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A miniature, battery-free, wireless, cardiac implant being developed by a U-M researcher and the Ann Arbor company Integrated Sensing Systems, Inc. (ISSYS), has received important funding that could get it to patients more quickly.
A $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will help a research team, led by Martin Bocks, M.D., and ISSYS, Inc., to complete the final preclinical testing required before seeking approval under Food and Drug Administration's Humanitarian Device Exemption pathway. Bocks is a pediatric cardiologist with the University of Michigan Congenital Heart Center and the U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.
"We are extremely excited to continue working with ISSYS to develop a wireless, implantable pressure sensor for our patients with complex forms of congenital heart disease," says Bocks, the project's medical principal investigator.
"This pressure sensor has the potential to greatly improve the care we provide to our most complex patients and will provide us with unprecedented opportunities to learn more about their unique physiology. We appreciate the NIH and the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) for their willingness to fund research on patients with rare, severe forms of congenital heart disease."
Bocks and his team at U-M have been working on this device – which will be used in infants and children — for three years. The 2.5-year grant will help test a device that will reduce the need for invasive cardiac catheterization procedures and provide a better understanding of congenital heart disease.
The device is a wireless, battery-free, miniature pressure sensor that is implanted within a heart chamber, Bocks says. Once implanted, doctors can measure pressure inside the heart while the patient is being seen in the outpatient clinic without having to do a heart catheterization. In the future, such monitoring may be performed remotely or from the home.
The device, which would stay in place permanently, is initially planned for use in patients with functional single ventricle conditions, such as hypoplastic left heart syndrome. It could be used in other forms of pediatric and adult heart disease in the future.
"We hope it would be going to market by year 2013," Bocks says. "We expect the device to decrease the number of heart catheterizations, help doctors better monitor the effects of medications, and provide early detection for conditions such as blood clots in lungs."
"We also hope that it will help us conduct more research," he adds. "We'll be able to obtain information from patients when they are sleeping, or exercising – information we had not been able to get to before."
The device is important because it will allow researchers to conduct more tests on these patients, which will lead to better treatments, says Nader Najafi, Ph.D., ISSYS President and CEO and the project's technical principal investigator.
"This grant helps us develop wireless, intelligent, miniature implants for patients with congenital and structural heart diseases. It paves the way for the start of clinical studies in infants and children with complex congenital heart defects," he says.
"The pediatric medical device field represents unique commercialization challenges due to its small size and stringent requirements," Najafi adds. "We are grateful to the NIH for this needed support for the challenging pediatric device field. The results of this effort will have important spillover effects for broader applications within the field of adult and pediatric cardiovascular medicine."
About C.S. Mott Children's Hospital:
The University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital is consistently ranked as one of the best hospitals in the country. It was nationally ranked in all ten pediatric specialties in the U.S. News Media Group's 2011 edition of "America's Best Children's Hospitals" including third in the country for heart and heart surgery. The hospital is now in a new 1.1 million square feet, $754 million state-of-the-art facility that is home to cutting-edge specialty services for newborns, children and women.
About ISSYS:
ISSYS is a leader in advanced MEMS technologies for industrial, medical devices, microfluidic and scientific analytical sensing applications. Founded in 1995, ISSYS is one of the oldest independent MEMS companies in the US. ISSYS operates a "full manufacturing under one roof," multi-million-dollar, state-of-the-art MEMS fabrication facility located near Ann Arbor, Michigan. ISSYS' quality system is ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 13485:2003 (medical products) certified. The quality system is also compliant to EN 13980:2002 for its ATEX/IECEx approved intrinsically-safe products. ISSYS is a vertically integrated company dedicated to developing and manufacturing system-level products based on MEMS technology (MEMS Inside). Please visit: http://www.mems-issys.com/
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"Intarsia" is color knitting comprised of large areas of color. This Stars + Stripes Felted Hot Pad is a typical example of intarsia knitting:
Some Basic Rules
Intarsia knitting isn't hard, but there are some basic rules to know.
Unlike fair isle knitting, the yarn is not stranded across the back of the work in intarsia knitting. Instead, you have a separate ball of yarn for each area of color. If you have a lot of color changes in one row, you may want to wind the separate colors onto bobbins to help you stay organized.
The other important rule to keep in mind is that when you switch from one color to the other you have to "twist" the yarns in order to avoid holes. I like to think of it as "trapping" the yarn, because you put the yarn you're finished using in front of the new yarn, trapping it between the new yarn and the knitting. This manoeuvre is always done on the wrong side of the work.
Here are all the scenarios you will encounter knitting intarsia:
Vertical Lines
The red lines in this picture show color changes that form vertical lines:
When the color change forms a vertical line, knit to the change, bring the old yarn in front of the new yarn (again, on the wrong side of the work), and knit the new color stitch.
Here is what that looks like when you're knitting a right side row:
And here it is purling a wrong side row:
Diagonal Color Changes
When the color design is at a diagonal, twisting depends on if the design is slanting to the right or to the left. If it is slanting to the RIGHT as you're looking at it, you need to twist the yarns, regardless of whether you're on the knit or the purl side of the piece.
The moments marked in red are right slants on the knit side:
The twist in that case would look like this:
On the purl side, the right slant color changes happen along this red line and also require a twist:
The twist on the purl side looks like this:
If the design is slanting to the LEFT, like this:
Or like this:
You don't need to twist the yarns at all. You can just drop the old yarn and start knitting or purling with the new yarn.
If you find this right versus left slant confusing (sometimes I do!), it's fine to just always twist the yarns. When in doubt, twist!


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text: Nazmus Shakib Khandaker 527 Posted October 19, 2013 I have discovered a major problem in upgrading to Windows 8.1 from a retail install of Windows 8. To help as many users be aware of this problem, I am posting this topic in various places, solely to help the community. I have nothing to gain from this. I also spent hours trying to find a good solution, and Alhamdullillah, I found one! I posted this as s reply to this post. I hope you find this beneficial. I am reporting to you with a very important precaution for anyone who has Windows 8 retail and is planning to upgrade to Window 8.1 for free through the Windows Store. This is serious because you may loose the ability to refresh or reset Windows once you do the upgrade, and there is no easy way to fix this, currently.This applies to every one who bought and installed a retail copy of Windows 8 (including those who took advantage of the $40 upgrade offer). Here?s a quick background on what the reset and refresh functionality is. Basically, it is a ?push-button? reinstallation of Windows. The refresh option allows you to reinstall Windows while keeping your files and settings intact, and the reset option allows you to do a easy, once-click, clean install of Windows. This feature is very important, as you might need to reinstall your OS if you are experiencing slowdowns or are infected by a computer virus. If you have purchased and installed a retail copy of Windows 8 and have upgraded to Windows 8.1, you have essentially lost this crucial feature, Please see below for details on this. Below, please refer to the scenario that applies to you. You either upgraded to Windows 8 electronically or used an upgrade DVD or ISO. If You Installed Windows 8 Electronically from Windows.com Many have installed Windows 8 electronically from Microsoft. This includes many who took advantage of the $40 upgrade offer. If you have done this, the web installer created an ESD file on your hard drive that allowed you to refresh or reset your Windows 8 PC. The ESD file is located in a hidden ESD folder on your main drive (usually the C drive). It is a few gigabytes in size and provides all the necessary files needed to reset or refresh you PC at anytime you needed. See the image below: You were also given the option to delete the ESD file using Disk Cleanup if you wanted to free up some disk space, but that would mean you would loose the ability to refresh or reset. After You Install Windows 8.1 Through the Windows Store When you upgrade to Windows 8.1 through the Windows Store, you are not provided with an updated ESD file. Windows 8.1 cannot use the original Windows 8.0 ESD file to reset or refresh. As such, if you attempt to refresh or reset Windows 8.1, you will see this error message, asking you for the Install media. However, you were never provided the install media and you are stuck! Please see the image below: If You Installed Windows 8 from a DVD or ISO Image You might have purchased a Windows 8 upgrade DVD from a retailer. Alternatively, you might have purchased Windows 8 upgrade electronically from Microsoft, but, instead, you might have created an ISO image, burned it to disk and installed it from there. In either case, the following applies to you. Windows 8 installations that were done through the DVD or ISO can only refresh or reset using the DVD or USB drive containing the installation files. When you need to reset or refresh Windows 8, you will first need to insert the Installation media in your drive and then reset or refresh your PC from PC settings. After You Install Windows 8.1 Through the Windows Store When you upgrade to Windows 8.1 through the Windows Store, you essentially get a brand new OS. Therefore, you can?t use your original Windows 8.0 install media to reset or refresh Windows 8.1 if you ever need to. Even if you have your original Windows 8 install media in the drive, you will get an error message when you attempt to refresh or reset your PC, asking you to provide the install media. However, you were never provided the install media and you are stuck! Please see the image below: Final Thoughts Of course, one solution is to give Microsoft over a hundred dollars to get a Windows 8.1 DVD, with which you can refresh or reset, but that is not a pleasant solution. However, after digging through possible solutions, I have finally found one that actually works. Please see my reply post below for a possible solution to this problem that Microsoft (out of mere stupidity) created for its paying customers. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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There are several versions of PowerPivot available and starting with Excel 2013 there are also several versions of Excel. It is useful to look at the compatibility between the different versions of Excel and PowerPivot available now.
