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Kote Flosse needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 148 designs submitted by 42 freelance designers.
KarmaPipe is a mobile platform which allows users to reward outstanding employees in the service industry (restaurants, hotels, airlines, and, well, graphic design!) with karma points and other stuff.
- 18-44 years old boys and girls
- Smartphone-owning, app-using tech savvy
- Downloads movies, listens to podcasts
- Upper middle-class with college education
- Professionals or in management position
We're looking for an awesome typeface + icon logo which conveys our mission statement ("Reward good actions") in a simple, bold and fun way.
This logo will be mostly used on our website but also on office stationery and business cards, as twitter/facebook profile pictures and on marketing materials (brochures, t-shirts, etc...)
Other themes we want to convey (beyond the mission statement) in this order of reference:
1. Help, goodwill, kudos
2. Transmit, send, mobile
3. Causality, loop
What we want:
- A simple, bold and fun logo
- Icon and typeface on a same horizontal line. Icon should be on the left.
- Identifiable from far away
- Works well as Facebook/Twitter profile pictures
- Works in black & white
What we do not want:
- An overcomplicated logo
- Lens flares and other over-the-top effects
- Religious, Indian or Oriental references
- Pink color or feminine references
- More than two colors
- Stock images / clip art
Logos we like:
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Harvard Gazette's Release and Video
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard University President Drew Faust announced that Team Nucleik, which includes Florian Mayr of the Harvard lightweight crew and Matthew Polega of the track and field team, was named the grand prize winner of the Harvard University President's Challenge for social entrepreneurship. The group was awarded $70,000 to support its software management information system that aids law enforcement.
"I spoke with the members of Team Nucleik earlier this month at the President's Challenge Demo Day and was struck by their commitment to pursuing an idea and applying what they had learned in the classroom to improve the lives of others," said Faust. "They've built a tool that will help law enforcement professionals better serve and protect communities across the country, and their inspiring work is something I will follow with great interest in the months and years ahead."
Faust created the challenge, which is hosted by the Harvard Innovation Lab, last year to promote development of entrepreneurial ideas to help solve some of the world's challenging social problems.
Team Nucleik's innovative software beat out three runner-ups with its software that has already been adopted by the Special Projects Team of the Massachusetts State Police in Springfield, Mass. The system provides instantaneous, organized and accurate data to police, while they fight gang violence and other violent crimes.
The group is now working towards launching the system in a number of other metropolitan police departments.
Nucleik's use in Springfield, Mass., was also featured on CBS '60 Minutes.' To view the feature, click below.
Student-Athletes Win Harvard University President's Challenge
May 23, 2013

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Friday, June 22, 2012
* Mouse Painting With Cotton Balls and Q-Tips inspired by the book "Mouse Paint" by Ellen Stohl Walsh
"C" and I recently read "Mouse Paint" by Ellen Stohl Walsh.
We were inspired to try some "mouse painting" of our own!
I set up "C" at the easel.
She dipped white mice (white cotton balls)
into a tray of red, yellow, and blue paint to experiment.
I also gave her some Q-tips to try out.
At first I thought she was going to paint a rainbow...
I tried to keep my mouth shut and let her paint whatever she wanted.
She did not mix colors like I thought she would.
The golden arch, turned into a lady with golden hair.
Two blue eyes.
Two blue nostrils.
One red smile.
When she added the blue highlight she announced that it was me! : )
(I had a blue feather in my hair at the time)
Check out my fancy blue high heels to go with my blue hair feather.
She wrote "Mom" with a Q-tip dipped in yellow/blue to make green.
You'll see the words "Mom" and "Boo!" at the top of the painting...
They're two of her favorite sight words that she can spell right now.
It was a pretty fun way to spend an afternoon.
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I Spit On Your Grave
Dir. Steven R. Monroe
A young writer is brutally gang-raped while staying at a secluded cabin. She is left for dead by her attackers, whom she systematically hunts down to extract unmerciful and gruesome revenge.
The remake of I Spit On Your Grave is a film of two distinct parts. The first unravels slowly, sweatily, as Jennifer (Sarah Butler) arrives at her rented lakeside cabin in the middle of nowhere and sets about preparing to write her second novel. The cabin is idyllic - though it is obvious just from looking at it, things will become more ominous when night falls - and Jennifer, like any good writer, has stocked up on the red stuff to get those creative juices flowing and help her settle in. No, the other red stuff. Events move slowly, purposefully and the slow-burning tension is ignited from the get-go, only to increase as the story unfolds. We follow Jennifer as she goes about her daily, mundane routines, oblivious to the fact that she is being watched and filmed by the young men she encountered earlier at a gas station. She incurred their curiosity and wrath when she inadvertently humiliated (emasculated) one of them. Realising that she is staying at the cabin they skulk around the surrounding woods at night and film her. Every so often she wanders out into the cold, dark night to investigate strange noises, raising the tension that little bit more. We know what's coming, and director Monroe knows that we know, and he builds queasy suspense with ease.
The events that follow are harrowing. The depiction of her attack is difficult to watch, but the most affecting moment comes in the stifling quiet of the aftermath as she slowly hobbles away in a state of shock, her body and spirit broken. It's a pathetic, stark and overwhelming sight.
After she disappears, the film makes a strangely daring and somewhat frustrating move and begins to follow her attackers; not so much in an attempt to flesh them out, but just to observe them from a distance and maybe even relish in their anxiety when they don't find Jennifer's body right away... The sheriff (Andrew Howard) is a thinly-drawn family man, but after witnessing what he did to Jennifer, no amount of picturing him cuddled on the couch watching TV with his pregnant wife and little girl will make us feel anything but contempt for him. He is the ringleader – his role made all the more shocking because of his status as a sheriff – someone who should have helped Jennifer. Writer Stuart Morse doesn't even attempt to make us care for these men. Likewise, director Monroe is perhaps more concerned with setting up tension surrounding Jennifer's imminent return to draw blood, than character profile.
When Jennifer does finally return to the narrative, the film switches gear into what at times resembles a crowd-pleasing and tightly wound revenge fantasy. As she dishes out vigilante punishment, she layers on the wry, disgruntled and faux-feminist sass, spouting lines like 'Is that any way to treat a lady?' before producing a sizable pair of garden shears and castrating one of her attackers.
The punishments walk a line between intricately designed Saw-type restraints boasting nasty pay-offs, and the Grand Guignol showmanship of vintage Italian horror movies – the scene with the eyelids, fish-hooks and hungry crows is pure Argento – brutal, fantastic and more than a little convoluted.
As Jennifer, Sarah Butler delivers a very convincing performance, and she remains credible even when she returns later and starts sassin' it up big style. As her attackers Jeff Branson, Daniel Franzese and Rodney Eastman (pretty Joey from A Nightmare of Elm Street 3 and 4, who ain't so pretty anymore!) are suitably menacing and sleazy; all crotch-grabbin' and phlegm-spittin' rednecks that can not, and will not, be reasoned with.
