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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Conservative Muslim and Roman Catholic countries and liberal Western nations approved a U.N. blueprint Friday night to combat violence against women and girls, ignoring strong objections from Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood that it clashed with Islamic principles and sought to destroy the family.
After two weeks of tough and often contentious negotiations, 131 countries joined consensus on a compromise 17-page document that Michelle Bachelet, the head of the U.N. women's agency, called historic because it sets global standards for action to prevent and end "one of the gravest violations of human rights in the world, the violence that is committed against women and girls."
"People worldwide expected action, and we didn't fail them," she said to loud applause. "Yes, we did it!"
On Wednesday, the Brotherhood, which has emerged as the most powerful political faction in Egypt since the 2011 uprising, lashed out at the anticipated document for advocates sexual freedoms for women and the right to abortion "under the guise of sexual and reproductive rights." It called the title, on eliminating and preventing all forms of violence against women and girls, "deceitful."
Last week, Egypt proposed an amendment to the text saying that each country is sovereign and can implement the document in accordance with its own laws and customs, a provision strongly opposed by many countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia.
It was dropped in the final compromise drafted by the meeting's chair. Instead, the final text urges all countries "to strongly condemn all forms of violence against women and girls and to refrain from invoking any custom, tradition and religious consideration to avoid their obligations with respect to its elimination."
When countries were polled on their views on the final draft, there was fear among the declaration's supporters that Egypt would oppose it, which would block the consensus required for adoption.
The head of Egypt's delegation, politician and diplomat Mervat Tallawy, surprised and delighted the overwhelming majority of delegates and onlookers in the crowded U.N. conference room when she ignored the Brotherhood and announced that Egypt would join consensus.
"International soldarity is needed for women's empowerment and preventing this regressive mood, whether in the developing countries or developed, or in the Middle East in particular," Tallawy told two reporters afterwards. "It's a global wave of conservatism, of repression against women, and this paper is a message that if we can get together, hold power together, we can be a strong wave against this conservatism."
Tallawy, who is president of the National Council for Women-Egypt, said she has told this to Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi, who came from the Muslim Brotherhood,
"I believe in women's cause. I don't take money from the government. I work voluntarily. If they want to kick me out they can. But I will not change my belief in women," she said. "Women are the slaves of this age. This is unacceptable, and particularly in our region."
A number of Muslim and Catholic countries including Iran, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Holy See and Honduras expressed reservations about elements of the text — but Libya was the only country to dissociate itself from the final document though it did not block consensus.
Libya's top cleric raised similar concerns to the Muslim Brotherhood, rejecting the document for violating Islamic teachings. The Libyan delegation objected to paragraphs calling for sex education for all adolescents and youth, with appropriate direction from parents, and for priority to programs for girls' education so they can take responsibility for their own lives, "including access to a sustainable livelihood."
At the start of the meeting, Bachelet said data from the World Health Organization and other research shows that an average of 40 percent — and up to 70 per cent of women in some countries — face violence in their lifetimes, and she pointed to recent high-profile attacks on women in India and Pakistan. She said Friday that during the two-week session "countless women and girls around the world have suffered violence."
When the Commission on the Status of Women took up violence against women a decade ago, governments were unable to reach agreement on a final document because of differences over sex education, a woman's right to reproductive health, and demands for an exception for traditional, cultural and religious practices.
The final document approved Friday reaffirms that women and men have the right to enjoy all human rights "on an equal basis," recommits governments to comprehensive sex education, calls for sexual and reproductive health services such as emergency contraception and safe abortion for victims of violence, and calls on government to criminalize violence against women and punish gender-related killings. But it dropped references to sexual orientation and gender identity.
"We did make gains," said Francoise Girard, president of the New York-based International Women's Health Coalition. "This is the first time we have an agreed document recognizing emergency contraception as a necessary service to preserve women's health."
While the document is not legally binding, Britain's U.N. Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said "it sets a certain standard by which all member states can monitor their performance and can be monitored by others."


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Discount retailer Target (NYSE:TGT) logged a lighter-than-expected 2% dip in fourth-quarter profits on Wednesday and projected full-year earnings growth.
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Despite earnings beat, shares of the Minneapolis-based retail giant gave up early gains and slumped about 2%.
Target said it earned $961 million, or $1.47 a share, last quarter, compared with a profit of $981 million, or $1.45 a share, a year earlier.
Excluding one-time items, the company earned $1.65 a share, up from $1.49 a year earlier and above the Street's view of $1.48.
Revenue increased 6.8% to $22.73 billion, narrowly surpassing estimates from analysts for $22.69 billion.
"We're pleased with Target's fourth quarter performance, particularly in the face of a highly promotional retail environment and continued consumer uncertainty," CEO Gregg Steinhafel said in a statement.
Looking ahead, Target forecasted 2013 non-GAAP EPS of $4.85 to $5.05, compared with the Street's view of $4.82.
For the current quarter, Target sees non-GAAP EPS of $1.10 to $1.20, which is above estimates for $1.05.
Target said it bought back about 10.4 million shares of its common stock at an average price of $61.96 during the fourth quarter, totaling $645 million of purchases.
Shares of Target slid 2.37% to $62.53 Wednesday morning, trimming their 2013 gain to 5.7%.

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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Things are getting a little steamy among the stars of Fox's new thriller, "The Following."
The series, which debuts Jan. 21, features Kevin Bacon as an investigator pursuing a serial killer portrayed by James Purefoy. At a news conference Tuesday, a reporter noted that the actors had good chemistry together. She said her reaction to watching them perform was, quote, "I just want them to kiss."
The two actors barely paused. Bacon reached over and planted a kiss on Purefoy's cheek.
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Photograph of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Credit: Published on the cover of The Illustrated London News (16 October, 1892).
Just as painters capture and manipulate color and light, poets capture and manipulate words and sounds to create a vision for their audiences. Striking examples of pictures in words—not just vivid images but the entire mental picture conjured up by a poet—are to be found in "The Charge of the Light Brigade," by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and "The Highwayman," by Alfred Noyes. Both poems also tell compelling stories and are easily comprehensible as well as appealing to the adolescent reader.
Besides guiding students in a close study of the text of these two poems, the activities and handouts below provide an introduction to the terminology of figurative language. A basic understanding of critical terms can help students to describe and analyze the effects of poetry on readers. Specific activities include an Internet scavenger hunt, discussion and analysis, an exercise involving the interpretation of poetry through visual art, and an opportunity for students to create their own pictures in words.
Download and make copies of the worksheet, Internet Scavenger Hunt: Poetry. This preparatory exercise is a good team as well as individual assignment. An effective motivator is to offer a prize or special privilege to the team or student who is first to submit a complete and correct scavenger hunt. As you discuss the results of this exercise with your students, and as you read and discuss the poems in the activities below, help your students to understand how the disparate poetic figures covered in the Scavenger Hunt (alliteration, metaphor, personification, and so on) are not experienced in isolation as we read but contribute to an integrated mental picture for the reader.
