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Google Readying Mysterious Set-Top Box?
Google home-entertainment experiments extend beyond the Chromecast: In January, the company privately showed a prototype of a previously unreported set-top box device, similar to existing digital-media hubs sold by Apple and Roku. George Stahl has more. Photo: Getty Images.
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Improved Counterability Unarmored Light Medium Heavy Fortified Hero Normal 100% 150% 100% 100% 50% 100% Piercing150% 75% 100% 150% 35% 50% Siege 150% 50% 100% 100% 150% 50% Magic 75% 100% 200% 100% 50% 50% Hero 100% 100% 100% 100% 50% 100%
You can find further information related to armor and damage types on our web site at http://www.battle.net/war3/basics/armorandweapontypes.shtml
Spellcaster Rebalance - Most spellcasters (Sorceress, Priest, Shaman, Witch Doctor, Necromancer, Banshee, Druid of the Talon) have been re-balanced. In general, units with piercing damage rip up spellcasters, while basic melee units, such as Ghouls or Footmen, are weak against spellcasters. The specific changes to the units in question are: * They have a new armor type, unarmored, which takes bonus damage from siege and piercing attacks. * They also have a new damage type, magic, which does reduced damage to fortified and hero armor, but does bonus damage against medium armor. * They had their damage adjusted, typically downwards. * They no longer gain damage as they go up in level, and gain less hitpoints as they go up in level (but start with more hitpoints when initially built) * Many autocast buffs and debuff costs reduced. * Casters, including Dryads, have had their mana regeneration rates boosted by 30%.
Hero Damage - Heroes now have an aptly named hero damage type. It deals 100% damage to everything except fortified armor, to which it deals 50% damage. Hero damage was added so that heroes no longer strongly counter ranged units such as Archers and Crypt Fiends.
Advanced Structures - Most advanced technology structures had their build times reduced. This reduction ranged from 20 seconds for especially underused structures, to 10 seconds for less underused structures. For instance, the Slaughterhouse builds 20 seconds faster now, while the Arcane Sanctum build time was only reduced 10 seconds.
Humans - Flares now cost 75/25 to research, down from 100/50. - Inner Fire cost increased to 35, from 25. - Slow cost reduced to 40 from 50. - Slow duration vs heroes reduced to 10 seconds from 20 seconds. - Thunderclap debuff is 50% at all levels, and lasts 5/3 at all levels.
Undead - Curse now causes a 33% chance to miss, up from 25%. - Curse now lasts 2 minutes, up from 1 minute. - Curse cost reduced to 40 mana from 50. - Web lasts 12 seconds, down from 20 seconds, and has a cooldown of 12 seconds, down from 20 seconds. - Carrion Swarm max damage increased to 375/700/1000 from 300/550/800. - Carrion Swarm no longer hits wards. - Boneyard cost reduced to 250/100 from 350/125. - Acolytes now have 220 health, up from 180. - Necropolis cost reduced to 300 gold, down from 350 gold. - Black Citadel now has 2000 hitpoints, down from 2300. - Halls of the Dead now has 1750 hitpoints, down from 2000.
Orcs - Bloodlust cost reduced from 50 mana to 40 mana. - Raiders now have light armor instead of heavy armor. - Raider Ensnare lasts 12 seconds, down from 20 seconds, and has a cooldown of 12 seconds, down from 20 seconds. - Bladestorm cooldown reduced to 3 minutes, down from 4 minutes.
Night Elves - Cyclone duration on units increased to 15 from 10. - Faerie Fire cost reduced to 35 from 75. - Chimaera Roost cost reduced to 230/70 from 280/100 - Ancients temporarily lose their fortified armor when they uproot, becoming medium armor units. - Dryads now have the unarmored armor type. This change was made to further specialize Dryads as melee killers, but allow piercing damage units, such as Crypt Fiends and Archers, to counter them more effectively. - Dryad hitpoints increased to 435 from 380.
Other - All basic siege units (Mortar Teams, Catapults, etc.) have had their night sight increased to 1100 from 1000.
Creeps - Creep-cast Polymorph duration reduced to 25. - Creep autocast Heal heals 12 hp a cast not 15. - Lightning Lizards, Thunder Lizards and Storm Wyrms no longer friendly fire - their attacks only hit hostile targets. - Lightning Lizard damage reduced from 1d8 + 16 to 1d8 + 14 - Thunder Lizard damage reduced from 1d11+30 to 1d8+26. - Centaur Impaler hitpoints reduced to 350 from 450.
Items - Anhk of Reincarnation is now a level 7 item. - Potion of Restoration now heals 500 health and 200 mana, rather than fully replenishing a hero's health and mana. - Scroll of Restoration now heals 300 health and 150 mana, rather than fully replenishing all targets health and mana. - Tome of Experience is now a level 5 item - Scroll of Protection cost reduced to 150
NOTES: Replays are incompatible between major game revisions (1.05 replays cannot be viewed with the 1.06 version of Warcraft III).
- Fixed a problem with viewing certain replays.
- PATCH 1.04c
- Dates now use the system date format. - Fixed some issues related to IME text input. - Fixed some minor text wrapping issues that were occurring with Asian languages. - Fixed an issue that allowed players to keep Castles and Keeps alive for abnormal lengths of time while those buildings were under attack.
- Fixed an issue related to full shared unit control and allied play that could cause one or more players to lose the ability to train or upgrade their own units. - Fixed an issue that caused the experience point bars in Battle.net profiles to improperly reflect recently gained or lost points. - Fixed a graphic issue related to the ladder profile and the scroll bar.
Humans - Divine Shield duration increased to 15/30/45 from 10/20/30. - Divine Shield cooldown changed to 35/50/65 from 60/60/60. - Avatar cooldown increased to 180 from 120. - Resurrection mana cost reduced to 200 from 250. - Sorceress acquisition range increased to 700 from 600, improving the frequency with which Slow is auto-cast.
