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Eager runners often acheive tunnel vision as they reach the final stages of a race.
Approaching the closing 200 meters of the Class 2A girls cross country state meet, Kaneland sophomore Victoria Clinton was no different. Still, she had to pick out that pine tree before fully homing in.
A subtle landmark at Peoria's Detweiller Park brought Clinton home to an individual state title on Nov. 3. Once she had passed it, crossed the finish line before anyone else and greeted a throng of well-wishers, the Kane County Chronicle Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year began gaining her wits.
"I remember at the point I reached the tree, I couldn't feel my legs," Clinton said. "It was just mind over matter, pushing it. That's pretty engraved in my mind."
Clinton trimmed 30 seconds from her previous personal best and ran 45 seconds better than her 11th-place state time in 2011. The Knights' sophomore from Elburn traversed what long has been regarded as a fast course in 16:56, turning in Kaneland's best overall finish since Kerry Rink took third in the 1986 one-class finals.
Packed with a front-running field that included Galesburg's Stephanie Seay, Peoria Notre Dame's Maryjeanne Gilbert and Crystal Lake Central's Sami Staples, Clinton shifted into attack mode slightly before the pine tree to pull away.
Her nearest pursuers, Seay and Gilbert, finished 11 seconds off her pace.
"At the two-mile mark, I got this urge that I needed separation," Clinton said. "I needed to start picking it up a little bit because I knew my competitors were really good runners. My body just told me it's time to go, to start taking action with my strategy."
Clinton's parents, Larry and Debbie, are recreational runners, but never pressured any of their four children into the sport.
Larry Clinton recalls when Victoria would tag along on runs before breaking into Harter Middle School cross country in sixth grade. She always seemed to have stamina in reserve, taking an extra lap or two around the block before returning to the house.
Fueled by an accelerated drive, his daughter certainly kept going in Peoria.
"It's kind of neat when you have a love and a passion for something," Larry Clinton said. "I think that goes a long way."
Victoria Clinton latched on to more than just distance running in that regard. She was playing youth travel soccer for the Kaneland program when she first learned of youth triathlons, a curiosity that quickly steered her toward Tri-Cities-based Multisport Madness.
Already confident in her running and swimming background, Clinton figured if she could merely "wing it" on the bike phase, she could be competitive.
Through two-plus seasons with the program, her instincts haven't been wrong. Clinton's accomplishments include a runner-up finish at the USA Triathlon Youth Elite Nationals in August in West Chester, Ohio.
Clinton trained with the Elite Triathlon Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., during the late summer before joining Kaneland's cross country workouts, and her seasoning and experience showed throughout the season. Before her breakthrough at state, she finished third at the Northern Illinois Big 12 meet (18:13), first at regionals (18:05 at the Knights' home course at Elburn Woods Forest Preserve) and second at sectionals (17:38).
"She was very consistent, but she still was waiting to have the right race at the right time," Knights coach Doug Ecker said. "She just kind of learned how to race with the better runners and pretty much every Saturday was there with the best kids at the invitationals."
Earlier this month, Clinton stood alone in 2A. Competing with freshman teammate Brianna Bower, her season has continued with national runs that include the Nov. 24 Foot Locker Midwest Regional in Kenosha, Wis.
"I'm grateful that it was a good season," Clinton said. "I want to keep it going."
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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
Three days ago I wrote a rather scathing blog post Power View in SkyDrive where I criticised Microsoft's collaboration story in Excel 2013 in its various guises. I said then:
I clicked on one of those workbooks in order to view it in my web browser and I saw this: "Unable to load the requested workbook" Oh, did they forget to tell you? Workbooks containing Power View reports cannot actually be viewed on SkyDrive
I clicked on one of those workbooks in order to view it in my web browser and I saw this:
"Unable to load the requested workbook"
"Unable to load the requested workbook"
Oh, did they forget to tell you? Workbooks containing Power View reports cannot actually be viewed on SkyDrive
Well, it transpires that something has changed in the interim because I tried it out this morning and saw this:
OK, I still can't see the Power View report but nonetheless at least it gives me an explanation this time and I am assuming that did the data connections not have to be refreshed then this would work – that's better news (I'm still confused as to why an inability to refresh connections prevents me from seeing the Power View report given that some data does already exist in the workbook, let's save that whinge for another day). At least I am seeing something informative and there is an image that alludes to the existence of Power View. One important point; the above screen, even though it does not show anything useful, still requires SilverLight and that is not a surprise to me.
I must stress that I have not done anything different today from what I did three days ago, I simply clicked on the workbook within SkyDrive (it behaves the same on both IE & Chrome by the way). So, either they've updated the web app on SkyDrive or three days ago there was a temporary glitch.
OK, so we have some progress. I'll continue investigating and if I find anything out I shall post it here.
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Hi Jamie,
First is without preview enabled, second is with preview enabled. Notice the 'metro-style' branding on the latter.
You can switch back and forth here:
Hi Jamie, I assume that the data behind the Power View Report resides in PowerPivot. As you probably know PowerPivot is fully In-Memory and therefore it is understandable that PowerPivot is not supported in SkyDrive and therefore the Report cant't refresh/Display the data. The MS Datacenter would need tons of Memory if everybody could load up and view PowerPivot based Reports... (which bis the case for Power View Reports) Maybe MS is planning to support this in the near future as it looks like that Power View is already enabled. Anyhow - I assume we will see some strict limitations in terms of the PowerPivot model size - otherwise it will blow up the datacenter.
According to this microsoft link for whats new in excel 2013 power view will not be supported by sky drive.
When you create Power View sheets in Excel, you can view and interact with them on-premises in Excel Services, and in Office 365. You can only edit Power View sheets in Excel 2013 on a client computer.
On-premises, Power View isn't supported on Excel Web App. In Office 2013, administrators can choose whether users view files with Excel Services or Excel Web App. If the administrator chooses to view workbooks with Excel Web App, you can't view Power View sheets when viewing Excel workbooks in the browser.