With no moral grey area, Jennifer is allowed to let rip in the full knowledge that the audience will side with her. This isn't a film to pose provocative questions, it merely attempts to uphold the spirit and atmosphere of the original, which is does quite well. It is nowhere near as polished and slick as many other recent remakes of old exploitation flicks have been. It is also unexpectedly, slyly humorous; particularly in the last act. Whether or not this is appropriate given the tone of the first two acts, it still works somehow; especially in a film depicting events this grim, a little light relief was mildly welcome. Then again there is the argument that with a film such as this, depicting events this grim, there should be no place for humour and that the director has copped-out and gone down the multiplex route. The fact is though, the original was a grimy, sleazy exploitation flick deliberately fashioned to draw the grindhouse crowds. The pro-feminist coda was slapped on post-release. It is also worth mentioning that Monroe has the sense not to have Jennifer use her feminine charms/wiles to lull her attackers into a false sense of seduction before she bumps them off. Her approach is blunt and to the point.
This remake is a well made, compelling and disturbing film, and one struggles to imagine any other way in which Monroe could have tackled such controversial source material.


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Pressing "Update to Album" mediatype sometimes becomes "Albumset".
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Welcome to the Asia Stocks live blog, a running account of what the region's share markets are doing, along with other news. Today, equities hitch a ride higher on the back of U.S. gains, while Chinese industrial profit shows a slowdown on weakness in mining.
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- 8:06 pm
- China itself is worried about hard landing
- by Mike Kitchen
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If you're downbeat about the China's economic outlook, know that you're in good company: The Chinese themselves see the slowdown, or so says Barclays.
In a note out Tuesday, a group of the bank's economists report back on their trip to Beijing and Shanghai the previous week, and according to their account, the mood is less than cheery among policy makers, businesspeople and the man/woman on the street.
"Sentiment among the locals was generally subdued, reflecting concerns about the property market downturn and the absence, so far, of a forceful policy response from the government, including from the People's Bank of China," they wrote.
"That said, the feeling on the ground was more one of resignation to a slower growth outlook, as opposed to surprise," the economists said, adding that there was very little expectation that the government's policies "would turn decisively supportive" of growth.
While the annual economic-growth forecasts from those Chinese with an opinion on the matter fell somewhere between 7% and 7.5%, this was based on the assumption there would be no dramatic property crash, Barclays said.
"However, the potential for a disorderly decline hung over many meetings, as home sales growth turns negative and reports of price cuts become pervasive," the note said.
Indeed, the pace of housing sales continues to slow, even as local governments try to mitigate the downward trajectory. (Read more on China's real-estate slump here.)
- 8:45 pm
- Japan stocks get a real-estate slap
- by Mike Kitchen
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The last four stock sessions in Tokyo have been winners, at least for the bulls. Today, though, the Nikkei Average is quoted 0.1% lower in very choppy morning trade, even as the Topix snags a 0.2% gain.
With the dollar still hunkered down at the 102-yen line, the market direction appears to be a case of a strong Wall Street lead (the Nasdaq ended 1.2% higher) facing off against sharp declines for some of the bluest chips, particularly in the real-estate sector.
In fact, Japan's top real-estate developer Mitsui Fudosan is also a top decliner among the biggest names this morning. Its shares are 6.4% lower on word the company is planning a more-than-$3-billion share offering to raise funds for investing in commercial properties.
While China's real-estate market is under heavy strain (see previous post on today's blog), Japanese property — which has been in miserable shape since prices collapsed at the beginning of the 1990s — has sudden sprung to life, at least in Tokyo. Many market observers say the return to health is due to Japan securing rights to host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.
But whatever the sector outlook, Mitsui Fudosan's move is dragging on many of its peers, with Mitsubishi Estate down 1.7%, and Sumitomo Realty & Development lower by 2.2%. Then again, the construction companies are doing very well, with Obayashi up 2.3%, and Kajima up 2.8%.
Meanwhile, some of the other heavyweight sectors are seeing more of a mixed picture. Among the techs, Kyocera and Panasonic are down 0.7% apiece, while Sony is 2% lower, with some traders possibly taking a profit from the stock's recent gains, including a more-than-3% rally Monday.
On the other hand, Toshiba is up 3.2% after unveiling its new Excite Go tablet that will retail at a suggested price of just $110 (or, well, $109.99 to be exact).
And Renesas Electronics is 2.3% higher as Reuters reports the chip maker will sell its majority stake in Renesas SP Driver, a maker of iPhone display chips, to U.S. firm Synaptics.
Speaking of iPhones, the strong advance for Apple shares in New York overnight appears to be helping some of the firm's suppliers to varying degrees: Rohm is up 3%, and Japan Display is up 1.1%, though Murata Manufacturing and Sharp are getting a milder 0.4% gain each.
And in the auto-maker space, it's very much a mixed bag, as Honda falls 1.2%, Mazda rises 1.2%, Nissan trades flat, and Toyota rises 0.6% after announcing it plans to build no new plants for at least the next two years.
- 8:59 pm
- Markets check -- 9:59 a.m. in Tokyo
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.2%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.2%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.3%
- 9:20 pm
- Australia stocks: Radioactive gains for Paladin
- by Mike Kitchen
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Aussie stocks are shimmying their way upward in morning action, with broadly spread gains sending the ASX 200 higher by 0.2%.
Many of the largest-cap shares are seeing relatively range-bound trading, including BHP Billiton (down 0.1%), Rio Tinto (up 0.1%), Telstra (up 0.2%), CBA (up 0.1%) and Westpac (up 0.2%).
But there are some more dramatic moves as well, such as a 5.7% surge for Paladin Energy after the uranium extractor said it was temporarily closing a key mine in Malawi in order to pull some supply from the market amid weak prices for the nuclear fuel.
Meanwhile, miners of an entirely different yellow metal — gold — are trading sharply lower after gold futures' overnight sell-off. Among them, Newcrest is down 3.7%, Kingsgate is down 1.7%, and Evolution Mining is down 4.2%.
Ratings actions are stirring the pot a little too: QBE Insurance is 2.6% higher after Macquarie raised its view on the shares to neutral from underperform, while Bluescope is up 1.4% after Deutsche Bank reiterated its buy rating on the steel maker's stock, offering a bullish outlook on the company thanks to the decline in iron-ore prices.
And then there's Woolworths, down 0.3%, amid news the grocer is considering the sale of its portfolio of hotels and liquor stores.
- 10:08 pm
- China's profit growth eases a bit
- by Mike Kitchen
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It seems that profit is still expanding at China's top industrial companies, though that growth is slowing a bit as the metals sector suffers.
China has just released its monthly report on industrial profit, covering the just largest firms, and the numbers show earnings rose 1.1% in April. Compared to a year earlier, profit was 9.6% higher last month, though that marked a slowing from March's 10.7%.
