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Managing a Google Analytics account for a large site with a long tail of content can be frustrating. In my experience, the biggest reasons are sampling and the dreaded 50,000 limit where GA only reports on your first 50k URLs hit each day, lumping everything else into an "(other)" bucket. While you can make both problems go away if you drop $150k on a Premium Account, I believe you can still get a lot of value from the free version regardless of your site's size
Specifically, I wanted to share a few techniques Redfin uses to get meaningful roll-ups of our traffic that is spread across tens of millions of different properties, each with their own URL. We like to roll traffic up by market, price band, and whether that area is serviced by our own agents or our partner agents, but the technique should be equally useful for any site with a huge number of pages.
Step 1: Parameterizing Your URLs With _trackPageview
Let's pretend we're an ecommerce site with product pages that look like this:
That's a great URL for SEO purposes since it's short and includes the product name. However if you've got a million products, it's difficult to look across all of your product traffic and describe trends if all you're sending to Google Analytics is the actual URL. Thankfully, GA's _trackPageview() has an optional page URL parameter. Using that, let's instead pass GA an URL with a few parameters we care about that looks like this:
We haven't lost any data; our unfiltered profile still tracks a unique URL for each product. Now you can create custom filtered profiles to get useful views on your traffic
Step 2: Create Filtered GA Profiles
Now that we've parameterized our product pages, we can create additional profiles in GA that filter to specific views of those pages. A few profiles we might create are:
- Views: Products by Category/Subcategory
- Views: Products by Manufacturer
- Views: Products by Price Band
For each profile, you'll want to create an "Include" filter that only includes traffic to products pages. That way, traffic to your homepage or forums won't muck with your reports.
Once you've got your filter set up, under the "Profile Settings" tab you can specify which URL parameters you want to exclude. Here's where the magic happens. Exclude everything you don't want to roll-up traffic by and what you're left with is a neatly rolled up traffic report that falls well under GA's 50k limit for unique URLs.
In the screenshot below, I'm excluding everything but the category and subcategory parameters. If I browse to Content > Site Content > All Pages in Google Analytics, I can quickly look at my top product categories and even see how traffic to a particular category has changed over time.
Note that GA filters don't work retroactively, so you'll have to think ahead a bit to decide which parameters you want to pass to GA and which views of the data you'll want going forward.


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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") is the organization that oversees domain names worldwide. It recently began accepting new applications for expanding the number of generic top-level domains...more
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BATON ROUGE, LA (NBC33) — NBC33 has learned more about a Saturday Night bar brawl between two off-duty police officers and an amateur MMA fighter who's got a long history of battery arrests.
Seth LeMay said he was excited to visit with his brother Sam in Baton Rouge for the Christmas holiday this year. But Seth never expected he would spend the end of his vacation with his brother in the hospital.
"His orbital bone broke and we were in the hospital, so it really ruined our vacation. I mean I had just had a daughter, she's one and a half now, so we really missed out on a lot of quality time," explained Set LeMay.
Sam LeMay went through several surgeries after he and friends said he was hit in the face by James Hinson for no reason at all.
"There was not a single word exchanged and this guy having perceived that someone slighted him in some way with a girl, or had talked to her and he was the problem, I don't know. I mean there's really no way, you can only speculate on why guys like him feel the need to do what they do," added LeMay.
Hinson was arrested Saturday for his involvement in a fight with two off-duty BRPD officers. A check of court records shows Hinson's been arrested over a half dozen times for similar bar fights in East Baton Rouge Parish.
District attorney Hillar Moore said that those prior arrests could affect Hinson's punishment in this most recent case, if he is found guilty.
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Seth LeMay said he wasn't surprised to see Hinson in trouble again.
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think again and maybe you will be one day you will be someones bunk mate yaself. Stop hiding behind ya name you two and tell the media you are actually cops causing trouble.
Great post, mylve4him. Most of the letters in your sentences are from the alphabet.
No, I'm not a cop -- my right hand to God. Just someone tired of woman-hating thugs and parking lot brawlers.
And everyone has an opinion its like ya know everyone has one.
Looks like he needs to go back to MMA school and learn a little more about how to fight, cause it looks like he got his butt whipped and he let his mouth overload his a-- this time around , be careful what you ask for you may get more than you bargined for.
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Traditional principal preparation programs are notoriously non-selective. The new breed of program takes selectivity to the opposite extreme. Some have ratios of acceptances to inquiries or applications that rival competitive colleges—below 10 percent. For example, Building Excellent Schools (BES) receives upwards of 2,000 inquiries for between ten and twelve fellowships.
Every alternative program that we studied is looking first for intellectual capacity and leadership approach. Jane Shirley, executive director of Get Smart Schools (GSS), put it this way: "We're looking for systemic thinkers. [Management expert] Peter Senge says that every system is perfectly designed to get the results it is getting. We want leaders who, when faced with a problem, understand it's because whatever you've designed is supporting that particular problem—to understand the problem at the design level is the kind of creativity we are looking for." GSS is preparing principals to lead autonomous schools, she emphasized, and "that is very different from leading schools in a bureaucracy."
The University of Illinois is preparing principals to work in a bureaucracy, the Chicago Public Schools. But it has a similar emphasis. First, the program is embedded in a Ph.D. program, evidence of the kind of deep and creative thinking that it values. The program also demands that prospective leaders be capable of maintaining high expectations as a...