As an anticipatory question for reading Tennyson's poem, share the following journal question with students and give them five to ten minutes to generate written responses:
What are some examples of times when people must obey an authority figure, even though they may not want to?
Allow students to volunteer responses and discuss. Must military commanders enforce harsh discipline on their soldiers? Is it important for a military outfit to work as a team? What are the consequences if a commander is unable to keep his or her troops under control during wartime? As you discuss these questions, share with students some basic background information on the Crimean War (see Preparation for background information). In your discussion, you may wish to include
Have students read the poem aloud, then read the poem to them or play a recording of the poem. Ask and discuss the answers to the following questions:
Closing journal question: Allow 5-10 minutes for students to respond, then discuss their responses:
Cannon to right of them,Why do you think he repeated these lines, particularly the word "cannon"? Silently tap out the rhythm of these words on your desk with your fingers as you read them to yourself. What effect do you feel he was trying to achieve? What message does he wish to pass to the reader? (For more ideas on teaching sounds in poetry, please see the last bulleted item in Preparation.)
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Before they read "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes, give students five to ten minutes to generate written responses to the following question
Some call death "the ultimate sacrifice." What are some examples of people who have died to save others? What do you think were their reasons to give their lives?
Allow students to volunteer responses and discuss. Explain that this is a poem about making a sacrifice. Tell students that in the eighteenth century, there were men who would ride the roads at night in search of wealthy people to rob. These men were called highwaymen. Have students read the poem aloud, then read the poem to them or play a recording of the poem. Ask and discuss the answers to the following questions:
Review questions:
Demonstrate rhyme scheme in this way: Write these words in a column on the chalkboard:
Ask students where they have seen these words before. They will tell you that they are the last words in each line of the first stanza. Write a capital letter A next to the word trees. Ask the students what other words in the list rhyme with trees. Put a capital letter A next to the word seas. Next, write a capital letter B next to the word moor. Ask the students what other words in the list rhyme with the word moor. Put a capital letter B next to the word door. Finally, write a capital letter C next to the first riding on the list. The students will tell you that it rhymes with the second riding, which will also get a capital letter C. The list will end up looking like this:
Explain to the students that they have just identified the rhyme scheme of the first stanza. Tell them that poets sometimes write the stanzas of their poems in a rhyming pattern. Have students determine the rhyme scheme for stanza two. They will tell you that in that stanza, as well, there is an AABCCB rhyme scheme. Ask students what effect the repetition of sound has on the mental picture created by the poem. If desired, have students determine the rhyme scheme for stanzas in "The Charge of the Light Brigade." How does rhyme scheme reinforce or otherwise affect the mental picture created in these poems?
Closing journal question: Allow 5-10 minutes for students to respond, then discuss their responses:
Download the PDF, Painting Pictures With Words. This may be an individual or group assignment. It is recommended that the students complete the activity in a word processor, so that they may move easily between the poem, the paintings, and the activity. They may need to be shown how to cut and paste their chosen stanzas into the document. A follow-up to this activity could entail students weaving their figurative language creations into a poem of their own.
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Villager photos by Corky Lee
The new look of the store at 32 Mott St., above. The new owners no longer have the spaces outdoor sign, seen below last summer.
Pain and hope as new Chinatown gift shop opens
By Hemmy So
Amid the bustle of Chinatown shops, a new face popped up two weeks ago in a historic location. Once home to 32 Mott Street General Store, the namesake address now houses Good Fortune Gifts, Inc.
The new store shares the same skeleton as its predecessor but not much else. Vestiges from the stores 113-year long history remain, such as the brown wooden shelves and cabinetry and elaborately carved arch decorating the counter. But the new owners, who include the buildings landlord, have changed the wallpaper, added more lights and stripped the hardwood floors.
New merchandise fills the stores shelves. Above eye level, windowed cabinets display numerous boxed Barbie Doll-sized action figures. A Jackie Chan action figure stands next to Wonder Woman as army and police toy figures protect them from all sides. Across the store, cartoon figures like Yogi Bear and Archie offer wide grins from inside their paper and plastic boxes. Trinkets such as painted ceramic eggs, small crystalline balls enshrining decorative scenes and ceramic animal figures are lined up carefully for presentation in the glass case that greets customers at the door.
People in the community and who had been in store [before], have been marveling at what happened, said manager and co-owner Danny Kung. [The remodeling] gave the place a lot of life. It really brings out its natural beauty, from what it was maybe when it was first opened up.
But for the previous stores owner, Paul Lee, the new opening only causes pain.
Its not a good thing. Its very, very painful, Lee said. To lose the store that was my familys business for 113 years. Its very shameful, very painful.
Opened in 1891 by Lees grandfather, Lee Lok, 32 Mott Street General Store was originally called Quong Yuen Shing & Company. During that time, the store not only sold general merchandise like medicinal herbs, sundries and silk brocade for clothing, but also conducted import and export business. Importing goods from China, the store distributed such goods to Chinatowns in major cities including Washington, D.C., Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago.
Because immigration laws forbade Chinese men to bring their wives to America, a bachelors society formed and Quong Yuen Shing & Company became a social center. As society became more modernized, the store went through its own evolution. In its next incarnation under Lee Loks son Peter Lee, Quong Yuen Shing & Company became a restaurant wholesaler. Still engaging in the import business, the store sold imported goods such as non-perishable foods and cookware.
In the mid-1970s, Paul Lee took the reins from his father, although the two vacillated in the role of head proprietor until Paul Lee finally took over in the mid-1980s. Under his ownership, Quong Yuen Shing & Company became 32 Mott Street General Store, selling Asian giftware and knickknacks. Lee also began selling bus tickets to Atlantic City and services to local residents, such as handling bill payments for seniors without checking accounts.
But after 9/11, Lees business suffered. The store never even got close to earning half its original revenue, Lee said.
Lee attributed the losses to a drastic reduction in tourism, the security-related closing of Park Row near Police Headquarters and fewer parking spots available to civilian vehicles. Lee is one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit intended to reopen the street.
After Lee fell behind on his rent payments, building owners May Yee and her family had Lee evicted by city marshals at the end of last year. Lee, who lives next door to his former store, is now trying to negotiate the return of his personal belongings from the store. As for the store sign that hung above the doorway, the Museum of Chinese in the Americas now holds it for safekeeping.
After members of the Transfiguration Church across the street from 32 Mott Street General Store had recovered the sign from the trash, a community member informed the museum about the find.
Its in good hands now at the museum, said Lamgen Leon, the museums chief of operations and facilities. Though MoCA is keeping the sign at its storage warehouse, the museum hopes to someday use it for a future exhibit, he said.
Lee declined to comment about the signs recovery.
As for Good Fortune Gifts, Kung feels optimistic about the stores future. I dont think well be millionaires doing this line of business, but just enough to pay the bills, put food on the table, he said.