Much of the profit data are reported on a year-to-date basis, and the January-April figure was 10% higher from a year earlier, undershooting the 12.2% gain for all of 2013.
Looking at the report's details, it seems metals firms were the weak link.
For the first four months of this year, earnings from coal mining and processing was down almost 45% from the same period last year, while non-ferrous-metal mining and processing dropped 15%.
Much of this appears to be about to capacity-cutting as China gets tough with high-polluting industries. (See post on yesterday's live blog.)
As for the ferrous-metal category, it saw a 7.2% hit, likely tied to the sharp drop in iron-ore prices.
In any case, the data aren't really much of a factor in stock trade this morning: Both Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index and Shanghai Composite are currently in positive territory, and the metal stocks don't seem to be taking any particularly huge damage, with Angang Steel up 0.2% in Hong Kong, and Baoshan Iron & Steel up 0.3% in Shanghai.
- 10:20 pm
- Hong Kong stocks up on techs, China banks
- by Laura He
- Add a Comment
Hong Kong stocks are heading higher this morning, traveling along with other Asian markets, which are in turn taking their cue from stronger U.S. equities overnight.
The Hang Seng Index has edged up 0.1% in early trading, though off its 0.4% opening high. Over on the Chinese mainland, the Shanghai Composite Index is flat in volatile morning trade.
Following a rally on the Nasdaq overnight, tech stocks are among the biggest winners in Hong Kong. Top gainers include onlin
e-trans actio n-servi ce provider China Binary Sale Technology (up 4.6%), and online-game developer Forgame Holdings (up 2.2%).
As for the two tech constituents on the Hang Seng Index, personal-computer maker Lenovo Group is up 1.8%, and online major Tencent Holdings is up 0.7%.
Chinese banks are also rising broadly, with China Merchants Bank up 1.3%, Agricultural Bank of China up 1.2%, ICBC up 1%, and Bank of Communications up 0.8%.
Vanke Property Overseas, the Hong Kong unit of China's No. 1 developer China Vanke, is inching 0.1% higher, showing little reaction to reports that Vanke plans to list the broader company's shares in Hong Kong in late next month.
Meanwhile, Sands China, the Macau unit of Las Vegas Sands Corp., is down 2.6% after a Wall Street Journal report said Waddell & Reed plans to raise around $1.4 billion through a sale of its Sands China holdings, with the selling price 4.8% lower than the shares' Tuesday closing level. Other casino stocks are also losing ground, with SJM Holdings down 2.1%, Galaxy Entertainment down 1.1%, and Wynn Macau down 0.9%.
- 10:25 pm
- Markets check -- 10.25 a.m. in Hong Kong
- Add a Comment
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) flat
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.1%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) down 0.2%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.3%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.5%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.4%
- 12:23 am
- ... And in other news
- Add a Comment
Here are some more news items making headlines in Asia:
Toyota hits pause on building new plants
China's Vanke says housing demand still alive
Smartphone messaging apps face pressure in China
Australian construction activity rising
- 12:25 am
- Markets check -- 12:25 p.m. in Tokyo
- Add a Comment
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.4%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.8% (at break)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.2% (at break)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.5%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.7%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.2%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.3%
- 4:26 am
- Markets check -- 4:25 p.m. in Hong Kong
- Add a Comment
Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.2% (closed)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.6% (closed)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.8% (closed)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.3%(closed)
Seoul (Kospi) up 1% (closed)
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.7% (closed)


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Preferred Stock Investments
Fannie and Freddie Bailout
$191.5Bactually invested, loaned, or spent
Find bailouts in your state:
- Our frequently updated database tracks every dollar. In the scorecard, we provide a summary generated from the latest numbers.
- Our bailout recipient list tracks the companies to which Treasury has committed money.
On Sep. 7, 2008, Fannie and Freddie were essentially nationalized: placed under the conservatorship of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Under the terms of the rescue, the Treasury has invested billions to cover the companies' losses.
Initially, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson put a ceiling of $100 billion for investments in each company. In February of 2009, Tim Geithner raised it to $200 billion. In December of 2009, the Treasury removed any cap for the aid. The money was authorized by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, passed in July, 2008.
Go to list of all initiatives and programs
For our blog, resources and more, see our main bailout page.
The following list shows the 2 recipients of Preferred Stock Investments.
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For information on EPA monitoring methods, feel free to contact the designated
Agency service listed below.
RCRA Test Methods (SW-846)
MICE Service Phone Number...........................703 818-3238
MICE Service Fax Number...............................703 818-8813
MICE Service E-mail.............................email@example.com
Methods Team................................................703 308-8855
Other Test Methods
Safe Drinking Water Hotline..........................800 426-4791
CWA Wastewater Methods...........................703 461-2100
Office of Water Resources Center................(Website)
Clean Air Technology Center........................919 541-0800
More extensive list of EPA Hotlines.
Memo to Regions: Use of Hydrochloric Acid (HCl) in digests for ICP-MS analysis (PDF) (2 pp, 34 k, about PDFs)
Memo to Regions: Spiking (Prior To vs After Sample Drying) Issue in SW-846 Organic Extraction Methods (PDF) (2 pp, 547K, About PDF)
Guidance for the Sampling and Analysis of Municipal Waste Combustion
Ash for the Toxicity Characteristic (EPA530-R-95-036) (PDF) (28 pp, 1.0 MB, About PDF)
RCRA Ground-Water Monitoring: Draft Technical Guidance (EPA530R-93-001) (PDF) (236 pp, 1.9MB, About PDF)
This document contains guidance on how to perform groundwater monitoring for the RCRA program.
Revised Style Guide
EPA's revised SW-846 Method Style Guide - June 25, 2012 (PDF) (47 pp, 393 K, About PDF) is now available on-line.
Letters From DOT Regarding Sample Preservation
There are two letters from the Department of Transportation (DOT) regarding sample preservation. The first letter (PDF) (1 pg, 42K, About PDF)documents that DOT does not consider samples preserved according to EPA requirements to be DOT hazardous materials (unless, of course, the sample meets the definition of a hazardous material without preservation). Not having to ship environmental samples as hazardous material should greatly reduce the cost of shipping by air.
The second letter (PDF) (1 pp, 2.1MB, About PDF) addresses the inconsistency between the EPA requirement for a container holding a sample to be analyzed for volatile organic compounds not to contain any free headspace and the DOT requirement that samples shipped by air that contain free headspace. It explains that if the VOA vial is placed in a container with free headspace, the DOT requirements will be satisfied and the samples can be shipped by air.
Article on the Status of the RCRA Methods Program
To find out more information about the current status of the RCRA methods development program, please look at the 2000 article "An Update of the Current Status of the RCRA Method Development Program" (PDF) (11 pp, 31K, About PDF). This article includes activities of EPA's Wastes Methods Team in advancing the RCRA Methods Development Program in the year 2000. The 1999 (PDF)(16 pp, 47K, About PDF) and the 1998 (PDF) (24 pp, 61K, About PDF) versions of this article are also available for downloading.
