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Africa is facing what African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka calls a "Molotov cocktail" of rising food and oil prices that analysts fear could trigger widespread political upheaval like that which has swept the Arab world since January.
There are concerns that the turmoil in North Africa, embracing Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco and Algeria, could mutate south into the sub-Saharan heart of the conflict-ridden continent, where democracy is in its infancy, although growing, populations are swelling and corruption and unemployment are rife.
At the same time, popular anger is rising as foreign governments and corporations are pouncing on the continent's last great resource, its farmland, to grow food for others.
Kaberuka told the Financial Times that rising costs were hitting the continent's urban poor the hardest at a time when governments have fewer resources to counter the problem than during the food crisis in 2007-08.
"It's a delicate period," he said. "The previous decade of economic reforms had created a cushion of sound public finances so we were able to respond to the crisis
"Now the crisis finds lower reserves and therefore the ability of the governments to respond across the board is limited."
Africa remains riven by wars and insurgencies, many over the continent's vast natural and mineral resources and kleptocratic dictatorships, some thinly disguised as democracies, are still in power.
Yet democracies are growing. In 1980, there were only two. These days more than 40 countries conduct regular, multi-party elections.
But population growth is outstripping economic advances. In sub-Saharan Africa, the population has risen from 100 million in 1900 to 800 million. It should hit 1.5 billion-2 billion by 2050.
Unemployment is rising rapidly, as it did in North Africa, while political and business elites are cushioned from hardship.
Such grievances played a large part in triggering the pro-democracy uprisings that toppled the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt and threaten at least three other Arab regimes.
There have been outbursts of protest in Kenya and Uganda, where unrest has been simmering for several years.
The United Nations reports that one-in-three Africans is chronically hungry despite $3 billion spent annually on food aid for the continent and $33 billion on food imports.
Wheat prices in Sudan have risen 87 percent in three months. Rice is up 30 percent in Chad. Maize has gone up by at least 25 percent in Somalia, Mozambique and Kenya. In Uganda, it's risen by 114 percent in the last year, the World Bank says.
It said much of the recent food increases stemmed from a 21 percent hike in oil prices in the first quarter of 2011 because of the wave of political unrest across the Arab world.
Climate change, which has wrecked crops globally has deepened the food crisis.
In Kampala, Uganda's capital, opposition leader Kizza Besigye led three protest marches to protest higher food and fuel prices. Police responded with live fire and tear gas. Besigye was shot in the hand. The protests have spread across the country.
"More people are suffering and more people could become poor because of high and volatile food prices," World Bank President Robert Zoellick declared.
"We have to put food first and protect the poor and vulnerable, who spend most of their money on food."
A Harvard University team headed by Professor Calestous Juma, author of the "The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa," found that while food production has grown globally by 145 percent since 1970, Africa's food production has fallen 10 percent and it continues to import the bulk of its food staples.
It has the fertile land and the rivers. But the land is being sold off or leased to rich countries like the Persian Gulf states, Brazil and Japan, which cannot produce enough food for themselves.
The World Bank estimates that worldwide 115 million acres of land are in the hands of outside investors, the bulk of it in Africa.
This is causing immense discontent.
In March 2009, the government of Madagascar was toppled because it had leased 3.2 million acres -- nearly half the Indian Ocean island's arable land -- to the South Korean conglomerate Daewoo for 99 years. The deal was scuttled.
Other African regimes should take note.
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The Mississippi Senate Wednesday passed legislation to allow public charter schools to operate in the state, though each school opened must receive approval from a newly created independent commission.
Under the measure approved by the Senate, local schools districts will have to find the charter schools, though federal and sate dollars the districts receive can go toward paying for the schools.
Charter schools are public schools that operate under a contract that allows administrative freedom and flexibility in exchange for what legislators say must be "exceptional levels of results-driven accountability."
The Senate amended House Bill 1152 to allow public charter schools to open in Mississippi with approval from the independent commission. The bill, which passed 31-19, heads to the Mississippi House.
Public charter schools will be funded with existing dollars from the federal, state and local levels. The funds within the current Mississippi Adequate Education Program will follow a student to his school of choice.
Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves said the Senate bill will free students "trapped in failing districts with no options for a better education."
Opponents fear draining scare educational resources away from districts will diminish the overall quality of education in the state, and possibly create a separate tier of schools for a choice few.
Under the Senate legislation, public charter schools could be allowed in any district in the state. However, the local school boards of districts rated as "star" or "high performing" by the state Department of Education also would have to give a stamp of approval to any charter school seeking to open within those top districts. The bill is similar to a plan approved by the Senate in February. However, this version allows school boards of districts rated as "successful" also to approve charter schools over the next four academic years.
Students attending public charter schools must comply with provisions of the Mississippi compulsory school attendance law, meet health and safety standards, and adhere to state testing model. This legislation does not require charter schools; it simply gives a community the option to support a public charter school to enter into their district.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The government minister in charge of preparations for the Athens Olympics was fired Sunday in yet another disruption leading to the 2004 Games.
The dismissal of Culture Minister Theodoros Pangalos by Greece's premier comes three days before senior IOC officials are to visit Athens for an inspection.
Pangalos was removed after criticizing contentious government labor reforms and Cabinet members.
Pangalos will be replaced by Evangelos Venizelos, who has held several Cabinet positions.
The culture minister is in charge of organizing sports events and oversees Olympic preparations.
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When is the best time to book a cruise? As with any holiday, it's a gamble. Do you book as soon as the brochures come out, when cruise lines offer discounts of 40 per cent and more, cash to spend on board and free parking if you are sailing from Britain? Or do you wait, hoping for even cheaper prices as the departure date approaches?
Book early and you can take your pick - the itinerary, the ship, even the cabin number, if you are fast enough - and still get plenty of money off the brochure price which, let's face it, is more a guideline than anything else. Wait until the last minute and you could get a healthy discount, but find yourself having to go when and where the offers take you rather than on a favourite line on your preferred date.
When I asked cruise lines to send me details of their best autumn deals, I was swamped: some cut a miserly couple of hundred pounds off the brochure price; almost all were trying to sell off their inside cabins.
For instance, there was a £100 per person discount for an inside cabin on an October cruise in the Mediterranean, when the best of the summer sun has had its day. There was also £300 per person off the cost of an inside cabin on a cruise from Britain to the Canary Islands for those who fancy the Bay of Biscay in October.
Compare those reductions with the savings of up to 45 per cent that Princess Cruises is offering to herald the launch of its 2008 Mediterranean brochure - bringing the cost of a 12-night cruise down from £2,219 to £1,219 - or the half-price offer Fred Olsen Cruise Lines has on some cruises in its new 2008/09 brochure, and you begin to see that waiting for late bargains is maybe not such a good idea.
That might come as a surprise to people because big, last-minute discounts for holidays over the past few years has taught us that it pays to hang on until the 11th hour. Back in June, this paper reported holidays on sale for £5 because tour operators had too many unsold packages left.
But cruise ships are not like land-based resorts. They are getting bigger - none can top Royal Caribbean International's 4,000-plus-passenger Freedom-class ships, but 3,000-plus is becoming common place - but there is still limited capacity overall compared with favourite holiday destinations such as Mallorca or Ibiza.
If you had wanted to cruise from Southampton to the Mediterranean on a family-friendly ship in July and August this summer, there were only five vessels to choose from - Princess Cruises' Sea Princess, Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas and P&O Cruises' Oceana, Oriana and Aurora - with a total passenger capacity of about 11,500 and just 16 departures between them.
P&O has some availability on all three ships for the last quarter of the year, but Navigator's three- and four-berth family staterooms sold out long ago and there are only a handful of staterooms left for the rest of the season. Sea Princess is completely sold out.
Also, although there are lots of cruise ships plying the seven seas, and the number is growing each year - would you believe there are about 21 ships on order for delivery by the end of 2009? - there is, equally, a growing band of people waiting to book their cruise as soon as they can, to make sure they get what they want, especially for certain times of the year.
For families, that means any and every school holiday, because that is the only time that parents with children in full-time education can take a break without falling foul of the law. Lone cruisers also need to be quick to book, as the number of cabins allocated for solo travellers - with either no or low single supplements - is limited.
Winter cruises to exotic locations tend to fill up fast because keen cruisers, especially those who are retired, book early to secure their place in the sun away from Britain's grey skies. These same cruise fanatics will also be on the phone the moment their favourite line puts a new ship on sale, so that they can tell friends and family they were among the first people on board.
