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The Science Bloggers for Students Challenge at DonorsChoose is officially under way! What is that, you say? Well, let me tell you.
Schools in the United States keep seeing budget cuts, which translates to cuts in classroom supplies and activities. Teachers are spending money out of their own pockets to help cover the gap. DonorsChoose was founded 10 years ago by a teacher who wanted to provide a way for people to donate directly to classroom initiatives they wanted to support. To date, donations through DonorsChoose have exceeded $61 million and impacted over 3.7 million students in the U.S., most in high poverty school districts.
How does it work? A teacher writes a project proposal, explaining what he or she wants to do, how it fits in with the class curriculum, what supplies are needed, and how much those supplies cost. Staff at DonorsChoose vet every project and verify the cost of supplies before posting to the site. Then it's up to individual donors to fund projects. You can donate as little as $1 to help fund a project. Once a project is fully funded, DonorsChoose purchases the supplies and delivers them to the classroom.
Sadly, not all projects get fully funded by their deadlines. If this happens, donors are asked to pick another project. Although it's certainly disappointing if a project is not funded by the deadline, you still have complete control over where your contribution goes.
This is a chance for science blogger and science blog readers to get more science into schools! Now through November 9th, you'll be seeing a little blue and white DonorsChoose widget in the sidebar of my blog--and a number of other blogs, too. But you know you want to click through mine! Not only because you appreciate my humor and charm, but also because when the amount donated through my giving page reaches $350, a donor (chosen at random) will get one of these cuties from Prim and Plush. (* Obviously for this to work, I have to have some idea of who you are. If I can make a connection between your donor acknowledgement and a LabSpaces, Twitter, or blog username/pseudonym, then you'll be in the running. For example, I am acknowleged as biochembelle on donations.) You can keep up with how all the teams are doing by checking out the leaderboard.
HP will be matching all donations made through the Science Bloggers for Students challenge, dollar for dollar, up to $50,000! At the end of the challenge, the total amount donated through the challenge will be divided by the number of donors. Each donor will then receive (via email) a gift code for that amount to contribute to a project of his or her choosing. For instance, if 1,000 donors contribute a total of $30,000, then each donor will get a code worth $30 to give to another classroom. Kudos to HP for helping put science in our classrooms!!!
I've picked a few projects to promote on my giving page. You can donate to any of them or to any other project on DonorsChoose that kindles your interest. BUT I want to highlight one project from a classroom in rural Arkansas: Oh! Rats! The teacher, Mrs. T, has 100 6th grade science students. She needs rats for her students to dissect to learn about organ systems and adaptations that have enabled their survival. There's 16 days left until the deadline and over $600 left to raise. I'm hoping that with the joint efforts of the LabSpaces bloggers and readers, we'll be able to get Mrs. T those rats!
So what are you waiting on?
Update: Javelin, the lovely lady who actually crochets those adorable little molecules (unlike yours truly who has never crocheted anything in her life), is donating some molecules to the cause, which means added opportunities for donors to get their hands on one Be sure to go check out the Prim and Plush Etsy store! After all, gift-giving season is just around the corner
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Oh my, I love, love, love those little knitted molecules! Christmas presents sorted!
I know! Aren't they adorable? And they're made by a cancer bio grad student! She has little pink ones in October for Breast Cancer Awareness month and is donating $7 from the sale of each BCA water molecule to Susan G. Komen Foundation.
Correction: Researcher, not grad student You can find more about Javelin, Prim and Plush, and the molecules on her blog.
I was just at a meeting for our school this afternoon and someone mentioned Donors Choose. Our charter school has just changed this year to having an environmental focus and because of this, the teachers have a long wish list for the fundraising committee. And then I come across it here at LabSpaces. Hmmm.
The glue trap is covered by a layer of plastic that is peeled away to expose a long tray filled with a thick, glue-like substance. If the rat steps onto the glue trap, he will be trapped as effectively as if he had stepped in quicksand and there is no hope for escape. The rat and the glue trap can be disposed of together in the trash tied into a plastic bag so that no other wildlife can get into it.
Mice, rats and other rodents are unwanted guests in many households. They will eat your food and chew holes in all kinds of items. They also carry several diseases that put you and your family's health in jeopardy. Rats are one of the most diseased rodents that will inhabit a house, and eliminating the problem needs to be done quickly.
However, they are also very intelligent, and it doesn't take long for them to learn their surroundings.


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Milestone-Proposal:Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC)
Docket #:2010-02
This Proposal has been approved, and is now a Milestone Nomination
This is a draft proposal, that has not yet been submitted. To submit this proposal, click on "Edit with form", check the "Submit this proposal for review" box at the bottom, and save the page.
Is the achievement you are proposing more than 25 years old?
Is the achievement you are proposing within IEEE's fields of interest? (e.g. "the theory and practice of electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering, as well as computer science, the allied branches of engineering and the related arts and sciences" – from the IEEE Constitution)
Did the achievement provide a meaningful benefit for humanity?
Was it of at least regional importance?
Has an IEEE Organizational Unit agreed to pay for the milestone plaque(s)?
Has an IEEE Organizational Unit agreed to arrange the dedication ceremony?
Has the IEEE Section in which the milestone is located agreed to take responsibility for the plaque after it is dedicated?
Has the owner of the site agreed to have it designated as an Electrical Engineering Milestone? Yes
Year or range of years in which the achievement occurred:
Development began in 1962, prototype was under test in 1964, first flight operation in 1966, continued operational use until 1972
Title of the proposed milestone:
Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC)
Plaque citation summarizing the achievement and its significance:
In what IEEE section(s) does it reside?
Boston MA
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IEEE Organizational Unit(s) paying for milestone plaque(s):
Unit: Boston Section
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IEEE Organizational Unit(s) arranging the dedication ceremony:
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IEEE section(s) monitoring the plaque(s):
IEEE Section: Boston Section
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Milestone proposer(s):
Proposer name: Proposer's name masked to public
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Please note: your email address and contact information will be masked on the website for privacy reasons. Only IEEE History Center Staff will be able to view the email address.
Street address(es) and GPS coordinates of the intended milestone plaque site(s):
Cambridge MA.
Describe briefly the intended site(s) of the milestone plaque(s). The intended site(s) must have a direct connection with the achievement (e.g. where developed, invented, tested, demonstrated, installed, or operated, etc.). A museum where a device or example of the technology is displayed, or the university where the inventor studied, are not, in themselves, sufficient connection for a milestone plaque.
Please give the address(es) of the plaque site(s) (GPS coordinates if you have them). Also please give the details of the mounting, i.e. on the outside of the building, in the ground floor entrance hall, on a plinth on the grounds, etc. If visitors to the plaque site will need to go through security, or make an appointment, please give the contact information visitors will need.
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, of Cambridge, MA, home of Charles Stark Draper, the man who lead the efforts of MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, the place where AGC was invented and developed. A second milestone plaque is being considered for the MIT campus.
Are the original buildings extant?
Details of the plaque mounting:
How is the site protected/secured, and in what ways is it accessible to the public?
The plaque will be mounted for viewing by the general public at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge. The plaque will be located outside any of its secured perimeter.
Who is the present owner of the site(s)?
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc
A letter in English, or with English translation, from the site owner(s) giving permission to place IEEE milestone plaque on the property:
A letter or email from the appropriate Section Chair supporting the Milestone application:
What is the historical significance of the work (its technological, scientific, or social importance)?
AGC and the associated Guidance, Navigation and Control System components made possible the Lunar Rendezvous Mode Trajectory used by the Apollo Program to put the first human beings on the moon and return them safely to earth
What obstacles (technical, political, geographic) needed to be overcome?
The Apollo Program was a very high profile nationally significant techno-political project with a had deadline. Many politicians, and bureaucrats interjected themselves into the finances, selection of venues for facilities, contractors, personnel, etc. On top of the above the success of the AGC was Mission Critical to the Apollo Program especially after the fatal fire on the launch pad of the prototype Apollo Command Module..
What features set this work apart from similar achievements?
AGC was a true pioneer: a mission-critical real-time, embedded digital computer system built using commercial integrated circuits
References to establish the dates, location, and importance of the achievement: Minimum of five (5), but as many as needed to support the milestone, such as patents, contemporary newspaper articles, journal articles, or citations to pages in scholarly books. At least one of the references must be from a scholarly book or journal article.
Supporting materials (supported formats: GIF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, DOC): All supporting materials must be in English, or if not in English, accompanied by an English translation. You must supply the texts or excerpts themselves, not just the references. For documents that are copyright-encumbered, or which you do not have rights to post, email the documents themselves to email@example.com. Please see the Milestone Program Guidelines for more information.

