March Telecast Schedule for The Economic Report Featuring BSP!

Milwaukee CNN Headline News through Charter Cable

 

Saturday           3-21-2009  at 8:24 AM

Saturday           3-21-2009  at 8:54 AM

Saturday           3-21-2009  at 9:54 AM

Saturday           3-21-2009  at 10:24 AM

 

New York CNN Headline News through Time Warner Cable

Thursday          3-26-2009 at 9:54 PM

Friday               3-27-2009 at 6:54 PM

Friday               3-27-2009 at 8:54 PM

 

Greater Boston  CNN Headline News through Comcast Cable

 

Wednesday        3-25-2009  at 10:24 AM

Wednesday        3-25-2009  at 10:54 AM

Wednesday        3-25-2009  at 2:24 PM

Wednesday        3-25-2009  at 2:54 PM

Checking Your Progress 

1. Eat Healthy
   • Avoid chain restaurants for lunches and dinners.
   • Time can be a factor when thinking of nourishment and sometimes unavoidable.
   • If someone else is cooking your meals 5-6 times a day, think about alternatives. Salad, rice or vegetables instead of fries or onion rings.
   • Eat half your food and save the other half for another meal.
   • Avoid salting your food. Salt content is unusually high when you don't cook your own meals.
2. Lose Weight
   • Avoid chewing gum before meals.
   • The chewing motion stimulates digestion and prepares the stomach for food, making you hungry.
   • Chew gum afterword to digest your food quicker and burn calories.
3. Get to gym more often
   • Now that the weather is getting nicer, prepare yourself for the beach by getting rid of the extra holiday/winter pounds put on by the parties and "human hibernation" the winter brings upon people.
4. Refine my annual planning and forecasting process
   • National sales have been notably down this season. Did you have a plan in place that allowed you to forecast your position depending on your market niche?
   • Using IBM Cognos Analyst's BIF @FORECAST function, one would be able to produce a rolling forecast based on actual and forecast data for future months.
   • For more information on this functionality, refer to pg. 383 of the Analyst (version 8.3) User's Guide or e-mail us at newsletter@brightstarpartners.com.

How are you doing on your resolu

tions for this year? Have you kept them? Have you started them? Early planning and forecasting can help you develop models for your environment using your data. The models built will help you better analyze your business goals and allow a time where you can plan for an unexpected shift in business, good or bad.
 

• Create the necessary Active Directory groups, and add the users for each AD group. You may also create an AD group that contains users that need access to all data, for example, all countries in the 'Americas' territory.
• In Transformer, open the diagram, and select the Custom Views tab. Create a custom view for the appropriate dimension's parent level (e.g. create an 'Americas' territory custom view). This custom view will represent users that need access to all data in the 'Americas' territory.
• In the properties for this group, click 'Assign Security' and select the AD group that needs access to all data.
• Within the parent level custom view, right click and create a custom view for the first member (e.g. 'United States'). Click 'Assign Security' and select the AD group for the 'United States'.
• Continue to create the remainder of the custom views and assign the security in the same fashion.
• In the diagram, restrict the access for every group as required (using the Exclude option).
• When you have completed assigning security for every group, drag the parent custom view from the Custom View list, and drop it on top of your cube in the PowerCubes list. Continue to drag the children custom views, and drop them on top of the parent custom view on your cube in the PowerCubes list.
• Continue to run the report and select a year when prompted. The Year-to-Date value will be displayed next to the month value.

Additional Information

• After publishing the cube to Cognos Connection, you may receive an error: 'PDS-PPE-0083 -- The system is out of memory. (Security)'. Increasing the Read cache size (MB) in Cognos Administration will resolve this error.
• If your environment has Transformer installed on a Windows server, you may run into the following problem: testing the cube using PowerPlay (on the Windows server), PowerPlay may not authenticate user security back to AD. This will cause an error: 'Access is denied. The user is not authenticated or the cube does not support any of the user classes.' Publishing the cube to Cognos Connection, and accessing the cube in Analysis Studio will resolve this issue.

This technique has been tested in 8.3.

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Did You Know...

About Turtles...

• Turtles have been on the earth for more than 200 million years. They evolved before mammals, birds, crocodiles, snakes, and even lizards.
• The earliest turtles had teeth and could not retract their heads, but other than this, modern turtles are very similar to their original ancestors.
• Several species of turtles can live to be over a hundred years of age including the American Box Turtle.
• One documented case of longevity involves an adult Indian Ocean Giant Tortoise that, when captured as an adult, was estimated to be fifty years old. It then lived another 152 years in captivity.
• Turtles live on every continent except Antarctica.
• Turtles will live in almost any climate warm enough to allow them to complete their breeding cycle.
• While most turtles do not tolerate the cold well, the Blanding's turtle has been observed swimming under the ice in the Great Lakes region.
• Turtles range in size from the 4-inch Bog Turtle to the 1500-pound Leathery Turtle.
• North America contains a large variety of turtle species, but Europe contains only two species of turtle and three species of tortoise.
• The top domed part of a turtle's shell is called the carapace, and the bottom underlying part is called the plastron.
• The shell of a turtle is made up of 60 different bones all connected together.
• The bony portion of the shell is covered with plates (scutes) that are derivatives of skin and offer additional strength and protection.
• Most land tortoises have high, domed carapaces that offer protection from the snapping jaws of terrestrial predators. Aquatic turtles tend to have flatter, more aerodynamically shaped shells.
• An exception to the dome-shaped tortoise shell is the Pancake Tortoise of East Africa that will wedge itself between narrow rocks when threatened and then inflates itself with air making extraction nearly impossible.
• Most turtle species have five toes on each limb with a few exceptions including the American Box Turtle of the Carolina species that only has four toes and, in some cases, only three.
• Turtles have good eyesight and an excellent sense of smell. Hearing and sense of touch are both good and even the shell contains nerve endings.
• Some aquatic turtles can absorb oxygen through the skin on their neck and cloacal areas allowing them to remain submerged underwater for extended periods of time and enabling them to hibernate underwater.
• Turtles are one of the oldest and most primitive groups of reptiles and have outlived many other species. One can only wonder if their unique shell is responsible for their longevity.