Minutes from the 1999 Public Meeting on Waste Leaching
EPA held a public meeting on the Development of New Waste Leaching Procedures on July 22-23, 1999. This meeting included discussions on modeling and risk assessment, leaching science and leaching policy and applications, among other topics. Attendees provided valuable input on approaches to improve the accuracy of leachate prediction tools as well as on considerations for the development of the next generation of leaching tests. The meeting minutes are available on-line in PDF format. To download the meeting minutes, please go to the Public Meeting on Waste Leaching page.
Test Kits Validated by Wastes and Guidelines for Revalidation of Existing Immunoassay Based Analytical Products
A list of immunoassay test kits that have been validated by Wastes (PDF) (1 pg, 30K, About PDF) is avavilable on line, as well as Guidelines for Revalidation of Exisiting Immunoassay Based Analytical Products (PDF) (5 pp, 17K, About PDF). See also the Method Development and Approval Process page.
Guidance Documents for Method Development and Validation and Submittal of New Immunoassay Methods Two Wastes guidance documents - one for method development and validation and another on submittal of new immunoassay methods - are available on-line:
- Method Development and Validation Guidance (PDF) (32 pp, 105K, About PDF)
- Guidance for Submittal of New Immunoassay Methods (PDF) (14 pp, 45K, About PDF)
For more information, please go to the Method Development and Approval Process page.
OSWER'S PBMS Implementation Plan
Download a copy of the OSWER's PBMS Implementation Plan (PDF) (55 pp, 152K, About PDF). To see additional information about Wastes and PBMS, please see the PBMS page.
Clarification Memorandum on SW-846 Methods
Download a copy of the 1998 memorandum of clarification (PDF) (20 pp, 85K, About PDF) and guidance regarding the Update III versions of SW-846 Methods 3550B, 5021, 5035, 6010B, 8000B, and 8082 and the use of SW-846 in general.
Guidelines for Preparing SAPs Using Systematic Planning and PBMS (PDF) (9 pp, 280K, About PDF)
Other EPA MethodsIn addition to SW-846 methods, the following methods are also available from EPA:
Methods for Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes
Document contains methods for the analysis of inorganics in drinking water. A hard copy can be purchased from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), 800 553-6847.
The 500 series
Methods for the analysis of organics in drinking water are available through NTIS as a hard copy. All of the 500 series methods are included on the "Methods and Guidance for Analysis of Water" CD-ROM available from NTIS.
The 600 series
Methods for the analysis of organics in water and wastewater are published in 40CFR Part 136, and are available in hard copy form from NTIS, 800 553-6847. It is included on the "Methods and Guidance for Analysis of Water" CD-ROM available from NTIS.
The 1600 series
These methods include the original EPA isotope dilution methods for organics as well as many newer methods for other analytes and are available in hard copy form from NTIS, 800 553-6847. It is included on the "Methods and Guidance for Analysis of Water" CD-ROM available from NTIS.
Methods and Guidance for the Analysis of Water CD-ROM
This documents contains the 100's through the 600's and 1600 series methods. The CD is available from NTIS.
Other Information Resources
Technology Transfer Network Emission Measurement Center site provides information about methods that measure air emissions.
Measurement Science Test Method Collections site links to many other pages with test methods information, including water and air.
Clean Water Act Analytical Test Methods site provides information about water methods.
EPA's Technology Innovation Office (TIO), through its Hazardous Waste Clean-Up Information (CLU-IN) site provides information about innovative treatment technologies for the hazardous waste remediation community.
EPA Quality System Documents site contains quality system documents for EPA and non-EPA organizations including guidance on the data quality objective (DQO) process.
Manual 42: RCRA Waste Management: Planning, Implementation, and Assessment of Sampling Activities is published by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and provides guidance in the development of sampling strategies to meet project objectives associated with RCRA waste management activities.


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Morgan Paces Bulldogs With 15 Points
PALO ALTO, Calif. – The final score may not indicate it, but the Yale men's basketball team gave Stanford all it could handle Tuesday night. The Cardinal needed a 12-0 run midway through the second half to hold off the pesky Bulldogs, escaping with a 60-44 win before a nervous crowd of 5,942 at Maples Pavilion. There were seven ties and 14 lead changes in the game.
"I thought we played pretty well for 30 minutes or so," said James Jones, The Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Men's Basketball. "But the game's not 30 minutes long."
Two Porter Braswell free throws gave Yale a 37-36 lead with 13:25 remaining in the second half. The Bulldogs, though, were held scoreless for the next eight minutes, and Stanford's leading scorer, Jeremy Green, who had been held pretty much in check until that point, got hot. Green hit a pair of three-pointers as the Cardinal ran off 12 straight points to seize control.
"We had some difficulty identifying Green, who was able to make some shots," Jones said.
Green scored 11 of his team-high 15 points in the second half before leaving with an ankle injury. Josh Owens added 12 points for the Cardinal.
Austin Morgan paced the Bulldogs with 15 points and was 4-of-5 from three-point range. Jeremiah Kreisberg, a Berkeley, Calif., native who was playing in front of a number of family and friends, had 11 points and five rebounds off the bench. Greg Mangano grabbed nine rebounds but was held scoreless. Braswell finished with nine points.
Yale (5-6) shot just 31.7 percent from the field in the game.
"They're a pretty good defensive team," Jones said. "Their overall length hurt us. That's not something we see every day in practice. You can't get ready for that until you play against them."
Early on, it looked like Yale would put itself in position to pull off an upset. Morgan's third three-pointer of the first half, gave the Bulldogs a 13-11 lead with 8:43 left. The Cardinal (7-4) answered with a 9-2 run, but Yale fought back. Jesse Pritchard made two free throws to tie the score at 20, and Kreisberg's layup with five seconds left allowed the Bulldogs to take a 27-26 lead at the intermission.
Yale made four three-pointers, all seven of its free throws and outrebounded Stanford 19-12 in the opening 20 minutes.
Stanford, which entered the night shooting just 35 percent from three-point range, made 8-of-14 treys in the game.
NOTES: The game also was a homecoming for Reggie Willhite, an Elk Grove, Calif., native. Willhite had a large contingent of supporters on hand as well… Yale made 14-of-16 free throws, while Stanford was just 10-of-22 from the foul line… Roger Lee, the youngest son of Yale great John Lee '58, resides in Palo Alto with his wife and three children and was at the game. John Lee scored 1,493 points in three seasons in a Yale uniform. He was a member of the Ivy League Silver Anniversary All Star team. Yale's home court, the John J. Lee Amphitheater, is named in his honor… Mark Sembrowich, who spent two years as an assistant under James Jones and is now the head coach of the Academy of Arts University in San Francisco, brought his team to the game… The Bulldogs fly back East on Wednesday and will host Lehigh on Friday. Tipoff is slated for 2 p.m.