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Celtic manager Neil Lennon has joked that he would welcome Snoop Dogg's investment in the club - if the hip hop star invited him to one of his parties.
The US rapper has expressed an interest in becoming a Celtic director after being struck by the passion of the supporters during their 2-1 Champions League win over Barcelona.
The singer stated he "wanted to bring a bit of Snoop" to Celtic and added: "The boxes at Celtic would never be the same once I have hosted a party there."
When questioned about the music star's interest ahead of his team's Champions League clash against Benfica in Lisbon, Lennon said: "It would be interesting if he did put money in. As long as I got invited to one of his parties, it would be OK."
Snoop Dogg, who has previously been photographed wearing a Celtic strip, said in the Sunday Mail: "I know Barcelona are a big deal, and it shows Celtic are a big deal as well.
"I see how passionate Celtic fans are about their team and I could see myself making an investment if any of the board wanted to sell.
"I don't need to run a soccer club but enough of a percentage to get me on the board so I can be heard."
Snoop Dogg was not the only international music star to be touched by Celtic's win over Barcelona. Hoops fan Rod Stewart was reduced to tears as he watched from the stand while Lennon revealed Sir Elton John phoned to congratulate him.
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China — Millenium-old buddhist temples see daylight once more
Thursday 26 August 2010, by
The Xinjiang archaeological team from the Institute of Archaeology under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences launched archaeological excavations at the Tianfo Site in Damagou Town of Cele County in the city of Hetian, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region on Aug. 22.
According to sources, there are more than 20 important sites of Buddhist architecture distributed in the range of nearly 100 kilometers from south to north along the Damagou river system. The Xinjiang archaeological team has excavated four temple sites in the Damagou Town beginning from 2002 to August 2010. Experts believe Damagou holds the largest number and the largest scale of ancient sites in the best condition in the south region of the Taklimakan Desert.
In the 10th to 11th centuries, the Kingdom of Kashgar, centered on where the current city of Kashgar and Shule County in Xinjiang is located, started a war against its neighboring country, the Kingdom of Khotan, centered on where the city of Hetian in Xinjiang is located. The Kingdom of Khotan, where Buddhism was the predominant religion, was destroyed.
More than 1,000 years later, archaeologists discovered sites of Buddhist temples in the desert region of the southern Damagou Town in Cele County of Hetian region, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Damagou is 30 kilometers away from the east of Cele County. The experts of the Xinjiang archaeological team are cleaning the sites of Buddhist temples in the desert region in front of the Kunlun Mountains.
"The discovery and archaeological excavations of the temple sites in the south region of Damagou began in 2002 and most sites we excavated were established during the period from the sixth century to the eighth century," said Dr. Wu Xinhua, leader of the Xinjiang archaeological team.
Archaeologists have proven that more than 20 major settlement buildings and Buddhist building sites from the Han and Tang dynasties were widely distributed in an area of about 100 square kilometers along the north-to-south Damagou water system to the Dandan-Uiliq ancient city (located in the middle of the Taklimakan Desert, 70 kilometers north of the county town of Cele County). Among them, a dozen large Buddhist temple site groups each made up of several Buddhist temple building remain.
From 2002 through August of 2010, the archaeological team in Xinjiang, led by Wu, had successively excavated a few Buddhist temple sites and named them as Damagou Tuopulukedun Buddhist Temple Site No.1, 2 and 3.
The Damagou Tuopulukedun Buddhist Temple Site No.1 faces south and has a rectangular structure. It is 2 meters long from north to south and 1.7 meters wide from west to east, with Buddha statues placed close to the north wall.
Wu said he believes that this Buddhist temple is the smallest among all discovered Buddhist temples in the Middle Ages across China and even the entire world. The temple's small size allowed it to be fully covered by tamarisk, and it has the most intact Buddha hall of all discovered Buddhist temples in China's Taklimakan Desert areas. Despite its small size, the temple has exquisite frescoes, with the largest combined area among all frescoes in Buddhist temples in that area.
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SHERMAN, TX — Parts of a Sherman business were evacuated Wednesday morning after a fire breaks out.
Sherman Fire Chief, Jeff Jones says at a little after 11, the ventilation system at the Certainteed plant off Heritage Parkway caught fire.
Jones says the sprinkler system did its job and kept the fire contained. It took firefighters about an hour and a half to put out the blaze.
"Some of that's a precaution. Just a facility that size, and just their product and process alone causes some concern. We just wanna make sure we have plenty of resources on hand," said Chief Jones.
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Cambridge is a compact city with a wonderful choice of shops. From the hustle and bustle of the city's seven-days-a-week market where you can rub shoulders with the locals in Market Square and the Saturday All Saint's Garden Art and Craft market, to an abundance of boutiques and independent shops as well as high street brands, designer labels and Shopping Centres. Cambridge has it all.
Stylish Shopping
If you enjoy a shopping spree you will love Cambridge. The compact city boasts a wide choice of shops from daily markets to an abundance of boutiques, independent shops, high street brands and designer labels. Cambridge has it all.
Potter around the cobbled Market Square to find something special, from fine cheese, vintage clothes and quirky gifts to fresh coffee beans, photographs, books and paintings.
Stroll down Rose Crescent and Trinity Street, Magdalene Street, Bridge Street and King Street to discover some excellent independent shops and chic cafes.
The pretty open-air All Saints Garden Art and Craft Market, opposite Trinity College, is open every Saturday, and known for its artisan products and quality arts and crafts at affordable prices.
Grand Arcade is the city's newest shopping centre with more than 60 premium and high street brands, a flagship John Lewis department store Apple, The White Company, Hollister, Carluccio's, Kurt Geiger, Topshop and River Island, among others, all under one sky-lit roof.
Linked to the Grand Arcade and nestled in the heart of Cambridge City, Lion Yard Shopping Centre has an exciting mix of high street brands, independent and boutique shops including Superdry, New Look and Hotel Chocolat. Along with a wide variety of themed eateries, including Jamaica Blue and Yo! Sushi, Lion Yard is also home to Cambridge Central Library.
The Grafton, a short walk across Christ's Pieces, is a shopping centre with high street names, including Debenhams, as well as fashion stores galore, cafes, restuarants and a Vue Cinema.
Mill Road, off Parker's Piece, is the city's bohemian area hosting a diverse range of restaurants and shops. Head just out of town to Burwash Manor, Barton, for country chic boutique shopping at its best. This picture-perfect village is home to a working organic farm and stylish clutch of independent and specialist fashion, home, gift, toy, wine and food shops, beauty spa, delicious Tea Room.
Are you looking for the perfect holiday souvenir to remind you of your stay in Cambridge? Or are you unsure as to what would be the perfect birthday present or Christmas gift for a loved one?


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I don't normally have adverts on my blog but I will make an exception in this case. A well known British chocolate brand with the help of CGI has remastered footage of Audrey Hepburn and turned it into a television advert, the advert has been beautifully done. Quite what Audrey Hepburn would have made of posthumously promoting chocolate I really don't know especially bearing in mind she was a good will ambassador for UNICEF an organisation that was close to her heart, Hepburn herself was helped by the organisation receiving food and medical help after World War II.
The Independent has an interesting piece on this advertisement and the subject of posthumous advertising here.
So what do you think, Is it ethical to use departed icons in this way?


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MILWAUKEE (AP) Brandon Jennings scored 20 points to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to a 109-102 victory over the Golden State Warriors Saturday night.
Milwaukee's Monta Ellis scored 20 points against his former team, while Ersan Ilyasova added 18 points and 12 rebounds. Larry Sanders added 16 points and 11 rebounds.
Stephen Curry led Golden State with 26 points. Klay Thompson added 19. David Lee added 12 points and a game-high 15 rebounds.
Golden State has lost four consecutive games in Milwaukee and hasn't won a game at the Bradley Center since 2008.
The Bucks held an eight-point lead late in the fourth quarter, but a 3-pointer by Curry it to 98-93.
After Ellis hit a jumper for the Bucks, a 3-pointer by Jarrett Jack cut the Bucks' lead to 100-98 with 53 seconds remaining.
A 3-pointer by Ellis with 32 seconds left gave the Bucks a five-point margin.
Jennings added two free throws to build the lead to 105-98. A Lee tip-in brought Golden State to within five points with less than 15 seconds left.
Ellis made two free throws for a 107-100 Bucks lead. He hit two more from the free throw line following a Lee basket to account for the final margin.
A 3-pointer from the top of the key by Golden State's Richard Jefferson as time expired gave the Warriors a 26-23 lead after the first quarter. Curry had 12 points in the period.
Golden State built a 20-13 lead, but the Bucks rallied to tie the game at 23 on back-to-back 3-pointers by Beno Udrih.
The Warriors led 55-51 at halftime, with Curry leading the way with 20 points, including three 3-pointers. Sanders led the Bucks with 12 first-half points. Mike Dunleavy added nine points on three 3-pointers to open the second quarter.
Milwaukee opened the third quarter on a 23-10 run. Jennings' fifth 3-pointer of the period gave the Bucks a 74-65 lead. Milwaukee held an 86-74 advantage at the end of the quarter.
Notes: There was no sign at the arena of the bat that repeatedly disrupted the Marquette-Providence men's basketball game earlier in the day. ... Warriors center Andrew Bogut, who was inactive for the game, made his first appearance at the Bradley Center since being traded, along with Stephen Jackson to Golden State last March. Bogut was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2005 draft. ... Bucks forward Larry Sanders extended his streak with at least one blocked shot to 29 consecutive games, tying San Antonio's Tim Duncan. ... Milwaukee Brewers star outfielder Ryan Braun attended the game.