Undead - Banshee acquisition range increased to 700 from 500, improving the frequency with which Curse is auto-cast. - Anti-magic Shell is once again dispellable. A summoned unit under a shell does not take damage from the dispel, but will lose the shell. - Anti-magic Shell mana cost reduced to 50 from 75. - Sleep duration decreased on Hero units to 5/10/15 from 10/20/30. - Web duration decreased on Hero units to 7 from 20. - Animate Dead mana cost reduced to 250 from 300. - Player-controlled Ghouls no longer turn off pathing against units when they are instructed to harvest lumber. - Possession now takes 1 second to cast, up from 0.
Orcs - Wards are no longer hit by Huntress Moon Glaive bounce. - Critical Strike no longer receives damage from Thorns Aura. However, the Blademaster's base attack associated with a Critical Strike still interacts with Thorns appropriately.
Night Elves - Thorns no longer interacts with Critical Strike. - Mana Burn mana cost reduced to 50 from 75. - Mana Burn drain amount reduced to 50/100/150 from 100/200/300. - Mana Burn cooldown reduced to 7 from 9. - Huntress damage reduced to 1d3+14 from 1d3+15. - Metamorphosis cooldown increased to 180 from 120. - Cyclone duration reduced to 10/5.5 from 30/6 (normal unit/Hero units). - Starfall cooldown increased to 180 from 120. - Druid of the Talon (in Night Elf form) acquisition range increased to 700 from 600, improving the frequency with which Faerie Fire is auto-cast. - Ballista Impaling Bolt no longer functions with "Attack Ground." - Ancient Protector cost reduced to 160/80 from 240/100. - Ancient Protector hit points increased to 600 from 550. - Ancient Protector armor decreased to 1 from 2. - Ancient Protector minimum range reduced to 0 from 200. - Ancient Protector ranged attack damage reduced to 1d10+44 from 1d13+51. - Ancient Protector damage type changed to pierce from siege. - Ancient Protector splash damage reduced.
Creeps - Murloc Mutant damage increased to 1d5+24 from 1d2+12.
- Many minor changes were made to many maps due to the balance changes made in patch 1.03 and patch 1.04. Some examples include: (4) Lost Temple - Added more shallow water to the islands. Center creep camp is a bit harder. Added Ogre Magi to the corner Ogre creep camps. (6) Moonglade - Reduced all creep camps approximately 2 levels. (8) The Crucible - All start locations should now be very similar, close to trees with enough room to build. All Goblin Merchant creep camps are now farther off the main path. (10) Dustwallow Keys - Fixed the choke point in the bottom left. Moved Razormane creeps off the main paths. (12) Ice Crown - Fixed the creep levels so that all camps are equal.
NOTES: Replays are incompatible between major game revisions. (1.03 replays cannot be viewed with the 1.04 version of Warcraft III.) Custom save games will not load from versions 1.03 and below.
- Each AI player can now be set to one of three different settings: Easy, Normal, and Insane. - Allied AI will teleport to human allies' towns when the towns are under attack. - Allied AI will ping the minimap to indicate where they are going to attack next. - Messages can now be sent when the "Waiting for Players" dialog is up. - Added PowerPC optimizations and MacOS X 10.2 specific acceleration to the graphics engine.
- Fixed an issue with building reimbursement that could credit a player twice for canceling a building. - Fixed a crash that could occur when the system date was set to > 2038. - Fixed map loading crash that could result from custom units that sell too many items. - Fixed crash with Avance Sound cards. The fix requires a minor change to your registry. If you are experiencing this problem, please contact our technical support staff. - Fixed a crash that could occur when loading a corrupted save file. - Fixed a crash that could occur on custom maps during some unit creation events. - Fixed an issue causing localized versions of maps to be passed unnecessar- ily. - Fixed Mass Teleport crash that could result from a target unit's dying before spell completes. - Fixed save/load map interaction that could result in an unresponsive game. - Fixed an issue related to unit selection and upgrading Human towers. - Fixed an issue with Dreadlord that could cause him to not take damage from Unholy Frenzy if he had the Sleep skill. - Fixed some AI mining issues that could occur when their original town hall was destroyed. - Fixed an AMM chat message bug that could disconnect you if an AMM team game message was sent just before game launch. - Fixed an issue that allowed players to save after choosing "Continue" in a single-player mission. - Fixed a supply issue related to the Demon Hunter and his Metamorphosis ability. - Fixed Zeppelin drop exploit as a method of building locating through fog of war. - Fixed an issue with saving while "Waiting for Players" dialog was up that could result in a soft lock. - Fixed an issue that could create an invincible Mountain King. - Fixed an issue related to graphical display of auras from aura-generating items. - Fixed an issue with Anti-magic Shell so it now properly interacts with magic-immune and non-magic-immune summoned units. - Fixed disappearance of Sentinel owl in conjunction w/ AOE-targeting circle. - Fixed an issue with Huntress' bouncing missile that would allow it to hit a secondary target even if it missed the primary target. - Fixed an issue with rooted Ancients that would cause them to trigger Goblin Land Mines. - Fixed an issue related to Hero illusions' carrying a Ring of Protection. - Fixed an issue with Town Portal spell art. - Fixed an issue with hit point/mana upgrades and Polymorph. - Fixed an issue with the Abolish Magic ability and allies. - Fixed an issue with poison that could kill a unit. Poison, by itself, should only take a unit to the brink of death. - Fixed an issue related to the interaction of Shift-adding units to a group and unit deaths. - Fixed an issue related to replays, selection circles, and changing player perspective. - Fixed an issue with Cyclone and moving units creating aerial footprints. - Fixed keyboard screen scroll and "Waiting for Players" interaction. - Fixed several minor text and tooltip issues. - Fixed a few improper combat sound assignments on creeps and NPCs. - Frost Wyrm attack now also slows air units. - AI Keepers of the Grove no longer cast Force of Nature on different cliff levels. - Night Elf AI now uses the Wisp's Renew ability effectively. - Disease (Plague) and poison no longer wake sleeping units. - Moon Glaive bounce no longer hits invisible units. - Demon Hunter's attack while in Demon Form no longer damages self or allies. - Upgraded building shadows no longer update through the fog of war. - Necklace of Spell Immunity no longer drops a Blademaster's Wind Walk. - Observers no longer gain full player UI when entering a loaded game. - Observers no longer get gold/lumber/supply UI when selecting neutral buildings. - Fog of war updates properly now if you are alt-tabbed out of game. - War3 now warns you when you save game or screenshot or profile if there's not enough available disk space. - Improved "We're Under Attack" messages so they trigger at more appropriate times.