Kung said the store will sell mostly tourist items and Asian wares, but he also wants to be flexible. Well adapt to the needs of what people are interested in purchasing, he said.
Lee hasnt yet been inside the new store and doubts he ever will, even though he lives just next door.
I dont look in there, he said. Its so painful.
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Is the Rainbow Gathering a natural disaster?
Sizzling, blistering, brutal: Whatever adjective you use to describe the West's recent heat wave, it's not strong enough. Normally cool places like Portland and Seattle hit the 90s. Phoenix soared above 104 every day in June, reaching 119 once, and a few nights the low was a baking 91 degrees. Rattlesnakes huddled in garages, while non-reptilians submerged themselves in whatever water they could find, invaded the high country, swarmed air-conditioned malls, or else ran sub-seven-minute miles in Death Valley wearing Darth Vader suits. Seriously. Jon Rice, who does the Darth Valley run every summer, was probably the only one posting a 6:36 mile when it reached 129 degrees. Yet there were plenty of others in the Valley under sizzling skies -- hotels full of extreme-weather tourists, mostly from Europe. While Death Valley National Park officials appreciate all the attention, they're not too keen on a popular activity: They've asked people to kindly stop trying to fry eggs on the pavement or the Salt Playa at Badwater.
Could that heat and drought, along with suburbs in the woods and unhealthy forests, be responsible for the devastation wrought by this season's wildfires? Of course not! Forest jihadis are to blame. At least according to the American Center for Democracy's website, which noted that Al Qaeda's online magazine once ran an article titled, "It Is of Your Freedom to Ignite a Firebomb." The Center asks, "How many Tzarnaevs (the Boston Marathon bombers) are hiding in Colorado's woods?" A lot, if the Center's Bill Scott is correct. "In military terms, Colorado is a target-rich environment -- an arsonist's dream come true," he writes. Scott vividly imagines a terrorist flying a Cessna 172 over a tinderbox forest, throwing flares and igniting a massive fire near a town hemmed in by cliffs on three sides, where the feds are stretched too thin to fight the deadly fire that follows. Replace the Cessna-flying terrorist with lightning, and Scott's nightmare is not too far-fetched.
It's hard to find anyone (aside from forest jihadis) who revels in the drought and heat, which are killing crops – and, tragically, firefighters. Boat launches at a major reservoir on the Colorado River, Lake Powell, which appears headed for record-low levels, remain high and dry. New Mexico state park officials say visitor numbers have evaporated by as much as 40 percent, partly because of "repetitious stories about the rivers and reservoirs going dry." (Apparently, journalists, not the climate, are to blame.) Instead of rowing through whitewater, commercial raft guides end up outside their rafts, pushing client-laden boats through too-shallow-to-float waters. Yet there's one group that's thriving despite the low flows: inner-tubers. As soon as the paltry spring runoff subsided enough for safety, they swarmed the rivers, wearing giant tubes and tiny bikinis, flaunting full-frontal sunburns and Pabst Blue Ribbons and thereby humiliating professional raft guides and their frustrated customers. But it took a deluge, not drought, to get Todd Hoberecht to float down 11th Avenue in Bozeman, Mont., on an inner tube. Hoberecht told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle that he was having a bad day when a rainstorm inspired him: "I always remembered: When things are bad, the best thing to do is just 'wahoo' and paddle hard," he said. "I ran home and just got my inner tube and went for it. ... If He gives you rain, you might as well go tubing."
And if you're given fish, you might as well catch them. That must have been what anglers thought when they started hauling big tiger muskies out of a warm water pond in West Salt Lake City. About 100 of the popular sport fish were caught, reports The Salt Lake Tribune, before one fisherman called the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to inquire if there were any fishing regulations at the ponds. Unfortunately, yes: The ponds are part of the state hatchery, and fishing is illegal. But since there were no signs saying so, the anglers won't be prosecuted.
Montana's Beaverhead County is getting state emergency funds for a natural disaster. But it's neither wildfire, nor flooding; it's the Rainbow Gathering, which has drawn some 6,000 hippie revelers and thus far occasioned 49 visits to the emergency room, according to the Montana Standard. Meanwhile, Big Game Forever, an anti-wolf group in Utah, also received state funds -- some $300,000 last year -- but isn't saying exactly how it was spent, to the dismay of some Democratic lawmakers, says The Salt Lake Tribune. The group, which wants the feds to remove Endangered Species Act protections for wolves -- something likely to happen even without taxpayer-funded lobbying -- is slated to receive another bundle of state cash this year. Elsewhere, a 6-year-old boy from Wasilla, Alaska, perhaps inspired by former presidential candidate Mitt Romney's dog, rode on top of his family's minivan for three miles before falling off. He had apparently done it before and was not seriously injured.
Guest author Jonathan Thompson is a senior editor of High Country News.
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Now that Yosemite is out, with iOS 8 devices you are now able to use Handoff. Handoff will allow you to seamlessly start a task on one device, and pick it up on another device. So for example you start writing a paper on your iPad and then you want to continue it on your Mac, or you start writing an email on your iPhone and want to finish it on your iPad, this is what Handoff does. When signed into the same iCloud account and Bluetooth is turned on, Handoff will allow you to transition your work flow from one device to another.
On the Mac, you will have an additional dock separate from the main dock indicating what is running on the iOS device. On the iOS device on the lock screen you will have an icon indicating the app that is being used on the Mac. Currently it works with Apple's apps including Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Safari, Reminders, Messages, Maps, Pages, Numbers and Keynote. Developers can also addHandoff totheir apps as Thingsand other apps have already done . In this how-to article, I will discuss how to set up Handoff and how to use it.
For Handoff to work, you did need to have a 2012 iMac, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac or late 2013 Mac Pro. You do need to have an iOS device running iOS 8 with Bluetooth turned on. Since Handoff works via Bluetooth, the devices do need to be within thirty feet of each other. Also, all of your Apple devices need to be signed into the same iCloud account.
Now that we have met the requirements for Handoff, let's first make sure that Handoff is enabled. On the iOS device go into Settings and select General. Then tap on Handoff Suggested Apps to make sure that it is turned on.
To check to see if Handoff is enabled on the Mac, open up System Preferences. Then make sure that Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices is checked on.
Now that Handoff is set up and enabled to work, let's discuss how it works.
In my example above, I said one of the ways you can use Handoff is to start writing a paper on your iPad and finish it on your Mac. To do this, I will be using Notesfor iOS and Notesfor Mac. I start to write it in Notes on the iPad.
While I am writing on the iPad there is now a dock that is separate from the main dock on my Mac. In that new separated dock it shows the Notes app with an iPad icon in the upper right hand corner. That indicates I am using Notes on the iPad. If you like to have your dock hidden, to see that I am using the Notes app on my iPad is to hold the Command key and Tab key at the same time on the keyboard to view the app switcher, or you can hover the cursor over where the dock would be to bring it up.