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News | March 16, 2001
Ice Probe Reveals First-Ever Images Deep Within Antarctic Streams
Scientists have had their first inside look at ice layers, frozen debris and a surprising channel of water deep beneath an Antarctic ice stream, thanks to an ice probe designed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Plunged more than 1,200 meters (more than 3,900 feet) down four boreholes drilled in the West Antarctic ice sheet, JPL's probe paves the way for the development of technology capable of withstanding extreme environments on Earth and other planets.
The Antarctic Ice Borehole Probe Project, a collaborative effort of scientists at JPL and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, looked into the dynamics of the West Antarctic ice sheet, as part of the U.S.Antarctic Program of the National Science Foundation. The Antarctic ice sheet, equal in size to the United States and Mexico combined, holds a potential treasure trove of information related to the geological history of this frozen continent and the mechanisms by which ice flows from this area to the oceans. Studies show that significant changes in glacier melting and flow rates could have a considerable impact on global sea levels.
"This project fits into the bigger picture of planetary studies," said Dr. Frank Carsey, JPL's principal investigator on the project. "It provides us with some understanding of how to observe what goes on deep in ice caps -- Earth's ice caps, Martian ice caps and ice caps on Europa." Europa is an ice-covered moon of Jupiter.
The glaciological investigation took place at Ice Stream C, an area in the West Antarctic ice sheet where 150 years ago the ice suddenly stopped flowing in one area in the lower part of the stream. This so-called "sticky spot," currently flowing at a rate of 2 meters per year (about 6 feet), greatly differs from its neighboring streams, flowing at approximately 400 meters (1,300 feet) per year.
Equipped with two cameras and lights, JPL's ice probe revealed what appears to be a basal water system, or series of water channels at the base of the ice stream. In places, this water-filled cavity measured approximately 1.4 meters deep (4.6 feet). Based on previous calculations, researchers expected the depth of a water basal cavity to be only in the millimeter range.
To the researchers' surprise, they also found rock and other debris embedded in the ice much higher than expected. It was believed that frozen debris would be found no higher than two meters (almost seven feet) off the base of the ice stream. In contrast, the visual data shows frozen debris some 26 meters (85 feet) off the base, which has yet to be explained.
A layering effect in the ice was also uncovered by the probe. Though not yet fully understood, it is thought that, upstream, ice and gravel have frozen onto the base of the ice sheet. With the ice streams constantly moving, water may slide under debris-laden layers, lifting them up, allowing the process to repeat.
"The layered information will turn out to be very interesting," said Carsey. "These layers tell us about processes upstream." By analyzing these ice layers, researchers may learn how ice streams flow and stop flowing.
The team's findings open up the doors to further glaciological research. "With the probe, we have now left the dark ages," said Caltech's Dr. Hermann Engelhardt, a senior research associate on the project. Dr. Barclay Kamb of Caltech is the project's principal investigator.
JPL hopes to advance the probe's technology in the next year or two, adding biological sensors to search for evidence of life in the Antarctic ice sheet and eventually on other planets. Microbes are known to reside under mountain glaciers, where it is warmer and there are nutrients from impurities found between water crystals.
"These locations are very old places. Some, such as on Mars, are hundreds of millions of years old," said Carsey. The base of a planet's polar cap chronicles the planet's climate and can reveal much about its history and biology, he said.
The Antarctic Ice Borehole Probe Project is a collaborative effort of JPL and Caltech, supported by NASA, Washington D.C., and the National Science Foundation, Arlington, Va. The ice probe was developed by JPL, a division of Caltech.
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Aus 82 Designs von 20 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
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OnClick Solutions Ltd customer support solutions are designed to help customers implement today's Best Practice procedures. Our solutions are updated continually to reflect now technology and the latest advances in business procedures and approaches.
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How Web Analytics Are Shaping Advertising Dollars And The Newsroom
By: Nu Yang
A 2011 journalist engagement survey conducted by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute showed that 9 out of 10 daily community newspapers receive Web analytics reports on Internet data such as page views, length of visits, and traffic to their websites. Forty-one percent of the 529 daily community newspapers editors interviewed said they receive Web analytics reports every day.
As the industry shifts from circulation and readership to page views and click-throughs, publishers and advertisers are paying more attention to website data such as ad impressions and unique visitors. Some publishers are using free services such as Google Analytics, while others are turning to companies such as Chartbeat that provide real-time analytics for websites in order to make sense (and cents) of their Web analysis.
Numbers and Data
For publishers looking to get their feet wet with Web analytics, Google Analytics is a free tool that is flexible enough to use with any business. The company also offers a premium service for a fee.
According to Google's Analytics advocate Justin Cutroni, the search giant became involved with Web analysis about seven years ago in order to help content publishers measure audience behavior and advertisers measure their expenses for a better return on investment. With Google Analytics, there is no hardware or software to install — just input a JavaScript code on the website pages and Google Analytics starts to collect the data.
"One of the most important metrics to track is conversions, which is when a visitor to your site completes an important task," Cutroni said. "Every company should outline the primary business objectives of their website (macro-conversions). This can be completing a sale or filling out a Get a Quote form. It's equally important to figure out what smaller actions (micro-conversions) might lead someone to a macro-conversion down the line, like visiting the Contact Us page, spending more than 10 minutes on your site, viewing a certain number of videos, or signing up for an email newsletter."
Google Analytics also integrates with Google AdSense, another free program that helps publishers earn revenue by displaying relevant ads with their online content. AdSense includes ads on site search results pages, displays ads on the website suited to the audience's interests and learned from valid clicks and impressions, and integrates with mobile webpages and apps to connect mobile users to the right ad.
Founded in 2007 and based in Los Angeles, JumpTime is a digital optimization firm that was created to help publishers find a solution to monetize high-quality content online. One of its most successful proprietary methods is FloPower, a content programming algorithm that helps maximize engagement and monetization on any level of traffic. FloPower calculates the actual value that will be derived from every 1,000 visits to a specific piece of content and the total value of the page, including how successful the site is at keeping visitors engaged and sending them to the next piece of content.
"This solution has helped publishers see an increase of 20 to 50 percent in engagement with users and advertising," said JumpTime co-founder and chief executive officer Michele DiLorenzo.
DiLorenzo described FloPower as "immediate value plus future value" and stressed that content is a publisher's greatest asset.
"It (content) should drive the user to a deeper experience and create additional ad impressions. Publishers usually only consider immediate value, and not future value," she said.
An example would be if an advertiser was willing to pay $18 CPM (cost per mille) and only received one click-in visit. DiLorenzo called that visit "high immediate value and low engagement." She compared that to a visitor who enters a site and visits low value pages ("high engagement and low overall value"), and an optimal balance of engagement and value, where one click leads to visits to high value pages.
"Click-through rates don't equal value. They're empty calories," DiLorenzo said. Instead, FloPower shows numbers on engagement, page views, and downstream views.
"It's telling the full impact," she said. "It's looking at every dollar view on every piece of real estate … FloPower predicts what happens next."
The ability to see those real time analytics is what attracted Hearst Newspapers to partner with JumpTime about 10 months ago. Hearst Newspapers owns 15 daily publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle and Albany Times Union.
"At the time, JumpTime was the only one with products that could overlay with our websites," said Karen Brophy, vice president of digital at Hearst Newspapers. "Since using JumpTime, we've seen a lift in traffic because our producers know in real time what's working and we have a central CMS system, so our newspapers can share what's performing well."
Although Brophy wouldn't share specific figures, she said the increase in traffic has been reflected on the sales side as well. "It helps to know and see what's performing and see the actual dollar drive traffic, and if we need more traffic, we can make that happen."
Based in New York City, Chartbeat is a real-time data analytics firm that was launched in 2009 and currently serves 153 media organizations, including The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
"Chartbeat Publishing gives insight in real time on who your audience is, what content they're looking at, and where they're coming from," said user experience lead Adam Clarkson. Like Google, Chartbeat implements JavaScript coding on the website to capture data.
For legacy media publishers, Clarkson said collected data can steer content to be more responsive to reader demands. "There's an old mentality set by journalists and editors that they should only post what the public needs to know and they feel data adds pressure to write about what's popular instead. Two years ago that may have been the winning argument, but that's now overruled. Data can help us learn — learn our audience and find an audience."
To maximize real-time response, Chartbeat offers its customers the option to be notified immediately by email, mobile application, or text message if there is a spike in traffic. "(Publishers) can optimize related content and push it out to other audiences and not wait until the next day to see they had a spike," Clarkson said. "They can act on it now."
Chartbeat recently launched its Heads Up Display, which allows editorial teams to see vitals on traffic sources and most-clicked pages in an integrated menu bar. It also provides insight on how people are interacting with a certain story, detailed real-time click rate, and homepage performance.
Founded in 1999, vSplash is a digital marketing firm with U.S. offices in Atlanta and Lyndhurst, N.J. vSplash offers a unique kind of Web tool called BuzzBoard, which allows sales staff to send the URL of an advertiser (or even the entire customer database) to vSplash, which will then analyze the customer's digital presence and performance. A diagnostic report is given to sales representatives to return to merchants with suggestions on how to create new revenue streams. The data also includes the customer's Criticality Score, which gauges how well a company is performing based on key data points.
"It shows the sales rep the digital side of things," said vSplash board advisor Neal Polachek. "Before, the sales rep would just have the merchant sign a contract and say 'Great, see you next year.' It was easy and straightforward, but now there's complexity and they need to understand these kinds of proposals for merchants."
Senior vice president Anthony Bratti said that since it launched earlier this year, BuzzBoard has analyzed 10 million listings and 2.2 million unique URLs. That number is on track to rise to 5 million by December.
"BuzzBoard is not meant to be the smartest person in the room," Bratti said. "But our customer base — newspapers — can use it in their product sales. They can show it to small businesses and make them smarter … it makes reps more confident in having these conversations."
It also saves the sales reps time and makes more room for more face-to-face interaction, Polachek said. "What usually takes two hours for a sales rep, now takes two minutes with vSplash."
Bratti said vSplash customers have seen a 60 percent increase in sales productivity when using BuzzBoard.
Audience and Behavior
If you want loyal readers, you have to turn them into "sticky" readers.
"It's not just about page views," said Jeff Shabram, vice president of digital and director of digital advertising at the Omaha World-Herald. "It's where people are looking and how many people are looking." Shabram called the term "stickiness," with the key question being, "Can you hold that person's interest and entice them to read more?" Broadening interest meant broadening the number of readers, he said.
When the Omaha World-Herald and its cluster of newspapers at Midlands Newspapers, Inc., partnered with content management system provider TownNews.com nine years ago, Shabram said the Internet was still at its infancy and community newspapers were looking for a partner to help guide them into the Internet arena. Founded in 1989 and located in Moline, Ill., TownNews.com now serves 1,500 newspaper clients.
Shabram said what was attractive about TownNews.com was the company's understanding of the core needs of a community newspaper. "They were trying to be cutting edge, not bleeding edge," he said. "(A newspaper) can get into tremendous expense when developing something that ends up not being (compatible) with the technology future."
Customers who use TownNews.com's BLOX CMS also have access to BLOX Analytics which provides data for online and social traffic. Various reports on page views, referrers, bounces, time on site, and exit can also be generated in TownNews.com's tracking system MurlinStats. Charts can be compared to previous days, weeks, months, and years. Sites can also integrate with Google Analytics, which is fully supported by BLOX Analytics reporting tools. For social media analytics, TownNews.com employs social tracking company AddThis.
TownNews.com vice president of technology and operations Brad Ward said when publishers are asking about analytics, they want to understand why they saw a spike in traffic (Ward said it usually comes from the story being shared on popular sites such as Drudge Report); they want help on figuring out popular items on the site; and they want to know how they compare to their peers.
Receiving the real time analytics is important to Shabram and the 23 other media properties within his company. "It's vastly different than the printed formula," Shabram said. "It's now more malleable." Stories are reengineered on the page, layouts adjusted, and breaking news highlighted, he said.
Shabram said analytics have helped the Omaha World-Herald discover that readers are not finding stories directly on the homepage, but that social media is helping them land on the front section and leading them on to more stories.
"We saw a growth in mobile," he said. "It helped us analyze mobile verses traditional website growth. We saw a growth in traffic to stories, but we didn't see traffic fall getting to the front section. We were able to receive insight on audience behavior, see what related stories were being read, and properly promote them."
As a result, Shabram said readers were able to move on to the next element on the website. "You don't know what you don't know, not until you discover it."
Visual Revenue is an analytics provider that was founded in 2010 in New York by Dennis Mortensen and his cofounders from his prior Web analytics venture IndexTools, which was acquired by Yahoo! in 2008.
Mortensen said the platform helps editors predict the performance of a story 15 minutes into the future and uses that model to provide specific recommendations on what content to place where on the homepage and for how long, all while maintaining editorial tone. Visual Revenue also provides instant headline testing capabilities without any CMS integration, so editors can run more than 150 headline tests.
"Our platform is designed to help editors promote the most valuable content in the most valuable positions on a given front page, however they define value. This can mean a substantial lift in article views per visit and a visible increase in return visits, as readers fall in love with a well edited homepage," Mortensen said. "This can also mean driving readers toward more valuable content (such as) videos (and) high value categories, and valuable actions (such as) subscriptions (and) app downloads. On average, sites using our platform have seen a 30 percent lift in article views attributed to the front page, which quite frankly, pays some salaries."
Toronto's Globe and Mail has worked with Visual Revenue for about seven months. Deputy editor of digital operations Chris Boutet said that partnering with Visual Revenue gave the Globe and Mail the chance to finally see the click-through rates on the website's homepage. "It shed some light on some dark corners of user activity," he said.
Homepage editors are now able to get insight on the page and take immediate action. "We can evaluate designs, test different headlines, hone in on our performance, and drive traffic overall," Boutet said.
He said newspapers have always had that data, but it was on a slower cycle. "Now we have the feedback right away."
Omniture, which launched eight years ago and was acquired by Adobe in 2009, is an analytics tool that examines content and provides a clear understanding of how many visitors interacted with ads. The company currently works with 100 media publishers.
"Publishers are looking for what visitors are visiting, the time of day, content freshness or how long content can stay on site before being rotated, and what type of content is being looked at," said Steve Hammond, head of integrated solutions and digital marketing technologies at Adobe Systems.
Adobe's SiteCatalyst captures data in real time and helps publishers identify the most profitable paths through a website, segment traffic to spot high-value Web visitors, and develop successful digital marketing campaigns.
Hammond said social media was a "cool segment to analyze."
"You see behavior to and from sites. You see what article is being referred to back and forth between social media customer and you see there are two type of audiences — those responding and those promoting," he said.
"Customer loyalty isn't just providing trends and solutions; it's a way to connect to other experiences," Hammond added.
By using the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, London's The Economist found success by strengthening audience engagement. According to Adobe, "The Economist was able to reveal new insights about a very active mobile Twitter user base in the analysis and debate area of The Economist site, but noticed that content on that part of the site was not very Twitter friendly. So, the user interaction team revised the analysis and debate areas to encourage more tweeting — leading to increased Twitter traffic."
Where do you go from here?
From editorial to advertising, a newspaper's website is a valuable extension of the print product. As Google's Cutroni said, "The key to any successful business is measuring what's working and what's not — the same holds true to your website.
"Not everyone who comes to your site will make you a million dollars, so you have to think outside revenue," he said. "Build a site that will take people through your website and turn them into loyal customers."
Cutroni suggested that publishers use data to optimize their marketing efforts. "Knowing which marketing activities are driving valuable customers to your site can help you prioritize your marketing resources, so you can put money and effort behind the things that are driving your business."
"In general, publishers should have a clear understanding of the audience," Hammond said. "See how they respond to the content … there are so many different news platforms out there, the only way to differentiate yourself is to create something more relevant and consumer-focused, and you do that by understanding the desires and needs of an audience. With analytics, you have that ability."
Of Visual Revenue's strategy, Mortensen said, "Don't surrender your wonderful brand to the Facebooks of the world. Extract as much value as you can from those channels, but only with the primary purpose of actually gaining a reader for later. Turn a Tweet into a reader who knows you for who you are, will bypass those channels, and go directly to your front page or tablet/mobile offerings."
JumpTime's DiLorenzo said publishers should start integrating revenue analytics and usage analytics because "they are absolutely related.
"How do you get a visitor to look at one more story — one more valuable story?" she asked. "You have to get your biggest bang for buck."
Chartbeat's Clarkson advised publishers to put data on every desktop. "(Publishers) can tell if it's a good or bad month before they even receive the report. It's not constrained to a backroom analyst. The key to prolonged exposure leads to understanding the cadence of the website."
"(Web analytics) is more of an art than a science," he said.