In Office 365, you view Power View sheets with Excel Web App Data Center, part of SharePoint Online, rather than with Excel Services.
Power View sheets can't be viewed on SkyDrive.
If you save an Excel workbook with Power View sheets to a PowerPivot Gallery, the Power View sheets in the workbook won't be displayed in the Gallery, but they are still in the file. You'll see them when you open the workbook.
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Burning the Midnight Oil for Economic Populism
Among the many things entirely lost in the mainstream media coverage of the "fiscal cliff" are the nature and magnitude of the country's fiscal challenge. The magnitude is why it is not a crisis, and the nature is why we would be better off "just doing nothing" ~ letting the whole Bush tax cuts expire and scrapping the zombie spending cuts ~ is better than the vast majority of "fixes" floating around in the mainstream media.
What is the Nature and Magnitude of the Country's Fiscal Challenge
What matters in debt is the size of the debt as a percentage of the Federal budget. Luckily the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has run the numbers: under the status quo, the share is projected to rise from roughly 72.5 to roughly 82.5% over the coming decade. That is a challenge, but that magnitude of increase in the debt share is no crisis.
And the share will be dropping over the five years ahead, so the challenge is not an urgent challenge. Its something that allows us to pursue policies that require over a full Presidential term to yield fruit. Not only is the challenge not a crisis, neither is it urgent.
How Much Will Be Left After Capping The Bush Tax Cuts
The proposed Bush Tax Cut cap will yield about $1T in deficit reduction, so that's $1T to go, right?
Wrong: cutting $2T can be accomplished by a mix of $1.72T of tax revenues and spending cuts, because cutting the debt ratio will reduce the interest burden, and save $260b in interest payments.
Who has already contributed?
We have already had several years of austerity budgeting, with discretionary, non-defense spending cut by $1.5T.
A truly "balanced approach" of 1:1, that cut 1/3 of that from non-defense spending and 2/3 from defense spending, and matched that dollar for dollar with tax increases, would see $1.365b added in revenue, and $1.365b cut from spending, $0.455b from non-defense and the $0.91T from defense.
Achieving balance would involve the Bush Tax Cut cap, $365b in other tax revenue over the coming ten years ~ converting the biggest income tax deductions into tax credits at the tax rate of middle income taxpayers would likely accomplish that ~ $910b in defense cuts ...
... and $1.05T in increases in non-defense discretionary spending.
You will, of course, hear none of this in the corporate mess media.
But what if we can't do that?
If we can't get anything done except canceling the stupid thing Congress promised to do as a threat in case they didn't get anything done ... and the entire Bush Tax cuts expire ...
... obviously the Republicans will cave on letting the capped Bush Tax cuts get extended rather than getting nothing passed.
If they don't, and we just go back to the Clinton tax rates, that would mean there is even less that would need to be done to get to fiscal balance, so even less need to cut spending.
If they do cave, debt will still be on a track to decline as a share of GDP over the next four or five years, and we might want to do something about spending cuts in 2017.
But its no crisis either way.
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Anyway, if people try to tell you that it will be a massive economic disaster if we do not urgently "do something, anything about the debt!!!" ...
The rest of the "problem" is solved --
by saying there's not a problem. They could print some more money, and pay off all of the debtholders.
If the politicians want to collect some taxes to pay for government, they would need a robust economy, and there's no way they're going to get that without more deficit spending. Instead, they've decided to go with austerity.
At one time it was true that if ...
... the federal government wanted higher tax revenue, it would need a stronger economy.
However, given all the tax breaks given to tax revenues that have nil or negligible impact on aggregate demand, there are presently ample opportunities to increase tax revenues without any appreciable fiscal drag resulting. Just reverse tax breaks that when they were granted did not result in any appreciable fiscal stimulus: the Bush tax cuts on the top two brackets, the elimination of the top bracket on capital gains, the carried interest tax dodge among others.
And of course, if $910b in "defense" cuts over the coming decade were to be focused on closing overseas bases, the net impact of $910b in those "defense" cuts and $910b increase in domestic non-defense discretionary spending would be stimulative.
Hardly logical
and so ideological in an economic sense as well as a global sense. I mean come on how is this even a plausible way to run your household budget they drag up and lecture you about.. Austerity what the hell! What a strange starchy concept. Hey I am austere so that means I'm serious and this needs to be done.
Nazis we're austere, stark, dark, very serious cruel people, with a world wide vision, a NWO without a trace of humanity a total, disrespect for life . They convinced a whole nation of people that global supremacy was the way forward. Today's fascism isn't wearing the nationalistic face, like it did then but doesn't teh evil always portray itself as inevitable and the best way forward for humanity. Dark ages over and over.
The debt oh my god the debt. Whose debt is this?. it's the debt of this failed theology of free markets of mass destruction. Scary thing is the people who run the world and create the debt, the bundlers and sellers Such a shell game that it constantly amazes me people anywhere are able to convince people that this is debt is their's to pay. There is the factor that these people who own the place do have some nasty ass ways (not to mention heavily as awesomely armed ) to deal with any insurgents who dare to question the inevitable free market globalized 'way forward'. A robust real peoples economy is the last thing they want. They make their money off debt and human misery.
Yes, they do indeed talk crazy even for the ...
... "household budget" myth that they use ~ "We've for a budget pinch, so I'm going to opt out of working overtime" ~ and they also do that at the state level, where the household budget analogy actually does apply. The first things that Walker in Wisconsin and Kasich in Ohio did was push through various tax cuts to the wealthy, and then "zOMG, we have a fiscal crisis, we have to bust Unions!!!".
The real debt crisis, and the real debt of this failed theology of free markets of mass destruction, is the private debt burden, which is over TWO TIMES GDP. Now, if just under 75% to just under 85% in a decade is a running around like chickens with our heads cut off crisis, why is 200%+ right now, "move along, move along, nothing to see here"?