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In fact, if we look at the correlations between rates of new firm formation and economic growth over the medium-to-long term, we see that firm formation declines as economic growth increases. For instance, the correlation between real GNP growth rates and the rate of self-employment in France, West Germany, and Italy between 1953 and 1987, and in Sweden between 1962 and 1987 is negative (Bogenhold and Staber
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And who is most likely to respond to those incentives and start businesses? Not the best entrepreneurs. We know that unemployed people are more likely to start businesses than people who have jobs. Why? Because they have less to lose by becoming entrepreneurs; something economists call a lower opportunity cost on their time. After all, it's less costly to you to start a company if your alternative is watching daytime T.V., than if it is taking home a paycheck from a job.
The problem is that people who are unemployed also tend to perform worse when they start companies than people who quit their jobs to start businesses, probably because their hurdle for what kind of business passes the hurdle to pursue is much lower. So policies designed to increase the total number of new businesses disproportionately attract the worst entrepreneurs.
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Tell the Premier not to jeopardize care and waste precious tax dollars using a P3 contract for Kingston's new hospital
On December 21, 2012 Infrastructure Ontario and Providence Care of Kingston announced a request for proposals (RFP) to design, build, finance and maintain a new hospital – Providence Care Hospital – to replace St. Mary's of the Lake Hospital and Providence Care Mental Health Services. Critics charge the $350 million project could cost as much as an extra $100 million as a result of being a P3 hospital instead of a publicly funded, not-for-profit hospital. A P3 hospital would then result in fewer medical and nursing care services and lost employment.
The trouble with P3s
In a word – cost. P3s are Public-Private Partnerships designed to fund big capital projects such as hospitals and schools. They involve complicated long-term deals between government bodies and corporate groups called consortia to design, build, finance and maintain the capital asset. The evidence has consistently shown that P3s cost taxpayers a lot more money than traditional methods of government procurement. A study conducted by Matti Siemiatycki, a professor with the University of Toronto, found they cost on average about 16 per cent more. A review of the Ontario Auditor General's report on Brampton's William Osler Hospital P3 suggests that it cost at least 20 per cent more. That finding was all the more alarming because at the beginning of that project, cost savings of 10 per cent were actually projected.
Why do P3s cost so much?
A major disadvantage of P3s is the much higher borrowing costs in the private sector. Add to that the high transactions costs of the complex deals – a real boon to consultants, but a big hit to taxpayers. Furthermore, the additional bureaucracy of a P3 creates on-going costs. Because these deals are long-term and complex, they create risk. Naturally the companies involved in the deal build in large margins in order to ensure enough profit to justify the risk. Finally, the bargaining power lies on the side of the few large corporate groups with their teams of negotiators experienced in complex P3 deals.
Where is the transparency?
Lack of transparency and accountability are also inevitable with P3 contracts. Kingston residents have been expecting a new hospital for years, yet only in mid 2012 did they discover it was slated to be a P3. As the roll out continues, many are very concerned with ballooning costs and the implications of having parallel clinical and non-clinical administrations, which create obvious conflicts of interest and reduced accountability that can jeopardize patient care.
What can you do?
- Send the note below to Premier Wynne and key elected officials urging the provincial government to remove the financing and maintenance components from the RFP.
- Click here to send a note asking Kingston City Council to call on the government of Ontario and Infrastructure Ontario to remove from the RFP the private financing and maintenance of the new hospital, transferring these responsibilities to the public non-profit sector.
- Consider also arranging time to contact your MPP, Minister Gerretsen, to raise the same points.
- For details on local actions, including the March 4 launch of the "Keep our Hospitals Public" campaign, see http://www.keepourhospitalspublic.org/
Let your Provincial Representatives Know How You Feel
Please help change the proposed Providence Care Hospital from a costly P3 into a traditional public hospital. Below is a note you can edit and then submit to government officials. The note will be sent to the following elected officials:
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Director's Corner
21 October 2010
The convergence of astrophysics and particle physics
One of the more interesting and important developments in our field over the past decade has been the convergence of particle physics and astrophysics. The scope of particle physics has grown in recent years to include what we commonly call particle astrophysics, where some of the most important particle physics questions are also of high importance for astrophysics. Consequently, the new decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics, Astro2010, which sets out the priorities for those fields in the US for the next decade, is of increased interest and importance to particle physics. This is also reflected by the growing number of highly recommended projects that are requesting support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) physics and/or the Department of Energy (DOE) High Energy Physics programme.
|The new decadal survey for astronomy and astrophysics, Astro2010, gives high priority to particle astrophysics initiatives
There are other tangible signs of the growing importance of particle astrophysics. More of our largest high-energy laboratories are developing dedicated programmes in this general area, and long-range planning is now being made for this new field. For example, the Astroparticle Physics European Coordination (ApPEC) consortium and the AStroParticle European Research Area (ASPERA) network have together published a roadmap for astroparticle physics in Europe, and a HEPAP report was published last year by the Particle Astrophysics Scientific Assessment Group (PASAG). These reports present a dynamic new field having a wide range of ambitious initiatives for the future that could have a big impact on particle physics.
The field of particle astrophysics is now becoming fully established in the astronomy and astrophysics communities as well. Perhaps the most influential long-range planning exercise in basic science is the decadal survey for astronomy carried by the National Research Council for the US National Academy of Sciences. This decadal survey sets the priorities and roadmap for the agencies and community for astronomy and astrophysics each decade. The latest decadal survey, called Astro2010, has recently been released and particle astrophysics plays a significant part in the recommendations for the field. The process of developing the decadal survey is quite impressive. It involves white papers and town meetings with the community. Astro2010 was developed in a year-long process that began with five Science Frontiers panels covering the fields of astronomy. The one mostly concerned with particle physics was the panel called "Panel on Cosmology and Fundamental Physics." These panels established the science priorities and the information helped give scientific guidance to the four Program Priority Panels, of which one was explicitly dedicated to "Particle Astrophysics and Gravitation" (I served on this panel). Finally, the parent Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics synthesised all this information and developed both the ground-based and space-based priorities for the next decade.
|The composition of the universe. Dark energy is the largest contributor and least understood. Consequently, dark energy studies are given very high priority in both particle physics and astronomy strategic plans.
The topic of dark matter was excluded from this year's survey, reflecting that there is no major proposed initiative in astronomy on that problem, but the question of dark energy did play a major role.
The Astro2010 survey includes both a prioritised list of investments in space and on the ground. The highest priority projects have the feature that they have multiple goals, but both the highest priority projects in space (Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, WFIRST) and on the ground (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, LSST) have a direct significant motivation in yielding new important information on dark energy, and are both proposed to involve significant involvement from the DOE high-energy physics programme. LSST is also proposed to involve a large commitment from NSF astronomy. Dark energy is now considered one of the most important fundamental physics questions and one at the intellectual heart of particle physics. The convergence of particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology are very healthy. The fact that the priorities of particle physics are based on the most important fundamental questions is also very healthy. That such an endeavor does not involve particle accelerators at one of our large national laboratories is another indication that our field needs multiple approaches and that we are adapting to that reality. Particle accelerators will undoubtedly retain their central role in the future of particle physics, but our field is now even richer because we are also selectively pursuing some particle astrophysics initiatives. In many cases, efforts that are of mutual interest to astrophysics and particle physics promise to help us answer some of the most fundamental questions in our field.