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Red, White and Green
July 4, 2012
A friend served this delicious chilled avocado soup at her summer party and my husband insisted I recreate it at home. Boy, am I glad she shared this recipe with me (thanks Kathryn!)! Not only is it extremely flavorful and refreshing, but it's quite versatile. When I made this batch originally, I served it alongside Black Bean and Corn Quesadillas for a #MeatlessMonday dish, and then used it again later in the week as a dressing on a Taco Salad. It would also be delicious as a layer in a Mexican dip, a sauce over a taco or served atop grilled shrimp or chicken. This recipe has definitely made into my list of summer staples!
Chilled Avocado Soup with Chile Lime Pepitas
- 1 medium poblano chile
- 1 small white onion, sliced into 1/4 -inch-thick rings
- 2-1/2 cups lower-salt chicken broth; more as needed
- 2 medium firm-ripe avocados, pitted, peeled, and cut into large chunks
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 2 Tbs. chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 2 tsp. chopped fresh marjoram or oregano (optional)
- 1/4 cup fresh lime juice (from 2 medium limes)
- 1 tsp. ground cumin
- 1/2 tsp. ground coriander
- Kosher salt
- 1/2 cup plain non-fat yogurt
- 1 tsp. extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup pepitas (pumpkin seeds)
- 1/8 tsp. chile powder; more for serving
On a gas stove, turn a burner to high and set the poblano directly over the flame, turning it with tongs, until completely charred, 5 to 8 minutes. Alternatively, on an electric stove, heat the broiler on high and char the poblano on all sides on a baking sheet placed directly under the broiler. Put the poblano in a bowl, cover, and set aside to steam and loosen the skin. When cool enough to handle, peel, seed, and cut the poblano into 1/4 -inch dice.
Heat an 11- to 12-inch cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat, add the onion and cook, turning a few times, until soft and browned in places, about 5 minutes.
In a blender, purée until smooth all but 1 Tbs. of the poblano, the onion, broth, avocado, cilantro, parsley, marjoram or oregano (if using), 2 Tbs. of the lime juice, cumin, coriander, and 1 tsp. salt. Blend in the yogurt. Season to taste with more salt. Chill well.
Heat the oil in a 10-inch skillet over medium heat. Add the pepitas and cook until they begin to pop and color a bit, about 3 minutes. Add the remaining 2 Tbs. lime juice, the chile powder, and 1/8 tsp. salt and stir until the juice has evaporated, leaving a film on the pan.
Season the soup to taste with salt and thin with broth if necessary. Divide among 6 cups or small bowls and garnish with the pepitas, the remaining poblano, and a few pinches of chile powder.
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Does anyone received this kind of email from Slingshot and charging you with the courier of their modem/router.
$11 is not really biggie but is this normal that they charge the courier for free modem? for a 12 month contract? and I didnt see this on their website that you will get free modem but you have to pay the courier...
Also, looks like $11 from AKL to WLG for a small dynalink modem is quite overcharge?
what do you think guys?
below is their email.
Just a quick note to update you on a slight change to your next Slingshot invoice.
On your 03 Dec 2012 bill you will notice a hardware charge of $0.00 plus a courier fee of $11.00.
This is for the ( 1port wired ) ADSL2+ Modem Router - NB14 we sent out to you previously.
We apologise that it has taken so long for these charges to appear on your account (xxxxxx) and for any inconvenience that this may have caused. We can ensure you though that everything is up to date now and you shouldn't receive any further charges for this hardware.
If you have any questions about this charge please give us a call on 0800 89 2000.
The team @Slingshot