Thanks for the conversation, both of ya's
Thanks for this, Bruce
It is so grounded and convincing, I was thinking I would send it around. Then as I read, I thought through my smart liberal friends and guessed who would take the time to follow the not-so-complicated numbers. I fear the number is small, and my friends is a selection for success as compared with the general population. It seems to me that one of the problems is that there's not much thinking going on anymore, no one has the patience or attention span to study, so most people are reaching their conclusions through ideology, through making current predictions on the basis of similarity of current circumstances with circumstances past (post-emotion). Btw, this includes us liberals. I can certainly see it in myself. This is a cultural thing.
Anyway, I will send it to people. See if I can make them drink.
I agree with this geomoo
'I thought through my smart liberal friends and guessed who would take
the time to follow the not-so-complicated numbers. I fear the number is
small, and my friends is a selection for success as compared with the
general population'
And even though it's partly attention span and patience I also think people are inundated with data these days from all sides of any issue. It's really not that hard to grasp what austerity and an economy that is this inequitable is a fail were living with the fail.. Numbers and data are important and do not lie, but they are also the voodoo behind every marketers pitch, be they pols, scientific 'truths' or sellers of a product. I think people even smart ones are weary and sick of endless data used to get them all worked up about the oppositions stupidity and especially these cooked up fiscal cliffs of mass deception.
We make our living off numbers, stats and data and still my eyes glaze over at charts and tables. When I see government numbers like unemployment and this latest budget deficit hysteria my bs meter kicks in. It is a also a matter of what is driving the data, the intent of those that are using math to bolster their ideology . Rove's math comes to mind. I like Nate Silver as I like his methodology and he has common sense in his reading of data. I really do believe that people are aware that this economy is not working for anyone other then the 1% and that moving numbers around like a shell game and calling it 'shared sacrifice' or austerity is just going to make it worse. Voodoo economics as they used to call it.
I worked in the Gaps marketing department in the 80's and we would have monthly meetings where our numbers person would explain the marketing data. It was deadly boring and we all squirmed, a whole room full of smart liberal people who's patience was tried.. We had to sit through an hour of charts and numbers to inform us that it was better to put the punk clothes at the back of the stores as the mothers did not like seeing them in the front and the kids could find them at the back.
So now after this outburst about data I will go back and read Bruce's excellent post and not glaze over.


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Dee tour! Dodgers interrupt Rockies' roll
LOS ANGELES -- Since the manager called out his club for selfish play at the end of the last homestand, the Dodgers have gone 7-4, including a convincing 6-1 win that cooled off the hot Rockies Monday night.
"The whole last road trip we've had good energy in the dugout," manager Don Mattingly said. "We're just playing better. You can just feel a difference."View Full Game Coverage
LOS ANGELES -- Since the manager called out his club for selfish play at the end of the last homestand, the Dodgers have gone 7-4, including a convincing 6-1 win that cooled off the hot Rockies Monday night.
"The whole last road trip we've had good energy in the dugout," manager Don Mattingly said. "We're just playing better. You can just feel a difference."View Full Game Coverage
The Dodgers rebounded from a Sunday debacle against the D-backs by overwhelming the Rockies and rookie starter Tyler Matzek. They totaled 15 hits, four by All-Star candidate Dee Gordon, three by leading outfield vote-getter Yasiel Puig and a pair each from Matt Kemp and A.J. Ellis. They cut the lead of the idle Giants to six games.
Starting pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu also rebounded from a loss in his last start with six solid innings to stop Colorado's five-game win streak.
"That's the hottest team in the National League coming in here right now, and he had command of all of his pitches and used both sides of the plate extremely well, especially to left-handed hitters, kept those guys off-balance," Ellis said of Ryu. "It's a dangerous, dangerous team, and he did a great job."
Ryu allowed one run on three hits to raise his record to 8-3, including wins in five of six starts since coming off the disabled list.
"Ryu pitched well with his fastball and changeup," said Rockies manager Walt Weiss. "We've seen him be tough on us before, and he was good tonight."
Mattingly said Ryu was a two-pitch pitcher last year, but has added a cutter along with a slider he already had but hardly threw.
"He's a handful," he said. "That guy can really pitch."
Gordon gave fans an early thrill, slicing a line drive in the third inning past diving third baseman Charlie Culberson and racing around the bases on a triple and blowing past the third-base bag to score when left fielder Charlie Blackmon misplayed the ball and then fumbled it trying to pick it up. The dugout danced it up when Gordon returned, celebrating their interpretation of an inside-the-park homer, but it officially went as a triple (Gordon's NL-leading seventh) and an error.
"I thought it was an inside-the-park, to be honest," said Gordon, who also walked. "I don't think he touched it [off the wall]. It is what it is."
The whole episode seemed to rattle Matzek, who walked Hanley Ramirez, then allowed sharp singles to Puig and Kemp for a second run. The Dodgers are 9-3 in games started by opposing rookies this year.
Ryu got a break in the first after a one-out walk to Brandon Barnes when Justin Morneau's two-out fly to right-center bounced off the warning track and over the fence for a ground-rule double, with Barnes sent back to third base. Drew Stubbs was caught looking at a third strike to end the inning.
Wilin Rosario, who doubled leading off the second inning but was stranded, drove himself in in the fourth with a two-out homer on an 0-2 fastball.
The Dodgers padded their lead in the fifth on an infield single by Puig and two-out singles from Andre Ethier and Ellis, the latter reaching base safely for the fifth consecutive plate appearance.
"It's a case for no rehab, right?" Mattingly said of Ellis, who was activated off the DL from a sprained ankle without serving a Minor League rehab stint.
Ellis said he spent the later part of his time on the shelf working with hitting coach Mark McGwire on his swing, mentally and physically.
"A lot of this time has been a blessing for me to figure out who I am and what my skill set should be as an offensive player," Ellis said. "I always want to get better instead of just being content with who you are. And that's a lesson I need to learn is that who I am is good enough. And I don't need to be doing extra at the plate."