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:38 pm
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Food and Paris are inseparable. After many years of wishing and many months of planning, I just returned from two weeks in Europe, including six days in Paris. As it was my first time in the city, there was much to see and expectations were high. Paris did not disappoint, and the memories of food will bring smiles for many years.
In recent years, Ive adopted a philosophy for exploring a city: serendipity assisted by serious planning. I wander a city, turning left or right based on whim or an interesting sight. But when I want to eat (or shop) I want some options identified in advance.
To assist in my wanderings around Paris, I printed out various maps of the city and highlighted food-related options: restaurants, chacuteries, fromageries, boulangeries, and patisseries. The intent was not to visit or sample everything, but to provide options while wandering (what is the translation licking the windows?). I also made advance reservations for dinner each night, figuring that after walking around the city all day, I would be too tired to find a restaurant each night.
The highlights:
Rungis: the wholesale food market which replaced Les Halles is outside the city, accessible only via the official market tours (www.rungisinternational.com) or via a private tour arranged in advance (the only option for us, as Rungis only offers one tour a month, unless you are part of a group). We were met by a car at 5 am to be whisked off to the multiple pavilions: seafood, the triperie, meat, poultry (and game birds), cheese, various vegetables and fruits, and flowers. Feeding about 10 million people, it is enormous. Crates of the freshest fish, destined for markets, shops and restaurants, was a relevation the smell of the sea greeted us. The triperie is not for the faint of heart or vegetarians mass quantities of everything internal to cows, calves, and pigs. Cheese, glorious cheese, from small crates of chevre to 50 kilo wheels. Fruits and veggies from the world and produce from local farms (beautiful lettuce, radishes, and apricots). Alas, tasting or purchasing was not part of the tour, as we were not buyers and could not justify buying an entire crate of girolles (but oh, if it had been possible )
Buttes-Chamont a beautiful park in the 19th surrounded mostly by residential neighborhoods which provide plenty of options to compose a lakeside picnic (augmented by chevre and fraises from the organic market on the Boulevard des Batignolles thanks to a tip in the CZ cookbook). A bonus: because of the date (07/07/07), multiple wedding parties posing for photos next to the lake.
Le Temps Au Temps: this lovely little restaurant on the Rue Paul Bert in the 11th was a delight. Market fresh ingredients and interesting culinary interpretations from a husband and wife team. The highlight a dessert of fresh strawberries and crumbled chocolate cake on a fennel compote with shredded mint leaves. Wow.
Lobster at Le Clos des Gourmets in the 7th. Perfectly roasted lobster meat with peas and bacon in a sauce based on lobster stock and plenty of butter.
Pastisserie Saduharu Aoki: a tiny shop in the 6th on the rue de Vaugirard, not far from the Jardin du Luxembourg with the most beautiful pastries each one is work of art. Great music, good tea selection, and only 4 seats. The chocolate and cassis cake was sublime.
Promenade Plantée: an elevated linear park along the Avenue de Daumesnil, not far from the Gare de Lyon in the 12th, built on an old elevated railroad, partly running above the Viaduct des Arts. Another great spot for a picnic, while debating whether to buy a copper pot made in the Atelier des Arts Culinaires below (and yes, I bought the pot).
I could go on and on. But wont. Thanks to Clothilde, this forum, Zagat, and Pudlo Paris (recently translated into English) for helping identify my culinary options.
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wow MrMark--thanks for sharing--sounds like a wonderful experience!
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Sigh...! And now I'm hungry... again! O Monsieur Marc, all those brides... all those pastries... the Time to Time (great name for a resto!) and the copper pot... actually, The Copper Pot would also be a good name for a resto!
I am glad you bought the pot. Just think you could have agonised and then NOT bought it!
Quelle dommage, n'est ce pas?!
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Yes, MrMark, I enjoyed this, thank you--the minute I read the word "triperie" I braced myself for the little description I knew would follow
Do you know how much this resembles the original Les Halles--? Not much, I suppose.
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I suspect Rungis is a bit more "antiseptic" than the old Les Halles, but I also suspect many of the foodstuffs are still just about the same and just as good as in the old days. You can find pictures of Les Halles (though I've never made a systematic search on Amazon or such) ... think middle of the night, huge piles of trash and boxes of goods, fog or steam drifting by, boisterous farmers and buyers bellying up to the bar for
un express
laced with brandy or a bowl of onion soup ... and when it was closed and construction of the current Forum des Halles began, supposedly nearby regions were overrun with rats that used to live on the scraps of Les Halles!
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MrMark I really enjoyed your findings and have saved them for future visits.
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Extension Program Helps Carter County Residents
University of Missouri Extension's Family Nutrition Program provides assistance to more than a thousand Carter County residents annually.
Experts know that the obesity rate in Missouri is too high," said MU Extension's Candance Gabel, State Coordinator for Family Nutrition Education Programs. "Two ways to lower the rate are to teach people to choose nourishing foods and to increase their physical activity. Our curriculum focuses on eating better to get the nutrients necessary for good health."
The Family Nutrition Program offers basic food nutrition education to low-income adults and youth throughout the state. The Carter County program is partially funded by the USDA and requires matching funds from local agencies, including Van Buren R1, East Carter R2, and the Carter County Health Center.
In 2009, more than 40 children in Carter County were participating in Extension's Jump Into Action program, which is designed for 5th grade students and emphasizes the importance of physical activity in reducing both childhood obesity and reducing the risk of Type 2 diabetes. Students use pedometers to measure increases in physical activity.
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WASHINGTON — Republicans retained control of both the House and Senate in Tuesday's elections, extending their decade-long domination of Capitol Hill as they swept up victories across the South and unseated Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota.
Republicans increased their control of the Senate, securing 55 seats in the 100-member Senate by picking up seats formerly held by Democrats in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida and Louisiana.
Democratic Party officials had conceded all along that they faced an uphill climb in their quest for a Senate majority because the most competitive contests were being fought in states considered to be Republican strongholds.
"We've had a tough climb," Sen. Jon Corzine of New Jersey, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said on CBS. "I'm disappointed we're probably not going to take it back."
Although the attention focused on a few closely fought Senate races, most incumbents up for reelection — including California's Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer — coasted to victory.
In the House, Republicans hoped to expand their 22-seat advantage, building on the defeat of four incumbents in Texas as a result of redrawn congressional districts that favored Republican candidates. A key question was whether the gains in Texas would offset losses in other parts of the country.
The outcome of the battle for Capitol Hill is crucial for President Bush. The Republican victory in Congress makes it easier for him to advance his second-term agenda of more tax cuts and a Social Security overhaul.