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It happened to me again yesterday. That moment everyone talks about, when a GUI program is suddenly inconvenient and obtrusive, and you realize that the console alternative is just plain faster and easier than clicking buttons and waiting for an interface to accomplish the same task.
This time it was Leafpad, a program I otherwise hold in rather high regard, just for the direct-line simplicity of it and for its ability to avoid over-complication in becoming something it isn't — like a code editor, or a word processor. Leafpad is just a text editor, and on any other day it would be what I pointed to if you asked me for a GUI editor I liked.
But this time I needed to do a search-and-replace for a series of oddball characters in a text file, and in the half-second it took to open Leafpad, I realized that I would still have to point-and-click to find the file and open it, then open the search-and-replace dialog, and then type in the appropriate strings and click the radio buttons to get the search behavior I wanted, then click to execute the search, then again to finally save it.
And I realized the same thing could be done in vim in about a tenth of the time, with a tenth of the "clicks" involved.
It's not a particularly good or particularly fair example, since the two programs are bit distant in terms of potential too. Some of the things I mentioned that Leafpad doesn't do are workaday affairs in vim, so the comparison becomes a kind of patronizing pat on the head for Leafpad.
It's also a bit backward when the Leafpad package, according to ftp.archlinux.org, takes up 92Kb, while vim is a monstrous 5441Kb. Of course, you could argue in reply that Leafpad won't run without the software morass called Xorg, which outweighs vim on a proportional scale.
My point here is not size of the binary or available features though. Each program — in this pair and in any other comparison — has pros and cons, and even if I could prove mathematically that one was superior to the other, you'd still be free to use whichever one you liked.
Just be aware that there may come a time — even if it only lasts a split second, like it did for me yesterday — when you'll realize that you could do the same thing easier, faster and probably without incurring as much in required software, by relying on a console-based program instead of a GUI one. Maybe that split second will pass by without much more thought, or maybe that will trigger some other thoughts as well.


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Two former Navy SEALs from San Diego County who died defending the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last year should receive the highest award Congress can bestow on a civilian, Rep. Duncan Hunter said Thursday.
The Republican from Alpine backed up that assertion by introducing legislation that would grant the Congressional Gold Medal to Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.
"They ran a half-mile to the sound of gunfire," Hunter said. "Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods are American heroes for what they did."
The two were working as private security and intelligence contractors when the compound came under assault on Sept. 11.
Also killed were the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and information officer Sean Smith, a San Diego native. Several others were injured.
Woods' father, Charles Woods, said his son is worthy of the proposed honor.
"Ty never did these things for recognition, but he deserves it as an inspiration to other people," he said in a phone interview from Hawaii. "He truly was an American hero."
The Obama administration's handling of the Benghazi attack remains a touchy issue in Congress, which could result in Hunter's bill getting bottled up.
Jack Pitney, a political-science professor at Claremont McKenna College near Los Angeles, said the legislation probably will have a good chance in the House of Representatives, where Republicans are in charge. Its fate in the Democratic-controlled Senate is another matter, he said.
Hunter said he is pushing for the award because Woods and Doherty are ineligible for a military medal despite their combined 32 years as members of the elite SEALs and multiple combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
"Their actions were consistent with the way that elite operators are trained and conditioned to respond, and they sacrificed their lives protecting others," Hunter said. "Since they were no longer in uniform, their actions won't be recognized by the military awards that represent such extraordinary courage and selflessness under fire. The very least Congress can do is rightly honor their memory and sacrifice."
Woods' father said his son, who lived in Imperial Beach, and Doherty ignored orders to stay at a nearby CIA compound and not respond to the consulate attack.
"He loved those people, and even if he was told to stand down he was not going to do so," he said. "He willingly jeopardized his own life in order to try and save them."
Doherty's brother, Greg, said it would be humbling for his sibling to be recognized by Congress.
"I hope it goes through," he said. "I'm proud of my brother for giving his life trying to save others. He didn't do it for the honors — he believed in the cause and he wanted to help people who couldn't help themselves."
Lance Cummings, training director at the SEALFIT private gym in Encinitas where Doherty also worked, praised Hunter for introducing the bill.
"Glen and Ty were both warriors," said Cummings, also a former SEAL. "They were teammates and of like mind in body and spirit, and when the call came for help, they answered it."
Doherty, who lived in Encinitas, would say he was just doing his job, according to Cummings.
"If a warrior is going to go down, there is no better way than to do so with a gun in your hand and your brother by your side," he said.
Doherty's sister, Kate Quigley, said her late brother was "as humble as they come."
"It's ironic that this happens on a day when they just detained a suspect," she said in reference to reports from Libya that a man believed to have knowledge of the attack was taken into custody.
Pat Smith, mother of the slain information officer, said she too believes Woods and Doherty are deserving.
"Those SEALs were wonderful — they were very brave guys," she said. "Ty is the one that found my son's body and took him out and put him in the car. Then they climbed on the roof and came under attack and never got any help, and I'm very disappointed in our government about that."
The suspect detained Thursday in Libya was identified by the Reuters news agency as Faraj al-Chalabi. Reuters said he fled to Pakistan after the attack and recently returned to Libya. The news agency also said unnamed U.S. sources in Washington did not believe he was a leader of the attack.
Quigley has started a memorial foundation in her brother's name that has raised more than $100,000. The money is being distributed to the families of special-forces troops who were killed or wounded.
Bing West, a former Marine, noted military author and assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs during the Reagan administration, said he believes the Obama administration and the Joint Chiefs of Staff failed the Americans at Benghazi.
"They left them without any support for seven hours," West said. "Senior leadership let down those two SEALs who went out to try and save the life of the senior American in country."
Administration officials have said they moved troops to the site as quickly as they could and that intelligence failures were in part responsible for what happened.
The Congressional Gold Medal was established in 1776. It has been awarded to approximately 300 individuals and the American Red Cross.
Congress uses it to express public gratitude for distinguished contributions. George Washington was the first recipient, and other honorees have included notable people in the arts and sciences, education, civil rights, explorers and space pioneers.
The law governing the medal requires the sponsorship of at least 290 House members and 67 senators before the award can be bestowed.
In practice, however, bills such as Hunter's have been taken up through "suspension or the rules," which waives the sponsorship requirement.
Hunter's bill has nine GOP co-sponsors, and he said he intends to seek more and speak to House leadership soon about the effort.