As a general rule when you have a PowerPivot workbook saved with a specific version of PowerPivot:
First caveat: you can open an Excel 2010 workbook containing a PowerPivot data model in Excel 2013, but once you save it in Excel 2013, you can no longer open it in Excel 2010. This is because a different file format for PowerPivot data used by Excel 2013 that cannot be understood by Excel 2010.
Second caveat: A file saved in Excel 2010 with PowerPivot 2012 (RTM or SP1) cannot be opened by an Excel 2010 running PowerPivot 2008 R2.
Each workbook has a compatibility level for PowerPivot data that corresponds to the PowerPivot version used to save the data. Here is the list of currently available compatibility levels:
The following table tells you what happens when you try to open an Excel 2010 file in a certain compatibility level (columns) with a certain version of PowerPivot (rows):
Not Supported
++ It is important to call out that it is *not* supported editing 1050 PowerPivot models in the 2012 release – you *have to* upgrade the model to 110x before you can edit/refresh the model.
A detailed list of errors you can have opening different a workbook with a different compatibility level than the current version of PowerPivot you have is available in the article Version compatibility between PowerPivot Data Models in Excel 2010 and Excel 2013. As the article mention, PowerPivot for SharePoint can open PowerPivot workbooks of previous compatibility levels, but in order to upgrade the data on the server (scheduling a data refresh) you need to upgrade the workbook to the newer format.
You have to be careful using PowerPivot in mixed environment, especially when you want to share an Excel file containing PowerPivot data. Once you refresh PowerPivot data, you need to upgrade the compatibility level if you opened the workbook with a newer version of PowerPivot, and once you do that, your colleague with a previous version of PowerPivot can no longer open the same workbook. Saving the file on SharePoint makes it possible to navigate into data, but you need a correspondent or newer version of PowerPivot on SharePoint than that used to save the file.
For these reasons, when we provide the examples for our PowerPivot Workshop and our book for Excel 2010, the sample files are saved with the older version of PowerPivot (2008 R2). Now that we are working on the Excel 2013 version of the book and of the workshop (soon to be available!), we are finally going to release samples using a newer version of Excel and PowerPivot.
Bought several different PowerPivot books and trying to learn, but have not been too successful. In spite of the hype and all the books written by so many authors, PowerPivot just does not seem ready for prime time use. The idea is good, but so many issues, and so much time required to track errors down--almost not worth the trouble--and now find it difficult to trust PowerPivot.
I am in a learning mode, so not mission critical. If I were to rely upon PowerPivot to build a real application, it would be problematic.
So much promise heralded in the books, and such potential, all wasted in the poor execution. Good thing it is a free add-in. Very disappointing. No wonder the other vendors are still doing well. MS had potential of being # 1 in self-service BI with PPVT, if it worked well.
I am running Excel 2010 32-bit on Vista 64-bit with 16 GB RAM and Quad-Core CPU, so it is not that my machine is inadequate.
amount of interest
Thank you for the feedback.
In order to be useful (for articles and book), can you be more specific about the reasons why you are not successful using PowerPivot?
Is this because of DAX Language, some bug in the product, some limitation in calculation and/or data modeling, ... ?
What do you see in other product that is better in this regards?
Thanks again,
Hi Marco,
my name is Kuba and I hope you could help me with issues I encounter with Powerpivot. I created a report based on a simple data model. It has a significant amount of data, however I thought it is still acceptable from Powerpivot perspective. The file is around 100MB.
I use a machine with 8 cores and 16 GB of RAM. However, if I start playing with different attributes from data and move them around ROWS, COLUMNS and FILTERS, I end up with Excel eating almost 15GB of RAM. Then, I start receiving strange errors in Powerpivot about expired sessions etc. It seems as if the tool was quite unstable. What I also noticed is that Excel does not release the memory. It does not matter if the report has complex layout and filters or it is as simple as possible - Excel will occupy those 15BB of RAM as long as I reopen the file. Any ideas why it is like that? Is it a memory management bug?
Kuba, the issue you describe might be related to some measure that materializes data in memory during query. If this is the case, you have some measure in the data model that could be optimized, but it's hard to make such a diagnosis without analyzing the data model in detail.
If the memory raise up also on simple measures such as SUM(table[column]), then the cause could be something else.
In Excel 2013 I observed some instability (and I hope that a Service Pack will be released soon for that) but it's the first time I heard about memory consumption so huge - unless it's caused by some measure.
I am facing problems regarding the stability of the Power pivot that it keep crshing on me & I am loyhe data. many times I have faced the message (Document not saved) & always when I close the power pivot window the whole excel sheets is crashing & the windows asking me to explor the internet to find a solution & every time no solution appears.
I appreciat your support
Which version crashes? You should open an incident with Microsoft Support for this type of issues in order to get some assistance. I have experienced some instability but more with Excel 2013 than with Excel 2010.
can i open a Excel 2013 file (with a PowerPivot and a PowerView, without Tabular Model) in a Sharepoint 2010 PowerPivot Gallery (with SQL2012)?
Massimo, you need SharePoint 2013 in order to open an Excel 2013 file with PowerPivot and/or PowerView.
I agree with one of the above commentators - PowerPivot in Excel 2010 is more like a beta version than the finished product.
My current is that after saving I cannot re-open the same Powerpivot on the same machine. Something to do with having installed SQL Server Express 2012 after Excel 2010 + Powerpivot 32 bit I reckon.
Badrul, this is strange. PowerPivot in Excel 2010 is more stable than in Excel 2013, at least if you use the latest build of the PowerPivot add-in (currently SP1 CU5). If you have a case that you can repro, I suggest you openin an incident with Microsoft support, they usually are able to identify and solve this type of setup issues.
I have upgrade that goes totally wrong. How can that be ?
I have a powerpivot and before upgrade its connected to "thisworkbookdatamodel"
After accepting upgrade it explodes some of the connections inside powerpivot and make several connections inside excel all connected to same powerpivot pivottable but with weird connection strings.
I have no clue where to look and it seems weird there isnt any info or tool related this. It doesnt seem solid that a file can be this fragile between versions.
Michael, do you know in which version you saved the file?
In any case, it's better opening an incident with Microsoft support for this type of issues.
Hi Marco
We have upgraded to Office 2013, specifically for the new features and capabilities in PowerPivot 2013. I am rather disappointed though because upon refreshing data the report doesn't want to save, or give various other error reasons. I find myself having to repair my office 2013 constantly.
Just my 2c worth.
Hi Marco, I've been tasked with creating a powerpivot self serve solution for our organization and I wanted to know if there are any compatibility issues between 32-bit and 64-bit created files as we have multiple people on a combination of both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms
ie. if I create a powerpivot with 32-bit, is someone with 64-bit able to open, use, manipulate the data?
Everyone in the office either runs Windows XP with 32-bit powerpivot,
Windows 7 64-bit with 64-bit powerpivot or Windows 7 32-bit with powerpivot 32-bit
moving from 32 to 64 bit and from 64 to 32 bit is not an issue (you might have not enough memory available in 32 bit if the workbook saved in 64 bit is very large - where large means an Excel file larger than 250MB). The problem is PowerPivot compatibility between different version of Excel, as described in the blog post.
Thank you very much Marco, appreciate the quick reply.
Hi Marco.
I have just come across your Blog in search of solution to an issue with Excel 2013 x64 and Powerpivot in fact I have had the same problem across Excel 2010 and the 2012 addin.
Do you now why the data connections, specifically one is to MSAS Cube on an SQLServer and the other is to a Teradata DB, WILL NOT save the connection passwords. The appearance is that the passwords are saved but when a Refresh is done the password is requested each time .Only while still in the Data Model will it connect and refresh.
Once loaded up to Sharepoint 2013 it is useless because it can't be refreshed.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
First of all, I just wanted to let you know that I've been learning a lot about Power Pivot through out your You-tube tutorials and presentations, thanks for that.
I have been working with power pivot reports successfully with no problems at all, but I got an error message today when I tried to update my Power Pivot file, it said: SQLException64
Microsoft PowerPivot Engine
Do you have any idea why this happened and how to fix it?
Thanks Marco.
I have a very simple question.
Is it possible to schedulate in Office 365 a data refresh (through gateway configuration) for an Excel 2013 power pivot with a SQL Server 2008R2 data source? Or do I necessary have a Sql server 2012? That is: is it possibile to offer the customer an Office 365 Power BI solution without upgrading to SQL 2012?