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Hamad Talibi Alaoui, Radouane Yafia
We consider the Haematopoietic Stem Cells (HSC) Model with one delay, studied by Mackey [4,5] and Andersen and Mackey [1]. There are two possible stationary states in the model. One of them is trivial, the second , depending on the delay, may be non-trivial . This paper investigates the stability of the non trivial state as well as the occurrence of the Hopf bifurcation depending on time delay. We prove the existence and uniqueness of a critical values and of the delay such that is asymptotically stable for and unstable for . We show that is a Hopf bifurcation critical point for an approachable model.
Published October 15, 2004
Math Subject Classifications: 34K18
Key Words: Haematopoietic stem cells model; delayed differential equations; Hopf bifurcation; periodic solutions.
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| Hamad Talibi Alaoui
Université Chouaib Doukkali Faculté des Sciences
Département de Mathématiques et Informatique
B.P. 20, El Jadida, Morocco
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Université Chouaib Doukkali Faculté des Sciences
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This lively, contemporary steakhouse serves a succulent selection of pastas, seafood, steaks and salads. The atmosphere is graced with a hint Italy, making it both rustic and sophisticated, and the wine follows suit with a variety of the country's best.
Dramatic floor-to-ceiling windows, gorgeous crystal, and exquisite china provide an elegant backdrop for this more magnificent specialty restaurant. A delectable blend of Classic and modern continental cuisine is freshly prepared in multi-course meals, as exquisite European-style service attends to your every need.
Café al Bacio
If only your local coffee shop had ocean views like these. Savor a cup of freshly brewed coffee or a delightful liqueur in this lively European style coffee house. Or treat yourself to the gelateria, where sumptuous, and gorgeous, Italian ices and gelatos are prepared afternoon and evening.
- The magnificent and luxurious main dining room of Celebrity Equinox. With a two-story glass wine tower and dazzling chandeliers, this quintessential dining area has a decidedly Hollywood aura. Serving savory World & Continental cuisine, complete with Celebrity's famed European-style service.
- The Cinema offers a comfortable place for watching movies and is also ideal for business conferences. The centre's advanced capabilities include multi-lingual translation using a wireless transmitter and headsets, interactive audience keypads and multi-media audio/visual systems.
Bars and Lounges
- Start your evening off right with a soothing backdrop of instrumental or vocal sounds and the palpable air of anticipation as you gather with newfound friends. The lounge is also a great place to drop in for a nightcap and plan your next fabulous evening aboard Celebrity Solstice.
- With an atmosphere inspired by ice and snow, the enchanting frosted bar is the place to be in the heart of the "coolest" setting on the ship. An absolute must-visit for its hip and classy feel, swing by The Martini Bar and grab a drink before dinner or make a night of it. This bar has a vibe like no other, which makes it the perfect spot to chill out with friends all night long.
- Don't look back, look forward and be amazed by the breathtaking views in the ultimate observation lounge. The floor to ceiling windows will captivate and the expansive space will please you as you relax in the comfy seating all around. The lounge is versatile and can be transformed to suit any occasion.
- Located at Celebrity Solstice's highest point aft, the Sunset Bar provides breathtaking views of the length of the ship and the entire world around you. With its Country Club inspiration and relaxed atmosphere, you'll experience comfort from a point of view you've never before imagined.
- A freshly manicured lawn on the highest deck of Equinox. Enjoy casual outdoor activities in a decidedly Country Club atmosphere, and let the grass between your toes take you places no cruise has gone before.
- The Platinum Club hosts Celebrity's Martini Bar and Champagne Bar with its impressive caviar display area.
Stage Shows
- The Equinox Theatre is the premier live performance venue aboard Celebrity Equinox. While accommodating a generous audience, it retains a comfortable, intimate atmosphere, bringing you production shows, beautiful musical arrangements, and sidesplitting comedy
- Light up the night with Lady Luck by your side in Celebrity's world-class casino. With European-style ambiance and captivating sights and sounds, their casinos offer exhilaration for experienced high rollers and those trying their luck for the first time.
Kids Club
- Designed exclusively for the junior cruisers, Fun Factory is a place where magic happens. Children age 3-12 will thrive in this environment, which features Leapfrog Schoolhouse educational tools for knowledge and play.
- Glowing with marble and warm wood, the Grand Foyer tells all first-time Celebrity cruisers that they are in for something very special.
- Luxury adopts a casual, country club charm at the Patio on the Lawn. Overlooking the beautiful The Lawn Club, it's an ideal place to read the morning paper, your current novel, or enjoy a cup of gourmet coffee with friends.
Champagne Waterfall
- Find true poolside serenity at the Celebrity Solstice Solarium. Featuring a gorgeous lap pool, sparkling waterfalls, thickly padded lounge chairs, and an adults-only policy, tranquility is always just a few steps away.
Discos/Night Clubbing
Younger cruisers can cut loose and kick back the way they want in the hip VIP area geared specifically for teens. From teen-oriented explorations to the dance club and coffee lounge designed with them in mind, X Club is sure to be a hit with all of the teenage guests.
Ship info
The very essence of luxury, this is Equinox. Shimmering in sophistication from bow to stern, she will exceed your expectations as soon as you step aboard. Delight in your choice of ten exceptional dining venues; relax in spacious and well appointed accommodations; or let the grass between your toes take you out to sea at the unprecedented Lawn Club. With every imaginable comfort, along with Celebrity's unrivaled guest services, you are bound for greatness no matter your destination.
- Vessel: Celebrity Equinox
- Year: 2009
- Beam: 121
- Cruising speed: 24
- Bars/Lounges: 14
- Crew: 999
- Gym: Speacial classes available
- Kids Club: For 4 different age groups
- Onboard Currency: US Dollars
- Passenger Capacity: 2852
- Show Lounge: Daily Shows
- Vessel: 3
- 24-Hour Room Service
- All Main Meals Included
- Art Auctions
- Basketball Court
- Casino
- Dance Classes
- Duty Free Shopping
- Florist
- Internet Facilities
- Jogging Track
- Library
- Live Music
- Security Safe in Cabin
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Cruise reviews
6 passengers have reviewed this ship
"Celebrity are always excellent"
My wife and I did back to back on the Celebrity Equinox. It s a superb vessel and the Celebrity service is always first class. We were a little dissapointment in the Caribbean island ports, very touristy with so many Americans on cheap cruises, not surprising as this their backyard. I had been looking forward to this part of the cruise as I worked in a shipping company in London in the sixties and I worked with many of these islands. However the luxury of the ship made up for this. Second part of the back to back was down the coast of Central America and we had a great time. We loved the Spanish influence when we went ashore, the people at every port were friendly, helpful and fun to speak with. We found we could lose ourself in the small streets, visiting cafes and small shops. Loved our trip out to the canal from Colon, it is amazing to see the organisation in getting so many huge ships so smoothly. Definitely makes me want to do a Panama Canal transit on a near future cruise. We have cruised with Princess and Cunard but have to say that Celebrity is our favourite. The quality of everything on board is first class so if you are not addicted to small ships I would highly recommend this company to anyone seeking a great experience.Read more
Michael E - Nov 2015
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"Love cruising!"