In late results, Republican Lisa Murkowski defeated Democrat Tony Knowles in a tight race in Alaska, and Rep. John Thune, the GOP candidate in South Dakota, defeated Daschle. Republican Rep. David Vitter appeared to win more than 50% of the vote in Louisiana, avoiding a December runoff. He will replace Democrat John Breaux.
The 2004 elections seemed likely to produce a Senate slightly more diverse than the old one: It will include Democratic state Sen. Barack Obama, who was elected by a wide margin in Illinois, making him the only African American in the Senate and the first since the 1998 defeat of Carol Moseley Braun, who was also an Illinois Democrat.
Democratic state Atty. Gen. Ken Salazar won the open Senate seat in Colorado, and Republican Mel Martinez won in Florida, becoming the first Latinos in the Senate since Sen. Joseph M. Montoya (D-N.M.) retired in 1977.
The new Senate may be more conservative — and not just because there will be several Republicans replacing Democrats. Two of the newly elected GOP senators — Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Jim DeMint of South Carolina — are vocal representatives of the GOP's more conservative wing.
The balloting for Congress was the culmination of a long, exceptionally nasty and expensive campaign. It featured relentless mudslinging in many places, including Democratic commercials that questioned the mental health of Republican Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky and Republican TV ads accusing Sen. Patty Murray of Washington of being soft on terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.
The candidates and political parties spent more than $445 million on the contest for the Senate — up from about $326 million in 2002, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission data by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
Heading into the election, Republicans controlled the Senate by a scant 51-vote majority; there were 48 Democrats and one independent, who usually voted with the Democrats. That meant Democrats needed a net gain of two seats to win a majority — or one if Kerry were elected.
But Democrats sought that small gain on a playing field that was tilted strongly against them. Of the 34 seats on the ballot this year, 19 were held by Democrats and 15 were held by Republicans. The nine most competitive races were in states that favored Bush in 2000 — including many in the South, where five Democratic retirements gave the GOP a golden opportunity to take away seats.
"We were playing on tough turf," said Cara Morris, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Republicans were relieved by returns from the Oklahoma Senate race, even though the state should have been an easy win for Coburn. He trailed his Democratic opponent, Rep. Brad Carson, for much of the campaign because of missteps and Democratic attacks on him as a political extremist. But he pulled ahead with an attack strategy that portrayed Carson as too liberal.
The key GOP gains came from picking up three Southern seats previously held by Democrats who retired — including DeMint's victory in South Carolina, where he succeeds Sen. Ernest F. Hollings. Democrats lost the North Carolina seat vacated by Sen. John Edwards when he became Kerry's running mate: GOP Rep. Richard Burr trailed for most of the campaign but ended up beating former Clinton administration aide Erskine Bowles by highlighting Bowles' ties to the former president. And in Georgia, Republican Rep. Johnny Isakson easily won the seat vacated by retiring Democratic Sen. Zell Miller.
The marquee battle was the powerful challenge to Daschle, who vainly struggled to turn back a challenge from Thune in a state that was strongly pro-Bush. Republicans portrayed him as the linchpin of congressional opposition to Bush's policies; Daschle emphasized how his clout had benefited his home state.
In the House, Democrats had an even steeper hill to climb. Republicans went into the election with 227 House seats; Democrats had 205, plus the support of one independent that usually voted with them; two seats were vacant.
That meant Democrats needed a net gain of 12 seats to get a majority. The road was uphill because there were fewer than two dozen truly competitive seats. The vast majority of House members were easily reelected.
But a handful of incumbents were shown the exit. Among the four Texas Democrats defeated on the new political map championed by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) were two very powerful senior members: Rep. Martin Frost, a longtime member of his party's leadership and the senior member of the delegation, and Rep. Charles W. Stenholm, a leading conservative Democrat who, like Frost, was pitted against a Republican incumbent.
Democrats scored an upset of their own against a senior member: GOP Rep. Philip M. Crane, the longest-serving Republican in the House, was defeated by businesswoman Melissa Bean.


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The conventional wisdom has been that despite a constant barrage of criticism of President Bush in the press and purportedly bad news from Iraq, John Kerry has failed to gain significantly in the polls. However, a review of polling in the battleground states collected at Real Clear Politics casts doubt on this assumption.
In most of the battleground states, polling done after the middle of May shows movement in Kerry's direction; in some cases, sharp movement. One possible exception is Ohio, where poll data have been troubling for a while. The latest Mason-Dixon survey has Bush with a six-point lead. On the other hand, the most recent Zogby poll, taken over almost the same time period, shows Kerry ahead by five.
UPDATE: Our friend Captain Ed also looks at the polls, focusing on the biased sample used in the recent CBS/New York Times poll which purported to show President Bush's job approval declining sharply.
UPDATE by BIG TRUNK: Captain Ed writes:
Just an FYI, the Zogby polls that just came out are Web-based polling — not scientific polls. It would be like having a poll on Power Line from pollhosting.com. I trashed the CBS poll this morning on CQ and noticed that about Zogby, although I don't mention it.


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Today's Meditation
Read 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
In a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize . . . Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.
-1 Corinthians 9:2425 (NIV)
In order to run a marathon, I must discipline my mind and my body to prepare for the race. Each morning, I venture out before sunrise with my feet beating the pavement for five miles. Admittedly, some mornings I would rather stay in bed. However, I know that unless I prepare myself well, I will not be able to accept the challenge when race day comes.
My spiritual life — especially my life of prayer — is a matter of similar discipline. When I am willing to meet with God daily, I can "run the race" faithfully, and ultimately I will claim my reward. Living daily as a Christian requires commitment, strength of character, and dependence on the Spirit's help. At times, negativity and discouragement can overshadow the good that God brings every day. During those times, I can rely on God's word from Paul in 1 Corinthians to see me through day by day until I reach the finish.
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Prayer: Dear God, please take our hands in yours as we go through this day. Help us to trust that you will give us strength day by day to follow Christ. Amen.
Thought for the Day: How do I prepare myself to run the race faithfully?
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WESTON, Mass. – The MIT women's basketball team rattled off 11 unanswered points to start the second half en route to a 61-40 victory over Regis College in the consolation game of the Regis College Invitational on Sunday afternoon. Sophomore Sabrina Drammis (Hilton Head Island, S.C.) led all scorers with 16 points and added seven rebounds for the Engineers (1-1) as she also collected All-Tournament Team honors.
Junior Mari Kordell (Ijamsville, Md.) tallied 12 points, seven rebounds, and six assists while sophomore Durva Bhandare (North Brunswick, N.J.) registered nine points, four boards, three assists, and three steals. Senior Rachel Hunt (Arlington Heights, Ill.) generated 12 points, nine rebounds, and four blocks as sophomore Maya Ramachandran (Fremont, Calif.) posted six points, four caroms, and three blocks. Freshman Liana Ilutzi (East Hanover, N.J.) dished out three assists while classmate Madeleine Duran (Glen Rock, N.J.) bolstered the defense with four rebounds and a block.