Thank you very much and many congratulation for your excellant work.
Hi Simona,
you can schedule a data refresh using SQL Server 2008 R2 as a data source. I'm sure it works with SQL Server 2008 and (if I remember well) also with SQL Server 2005.
Thanks for the nice words!
I accessed excel file from another system in my office, saving takes about 10 minutes the file size is 261MB.
It could be an issued caused by the network speed - have you tried to copy the file locally?
PowerPivot=Garbage, until the instability and crashes are addressed. Can't change Measure names after-the-fact (if you change a few at once, all measures break with a yellow error icon), too many add-in crashes where the file can't be saved, and you basically have to nuke your installation of Excel-- and this is just after creating some pretty basic things and not really pushing any limits. Maybe in 2 or 3 years after MS stabilizes things, it could be more reliable, and therefore more useful. Right now, though (and this is after 2 YEARS), it still feels very beta. It's one thing for a Google web service to feel beta, but for hardcore business backend data analysis app to feel beta like this, it's pretty unacceptable, IMO..
Morgan, I wouldn't agree with the definition of garbage :-) (many companies actually use Power Pivot in production), but I agree with the stability issue that affects Excel 2013 version (Excel 2010 seems better).
My current organization use Microsoft office 2007. Since from my previous organization I m hands on working on power pivot so requested them and got a single desktop licence version of Microsoft Office standard 2010. I have been facing issue in installing the power pivot even after installing the .Net Framework4 and Visual for 2010 but excel is not opening up now. It opened only once and I cud see powerpivot icon in the excel (making me happy just for that moment). I closed the file and opened again but since then excel is just in starting... mode. I have done several uninstall/install process but nothing is helping me.
Can you please help?
Nikhil, for these setup issues I would suggest you contacting Microsoft Support. They have much more tools to diagnose the issue you have.
Probably there is some conflict on your machine, but it's hard to say what without a detailed analysis.
Hello Marco.
Is it possible to use PowerPivot for Sharepoint2013 with SQL 2008 R@2? Or SQL sevre must be upgraded on SQL 2012? In that case is it possible to use SQL2012 standard edition?
Alex, you need SQL 2012 or SQL2014 with a Business Intelligence or Enterprise edition. The Standard edition does not have Tabular model for SSAS.
I am trying to connect to a SQL Server 2014 Express install from Power Pivot Excel 2010, but it says that the SQL Server instance doesn't exist. Shouldn't I be able to make that connection or is there probably some other issue going on?
Is SQL 2014 Express on the same machine?
Yes it is, I was just curious if you could only connect to SQL 2012 with Excel 2010 or if that was the limitation.
I don't have a machine to repro - I have Excel 2010 on machines that also have SQL 2012 - so if the problem is some missing driver, I cannot repro. However, if this is the issue, you might try installing OLE DB driver from SQL Server 2012 (search for SQL Server 2012 Feature Pack)
Can you use PowerPivot for SharePoint 2013 with SQL2008R2 to build to upload excel models and reports without using tabular>
No, you need SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence or Enterprise edition to implement PowerPivot for SharePoint 2013
But I can upload Excel 2013 files with powerpivot model inside it and share it with another users (internal and external)? Right?
Yes of course - just Power Pivot for SharePoint will not work with these files.
Sometimes when opening a file it tells me that Excel was able to open the file by repairing or removing unreadable content, at which point I see that some pivot slicers have been removed. Based on a proposed solution I found, I've saved my file from binary to macro enabled workbook and back to binary, but I'm worried about whether this will be a permanent fix or if it will just recur at some point in the future.
Do you have any insight into the cause of this issue and whether the fix I have tried will actually suffice?
Jared, I never experienced this issue - I suggest you to post the message in Power Pivot forum on MSDN and/or to open an incident support with Microsoft.
Our company has excel 2010 and SharePoint 2013. I want to use power view and power pivot. I am confused as what I can install. I was doing some reading and I believe I can't use power view in SharePoint 2013 cause of the Excel 2010 limitation. Can you let me know what I can install?
it is not an ideal situation. You should be able to upload a Power Pivot 2010 document to a SharePoint 2013 Library and then use Power Pivot for SharePoint - but every time your workbook will be upgraded to Excel 2013 by SharePoint, so you will be no longer able to download and edit it without Excel 2013. However, it should work in one-way only, but you have to install Power Pivot for SharePoint too (which requires SharePoint ENterprise + SQL Server 2012/14 Business Intelligence or Enterprise edition for the licenses).
Thanks for your great blog. I have created an Excel Sheet in Excel 2010 with Powerpivot add in. My customer can open the file, but get the following error message: "Initalization of the data source failed". I have tried to open the file in Excel 2013 and after upgrading the file, it works fine. Is it probable to assume that my client has an earlier version of powerpivot for 2010 (for example for server 2008 instead of 2010?. We both use 32-bit versions. It can be noted that neither of use any server connections to Sharepoint.
Best regards,
Additional info for my earlier post. My version is 11.0.3000.0 and his is 10.50.4000.0 (that is server 2008 ver) I guess these are not compatible and the solution is for him to install 11.0.3000.0 (that is server 2012 ver)?
BR Simon
Yes he needs a version 11, version 10.50 cannot open version 11 - you have to upgrade to SQL 2012...
I would like to thank you for writing the most honest book I have read on power-pivot, I was in entice into upgrading to office 2013, with the understanding that PowerPoint would provide access to millions of rows of data have read "powerpivot for data analyst" and "power bi with excel 2013", what I did not understand or grasp is the fine print that reveals that while you may be able to load a millions rows of data into the powerpivot, power query,myou would not be able to extract said data in any mean full way. Hence drill down is limited to 1000 rows. "Microsoft excel 2013: building data models with powerpivot" was the only book I am across with clearly outline the limitations of powerpivot, regarding drill-through options. Considering office 2010 allowed the customisation of the drill-through into raw data it seems rather odd that excel 2013 does not have this feature. I can only assume it is a marketing decision ?
As a reporting tool excel 2013 is great, but to what would you suggest as a tool that enable one to manipulate data in a meaningful way. Ie I am able to fully access the transactional data the is reflected in the report. I am not a computer expert by any means, but I have a good understanding of excel and use macro in excel to create reports that support both operational and reporting requirements.
My definition of a good report is one, that managers and expeditors can both work from. For example, we run a outstanding orders and urgency orders are flagged up and expeditors are able click through and chase those orders, hence managers and expeditors work of the same reports.
Kook forward to your response.
Thanks again for you book.
Kind regards
not sure about what is the question. Excel 2013 has a different architecture and for this reason you have the limitation in drillthrough. I think we'll see something changing with the next release of Excel and the upcoming Power BI - but I would like to get the same answer from Microsoft as you! :)
Thanks for the clarifications. I have a question regarding our setup. We have SharePoint 2013 with PowerPivot working fine. Then we have some collegues running Excel 2010 and some 2013. I'm aware of the ones using 2010 can't open and edit the data model. But shouldn't they be able to connect to the model with excel?
Well, some can I Believe, but for some the "Data link properties"-dialog box opens or when trying to refresh get a error saying they can't connect to the data source.
Do you know what could be missing in their setup?
Yes it should work.
I suggest you calling Microsoft Support for this type of issues, they have a larger knowledge base and might find the issue quickly.
is it possible to open a dashboard created in excel 2013 (created with powerpvit and dax formulas) in excel 2010 (that does not have the powerpivot addin?)
You can open the file and see the numbers of the last save operation, but you cannot refresh the pivot table.
Can PowerPivot of Excel 2010 work with SQL Server Express 2014??
Yes, it is a SQL Server data source.
Hi Marco, now working with an Excel 2013 powerpivot data model connected to a SQL server. Bought your book on this topic which was extremely useful.
Question on setting the connection string extended property with the MDXMissingMemberMode=Ignore, should this work or only with SSAS? Thought Excel communicates with the powerpivot model in MDX so gave it a try but no luck. I want to have my cube formulas avoid erroring out when one dimension member might not exist for good reason. I used this same extended property in a SSAS model with the same cube formulas and it worked just fine.
Pete, I think you cannot change the connection string for Power Pivot - even if the engine is the same, there are differences in the way it communicates with Excel as embedded engine.
Hello Marco - I have a PowerPivot file I created using excel 2010 (32bit) and I have uploaded into our company sharepoint 2013 site but when I open the file and try to use the slicers to see if functionality is working I receive an error message. "PivotTable Operation failed. An error occurred while working om the Data Model in the workbook Please try Again" . The SP admin tells me that SP 2013 can open 2010 files but functionality will not be available. Is there a compatibility issue with SP 2013 and excel 2010 PPVT files?