- Fixed Macintosh World Editor crash. - Added Unit Editor field for building upgrades. - Increased number of possible dialog buttons from 5 to 12. - Added blank entries for all units that don't normally have abilities or attacks, allowing a user to potentially add these through the Unit Editor. - Added Unit Editor field to set unit sounds to that of another unit type. - Reorganized limits on pre-placed neutral units. Neutral hostile buildings now count towards the "unit" limit of 512, and only passive buildings count towards the "building" limit of 96. - Fixed bug where map auto-save could bypass object limit checks. - Fixed Sound Editor bug that would sometimes delete an imported sound file from the map if it was imported from outside the War3 directory and the Test Map feature was used before the map was saved. - Fixed force issue that would cause Force 11 when you selected Force 10 for a trigger in the editor.
Humans - Brilliance Aura has been reworked, and is no longer % based. It now adds a fixed amount of mana per second to units under its power -- .75, 1.5, and 2.25 respectively by level. While it's just as effective with mass spell- casters, players will find it is less powerful (though still exceedingly useful) with Heroes. - Divine Shield now costs 25 mana, down from 75. - Blizzard no longer goes up in radius as the level of the ability increases. - Water elementals now last 60 seconds, down from 75.
Undead - Gargoyles' ground attack was substantially upgraded. They now do 21-24 damage, up from 16-18 damage. They also have less armor (3, down from 5), but also hit harder against air units, doing 51-63 damage, up from 46-57 damage. Note that they are still just as effective against air units as they were before, but their ground attack has been much improved. - Death Pact now costs 50 mana (down from 75), and can be cast twice as frequently as before (15 seconds cooldown from 30). - Lich Heroes now have far more hit points, as they now have 15 str + 2/level, up from 13 + 1.6/level. - Frost Armor is now an auto-cast spell which will target units under attack if auto-casting is enabled. Frost Armor also costs less mana -- 40 down from 50. - The Spirit Tower Upgrade now costs 160/40, up from 120/40. - Crypt Fiends' attack was slightly improved.
Orcs - Headhunters have more hit points (350, up from 280), but also strike more slowly. - Stasis Trap no longer stuns friendly units, but has a shorter duration (6 seconds, down from 12 seconds). Stasis Traps, when they are set off, also destroy other Stasis Traps within their area of effect. - Kodo Beasts now have 1000 hit points, up from 790 hit points. They also attack more slowly than before. - Orc Barracks cost less lumber: 50, down from 70. - Watch Towers now do 16-18 damage, down from 19-22 damage. - Grunts now have 700 hit points, up 20 from 680. - Shaman's attack is far less powerful. They attack somewhat more slowly, and also do 11-12 damage, down from 14-16 damage. - Stasis Ward and Sentry Ward no longer inhibit movement or building construction.
Night Elves - Sentinel can now be removed from a tree with various dispels (Wand of Negation, Dryads, etc.), as well by attacking the tree with a peon or siege unit (previously, the tree had to be destroyed -- now it merely has to be damaged). - Mana Burn no longer affects units with Mana Burn (Demon Hunters, Satyr Soulstealers, Felhounds, etc.). - Thorns is now a %-based ability that reflects 10%, 20% or 30% of melee damage dealt by level. - Wisp's sight radius increased by 25%. - Detonate now does 225 damage against summoned creatures, up from 150. - Non-tree buildings now have 5 armor, up from 2. - Ballistae now have an "Attack Ground" command. - Force of Nature cooldown reduced to 20 seconds, down from 30 seconds. - Treants now last 60 seconds, down from 75 seconds. - Eating trees now gives a constant, non-stacking healing effect for 10 seconds. - Moon Wells now spend mana on health and mana replenishment separately. For instance, if you sent a 0-mana, nearly dead Demon Hunter to a Moon Well, and the Moon Well had 100 mana, your DH would gain 25 mana, and 100 health. Before, the Hero would gain 200 health and 50 mana. This change does not affect the benefits of healing a unit without mana.
Creeps - All melee creeps in between levels 1 and 5 are slightly more powerful. - All creeps of level 6 or higher now have Hero magic resistance. - Creeps of level 7 or higher will behave more intelligently in general. - All creeps of level 7 or higher now deal Chaos damage. - Level 10 Dragons no longer have spell immunity. - Many minor creep balance tweaks to damage and abilities. - Mercenaries are now more accurately priced in general, which in most cases amounts to price decreases.
Items - Scepter of Mastery no longer will drop randomly in multiplayer maps. - Tome of Power, Mask of Death both increased in level (8 to 9 and 8 to 10 respectively). - Wand of Lightning Shield is now a level-3 item, down from level 6. - Sentry Ward item now comes with 3 charges, down from 5. - Periapt of Vitality now gives 150 hps, up from 100. - Pendant of Mana now gives 250 mana, down from 300. - Tome of Experience now gives Heroes 150 experience points, down from 200.
NOTE: Replays are incompatible between major game revisions. (1.02 replays cannot be viewed with the 1.03 version of Warcraft III.)
- PATCH 1.02a
- Added localized Battle.net messages.
- Fixed an issue that allowed players to abuse dragons with Devour. - Fixed an issue with dragons that could cause them to divert attacks.
- Necklace of Immunity, Tome of Greater Experience, and Goblin Land Mines no longer randomly drop in multiplayer games. - Scroll of Resurrection & Scroll of Animate Dead item level increased. - Bridges are no longer destroyable on the (6)Stromguarde.w3m map.
NOTE: Replays are incompatible between major game revisions. (1.01 replays cannot be viewed with the 1.02 version of Warcraft III.)
- PATCH 1.01c
- Fixed an issue with copy protection for certain DVD drives.
- PATCH 1.01b - Fixed a problem where players were disconnected from a game as it was starting and thus getting a loss.
** Welcome to Warcraft III and improved Battle.net! **
This patch contains various data and code updates necessary for play on Battle.net as well as some minor balance changes.