The first half was closely played as it featured seven lead changes and three ties until a pair of Ilutzi free throws put MIT in front, 19-18, with 6:52 to go. Two free throws and a basket by Hunt gave the Engineers some breathing room but the Pride narrowed the gap to three (23-20) at the 4:40 mark. Junior Osheiza Otori's (Metairie, La.) layup on MIT's ensuing possession sparked a 10-2 spurt that ended the half with the Cardinal and Gray holding a 33-22 lead.
The Engineers carried the momentum into the second stanza as their 11 straight points fueled a 27-4 run that resulted in a 50-26 advantage with 11:12 on the clock. During the game-changing rally, MIT held Regis scoreless for the first 5:19 of the frame. The hosts trimmed their deficit to 18 with 9:39 and 4:51 remaining, but they would get no closer.
Next up for MIT will be its first NEWMAC game of the season slated for Wednesday, Nov. 20 at first-year league foe Emerson College.


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The 17th City of Lights, City of Angels French film festival announced its most ambitious slate to date Tuesday with 38 feature films and 19 shorts. Of the 38 features, three are international premieres, 11 are North American or U.S. premieres and 16 are West Coast premieres. The festival runs April 15 to 22 at the Directors Guild Theater.
Opening night will see the North American premiere of the romantic comedy "It Happened in Saint-Tropez," from director and co-writer Daniele Thompson ("Avenue Montaigne").
"The film will open in France just five days before COLCOA," said Francois Truffart, executive producer and artistic director of the festival. The comedy stars Monica Bellucci and Kad Merad.
Two films in the festival will be distributed this summer in the U.S. by the Weinstein Co. -- "Populaire," a romantic comedy with Romain Duris and Berenice Bejo of "The Artist," and "Haute Cuisine," which is described as a comedy of "power and food."


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Tiara Tucker
Brookside Christian girls basketball
The 5-foot-6 junior guard, The Record's Player of the Year in 2012, has continued her high-scoring ways all season, but what she did to open Central California Athletic Alliance play was ridiculous. After scoring 63 points against Stone Ridge Christian in the league opener, she scored a career-high 73 points behind four 3-pointers and grabbed seven steals in last week's 105-17 win over Millennium.
Stockton Christian boys basketball
The 5-10 sophomore guard scored 35 points in a 76-68 win over Delta Charter and 20 points in a 67-61 win over Lodi Academy. He leads the Eagles in scoring with 24.1 per game.
Calaveras wrestling
Appeared to force overtime in the 160-pound final of the Tim Brown Memorial Wrestling Tournament but settled for second after judges determined his takedown came after time expired.
St. Mary's girls basketball
The Rams have been conservative with the junior guard, who has been hampered by a knee injury, but she broke out for 19 points in an 89-76 win over La Jolla-Country Day in Saturday's MLK Classic.
Escalon wrestling
The 132-pounder finished second at Saturday's Tim Brown Memorial Wrestling Tournament and had a second period lead in the championship match before two-time state medalist Emilio Saavedra of Modesto rallied for a 3-1 win.
McNair girls basketball
The 5-6 senior guard, who is averaging 9.9 points per game, broke out for a career-high 28 points behind six 3-pointers in an 87-32 win over Tokay that kept the Eagles unbeaten on the season at 19-0.
Bear Creek boys basketball
The 6-6 sophomore guard had 18 points in the Bruins' 66-61 win over Chavez, including a key jumper followed by a big rebound and outlet pass that led to an easy layup and secured the win in overtime.
West boys basketball
The 6-1 senior forward finished with 23 points and 12 rebounds in an 81-50 win over Edison on Friday, helping the Wolf Pack bounce back from a 70-37 loss to St. Mary's two nights earlier.


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I have a lease contract that has been scanned into PDF format. I need this lease converted/typed into a microsoft word document. The document is 4 pages of text.
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A few years back, I wrote a letter to CareerBuilder about their Superbowl adverts for their exploitative use of chimpanzees. I shared the letter on my alter-ego blog. A few people left comments telling me that I totally missed the funny.
Before doing it again this year, I hope CareerBuilder.com will take into account two articles. The first is "Cute TV Chimps May Harm Their Wild Brethren" from Science Magazine. The second is an article from The Christian Science Monitor called "Super Bowl commercials: What happens to those CareerBuilder chimps?"
Wild chimpanzees…gone within our own lifetimes. But golly, they're entertaining!
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You will learn
- Connecting to a SAP HANA system.
- Verifying the status of SAP HANA dynamic tiering.
- Create extended storage for the Dynamic Tiering host.
Open SAP HANA Studio. In the SAP HANA Administration Console perspective, right click in the white space within the Systems view on the left. Next select the Add System… menu item to execute it. You can also press S.
Enter the Host Name and the Instance Number of the SAP HANA host you will connect to. When you are done, click Next. You can also press Alt+N.
Enter "
SYSTEM" as the User Name and enter your Password. Click the Store user name and password in secure storage checkbox so you won't have to re-enter your credentials when re-connecting to the system. Next click Finish or press Alt+F.
In the System view on the left side, double click on your system (format:
<SID> (SYSTEM)) to open up the "Overview" tab.
In the Overview tab and under General Information, check the status of SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering (It should be under Distributed System). If what you see is:
Right click on your system (format:
<SID> (SYSTEM)) located under the Systems view. Then select Open SQL Console to open a connected SQL console.
In the SQL console, paste in the following script:
CREATE EXTENDED STORAGE AT '<your.machine.name>' size 1000 MB;`
Replace "
<your.machine.name>" with the host name of the machine where the Dynamic Tiering component is installed.
Click the Execute button to run the SQL script and create the extended storage
dbspace for SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering. You can also press F8. Make sure it completes successfully. Go back to the Verify Extended Storage Status section to verify that extended storage is set up successfully.
The "CREATE EXTENDED STORAGE" statement creates the warm store and the required
dbspaces. A
dbspace is a logical name for a container of files used to store the Dynamic Tiering table data and related objects.
Dbspaces are specialized to manage specific types of data. Types of
dbspaces used by Dynamic Tiering include
ES_DELTA etc. Creating the extended storage
dbspace is a prerequisite to creating extended tables.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — An organization of mostly displaced white farmers in Zimbabwe said Thursday upcoming harvests of the corn staple are forecast to decline by tens of thousands of tons despite recent good rains and the nation's troubled economy will again rely on costly food imports and donor handouts.
The Commercial Farmers Union on Thursday said production in the former regional breadbasket remains in turmoil. It said blacks resettled on formerly white-owned farms seized since 2000 are "in dire straits" because they don't have necessary finance.
Union head Charles Taffs said collapsing rural infrastructure may be helped by a new, financial recovery plan by ex-farmers who don't expect to regain their seized farms.
Latest annual corn production is estimated at 833,000 tons, down by 60,000 tons from last year, compared to more than 2 million tons harvested in 2000.