Joe, you probably have to upgrade the model to Excel 2013 before publishing it in SharePoint 2013 if you want to get all the features. Actually, I thought that an automatic upgrade would have been done by Power Pivot for SharePoint, but as you say, it seems this is not the case.
Marco - yes the SP admin advised me that file needed to be excel 2013 version in order for powerpivot functionality to work so I sent her the file and she converted file to excel 2013 but still receive same error so not sure if converting file to excel 2013 made a difference.
This is strange - I suggest you to open an incident support case with Microsoft.
Hi Marco, my Company has SharePoint 2013, but I would really like to have some og the new features in Excel 2016, like Boxplots, Waterfall plots, and the new DAX formulas Median and Percentile etc... Would it be possible for SharePoint 2013 to run PowerPivot models and reports made in Excel 2016? Or would I get compatibility problems?
Hello Marco, our partner is using excel 2010 to create a pivot table and I am using excel 2013, which could open the file and use the pivot table, but when I refresh it, all data is gone. When check the data resource, the range is still there but they don't reflect on the table anymore.
Michael: there is a full compatibility of Power Pivot model binary format between 2013 and 2016, but any new feature in 2016 cannot be displayed in 2013. You should expect the same behavior in SharePoint, waiting for SharePoint 2016 if you use some of the new features in Excel 2016.
Will: when you open an Excel 2010 data model in Excel 2013/2016, you should see a prompt asking you to upgrade the data model. You have to confirm that, and the file has to be saved on a folder (when you open it from an attachment or a zip file, it might not upgrade resulting in what you described).
Excel 2010.Power Pivot window is used to connect to the sql server database and imported number of tables,created pivot charts and saved the work book.
When the work book reopened ,i could not find the power pivot button in the saved work book!
Is there any way to retrieve the model i created
It seems the result of a crash of Excel. Open Task Manager and see if in process list (tab Details) you still have Excel open, if yes, kill the process. Otherwise you can logoff and logon (or restart) to obtain the same result.
Thanks.It is working now!
I am having an issue with the connection. I have created a data model and saved it use the excel UI. Then created an interactive dashboard using tables and charts from power pivot. Now during the refresh process for another user, an error pops up and removed the connection to the data file. This is now removing the data feed to the charts and visual created.
The real reason the data model was created using the EXCEL UI instead of the Power Pivot UI is because the file has beem moved to different locations and the connection string keep breaking.
I am using flat flies currently can am not able to direct connect.
Any suggesion??
Sorry I am not sure how to help you on this - probably you should ask to Microsoft support if you have a problem like that.
Is PowerPivot for Excel 2013 32 bit compatible with SQL Server 2014 SP2 Enterprise 64bit ?
It should be!
How or can we get SharePoint 2013 to render a DAX that has the VAR function?
I believe this VAR function new in DAX 2015.
You cannot - you should remove the use of VAR from the DAX code.


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So basically I started one of my last semesters (only one class left after this) in college with what I believe to be a pivotal and relevant course, Software Engineering. For those that haven't taken it or have a different version, a group of students propose an application and go through the entire software design process. The parts where it begins via diagrams, modeling, use cases, interface, to eventually writing code. I am sure this is going to be the hardest work I've done in my college career but I'm sure it's the most relevant to my career after college. I'm pretty psyched, I so far have a cool group and there's a lot of learning to be done since we'll be using databases and interfaces (which I know just not in java swt/swing or the like).
I guess after this course I'll at least have a better taste of a working environment than pretty much all of my programming courses.
Plus I like hearing my teacher say, "You're taking this course so you can make more money".


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Don't remember her using the name "Fatima Rose" as the story stated – it was Fatima LaRose as I recall.


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In 1949, Lillian Disney expressed interest in a piece of L.A. land in a neighborhood called Holmby Hills. Lillian and her cartoonist husband Walt purchased the property and built their dream home, which still stands today.
And now, more than six decades later, the home is on the market for $90 million, reports Forbes. Chief executive of private investment firm Brener International Group and co-owner of the Houston Dynamo soccer team Gabriel Brener bought the home from the Disneys in 1998 for $8.45 million, a year after Lillian's death.
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Brener tore the house down and built a brand-new 35,000-square-foot mansion, which boasts eight bedrooms, 17 baths, a two-story entry foyer, and staff quarters. There's also a custom movie room, three bars, a library, gym, wine cellar, and two safe rooms. The property includes a swimming pool with pool house, tennis court, and putting green. It also offers the utmost privacy.
When the Disneys owned the property, Walt built a 1/8-scale steam railroad with a half-mile of track (including overpasses, a 46-foot-long trestle and an S-shaped underground tunnel) with a standalone barn with a control room in the back yard. The train would become known as the Carolwood Pacific Railroad, and according to Forbes "would serve as part of the inspiration to create Disneyland."
Though the home has been razed, the 90-foot subterranean tunnel remains, with an ivy-covered stone archway with the date "1950" marking its entrance.
So, there's still a hint of Disney magic, after all.
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Lionel Train Town Ultra
Throughout my childhood, I can remember my dad having a pretty great old model train set he'd put together over the years.
As years went by, there was no longer room for that set, so it went into storage. We ended up substituting a train set game on the Tandy for the time we'd spent on the real thing. It sure didn't meet the same standards.
Sierra's game features over seventy missions, all geared towards the younger set. Some of the harder missions are difficult even for someone my age to figure out. Generally, the missions center on moving cargo from location to location. It can get kind of confusing moving the boxes in the right direction, compensating for the lack of room at the end of a track, and adjusting your cars correctly. Of course, time is of the essence, and if you're speed is too fast or too slow you may cause an accident, or not finish the job in time.
The controls are easy to learn, and the tutorial got me into it quickly. While I'd say this is the perfect train game for a younger kid, it does lack one features I'd have liked to have seen. I would have liked to have been able to make my own tracks. Who knows where the trains would lead to!
Overall, it's a worthwhile game for the kids, but it probably won't keep an older person's attention too long. I will confess blowing the whistle was probably my favorite task in the entire game.
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You mean you actually JUMPED in!?! I would never...
But what a serene and beautiful place to swim...if only all the people would go away.
Ooooh!! I'm first I'm first I'm first!!!!
I totally love all the vacation pictures, and yes, I'm totally jealous! Not only of the vacation, but of being child-free. For a week. A. Whole. Week.
I'd go to Alaska and live in an iceberg - in my bathing suit - for an opportunity like that! lol
I wanted to stop by and thank you for your support. I love it when my friends will hate someone simply because I do.
That's so sweet.
I may just send that letter to Stupid Lazy Lifeguard.
Wouldn't THAT feel good? lol
Oh noooooo! Kat beat me!!
I would have jumped! The water looks so inviting. Too bad all the other people don't. Loving all these vaca pictures. I'm still trying to save my pennies so I can go someday.
Oh that looks fun! Except for the treading water part. It's so beautiful.
That is a beautiful swimming hole - WOW! We've been to Mexico many times and yet we've never done the tour to Chichen Itza - one day we will!
Nice to see you Angie - take care - Kellan
BTW - I started a new blog (htt://kellan-ontheflipside.blogspot.com) and I am planning on writing some on issues of twins. I'd love to hear your point of view when I publish those posts.
See ya - Kellan
Looks gorgeous, except for the crowds. Swimming holes here get like that too - you could practically walk across without getting wet just by stepping on the bodies!
It looks beautiful and refreshing after the heat. You really are making me envious now. Thank you for sharing your vacation with us.
Wow! Great pictures; I am so jealous.
P.S. Thanks for your help with the rules.
Simply breathtaking!!! I think this place will be on our list of things we could do for our 15th anniversary.
OK, Angie, I'm still SERIOUSLY jealous! But glad you had a good time, gal! OK, down to the serious stuff--You're a Winner! Yup, you won the latest Great Pop'rs Giveaway! I'll get be in touch--congratulations!!
So beautiful. I'm really sorry everyone was such a drag. Imagine how cool it would've been had it just been you and your hubby.
Wow that is gorgeous! I am really jealous now. Seriously, stop.
Makes me want to go there now. So pretty and looks like a fun place for a swim. Did Jeff go in?
This place looks amazing, stupid people and all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow! That is a gorgeous place.... and yeah, remind me not to TICK YOU OFF! I've seen a look like that before... the "if looks could kill..." look. Anyway, what an awesome experience.
Oh man, I'm so counting the days (which is interesting since I'm not sure WHEN we're going). I love the pouty picture! I would be doing the same thing.
And I sure as heck wouldn't have the nerve to jump....keep the pictures coming...I'm loving every minute of them.
i don;t want you to go back to regular life! i have loved all the photos and bragging!!