Mattingly said Puig felt another twinge in his left hip flexor as he slid head first into third base on Kemp's RBI single in the third inning, but he stayed in the game.
In the sixth, Gordon singled with one out, was balked to second by Chris Martin and was attempting to steal third when he was singled home by Ramirez, who was doubled home by Kemp.
Puig picked up his first RBI since May 29 with an eighth-inning single, scoring Carlos Triunfel, who singled in his first at-bat with the Dodgers.
Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
In a ludicrous, yet highly instructive example of just how entrenched the Israeli-Arab conflict has become, Palestinian commentators are having a hissy fit over the fact that visiting US President Barack Obama was served felafel by Israel.
Palestinian news agency Al-Watan Voice said the Obama team's approval of felafel as an "Israeli meal" was evidence that the American visit was "devoid of any perspective of peace."
Other Palestinian publications such as Palestine Today and Al Quds claimed that along with the renaming of cities, Israel's usurping of the felafel is just part of a larger campaign to "steal" what they call "Palestinian heritage," and Obama is apparently helping Israel to do so.
The Palestinian Arabs (remember, a people group that did not exist a mere 100 years ago) insist that despite its broad acceptance as Israel's "national snack food," felafel is actually the oldest and most famous component of "Palestinian cuisine."
Of course, Jews have inhabited these lands for even longer than the Arabs, so it is impossible to know which ethnic group actually came up with felafel (fried chickpeas) first.
Nor does it matter. What does matter is that Arabs are clearly still being taught to view not only Israel, but the Jews in general as a people who do not belong to the region, and that is a recipe for continued conflict.
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Police log for May 7
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12:21 a.m. Arrest on South Warner Street for using or being under the influence of a controlled substance.
1:50 a.m. Battery-of-a-spouse-or-cohabitant report on South Burbank Street.
9:41 a.m. Battery-of-a-spouse-or-cohabitant report on South Norma Street.
10:46 a.m. Warrant arrest on East Ridgecrest Boulevard for burglary and forgery.
11:34 a.m. Truant at Burroughs High School.
11:47 a.m. Residential-burglary report on North Oasis Drive.
11:56 a.m. Warrant arrest on North Alene Street for possession of a controlled substance.
12:17 p.m. Harassment report on South Ranger Street.
1:08 p.m. Petty-theft report on North Jefferson Street.
1:16 p.m. Hit-and-run report on North China Lake Boulevard.
1:39 p.m. Ridgecrest Municipal code violation report on South Sims Street.
2:07 p.m. Supplemental report on West Atkins Avenue.
2:11 p.m. Elder-abuse report on West Ridgecrest Boulevard.
2:15 p.m. Petty-theft report on West California Avenue.
2:51 p.m. Property-damage traffic-collision report at Burroughs High School.
3:37 p.m. Child Protective Services referral on North Gold Canyon Drive.
3:54 p.m. property-damage traffic-collision report at South China Lake Boulevard and East Upjohn Avenue.
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6:21 p.m. Counseled runaway/out-of-control juvenile on South Silver Ridge Street.
7:13 p.m. Disturbance – music on South Porter Street.
7:31 p.m. Arrest and citation on North Cisco Street for vandalism.
7:38 p.m. Petty-theft report on West Atkins Avenue.
9:06 p.m. Battery report on North China Lake Boulevard.
9:08 p.m. Land-trespass report on West Kinnett Avenue.
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Vestas Wind Systems A/S has ousted Ditlev Engel as company president and CEO. Engel, who has served as the wind turbine maker's head since 2005, will be replaced by Anders Runevad effective Sept. 1. Until then, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President Marika Fredriksson will assume the role of acting president and CEO.
The announcement comes as Vestas reveals its interim financial report for the second quarter of 2013 (Q2'13). In the quarter, the company generated revenue of EUR 1.185 billion, down 26% from the year-earlier period, and net loss amounted to EUR 62 million, a decrease of EUR 54 million compared to Q2'12.
EBIT before special items decreased by EUR 28 million to EUR 12 million. The EBIT margin before special items was 1%, and the free cashflow increased by EUR 535 million to EUR 197 million.
The intake of firm and unconditional wind turbine orders was 1,641 MW in the second quarter. Due to uncertainty surrounding a few customers' ability to comply with the contractual obligations, Vestas says it has resolved to lower the order backlog value by EUR 4 million. Including this adjustment, the value of the wind turbine backlog amounted to EUR 7.1 billion as of June 30.
In addition to the wind turbine order backlog, Vestas had service agreements with contractual future revenue of EUR 5.9 billion at the end of June. Thus, the company says, the value of the combined backlog of wind turbine orders and service agreements stood at EUR 13 billion – an improvement of EUR 600 million during the quarter.
Vestas has experienced a longtime trend of bleak financial earnings, which had led to thousands of job cuts, executive shakeups and restructuring. In its Q2'13 report, the company says its "two-year turnaround continues according to plan."
Bert Nordberg, chairman of Vestas' board of directors, says replacing Engel is a necessary next step.
"Following the recent measures taken, it is now the appropriate time to make this change," comments Nordberg. "The company is now entering a new phase, where we want to realize our growth potential, and I am confident that Mr. Runevad has the right experience to lead the company going forward. The restructuring program has resulted in a more competitive company, and we thank Mr. Engel for his leadership over the past eight years."
Navigant Consulting's director of energy, Bruce Hamilton, tells NAW he is not surprised that Engel has been replaced.
'This is a natural and expected transition," he says. "Having completed rigorous restructuring over the past 18 months, facing legal challenges, and criticism from disgruntled stakeholders means the focus has been on Engel rather than on the positives that Vestas has gained from the restructuring and developing a healthy order book."
Hamilton adds that he would characterize Engel's tenure as being "very challenging but overall successful in maintaining Vestas' status as the world's leading pure-play wind turbine manufacturer."
Runevad joins Vestas from telecom solutions company Ericsson, where he was president of region West and Central Europe and a member of the Ericsson Global executive team. Although he has spent his entire career in the telecom industry and has no experience in the wind sector, Vestas says Runevad has held several senior positions and led successful restructuring programs in large organizations.