NYC KIDS FLOOD PRE-KNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's full-day pre-K initiative is exceeding enrollment expectations. More than 53,000 children have signed up for the program, compared to about 20,000 attending full-day pre-kindergarten last year. The sharp rise in attendance is seen as a victory for the mayor, who has made expansion of pre-K programs a cornerstone of his education policy.
GOLD STANDARDS IN THE SILVER STATEIn part two of NPR's terrific series on reading in the Common Core era, teachers in Washoe County, Nevada, discuss how the challenging standards demand more from both low and high achievers. The shift from simple comprehension questions to evidence-supported answers helps students at all levels of achievement stay engaged with the material.
IS IT SAFE?The National Association of Secondary School Principals is working to address increasing security concerns accompanying a rise in technology and data storage in classrooms. Among its recommendations, the group suggests tougher encryption standards, development of statewide security plans, and district-level policies that determine what data can be collected and where...
"Ambiguous" is a reliably fun word to teach sixth graders. They quickly grasp its essence and utility. I introduce it by explaining how I was once given a keychain with the legend "I Teach. I Make a Difference." I assure my students that I have never used this keychain, for, in keeping with my unyielding commitment to personal excellence, I would only ever boast of making a positive difference. Then we have a lively discussion about the possible meanings of the keychain's phrase. This discourse was evidently not forgotten by one student, who in June concluded a speech, "Mr. Sipe, you made a difference." Then she smiled wickedly and added, "A big difference!"
At least she didn't declare this: "He could not disguise from my hourly notice the poverty and meagreness of his understanding." That unambiguous teacher evaluation was penned by Thomas DeQuincey almost two hundred years ago in Confessions of an Opium-Eater. He dispatches another master as "a blockhead, who was in a perpetual panic lest I should expose his ignorance." You don't have to read far to begin to wonder if his titular waywardness was perhaps due to unrewarding schooling. "It is a bad thing," DeQuincey observes, "for a boy to be and to know himself far beyond his tutors, whether in knowledge or in power of mind." I wouldn't challenge him on this.
The question of how to challenge a young...
DEPARTMENT OF GOOD NEWSEarlier this fall, Fordham's inimitable Robert Pondiscio traveled to Reno to check out the breezy and successful Common Core implementation in the Washoe County school district. This week, the county's teachers discuss how their original wariness of the standards gave way to an understanding of how they will benefit students. Teachers are particularly optimistic about how the Common Core ELA standards stress text-based evidence rather than personal connections, an approach that helps disadvantaged kids keep pace with the rest of their class.
DEPARMENT OF BAD NEWSThe U.S. Department of Education announced in September that more than 1.1. million public school students have no permanent homes. Experts say homeless students are nine times more likely to be held back a grade level and four times more likely to drop out of school entirely. Nonprofit mobile tutoring programs often have to supplement the work of local schools, as NPR reports.
COMPETITORS GETTING TEST-YThere is growing controversy surrounding Common Core-aligned test-development contracts. Bidding in many states has lacked any semblance of competition, with only one company participating in the process, and a lawsuit in New Mexico alleges that the bid requirements were prejudicial, according to the Wall Street Journal.
SHORTCUT TO HIGHER PAY?A new study found wide variations in wages earned by students graduating from short- or long-term degree programs, concluding that most short-term career certificates yield "minimal to no positive effects." Today, more than a...
VIEW FROM THE TOPThe U.S. Department of Education is reviewing the process by which teachers are assigned to schools to ensure that highly qualified and experienced teachers are equally staffed at both high-poverty schools and those of greater means. States are being sent OCR data about teacher experience, certification, absenteeism, and salary, and asked to develop plans for their schools to comply with federal law mandating equal access to high-quality instructors. It's the first time such plans have been solicited in almost a decade.
MEET THE NEW BOSSIn an interview with NPR this morning, Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander described the education policy agenda of the newly Republican-controlled Senate. The former education secretary emphasized the need for more local control and declared that fixing No Child Left Behind is among his highest priorities.
EDUCATION SNAPSHOTStudents at a Boston Cristo Rey high school gain real-world work experience that boosts confidence and gives them a competitive edge in the workforce. The Catholic school network's work-study program sends students, who primarily come from low-income families, to local companies for five days a month in exchange for a portion of the student's tuition. It's an innovative model that was recently profiled in an exceptional piece in the Atlantic.
TEACH YOUR TEACHERS WELLEd schools are rethinking math teacher prep in light of the new Common Core standards: The Mathematics Teacher Education...
ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCESNewly elected congressional Republicans have revealed an aggressive education policy agenda that will focus on overhauling No Child Left Behind and the Higher Education Act. Other education priorities include school choice, funding issues, and scaling back the federal government's involvement in K–12. For more information on the election's implications on education, read Andy Smarick's hot take from earlier this week.
TAKE OFF YOUR COAT AND STAY A WHILEA new study by the Council of Great City Schools found that the average tenure of principals from the largest school districts has slightly decreased since 2010, to 3.2 years. This high turnover makes sustainable change and reform efforts difficult to implement and often stifles "positive academic momentum." To get a local look at the effects of this kind of churn, turn to Chalkbeat's look at the revolving door for principals in Denver Public Schools.
SIGN O' THE TIMESNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio recently rolled out his three-year initiative for school reform, which centers on reinventing ninety-four of the city's most troubled schools as "Renewal Schools." Today, he got the early response from elite consensus: The New York Times op-ed page panned the proposal, saying the mayor "robbed himself of a useful reform tool" by abandoning Michael Bloomberg's strategy of shutting down failing schools.