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Today on Twitter, 'mogging artist (and holy paladin!) Mia (from Mogalicious Mia) asked me whether I'd be writing about holy paladining one's way through Throne of Thunder.
I'm always up for a challenge so I said "sure, why not!"
Obviously there's a reason I should not be writing tips to Throne bosses. Notably that I missed the first two weeks of patch 5.2 due to my mom visiting (as guilty as I felt for not raiding, I would have felt even guiltier about ignoring my mother whom I hadn't seen in two years) and that by the time I was ready to go again, my guild was just wizzing through most of the fights, with me not knowing too much what was going on. I haven't even seen Jin'Rokh on normal. I can write all about wiping on heroic (my raid did eventually get him down, but it was while I was busy performing my bench duties) or winging it on LFR, but normal mode is all educated guessing for me.
Still want to read my notes?
If you haven't left yet, here's a nice and tidy (IMO) version of my raid notebook scribblings for the first three bosses. If nobody throws icky tomatoes at me, maybe I'll do write ups for the other Throne sets as well.
Icy Veins overall strat: http://www.icy-veins.com/jin-rokh-the-breaker-detailed-strategy-wow
Predominate damage type: Magic (Nature)
Suggested Spec and Glyphs: http://www.wowhead.com/talent#lP]|Inr
Track on your frames: Static Wound (optional)
CD timings:
Devotion Aura – Half the pallies in the raid can chain it during Lightning Storms 1 and 3, the other half can do #2.
Guardian of Ancient Kings – Can use twice if your raid is really bad outside of Lightning Storm. If the only time you really take damage is during Lightning Storm, then you can use it once, your choice of Storm. (Depending on your timing, you may be able to use it right after the first Thundering Throw then during Lightning Storm #3)
Divine Favor/Avenging Wrath – I popped one shortly after the pull and the other after the first Thundering Throw, then as they came up. Alternatively, you can use them when your raid takes spiky damage, notably during Lightning Storm.
Divine Shield – (Heroic mode only) Consider bubbling halfway through a Lightning Storm so you stop moving and cast some yummy heals. Pairs well with Guardian. If you're specced into Unbreakable Spirit, you may be able to squeeze this in on Storms 1 and 3.
Divine Protection – (Heroic mode only) With my weak gear, I found this was the only way I could survive dispelling Ionization on myself. (Sometimes I'd die anyway – Ionization sometimes ticks twice when dispelled, not sure why.) When there's no Ionization coming up, this is a good one to use on cooldown.
Move if: You are targeted by Focused Lightning, someone is dragging a Focused Lightning through you (I died to this a lot and felt very stupid), you need to dispel Ionization (heroic mode only) off yourself, Lightning Storm is about to start.
Positioning: Grouped up on the left side of the pool (if dropping Focused Lightning on the left). Lightning Storm is probably grouped up on normal (not sure!) and more spread out on Heroic (easier to dodge lightning balls).
Discussion: I went with what I would call my "default" glyph set. Talent wise, I hesitated between Speed of Light and Pursuit of Justice, but in the end I found that occasions where I had to run were far enough apart that I did fine with Speed of Light. You don't really need a speed buff anyway, but it does help if you're distracted and need to prevent an oopsie in a hurry. Next relevant tier, I went with Eternal Flame because I almost always go with Eternal Flame. I suppose you could take Sacred Shield if it's more your style. Next tier gets interesting. I did my attempts with Hand of Purity for Static Wound, but when I forgot to cast it I noticed zero difference. That said, if your tanks are going squish, definitely track Static Wound and use Hand of Purity. Otherwise, reduced cooldowns, especially for Divine Protection are very nice. Next tier, I've seen Holy Avenger recommended, and I would agree if your team is having trouble surviving Lightning Storm. Personally, since you can only really used it on Lightning Storms 1 and 3, I wasn't willing to give up bonus Eternal Flames from Divine Purpose. (Next time I do heroic Jin'Rokh, though, I will try Holy Avenger.) And finally, I've only really tried Light's Hammer. Since everyone should be grouped up during Fludity phases (and on normal mode, I imagine Lightning Storms are grouped) it is the logical choice.
Icy Veins overall strat: http://www.icy-veins.com/horridon-detailed-strategy-wow
Predominate damage type: Physical (tanks), Physical (raid, less progressive teams), Magic (raid, more progressive teams)
Suggested Spec and Glyphs: http://www.wowhead.com/talent#lTN|cnr
Track on your frames: Triple Puncture. (Also, if Magic/Disease debuffs and Stone Gaze if they don't show up by default – these are to be dispelled, dispelled, dispelled!)
CD timings:
Devotion Aura – Can probably squeeze it in 2-3 times. All troll phases deal significant magic damage, so use it wherever your team seems to be struggling.
Guardian of Ancient Kings – Can usually use twice. Depending on how your team takes damage, maybe use it during troll phase 1, then near the end. Adapt as needed.
Divine Favor/Avenging Wrath – Might as well use on cooldown.
Divine Shield – Use when you want to hide a screw up.
Divine Protection – Can probably fit it in once or twice per troll phase. Use whenever big damage goes out, or (only if Glyphed) when Hand of Sacrifice is going on the tanks.
Hand of Sacrifice – Sexy for tank damage. Can be especially helpful if cast right before Triple Puncture if the tank has a lot of stacks. (Use Glyphed Divine Protection on yourself.)
Hand of Protection – Can help non-pally tanks remove Triple Puncture while Horridon is stunned. Warn your tank if you plan to use this.
Move if: You are standing in Sand Traps, in Living Poison, near Frozen Orbs (they weren't cast by your mage), near a Lightning Nova Totem, in front or behind Horridon, you are targeted by Charge. In other words, move if you are standing in shit that makes your health drop.
Positioning: On the side of the boss. Not in front or behind him. On the fourth troll phase, you'll want to spread out by 5 yards as much as possible.
Discussion: I opted for Glyph of Divine Protection since I like Hand of Sacrifice a lot on this fight. Less progressive teams may also like this glyph to help mitigate melee damage that might occur for mobs that aren't picked up fast enough. Someone who takes a lot of magic damage might want to leave out this glyph. On the talent front, the first tier doesn't matter. In the second tier, Fist of Justice can help interrupt/stun unruly adds. Third tier, whichever you like best. I opted for Eternal Flame, as usual. Fourth tier, Clemency is great for Hand of Sacrifice, and if you're helping a tank remove his (or her) Triple Puncture stacks, Hand of Protection. Fifth tier, there aren't really any major damage phases, so Divine Purpose is ok. Sixth tier, I've yet to try it, but I've heard wonders about Holy Prism.
Council of Elders
Icy Veins overall strat: http://www.icy-veins.com/council-of-elders-detailed-strategy-wow
Predominate damage type: Magic (all types)
Suggested Spec and Glyphs: http://www.wowhead.com/talent#lTN|pnr
Track on your frames: Ensnared/Entrapped, if not tracked by default (dispel or Hand of Freedom!), Frostbite (optional)
CD timings:
Devotion Aura – Especially useful during Sandstorm. Can also help during Frostbite. And Overloads (Kazra'jin).
Guardian of Ancient Kings – Can be used once. Or twice if you pop it really early in the fight.
Divine Favor/Avenging Wrath – Might as well use on cooldown.
Divine Shield – Can use to get rid of aggro on Living Sands. Or clear Frostbite (though I wouldn't waste it on that unless you're having a lot of trouble keeping yourself up).
Divine Protection – Good during Frostbite and Sandstorm for sure, but not crucial. Can save it for those phases, or use it on cooldown.
Move if: You're standing on a Quicksand or on some grey smoke (Kazra'jin's Reckless Charge). Also if you're targeted by a Shadowed Loa Spirit (don't let it come close to you!)
Positioning: Kind of spread out. You can group or spread for Frostbite depending on the strat you're using.
Discussion: Constant raid damage with rare moving gives a lot of opportunity to use Glyph of Divine Plea, but Beacon of Light could work too (especially if your tanks like to die a lot). Or Battle Healer or Avenging Wrath. On the talent front, Fist of Justice is helpful for stunning Loas (or pesky Living Sands), Clemency is nice for Hand of Freedom (for those Ensared), Hand of Protection (if your squishies are being eaten by Living Sands) and Hand of Sacrifice (tanks usually appreciate). Hand of Purity can take the edge of Frostbite, but keep in mind that the 70% DoT reduction does not work. I haven't tried Holy Prism, but I'm told that with the spreading on this fight, it is very effective.
Yay that's part one!
With these helpful pointers you should at least be able to understand why your raid finder groups are wiping.
All my thanks to my references: Plus Heal, MMO Champion's raid forum and Icy Veins Holy Paladin Throne of Thunder Tips. Also lots of love to the guilds Cadenza (25m progression), Conquest (25m moderate progression) and Team Sport (10m casual) whose "damage taken" log section I borrowed to see where different types of guilds were getting smacked hard.