I don't think i would have the guts to jump, but Im loving your blog, I feel like i get to go on a nice vacation everytime I come over!
oooh, that is a gorgeous location! i love the pouty picture...too funny! actually, the whole post was...well...genius :)
I'm glad that you have been dragging out the vacation. I think it is so fun. This place is beautiful, but you are one brave chica to get in. I can be a wimp about those types of things. Way to go!
Wow! That looks amazing! I would love to swim there!!
And I would've kicked those people, too!
Wow, what an amazing vacation! Those kinds of swimming spots are a dream come true. We found some in the Philippines similar to that. It must have been so hard to leave. Keep posting more, they're beautiful!
Hey, I've been there. Isn't that the hole where the Mayans used to throw their dead sacrifices? Did you climb the sweaty stairs inside the pryamid? Yeah...I did too...
You are very brave. I don't think I'd actually jump. Looks like a great vacation for you two!
Just read to the bottom and have to say: thanks for taking me on vacation with you :)! I've seen so much more of the world since I started blogging! That looks like a simply amazing vacation. And you are one brave woman for doing it!!!
Also wanted to thank you for the prayers and well wishes on my behalf. I truly feel their strength and protection.
Hoping you have a GREAT week!
loving the pictues of the vacation, keep the coming... maybe i will go on one... yeah right?
I just happened upon your blog and love it. What beautiful pics! I don't think I would be able to make the jump, even at 5ft.
We've been to the ruins, but didn't go swimming. Good for you! Great pictures, especially the first.
What great pictures! I don't know if I would have immediately had the guts to jump, but if I would have thought about it and watched 199 other people do it and survive, maybe! :)
How fun...it would be a whole lot better if you two got the cenote to yourselves.
OH....I've been there and now want to go back! Cenote swimming is amazing. The water is unbelievable. We've done some incredible snorkeling in the Yucatan cenotes!
Love the "look" and I would have freaked if I couldn't get to the ladder when I wanted to!
You honestly must have the biggest cajones on a mom out there!!!
Wow ... that jump makes my butt clench just thinking about it!
Sounds and looks like you had a great vacation. Cenote looks really cool..too bad the crowd wasn't.
Oh absolutely not. Things improved thank you.
That water hole is so cool. I have jumped off a cliff before but not into something that cool. GO YOU!
That looks oh so awesome! I am definitely jealous! Thanks for stopping by my corner of the blogosphere!
I'm giggling over here...you look like you are about 12 in your pouting picture. Wonder if you see that look often in your house so you still know how to do it?? J/K.
You should have just started screaming like a wild banshee waving your hands all crazy in the air. I'm sure the crowds would have parted for the loco red head:)
But those first 2 pictures are absolutely breathtaking. SO beautiful.
Wow, that is beautiful. I can't believe you swam there, so lucky... I am jealous. lol.
wow! your way more brave than I ever will be! I would never have jumped in there! I give you a pat on the back just for that alone! :)
Okay, now I am seriously considering cancelling our Disney vacation after seeing how much fun ya'll had!! Who needs Disney, when I can have that much fun? BTW, I will trade my arms for yours any day, girl, what are you talking about? You and hubby look great together. Nice pics. Fun vacation. Officially jealous.
it look so deep, i wouldn't dare swimming in there.
angie, i repiled your comment to the email address jageless.. to long to reply it on blog.
thanks anyway.
Amazing! I have put your vacation on the top of my vacation getaway lists.
I have loved all the bragging photos. Specially the pouting picture. Too funny. I bet it was hard to get back to reality.
Your pouting pic made me laugh OUT loud! I totally would have looked the same way, right down to the arms, (although I don't have any twins to blame for them.)
Being mad at someone for doing something you didn't realize was actually a good idea until after the fact? totally something I would do.
You have all of the bragging rights you need-I have enjoyed all of these stories tremendously.
You really captured your vacation well.
Oh, and you and your husband are like the PERFECT couple btw!
Looks fun Ang!
That place is beautiful. Too bad the people were dumb.
We met dumb people in Jamaica, too.
that looks so awesome!!!
the comment you left me was too funny.... i think some people really recycle that stuff- REALLY! I am waiting on someone to tell me that they cut back on toilet paper.. FUNNY!
You need to add some more pictures. That is way too beautiful, course I can't swim so I would never visit it.
That is beautiful and looks really refreshing.
I'm scared to death of water that is deep & I can't see the bottom so I would have enjoyed it from the side lines.
Cudos to you for going in.
It sounds like you had a ton of fun on your vacation.
Perfect location for a scene in a movie where the lead actor and actress, who hate each other, realize they really love each other. They embrace at the edge before plunging entwined into the cool water. Soaring soundtrack plays over top, but their encounter is cut short when all the idiot locals show up and start hogging the jumping and climbing apparatus.
Of course the production company would spend $17 million to build it on a back lot in Burbank.
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Holy carp, Angie! So many comments since your SITS nod...
Oh, yeah--the post. Ha ha ha. Weight lifter arms. Ha.
It just look fracking funny that everyone looked like frantic scaredy cats trying to get out of the water! That pool looks awesome though! Hail to the fools! u did have fun tho besides that frown on ur face :)
How incredibly cool is that? I would have to jump a few times.
That is beautiful! Only 5 feet? I could do it! I once jumped off a 30 ft cliff into a lake {we won't talk about HOW long it took me to do it..... but I DID jump and survive to tell the tale!}
That looks beautiful. Now wonder it is so crowded!
my Girl came home from her mission trip to Mexico talking about these lakes.
Wonder if she was the 'lady' floating the wrong way? Not impossible.
♡ Pretty typical there has to always be those few to cause trouble. Beautiful pictures though!
You know I love and have requested your vacation posts! You are so funny about your arms. You look amazing. I especially like the stories behind the pictures. Nothing is perfect completely with the world full of idiots... ha ha.
Gorgeous and totally hysterical. That little swimming hole would have been far more enjoyable if it were a bit more private!
It looks beautiful. That area was very cool, though I didn't get to swim there.
seriously beautiful, but way too many people. sort of ruins it. it's a place you'd like to go skinny dipping with just your honey.


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It seems that most authors use the phrase "elementary number theory" to mean "number theory that doesn't use complex variable techniques in proofs."
I have two closely related questions.
- Is my understanding of the usage of "elementary" correct?
- It appears that advanced techniques from other areas (e.g. algebra) are allowed, just not complex variables. Are there historical reasons for why complex analysis singled out as a tool to avoid?
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Soy Poderosa: Why Millennial Latinas Lead in Texas and Beyond
As a young working professional Poderosa, as a college graduate, and as I have seen in communities across the Americas, I know first-hand intelligent and motivated Millennial Latinas achieve and overcome what some would consider insurmountable obstacles.
Written by Hemly Ordonez and cross-posted in partnership with the National Latina Institute of Reproductive Health as part of the 2012 Latina Week of Action.
This profile of Hemly Ordonez is one of several of powerful Latina women advocates throughout the United States.
As a young working professional at Poderosa, as a college graduate, and as I have seen in communities across the Americas, I know first-hand intelligent and motivated Millennial Latinas achieve and overcome what some would consider insurmountable obstacles. They have not only met their challenges head-on but have come to achieve success at multiple levels. At the age of 14, I staged my first sit-in and I have been a poderosa organizer and policy nerd in local communities ever since. I did not have the words then to describe what intrinsically motivated me to confront perceived obstacles. I followed the example of my mother and father, who were youth activists in Guatemala prior to the civil war before they came to the United States as undocumented immigrants. Through them I understood the importance of garnering collective power to close the gaps in equality. I continued on my journey as an ally supporting the effort to create a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) in my high school and founding a youth empowerment conference on higher education so my cousins could access the tools they needed. I was unapologetic about embracing all of my identities and worked tirelessly to protect my dignity and my family's dignity.
I have seen this quality in the Millennial Latinas (and Latinos) that I have had the privilege of working with. As the State Strategies Coordinator at Advocates for Youth, I have had the honor of partnering with the Texas Freedom Network Student Chapters through our Cultural Advocacy and Mobilization Initiative. They are one of our eight state partners that support Millennial leaders and have specifically worked with Latina leaders to improve sex education policy in Texas. Through tireless advocacy in their local communities Millennial Latina youth activists like Rebecca Treviño, Deborah Paz, and April Flores are challenging the political landscape to improve sex education. These poderosas have hosted in-district lobby days, entered public comments at school board meetings, gathered petition signatures for the Education Works Bill, trained their peers, and tabled at community events. They are spokes – poderosas defending access to women's reproductive health services and stood with Planned Parenthood in their local communities of Brownsville, El Paso, and San Marcos pushing back on Texas Governor Rick Perry. These women lead their communities to push back against the dysfunctional attitudes toward sexuality in Texas and to build space for all Latinas to thrive.