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The naming of Richard Armitage as the first Bush administration official to out covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson was treated by the Washington Post editorial page (9/1/06) as proof that there was nothing to the controversy after all. Armitage, according to the Post, only "reluctantly" supported the invasion of Iraq and was "a political rival" of the officials accused by Plame Wilson's wife, Joseph Wilson, of twisting intelligence about Iraq.
Citing a Post news story (8/29/06), the editorial claimed that Armitage told columnist Robert Novak about the leak "in an offhand manner, virtually as gossip." Therefore, the Post concluded, the "sensational" charge is "untrue" that the Bush White House orchestrated the leak of Plame Wilson to ruin her career and thus punish Mr. Wilson in retaliation for Wilson's criticism (New York Times, 7/6/03). "In fact," concluded the Post, "the person most responsible for the end of Ms. Plame's CIA career is Mr. Wilson."
I imagine that in the Soviet era, you could read commentary like this in Pravda: "It was not the Party that sabotaged the reactionary's career, comrades—the reactionary sabotaged his own career!"
For those looking for a less party-line understanding of Armitage's role in Plamegate, it's worth taking a look at former Time reporter John Dickerson's account (Slate, 2/7/06) of being not-so-subtly pointed in Plame Wilson's direction by "two senior administration officials" on a trip to Africa. Dickerson doesn't quite name his sources, but he does helpfully point out that the two senior administration officials along on the trip were Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell.
Powell, of course, was Armitage's boss (and also a "reluctant" advocate of war and a "political rival" of the true believers). If he was telling reporters to "go ask the CIA who sent Wilson" (the message Dickerson got from both "senior administration officials"), what are the chances that Armitage just happened to mention the answer to that question "in an offhand manner, virtually as gossip"? And that Armitage just happened to "gossip" the same name to Washington Post star reporter Bob Woodward (Newsweek, 11/28/05)? About the same odds that you would have gotten the straight dope on the latest Kremlin nonperson from Pravda.
P.S. You can hear Robert Parry's brilliant dissection of the Armitage story on CounterSpin (FAIR.org, 9/15/06).


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The Team Leader Agreement must be brought to the Kickoff Event. The rest are all due at the Dropoff Event, along with your film - in the official envelope provided for you at the Kickoff Event. And some can even be completed online!!
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The Team Leader must sign this form to indicate agreement to the Project's rules and requirements, and then bring it to the Kickoff.
The Team Leader must sign this form to certify that all creative work took place during the Official Competition Period.
This form is used for music.
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We want to know the details—what happened during your wild weekend of moviemaking?
Tells us who is on your team, their job, and their e-mail address.
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This National Research Agenda has been developed to identify research opportunities and priorities and expand the evidence base around issues in Australia relevant to protecting children from abuse and neglect.
The National Research Agenda is one of the main priority actions under the National Framework for Protecting Australia's Children 2009-2020 (the National Framework).
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Headache due to AVM in brain: I was given this in the hospital via IV in hopes of bringing down a severe headache caused by my AVM. Within the first minute the drip began I started freaking out as well as developing a severe rash so they unhooked it immediately. Even after it having been stopped I was inconsolable and hyperventilating for about a half an hour. The morning after I was vomiting and had diarrhea. 48 hours later my stomach is still churning and the rash is just beginning to fade. Safe to say Decadron is on my allergy list now.
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- Really easy to use
- It loads your location quickly
- Reads out street names
- Optional display of nearby petrol stations, ATMs and other points of interest
- You can purchase a windscreen mount and car charger
I spend a lot of time on the road going back and forth to meetings so a GPS is a must. The only problem is that I keep forgetting it at home, or leaving it in the office (some advice: never leave your GPS in your car, criminals look for the window mount or sucker marks on your windscreen and make off with it quicker than you can say 'you have reached your destination').
The TomTom South Africa GPS application solves these problems because it's an iPhone (and iPod/iPad) app. When would you ever leave your phone at home?
TomTom have a very intuitive interface and the GPS finds the satellites quicker than any other brand I've used, meaning I didn't waste any time trying to figure it out. The fact that it reads out the street names is also very helpful and sometimes hilarious (imagine it trying to read out Malibongwe Drive).
You can set the app to display points of interests like petrol stations, ATMs and shopping centres as you approach them, you can change the voices and display colours, heck – you can even change the make of the little car on the screen! (I chose a pink Mini, cos I'm girly like that).
You have the option of purchasing a TomTom car kit, which turns your iPhone or iPod into a full-blown GPS and doubles up as a hands free kit for the phone. The car kit has the classic TomTom window mount that allows you to adjust a dial to lock the suction cup in place, very useful if you drive on Joburg's potholed roads.
The only thing that bothered me about the app is that it seemed to always want to take me the long way around. Maybe it's a setting I missed or something but I'm almost sure there were quicker routes than the ones it chose. Apart from that – I loved it! And maybe it knows how stressed I am so it just wanted me to take the scenic route.
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- The interface is simple, quick and easy to use
- At €59.99 it's quite a bit cheaper than a stand-alone GPS
- It reads out street names
- The novelty voices are fantastic
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- It seems to choose routes that are not necessarily the quickest
Costing… Euros?
The TomTom App for iPhone is available for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch users at R545.91 (€59.99). Get it here.