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Until its inevitable death next month, the United Football League will serve as an outlet for almost-rans to continue playing despite not getting tapped into the NFL steel-cage match. That's a good thing. I guess.
You know what isn't a good thing? Seeing people like Jeff Garcia, Maurice Clarett, Ahman Green, Cato June, Brooks Bollinger and others who just can't let go hold onto a five-team Florida-to-Sacramento circuit by their fingernails for dear I-still-matter life. Sad, directionless stumblebums in sub-USFL helmets. Average league salary: $50K.
But enough bellyaching: What did hero Garcia say after last night's epic Omaha Nighthawks season-opening 27-26 win over the Hartford Colonials?!
"You talk about coming out, and obviously having not played an entire year, really wondering how things are going to go. I had a busy week. Had a baby born on Tuesday. I'm flying from coast to Midwest from coast to Midwest. Just really was a busy week, but a very grateful, thankful week. I'm very blessed with my family at home. I'll have a chance to get home tomorrow and see them, spend some time with them. What a way to cap off the week, just a great way to finish the night."
And Green?
"Why do this? It's my hometown, and I love playing football. That's really it in a nutshell. It's really a no-brainer," Green said.


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§193. Procedure before Secretary for violations
(a) Complaint; hearing; intervention
Whenever the Secretary has reason to believe that any packer or swine contractor has violated or is violating any provision of this subchapter, he shall cause a complaint in writing to be served upon the packer or swine contractor, stating his charges in that respect, and requiring the packer or swine contractor to attend and testify at a hearing at a time and place designated therein, at least thirty days after the service of such complaint; and at such time and place there shall be afforded the packer or swine contractor a reasonable opportunity to be informed as to the evidence introduced against him (including the right of cross-examination), and to be heard in person or by counsel and through witnesses, under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe. Any person for good cause shown may on application be allowed by the Secretary to intervene in such proceeding, and appear in person or by counsel. At any time prior to the close of the hearing the Secretary may amend the complaint; but in case of any amendment adding new charges the hearing shall, on the request of the packer or swine contractor, be adjourned for a period not exceeding fifteen days.
(b) Report and order; penalty
If, after such hearing, the Secretary finds that the packer or swine contractor has violated or is violating any provisions of this subchapter covered by the charges, he shall make a report in writing in which he shall state his findings as to the facts, and shall issue and cause to be served on the packer or swine contractor an order requiring such packer or swine contractor to cease and desist from continuing such violation. The testimony taken at the hearing shall be reduced to writing and filed in the records of the Department of Agriculture. The Secretary may also assess a civil penalty of not more than $10,000 for each such violation. In determining the amount of the civil penalty to be assessed under this section, the Secretary shall consider the gravity of the offense, the size of the business involved, and the effect of the penalty on the person's ability to continue in business. If, after the lapse of the period allowed for appeal or after the affirmance of such penalty, the person against whom the civil penalty is assessed fails to pay such penalty, the Secretary may refer the matter to the Attorney General who may recover such penalty by an action in the appropriate district court of the United States.
(c) Amendment of report or order
Until the record in such hearing has been filed in a court of appeals of the United States, as provided in section 194 of this title, the Secretary at any time, upon such notice and in such manner as he deems proper, but only after reasonable opportunity to the packer or swine contractor to be heard, may amend or set aside the report or order, in whole or in part.
(d) Service of process
Complaints, orders, and other processes of the Secretary under this section may be served in the same manner as provided in section 45 of title 15.
(Aug. 15, 1921, ch. 64, title II, §203,
2002-Subsecs. (a) to (c).
1976-Subsec. (b).
1958-Subsec. (c).
Change of Name
Act June 25, 1948, as amended by act May 24, 1949, substituted "court of appeals" for "circuit court of appeals".
Transfer of Functions
Functions of all officers, agencies, and employees of Department of Agriculture transferred, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of Agriculture by 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 2, §1, eff. June 4, 1953, 18 F.R. 3219,


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SENIOR POWER: Fonda Fan
Think back to 1971 and Klute. It succeeded because of Jane Fonda as Bree Daniels, a gritty needy call girl who, through psychoanalysis and a relationship with a detective, develops strength to begin a different life. Fonda was thirty-two years old. Nine years later, in Nine to Five, she snapped out of sweet Judy Bernley's diffidence with the memorable "You're a sexist egotistical lying hypocritical bigot!" Try saying it fast. There were other brilliant performances – Julia, Coming Home, and The Dollmaker readily come to my mind. But recently, Jane Fonda has sold her name to things not worthy of her talent, for example, Georgia Rule (2007) and Monster-in-Law (2005).
Now Jane Fonda is seventy-five years old.
And if we all lived together? (Et si on vivait tous ensemble?) is a 2011 French-German comedy film. It asks the usually-unspoken, senior citizens' what if question. Instead of risking nursing homes, or housing projects, or so called assisted living, or being alone, or other ghastly unknowns, what if we all lived together, instead? Of course there's an assumption or two or three in there. Number one is that one of us will always be willing and able to care and cope.
Two old, married couples (Fonda + Pierre Richard and sixty-eight year old Geraldine Chaplin + Guy Bedos) have responded by choosing to live together in their own Parisian home. Their womanizer, never- married chum (Claude Rich) and an anthropologist doing some action research (Daniel Brühl) move in with them. There's also a dog. That's the filmic set-up. The rest is sérieux fun… Jeanne (Fonda), a former philosophy professor, observes, "It's strange. We plan for everything. We insure our cars, our homes. We even insure our lives. But we don't give a thought to our final years."
Writer-director Stéphane Robelin is no chicken himself. One reviewer called it "a dour Gallic comedy." And indeed, the usual things associated with age, aging (ageing, British spelling), and ageism have been built in: e.g. forgetting the running bathwater, severe illness courageously hidden, dementia, Viagra, coffin shopping, cancer. The Boston Globe notes that "Aging isn't for sissies in France, either, especially for men." With English subtitles, it is released in the U.S. as All Together. Fonda does indeed speak French. And she looks and sounds mahvelous! Al fin!
The Golden Palm is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival, presented to the director of the best feature film. In 1955, the first Palme d'Or was awarded to Delbert Mann for Marty. As of 2012, Jane Campion remains the only woman to have won the Palme d'Or.
Many viewers wonder why Michael Haneke's film, Amour, with its dying, aging, happily married, demented elderly characters, won the Palme d'Or. Perhaps they are uncomfortable with its end-of-life subject-- "a grim anatomy of elderly debility and dementia, complete with incontinence, forced feeding and the eventual stench of putrefaction," as one reviewer puts it as he lauds "Haneke's unsparing quest for the truth about the way we live and die."
Octogenarians Georges and Anne are retired music teachers whose daughter lives abroad with her family. When Anne suffers a stroke and is left paralyzed on one side of her body, the couple's abiding love for each other is put to the test as Georges attempts to care for her at home.
Amour was released in November and opened nationally on December 19.
And finally, in descending order. The Stand Up Guys are played by seventy-eight year old Alan Arkin, Al Pacino at seventy-two, and Christopher Walken, sixty-nine. The appeal seems to be that three shallow characters are still alive, having fun raising hell despite being old. Former partners in crime reunited. Aging is literally an R-rated state of mind. And yes, of course, Viagra plays a part.
Caregivers view elderly consumers as "old" when they can no longer perform everyday activities of "consumption" independently [purchasing, producing] regardless of their actual age. Activities such as shopping, preparing meals, doing housework, going to the doctor, taking medications, and managing money serve as a means of identifying someone as old and as venues for working through conflicts that arise when an older consumer who does not identify as old is treated as an "old person" by family members and service providers. When Michelle Barnhart (Oregon State University) and Lisa Peñaloza (Bordeaux Management School) drew on in-depth interviews with consumers in their late 80s, their family members, and paid caregivers, they found that participants viewed someone as "old" when that person consumed in ways consistent with society's concept of old people, and not simply when she or he experienced inabilities that come with increased chronological age. The study will be published in the April 2013 issue of the Journal of Consumer Research.
Sonoma County has implemented state-mandated lower pensions and benefit formulas for new hires. For public safety workers, maximum formula is 2.7% of salary for every year worked at age 57. For all other workers, 2.5% at age 67. (Current maximum formulas: 3% at 50 for public safety; 3% at 60 for all others). The changes, most of which do not require labor's approval, are expected to help curb rising taxpayer costs.
Public libraries here and abroad are making The Gift of Reading to senior citizens. The New York Public Library and other libraries are working with older people to help them navigate tablets and computer software. Senior citizens see better with tablets' adjustable type sizes. Reading becomes easier again. Based on tests conducted with 66 adults age 50+: older people read faster when using an iPad, compared to a newspaper with the same 10-point font size. When the font was increased to 18 points — easy to do on an iPad (as well as on my pc!) — reading speed increased to 137 words per minute.
Retirees' volunteer hour$ are worth billion$. Adults age 65+ volunteered 1.7 billion hours last year, in effect donating more than $37 billion, based on a $21.79 per hour value, a standard used by the volunteer sector. Older Americans may not have the highest rate of volunteering—that honor goes to middle-aged working parents—but in terms of time donated, they lead. Baby boomers, currently aged 48 - 66, who volunteered in 2011 did so for a median of 52 hours each, while volunteers aged 65+ donated 92 hours each, on median, according to an annual study by the Corporation for National and Community Service, based on a U.S. Census survey of 100,000 people. Religious and social or community-service organizations were seniors' top two volunteer organizations in 2011. The top four activities boomers and seniors said they engage in were fundraising (or selling items to raise money); collecting, preparing, distributing or serving food; general labor or transportation; and professional or management assistance. Volunteer rates vary dramatically by state: Utah topped the nation, and New York ranked lowest. With 26% of residents volunteering, California ranked 37. http://www.volunteeringinamerica.gov/