P&O Cruises' new ship Ventura, which doesn't set sail until next April, was more than 50 per cent sold by the beginning of June this year - before it had even touched water. On the day the ship went on sale in April, more than a year before its maiden cruise, the company took more than 18,000 bookings, much to the amazement even of P&O Cruises' bosses, who were expecting 11,000 bookings - still an incredible number given that their previous record for bookings in one day was 5,000.
And it wasn't just those people who were determined to be first on board who brought the P&O's computer system to a dead slow. Apparently, families were also booking early to secure their slice of P&O history and, no doubt, breakfast with Noddy, who makes his cruising debut on Ventura.
But it's not all bad news for those still hoping to pick up a late bargain. Best of all has to be a 24-day Tahiti Islands cruise for just £189 per person from Travelscope - the catch is that you have to combine it with a 21-day Caribbean Christmas cruise that costs £1,649 (www.travelscope.co.uk). Never mind. If you don't have 45 days on your hands, there are some hefty discounts for inside cabins on shorter cruises, while some luxury lines have halved prices - and not just for their cheaper cabins.
While enthusing about the state of his company's bookings, Nigel Esdale, P&O Cruises' managing director, admitted that the "nature of the market" means there will always be last-minute discounts. In other words, cruise lines might prefer passengers to book early because it helps planning and cash flow, but they also want to fill as many cabins as possible on every departure, not only to get the income but also because, like everyone else, late-bookers have to fork out extra cash if they want a few drinks on board. They might even boost the cruise lines' coffers more by splashing out the money they saved on the booking on excursions and spa treatments.
- Crystal Cruises (0207 287 9040, www.crystalcruises.com) has cut £2,491 per person off the price of an 11-night Mediterranean cruise from Istanbul to Athens on Crystal Serenity on October 6. The cruise, which includes calls at Kusadasi, Rhodes, Alexandria and Santorini, now costs from £2,608 per person for an outside stateroom, including flights and transfers.
- Silversea (0844 770 9030, www.silversea.com) has knocked £2,058 per person off the cost of a 15-day cruise from Las Palmas in the Canary Islands to Barbados on Silver Shadow on October 2. The cruise, which includes calls at Tenerife, Dakar in Senegal, Porto Grande in the Cape Verde Islands and Grenada, now costs from £3,662 per person cruise-only for a Veranda suite.
- Voyages of Discovery (01444 462150,www.voyagesofdiscovery.com) has cut £800 per person off the cost of its 13-day North African Treasures cruise from Alexandria to Lisbon on Discovery departing October 29. The cruise, which includes calls at Libya, Malta, Tunisia, Gibraltar and Portugal, now costs from £1,199 per person for an inside cabin, including flights and transfers.
- Princess Cruises (0845 3 555 800, www.princesscruises.co.uk) is offering savings of £1,370 per person on a Greek Isles cruise from Rome to Venice on Star Princess on October 28. The cruise, which includes calls at Naples, Santorini, Rhodes, Kusadasi, Piraeus, the port for Athens, Corfu and Dubrovnik, now costs from £1,179 per person for an inside cabin, including flights and transfers.
- SeaDream Yacht Club (0800 783 1373, www.seadream.com) is offering £1,710 per person off a seven-night Mediterranean cruise from Civitavecchia, the port for Rome, on SeaDream I departing October 20. The cruise, which includes calls at Bastia in Corsica, Portofino and Livorno in Italy, and the isle of Elba, now costs from £1,745 per person cruise-only for an outside cabin.
- Regent Seven Seas Cruises (023 8068 2280, www.rssc.co.uk) is offering free flights and up to £2,836 per person off the cost of an 11-night Eastern Caribbean cruise from Fort Lauderdale on Seven Seas Voyager on November 19. The cruise, with calls including San Juan, St Thomas, Gustavia in St Barts and Philipsburg in St Maarten, now costs from £3,026 per person for a balcony suite with a butler.
- P&O Cruises (0845 3 555 333, www.pocruises.co.uk) is offering savings of £1,020 per person on a 13-night Canaries Carousel cruise from Southampton on Oceana departing October 15. The cruise, which includes calls at Vigo, Madeira, Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Lisbon, now costs from £1,269 per person cruise-only for an inside cabin.
- Fred Olsen Cruises (01473 742424, www.fredolsencruises.co.uk) has cut up to £1,299 per person off an 18-night Memories of the Empire cruise from Southampton on Boudicca on November 19, for bookings made by August 31. The cruise, which includes calls at Lisbon, Cartagena, Tunis, Valletta and Tripoli, now costs from £1,586 per person cruise-only for an inside cabin.
- Costa Cruises (0207 940 4499, www.costacruises.co.uk) has a £460 per person saving on an 11-night Egypt, Cyprus and Greece cruise from Savona on Costa Romantica. The cruise, which includes calls at Naples, Alexandria, Port Said, Limassol and Piraeus, now costs from £679 per person cruise-only for an inside cabin.
- Hurtigruten (0208 846 2666, www.hurtigruten.co.uk) has a £765 per person discount on an eight-night Antarctica cruise from Ushuaia in Argentina on Fram in November. The package, which also includes two nights' b & b in Santiago de Chile before the cruise and one night at the end, now costs from £1,785 per person sharing an inside cabin, including flights within South America and transfers, but excluding transatlantic flights.


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On November 17 the Boston Globe reported that at the end of 2006, just as Romney was leaving office and gearing up for his first presidential run, "11 of his top aides purchased their state-issued computer hard drives, and the Romney administration's emails were all wiped from a server." In addition, the remaining computers in the Governor's office were replaced. "As a result," explains the paper, "[Gov. Deval] Patrick's office, which has been bombarded with inquires for records from the Romney era, has no electronic record of any Romney administration emails."
Mark Nielsen, Romney's chief legal counsel as Governor, told the Globe that the administration "fully complied with the law and complied with longstanding executive branch practice," a refrain repeated by the Romney campaign. The campaign points out that in 1997 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the Governor is not explicitly included in the state Public Records Law, which requires the preservation of electronic communications.
However, Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin, a Democrat, told the newspaper that the ruling "means that emails don't have to be released to the public, but the governor's office still has to preserve them and turn them over to the state archivist."
"They have an obligation as a public official to preserve their records," Galvin said. "Electronic records are held to the same standard as paper records. There's no question. They're not in some lesser standard."
Galvin also questioned the sale of the hard drives to private parties; and Jeffrey Pyle, a Boston lawyer specializing in public records cases, told the Globe that the drives "should not have been sold as private property."
As to the supposed "longstanding executive branch practice" of selling hard drives or any other public property to departing state employees, the Globe found that "top aides to the three Massachusetts governors who preceded Mitt Romney — all of them Republicans — said ... they know of no instance when state employees purchased their computer hard drive as they left the administration" and that "they were not familiar with such purchases as a long-standing practice."
Given the highly irregular nature of the vanishing emails and hard drives, it was only natural that the press, curious as to whether Romney had something to hide, began peppering him with questions soon after the matter was first reported. The former Governor refused to answer directly for a few days. Finally, in an interview with the Nashua Telegraph, he responded: "Well, I think in government we should follow the law. And there has never been an administration that has provided to the opposition research team, or to the public, electronic communications. So ours would have been the first."
Thus, to keep his administration's emails hidden from both political opponents and the general public, Romney took the extraordinary step of obliterating all electronic evidence of those communications and then ensuring that the hardware itself was turned over to administration employees who would have every incentive to destroy it.
The Romney campaign is portraying the revelation of these unusual acts as a purely political move on the part of the Obama administration, aided and abetted by Obama's friend Gov. Patrick, who campaigned for him in 2008.
"The last thing they [the Obama campaign] want to do is run against Mitt Romney in the general election," Romney communications director Gail Gitcho told CNN. "In this case they have deployed or activated the Patrick Administration to do their dirty work."
Accusing the Governor's office of acting as "an opposition research arm of the Obama reelection campaign," the Romney campaign filed a request for all email communications between Patrick's office and Obama's campaign.
The Democratic National Committee fired back with a request for all email from the Romney administration related to the hard drive purchases or containing "embarrassing subjects including 'destroy records' and 'flip-flop,'" according to CNN. Obviously such email would have to be provided in printed form, perhaps found among the 700 boxes of public documents the Romney administration did send to the state archives. Locating the requested emails, therefore, could take months, which would certainly work to Romney's advantage.
The Romney team is almost certainly correct that the motive behind leaking this story to the press was political, and its request for emails between the Patrick administration and the Obama campaign may uncover evidence of that. Nevertheless, curious observers want to know just what was so potentially damaging in his administration's emails that Romney felt the need to go to such great lengths to prevent its discovery.