A 12-month subscription for HD Traffic is priced at R272.91 (€29.99)
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How Elmwood, NE Residents Watch TV
Here are just a few nuggets of cable TV knowledge relevant to Elmwood. One-third of Americans have at least 4 televisions, and 97% of the population watches regularly scheduled TV. In addition to that, 72% of U.S. TV subscribers bundle digital television with a high-speed Internet service. Which is one reason why nearly 48% of people stream some of their TV online. That means 229 Elmwood residents each own at least 4 TVs, 333 watch their favorite shows online and 500 bundle their Internet and cable services together.


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Do you wear a do-rag, Air Jordans, and hold your gun sideways too gang-star?
No. That's the gun Snake (my avatar) uses in the movie 'Escape From New York'. There appears to be a fruitcake in here that keeps drooling over my avatar, so I was just giving him/it more to get excited about.


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At least Square Enix is honest about Colonial MarinesAccording to our friends at Tomopop, Square Enix is working on Aliens: Colonial Marines action figures. Now, while it might be surprising that the critically mauled game is getting toys (of the Spitter and Lurker aliens), the real shock is that Square Enix did what Gearbox Software couldn't, as far as the games are concerned. You see that little note in front of the figures? That's how it's done, guys. At least someone's honest about the demo status of their product. Now all we have to worry about is Square outsourcing the figures to Playmobil. Comments not appearing? Anti-virus apps like Avast or some browser extensions can cause this. Easy fix: Add [*].disqus.com to your software's white list. Tada! Happy comments time again.
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12.10.12 – In a 2013 team launch last week Andretti Autosport announced Shelby Blackstock will drive the No. 28 Team Starstruck entry in the 2013 Pro Mazda Championship. This will mark Blackstock's first year in the series, after finishing ninth in the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship last season competing for Andretti Autosport.
"I am very excited for this next season in Pro Mazda with Andretti Autosport. After a rough USF2000 season, I hope to open next season on a good note and stay consistent," said the Nashville, Tenn. native. "At the open test in Indianapolis, I adapted to the Pro Mazda very quickly and showed some speed. With off season testing and guidance from the Andretti Autosport team, I hope I can go find success in St. Petersburg."
Blackstock, 22, finished the 2012 USF2000 season accruing six top-10 finishes and recorded his career-best USF2000 finish of fourth during the series' third round at Road America in August. The 2012 season marked his second season piloting an open-wheel car, after completing the Skip Barber National Championship in 2011. He finished the season fifth, after accruing two podium finishes.
The American-born racer, son of country music superstar Reba and husband/manager Narvel Blackstock, grew up with a fast-paced, high-adrenaline lifestyle. After studying for one year at the University of Arizona, he decided to pursue racing and started by attending a four-day racing school. Blackstock, nicknamed Shelbilly, made his official racing debut in 2010.
In addition to starting the Mazda Road to Indy ladder last season, Blackstock competed in the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge. He kicked off the 2012 season with a pole-winning run at Daytona International Raceway.


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DEsktop App Black Screen
I have just installed the TD app on my Windows 8.1 laptop.
The program launched into a small-ish window with the entire content area blacked-out.
As I run my mouse over the blacked space the pointer changes, so the content is there i just can't see it.
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Hi Mark,
Do you have Chrome installed, and are you running any extensions/plugins that affect how it looks, acts? Our desktop app uses the Chrome engine to run and could result in issues such as this.
If you log out, and back in again, does it still occur?
Hi Brendon,
Yes I have Chrome installed
I am running the following extensions (I don't think they would have this effect, but you may know better):
Todoist for Gmail
Todoist: To-do list and Task Manager
Adblock Plus
Selecting Logout from the task bar brings the TD app to the foreground but I can't tell what it is doing. The option to logout remains in the taskbar menu.
When clicking on the TD icon, does Sync, Home Or Reload to anything? Also, please try clearing the cache for it from here. %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Todoist\Windows\Cache
Sync - Message tells my I can't sync as I am not logged in.
Home & Reload - Brings app to the fore ground. No change.
I've clear App cache as suggested and chrom cache. No Change on Reload.
Same here, it's so frustating, any notice for this?
There have been many updates since this. Please make sure you are running the latest version of our app.
I'm downloading right now a new version from here: https://d2dq6e731uoz0t.cloudfront.net/67f363ef3a26f18de12beb9ae83636c5/as/Todoist_for_Windows.exe
Still the black screen :-(
Was the previous version you tried from the forums as well? As those are most likely dated now. Always grab from todoist.com/outlook to make sure you have the latest version.
Please confirm, Windows Version. Also, please try removing the app completely, rebooting the system, and then doing the install.
Removed the app completely, cleaned the registry, reboot, downloaded new copy from http://todoist.com/windows and installed.
Still the same black screen -_-;
Please tell me - are you using any proxies, firewalls, anti-virus software or anything that could block the connection of our app to our site?
Best regards,
no proxies, im behind a barracuda firewall, but i haved installed todoist in other PC under the same firewall and i didn't have problems.
Antivirus: Kaspersky Endpoint Security 10 for windows.
As note, i f I try it via browser, it works perfectly.
Which browser are you trying? Our desktop app uses the Chrome engine, if you have any extensions installed for Chrome, it's possible it could be causing some issues. Unless of course, the browser you tried is Chrome.
Black screens tend to be network related though, are you on a strong connection, no VPNs ore etc?
I've tried firefox and chrome, on chrome no extensions.
I'll try on a direct connection to check if it's a network connection.
Direct connection and still black screen :-(
If it works on a different computer on the same network, then what's different between these two computers? Do both use the same Windows version? Do both have the anti-virus software? Are you an administrator on both?