The collapse of the rural economy is causing mass migration to already stressed towns and cities, he said.
Farm dam walls have not been maintained, fencing has been uprooted and conservation laws are being openly disregarded with drastic environmental consequences, Taffs told reporters.
Taffs said his organization has drawn up a broad recovery program to restore the value of land against which loans could be obtained by the new farmers and former owners would provide support and advice drawn from long years of experience in farming.
"People are starving in this country. It is time to act. We can't wait any longer," Taffs said.
The farmers' proposals call for foreign funding for an issue of bonds to pay compensation to farmers who lost their land and the creation of a Land Bank where the bonds, redeemable later, and title deeds would be deposited and made available as capital for new farmers to restart derelict properties and "reenergize the land market."
If that happened and farming got back on its feet on a commercial basis, the ex-owners would have a viable investment in bonds with returns comparable to any good investment worldwide, Taffs said.
"It won't cost the government anything. It will be a minimum burden to donors. The benefits will be immediate and immense. If it's in place before the planting season, we could be self-sufficient in food again within a year," he said.
The organization says less than 400 of its 4,500 white farmer members in 2000 are still on the land, half of them are actively farming and just 10 are still farming on the commercial scale they were in 2000.
"Our sector has been really been taken down. The new farmers have access to the land but no access to assistance," he said.
Taffs said the farmers did not envisage getting their land back. Some had died penniless since the often violent land seizures began in what President Robert Mugabe insisted was a program to reform imbalances in colonial-era ownership of prime land by whites, mostly the descendants of British and South African settlers.
"We don't want to turn the clock back. We want to go forward in a pragmatic manner. What is lost has to be monetized and put back into the economy to ensure a bright future for the people through the successful completion of the land reform program," he said.
Experts from 50 nations, many from Africa, and officials of international financial institutions helped draw up the recovery plan unveiled Thursday.
After years of meltdown since the collapse of the agriculture-based economy, Mugabe's party says there's no cash to pay out displaced white farmers. In the past, it acknowledged the need compensate former owners for buildings and improvements on the land. Many of the best former white farms were given to Mugabe loyalists and cronies and now lie idle.
Compensation in new bonds, calculated from criteria still to be ironed out, would be subject to routine fiscal and investment laws to avoid capital flight, according to the farmers' group.
"It's a win-win for everyone. I think there's been a real shift in the government position. We still need broad acceptance of the program but I think we are closer to a solution than we have ever been," Taffs said.


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eHow: How to Make Money Writing How-to Articles
In these cash-strapped times, folks are looking for any way to make or save a little extra green. Well, if you're good at giving instruction and like to write, you might be able to make some money writing for eHow.
For those who don't know, eHow is a site with instructional articles on everything from computers to gardening. eHow is owned by Demand Media, which also runs ExpertVillage (instructional video site) and Answerbag.com (a site where users ask and answer individual questions). Gregory Boudewijn, VP of Demand, stopped by PC Magazine's office to give us the lowdown on whether this whole money-making thing is a complicated pyramid scheme or the real deal.
According to Boudewijn, there are two types of content on eHow: articles written by eHow's team of experts and those written by registered users. In the site's early days, it dedicated the home page mostly to the expert articles, but now it's building the home page according to articles' traffic numbers.
Users can write and submit articles for free. Those who want to get paid for providing content must fill out a form at the site that includes some sensitive information (such as your SSN--for tax purposes, I'm assuming), so this alone deters a good number of people.
Once you submit an article, payment is determined both on a per-click basis and according to the ad revenue generated by that type of content. Boudewijn would not disclose the exact pay rate, but he says not to expect to become a millionaire overnight. Many writers see somewhere between $10 and $50 per article--or if your article's a dud, you might get zilch.
Boudewijn also says that those who submit more pieces have a better chance of seeing some income. And although eHow has buttons on the site to add an article to Digg and other such aggregators, most of their traffic comes from search engines. He also offered some tips for those thinking of trying the eHow pay system:
Write what you know. It may sound obvious, but stick with your strengths. Don't write a piece on a hot topic you know nothing about to try to get clicks. The eHow editors and readers will know you're bluffing.
Think outside the how-to box. Most users like to write articles in categories such as Food and Drink, Sports and Fitness, and so on. The sheer volume of articles in such categories, combined with the fact that Boudewijn says these areas don't "monetize" as well as others, puts you at a disadvantage. Categories such as Computers, Finance, Business, and Health tend to attract advertisers and Web surfers. Basically, these categories typically require a higher degree of expertise (any schmo can write a piece on how to cook a turkey or do push-ups). Special training, advanced degrees, or expert-level knowledge will set you apart from the fray.
Think like a freelance writer. Look for article opportunities in news, current events, changing seasons and holidays, and hot trends. Outwit your fellow writers by thinking ahead.
Follow the guidelines. Nothing annoys editors more than pieces that are submitted with no regard for guidelines. Follow the eHow template as closely as possible.
Make it short, but not too short. Five to seven steps is the usual, and unless you absolutely need more or less, try to stay within those boundaries.
Add photos. Many people are visual learners who also need images to clarify the instructions.
Write clear, engaging titles. This is where a little knowledge of search engine optimization (SEO) can come in handy. Make sure you have good keywords in your piece's title, meaning the word(s) someone will search for when trying to find a how-to on that topic. Be direct and concise, not witty and punny.
Tell the whole story. Imagine following a recipe that stops just before telling you how long you need to cook the roast and at what temperature. Make sure you take the reader through the entire task, beginning to end.
As a way to contemporize eHow and hopefully garner even more readers, the site will introduce a social networking component soon.


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Glasses-less 3D TV by Xmas? Not likely, says 3D TV exec
More like 2013
Toshiba may be gearing up to release a no-specs 3D TV in Japan by the end of the year, but Philips' 3D TV development partner reckons we will have to wait longer. It doesn't reckon any vendor will have one out before 2013.
So says, Maarten Tobias, CEO of Dimenco, a firm founded by four former Philips people and which is now handling Philips' specs-less 3D TV development work.
Tobias told website Broadcast TV News it will be "three to five years" before glasses-free 3D TVs will be released commercially. Naturally, he expects Philips to be the first manufacturer to do so.
Whatever, that prediction puts the debut of such screens sometime between 2013 and 2015.
Specs-less 3D TVs are not new and have been demo'd by various companies - Philips and LG, in particular - for some years. The problem is working out how to make them cheaply enough.
At the IFA show this week, all the major manufacturers are pushing 3D hard, clearly viewing the technology as a way to sell us all lots more kit. The snag: there's no real evidence that punters actually want it, and are certainly not prepared to pay a premium to watch content - what little there is - in 3D.
Perhaps, then, active-shutter and passive 3D glasses and the technology behind them are merely a stepping stone to stereoscopic 3D you can view with the naked eye.
And Toshiba's Christmas 2010 release plan? Well that's what Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun claimed. Toshiba itself has only admitted it's working on the technology. ®