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Coupon websites change their coupons throughout the month, but most of them make major changes at the beginning of each month. With that in mind, here's a list of printable coupons for December 2012 that I think you'll be interested in.
- Arrowhead Mills Breakfast Product $1/1
- McCann's Irish Oatmeal $1/1
- Silk $1/2
- Kashi – save $1 on fresh fruit with any Kashi product
- Silk Almond $.75/1
- Kashi Soft Baked Squares $1/1
- Food Should Feel Good Snacks $.75/1
- Seven Generation Laundry Additive $1/1
- Mary's Gone Crackers $1.50/2
- Country Choice Organic Product $1/1
- Clif Kit's Organic Bars Buy one Get one free
- Immaculate Baking Company $1/2
- Horizon Milk $1/2
- SunSpire Baking Chocolate $1/1
- RW Knudsen Celbratory Product $.75/1
- Several others you may be interested in
- Florida Crystals Organic Agave $.65/1
- Florida Crystals Organic Sugar $.55/1
- Wholesome Sweeteners Organic Fair Trade Honey $1/1
- Kikkoman Soy Sauce (can use on organic) $.75/1
- Gerber Organic 2nd Foods $1/1
- Kashi Frozen Entrée $1.50/1
From Whole Foods (must be used at Whole Foods stores)
- Annie Chun's Products Buy 3 Get 1 Free
- Melt Organic Buttery Spread $1/1
- Organic Valley Dairy Creamer $1/1
- Nature's Path Granola Bars or Hot Oatmeal $1.50/2
- Nature's Path Love Crunch $1/1
- Pacific Foods Soup Starters $1/1
- 365 Organic Soup $1/1
- Many other coupons that might be of interest
From manufacturer websites
All of these coupons are ready to print. You don't need to sign up for any newsletters, provide personal information, or jump through any other hoops.
- Seeds of Change — $1 off any Seeds of Change Certified Organic product
- Simply Organic — 8 different coupons for spices, dip mixes and more
For more manufacturers that offer online coupons, but make you jump through a couple of hoops for them, check out Where to find coupons for natural and organic products.
Please remember that products labeled natural are very loosely regulated. Some of them may contain genetically modified ingredients (GMO).


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MACON, Ga. (AP) — A trial date for the suspect in the slaying of Mercer University law school graduate Lauren Giddings has been delayed until January.
The Telegraph newspaper reports that Stephen McDaniel was previously scheduled to go on trial in September, but now faces a Jan. 6 trial date.
Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney David Cooke said the delay is necessary to ensure that the court has an adequate time to consider motions in the case.
The 27-year-old suspect is charged with murder in the June 2011 slaying and dismemberment of 27-year-old Giddings, who was from Laurel, Md.
Her torso was found in a trash bin near her apartment and police have said the rest of her remains have not been found.
McDaniel has pleaded not guilty.
(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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text: BMW's Z4 has been delighting motorists since 2002 as a much-improved-handling follow-on to the Z3. The E85 comes in a roadster (convertible) and coupe (hardtop) version with M variants. Sales have followed the boom-and-bust cycle common with two-seater convertibles with a run-up shortly after the model's introduction, tapering off in the later years of life. From a peak of 20,234 Z4s (including 155 leftover Z3s), the Z4 was likely to fall below 10,000 sales for the first time even in 2007. A replacement is due around 2009, when production will move from South Carolina to Germany, so most BMW convertibles (and variants) can be in one facility. The 3.0 model uses a 3.0-liter, 215-hp inline six-cylinder engine while the 3.0si models have 3.0-liter, 255-hp inline sizes. The M versions have 3.2-liter, 330-hp normally aspirated engines. Here is 2008 pricing: Z4 Roadster 3.0i.........$37,175 Z4 Roadster 3.0si........$43,175 Z4 Coupe 3.0si...........$41,175 Z4 M Roadster............$52,875 Z4 M Coupe...............$50,875 Includes $775 freight You may sometimes see the M versions without the Z4 prefix: M Roadster, M Coupe. (For M Z4-specific topics, see BMWCCA.org's M Discussion Forum.)


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Little Italy's Cafe Zucchero recently added an engraved floor tile marking the spot where two patrons met and later began dating. But Bo Beau, a country French eatery in Ocean Beach, has taken romance to another level.
When General Manager Kimberly Luna, who simply uses the name "Luna," vacationed in Paris last year, she discovered an array of padlocks decorating the iron gates of pedestrian bridges. Couples had pledged their love and tossed the padlock keys into the river.
Since Bo Beau prides itself on its romantic atmosphere, Luna added an iron gate to its entry wall. A plaque invites diners to profess "undying love in the form of a love lock." A pail of discarded keys sits nearby.
The other evening, medical residency student Ben Hulley clipped on an antique heart-shaped lock and asked his girlfriend Stacy Wilson, a Kaiser doctor, to read its engraving: "Will you marry me?"
Waiting inside were her parents, Vicki and Tom Wilson, the recently retired executive director of San Diego Century Club.
"People just love it," said Michelle Kveen, Cohn Restaurant Group operations manager. "We even sell locks here." So far, about 65 locks have been added and no couples have tried to remove their padlocks.
A good move: Professor Emeritus Glen M. Broom, who authored a definitive textbook on public relations, actually came to San Diego State University on a whim. He was cold and wet from shoveling snow in his Wisconsin driveway when he got a call from a friend at SDSU who bragged about the fabulous San Diego weather. Broom jokingly asked if there was a position open in the journalism department. There was.
He soon moved his family south. Now, 30 years later, the university has just held its first fundraiser to create a Center for Professional Development in Public Relations, which is being named in Broom's honor.
Still here: At age 102, Bill Gibbs, co-owner of Gibbs Flying Service here, was just featured as the speaker at the downtown San Diego Kiwanis Club. Gibbs, who started Gibbs Field, now Montgomery Field, is a member of the San Diego Air and Space Museum Hall of Fame. Having joined Kiwanis in 1947, nowadays when they take roll, he simply pipes up, "Still here."
"I used to say I wanted to live to be 102 and be shot by a jealous husband," Gibbs once said. His goal is now to reach age 110.
Street seen: Actor-comedian Dan Aykroyd dropped in The Patio restaurant in Pacific Beach Friday to peddle his vodka line, Crystal Head (sold in a skull-shaped bottles). Seems business went both ways. Aykroyd and his sales rep stayed for lunch, and the restaurant is adding his vodka to its "Hair of the Dog" cocktail.