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During 2012, with the support of the Texas Freedom Network these Millennial Latina college students have taken on a separate campaign to register voters all summer and will lead get out the vote efforts this fall. They are pushing back against Texas' history of voter discrimination, which under the Voting Rights Act has required the state to seek approval from the Justice Department in order to make any changes to their voting procedure. In March of 2012, the Justice Department, issued an objection to the photo ID requirement based on their estimates that 1.4 million Texans would be disenfranchised. This is evidence that the state of Texas is attempting to sanction voter suppression against students and communities of color. The law deems concealed handgun licenses as an acceptable form of identification for voting, but not a student ID card from colleges and universities. Before this change, students voted in previous elections using state-issued student IDs. The decision for the Texas v. Holder federal case will be released this month. The implications of Texas vs. Holder could trigger a challenge to the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act.
Rebecca, Deborah and April are following a strong multicultural tradition of women of color who must lead in order to preserve our families, our cultures, our communities, and our own political enfranchisement. They are working to hold the state of Texas accountable and ensure that their vote counts. They are pushing back against the threat of voter suppression.
My foremothers carved a path of resistance that propels me to lead every day. These Latinas along with all the student chapter leaders from the Texas Freedom Network represent Millennial women and men leading in their communities.
The slow bigotry of low expectations has birthed a myth that Millennials do not lead and more perniciously that Millennial women do not lead. I am one Latina of a cadre of Millennial women, along with our youth activists in Texas, who are leading micro-movements and tracking policy. We are demonstrating through our actions that Millennial Latinas son Poderosas.
Hemly Ordonez is the State Strategies Coordinator at Advocates for Youth and oversees the Cultural Advocacy and Mobilization Initiative.


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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The three-decade fight for freedom by a Montana man convicted of the 1979 slaying of a teenage classmate entered what could be its final stage this week, when the Montana Supreme Court ordered him back to prison and took away his brief taste of normal life.
But from the time he confessed to out-of-state police four years after the notorious killing of Kim Nees, almost nothing about the Barry Beach case has been routine — and advocates promised they will find other ways to prove his innocence.
Beach, 51, has been a cause celebre among some influential state and national advocates who say his murder confession was coerced. Years of calls for his release culminated in a 2011 judge's order freeing him and laying the groundwork for a new trial, with testimony expected from witnesses who allege Nees was killed in an out-of-control fight among girls.
Before Wednesday, Beach had been free for more than a year, settling into a new life in Billings, with a house and a job, after more than 27 years in prison for the killing. The state Supreme Court's reversal of the 2011 order put him back in prison for what will likely be the rest of his life barring some kind of intervention.
In his last hours of freedom, Beach ate breakfast at a Billings diner where he gathered with a small group of friends including the city's mayor. Wearing a T-shirt that read "I didn't do it," he fielded calls from supporters and said he had received so many text messages that it was wearing out his phone battery.
"It was hard enough to be innocent to begin with," Beach told The Associated Press. "But to be going back, still innocent, for the second time, is just unbelievable."
Less than two hours later he surrendered himself to authorities and was returned to Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, where authorities placed him in an intake unit that holds about 150 inmates.
By Thursday he already was going through the standard process for incoming inmates, including a series of medical and mental health checks and a review of his security status. He'll stay in the intake unit until a bed to opens up in the long-term cell blocks, said Department of Corrections spokesman Bob Anez.
Under normal circumstances that could take months, but for Beach it could be just a few weeks "because obviously he's not a new inmate in the conventional sense," Anez said.
Prior to his release, Beach's good behavior earned him privileges such as a spot on the inmate maintenance crew and a bed on the low-security side of the 1,500 inmate prison. He'll likely be eligible for similar privileges.
Less certain is whether he'll qualify for the least-restrictive area of the prison, the work and re-entry center. That's where prisoners work and live "outside the fence" as employees of the prison's ranch and dairy farm or members of the inmate wildland firefighting crew.
Over the years, Beach's polarizing case has made him nearly a household name in Montana, as his cause collected a lengthy list of supporters, including former state legislators and other elected officials.
The case involves an endless string of strange details such as missing DNA evidence, a bloody palm print at the crime scene that didn't belong to either Beach or Nees and murmurings over the years that a group of women privately was taking credit for the crime. All that, coupled with allegations that a relative to one of those women was on the local police force and broke into the evidence room prior to the trial.
Yet many have joined the victims' immediate family and others in adamant belief of Beach's guilt.
A majority of court justices sided with those supporters when they ruled Tuesday that Beach's lengthy 1983 confession to detectives in Louisiana outweighed hearsay witnesses who told the district court judge in 2011 that Nees might have been killed by a jealous gang of girls.
The court cited past legal setbacks for Beach, including a clemency panel that roundly rejected the innocence claim, and concluded that he "did not provide reliable evidence of his actual innocence that displaced the trial evidence and thus his conviction."
The court indicated its decision concluded Beach's legal "saga." But in this case packed with unusual legal twists and turns nothing seems certain — and advocates led by Centurion Ministries promised to keep pushing for Beach again to be released.
The case has delivered a few legal wins for Beach but they're always followed by more setbacks. His backers were able to get an unusual 2007 clemency hearing that allowed new defense witnesses — but then had to face a strong rebuttal from the original prosecutor and former Gov. Marc Racicot, a political luminary in the state, and a lengthy confession that to many trumps other evidence.
Beach was long ago turned away by the federal courts, but backers believe there could be another chance there given more recent developments. They also could petition the state's high court to rehear the case, although no decision has been made.
His attorney, Peter Camiel, said innocence claims like Beach's always face many hurdles before they are completed.
"For me, personally, it is one of the most unusual cases I have dealt with," Camiel said. "You have to keep your head up most of all because we know our client is innocent."
Before he walked into the Yellowstone County Sheriff's Office to surrender, Beach made the most of his 17 months of freedom, cognizant that it could come to a quick end, his mother said.
He started his own handyman business and later got a job doing maintenance at a hotel. He went water skiing, bowling, camping, fishing and attended local school sporting events. Bobbi Clincher said she hopes those days will come around again but understands her son faces long odds.
"As long as there's a breath in a person, there's a fight, or there should be fight," Clincher said. "It's just been unending ... But there are other courts in the land, and you just continue to do what you have to do."
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A football club in Belgium's top division has declined the offer of a sponsorship deal from a leading Roman Catholic newspaper, for fear of attracting ridicule, Belgian media report - writes Andreas Havinga.
The revelation coincides with news that the Vatican is examining the case of a former Belgian bishop, who resigned in April 2010 after admitting to sexually abusing a family member.
The weekly Kerk&Leven (Church&Life), which claims about one million readers in Flanders, the country's Dutch-speaking region, approached Cercle Brugge with the sponsorship offer in May.
Cercle Brugge is one of two top division football clubs in Bruges, a city in the northwest of Belgium. The decision by the club to decline the sponsorship offer meant the club missing out on income of approximately 50,000 euro (US$66 000).
In keeping with an annual tradition, the club announced it will promote the CliniClowns, a national charity that deploys clowns to entertain hospitalised children. Last year, Cercle Brugge promoted the Catholic development aid agency Caritas International.
The sponsorship offer was made in "a spontaneous contact between Kerk&Leven and our club", Cercle Brugge's commercial director Marc Tanghe told the Belgian daily newspaper Het Nieuwsblad. "They wanted their name on our shorts or underneath the shirt number and offered a very nice deal."
"But given all the scandals in the Catholic Church, especially concerning Bishop Roger Vangheluwe in Bruges, we thought it to be too sensitive," said Tanghe. "We feared becoming a target of ridicule. Moreover, we also thought that it is not appropriate for us as a football club to be associated with a particular way of looking at life."
"Some members of our board would have gladly accepted the financial input. However, Cercle also has supporters who belong to other religions," he said.
"We had to think long and hard about it," Cercle Brugge chairman Frans Schotte told Het Nieuwsblad. "For at least a section of our players, supporters and sponsors, it would have been very difficult to identify with the religious message that would have featured on our shirt."
Cercle Brugge's decision avoided a clash with the Belgian football association, KBVB.
"The rules are clear: in no way may shirt advertising be of a political or religious nature," said spokesperson Nicolas Cornu of the KBVB.
Pope Benedict XVI asked the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith several weeks ago "to look into" the case of the former bishop of Bruges, Vatican spokesperson, the Rev Federico Lombardi, told the news agency AFP on 3 December.
The Pope accepted Vangheluwe's resignation on 23 April, after he admitted to sexually abusing his nephew between 1973 and 1986. Vangheluwe was Belgium's longest-serving Catholic bishop, and was set to retire at the end of 2011.
There are over seven million Catholics in Belgium, about three quarters of the total population. However, Sunday church attendance is said to be below 10 per cent.
[With acknowledgements to ENI. Ecumenical News International is jointly sponsored by the World Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, the World Communion of Reformed Churches and the Conference of European Churches.]