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CHICO, CA (3-3-14) - Even as rain continues to pound the North State on Monday morning, promoter Dennis Gage is optimistic about getting this weekends Silver Cup Race of Champions event in as scheduled. Its still so early in the week that if we get a break in the weather pattern we can dry out the pits in time, said Gage. The Speedway recommends instead of constantly calling the track office phone for updates, to follow updates on our Facebook page or Twitter (sdspeedway) and website. We will make a decision early enough to allow time for fans and teams to adjust, said Gage. An array of pumps are working 24/7 to get as much water as we can out of the pit area.
Silver Cup is scheduled for this Friday, March 7th, and Saturday, March 8th. Three divisions will highlight the weekend. The winged 360s, dirt modifieds and wingless sprints are all ready to pack the facility this weekend. Pit gate will open at 2 pm, front gate will open at 5 pm and qualifying for the winged sprint cars will start at 6:30 pm. Friday night general admission grandstand for adults is $15.00, junior and seniors $12.00, and kids $6.00. Saturday night general admission grandstand for adults is $20.00, junior and seniors $12.00, and kids $6.00.
Entries have poured in from all over the Western United States. Drivers from Washington, Oregon and Nevada along with California racers are all expected to converge this weekend at Chico. Silver Dollar Speedway track champions like Sean Becker, Andy Forsberg, Duane Cleveland, Randy and Ryan McDaniel are all ready to hit the track this weekend. The Nor-Cal Modified Challenge is scheduled for Saturday night while the Joe Hunt Magnetos Wingless Sprint Shootout Series will also be on hand.Over a $30,000 combined purse is on the line for the two nights of racing. Entry forms are available for download off our website at www.silverdollarspeedway.com.


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CBOE to Relaunch Credit Event Binary Options (CEBOs) Contracts on March 8
Feb 22, 2011, 09:30 ET from Chicago Board Options Exchange
CHICAGO, Feb. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) announced today that on Tuesday, March 8, the Exchange will begin trading newly-designed Credit Event Binary Options (CEBOs) contracts.
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Credit Event Binary Options contracts allow investors to express an opinion on whether a company will experience a "credit event" (bankruptcy). Due to inverse correlations between credit and equity markets, CEBO® contracts can be used as a hedging tool for individual stocks. The contracts also provide the advantages of price transparency available through a regulated exchange, currently unavailable in over-the-counter credit default swaps markets.
A CEBO contract has just two possible outcomes - a payout of a fixed amount if a credit event occurs or nothing if a credit event does not occur.
The CBOE, which first began trading single-name and basket Credit Event Binary Options in 2007, recently received SEC approval to amend the Credit Event Binary Options rules.
One change simplifies the terms of a payout for CEBO contracts, allowing CBOE to list CEBO contracts that specify bankruptcy as the only trigger for a payout.
The size of the CEBO contract payout if a credit event occurs has also been revised. If a bankruptcy occurs prior to expiration of the contract, the amount of the payout will be $1,000 per contract.
Initially, CBOE will offer ten single-name CEBO contracts for trading. Two of those contracts will be introduced on March 8, followed by eight on March 9:
Company Name
CEBO Ticker
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AK Steel Holding Corporation
Mar. 8
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Mar. 8
Arvinmeritor, Inc.
Mar. 9
American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc.
Mar. 9
Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc.
Mar. 9
Huntsman Corporation
Mar. 9
MBIA Inc.
Mar. 9
The PMI Group, Inc.
Mar. 9
Smithfield Foods, Inc.
Mar. 9
Tenet Healthcare Corporation
Mar. 9
For contract specifications and other information about CEBOs, see www.cboe.com/credit.
CBOE, the largest U.S. options exchange and creator of listed options, continues to set the bar for options trading through product innovation, trading technology and investor education. CBOE offers equity, index and ETF options, including proprietary products, such as S&P 500 options (SPX), the most active U.S. index option, and options on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX). Other products engineered by CBOE include equity options, security index options, LEAPS options, FLEX options, and benchmark products such as the CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index (BXM). CBOE's Hybrid Trading System incorporates electronic and open-outcry trading and is powered by CBOEdirect, a proprietary, state-of-the-art electronic platform that also supports the C2 Options Exchange (C2), CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE), CBOE Stock Exchange (CBSX) and OneChicago. CBOE is home to the world-renowned Options Institute and www.cboe.com, named "Best of the Web" for options information and education.
CBOE is regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), with all trades cleared by the AAA-rated Options Clearing Corporation (OCC).
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Personnel: Antonio Carlos Jobim--piano
& vocals; Paulo Jobim--guitar and vocals; Danilo Caymmi--flute
and vocals; Jaques Morelenbaum--cello; Sebastião
Neto--electric and upright bass; Paulo Braga--drums; other vocals by
Ana Jobim, Elizabeth Jobim, Maucha Adnet, Paula Morelenbaum, Simone
Stan Getz, "The Girl From Ipanema: The Bossa
Nova Years", Verve #823 611-2 (1988).[4 CD compilation
This set features tracks from "Getz/Gilberto",
"Getz/Almeida", "Getz Au Go Go" and other albums from the early
1960s. Includes compositions and performances by Jobim.
Various Artists, "Bossa Nova/Trinta Anos
Depois" Verve #826870 (1989).[CD Compilation]
[Original CD]
[2006 Japan CD Reissue]
[2008 German CD Reissue]
[2008 U.S. CD Reissue]
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Gal Costa, "Rio
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Antonio Carlos Jobim - Gal Costa, "Rio Revisited", Verve/Universal [Japan] #_________ (2006).[CD Reissue]
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Gal Costa, "Rio Revisited", Verve "Originals" Series [Germany] #CD 060251768030 (2008).[CD Reissue]
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Gal Costa, "Rio Revisited", Verve "Originals" Series #UCCU-3041 (2008).[CD Reissue]
Recorded from a live concert.
Personnel: Gal Costa, vocals; Antonio Carlos Jobim, vocals and piano; Maucha Adnet, vocals; Paulo Braga, drums; Danilo Caymmi, flute; Simone Caymmi, vocals; Ana Jobim, vocals; Elizabeth Jobim, vocals; Paulo Jobim, guitar & vocals; Jaques Morelenbaum, cello; Paula Morelenbaum; Sebastião Neto, bass.Producer: Jack Lewis.
Various Artists (including Antonio Carlos
Jobim), "Bossa Nova Brasil", Verve #314 515762-2 (1990).[CD
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(1990).[CD Compilation]
Various Artists, Compact Jazz Series, "Best of
Bossa Nova", Verve #833 289-2 (1990).[CD Compilation]


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[Washington, D.C., June 3. Image via Official White House Photostream]
[Washington, D.C., June 3. Image via Official White House Photostream]
In the clip at left, Good Morning America anchor Chris Cuomo interviews National Spelling Bee winner Kavya Shivashankar, who explains how she prepared for the bee. Cuomo asks Kavya's little sister about following in her footsteps, but she doesn't appreciate his early-morning perkiness after such a late night.
Last night, Kavya Shivashankar, an aspiring neurosurgeon from Olathe, Kansas, took home the trophy at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. At the age of 13, this was her last chance to win the title.
The lovely young woman at left is Kavya Shivashankar, who you may remember from this post. Anyway, Kavya - and a group of other smart, spirited young Americans - just finished up the Scripps National Spelling Bee preliminaries...and we've got a cute clip. (Added bonus: Kavya's sister makes an appearance.)
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Issue No. 11 - November (2010 vol. 43)
pp: 22-28
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2010.324
John C. Thomas , IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Thomas W. Malone , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Pirolli , Palo Alto Research Center
Robert Kraut , Carnegie Mellon University
Mary Lou Maher , US National Science Foundation
Judith Olson , University of California, Irvine
Technology-mediated social-participation systems, such as Wikipedia and TopCoder, allow a vast user base to collaborate to solve difficult problems. TMSP could be applied to many current social issues, but doing so requires new theory and infrastructure for social design.
technology-mediated social participation, social networks, social media, collaboratory
John C. Thomas, Thomas W. Malone, Peter Pirolli, Robert Kraut, Mary Lou Maher, Judith Olson, "Scientific Foundations: A Case for Technology- Mediated Social- Participation Theory", Computer, vol. 43, no. , pp. 22-28, November 2010, doi:10.1109/MC.2010.324


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Minnesota attorney general, two lawmakers warn of 'foreclosure consultant' scams
MOORHEAD - Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson and two state lawmakers stopped at the Moorhead Municipal Airport Friday to warn area residents about home "foreclosure consultant" scams.