"I am delighted to be joining Vestas and look forward to leading the company in its next phase of development," says Runevad. "I believe that my career has equipped me with the right tools to take on this task."


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There have been several interesting threads regarding the Microsoft Hidden Files including the link Magnoon gave in that thread. So, i boot to DOS (actually you can do the same thing by clicking over to DOS from the Windows environment) and do a dir for anything with an extension of *.dbx (and a few others) which brings up a deeply placed (six directories deep) set of files named "inbox.mbx", "outbox.mbx", "sentit~1.mbx", "delete~1.mbx" and "drafts.mbx". These hidden *.mbx files take up about 30meg of space in the directory. So, from the DOS-prompt i "type", "print" etc several of the records, and all i get in plain text is who it's to (like the sheriff) but the rest of the file is a screen of scattered funny-faces, or high-ascii characters, or whatever they are, accompanied by complimentary 'puter-beeps. So my question is, how do you convert these files and these characters into something a carbon-based lifeform can read?
Well, OK, i should have experimented with it a bit more: The original text says you have to go to DOS to find these, however i just did a "find" under windows and it listed them all in about two seconds, where the DOS-search took a couple minutes. Also, i took one of the files, sent it to a floppy, then sent the file to another email address, received it in Outlook Express, opened the attachment in wordpad, and viola! It had several hundred lines of ascii, but then, down at the bottom, was the original message in plain text! This thing is a great find for me, but i'm sure most of you think it's K-12 stuff!
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As tourists continue to flock to London from around the world, the capital's top landmarks and attractions from the Tower of London to Madame Tussauds are experiencing a boom in visitor numbers and revenues, despite the economic downturn.
In the first half of 2012, London drew 4.1 million visitors, an increase of nearly 90,000 visitors compared to 2011, according to the latest visitor survey conducted by the British government. There's also been a 9 percent increase in visitor expenditure meaning overall tourism receipts for the last quarter were 2.48 billion pounds ($4 billion).
According to Bernard Donoghue, Director of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA), London was a big draw for foreign visitors due to its iconic "must see" and "must experience" attractions.
"Fifty percent of all visitors to London visit [the] capital alone — that is, they come to the U.K. for London itself and nothing else. No other city in the world can say that," he told CNBC.
Donoghue said the top attraction this year had been the Harry Potter Studio tour in Watford in north London, which had been "packed full of families from day one" when it opened in April this year.
London's free attractions such as the National Gallery, Tate Modern art gallery and British Museum also attracted millions of tourists.
"Most overseas visitors love our stunning free museums and galleries…they love our tradition, heritage and history – anything from the Queen to the Tower of London and lastly, they love the quirky ways of getting round London, that it's like a lot of villages stuck together."
A Summer Dampener for Some?
This summer's events in London — from the Queen's Jubilee celebrations in June to the Olympic Games in July might have given Britain's gross domestic product a boost but they also had a downside. The events hurt retail sales and led to a decline in visitor numbers for some of London's other attractions.
As thousands of visitors flocked to see the Queen's residence Buckingham Palace or attended outdoor Jubilee events or went to the Olympics, indoor attractions suffered weaker visitor numbers. Indeed, coupled with the wettest summer in living memory, there was a 60 percent drop in visitor numbers to the nation's attractions according to ALVA, which has 43 members and oversees over 2,000 attractions in the U.K.
(Read More: Highlights From the Queen's Jubilee)
Donaghue said it was worse for some attractions in London, which reported a drop of 80 percent in visitors. Despite this, Donaghue said, "this year we're looking at it being a really good year overall."
Merlin Entertainments is Europe's largest visitor attraction operator and owns Madame Tussauds, the London Eye and the London Dungeons. In its 2011 earnings, the company reported a 15.9 percent rise in revenue to 928.4 million pounds ($1.48 billion) from a year before, and operating profit of 222.5 million pounds up 12.4 percent from a year prior.
As visitor numbers increased by 13.2 percent to 46.4 million across its group of 94 attractions in London and beyond, the company upped its investment in its attractions to 174.1 million pounds during 2011 from 119.4 million pounds in 2010.
Bernard Donoghue from the ALVA said that attractions that have invested to improve the visitor experience have gained.
"Even at a time of economic restraint those attractions which have invested in refurbishment, new exhibitions, new marketing, new catering and retail products have seen a real return on investment and more money for the visitor economy."


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RAVENSWOOD – Even though he's hit the age of 60, Mick Price still looks and feels relatively young.
It's a good thing.
Because this season Price will field a very young boys basketball team at Ravenswood High School.
"This may be my youngest in 35 years," said Price, who is coming off his first season as the school's head football coach.
With youth comes inexperience. Only Jake Martin, a junior guard, garnered varsity playing time last season on a team that finished 13-12 and lost a two-point heartbreaker in a Class AA co-regional final against Magnolia.
Martin became a starter late in the 2011-12 campaign. He averaged 3.8 points per game. "He's very diverse," said Price. "He can put it on the floor, he can get to the rim, he can shoot from the perimeter. He's got experience and we have to rely on that."
Last season Martin also averaged 3.8 rebounds a game and dished out 1.9 assists per contest. Martin hit 39 percent of his shots from the 3-point line.
Ravenswood was hit hard by graduation, losing the likes of Zack Martin, Ben Pannell, Jeremy Lawrence, Jon Scheifer, Jesse Mize and James Carmichael.
Martin, Pannell and Lawrence all scored in double figures last season. Martin was a Class AA Second Team All-State selection while Pannell, now a part of the program at West Virginia State, and Lawrence earned Honorable Mention. Martin and Pannell were Little Kanawha Conference First Team selections with Lawrence earning Second Team honors.
The lone senior on this season's team will be Jeremy Balser, a 5-8 guard. Balser's high school basketball career has been slowed due to a four-wheeler accident a few years ago."