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The new Visitor Center at the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, which opened to the public on Saturday, showcases several exhibits that bring people to the heart of Florida's largest wilderness with replicas of habitats, documentaries about the "River of Grass" and virtual tours.
"It's amazing you can sit here and experience the Everglades at night," said Rose Murray, who lives west of Delray Beach, as she took in the exhibit "Nature's Symphony After Dark." "I'm in this room, but I feel a world away."
The exhibit features a round, dark room where the voice of a grandfather narrates to his grandson the sounds and stories of the Everglades when night falls.
Dozens of residents attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the $1 million building. The new center replaces an old office and a much smaller visitors center that was severely damaged by Hurricane Wilma.
On Saturday, visitors enjoyed tours of the wooden marsh trail and the cypress boardwalk at the refuge. But the excitement was all contained inside, at exhibits like the "Virtual Airboat Tour."
"The staff said, 'How can we make something that's really interesting for everyone?' " said Refuge Manager Sylvia Pelizza.
Refuge staff teamed up with the South Florida Water Management District to create a center that focused on the environment and on conservation.
The center will offer environmental programs for school groups and hopes to create after-school and summer programs.
"If they can get there, they can get the Everglades experience," Pelizza said.
The refuge was established in 1951, and in 1986 it was named after Marshall, an influential conservationist in South Florida. The 147,391 acres contain one of three water conservation areas in the region. It is intended to provide flood control and water storage and is part of what remains of the original freshwater Everglades.


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ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The 2012-13 Brandeis swimming and diving team had its second meet of the season, and their first on the road, as the Judges traveled to the University of Rochester for a mini-UAA meet.
The highlight of the trip came from sophomore Max Fabian (Keene, N.H./Oak Meadow). For the second time in as many meets, Fabian set a Brandeis school record. He won the 1,650 freestyle with a time of 16:36.09, defeating Chris Wysocki of Carnegie Mellon by more than four seconds. Fabian took more than eight second off the existing school record set by Robert Morse in 2009. Fabian also had a 10th-place finish in the 500 free with a time of 5:01.54.
Senior Holly Spicer (Northampton, Mass./Northampton) also continued her fine comeback season with a pair of top-eight performances. In the 200-yard breaststroke, Spicer placed fifth with a time of 2:36.54, 4.01 seconds out of the top spot. It was the best finished for a Brandeis woman at the meet and second only to Fabian's win in the 1,650. Spicer also had a seventh-place finish in the 100 breast with a time of 1:11.91 in a race in which half a second separated her from the top five.
Also turning in multiple top-eight performances was sophomore diver Eliza Kopelman (Chestnut Hill, Mass./Brookline). Kopelman placed seventh in the one-meter event with a score of 160.90 and eighth in her first three-meter performance of the year with a score of 131.40.
On the men's side, the Judges also got a top-eight race from rookie sprinter Brian Luk (Hong Kong/Northfield Mount Hermon), who placed eighth in the 100 free with a time of 49.69 seconds. Luk was 14th in the 60 free with a time of 22.98 seconds. Classmate Fallon Bushee (Malden, Mass. / Mystic Valley Regional Charter Sch.) just missed a top-10 performance in the women's 50 free with a time of 26.29 seconds, in 11th place by just 0.05. In the 100 backstroke, rookie Fay Laborio (Cranston, R.I./Cranston West) was 10th with a time of 1:07.43.
The meet was scored as four different dual meets, with Brandeis swimming against University Athletic Association rivals Carnegie Mellon, Case Western Reserve, NYU and Rochester, all of which are among the top squads in the nation. Brandeis's top point totals both came against NYU, where the men scored 82 points and the women had 64.
The Judges return home on Nov. 3 to face Roger Williams University at 1 p.m.


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Wednesday, August 28, 2013
A gay man goes to a spa to have his face injected with Botox and dermal fillers. He's obsessed with getting rid of lines and wrinkles. His age? Twenty-seven.
One of my favorite gay male bloggers admits to having life-long body image issues. He writes about the rituals he puts himself through, to ensure people he doesn't know don't see what he perceives to be his physical imperfections when he wears a Speedo swimsuit. He's in his late 40s.
A gay writer writes, in a recent article appearing on Advocate.com:
A few months ago at Pride in West Hollywood, I was standing on the crowded front porch of the bar Micky's, waiting to enter, when an extremely handsome 50-something friend of mine stormed past. I asked where he was going and he replied, "Home. I'm pissed." Why? "Some queen just shoved me and said 'Get out of the way, old man.'" (From "In Defense of Aging," by Jon Bernstein)
It's occurred to me more than once, as I read these pieces, that it isn't just our sexual orientation we, as gay and lesbian people, need to accept. It's also our bodies, our faces included, and, more specifically, ourselves as we age.
I know something about this. Up until I reached the age of 50, I was more or less happy with the way I looked. I'd faced the fact I would never have the buff body I'd always wanted, despite nearly twenty years of working out, which had made me fit but not buff. And I thought I was still on the upward swing of looking better and thus feeling better about myself.
Then, in October 2009, I hit the proverbial wall. Suddenly, there was no longer a four at the beginning of my age. I'd reached the half-century milestone, and I started to realize that maybe my long and steady climb toward that ideal of physical perfection had come to an end (or was surely slowing down, due to no fault of my own).
Over the next several years, I sunk into a deep depression. A cup-half-empty type by nature, I began to fixate on everything that confirmed I was no longer getting better, I was getting older. That stomach area that would never be flat, even defined, despite my hard work over the years. Those criss-crossed lines below my eyes (not to mention the laugh-lines at their corners) that looked like a sheet of graph paper tilled sideways. And that grey hair that was no longer just above my ears but had pretty much take over my entire head.
For two and a half years, I dreaded getting older. That's dreaded with a capital D. I hated what I saw when I looked in the mirror. I hated that, despite my commitment to eating healthier and exercising, I would never be young and beautiful again (I was once one, no doubt, but the other is open to opinion).