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Jefferson City School Board Addresses Important Topics
JEFFERSON CITY - The Jefferson City school board addressed two major topics at its meeting Thursday night. One issue discussed was extra security in public school buildings. Parents attending a public forum said after the Sandy Hook shooting, safety is a big concern. They also said they are unsure if security cameras and unarmed security officers offer enough protection.
J & J Security said adding armed security guards would make schools safer. Jim Clark said he and other officers are trying to help add necessary resources to Jefferson City schools. "Our kids in our schools need to be safe. They don't need to come home wondering one day...is it gonna (going to) happen to them," Clark said.
Jefferson City school officials said after the Sandy Hook shooting they took steps to protect students by asking the Jefferson City Police Department and the Cole County Sheriff's Department to help monitor schools. "Right now we are not looking at adding armed security to schools," Community Relations David Luther said. "And if we were to move in that direction, it would be with the Jefferson City Police Department."
Increasing taxes in Jefferson City was also discussed at Thursday's meeting. The school board wants to add a 55-cent tax increase to the April ballot. That tax would support a new high school and elementary school. Thirty cents of the increase would go toward the schools, while a 25 cent tax levy would help with safe transportations of students, security, technology, and professional development for faculty and staff.
Officials said if the tax increase is approved, the 25-cent levy would stay in place after a new high school and elementary school are completed.
The school board unamiously agreed to add the tax increase to the April ballot.


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Startup Spotlight: Understoodit – Measuring students' understanding in real time
Startup Spotlight: Understoodit
Founder, Liam Kaufman
Understoodit is a device agnostic web app that runs on devices students already own – smartphones, tablets, netbooks and notebooks – and allows students to anonymously, and in real-time, indicate if they understand or are confused, thus virtually eliminating a student's hesitation in saying "hey, I don't get this" during a lecture in front of 250 other students. Teachers get instant feedback using their own devices on the content they are teaching, and can modify their lectures in the moment to increase understanding.
Kaufman came up with the idea for Understoodit in December, 2011 and launched in April, 2012.
Understoodit was founded and is based in Toronto, Canada
A recipient of multiple degrees over an academic career spanning 10 years, Mr. Kaufman observed the same behavior over and over in lectures, and that was that students were not interacting with their teachers and vice versa. Whatever the reason for the hesitation was, the bottom line was still the same: students were getting lost but not speaking up while their professors, often lecturing to a large number of students, weren't noticing. With Understoodit, a student simply uses the browser based web app on any device and with a single click, anonymously indicates whether they understand what's being discussed – or do not. The student responses are then relayed to a real time dashboard monitored by the instructor, who can then adjust the lecture accordingly.
Mr. Kaufman is currently funding the project on his own and starting small. He built the prototype on his own and worked with a designer to make the interface more user friendly. Currently, Understoodit is being tested by invitation only in a few entry-level computer science courses in and around the Toronto area, and is expected to be made avaliable to the public
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Salem's nineteenth-century Custom House is getting a late-summer makeover.
Salem's nineteenth-century Custom House is getting a late-summer makeover.
Astute passers-by might have noticed the building's majestic columns disappearing off the front entryway one by one in recent weeks. About half of the eight wooden columns — which are combination of Ionic and Corinthian design — are being repaired due to rot caused by insects and water damage.
Additional parts of the building are being restored, including smaller columns on the portico above the front door, and decorative rosette and leaf embellishments fashioned by architect Samuel McIntire nephew, carpenter Joseph McIntire Jr.
The rot, according to Steve Abbott, a National Park Service historical preservationist, is due largely to an infestation of carpenter ants. The building's close proximity to the Salem Harbor makes it particularly vulnerable the elements. Wet wood, Abbott says, attracts insects like the carpenter ants that ate their way up into the columns, leaving gaping holes inside.
Abbott emphasized that the building itself is still structurally sound and that the damaged columns pose more of an aesthetic problem than a structural one. The building will remain open to visitors, who will use the side entrance.
Abbott admits, however, that restoring the columns has by far been the largest project he's tackled in his 10 years with the park service. Bigger even than a few years back when the Custom House boiler broke down in the middle of winter and much of the paint on building's walls and ceiling had to be redone due to damage from the cold.
"This has been more challenging because you have to build a whole pillar," says Abbott, pointing out that though replacing it would be much easier, it would go against the park service's mission to protect the building's "historic fabric."
To restore the pieces, first the 200-pound columns must be hoisted out from under the passageway roof and metal support rods put into place. The yellow pine pillars — which are about 14 feet high and a foot around — are taken into the woodshop next door where the rotten parts are sawed off and replaced with more durable woods such as Spanish cedar or fir.
The most delicate work involves replicating details on the heads of the columns, curvy filigreed pieces with work that was all meticulously hand carved. Here, the carpenters must remove rotted portions and replace them with epoxy which they shape by hand to fit the original contours of the piece.
Layers of white paint are stripped off and the entire finished piece treated with a wood hardener that helps protect it from the elements. To reproduce another Federal style detail, the workers use a router machine to carve long "flutes" into the columns. In total each column requires about 80 hours of work.
Abbott estimates it will take him and his colleague through the winter to finish the columns, after which the two men will continue to repair other areas of the building.
In addition to the Custom House, the National Park Service tends to sites in Saugus and six other Salem buildings including the late 18th-century Hawkes House on Derby Street and the seventeenth-century Narbonne House on Essex Street.
Repair, Abbott says, is nothing new for the 19th-century Custom House, which sees multitudes of tourists each day.
"It cracks and we just repair it …" he says. "That's what we're here for, to preserve and to protect."History of Salem's Custom House
According to the "A Guide to Four Centuries of Design," a publication by the National Park Service:
Built by the U.S. Customs Service in 1819, the Federal-style Custom House served as a governmental office building form 1819 to 1937. The building was in the most fashionable style of the period, featuring a flight of granite steps leading to the formal entrance on the second floor of the building. The Custom House was designed to show that the federal government could build the type of monumental architecture that merchants and captains were used to seeing in Europe, and was a visual reminder of the strength and stability of the federal government.
The author Nathaniel Hawthorne worked at the Custom House from 1847 to 1849. During the latter part of the nineteenth century Salem's maritime trade experienced a drastic change.
National Park Service historian Emily Murphy tells the Gazette, "People working at the Custom House who were in their 80s witnessed a change from exotic trading port into industrial port." During this time, Murphy says, trade switched from a boom on incoming goods like tea, coffee and spices to greater emphasis on industrial exports such as raw cotton and hides.
Today, the Custom House is administered by the National Park Service and is open daily.


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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Inspiring book design...
11 comments:
- meenal @ maison marigold said...
they really are very pretty..i love it when books double as art..thanks for sharing, amanda..and also for your lovely comment on my blog the other day..hope you'll visit again soon!! xx meenal
- April 5, 2011 at 11:04 PM
- email@example.com said...
I have this thing for pretty books. I don't know how to explain it, but sometimes I will choose a book based on the outside because it just draws me to it....these are going to have to be purchased...the colors, the font love love love!! Thanks for sharing.
- April 5, 2011 at 11:29 PM
- Texskiss said...
It's good to know someone else has an appreciation for book cover illustrations! :)
- April 6, 2011 at 12:15 AM
- A Casa da Vá said...
Amanda I want to invite you to check out my giveaway it is a book written by an australian designer and published by Penguin, thought you might like it!
Those covers are so precious, I would love to display on my bookcase! Just checked the link for other covers and there is even more gorgeousness... oh my!
Hugs & kisses from Rio!
- April 6, 2011 at 1:22 AM
- vicki archer said...
Love these....xv
- April 6, 2011 at 2:12 AM
- La Maison Fou said...
Love the cover!
I would think this is a one stop shop recipe book!
- April 6, 2011 at 3:46 AM
- Unknown said...
So uplifting! I am a sucker for great book design, so I will look out for them. Penguin rocks!
Great find!
- April 6, 2011 at 6:31 AM
- Sarah B said...
Gosh, these are very beautiful. I'm a sucker for a nice book cover :)
- April 6, 2011 at 7:17 AM
- Charlotta Ward said...
They are stunning. Like pieces of art.
If we can judge these books by the cover, the content will be exquisite!
x Charlotta
- April 6, 2011 at 12:34 PM
- LiveLikeYou said...
Just beautiful...finally a book you can enjoy without reading...just kidding..
- April 6, 2011 at 11:28 PM
- Sunday Taylor said...
These are so charming, what beautiful covers. Will try to find them, since I love beautiful books and cooking. A great combination for me.
- April 8, 2011 at 7:01 AM


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Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck may have just gotten on a very big man's very bad side.
After theroot.com compiled 33 celebrities and newsmakers in a listed titled "The Blackest White Folks We Know" -- which also included Beck -- Beck featured the list on his Fox show and made comments about his list-mates.