If there's anything that's clearly different between them, please let us know.
Best regards,
Same windows version.
I am now a regular network user, I had an administrator role in the network with the other PC.
I have a new HP laptop, with a lot of HP software i don't know if any of this software obstructs the proper connection


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let's see how the "war is going smoothly" crowd spins this one... perhaps it was "planted"... perhaps there's some context purposely being left out by the "liberal media" ... perhaps it's war, and "these things happen"... or perhaps the Washington Post made it up... or wait, the official is a gay communist... yeah, that's it... Senior U.S. Military Official Faults Blackwater In The Shooting Of 11 Iraqi Civilians A senior U.S. military official tells the Washington Post that the Sept. 16 firing incident at Nissor Square involving Blackwater USA was unprovoked and that the 11 civilian victims were unarmed: "It was obviously excessive, it was obviously wrong," said the U.S. military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the incident remains the subject of several investigations. "The civilians that were fired upon, they didn't have any weapons to fire back at them. And none of the IP (Iraqi Police) or any of the local security forces fired back at them." Military reports also "appear to corroborate the Iraqi government's contention that Blackwater was at fault."
I'll wait to pass judgement until more info is known. If they acted wrongly, then they should be held accountable, if they didn't, then they won't be. I've read similar descriptions of Blackwater personal from soldier blogs about them having itchy trigger fingers, and not following military ROE. Some of that is to expected since they are security team who's purpose is to protect the saftey of their principle. That aside, they still have to respect the law. If they didn't, they should be reprimanded. As we've learned in the past though, passing judgement via anonymous sources doesn't always end up as originally reported. These guys might be guilty, but I'll wait for more info before I decide.
more info: New Evidence That Blackwater Guards Took No Fire http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/world/middleeast/13blackwater.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin BAGHDAD, Oct. 12 — Fresh accounts of the Blackwater shooting last month, given by three rooftop witnesses and by American soldiers who arrived shortly after the gunfire ended, cast new doubt Friday on statements by Blackwater guards that they were responding to armed insurgents when Iraqi investigators say 17 Iraqis were killed at a Baghdad intersection. The three witnesses, Kurds on a rooftop overlooking the scene, said they had observed no gunfire that could have provoked the shooting by Blackwater guards. American soldiers who arrived minutes later found shell casings from guns used normally by American contractors, as well as by the American military. The Kurdish witnesses are important because they had the advantage of an unobstructed view and because, collectively, they observed the shooting at Nisour Square from start to finish, free from the terror and confusion that might have clouded accounts of witnesses at street level. Moreover, because they are pro-American, their accounts have a credibility not always extended to Iraqi Arabs, who have been more hostile to the American presence.
There is an article this AM about negotiations for Blackwater to leave Iraq, however because of the dependence on "Security Contractors" there is no one to fill the void. This is the problem of privatization in the public sector, no rules, no safeguards, their role is the exclusive venue of the military, if you bring in a new firm the same stuff will happen again.
I'm not worried, the USA always comes through: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30776 In all seriousness though, BW private releases tell a much different story - I guess that is to be expected. My faith in what these guys did is fading - but let me say that this is not a normal thing for BW troops to do. Hopefully they will be found innocent and the world can move on to the next big anti war story.
Regardless of how this situation works out, BW's legal status needs to be made clear. I suppose that nobody expected to not be able to trust Iraq with adjudicating this type of situation 4 years into this war; but if we still can't trust Iraq to get it right, then BW and all the others need to be held to US law at the very least. I don't see the military justice system as being acceptable here.
the modern Pretorian Guard, sinking deeper and deeper in the mud... Blackwater confiscated Iraqi planes. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) has revealed that "Blackwater USA tried to take at least two Iraqi military aircraft out of Iraq two years ago and refused to give the planes back when Iraqi officials sought to reclaim them." Waxman today wrote to Blackwater CEO Erik Prince and requested that he "provide all documents related to the attempted shipment and to explain where the aircraft are now."


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Spencer Finch works with a variety of media in order to depict certain light conditions at different times of day, in different places. The helium balloons shown above are actually violet balloons inside cobalt ones to match the blue of the sky over Coney Island in November 2004, in the early afternoon. The oval fresco that follows is an interpretation of the ceiling over Freud's couch in Vienna, as seen in the morning. A series of multicoloured fluorescent lights is the representation of sunset over South Texas in June of 2003. Can we prove that the colours and light come even close? No, but we can appreciate the efforts, the concept and the tangible results.
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The FERC update completely ignores the largest and most readily available sources of renewable energy and it incorrectly assumes that the peak demand for energy must be met by generation, neglecting the potential to meet a large part of that peak demand by employing energy storage,
An alternative that makes use of stored thermal energy is described in the link below, from the journal Sustainability. In addition to being much less expensive than the choices described in the FERC report it would also greatly reduce the transmission costs because it uses energy sources that surround all of our buildings.
The use of solar PV is not inevitable at all. In most developed countries the predominant use for energy is for thermal applications that need not rely on electricity. If those thermal needs are met by using local thermal energy sources instead of relying on electricity and natural gas, and we employ thermal storage to flatten the loads for both heating/cooling and electricity then the need for meeting peak power demands is greatly reduced. The basic assumption that we must generate enough electricity to meet the existing peak electricity loads is not valid.