That dread was so bad, it permeated my entire life. There was not one single thing I looked at, or experienced, that didn't have a dark cloud hanging over it. I began to have panic attacks again (something I fought hard to overcome in 1994 and then ten years later). I was scared to get into a car for fear of being in an accident. I was scared I'd lose Chris (even though there was a period when I believed he would be better off without me). And I was scared of dying before I achieved what I thought I was put here to do.
Nonsense. All of it was nonsense.
You know what turned me around? It was so simple, you won't believe it. And it can work for you too.
I was walking through the parking lot at our local Save-On Foods in the spring of 2011, and a saw an old lady carrying bags of groceries to her car. There was nothing special about her. She was an old lady, just like any of the old ladies I'd looked at throughout my life.
But for the first time, I saw her. No, I mean I really saw her. Not just the fact that she was old, but beyond that. Inside. I saw her soul. I saw the incredible dignity she had as a simple human being, completing an everyday task. And I saw how utterly beautiful she was. Yes, beautiful. Lines and wrinkles and sagging skin–all of it. In that moment, she struck me as stunning. And I could not imagine how I'd never seen aging like that before.
From there, I put the pieces together: If we're very lucky, we get to age. Aging is neither good nor bad, it just is. It's a part of life like any other. But, truth be told, it's even better than everything before, because it's our time to put to use what we've learned about the world and ourselves.
In the Advocate.com article referred to above, Bernstein writes, "The journey of self-discovery takes a lifetime." And so it does. If we're lucky, the great blessing for all of us is that we're around long enough to end that journey when it logically should, so we learn everything we possibly can about having an open heart, a generous spirit, and an easy laugh.
And the body? It's nothing more than a vessel–a vessel that gets us from point A to point B, whether the journey be physical, intellectual, or spiritual. By all means take care of it, respect and honor it, because it's the only one you'll ever have.
But, in the end, it doesn't matter one speck what it looks like, as long as it gets us to where we're supposed to go. And the longer we're here–assuming our focus is right–the more likely we are to arrive at exactly where that is.
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Beautifully said. Thank you.ReplyDelete
I'm glad you liked this, Happyman (love your name). You're welcome.ReplyDelete
- LorettaSeptember 3, 2013 at 1:56 PM
In that moment, when you saw her soul, you were seeing her with your "spiritual eyes". You were open enough to allow your soul to view her soul on a purely spiritual, non-physical level.ReplyDelete
If we would allow ourselves to see each other, and life itself, through our spiritual eyes, what a wonderful life we would see.
Just a thought...
Wow, what a beautiful thing to say, Loretta. I never thought of it that way.Delete
It was surely a rare experience for me, but it had a startling purity to it too. It's difficult to describe.
The vessel that was her physical body didn't mean a thing to me. That is, it didn't prevent me at all from seeing the essence of her, the most important part of who she was, her utter humanity.
And to think, as you suggest, each of us has the ability to see others that way, and others may see us that way too.
It's really the only way that matters, isn't it?
Thanks for inspiring me to think this through. I appreciate it.


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The HDFS RAID module provides a DistributedRaidFileSystem (DRFS) that is used along with an instance of the Hadoop DistributedFileSystem (DFS). A file stored in the DRFS (the source file) is divided into stripes consisting of several blocks. For each stripe, a number of parity blocks are stored in the parity file corresponding to this source file. This makes it possible to recompute blocks in the source file or parity file when they are lost or corrupted.
The main benefit of the DRFS is the increased protection against data corruption it provides. Because of this increased protection, replication levels can be lowered while maintaining the same availability guarantees, which results in significant storage space savings.
Architecture and implementation
HDFS Raid consists of several software components:
- the DRFS client, which provides application access to the the files in the DRFS and transparently recovers any corrupt or missing blocks encountered when reading a file,
the RaidNode, a daemon that creates and maintains parity files for all data files stored in the DRFS,
the BlockFixer, which periodically recomputes blocks that have been lost or corrupted,
the RaidShell utility, which allows the administrator to manually trigger the recomputation of missing or corrupt blocks and to check for files that have become irrecoverably corrupted.
the ErasureCode, which provides the encode and decode of the bytes in blocks
DRFS client
The DRFS client is implemented as a layer on top of the DFS client that intercepts all incoming calls and passes them on to the underlying client. Whenever the underlying DFS throws a ChecksumException or a BlockMissingException (because he source file contains corrupt or missing blocks), the DRFS client catches these exceptions, locates the parity file for the current source file and recomputes the missing blocks before returning them to the application.
It is important to note that while the DRFS client recomputes missing blocks when reading corrupt files it does not insert these missing blocks back into the file system. Instead, it discards them once the application request has been fulfilled. The BlockFixer daemon and the RaidShell tool can be used to persistently fix bad blocks.
The RaidNode periodically scans all paths for which the configuration specifies that they should be stored in the DRFS. For each path, it recursively inspects all files that have more than 2 blocks and selects those that have not been recently modified (default is within the last 24 hours). Once it has selected a source file, it iterates over all its stripes and creates the appropriate number of parity blocks for each stripe. The parity blocks are then concatenated together and stored as the parity file corresponding to this source file. Once the parity file has been created, the replication factor for the corresponding source file is lowered as specified in the configuration. The RaidNode also periodically deletes parity files that have become orphaned or outdated.
There are currently two implementations of the RaidNode:
LocalRaidNode, which computes parity blocks locally at the RaidNode. Since computing parity blocks is a computationally expensive task the scalability of this approach is limited.
DistributedRaidNode, which dispatches map reduce tasks to compute parity blocks.
The BlockFixer is a daemon that runs at the RaidNode and periodically inspects the health of the paths for which DRFS is configured. When a file with missing or corrupt blocks is encountered, these blocks are recomputed and inserted back into the file system.
There are two implementations of the BlockFixer:
LocalBlockFixer, which recomputes bad blocks locally at the RaidNode.
DistBlockFixer, which dispatches map reduce jobs to recompute blocks.
The RaidShell is a tool that allows the administrator to maintain and inspect a DRFS. It supports commands for manually triggering the recomputation of bad data blocks and also allows the administrator to display a list of irrecoverable files (i.e., files for which too many data or parity blocks have been lost).