Junior Dalton Gandee, 5-7, will handle the point guard duties. "He's doing a good job. This will be a big test for him," Price said.
Heath Burgess, a 5-8 junior who was Ravenswood's starting quarterback in the recently-completed 2012 season, will see lots of playing time. "He's very athletic and he's going to have to play," said Price.
Another junior is Cam Maeige, who is listed at 6-0.
Sophomores are 6-1 Dylan Radabaugh, 6-4 Isaac Crow, 5-8 Jon Crow, 5-10 Jacob Barr, 6-4 Jeremy Butler and 5-9 Matt Peery.
The freshmen class is made up of 6-0 Logan Jarrett, 6-0 Travis Rawson, 5-6 Zack Miller, 5-7 Jonathan Watkins, 5-11 Adam Scritchfield and 5-7 Ethan Mullen.
"I will say this about these guys. They have been enthusiastic and have developed a chemistry," Price said. "These kids are really working hard in practice.
Because of the youth and inexperience, Price plans to use several players initially.
"I've never played a bunch of kids. It's just something I haven't done. I've never worried about how much time a kid has played," he said. "But on this year's team that has a lot of players of equal ability, we're going to have to play more kids."
"We are going to go up against teams with experience," said Price. "They are going to have to hang in there."
The Little Kanawha Conference North Division will feature an array of good teams, according to Price. "Ritchie may have one of its best teams ever," he said. "Parkersburg Catholic will be good again. St. Marys will be good again. Obviously Williamstown is a tough one. Tyler and Doddridge will be better."
Ravenswood, which went 8-4 last season in conference play, will open the season at home on December 14 against Roane County. The Devil schedule this season also features a pair of games with Class AAA foes Ripley and Point Pleasant, two with Herbert Hoover and a one-time encounter with Webster.
The Red Devils will be in a new-look Class AA sectional when the calender rolls into March of 2013. Webster, Braxton, Roane and Ritchie will join the Devils and battle for spots in regional play. The region opposite Ravenswood's will have North Marion, East Fairmont, Fairmont Senior, Weir and Oak Glen.
"We've tried to indoctrinate these kids into what is going to happen at the varsity level and the speed of the game. These guys have played a lot (in the summer and fall)," said Price. "It's their turn to step up."
Price will coach a young, inexperienced team
RAVENSWOOD – Even though he's hit the age of 60, Mick Price still looks and feels relatively young.


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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Commercial ride-sharing services offered by moonlighting motorists but frowned on by licensed taxi drivers and some cities as "bandit" cab operations would gain new legitimacy in California under a plan proposed on Tuesday by state regulators.
The draft rules to govern companies that already operate under such names as Lyft, SideCar and Uber, allowing passengers to electronically hail rides through smartphone applications, were unveiled by the state Public Utilities Commission (PUC) as taxi drivers continued to lobby against them.
The PUC, based in San Francisco, is set to vote on the guidelines as early as its September 5 meeting.
Taxi drivers registered their disapproval by staging a noisy demonstration against the ride-sharing services on Tuesday, circling San Francisco City Hall in their cabs.
Meanwhile, the head of the cabbies' national trade group, the Taxicab, Limousine and Paratransit Association, slammed the proposal as a blow to local control over traditional taxi-for-hire carriers.
San Francisco-based Lyft, SideCar and Uber, the three most well known of the ride-sharing services, hailed the draft guidelines, saying they already comply with several of the key rules laid out in the document.
Among the proposed regulations are requirements for ride-share operators to obtain a license with the PUC to do business in California, to submit their drivers to criminal background checks and to carry liability insurance of at least $1 million per incident.
The PUC's move to regulate commercial ride-sharing in the nation's most populous state comes as a number of major U.S. cities have imposed restrictions on such services.
Lyft, SideCar and Uber, operating in large urban areas across the country and catering to young, tech-savvy passengers, are built around smartphone apps that allow users to call for a ride from drivers who are behind the wheel of their own personal cars and participating in the service.
The apps, which are based on global positioning satellite technology, measure distance traveled and suggest a dollar figure for the rider to pay the driver.
In the case of Lyft, drivers are identified by a fluffy pink mustache they affix to the grill of their cars. Uber differs from Lyft and SideCar because it connects passengers with licensed limousine drivers. But in April, it unveiled another service called UberX that relies on average citizen drivers.
"Ultimately, we hope that other states will see this as an example, and we'll have consistent rules across the country," said Sunil Paul, CEO of SideCar.
Los Angeles launched an aggressive action against Uber, Lyft and SideCar in June when municipal officials issued cease-and-desist letters to the companies, accusing them of operating in the nation's second-largest city without a license.
The companies have continued to do business in Los Angeles in defiance of city officials, insisting they should be governed by the state, which regulates limousines and other ride-for-hire services that operate as private charter carriers in which transportation is arranged in advance.
Los Angeles City Councilman Paul Koretz has been working on city rules to rein in ride-sharing companies and their drivers, which he called "bandit cabs."
"When the first serial rapist appears to be a Lyft driver, I think the city, by doing nothing, is just as liable as anybody else," Koretz said last week.
Reporting and writing by Alex Dobuzinskis; Additional reporting by Brandon Lowrey in Los Angeles; Editing by Steve Gorman and Philip Barbara


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How Chloe Moretz Learned to Love Makeup
Chloe Grace Moretz might have spent her adolescence on red carpets, but she has the same battles with makeup and skincare as your typical 16-year-old—they just started earlier. "I was so terrified of them making me look like a train wreck," she says of her first premiere, at age eight.
Eight years later, Moretz has probably had more hair and makeup experience than most of us will endure in a lifetime. She's learned how to be savvy about skincare as well, thanks to a bout of bad acne after months of fake blood application for this month's remake of the famous horror flick Carrie, in which she plays the title character. The actress shares what it was like being drenched in fake blood, learning to love makeup, and trusting her glam squad, above.