There are two distinctly different reasons for wanting to store energy: to provide backup or to match the energy supply with the demand. For the former you can use batteries but for the latter application you can use much less expensive approaches like exergy storage, which uses electricity for its input but delivers demand reduction for its output. Both approaches deliver the same results if you are struggling to match supply and demand on a power grid. It would be useful if articles on electricity storage kept these differing objectives separate.
Three of the four 'building blocks' are counter-productive:
1) Make fossil fuel plants more efficient
2) Dispatch low-emissions sources, namely natural gas, more often
4) Expand use of energy efficiency
They propose that we should continue to rely on the use of fossil fuels instead of replacing such fuels with alternatives that do not produce GHG's. The EPA is proposing that we should protract the fossil fuel era, which is the opposite of what we really need to do - replace such fuels with the abundantly available non-GHG-emitting alternatives.
REW is doing us all a disservice by referring to carbon as the culprit. Carbon is not poisonous and it is not a greenhouse gas. We certainly DO need to stop polluting the atmosphere by burning coal but curbing pollution and curbing GHG's are separate issues so REW should take care to treat them separately.
The same goals can be met if you employ energy storage in general instead of assuming the use of battery storage. We use energy in two forms: electricity and thermal, and in most places the thermal form dominates. Moreover, it is the thermal demand that fluctuates the most from season to season. If you store the thermal energy in thermal form then you do not need to keep converting the energy back and forth between the two forms, which entails losses. While you might still want to use batteries for the part of the energy that is used in electrical form the size of the batteries can be reduced by a couple of orders of magnitude so they are more cost effective. The fluctuations in the electrical component are short term (daily) variations rather than long term (seasonal) variations so the required storage capacity is small.
The rate of solar insolation in the UK is less than 120 W/sq. m and the country is legendary for its long gaps between sunny periods. That does not imply that solar energy is useless in the UK but it does suggest that its role should be niche applications that take advantage of the potential to store solar thermal energy.
Neil: I assume that you have dropped a few zeroes in citing 4 kWh/year as your output. A solar thermal collector (with storage) for a house would be only one quarter the size of a PV collector and in spite of that small size the storage system would deliver about five times as much energy. Most of that energy would be extracted from the air, but air-source systems have difficulty delivering the temperature that is needed for DHW and in handling peak demands. The solar input fixes both problems. Homes that use such systems burn no fuels at all and they reduce the peak demands for electricity. A given reduction in peak demand is more useful than the equivalent amount of power generation because it does not have to be transmitted.
Solar thermal collectors are five times more efficient than solar PV collectors and heat storage is about 1000 times cheaper than batteries. Used together they can shift the power demand from daytime to the night, and in the north from winter to summer (see exergy storage). The reduction in peak power demands is just as useful to a power grid as the generation of the same amount of electricity, especially as it also reduces the need for power distribution.
Stored heat does not have to be converted back into electricity. The primary energy needs for most buildings are thermal, not electric (for heating, cooling and hot water). An exergy store can provide heat at 60 degrees C (for hot water), 40 degrees (a viable temperature for space heating) and 4 degrees for cooling, all without needing any power at the time of extraction. The resulting reduction in power demand during the peak demand periods is more useful than the equivalent amount of power generation. Exergy storage systems both meet the needs for thermal energy and also shift the time of their power demand from the peak demand periods to times when there is ample power. From the point of view of the grid operator they act like giant batteries.
At the present time there are 40 million square feet of building space in Toronto that are cooled by cold that is extracted from the winter air, stored at 4 degrees C, and is then used to air condition the buildings without needing heat pumps. That means they are not taking up space, they are not adding to the costs, and they are not using power.
Many millions of dollars are currently being spent on supply-side storage, such as batteries. It would be about 1000 times cheaper to use consumer-side storage for that task and consumer-side storage like exergy stores can also deliver most of the energy the buildings need. That has a down side - the power generators and distributors expect the building owners to pay for the stores, which would leave the building owners with all of the expense while the generators reap most of the economic benefits.
In considering energy storage it is essential to consider both of the forms in which we use energy for buildings - electricity and thermal. Thermal energy includes heat for space heating, cold for cooling, and DHW. The two forms of energy are highly interactive - we use electricity for both cooling and heating, for example - so if we store either heat or cold we can reduce our consumption of electricity.
In considering electricity storage it is common practice to assume that stored electricity must be returned as electricity. It is often more practical to return the accumulated electricity in the form of demand reduction. Reducing the demands on the grid accomplishes the same end as returning electricity to the grid, with the added advantage that the costs and losses associated with power transmission are avoided.
The articles on storage that REW has been publishing on the subject of energy storage have mostly failed to take either of these basic factors into consideration.


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The CHANEL logo is so iconic. Graphic in classic black and white, I'm pretty sure those Cs would look good anywhere. When I saw this fabulous tray at an antique dealer's open house right before Christmas, I wanted it. At $250+, I also thought it looked pretty easy to DIY. And you know what, I sure am glad I gave it a shot because I'm loving all the possibilities this little DIY process opens up. 2011 is all about possibility! So in honor of the new year, here are the steps- |
So I picked up a black lacquer tray for $10 at Target. Then I Google imaged the Chanel logo and traced it directly from my mom's monitor. I work from a 12" laptop which is a little smaller than I wanted the image. If you do too, just blow the image up after you trace it. |
Using an Exacto knife, I cut out the logo. Because I was at my parents' house, NYTimes magazine stood in for my cutting mat. |
Using the cut out as a stencil, I traced the image onto Frisket Film, a low tack contact paper. The Frisket Film prevents any paint bleed out and gave my letters a pretty clean edge. |
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Or, perhaps, I could lie to my beer software and tell it I'm boiling for 80 mins, but really boil 60 mins, and tell it I'm boiling 50 mins but really boil 30 mins, etc... it seems to me that the IBU's will get calculated correctly. Anybody try it?