To validate the integrity of a file system, run RaidFSCK as follows:
$HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop org.apache.hadoop.raid.RaidShell -fsck [path]
This will print a list of corrupt files (i.e., files which have lost too many blocks and can no longer be fixed by Raid).
(currently under development)
ErasureCode is the underlying component used by BlockFixer and RaiNode to generate parity blocks and to fix parity/source blocks. ErasureCode does encode and decode. When encoding, ErasureCode takes several source bytes and generate some parity bytes. When decoding, ErasureCode generates the missing bytes (can be parity or source bytes) by looking at the remaining source bytes and parity bytes.
The number of missing bytes can be recovered is equal to the number of parity bytes created. For example, if we encode 10 source bytes to 3 parity bytes. We can recover any 3 missing bytes by the other 10 remaining bytes.
There are two kinds of erasure codes implemented in Raid: XOR code and Reed-Solomon code. The difference between them is that XOR only allows creating one parity bytes but Reed-Solomon code allows creating any given number of parity bytes. As a result, the replication on the source file can be reduce to 1 when using Reed-Solomon without losing data safety. The downside of having only one replica of a block is that reads of a block have to go to a single machine, reducing parallelism. Thus Reed-Solomon should be used on data that is not supposed to be used frequently.
Using HDFS RAID
The entire code is packaged in the form of a single jar file named hadoop-*-raid.jar. To use HDFS Raid, you need to put the above mentioned jar file into Hadoop's CLASSPATH. The easiest way to achieve this is to copy hadoop-*-raid.jar from $HADOOP_HOME/build/contrib/raid to $HADOOP_HOME/lib. Alternatively you can modify $HADOOP_CLASSPATH (defined in conf/hadoop-env.sh) to include this jar.
There is a single configuration file named raid.xml that describes the HDFS paths for which RAID should be used. This provides a list of directory/file patterns that need to be RAIDed. There are quite a few options that can be specified for each pattern. A sample of this file can be found insrc/contrib/raid/conf/raid.xml. To apply the policies defined in raid.xml, a reference has to be added to hdfs-site.xml:
<property> <name>raid.config.file</name> <value>/mnt/hdfs/DFS/conf/raid.xml</value> <description>This is needed by the RaidNode </description> </property>
In order to get clients to use the DRFS client (which transparently fixes bad blocks), add the following configuration property to hdfs-site.xml:
<property> <name>fs.hdfs.impl</name> <value>org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DistributedRaidFileSystem</value> <description>The FileSystem for hdfs: uris.</description> </property>
Additional (optional) configuration
The following properties can be set in hdfs-site.xml to further tune the DRFS configuration:
- Specify the location where parity files should be stored:
<property> <name>hdfs.raid.locations</name> <value>hdfs://newdfs.data:8000/raid</value> <description>The location for parity files. If this is is not defined, then defaults to /raid. </description> </property>Specify the parity stripe length in blocks:
<property> <name>hdfs.raid.stripeLength</name> <value>10</value> <description>The number of blocks in a file to be combined into a single raid parity block. The default value is 5. The lower the number the greater is the disk space you will save when you enable raid. </description> </property>Specify the size of HAR part-files:
<property> <name>raid.har.partfile.size</name> <value>4294967296</value> <description>The size of HAR part files that store raid parity files. The default is 4GB. The higher the number the fewer the number of files used to store the HAR archive. </description> </property>Specify the block placement policy for raid:
<property> <name>dfs.block.replicator.classname</name> <value> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.BlockPlacementPolicyRaid </value> <description>The name of the class which specifies how to place blocks in HDFS. The class BlockPlacementPolicyRaid will try to avoid co-located replicas of the same stripe. This will greatly reduce the probability of raid file corruption. </descrition> </property>
Specify the fairshare scheduler pool that should be use to run jobs dispatched by the DistributedBlockFixer:
<property> <name>raid.mapred.fairscheduler.pool</name> <value>none</value> <description>The name of the fair scheduler pool to use.</description> </property>
Specify which implementation of RaidNode to use (local or distributed):
<property> <name>raid.classname</name> <value>org.apache.hadoop.raid.DistRaidNode</value> <description>Specify which implementation of RaidNode to use (class name). </description> </property>
Specify how frequently the RaidNode re-calculates out-dated or missing parity blocks:
<property> <name>raid.policy.rescan.interval</name> <value>5000</value> <description>Specify the periodicity in milliseconds after which all source paths are rescanned and parity blocks recomputed if necessary. By default, this value is 1 hour. </description> </property>By default, the DRFS assumes that the underlying file system is a DFS. To layer the DRFS
over some other file system, define a property named fs.raid.underlyingfs.impl that specifies the name of the underlying class. For example, to layer The DRFS over an instance of NewFileSystem, use the following property:
<property> <name>fs.raid.underlyingfs.impl</name> <value>org.apache.hadoop.new.NewFileSystem</value> <description>Specify the filesystem that is layered immediately below the DistributedRaidFileSystem. By default, this value is DistributedFileSystem. </description> </property
Specify the BlockFixer implementation to use (default is DistBlockFixer):
<property> <name>raid.blockfix.classname</name> <value>org.apache.hadoop.raid.LocalBlockFixer</value> <description>Specify the BlockFixer implementation to use. The default is org.apache.hadoop.raid.DistBlockFixer. </description> </property
Running DRFS
The DRFS provides support for administration at runtime without any downtime to cluster services. It is possible to add/delete new paths to be raided without interrupting any load on the cluster. Changes to raid.xml are detected periodically (every few seconds) and new policies are applied immediately.
Designate one machine in your cluster to run the RaidNode software. You can run this daemon on any machine irrespective of whether that machine is running any other hadoop daemon or not. You can start the RaidNode by running the following on the selected machine:
nohup $HADOOP_HOME/bin/hadoop org.apache.hadoop.raid.RaidNode >> /xxx/logs/hadoop-root-raidnode-hadoop.xxx.com.log &
We also provide two scripts to start and stop the RaidNode more easily. Copy the scripts start-raidnode.sh and stop-raidnode.sh to the directory $HADOOP_HOME/bin on the machine where the RaidNode is to be deployed. You can then start or stop the RaidNode by directly calling these scripts on that machine. To deploy the RaidNode remotely, copy start-raidnode-remote.sh and stop-raidnode-remote.sh to $HADOOP_HOME/bin at the machine from which you want to trigger the remote deployment and create a text file $HADOOP_HOME/conf/raidnode on the same machine containing the name of the machine where the RaidNode should be deployed. These scripts ssh to the specified machine and invoke start-raidnode.sh/stop-raidnode.sh there.