My wife and I have cruised over the last few years quite regularly and intend to do quite a lot more! We love the atmosphere being on the water, relaxing, meeting new people and most of all the shows you entertain us with. I highly recommend anyone wanting a holiday to try because guaranteed they too will be hooked on cruising just like us! We have been on a few different cruise liners and cannot fault a bad one yet! Our last cruise over to the south islands was the best as we had 25 of our wonderful family members join us in a "family holiday" a well deserved one too I might add..!!!!! We went on Carnival Spirit in April 2014 that was great. The holiday before was out of Fort Lauderdale in America, now that was along side 7 others of our family members. That is my favourite cruise liner so far! I'm looking to see if we can out do the Celebrity Equinox.. I doubt it, it's a really beautiful ship! I have a short cruise booked this week to Port Arthur only a 5 day cruise this time but will still be amazing and really looking forward to it. I LOVE CRUISING and will continue to get friends and family to cruise with me. Thank you for your free book I look forward to reading it and booking another.Read more
John H - Apr 2016
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"heaven on the open sea"
I booked this cruise for my husband and myself for his birthday. We embarked in ft Lauderdale what a fabulous port there were 4 ships in the terminal all waiting for their passengers to board. Boarding was at 12 noon we went exploring the ship found the buffet amongst 1200 other passengers we had a bite to eat then they announced our cabins were ready. Our cabin was great we had an inside cabin 7148. The Equinox was wonderful, so magnificent. Dinner in the main dining room was great 3 courses and we could have as many double portions as we wished. Our first port of call was Georgetown grand cayman where we were tendered ashore. we had heard of a place called hell so we caught a local bus at the cost of $2.00 what an unusual place then we caught a bus back to 7 mile beach looked around the shops near the cruise terminal then caught the tender back to the ship. the food on the buffet was plentiful and very tasty. couldn't complain at the variety. we purchased a drinks package which as very handy.our days at sea were spent by the pool which was very relaxing my husband loved the casino I particularly loved the shops a very good selection of goods reasonably priced. Cozumel Mexico was a favourite of mine we went on the underwater submarine really enjoyed that and of course the shopping afterwards. when we were in Costa Rica we went to a sloth sanctuary very highly recommended we met Rosie the sloth she is 25 years old and lives in an egg chair all day .the staff on the equinox were fantastic especially Augustus our waiter in the main dining room also the waiter who served us coffee in the buffet his catchphrase was Happy coffee. we didn't want to leave the ship at the end of our cruise and loved it so much that we have only been home for a couple of months that we are planning our next cruiseRead more
alicia b - May 2015
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"First Cruise "
This being our first cruise was a pleasure being on board the celebrity equinox we found the cabin 9143 to be quite spacious clean and adequate. We were very impressed with the quality and the various types of food available 24/7. The staff were very friendly and cooperative regarding any requests we may have had whilst on board. Our cabin was situatied towards the front of the ship but we found out that the cabins in the middle felt less movement then the front and the back. After speaking to other travelers celebrity seems to be the choice for cruising as the ratings above indicates. When it comes to day trips I would recommend 4 hour trips as it can take a toll on the body. Choose carefully on your day excursion as many of them are difficult areas to negotiate if handicapped ( walking) issues. All in all we regard celebrity a great cruise ship company to go with even though this is only our first time cruising.Read more
Jeffrey C - Nov 2015
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"Is that an elephant on our bed?"
Is that an elephant on our bed? My husband and I have recently returned from our second cruise with Celebrity.  The first in the Baltic and the most recent one around the Eastern end of the Med.  Our ship this time was the beautiful and enormous fairly new Equinox which carries around 2800 passengers and around half as many crew members.  We were overawed by the sheer size of the ship with its central Atrium and glass fronted lifts and the huge and wonderful theatre.  It was hard to remember that this was all floating on the sea.  The ship functioned seamlessly.  Our stateroom was well appointed and larger than on the Century and we also had sliding doors onto a balcony which offered a quiet place to sit if required.  The room was always cleaned and beds remade whenever we returned to it.  Our steward seemed to instincively know when we had left our cabin and was always cheerful and helpful.  I was thrilled to return to our cabin on the two Formal Nights to find the clean towels magically turned into an elephant and later a dog.  All the crew were efficient,  courteous and friendly which is important and probably quite hard to keep up constantly, with so many demanding passengers.  Most of the passengers are American with a good skattering from the rest of the world.  The only time the ship seemed full of people was on the two sea days when we had to search for a sun bed, but we were always able to find one eventually.  The crew cleaned the ship constantly, including the pubqlic toilettes which were always spotless. We enjoyed the varied and delicious meals in the Silhouette Dinning room each evening where the staff were eager to ensure everything was to our liking.  The entertainment was excellent and we loved the musical shows from the  entertainment staff who worked hard to produce fun and different themes.  There were plenty of other distractions arranged throughout each day and a variety of musical items in the evenings, including an hilarious and brilliant series of shows from the concert pianist Brookes Aehron. We wondered how 2800 passengers would be tendered off the ship while anchored at two Greek Islands, however we need not have worried, as again the whole process was smooth and efficently conducted with no queues and no fuss.  The destinations that we visited were breathtaking being full of ancient ruins from more than 2000 years ago.  The most impressive being Ephesus in Turkey but the Acropolis in Athens was also a highlight.  On both of these occasions we took the trips organised by Celebrity and were very pleased with the guides and the itineries.  Santorini sitting on top of an old volcano with donkeys plodding the winding path up and down, was certainly an unusual sight.  Is Santorini where the ancient myth of Atlantis originated? Celebrity certainly pampers their passengers and the itineraries are well thought out.  We can thoroughly recommend cruising with them.Read more
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In life you'll have successes and failures.
Delights and disappointments.
When you work for yourself, on your own, and experience these highs and lows, your emotions can run really high as it's personal.
You're totally responsible for your results and often there's no-one to share them with to add some perspective.
You'll probably fall into one of two camps:
Camp #1:
- You over-emphasise your successes and celebrate your achievements for so long that you take ages to get back in the saddle and into action.
- You don't take your failures seriously and instead blame them on circumstances.
Do this and you'll waste valuable time and lose momentum as you don't learn enough, or quickly enough, from your mistakes.
When you look up from the party you're a week further down the line and you've done very little that can be described as productive as you've spent so much time patting yourself on the back.
But I reckon you're more likely to fall into:
Camp #2:
- You over-emphasise your failures and spend ages agonising over what you did wrong.
- When you have a success you celebrate for about five minutes before moving on to the next thing on your To Do List.
Do this and you'll feel unfulfilled and rarely satisfied because you'll focus on what you're not doing right and miss the good bits.
Get the balance right.