She was accompanied by two Twin Cities-area lawmakers promoting legislation to require lenders to offer mortgage mediation before foreclosures.
Swanson said her office filed lawsuits against two Florida firms, IMC Financial Services and American Financial Corp (National Foreclosure Consulting Services), alleging they illegally charged up-front fees as high as $1,850, and failed to deliver on promised services to save homes from foreclosure.
"Nobody should ever pay a fee in advance," Swanson said, adding that a 2004 state law prohibits foreclosure consulting firms from charging fees until promised services have been performed.
She said the firms are "preying on people" throughout the sate who are struggling to pay their debts. "It's really kicking people when they're down," she said.
Swanson was joined by DFLers Sen. Ken Kelash, whose district includes Richfield, Bloomington and part of Minneapolis, and Rep. Debra Hilstrom, whose district includes Brooklyn Center and Brooklyn Park.
The lawmakers promoted the Homeowner-Lender Mediation Act, a bill now being carried in the House (HF354) and the Senate (SF340). It requires banks and other mortgage-holders to offer homeowners mediation before they begin foreclosures.
About 30,000 foreclosures are expected in Minnesota in 2009, Swanson said.
Kelash and Hilstrom said they hope the act will do for homeowners what the 1986 Farmer-Lender Mediation Act did to save 14,000 family farms from foreclosure during the farm crisis.
Fees to fund the mediation program would be rolled into home closing costs, and the program would have an end date of 2014, they said.
The program would require both parties to negotiation in good faith
Remedies could include:
- Adjusting interest rates or principal balances.
- Extending repayment periods.
- Modifying loan terms.
- Foreclosure would be deferred during mediation.
Hilstrom said the act has bipartisan support.


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DB2 memory and file cache performance tuning on Linux
DB2 performance optimization on the Linux platform
Database systems running on the Linux platform have become a foundation for critical business applications. DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) utilizes the Linux platform well by leveraging a designed feature set unique to this platform.
This article summarizes issues related to memory utilization and file caching on Linux. Learn about the advantages of specific DB2 features to best manage these resources from a DB2 database perspective.
Memory utilization on Linux
Let's start out by discussing a few terms and concepts that are important to understand when discussing memory utilization. First is the concept of a 32-bit address space, as opposed to a 64-bit address space. Every byte in memory has to have an "address" for a process to be able to locate it. The list of these addresses is known as the "address space." A single bit has two possible values and could refer to two possible addresses -- 2 bytes; 32 bits have 232 combinations and could address 4,294,967,296 bytes (4 GB), and 64 bits have 264 combinations and could address 16 exabytes.
Most modern non-64-bit systems have the ability to create an address space of 36 bits, yielding 64 GB of addressable memory. However, for details not available here, this is not available to every individual process but to the Linux OS, which creates a mapping of these addresses to addresses assigned to a process. The process addresses are still limited to 32 bits, yielding address spaces for individual processes in differing areas of memory. This allows systems with greater than 4 GB of memory to be utilized by many processes. However, if two or more processes want to communicate using shared memory, they need to have the same address space, thus limiting the addresses they can utilize. Systems utilizing 64 bits for the address space have virtually no limits.
The address space is not entirely devoted to a single process. Certain areas of the address space are limited to specific processes, such as the kernel. This yields approximately 2 GB of address space for DB2 and is the focus of this article.
Linux, under normal circumstances, uses a system file cache to buffer, read, and write requests from disk. Linux performs this task fairly aggressively, and you will quickly see a running system have very little unused/free memory. Memory allocated to the file cache can be reduced and given to requesting processes, reducing the amount of data being buffered; however, read and write requests still pass through the smaller file cache. The entire amount of memory allocated to all processes, kernel, and file cache is your total working set. If your entire working set exceeds the amount of physical RAM in the system, then Linux can use disk space as a virtual extension to RAM, known as the swap space. Naturally, reads and writes to this area are far slower than between areas of memory.
Memory utilization examples
Let's look at a couple of examples of memory utilization using the Linux
free command. The command displays the total amount of free, used physical, and swap memory in the system, as well as the buffers used by the kernel. We will be using the options
-m, which displays the values in megabytes, and
-o, which suppresses buffer information, allowing a more readable output. Figure 1 shows an example of the free command. The information displayed is as follows:
- a – total physical memory
- b – total used memory
- c – amount of free physical memory
- d – size of the file cache
- e – total size of the swap space
- f – swap space used
- g – swap space free
Figure 1. Free command example
I rebooted the system "wrightxe" shortly before taking the screen capture, yielding a system with a large percentage of the overall memory free (930 MB) and very little cached (28 MB). Figure 2 illustrates the aggressive nature of Linux file caching.
Figure 2. File cache example
I pumped the contents of a large file, DB2ESEV8.2.tar, to /dev/null (a virtual device that acts like a black hole, essentially discarding all writes). The size of the cache grew to 501 MB, roughly the size of the file I used in my test, 473 MB. In addition, used memory and free memory were modified by roughly the same amount.
When DB2 pulls data from disks, it places the data in a DB2 shared memory area. One purpose of the shared memory area is to act as a buffer, minimizing the necessity for further reads from disk. However, with Linux caching, you are essentially double buffering the data. One goal of DB2 memory tuning is to maximize the amount of memory allocated to DB2 buffers and minimize the amount cached by Linux, if in doing so increases memory available for DB2.
Figure 3 illustrates a system that is under-powered for the memory demands placed on it by running applications.
Figure 3. Under-powered system
The key is to look at the relationship of values
cached, and
swap used. The primary thing to note is that the working set was large enough to require 138 MB of swap space. This is a significant amount when compared to total memory. If the use of swap space is common or represents a significant portion of memory, you have either over-allocated memory to DB2 or other processes, or your machine is under-powered for the workload you are attempting to run.
One tool to determine how much memory DB2 is using is
db2mtrk, the DB2 memory tracker command. While this command has several options, we will only be looking at the
-d option, which shows database level memory, illustrated in Figure 4.
Figure 4. DB2 memory tracker
The output shows the memory usage of the SAMPLE database. If I had other databases, they would have been displayed as well. The largest values are usually assigned to
bph, the DB2 bufferpools. The output shows values for five bufferpools. In reality, the first bph represents the IBMDEFAULTBP, the only user defined bufferpool on the system. The other four bufferpools are "hidden" bufferpools, one for each DB2 page size (4 K, 8 K, 16 K, and 32 K) to ensure DB2 can run if the allocation of the user bufferpool fails. In this example, 201.3 MB have been allocated to the IBMDEFAULTBP, an over-allocation for a system with only 357 MB of memory. The DB2 memory tracker can display information on memory used by the instance, as well as DB2 agents.
Configuring Linux for DB2 UDB
One common question I receive is, "What Linux kernel or system tweaks do I need to make DB2 run well on Linux?" When I respond that this is not necessary and the stock kernel for supported distributions is what should be used, readers are surprised. The truth is, DB2 makes some kernel memory adjustments when it is started. DB2 probes the system to determine the current configuration. The following is the output of the probe on my system as written to the diagnostic log file.
Listing 1. Probe output
System: Linux wrightxe 6 2 i686 CPU: total:1 online:1 Physical Memory(MB): total:1013 free:326 Virtual Memory(MB): total:3006 free:2319 Swap Memory(MB): total:1993 free:1993 Kernel Params: msgMaxMessageSize:8192 msgMsgMap:16384 msgMaxQueueIDs:16 msgNumberOfHeaders:16384 msgMaxQueueSize:16384 msgMaxSegmentSize:16 shmMax:33554432 shmMin:1 shmIDs: 4096 shmSegments:4096 semMap:32000 semIDs:128 semNum:32000 semUndo:32000 semNumPerID:250 semOps:32 semUndoSize:20 semMaxVal:32767 semAdjustOnExit:32767
In addition to information on the overall memory usage of the system, DB2 determines the values of several kernel parameters. DB2 then adjusts some of these parameters, also noted in the DB2 log.