Several people with Chicago ties made the cut, including Urlacher, a Bears linebacker and six-time Pro-Bowler; Phil Jackson, who coached the Bulls dynasty; Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor who once claimed he was "blacker"' than President Obama; and Father Michael Pfleger, who preaches at a predominantly black church in Auburn-Gresham.
Pointing to Urlacher, Beck said "I think this guy's a Neo Nazi."
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The Fitbit Force is a new fitness tracking wristband from the company that started this whole quantified self fitness gadget craze. About half a year ago, Fitbit launched its first fitness tracking wristband, the Flex, which was a little feature-barren when compared to its other offerings. The Force changes that, as it does everything that any other Fitbit can do, plus more. That means that it will keep track of your steps, distance traveled, how many minutes you were active, how many floors you've climbed, how well (and how long) you are sleeping, and even call notifications from your iPhone, as long as yo are running iOS 7 on an iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, or iPhone 5s--that last feature will be introduced soon through a software update.
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Economics Journal: Copyright and the Case of Student Materials
By Rupa Subramanya
Sir Isaac Newton, the great English physicist and mathematician, once famously said that what he accomplished was thanks to standing on the "shoulders of giants."
Newton had in mind the scholars and writers who had gone before him, who allowed him to codify the fundamental principles of fields ranging from the mathematics of calculus to the laws of physics. Those giants include Gottfried Leibniz, with whom Newton famously quarreled over who had actually invented the calculus, and Johannes Kepler, whose laws of planetary motion paved the way for Newton's laws of physics.
Scholars and students today often have to take inspiration from somewhat less lofty sources, amounting to the reading lists that their professors assemble for their courses. The giants for many students today will mostly likely be gigantic textbooks, immense monographs, and arcane journal articles (of which I read many for Economics Journal).
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The trouble is that all of these things tend to be rather expensive. Unlike in Newton's time, when copyright law if it existed was probably ignored as much as it was observed, today large corporate publishing houses hold copyrights over their books and journals that extend worldwide -- and they try to enforce them.
Controversy over copyright, in this case large-scale photocopying, has come into focus in India with a lawsuit filed recently in Delhi High Court by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Taylor and Francis, all major academic publishers, against Delhi University and Rameshwari Photocopy Services. The photocopy services firm operates within the precincts of the Delhi School of Economics.
A lawyer representing the three publishers confirmed the lawsuit, in which the plaintiffs allege that the photocopying shop has engaged in large-scale photocopying which violates what would constitute fair dealing. They further allege that the university had earmarked sections of books for such copying.
The university registrar's office declined to comment by phone and did not reply to a follow-up request for comment from India Real Time.
Dharampal Singh, who runs the photocopy shop, confirmed that a case had been filed but declined further comment until after an upcoming hearing.
What's at issue are "course packs," essentially bundled packages of readings, drawn from textbooks and journals that are required for students in the masters of arts stream in sociology. To protest the lawsuit, students have threatened to boycott the works of these publishers.
What are the economics here? In the first instance, the rationale for copyright laws, as for patents, is to protect the profits of creators and innovators and thereby create an incentive for future innovation. If every new book or article became freely available the moment it was published, it would lessen the incentive of people to create those works in the first place, much like drug companies would have no incentive to innovate and create new drugs if they could be converted into generics the moment they hit the shelves.
On the other side of the debate, whether applied to overpriced books and journals or overpriced medications, there's an economic argument that access to knowledge and access to lifesaving drugs both carry an enormous "public-good" value, especially in developing countries. The fact of the matter is that most Indian students wouldn't be able to afford to buy all of the textbooks and journals at their official prices anymore than an average Indian patient would be able to afford to pay full price for drugs invented in the West. Forget India-- many North American students find textbook prices unaffordable and resort to buying used copies from friends or photocopying.
As it happens, India has a thriving generics drug industry which reproduces cheap copies of Western drugs at prices that Indians can afford and many Americans might wish they had access to. The price differential between a branded drug sold in the U.S. and a generic sold in India can be huge, as much in orders of magnitude as buying a textbook at a U.S. university bookshop (where a typical textbook can be several hundred dollars), as compared to the cost of a few dollars involved in photocopying it.
It's clear individual students have an incentive to purchase a photocopied course pack rather than paying full price for buying all of the books and journals that it contains. But at the level of society as a whole, that's not necessarily a good economic idea.
Much as with access to drugs, the public-good value of access to knowledge would best be served by making it available to students at reasonable cost while at the same time respecting the copyrights held by publishers.
There could be several different ways of doing this. One obvious way would be to strengthen the resources available to university libraries to stock up on the necessary books and journals. Students at universities in the West typically will have access to libraries which make available their course readings and often also offer free electronic access to journals and other material.
But such access is sorely lacking in the underfunded and overcrowded public universities in India, including Delhi. Well-stocked libraries with the necessary copyright clearance for photocopying would reduce the demand and therefore presumably the supply of privately photocopied course packs.
In India, photocopy licenses for educational institutions are available through the Indian Reprographic Rights Organization.
A second and more direct solution which could supplement the first would be to directly subsidize the access of needy students to copyrighted course materials. Such subsidies exist in Western universities in the form of scholarships and bursaries and there's no reason why something equivalent couldn't be created in the context of the Indian public education system. Until that happens, there's going to be constant tension between the publishers seeking to profit from their academic materials and those who contest they can't afford what they are selling. But the publishers aren't necessarily creating a great deal of goodwill in their favor by pressing the issue, which could be bad for business in the long run.
-- Shreya Shah contributed to this post.
Rupa Subramanya writes Economics Journal for India Real Time. You can follow her on Twitter @RupaSubramanya.
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The Concept2 DYNO is based on the concept of dynamic strength training. The resistance the user feels is a direct response to his effort. The more force the user is capable of applying to the DYNO the more he can lift and a higher force measurement will be displayed. Additional advantages, according to Concept2, are athletes of different strengths can work out together alternating lifts without having to change plates, users can do several different lifts circuit-style with minimal set up changes and the three basic lifting positions (leg press, seated bench press and seated bench pull) can be varied by machine setting and body position to work specific muscles. Contact: Concept2, 105 Industrial Park Drive, Morrisville, VT 05661; (800) 245-5676; fax: (802) 888-4791; [email protected]; www.concept2.com.
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NordicTrack recently unveiled its extreme workout machine - the NordicTrack Teton Trekker. With an incline reaching up to 50 percent, the Teton Trekker simulates hiking. According to the company, this intense workout enables users to burn more calories than ever before. Users are able to navigate their hikes on the pre-programmed workouts duplicating actual trails on the famous Grand Teton mountain range. In addition the Teton Trekker features patented iFIT.com technology which enable users to experience the sights and sounds of world famous mountain trails via the internet. iFIT.com technology automatically controls the speed and incline of the Teton Trekker with audible cues in the workouts. Contact: ICON Health & Fitness Inc., 1500 S. 1000 West, Logan UT 84321; (435) 750-5251; fax: (435) 750-5297; [email protected]
The new F5000 Inversion Table still offers the safety and comfort of its predicessor, but with greater strength and durability, states the company. This newest model offers greater weight capabilities for increased stability. In addition, the model's hand grips are now rubber coated for easier gripping, with the nylon cover now double-stitched for greater durability. Additional features of the F5000 include three hinge settings to control the responsiveness of rotation, a tether strap for inverting to any angle, soft foam ankle clamps for comfort, a scratch-resistant powder-coated finish and easy folding for storage purposes. Contact: Teeter Hang Ups, 10004-162 St., Ct. E, Puyallup, WA 98375; (253) 840-5252; fax: (253) 840-5757; [email protected]; www.inversiontherapy.com.
Phil Kaplan, respected fitness author, speaker and media personality, announced the release of his newest book Personal Training Profits and A Secure Fitness Future. In this book Kaplan reveals all of his success secrets for anyone who stands to prosper with a personal training service or career. With an emphasis on integrity and professionalism, Kaplan provides marketing and promotional ideas that he promises can catapult any qualified caring personal trainer to a position of respect and income previously reserved for medical and legal professionals. Contact: Phil Kaplan Fitness, 1304 S.W. 160 Ave., PMB 337, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33326; (305) 824-5044; fax: (305) 824-3595; www.philkaplan.com.
Jacob's Ladder is a patented climbing machine with ladder-type rungs on a 40-degree angled non-motorized continuous treadmill. To use the machine, exercisers simply snap on the control belt and start climbing. The higher the exerciser reaches, the faster the ladder moves and the more intense the workout becomes. A breaking device ensures that the ladder stops when the exerciser reaches the lower rungs or stops climbing altogether. The machine also offers digital feedback on how many feet were climbed, rate of speed, what level of effort was put out and how many calories were used. Contact: Jacob's Ladder 662 Boston State Road, Hamburg, NY 14075; (716) 646-1319; fax: (716) 649-4928.
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