Don't Stay Down or Up For Too Long
Yes make sure you look at what went wrong and learn from your mistakes but don't wallow in them.
By all means celebrate an achieved goal, but don't take a 'Whooppeee I'm Wonderful' break from work.
Everything in Moderation.
I'll come clean. I'm not a moderation kinda girl. I'm an all-or-nothing kinda girl.
As an over-achiever (a blessing and a curse) I do most things to the max (including eating and drinking!!). I most definitely fall into camp #2.
I hate making mistakes and, whilst I do try and learn from them, I waste so much valuable time and energy getting really cross and mentally beating myself up.
When I achieve something I set out to do, it goes relatively unnoticed. That's how it should have been andit wasn't really a big deal.
This modesty isn't a good thing. I actually think it's quite unhealthy. I miss the triumphs. I miss out on all the positive emotions that could spur me on.
Take Responsibility
Whichever camp you're in.
If you're delighted by your achievements, you can't dodge your failings.
Likewise, if you bemoan and take responsibility for your failures, then you also have to take credit for your successes. They are a Big Deal.
On Failure
Failure is only a failure if you don't learn from it.
"What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down." Mary Pickford
How long it takes you to pick yourself up is key.
"When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it – immediately." Stephen Covey
So, when you fail, ask yourself: "What have I learnt from this?" and "What can I do differently next time?"
On Success
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is just as important as the outcome so recognise your achievements along the way.
"Success didn't just happen on its own. You made it happen."
Don't ignore or belittle what you've done.
Take time out to recognise a job well done. Celebrate your achievements and experience those great emotions. Be proud.
Ask "How will I reward myself?"
This Will Lead To Increased Productivity
You'll smooth out the highs and the lows and it won't be such an emotional rollercoaster.
What about you?
Which camp do you find yourself in most of the time? How long do you stay down when you suffer a setback? What do you do to celebrate?
I'd love to hear from you so come and share in the comments below


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Imagine living anywhere near this gray mountain of trash in the first year of Queen Victoria's reign. It's the "Great Dust-Heap at Kings Cross" as seen from Maiden Lane (now York Road), painted in 1837 by the watercolorist E. H. Dixon, surrounded by slum housing and adjacent to the Smallpox Hospital.
The crud all around us is the focus of a fascinating new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, London. "Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life," brings together a variety of art, documents, cultural ephemera, photos, videos, and art installations to -- as curator Kate Forde puts it -- "uncover a rich history of disgust and delight in the grimy truths and dirty secrets of our past."
The exhibition uses six different historical times and places as starting points for exploring attitudes towards dirt and cleanliness: a home in seventeenth-century Delft, a street in Victorian London in the 1850s, a hospital in Glasgow in the 1860s, a museum in interwar Dresden, a community in present-day New Delhi, and the Fresh Kills landfill site in New York City.
Highlights include paintings by Pieter de Hooch, Joseph Lister's medical instruments, and a wide range of contemporary art on related themes. You can peer through one of the first primitive microscopes used to discover bacteria (which had been collected from the mouth of a Dutch scientist), learn about the cesspools that turned the Thames into a "monster soup" in the early nineteenth century, and gaze on "Laid to Rest," a sculpture by Serena Korda featuring bricks that incorporate dust sent to her by modern Londoners.
The exhibition's display on Broad Street (now Broadwick Street) in London's Soho district, ground zero of a cholera epidemic in 1854 that killed more than 600 people, is particularly interesting. At the time, an infecting "miasma" was thought to cause the disease. It took the brilliant detective work of the physician (and royal anaesthetist) John Snow (DNB bio here; Wiki bio here) and the Rev. Henry Whitehead (Wiki bio here) to find the true culprit: fetid water that was being distributed through a public water pump. Snow's famous "ghost map," which traced the progress of the terrifying disease through the city, is included in the exhibition.
As for Kings Cross ... similar dustheaps featured in Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend (the "Golden Dustman" Noddy Boffin is one of the writer's most indelible creations) and were the subject of "Dust, or Ugliness Redeemed," an essay by the poet R. H. Horne that appeared in Household Words, the weekly journal Dickens edited from 1850 to 1859. Horne vividly describes the underclass of "Searchers and Sorters" who scaled the debris and painstakingly raked through the refuse, separating animal and vegetable matter from broken pottery, bones, rags, metal, glass, and other detritus. Everything was sold off and recycled: coarse cinders were sold to brickmakers, bones to soapmakers, threadbare linen rags to papermakers. [Shown here: The sifting process at a dust-yard in nineteenth-century London; Mayhew, 1862.]
The Kings Cross dustheap pictured at the top of this post was packed up and shipped to Russia in 1848 when city developers decided to convert the site into what is now the Kings Cross railway terminus. The Russians mixed ash from the pile with local clay to make bricks that were used to rebuild their war-ravaged country.
This exhibition is part of the Wellcome's "Dirt Season" that involves a collaboration with the BBC (a series called "Filthy Cities" with accompanying scratch-and-sniff cards), an environmental theatre piece at this summer's Glastonbury Festval, related events for children at the Eden Project in Cornwall, a "Dirt Banquet" held earlier this month at Joseph Bazalgette's Crossness Pumping Station, and a free iPhone/iPad word-puzzle app called "Filth Fair."
"Dirt" runs through 31 August at the Wellcome Collection, 215 Euston Road, London.
Read more...
"Wellcome Collection Takes a Filthy Look at an Age-Old Obsession," The Guardian, 23 March 2011.
Henry Mayhew, "Of the Dustmen of London." London Labour and the London Poor, 1851.
Brian Maidment, Dusty Bob: A Cultural History of Dustmen, 1780–1870. Manchester University Press, 2007.
H. P. Sucksmith, "The dust-heaps in Our Mutual Friend," Essays in Criticism 23.2 (1973), pp. 206–212.
Costas A. Velis, David C. Wilson, and Christopher R. Cheeseman, "19th century London dust-yards: A case study in closed-loop resource efficiency." Waste Management 29.4 (April 2009), pp. 1282-1290.
Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic -- and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World. Riverhead Press, 2006. There's a wonderful website for this book here.


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Get Your RegEx On
Nearly every single SEO/SEM knows that using analytics is an absolute essential, but when you're not measuring and uncovering the most valuable data, either through analytics reporting or traffic segments, you're not using the tool to your advantage.
Regular Expressions (RegEx) are one of the most powerful and least used in an analytics tool belt. It certainly walks the line of SEM geek-craft, but there will come a time when you need to pull out the pocket protector and thick, taped glasses to get the data you need. Here's what Google defines a regular expression as:
Regular Expressions are a set of characters you can use match one or more strings of text. Regular Expressions is that they support wildcard matching, letting you capture a lot of variations (in URLs for example) using a single string of characters.
The Basics of RegEx Characters: A Quick Guide
If you are familiar with or write advanced query operators for Google, Yahoo, or Bing, writing RegEx for analytics is along the same vein. Below are the most common characters I use when writing regular expressions in analytics reports to refine the data.