Listing 2. Parameter adjustments
2005-07-20-09.41.35.723122-300 E5444G363 LEVEL: Warning PID : 9905 TID : 332645760 PROC : db2sysc INSTANCE: db2inst1 NODE : 000 FUNCTION: DB2 UDB, base sys utilities, DB2main, probe:9 MESSAGE : ADM0506I DB2 has automatically updated the "semmni" kernel parameter from "128" to the recommended value "1024". 2005-07-20-09.41.35.732485-300 E5808G362 LEVEL: Warning PID : 9905 TID : 332645760 PROC : db2sysc INSTANCE: db2inst1 NODE : 000 FUNCTION: DB2 UDB, base sys utilities, DB2main, probe:9 MESSAGE : ADM0506I DB2 has automatically updated the "msgmni" kernel parameter from "16" to the recommended value "1024". 2005-07-20-09.41.35.732688-300 E6171G373 LEVEL: Warning PID : 9905 TID : 332645760 PROC : db2sysc INSTANCE: db2inst1 NODE : 000 FUNCTION: DB2 UDB, base sys utilities, DB2main, probe:9 MESSAGE : ADM0506I DB2 has automatically updated the "shmmax" kernel parameter from "33554432" to the recommended value "268435456".
If you have already adjusted the parameters to suit your needs, perhaps for an application already running on the system, DB2 may not adjust these values. This will also be noted in the DB2 diagnostic log. Refer to the online DB2 UDB Information center section on modifying kernel parameters (Linux) for information on how to check these parameters and set them if you do not want DB2 to make these adjustments automatically. (See Related topics.)
DB2 automatically makes further system adjustments to maximize the use of the system memory. DB2 needs a contiguous address space for the shared memory area. The kernel, however, maps the attachment address for shared libraries to an address somewhere in the middle of the address space, limiting the contiguous area. DB2 will automatically move this map, allowing a larger contiguous area. This will allow an additional 500 MB of memory available for database shared memory, pushing total utilization slightly above 2 GB to about 2.2 GB. This is accomplished by modifying the mapped_base address, which specifies the attachment address of shared libraries. This will only affect the DB2 process address space and not the system as a whole. The following entry in the DB2 diagnostic log describes this event on my system:
Listing 3. Further system adjustments
2005-07-20-09.41.35.732853-300 E6545G433 LEVEL: Warning PID : 9905 TID : 332645760 PROC : db2sysc INSTANCE: db2inst1 NODE : 000 FUNCTION: DB2 UDB, base sys utilities, DB2main, probe:9 MESSAGE : ADM0506I DB2 has automatically updated the "mapped_base" kernel parameter from "0x40000000(hex) 1073741824(dec)" to the recommended value "0x10000000(hex) 268435456(dec)".
DB2 configuration tuning
The following DB2 features are all supported as of the latest release of DB2 V8.2 through fix pack 9 (FP9), DB2 V8.2.2. While many of these features have been implemented in earlier V8.1 releases, I will assume for discussion purposes that the system is at this release level of DB2.
DB2 Asynchronous I/O (AIO) for Linux is only partially related to memory utilization. AIO allows processes to perform other work while waiting for an I/O request to return. DB2 page cleaners can make use of AIO to more effectively use system resources. To use AIO, library libaio-0.3.96 or later must be installed and your kernel must support AIO. Kernels 2.6 and above support AIO; you will need to check with your distribution vendor for support if running a 2.4 kernel. DB2 page cleaners essentially have the responsibility of removing dirty or unneeded data from the bufferpools to disk. This ensures there is room in the bufferpool for new pages. To enable AIO on Linux, you must set the DB2 registry variable DB2LINUXAIO (using the command shown below) and restart DB2.
db2set DB2LINUXAIO=true
AIO is most effective in OLTP environments. If your system does not support AIO, then DB2 will not implement this feature. Refer to the proper section of the release notes for further details. (See Related topics.)
Direct I/O
DB2 bufferpools and the Linux file cache perform largely the same function; that is, cache a copy of data read from disk. As noted earlier, the flow of reads under normal circumstances is to read into the file cache and then copy into the bufferpool. The result is that system cycles are used to make the copy, as well as maintain two areas of memory largely performing the same function. Prior to the Linux 2.6 kernel, file caching on a Linux system could go awry, using a huge number of cycles trying to manage the file cache.
Direct I/O solves this issue by directing reads to be made directly from disk into DB2 memory areas, bypassing the file cache entirely. This feature is available on a tablespace-by-tablespace basis, effectively allowing some data in DB2 to use file caching and other data to bypass it. The tablespace option
NO FILE SYSTEM CACHING can be specified during the creation of the tablespace or altered to include this option. The following example shows how to create or alter a tablespace to use this option.
Listing 4. Create or alter tablespace to use NO FILE SYSTEM CACHING option
CONNECT TO SAMPLE; CREATE REGULAR TABLESPACE TESTBSP MANAGED BY SYSTEM USING ('/data/') NO FILE SYSTEM CACHING; ALTER TABLESPACE TESTTBSP2 NO FILE SYSTEM CACHING;
This option is available for all DB2 tablespaces, including system and temporary tablespaces and database managed tablespaces. The only exception is Linux raw device tablespace containers, which inherently bypass the file cache. To set up raw devices on Linux refer to "Linux raw devices" in the DB2 Information Center. (See Related topics.) LOB and LONG VARCHAR data fields will not typically benefit from direct I/O and will continue to use the file cache. It is recommended for database managed tablespaces to split regular data from LOB data, placing LOB data in a large tablespace.
Vector I/O
Read requests typically require "x" bytes to be placed in a single I/O buffer. This I/O buffer is a contiguous area of memory and, if very large, may have to be broken down into smaller chunks and copied into other areas of memory to be used by an application, such as DB2. For example, DB2 may choose to pre-fetch multiple extents of data into the bufferpool in response to a query. An extent by default is 32 (4 KB) pages. From here, the extent is broken up into 4 KB chunks (the individual pages) and copied to the bufferpool.
Vector I/O allows the allocation of smaller I/O buffers; in this case, of size 4 KB. A single vector read fills these buffers, which directly relate to pages in the bufferpool, eliminating the need to perform the copies. To enable Vector I/O on Linux, you must set the DB2 registry variable
DB2_SCATTERED_IO (shown in the command below) and restart DB2.
db2set DB2_SCATTERED_IO=ON
For more information on DB2 Vector I/O refer to "DB2 Vector I/O" in the DB2 Information Center.
DB2 is tightly integrated with Linux and leverages the very latest Linux memory technologies. Tuning DB2 memory usage on Linux should not be a daunting task. DB2 provides features unique to Linux to make the best use of this system resource. The points discussed in this article provide a good starting point for producing a well performing DB2/Linux system.
Downloadable resources
Related topics
- "The DB2 UDB memory model" (developerWorks, June 2004): Learn more about how DB2 uses memory.
- "High-performance Linux clustering" (developerWorks, September 2005): Learn the basics of Linux clustering, then move on to high-performance clusters and find out why Linux is everyone's favorite clustering platform.
- Memory address (Wikipedia): Gain a greater understanding of memory addressing concepts.
- Physical Address Extension (Wikipedia): Gain a greater understanding of how physical address extension allows for more memory to be used in 32-bit systems.
- DB2 UDB for Linux page: Learn more about DB2 UDB on the Linux platform.
- The DB2 Information Center: This online resource is your source for all kinds of information about DB2 UDB.
- IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition V8.2 for Linux: Download a trial version from developerWorks.
- IBM trial products for download: Build your next development project on Linux with IBM trial software, available for download directly from developerWorks.


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A man and woman who led Chula Vista officers on a high-speed pursuit up and down Interstate 805 early Thursday were arrested with a pistol and a sketch of the inside layout of a drug store in their car, police said.
"The sketch indicates they may have been thinking of breaking into the CVS," said police spokesman Bernard Gonzales.
Gonzales said a man and a woman were parked in a car in the CVS lot, facing the closed drug store near C Street, shortly after midnight. The man was in the driver's seat. When he saw a patrol car, he drove away in the 1992 Buick LaSabre with the female passenger.
The Buick ran a red light a few blocks away at Brisbane Street. An officer went in pursuit as the driver accelerated away, with the car getting on north I-805 and traveling at speeds up to 100 mph, Gonzales said.
The driver got off the freeway, then came back on again south of Telegraph Canyon Road and headed north again on I-805, again at speeds sometimes in excess of 100 mph.
He stopped the car in the middle of the freeway just before the state Route 54 interchange and ran across the northbound I-805 lanes.
Officers pursued, and one shot the man with a Taser. Gonzales said the driver was taken to a hospital complaining of back pain.
The female passenger reportedly struggled with officers but also was arrested.
Gonzales said police found a pistol and the drug-store sketch in the car. The suspects may have been under the influence of narcotics, he said.