Exactly, just adjust 20 minutes. Use the same amount of hops.
Well, add me to the list of people trying no-chill. Just got done cleaning up. The cube is sitting in the corner, doing it's thing. I'm excited to see how it comes out. It saved me 30-45 minutes on my brewday and I didn't have to mess with ice, a cooler, a pre-chiller, a chiller, pump, etc. Fingers crossed.
Did my first two No Chills this weekend and I found that it made the whole brewing experience that much better (Chilling the wort was my least favorite part of the brew day). Lots of a really good info in this thread which helped sway me into trying it. I can't wait to see how the beers turn out; if they are both even decent drinks I will never chill again.
"There is only two ways do to something; The smart way or the hard way." "Beer is pretty resilient stuff, its resistant to human stupidity"Bradinator's Brews
Bradinator and Austin, you guys should post your recipe and a report on the resulting beer here when you are ready. The more data we have on this technique, the better. I've done decently hoppy beers and Pilsner lagers with this technique. Its really great!
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This is going to ferment for at least 3 months in the primary, then another 6 months in bottles. I brewed this to celebrate my future kid and plan to crack open the first one the day we bring him/her back from the hospital!Belgian Dark Strong AleRecipe Type: Partial MashYeast: Yeast harvested from commercial Unibroue (La Fin Du Monde)Yeast Starter: Yes (1.5L)Batch Size (Gallons): 4 gallonsOriginal Gravity: 1.082Est Final Gravity: 1.014IBU: 35Boiling Time (Minutes): 75Color: 18 SRMIngredients Grains/Extract/Adjucts · 8.0 lbs Pilsner Malt · 1.0 lbs Biscuit · 1.0 lbs Rye Malt · 750g Light DME + 250g late addition @ 10 min · 1.5 lbs Belgian Candi SugarHops · 1.5 oz Hallertauer @ 60min · 1 oz Saaz @ 10minMisc · ½ tsp Irish Moss · 1 tsp Yeast Nutrient · 1 cup of washed yeast · 1 package Windsor Yeast, dry @ 3 days Partial mash, grains mashed at 150F for 90min (BIAB), Efficiency was terrible (60%), but lessons learned on mash volumes... ------------------- Basically this is a junk recipe made from junk kicking around my kitchen. I had some left over hops and DME, plus some adjuncts, tossed them all into a pot, boiled for 60 minutes and let cool overnight. No idea if this will even be tasty... But its a No Chill at any rate! Kitchen Leftovers Mild BrownRecipe Type: ExtractYeast: WindsorYeast Starter: NoBatch Size (Gallons): 3 gallonsOriginal Gravity: 1.035Est Final Gravity: 1.010IBU: 40Boiling Time (Minutes): 60Color: 5 SRMIngredients 525g DME, + 80g late addition @ 20 min 500g Honey 50g Molasses 50g Corn Syrup 1 oz Styrian Gold (hops) @ 60 min 1 tsp Irish Moss @ 10 min 1 tsp Yeast Nutrient @ Flame out This will get about 3 weeks in the primary and 2 weeks in bottles. Updates to come as I start to drink these!
My beer tastes great. I don't need scientists to tell me that.....
The only science I can think of is that you definitely will see effects in hop isomerization which leads to more bitterness and less aroma. I've still made good IPAs, but not ideal. I've never notice a difference on anything else.
Everyone has to walk their own path as a brewer. Each home brewer must consider time, cost, feasibility, and results of their efforts. If a homebrewer can strike a happy balance between those 4 aspects, then they are doing it right regardless of the brewing method.
N_G It could be worse.
Had a No-Chill Munich Helles go onto second round of NHC, didn't place put still a decent score. Could it have been better if I "properly" chilled it? Possibly... But it might have also done better if I mashed a degree higher, used different water, more/less hops, different hops, different hop schedule, warmer/colder fermentation. Just too many factors to ever say just one would have made it the best beer I could make. Has No-Chill brewing been scientifically proven to produce the same quality beers? Of course not, it also hasn't been scientifically proven to make beers of lesser quality. I'm also of the opinion that just because something is in print from a "credible source" doesn't make it right for every brewer or every beer, it is usually just what that source knows from their experience.


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There should be a single person in charge of both the basic game submissions, and the featured games submissions.
Not only are there a very small amount of games submitted to these systems, which should be more than easy enough for a single person to manage, but majority of the people you have running these things can't seem to make a competent decision, even when they poll their collective intelligence. Even if these people weren't fail at their job, it would still yield better results having a single, supreme authority in charge of the systems. A single person should be more apt at spotting rips, and should make more consistent listing decisions in general. It would also be nice if these reviewers actually followed the publicly established listing guidelines... Teka seemed to be doing a decent job of reviewing these games on his own, I'm not sure why so many more people have recently been added to the crew.
The featured games system could probably just be completely removed, considering there are barely-if-any games now, nor is it likely that there ever will be any games that actually deserve being on that list. And submitting games to it doesn't even seem to be an intentional part of the site.
Also, there seems to be a bug in the system. If you mark 2 games as visible, then mark the first one as not visible, both of them will be removed from the pending list. Toggling the visibility of the 2nd game doesn't seem to re-add it to the submissions list. This is a bit difficult to test, since it seems to take several minutes for the list to register submission changes.