- " ^ " (caret): using the caret before letter or keyword at the start of the string will match position rather than a character
- Example: (^keyword) or (^www)
- " $ " (dollar sign): using the dollar sign at the end of the letter or keyword will match a position rather than a character
- Example: (y$)
- " | " (pipe delimiter): used to string together multiple items into a series of options
- Example: (keyword|keyword1|keyword2|etc.)
- " + " (plus sign): will match as many items as possible
- Example: (keyword+)
Why You Should Be Using Regular Expressions in Your Analytics
As an SEO/SEM you need to get granular. While Google does a good job of getting you high-level data in their standard reporting, it is a bit harder to dig deep if you don't have your handy-dandy RegEx operators. Beyond that, there are times when the sites you work with will require RegEx in order to track goals properly. It's an essential tool in your toolkit for measuring correctly, tracking SEO strategy progress, and measuring ROI.
Using Regular Expressions to Filter Keywords in GA
The keywords report is one of those live and die by reports in GA. Google is kind enough to let you segment by paid and organic, but if you want to get to the meat of your efforts, you'll need a regular expression.
Keywords Before RegEx
Your initial keyword list will more than likely have the majority of those keywords being branded. Either through user typing in the website into Google (yes, that still happens) or querying the corporation's name or brand. It's not very helpful if you need to find out if your SEO/SEM strategy is actually working. For instance, have the onsite tweaks you made generated more traffic, or the link building efforts you started on "Keyword X" started boosting traffic and conversions?
The initial list you're presented with from GA isn't going to help you prove any of that. Using a RegEx made up of the caret (^), pipe delimiter (|), and possibly the dollar sign ($), you can create a filter that will get you to the heart of your organic traffic.
Regular Expressions to Track Dynamic Goals
On occasion it can't be avoided; websites have dynamic URLs generated on the "Thank You" page. When this happens you can't simply just add-in the thank you page URL. You have to write a regular expression to capture the all the goals.
Let's say you have a "Thank You" URL that looks something like this: http://%5Bprimary domain]/thank-you/contact-us?sid=259. Using a RegEX to amend the URL (/thank-you/contact-us+), we've effectively take the dynamic element out of the goal conversion and are now able to track as accurately as possible. If the URL structure is more segmented and delineates more definitive sections, then you can create multiple goals still using the (+) to combat the dynamic session id associated.
If you're concerned that dynamic portions of the URL helped to designate what section or what particular form, you can use "Reverse Goal Path" for each goal to see the exact path a user took through the site and completed the conversion. It will take more front-loaded leg work, but the piece of mind you'll create for your client is worth the extra hour or two.
The Power to Slice Your Data Deeper
Those are two very common examples that regular expressions can be used for within your analytic reporting. With RegEx, you can't be afraid to fail because you will. The trick is to keep testing your expressions until you get exactly the data you need.
There are great tools out there will allow you to test your RegEX to make sure it works prior to implementing on live analytics; Epik One's Regular Expression Filter Tester is a perfect for this task. It's specific for Urchin 5 and Google Analytics. RegEx can help you slice your data anyway you want, you just have to know the questions you want to ask.
Sep 20 2010
Great post, I would like to add that regex are a lot easier with perl language, but are still useful in js, PHP and so on.
Sep 20 2010
I use RegEx mostly for filtering out branded keywords and to report on non-branded organic keyword performance. But I like that tip about the goal tracking on dynamic thank you pages. I used to filter branded traffic by adding more and more filters, it took forever! Then I learned about the pipe!
When you have clients with a very strong brand this string can get VERY long.
If you come across any other good examples/uses of RegEx please do share them.
Sep 20 2010
Tony- great idea on RegEx for dynamic pages. I've only dabbled in RegEx for keyword filtering. This should come in handy.
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US Youth Soccer National Championships add semifinal games and expand field in 2014
Under-14 through Under-18 age groups to feature additional round
Four National League qualifiers added to Under-14 age groups
FRISCO, Texas (April 1, 2014) — This summer, the US Youth Soccer National Championships will feature a semifinal round in the Under-14 through Under-18 boys and girls age groups, as well as the addition of four US Youth Soccer National League teams to the Under-14 boys and girls age groups.
The 2014 National Championships will take place at the Maryland SoccerPlex in Germantown, Md., July 21-27, where top teams seek to earn one of 14 National Championship titles in the Under-13 through Under-19 age groups for boys and girls.
The addition of the semifinal round marks the first time that US Youth Soccer has changed the format of the National Championships since 1999, when the tournament expanded to feature round robin play. Changes have occurred over time in response to feedback from club and state technical directors.
All age groups will play three days of round robin play followed by a day of rest on Friday, July 25.
The Under-14 through Under-18 age groups each feature two pools of four teams and will play three round robin games Tuesday through Thursday. Semifinal games will be held on Saturday morning, and championship finals will be played on Sunday.
The Under-13 and Under-19 boys and girls will follow the same format as in previous years, with the top two finishers in round robin play advancing to the championship finals over the weekend.
The 2014 National Championships will also see the field expand from 88 to 96 teams. With the addition of the Under-14 age group to the US Youth Soccer National League in 2013-14, the National Championships will now feature the four teams that qualified through the National League and traditional four US Youth Soccer Regional Champions in that age group.
The US Youth Soccer National Championship Series is the country's most prestigious national youth soccer tournament, providing over 185,000 players on more than 10,000 teams from US Youth Soccer's 55 State Associations the opportunity to showcase their soccer skills against the best competition in the nation while emphasizing teamwork, discipline and fair play.
The National Championships consists of Regional Champions in the U-13 through U-19 Boys and Girls age groups, as well as the National League qualifiers in the Under-14 through Under-18 Boys and Girls age groups to complete the field of 96 teams.
Each year brings about new challenges and highlights the motivation and commitment of these youth players as they continue pursuing their dreams of being one of the best youth soccer teams in the country. The National Championships are the final step of the US Youth Soccer National Championship Series and open to any US Youth Soccer member. The U.S. Soccer Federation initiated the open youth championships with the James P. McGuire Cup (Under-19 Boys), the oldest trophy in youth sport, in 1935. Since its creation in 1974, US Youth Soccer has added 13 divisions to the national championship tournament, with the U-13 Boys and Girls divisions added in 2013 to reach the current format.


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Photos 1 & 2
Text only version of Illustrations 1a & 1b.
The hand-written document pictured here is a portion of a letter from Secretary of War W.W. Belknap to Quartermaster General Montgomery Meigs on June 23, 1873, stating his selection of permanent headstone to mark the graves of known and unknown veterans.
Questions for Illustrations 1a & 1b
1. What were some considerations relevant to the preparation and finish of the headstones/markers and the information on them?
2. What distinguishes the markers for the known dead compared to the unknown dead?
3. What might a cemetery's latitude have to do with the dimension of headstones?
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