For easy maintencance, you might want to change start-mapred.sh on the JobTracker machine so that it automatically calls start-raidnode-remote.sh (and make a similar change tostop-mapred.sh to call stop-raidnode-remote.sh).
To monitor the health of a DRFS, use the fsck command provided by the RaidShell.


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Although we've been replacing our standard incandescent household bulbs with more energy efficient CFL bulbs for some time, we still have a number of fixtures about the house that require specialty bulbs. None of these bulbs have been upgraded to the more eco friendly bulbs now available.
Making the decision to switch out our standard bulbs was easy. Both our local electric provider and our township's offices have made it simple and affordable. At least twice, we've received mailers from the electric provider, offering switch out kits simply for filling out a quick form online. Any time we stop in to our township's business office, we are greeted with up to date flyers, outlining the latest items now accepted at the township's recycling center, as well as a free CFL! With such generous support all around us and no out of pocket cost, it would be irresponsible to not take advantage of these green opportunities!
With so much energy savings being gifted our way, the Hubs and I decided it was time for us to put our money where our green mouth is and make an energy efficient lighting purchase on our own! The Hubs is always a willing shopping partner when a trip to Sam's Club is planned; he just loves to browse at Sam's and try to talk me into some fun, new items. With a trip scheduled this past weekend, we decided to explore and see if Sam's Club offered any of the specialty energy efficient bulbs we needed.
We were not disappointed! Not only did our local Sam's Club offer a wide selection of GE energy efficient bulbs, but they offered every specialty bulb we would require to completely convert our home's lighting for the green!
With a number of energy wasting fixtures, such as the (shudder) 80's style large globe fixtures in the master bath and kid's bathroom on the hit list for replacement in the near future, we decided converting the dining room chandelier bulbs would be a great place to start. Sam's offered GE halogen candle style bulbs, as well as energy smart LED bulbs. We decided to purchase the LEDs, despite the larger price tag, as they were the greenest option.
Converting our old incandescent bulbs to the new GE smart energy LED bulbs was as easy, well as easy as changing a light bulb! The advantage was simply astounding. Where our old bulbs would use 200 to 240 watts of energy to light the five bulb chandelier, depending on whether the Hubs had picked up 40 or 60 watt bulbs, the new GE energy smart LED bulbs only use 2 watts a piece! No typo. Only 2 watts!! What a difference in converting only one fixture, from 240 down to 10 watts!
Although we spent just under $60 on three off the 2 bulb packages, the savings we'll enjoy over time will be phenomenal as each of these bulbs has an average life of eight years! Again, no typo. The Hubs is tickled green that he won't be having to change those bulbs out again for a long time!
While the expense of converting our entire home's lighting to more energy efficient bulbs is too costly to be accomplished in one trip, by picking up a package or bulb during each weekly shopping trip, we'll ease the expense into our budget and have fully efficient, green lighting in no time. The key is to begin and we're glad we did!
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Our chandelier looks lovely, with the warm, "green" glow of our new GE energy smart LED bulbs! A huge amount of energy savings without sacrificing light quality!
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After several research projects this year (as you can see from our LibGuides), I am in a much better place to review the e-book platforms we have chosen to play with this year. I am reviewing them from the perspective of the upper school (9th-12th grade) that is in its first year of 1:1 iPads.
The Gale Virtual Reference Library is still a favorite for specialized encyclopedias. E-book reference is really the way to go, and if your reference collection isn't migrating online, it really should be. We also have some ABC CLIO ebooks and I am thinking of adding more, since their databases are also quite popular for introductory research at our school. Our upper schoolers now use the GVRL via the easy to use Gale iPad app, Access My Library. The students download articles as PDF's and highlight and annotate using PDF Expert. GVRL is also popular because the students can copy and paste the citations into NoodleTools.
Ebrary has really caught on with our upper schoolers because of the scholarly content and fabulous keyword searching. Once the students see how they can use a massive library instantly (78,000 books and growing!), with easy bookmarking, downloading, highlighting, keyword searching, and an iPad app to read the books offline, they are very happy. The teachers are impressed by the ease of access to quality information. [Update to my previous post, the copying and pasting from the app works beautifully into Evernote and the NoodleTools notecards.] The students also seem happy with the idea of reading the books offline via the app, but I don't know how many have done so. I have to review my ebrary usage statistics - but who has time? I know they are using it - I see them in the library. I will look it over when research season is over. Currently the 10th and 11th graders are using it, and the seniors are about to start.
A couple of students have found e-books in ebrary that we actually cannot access. I would like to try the Paton Driven Acquisition process soon. Although not officially on my selection policy, I try to buy most of what my community recommends - that day. Sometimes they are even delivered the following day (thank you, Amazon). Those books will at least get used! I'd like to do the same with nonfiction e-books, so that will be my next thing to learn with ebrary, the award winning product that is becoming a favorite (even after all my complaints on the previous post).
Axis 360 hasn't caught on quite as much, because our kids really enjoy reading in print, as many Americans do. I think that if more popular titles were available, it would be more consistent and students would use it more. Also, since I am not using it for anything curricular, the students are not really forced to learn how to use it. I am saving it mostly for pleasure reading, and some students and faculty are enjoying it, but I'd like a larger affordable selection.
Stay tuned for more of our adventures with e-books, and let me know about your adventures!


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The owner of the now shut-down Rostrevor Nursing Home in Dublin has denied that the decades worth of complaints of elder abuse are true and blames the attention being shown to her and her business on her socialite lifestyle and three pretty daughters.
Complaints with relation to the elderly in the home date back to the 1980s and include allegations of sexual abuse. Therese Lipsett, the former owner of the home, said that Rostrevor was "like the Four Seasons".