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A link to this Atlantic Monthly article by Ming Tsai (and about his restaurant Blue Ginger outside of Boston) came from a loyal Allergic Girl reader.
Ming Tsai:"I've always believed if you're in the restaurant business, which is in the hospitality and service industry, after all, it is your duty to serve everyone safe food."
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Breakfast Changes Lives
by Leah Brickley in Food News, March 1, 2013
We've all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and a new study shows just how important breakfast is for kids. The study, released by Share Our Strength, an organization Food Network has partnered with to raise money to fight childhood hunger, reveals that of the 21 million U.S. kids that get free or reduced-price school lunch, only a shocking half get breakfast. That means millions of children are starting their day hungry, making it more difficult for them to learn. The study also found that kids who eat school breakfast attend on average 1.5 more days of school, average 17.5% higher on math test scores and are 20% more likely to graduate high school.
Share Our Strength is making breakfast in schools a priority through Breakfast Changes Lives, an initiative in conjunction with the organization's No Kid Hungry campaign.
Does your child's school serve breakfast? Help Share our Strength reach their goal of mapping 10,000 schools by March 31st.
Don't let busy mornings be an excuse to skip breakfast: here are 50 breakfast on the fly ideas that will help your kids start their school day full and hungry to learn.
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Prevention, education key to halting dating violence
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This is the last in a series about abuse and violence in adolescent dating and romantic relationships.
Q: How can schools address adolescent dating violence?
A: In the August 2012 Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics titled "Pediatrics," there is a study reported on Adolescent Dating Violence: A National Assessment of School Counselors' Perceptions and Practices. Findings revealed 81.3 percent of the 305 counselors who responded to the survey reported their schools did not have protocols for handling adolescent dating violence. The questionnaires were sent to members of the American School Counselors Association.
In addition, 90 percent of school counselors reported in the past two years there had been no training on assisting survivors of teen dating abuse. Also lacking in 83 percent of schools were any student surveys asking teens about dating abuse and violence. In 76 percent of schools, there was no committee that addressed health and safety issues for students, including dating abuse.
From this study, several suggestions were made to improve services for teen survivors of teen dating violence. First, community organizations related to school health concerns should provide continuing education for school counselors and other school personnel involved in preventing and assisting victims of teen dating violence. Examples of these organizations would be the American School Health Association, the National Association of School Nurses and the American School Counselors Association.
A second suggestion from this study would be for schools to periodically assess their students in order to determine the extent and characteristics of adolescent dating violence. There needs to be a policy for how often the assessment will be done, who will be responsible, to whom results will be reported, and what strategies will be adopted.
A third recommendation would be to provide results to school administrators and legislators about what schools need to do to address adolescent dating violence. When surveys reveal sexual activity that can result in pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases, the state statutes dictate what schools can do in referring minors to health care or family planning resources need to be known and understood.
The study recommended further school counselors develop more active roles in encouraging students to report dating violence and to encourage students to report victimization. Finally, the study recommended school counselors and health professionals need to communicate and collaborate on preventing teen dating violence or dealing with these problems.
The Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence in 2008 received a grant to expand already existing programs for older teens to middle school adolescents. This program is under the Center for Healthy Teen Relationships, a statewide Idaho prevention and education initiative to build healthy relationships and prevent adolescent dating abuse and violence. The center published the following results.
Some middle or junior high schools did not believe their students dated and so were uninterested in any programs. This revelation required the program to change its approach to middle schools and their communities.
Activities for awareness and prevention were more successful among middle schools if teens were involved and there was a positive social norm theme. Logos, types of media and types of materials were developed, reviewed and finalized by diverse groups of teens.
Creating many avenues to engage youth work best. Examples would be for health curriculums to cover dating violence and also healthy relationships for teens, for schools to host annual events and contests, and for schools to commemorate a day designated for Dating Violence Prevention.
The program learned teens and parents providing positive feedback about how the Center for Healthy Teen Relationships was working was helpful. The number of Idaho high school students who reported physical abuse was 13.7 percent in 2007, 10.6 percent in 2009 and 8.7 percent in 2011.
The Idaho Center learned middle school is important. The peer group is so influential in that age group. The topics that need addressed are bullying, sexual harassment and dating abuse. An active program creates positive school environments and raises the level of respect in dating relationships.
The government website FindYouthInformation.gov published the results of a study from the National Institute of Justice that included 2,500 sixth- and seventh-grade students in 30 New York City schools. The research project reduced dating violence in middle school students by approximately 50 percent.
Success required multiple interventions. Examples are posters to increase awareness and encourage reports of abuse, higher levels of faculty and security in areas identified as "hot spots," and temporary school-based restraining orders against perpetrators. Classroom interventions alone were not enough. Classroom curriculum included consequences for dating violence and abuse, state laws and sanctions, and input on gender roles and healthy relationships.
Six months after implementation of combined classroom and school-wide interventions, there was a decrease of 32 percent to 47 percent in sexual violence victimization. In addition, students who experienced school-wide interventions said they would be more likely to intervene as bystanders.
Prevention and education regarding dating violence and abuse needs to be directed toward and involve students, parents and community resources. In order to be truly effective, these initiatives need to be preceded by parents and schools teaching healthy relationship skills.
Judy Caprez is an associate professor of social work at Fort Hays State University. Send your questions in care of the department of sociology and social work, Rarick Hall, FHSU.


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