If it seems like Moretz's life has been one long movie premiere, that's because she's been on the big screen for over fifty percent of her life. "I don't really remember the first time someone put makeup on me for a red carpet," she says. "But I do remember being really scared, like: I don't want lipstick; I don't want crazy eye shadow."
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"I used to have really problematic skin and I hated getting my makeup done, because I knew I was going to break out even more," she says. But as Moretz has grown more confident, she's learned to embrace her glam squad. "Now that I have good skin, I can play around with my makeup, because I'm not afraid to draw attention to my face."
"I mean, I don't really have a regimen," Moretz says when asked about her skincare routine. "I just spend waaaay too much money on creams." Which creams? Kate Sommerville Goat Milk Cream ($55), La Mer's Eye Concentrate ($185), and Chantecaille's Just Skin Tinted Moisturizer ($66).
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The actress has been working for so long that her true hair color is as mysterious as Carrie's supernatural powers. "It was fun to go brunette for awhile," she says. ""But blonde is the easiest for me to maintain, and I think it's the prettiest with my skin tone."
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"I've become much more adventurous with my makeup now, because I have the most amazing makeup artist, Mai Quynh, and I trust her like crazy," says Moretz. "I love a good smoky eye; I really like green right now, and purple."
It's never fun to be drenched in fake blood—even if it is for a dream role. "It took three hours: one hour to get the transfers [fake scars!] on, another hour to put this one type of blood on, and the third hour was this other type of blood. And tons of fake smoke and fake dirt," Moretz says. It turns out the removal process was even more grueling: "I had to use all this horrible remover—it smelled like paint thinner and it ruined my skin."
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She might depend on a team to prep her for A-list events, but Moretz has her own go-to girls night out look. "I rim my tear line with Lancome's Long-Lasting Eyeliner ($26)." (And she swears by Lucas Papaw ($12) for her lips.)
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"The most beautiful a woman can be is hair up in a knot, just hanging out," she says. "Anyone can look pretty when they have a team of hair and makeup behind them, but if you can be a beautiful person inside and out just bumming around town. I think that's what beauty is."


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Hello Prof, I was surprised to see Wigan, England amongst the cases. Part of my childhood was spent just 5 miles away on the doorstep of a beautiful place called Fairy Glen. It has ancient woodland, wild garlic, bluebell fields and a lovely waterfall. One can only speculate on the origins of the name as I haven't been able to uncover much of the history.ReplyDelete
I lost interest in such things way back when, but the way you've presented these cases has encouraged me to view them in a fresher light. It's coincidental that many of the subjects that fascinated me in youth have lately become interesting again. As such, I've spent the past few months reading old books by authors like Andrew Lang and Edmund Gurney. Their accounts of apparitions possibly tessellate into humanoids, goblins and the menagerie of odd critters that appear to tag along with us.
Fairy Glen - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/173739
Thanks for the vision of that place; I hope that it persists forever --- despite that it seems our wee friends are willing to pop up now and then in environments far less "magickal". I always enjoy reading your comments. Would that everyone were so civilized, collegial, and interested.ReplyDelete
I never really lost the interests of my youth but they markedly dimmed as I went to graduate school [which for me was a long slow siege involving two Masters degrees and then the PhD at a different university]. That time was spent digging into "established science", and anomalies were never even mentioned. Paradoxically, the only anomalistic-related thing that I was witness to was in about 1964 in Ames IA when a bunch of Chemistry knuckleheads called me up to the roof of the Chemistry building to watch them launching a hoax laundry-bag "UFO". Thankfully it didn't inspire a flap.
Only after a few years solidifying my profession teaching science did the old wonder about UFOs return with enough fire in it that I began reaching out to see if there was anything to any of this. [I already knew that UFOs were real from my early sighting]. As the years have passed, my UFO interests led me more and more to look into other anomalies, finally ending up where we are just now: are the Little People real? It's been a good explorative life, and I recommend the journey.
I followed a similar path and 'put away childish things' whilst studying psychology, history and literature at university. It honed the critical thinking and I was immersed in all the new perspectives.ReplyDelete
Like yourself, the interests diminished and then returned somewhat stronger. Although seeing two different UFOs compounded the fascination, it was growing up in an old house frequented by unusual activity that cemented the curiosity that features in your blog.
Tales of "wee people" have been recorded by most, if not all, cultures throughout human history. Some of our ancestors called them fairies. Medieval fairy-faith populated our world with a puzzling array of visitors (elves, gnomes, goblins, leprechauns, pixies, and others) from the fairy realm or fairyland.ReplyDelete
It was the actual sightings of these beings that created the fairy-faith.
Not the other way around.
Little people were believed in because they were seen!
Here is the link to a recent USA sighting...
Thanks for the link; interesting reading.ReplyDelete
Hiya Prof, I've spent the past few months reading about apparitions and hallucinations. I wanted to see if they had anything in common with ufological humanoid encounters. Such curiosity has led to an enjoyable stroll through the psychological literature and the books of Lang, Podmore and Gurney et al.ReplyDelete
Tucked away in Podmore's Studies in Psychical Research (pp 273-4) is a curious account about 'dwarf-like' figures. SPR researcher, Eleanor Sidgwick, suggested the witnesses mistook fog for a moving troupe of dwarf-like figures. I'm not sure what they saw, but they are quite emphatic about the figures being clearly male and clearly female.
I've snipped the account -
Thanks for the info. I'll have to wait until I'm back in Michigan again [diabolically I've just returned to Wheeling] and can read my copy of Podmore and extract this. I tried the "snips" and didn't achieve anything, but as an old dinosaur I don't comprehend photobucket very well. It will keep.ReplyDelete
I have a very extensive run of JSPR and I'll bet that the original mention of this case is in there. I'll look for that, too. Now if this ancient head can figure out how to remember to do it.....