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Colic can be a real conundrum to new parents. When your baby cries and carries on for long periods of time, and you have no clue how to ease her distress, it's disturbing. Since the beginning of time, experts having been trying to get to the root cause of this common infant affliction. And so far, there hasn't been much consensus.
Now, in the effort to find an explanation, a new study published in the April 17, 2013 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, has found that children and adolescents who suffer from migraine headaches are more likely to have exhibited colicky symptoms as babies.
Researchers looked at over 200 children, ages 6 to 18 who were admitted to one of three European hospital emergency rooms and were diagnosed with migraines. The patients were then investigated for their history of infantile colic. Their results were compared with other emergency room patients who suffered either minor trauma or tension-type headaches.
What Silvia Romanello, M.D., of the APHP-Hospital Robert Debré, Paris, and colleagues found was that children with migraines were more likely to have experienced infantile colic than those without migraines (72.6 percent vs. 26.5 percent). An association between infantile colic and either migraines without aura (73.9 percent vs. 26.5 percent) or migraines with aura (69.7 percent vs. 26.5 percent) was also confirmed. This association was not found for children with tension-type headaches.
The authors speculated about the association between the disorders: "Infants with colic might experience a similar sensitization of the perivascular nerve terminals in the gut, although this hypothesis needs to be tested."
Previous studies have linked a babies' colic with their mothers' migraines. This new colic-migraine connection warrants further study, say authors.
Do you have any experience with migraine? Colic? Do you think the two could be related?
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About Bistro du Midi
Bistro du Midi's cuisine features the simple yet refined flavors of Provence and the South of France. We feature an extensive award-winning wine list, and offer it all in a relaxed environment overlooking Boston's beautiful Public Garden. A street level cafe features floor-to-ceiling windows, and in the spring and summer our patio provides some of the most optimal al fresco dining in the city.
Boston, MA 02116
Dining Style:
Casual Elegant
French, Provencal
Hours of Operation:
Reservations are only accepted for the main dining room.
Lunch and dinner in the Cafe served on a walk-in basis.
5:00pm - 10:00pm Monday to Sunday
11:00pm - 3:00pm Saturday and Sunday
Cafe Lunch/Dinner
Our Cafe Menu is served ALL DAY Monday through Friday beginning at 11:30am, and beginning at 3:00pm Saturday and Sunday.
(Served ONLY in the Cafe and at the bar, until 10:00 Sunday - Wednesday, until 11:00 Thusday - Saturday)
Cross Street:
Dress Code:
Smart Casual
Price Range:
$31 to $50
Payment Options
AMEX, Diners Club, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
Phone Number:
(617) 426-7878
Parking Details:
Valet begins at 5:00. $18 per car, cash only.
Public Transit:
Bistro du Midi sits directly across from Boston's Public Garden half a block from the Arlington T station on the Green Line, on the outskirts of the fabulous Back Bay neighborhood.
Executive Chef:
Josue Louis
Private Party Facilities:
Our private Wine Room can accommodate groups from 10 to 30 behind handsome sliding barn doors. The room features a stunning view of Boston's public garden, original sketches by Henri Matisse against deep red walls and a window into our upstairs wine cellar. The Wine Room is a perfect option for intimate family gatherings, business meetings and celebrations of any type.
Our semi-private Matisse Alcove sits just off the main dining room with three walls around the table and the fourth side open to the dining room, providing parties of 6 to 10 guests with a more intimate dining experience while still allowing guests to enjoy the energy of the restaurant.
Private Party Contact:
Sheila Marand (firstname.lastname@example.com): (617) 426-7878
Banquet, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Chef's Table, Fireplace, Full Bar, Non-Smoking, Outdoor dining, Private Room, View, Weekend Brunch, Wheelchair Access, Wine
Special Events & Promotions:
As a way of sharing Bistro du Midi's passion for wine with everyone, we frequently host guest sommelier nights and private wine dinners hosted by winemakers, vineyard owners and other wine industry professionals. Please visit the Events & News section of www.bistrodumidi.com for details and updates.
Bistro du Midi Ratings and Reviews
The entire experience was fantastic! Everything from meal to ambiance. We were so lucky to have Lyndon! He's incredible and made our meal so enjoyable and fun. Highly, highly recommend! What a special treat for our dear family who was visiting from out of town!! Thank you Lyndon and bistro!
Overall lovely restaurant and meal. Service was impeccable and the staff was very friendly and knowledgeable. Our appetizers were delicious as was the souffle for dessert. My only criticism was that my halibut was under seasoned. It was very bland and ordinary. For a french bistro we were expecting more from the sauces and there was barely any sauce on my plate, same with my husbands duck. Too bad other wise it would have gotten 5 stars.
We sat upstairs, which is lovely, and had the 5 course tasting menus with the wine pairings. It was delightful. From the selections of wines to the creative French cuisine I loved it all. If you want the whole experience do the tasting menu. Amazingly we have eaten downstairs for lunch which is also great but more casual.
Quiet and reserved upstairs dining room with view of the Public Garden. A little pricey but main course of duck was outstanding and fish very good. Desserts--ice creams and a blackberry clafoutis were excellent. Best reserved for a special event given the cost
With our reservation, we were seated the middle of a tight two-person banquette, between two other couples in close proximity and quite near a very loud group at a large table. This group was so loud, we could not converse. We asked to be moved. The offer was a high top table next to the stairwell. There were many other tables available, so we asked for one of those. That is where we should have been placed at first, since those tables were unoccupied during our entire stay. Service was very slow, but when the food arrived, it was excellent. The wine list is brief, but has some worthwhile selections. The open kitchen (behind glass) is fun to watch. One job of the maitre d' should be to measure the level of dissonance in order to satisfy all of the diners. The obnoxious noises constantly made by the very loud group was disturbing most of the other diners in the restaurant until they finally left. Restaurant menus should also indicate which plates can be made vegan and/or gluten-free for those who require such things. The waiter here had to check repeatedly with the kitchen for these requirements.
Went for Sunday brunch and they placed us next to a very large, rowdy party when the entire upstairs dining room was empty. Weird.
Bouillabaisse Bloody Mary was fair, not as delicious as it sounds.
Bellini was too sweet, but good all the same.
Cheese board was very delicious, but the server and runner had a difficult time telling us which cheese was what and brought it out with the wrong cheeses many times.
Third time and its still a charm! Tried brunch this time and was just as pleased as my first two visits over the past two years! The croque monsieur was decadent, the pancakes my daughter ordered divine! Loved their signature champagne cocktail last visit so ordered again! I prefer to sit downstairs as I like to watch people walk by and see the Boston Commons comings and goings but would recommend the second floor as well for a more romantic atmosphere! There are large windows overlooking the park offering beautiful views! There is a elevator if not able to take the grand staircase up. The only negative to this visit was the lack of the server bringing the requested syrup for the pancakes when requested. First I should not have had to ask and second once I had it should have been brought right away. Instead she never did and I had to ask another staff member. Still I would highly recommend this restaurant! Out of 5 stars a solid 4.9 rating in my opinion!
We dine fairly frequently at Bistro du Midi because the food is very good. This was our first foray into brunch and it was rather disappointing. The bread was OK but uninteresting and served without butter. The croque madame was basically a ham and cheese sandwich with an egg- no yummy bechamel sauce. Worse was my Benedict which had solidly hard eggs. I rarely send food back but this time I had to, and the replacement was fine. By then my companions had almost finished. We were given one complimentary dessert between us to compensate, which we appreciated.
The restaurant was not at al busy so there was no reason for errors and not what we expect.
The occasion was to celebrate my wife's birthday. We have been to Bistro du Midi a few times. It may have been a coincidence, but we have been seated at the same table each time. We now consider that "our" table.
We enjoyed our pre-dinner cocktails.
We agreed that our meals (Rib-Eye Steak and Sea Bass) were both fabulous and would highly recommend each of them.
I have included a picture of the Chocolate Soufflé that we had for dessert. I liked that Happy Birthday was written in frosting on her plate.
We will certainly enjoy our next meal at Bistro du Midi!
The restaurant has a great setting and view of the Boston Public Gardens across the street. Our server was very pleasant and helpful. The food was mediocre however and the portions were ridiculously small especially for the price. We do not recommend it nor would we return.
a great night out with a few couples - being a vegan - it is always greatly appreciated when the Chef and waitstaff will accommodate a vegan diet for off menu meals. I did indicate 1 vegan diet in the party when making the reservation - always good to give them advance information - better for everyone - accommodate a vegan diet and creating a flavorful and seasonal dish -
Everyone had amazing dishes - the Fish was light and tender and the duck was cooked to perfection - beautiful presentation
a nice variety to the menu for entree choices and we will be back
Day time - a great burger in the lower level bar area with dining seats and when the weather is nice - street seating.
