agn) and when I broke off to tell the wife about the IMF I finally realized the cab caller was Michelle Obama so I tell the wife up on this big stone pedestal about the IMF and then realized that it wasn't her but instead either Venus the Goddess of Erotica or Minerva the Goddess of Unbounded Wisdom and I had to get the name right to keep from looking stupid which was hopeless with a spoon still welded to my face and that's when I woke up in Texas with a panic attack just a couple hours before opening bell.

Paragraphs & White-space:

HTML eats excess white-space. If you type two or more spaces in a row between words HTML will reduce all of the spaces and tabs to a single space or tab. Carriage Returns (the Enter key) won't do you any good either. Without special care it is easy to end up with a wall of unreadable text. It's quite cruel. If you want white-space beyond a single space you need to insert it explicitly by typing   or  for a CRLF and a paragraph, respectively.

Break   works like you expect Enter (or Carriage Return) to work. It gets you a single LFCR (Line Feed Carriage Return, just like an ancient typewriter). Two styles of break are in use, the preferred version (used in HTML 5)   which contains its own closing tag. Paragraph  makes what follows into a paragraph set off by linefeeds. Neither  or   requires closing tag. The browser software will assume a paragraph is closed when it encounters the next . Closing a paragraph actually makes good sense, closing a break seems like a waste of perfectly good characters.modulo the HTML gods referenced above.

Blockquotes are another useful trick. This entire paragraph has been enclosed in blockquotes. Anything you put between <blockquote> the example text <blockquote> gets indented and set off by linefeeds before and after. This example, rendered, will look like
the example text
the text above. Blockquotes can be nested (placed one inside another) and are a great way to distinguish the source of a quote from your own text.

Preformatted, or the <pre> tag provides a way to grab a bunch of text that is already formatted with tabs and spaces and not have HTML eat all that lovely white-space. As usual a closing tag is required with this </pre>. You can use this trick on a webpage but you need to realize that if the text you are copying wraps because it runs into the edge of the page and not because there is a CRLF present it will behave the same way in the preformatted chunk.

Horizontal Rule <hr> generates a horizontal line the width of the page. People often use this to separate their comments from those being commented upon. This also does not need a closing tag. A width can be set with this element, <hr width="150"> looks like:

Note that it is automagically centered. You can align="right" or "left" to position it explicitly. The usual caveat about using percentages instead of pixels applies so the preferred form looks like:

<hr width=10% align=left>

Which yields:

	Freedom ≠ Free Stuff☭
	I, for one, welcome our new Cybernetic Overlords /.
Mash Dobbshead^® for HTML, bop Hello_Cthlhu for XAMPP

--but while stocks did plunge a percent yesterday it was ok 'cause it was in falling volume but now metals futures are soaring +0.98% and indexes are only seen down another -0.15% and remember yesterday's drop came w/ a huge list of leaders up in heavy volume:

Leaders up in volume:

Ambarella AMBA

Arista Networks ANET

CyberArk Software CYBR

Paycom PAYC

Taser TASR
Signature Bank SBNY
WhiteWave Foods WWAV

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