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If I say that I had seen a mermaid, than would you believe it....?ReplyDelete
it's upper body was of fish and lower body was of human (one of the rare species of mermaids or let's call it sea creature)
it weighs around 2 tones for real I saw it that's why I believe it.Replies
Of course I wouldn't "believe" it. This blog requires some actual evidence or, barring that, some credible investigation of claims. I also would not take the position of not believing it. Without anything substantial to support isolated statements, I merely don't think about them at all.Delete
The Fairy Investigation Society are still active, and have recently established a web site (fairyinvestigationsociety.com). We continue our research, and encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to become involved, and send us stories of their own personal encounters and experiences with faeries. Please visit our site for further information..ReplyDeleteReplies
I heartily recommend this, as I consider the secretary a responsible scholarly colleague in this quest. I've joined the Society myself and am looking forward to whatever comes.Delete
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New London City Council adopts budget; tax rate to increase 7.5 percent
New London — After months of controversy over the proposed 2012-13 budget, including layoff notices sent to about 50 employees, the city now has a spending plan in place that saves nearly all the positions and raises the tax rate by just under 2 mills.
The City Council Monday unanimously overrode the mayor's veto of the $42.3 million general government budget, in effect maintaining the 7.5 percent increase in taxes that the council approved a month ago. The tax rate will increase 1.91 mills from 25.31 to 27.22 mills. (Editor's note: This corrects the increase stated in an earlier version of this story.)
"This is a watershed moment for the city that we just adopted a budget,'' Council President Michael Passero said. "It's been a long journey to get here and, in the end, everyone needs to be proud that we got here."
He called the budget a "compromise,'' which apparently was discussed during a Democratic caucus Monday night away from public view. There was little discussion Tuesday during the 20-minute special meeting.
"It's a product of collaboration and building consensus," Passero said. "Everyone put aside their personal interests to move the city forward. ... It's a trade-off between people who thought we should raise taxes significantly and those who think we raised taxes too high already."
While the override was unanimous, the council split on motions to move money around within the budget to save the jobs of five employees that Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio had hired since becoming mayor in December.
The council voted 5-2 to transfer $429,000, mostly from the fire department budget, to other departments to fund the positions of deputy police chief, assistant city clerk, director of development and planning, the mayor's office administrator and the director of risk management.
Those positions had been eliminated by the council after the mayor announced public safety layoffs.
Councilors John Maynard and Marie Friess-McSparran voted against the transfers. After the meeting they said they would rather have decreased the budget by about $400,000 rather than reinstate the five positions.
"We could have reduced the budget by that amount,'' Friess-McSparran said. "I think the taxpayers sitting on the edge would have appreciated that."
Last week, Finizio announced that concessions had been reached with the fire and police unions to save the jobs of 25 firefighters and 10 police officers.
It was not clear Tuesday night whether the budget includes funding for four employees in the building inspection department, three in public works, two in information technology and one in the recreation department who have been notified that they will not have jobs as of June 30.
After the meeting, Councilor Wade Hyslop, who has been in favor of increasing taxes to maintain services, said there had been ongoing discussions prior to Tuesday's meeting.
"It made each of us comfortable to do what we did,'' he said.
He added that during the five years he's been on the council, this is the first year taxes have increased.
Finizio, who did not attend the meeting, said through his executive assistant Zak Leavy, "I'm grateful the council and the administration would reach an amiable resolution to move the city forward."
Councilor Adam Sprecace, the lone Republican, was the only councilor, other than Passero, to speak during the meeting.
"This meeting is moving fast,'' he said, speaking to the television camera in council chambers. "For the people in the public who are following this, what we're doing is putting us in the position where we were four weeks ago when we passed the first budget resolution."
He said the council had a workable budget then, and still does now.
"This brings us back to where we were before the layoff notices were made,'' Sprecace said, adding that he voted for the override and for the transfer of funds on the "word of the administration'' that savings will come from negotiations with the police and fire unions.
The administration announced Tuesday night that it had reached an agreement with the police union which would save the city $500,000 to $1 million in projected overtime savings.
The fire union is expected to vote Thursday on a concessions deal, the details of which have not been made public.
Finizio had proposed an $87 million budget for 2012-13, which would have required a 20 percent increase in taxes. The council spent weeks whittling that down to an $83 million proposal, which maintained staffing levels.
Finizio then announced the public safety layoffs after a public hearing on the budget but before the council gave its final approval. In response, the council eliminated the five city hall jobs in order to save the public safety positions.
After the meeting, Passero shook hands with all the councilors and thanked them for their work.
Finizio did not alter the $40.5 million school budget, which in effect means it is approved. More than 65 members of the school department have been put on notice that they their positions may be eliminated. The Board of Education has not yet acted on those proposed cuts. Taxpayers now have the opportunity to petition for a referendum on the budget.
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DHD UHac/UHac Rooms
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For this hackathon, we are trying an experiment with two rooms and a different purpose for each room: one for pure hacking and one for optional talks, tutorials, and meetings. For the second one, we have a schedule.
1 The Applicative Room
This room exists for applying your energy to hacking. If you don't want to be disturbed by people interrupting your deep thoughts for a presentation, you should hang out in this room.
Note that the room shouldn't necessarily be quiet. We are dealing with people after all, and people are at the hackathon to collaborate and discuss and socialize. What we mean is that nobody will turn out the lights so you can see the projection and nobody will start shouting to be heard in the opposite corner.
2 The IO Room
We expect that occasionally somebody will want to give a presentation updating others on their project. We also might have some tutorials or meetings. If you want to do any of these things, then the
Note that this room is not exclusive for just talking. Anybody is welcome to use the room for hacking or other purposes. If you don't mind that somebody might start talking loud or turning out the lights, then by all means, use the room.Reserve your spot in the
- Friday, April 20
- Saturday, April 21
|9:00 - 19:00
|Nothing (yet)
- Sunday, April 22
|9:00 - 19:00
|Nothing (yet)


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haha, James goofing off at work:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k1sTkNfM_g
still the best winners.
BJ and Tyler are better out of all winners.
3'8" after hanging out with the Ents formerly known as puddin
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