We always dine upstairs which is the formal dining room. They have a bar downstairs that serves more casual food and more of a bar scene. Upstairs is excellent with fabulous meal options which they will also do wine glass pairings as well as they have an excellent tasting menu. I really love this place.
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C4205™ User Guide 2.4 GHz Cordless Telephone Featuring Digital Clarity Power Technology ™...
TABLE OF CONTENTS Important Safety Instructions ... 3 Features ... 8 Choosing a Location ... 10 Telephone Installation ... 12 Handset Battery ... 14 Telephone Handset Features ... 17 Telephone Base Features ... 20 Using Your Telephone ... 24 Memory Storage ... 27 Maintenance and Care ...
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS When using your telephone equipment, basic safety precautions should always be followed to reduce the risk of fire, electric shock and injury to persons including the following: 1. Read and understand all instructions. 2. Follow all warnings and instructions marked on the telephone.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS 8. Do not cover the slots and openings on this telephone. This telephone should never be placed near or over a radiator or heat register. This telephone should not be placed in a built-in installation unless proper ventilation is provided. 9.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS 13. To reduce the risk of electrical shock, do not take this phone apart. Opening or removing covers may expose you to dangerous voltages or other risks. Incorrect reassembly can cause electric shock when the appliance is subsequently used.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS F. If the telephone exhibits a distinct change in performance. 15. Never install telephone wiring during a lightning storm. 16. Never install telephone jacks in wet locations unless the jack is specifically designed for wet locations. 17. Never touch uninsulated telephone wires or terminals unless the telephone line has been disconnected at the network interface.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS 1. Use only the approved battery pack in the handset of your cordless phone. For Handset Unit: 3.6V 600mAHr NiMH Rechargeable Battery Sanik Battery Co. Ltd.: 3SNAAA60HSJ1 GPI International Ltd.: GP60AAAH3BMJZ For Base Unit: Four (4) AA alkaline batteries 2.
FEATURES Telephone Base 1. Handset Page 2. Ringer Volume 3. Ringer Style 4. Ringer On/Off 5. Antenna/Visual Ringer 6. Boost On/Off 7. Pulse/Tone...
Handset 1. Neckloop Jack 2. Handset Volume 3. Boost 4. Dial Pad 5. Emergency Buttons 6. Talk 7. Channel 8. Memory FEATURES 9. Flash Mute Redial/Pause Handset Ringer Off/ Vibe/On Handset Tone Belt Clip Headset Jack Antenna/Visual Ringer...
CHOOSING A LOCATION 1. This phone requires a modular phone jack (RJ11C) and a standard 120V AC wall outlet. 2. Plug the AC Adapter directly into outlet. 3. Do not plug other appliances into the same outlet or have outlet controlled by a wall switch.
CONNECTING YOUR TELEPHONE Carefully remove your cordless telephone from its box. If there is any visible damage, do not attempt to operate this equipment. Return it to the place of purchase. Check to be sure that you have all items that come with your telephone.
TABLE/DESK TOP INSTALLATION CAUTION: Disconnect the telephone line cord before connecting or disconnecting the battery backup in the wall mount bracket. 1. Plug one end of the supplied modular telephone line cord into the jack marked TEL located on the back of the telephone base as shown in the diagram.
type of service. 8. Place handset in the cradle to begin initial charging. WALL MOUNTING INSTALLATION CAUTION: Disconnect the telephone line cord before connecting or disconnecting the battery backup in the wall mount bracket. The base unit may be mounted on a standard wall plate.
base of the phone downward to secure it on the wall. 5. Plug the adapter into a standard AC power (electrical) outlet. 6. Press and lift out the handset holder tab, turn it around so the narrow tab end extends out and slide back into its slot.
Handset Battery must be connected before beginning initial charging To Install a New Battery 1. Remove battery cover 2. Install new battery 3. Connect battery pack 4. Replace battery cover 5. Charge for 12 hours before first use Handset Battery Charging 1.
Low Battery When the handset battery gets low, there will be two (2) beeps every thirty (30) seconds. If the battery becomes low while you are on a call, you will be disconnected after about two (2) minutes. Terminate the call and recharge the battery. To recharge the battery pack, place the handset in the base.
TELEPHONE HANDSET Digital Clarity Power Technology With Digital Clarity Power, the high frequency sounds are amplified more than the low frequency sounds so words are not just louder, but clearer and easier to understand. It also provides intelligent amplification to make soft sounds audible, while keeping loud sounds bearable.
The dial controls the level of volume the handset and headset receive. The volume dial provides up to 15 decibels of volume before the CLARITY POWER button is activated. Once the CLARITY POWER button is pressed, the C4205 will provide up to 50 decibels of amplification.
Headset Jack You can use this telephone hands-free when you install a 2.5mm headset (purchased separately). To install, plug the headset into the HEADSET JACK at the top of the handset. While in headset mode, the volume of headset is controlled by the telephone and the handset's earpiece and microphone are disconnected.
TELEPHONE BASE Ringer Volume The base ringer volume adjustments are located on the side of the telephone base. Pressing the UP ( ) key on the base increases the ringer sound by one level while pressing the DOWN ) key reduces the sound by one level. There are a total of six levels from maximum to minimum.
OFF, the Boost function will be OFF every time a call starts, and the user will need to press the BOOST Clarity Power button in order to gain the extra level of amplification. If the phone hangs up, the Clarity Pow- er will reset to OFF.
Flash The FLASH button is activated to use custom calling services such as Call Waiting or Three-Way Calling. Please contact your local telephone company for information on these services. Mute The MUTE button allows the user to conduct a private conversation that you do not want the person on the other end to hear.
To Install Battery Back-up Batteries 1. Disconnect telephone line cord and remove desk/ wall mount bracket from telephone base. 2. Disconnect battery back-up connector from the telephone base. 3. Install four (4) AA Alkaline batteries with negative (-) end of battery touching the spring. 4.
After installing the four (4) AA Alkaline batteries please refer to the chart below: Power Supply AC adapter and good batteries AC adapter and no batteries Power failure and good batteries Power failure and bad batteries USING YOUR TELEPHONE Placing a Call 1.
If the handset is in the cradle, simply lift the handset to answer. Note: Refer to BOOST Clarity Power and Volume Control for information on adjusting volume controls on Page 15. Last Number Redial The last number dialed (up to 32 digits) is stored in the redial memory until another number is dialed.
Temporary Tone If you have rotary (pulse) dial service, you can change from pulse to touch tone (tone) during a call. 1. Make phone call and wait until it is connected. 2. Press the * key. Keys pressed after this are sent as tone signals.
Channel Operation The C4205 cordless telephone automatically searches and selects the clearest of 40 channels when it is being used. If interference develops on the line, pressing this button will move to another channel. Security Code The security code prevents your cordless phone conversations from being accessed by a phone on a different line.
Adding a Memory Location 1. Unit must be in standby mode only. 2. Press the MEM button. 3. Enter the telephone number you wish to store. 4. Press the MEM button. 5. Press the number on the dial pad that you wish to store the number to.
3. Enter the telephone number you wish to store. 4. Press the MEM button. 5. Press the emergency button on the dial pad that you wish to store the number to. 6. A long beep will indicate the programming process is complete. Dialing an EMERGENCY Number 1.
TROUBLESHOOTING The unit will not operate/no dial tone: • Verify the TALK Button is lit. • Verify the AC Adapter is securely plugged into AC outlet, the base and the telephone. • Verify the telephone line cord is securely plugged into the wall jack and the telephone.
plugged into the wall jack and the telephone. • Make sure you are in the usable range of the base station. • You may have too many extensions on your line. Try unplugging a few devices. Noise, Static, Interference or Other Calls Heard while Using the Handset: •...
• If necessary, replace the handset battery. (See Handset Battery Charging) Difficulty in Placing or Receiving Calls: • Move closer to the base and try again. • If moving closer does not work, you may have lost the security code. •...
4289 Bonny Oaks Drive, Suite 106 Chattanooga, TN 37406 1-800-552-3368 www.clarityproducts.com Made in China ©2005-2007 Clarity, a Division of Plantronics, Inc. All rights reserved. Clarity, Clarity Professional, C4205, Digital Clarity Power and DCP are trademarks or registered trademarks of Plantronics, Inc.


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Emirates Durham ICG
Durham Dynamos lost to Notts Outlaws by seven wickets at Emirates Durham ICG on Sunday after being put into bat first
The Dynamos posted 114-5 in their twenty overs with new signing Jo Myburgh top scoring with 45 and Gordon Muchall contributing 23.
Notts Outlaws reached passed the total with seven wickets in hand and 3.4 overs to spare, with Graham Onions. Mitchell Claydon and Scott Borthwick each taking one wicket.
At the close of play Jo Myburgh said, "It was hard work out there, having lost four very important wickets but in the end I had a nice partnership with Muchy but if we could've got to 130 we might have given them a better game.
"If we won the toss we would have put them in first so perhaps the wicket did get better during the day, sometimes this happens in t20, you've got to recover, you can't dwell on it.
"I was fortunate enough to speak to Benki and come up and play in the trial last week, played quite well and I've got a good opportunity here. I just want to enjoy it, perform well and I want the team to win. If I can contribute in any way, that would be great."


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CAMP PENDLETON -- Marines practiced a mission Monday at Camp Pendleton that they have been rehearsing more than 50 years -- the beach invasion.
"It dates back to World War II when Marines were doing amphibious assaults on islands in the Pacific," said Cpl. Nathan Ferbert, a combat correspondent with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit. "The idea is to secure an entire beachhead to allow follow-on forces."
Two Cobra attack helicopters flew in just above the beach bluffs about 2 p.m. to kick off the mock assault. Then a dozen twin-rotored CH-46 helicopters came in carrying troops from ship to shore. Next, a dozen amphibious armored vehicles lumbered ashore and onto the beach, as various other landing craft and military vehicles joined the choreographed show of force.
Training at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base has continued as scheduled since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the East Coast. U.S. Marines are expected to play a small role, if any, in the unfolding military action against Afghanistan. About 2,100 Camp Pendleton troops in the 15th MEU are on Navy ships in the nearby Arabian Sea.
Ferbert's expeditionary unit is about halfway through a six-month training cycle that will prepare the unit to relieve the 15th MEU early next year. Camp Pendleton has three expeditionary units, including the 11th MEU that returned in August from its most recent six-month deployment.
Each of the base's three expeditionary units rotates through a cycle of six months regrouping, then six months training and then six months deployed to the Western Pacific and Arabian Sea. One unit is on duty at any given time. Marines in the on-duty unit are trained for dozens of missions, ranging from civilian hostage rescues to the vintage beach invasion.
Each expeditionary unit has about 2,100 Marines in an assortment of infantry, artillery, aircraft and other combat and support duties. The entire unit travels aboard three Navy ships run by between 1,500 and 1,600 sailors.
Monday's beach invasion concluded about two weeks of training with three Navy ships that will carry the Marines on their deployment, said Staff Sgt. Stephen Gude, a unit spokesman. The ships -- the USS Bonhomme Richard, the USS Ogden and the USS Pearl Harbor -- are called a Navy "amphibious ready group."
"This is the first at-sea period for this MEU," Gude said.
Monday's mock assault at Red Beach, about halfway up the base's 17-mile coastline, began with flights of Marine jets and helicopters over the beach, then amphibious assault craft launched from the USS Ogden several miles out at sea.
The slow-moving, tracked assault craft are "like tanks that float," Ferbert said. Each craft carries about a dozen armed Marines prepared to leap out and fight on the beach or up to several miles inland.
The job of the Marines in the tracked vehicles is to clear the way for larger assault craft, support vehicles and other invasion forces, he said.
Contact staff writer Phil Diehl at (760) 901-4087 or email@example.com.


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Investigating accessibility indicators for feedback from a travel to a land use model
Activity locations such as work locations or leisure facilities are not uniformly distributed geographically. Also, the travel access to different locations is not uniform. It is plausible to assume that locations with easier access to other activity locations are more attractive than locations with less access. In consequence, urban simulation models such as UrbanSim use accessibility measures, such as ``number of jobs with 30 minutes by car', for several of their submodels. A problem, however, is that accessibility variables are not easy to compute within UrbanSim, for two reasons: 1) UrbanSim does not contain a travel model, and in consequence is not able to compute by itself the congestion effects resulting from land use decisions 2) The travel times are fed back from the travel model in the form of zone-to-zone travel time matrices. As is well known, such matrices grow quadratically in the number of zones. This limits the number of attributes that can be passed, for example different values for different times-of-day and/or for different activity purposes. These issues could be solved within UrbanSim, but only with considerable implementation effort. For that reason, it is important to consider how accessibility measures could be fed back from a travel model to UrbanSim. The present study will look at the question in how far location-based accessibility measures that are computed in the travel model and then fed back to UrbanSim could be used for this purposes. Those accessibility measures are no longer measures belonging to pairs of locations, but just belong to one location; a typical representative is a logsum term. In consequence, the number of entries now grows linearly in the number of locations, allowing much more freedom both in the number of considered locations and in the number of attributes that could be attached to every location that is considered in this way. This paper will address issues such as different spatial resolutions of such accessibility measures, comparisons between different accessibility measures, and computing times.
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Scotland and Wales U21s victorious
February 4, 2000
Scotland's Under-21s ran riot with an 11-try demolition job against their Italian counterparts at the Stadio Communale in Frascati.
Italy took an early lead with a penalty from Danilo Carpente but the Scots quickly got into their stride and Melrose winger Bruce Ruthven ran in a hat-trick of tries.
The hat-trick try was converted by Calum MacRae, who added a penalty to give Scotland a 20-3 lead.
By half-time the young Scots led 41-3 thanks to further tries from number eight Simon Taylor, centre Ian MacInroy and full back Barry Irving, all converted by MacRae.
Italy opened the second half with a try from Carlo Festuccia converted by Carpente but the Scots again took over.
Tries were scored by scrum-half Ross Blake, McInroy, lock Tom Palmer, flanker Macfadyen and MacRae, who converted two tries, with one conversion from Irving.
"We needed to get our campaign off to a good start, and this was exactly what was required," said Scotland Under-21 manager Alastair Cranston.
Meanwhile, Neath fly-half Cerith Rees kicked his seventh and last penalty straight and low into a gusting wind to earn Wales' youngsters victory with just three minutes to spare at Llandovery.
France were their own enemies in the second half as they failed to take advantage of the strong wind.
But the Welsh forwards, well led by Newport number eight Alix Popham, defended with huge determination and the accurate Rees did the rest.
At wet and windy Church Bank the crowd, which included French rugby union president Bernard Lapasset and ex-international coaches Jean-Claude Skrela and Pierre Villepreux.
The game was played under the old laws after referee Andy Ireland (from Scotland) had received no advice from his union on the application of the new ones.
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Systematische Darstellung von Effizienzinstrumenten und Bewertung ihrer politischen Anschlussfähigkeit an verschiedene Regierungskonstellationen einerseits und Stakeholder-Gruppen andererseits
The existing measures in Germany are not sufficient to meet the efficiency targets of the Energy Concept and the requirements of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive. On behalf of the European Climate Foundation, Ecologic Institute has compared essential proposals aimed at increasing energy efficiency and deduced possible political demands. This short study was presented on December 2013 in the workshop "Energy Efficiency Models and EU Energy Efficiency Directive: Consensus for a Stronger Energy Efficiency Policy in Germany" in Berlin. The summary of the short study is available for download.
The comparative analysis included eight proposals concerning efficiency instruments that cover the electricity and the heat sector. One half aims at implementing Art. 7 of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive, which requires Member States to introduce energy efficiency obligations schemes or other equivalent targeted policies. The other half covers the particularly important issue of modernising insulation in buildings. On the basis of the comparative analysis, three alternative demands to introduce particular instruments were proposed.


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POMFRET, N.Y., Jan. 8 (UPI) -- A town councilor in New York who wore a pasta colander on his head when he took the oath of office said it was a statement about religious freedom.
Christopher Schaeffer, who donned the kitchen utensil when he took the oath of office as a Pomfret Town Council member Tuesday afternoon, said he is a minister in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a tongue-in-cheek group opposed to the teaching of intelligent design and creationism in public schools, the (Dunkirk) Observer reported Wednesday.
"It's just a statement about religious freedom," he said. "It's a religion without any dogma."
Schaeffer said several church members, who are called Pastafarians, were arrested at a Russian parade last summer on charges of organizing an unsanctioned rally because they "offended the Orthodox Church."
"Somebody called the cops, and the cops came and arrested them," he said.