Lipsett is convinced that their families story is getting so much attention because of her pretty daughters.
She said "Is it just because there are three pretty daughters in the family, who make for a good photograph? Is that why there is such interest in the nursing home?
'There is another nursing home were the patient was let out and walked to the top of Bray Head and perished in the cold. I mean her daughters weren't shown on television. What about the Kiltipper nursing home that let a woman choke? Where is that story? What's the obsession with the Lipsetts?'
Last week the home was shut-down by the Nursing Board after a long investigation. Lipsett has also been struck off following alleged sexual abuse in her home in 2005. An investigation found that nurse Stuart Cummings would come to work drunk and sexually abuse an elderly female resident.
Speaking to the Irish Mail on Sunday she declined to condone Cummings actions. She said "The important thing to remember here is when they went to look for him and bring him to the fitness to practice hearing he never showed up and never contested it. So it's wide open to him to contest that he never did such things and this is all slander.
"He's fully entitled to do that. I mean he can appeal it any time, he didn't turn up to the fitness to practise. He didn't defend himself – he didn't even send a solicitor. I'm not going to be judge and jury, how can I?
"The patient is still alive and denies all this ever happened…The patient denies that this ever, ever, ever happened."
Despite the findings over Cummings Lipsett was still allowed to practice.
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Lipsett denies claims that she helped Cummings get another job. She said "This is another twisting of words. As employers we have to... It's not a reference these days, it's written in a format "did you employ this man, blah, blah blah?", "would you re-employ this man?", that type of thing. All that was answered, but the question on the reference "would you re-employ this man?", the answer was "no". And "would you recommend this man?", the answer was "no". It was not a reference.'
Following this incident she transferred control of the Home to her daughters Sarah and Avila.
Three members of staff were the subjects of additional allegations stemming back to 2008. The allegations claimed that Shivsagur 'Kevin' Poorun threw an elderly patient against a door jamb, injuring his head. They said Poorun had insisted that he was the only nurse allowed to bring a certain elderly female resident to the bathroom. Screams would be heard when he did.
Lipsett said 'We all loved Kevin, he was the most fantastic worker in the nursing home. You can't have eyes in the back of your head, you don't know what's going on anywhere unless you're right there to witness it.
"And if the so-called whistleblowers knew about it, why didn't they take it to the authorities? Tell the staff nurse, tell the nurse manager? That's the line of authority and there is a complaints procedure written before everyone's eyes and they are well aware of it. So it's very hard to take the allegations seriously."
She continued "First of all we find it hard to believe that it wasn't reported. Because anyone who witnesses any form of abuse, any form of incorrect behavior in this nursing home... There is a zero tolerance for bad manners, there is zero tolerance for anything except best practices, that's the best way of putting it.
'And the staff know that, and if they saw anything that would upset a patient or would be against company policy they should go to the direct line of authority.'


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Mayor Don Wesely today thanked all those who have contributed so far to Pennies for Lincoln and urged more people and organizations to become involved in the public art campaign. Pennies for Lincoln has so far raised $2,600 of the $17,500 needed to fund a new sculpture of a young Abraham Lincoln. "The Rail Joiner" will be placed at the entrance of the new Justice and Law Enforcement Center, 575 South 10th Street.
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This is Part 2 in a Series of Articles by Ex-Googler Anton McCarthy.
- Part 1: Five Ecommerce AdWords Tips
- Part 3: Understanding AdWords Keyword Matching to Increase Ecommerce Sales
In this article you're going to learn the basics of Google AdWords Conversion Tracking. We'll cover what it is, how it works, and why you need it for your ecommerce store. Imagine this: You have an ecommerce store, and you use Google AdWords to drive traffic. You're spending part of your marketing budget on clicks each week, and you control your costs using your daily budget via your campaign settings. You let the campaign run for two weeks, and you check your online sales stats regularly over this period. At the end of the two weeks, you do a final tally of your sales, also checking how many clicks you received on your ads and how much you spent on these clicks. You have your sets of numbers in place, except there is one small problem – you don't know how many of these clicks translated into sales on your website!
Seems crazy, right? You wouldn't pay a mechanic to fix your car if you didn't know what they had fixed! So, why would you spend money on AdWords clicks without somehow tracking the return on and value of these clicks?
There is an answer – and it comes in the form of a free tool that you can find in your AdWords account called Conversion Tracking. Conversion Tracking allows you to track the return on investment (ROI) of the clicks on your ads, by letting you know if a click can lead to an action on your website that you deem to be of value. These actions are called 'conversions', since they help translate or 'convert' a click into a valuable business outcome.
Specifically, a conversion could consist of one or more of the following:
- An online purchase;
- An inquiry or lead via your contact form;
- A newsletter sign-up;
- A whitepaper download.
Why Track Conversions?In addition to the fact that it makes sense to know the value of what you're spending on your AdWords clicks, tracking conversions also allows you to delve into the specifics of what's working in your AdWords campaign. So, not only can you track the overall ROI of your clicks, you can also track the following important elements:
Specific keywords that lead to a conversion: This allows you to identify which keywords are the most valuable to you, as well as the keywords which are providing less value. Using this crucial information, you can make more informed decisions around the structure of your campaigns.
The value of a conversion at a keyword level: Since you can identify which keywords lead to a conversion, you can also cross-reference the value of each conversion with the amount spent on clicks for each of those keywords. For example, let's say you spent one dollar on Keyword A, and it resulted in a purchase worth ten dollars. You now have a piece of data that allows you to assess the value of that specific keyword over time. This means that you might assign greater budget to campaigns that contain similar keywords, or introduce more variations of that keyword in order to explore whether similar terms with lower average costs-per-click result in an even greater number of conversions and rate of return.
How Does Conversion Tracking Work?The good news is that Conversion Tracking is free and really easy to set up. It simply involves inserting a snippet of code on the landing page that a visitor reaches after they have completed a conversion. So, this could be the 'Thank you for your purchase' landing page, or the page that thanks them for signing up to your newsletter. Google AdWords supplies this code for you to paste on the relevant pages of your site, and you can get this code as you proceed through the sign-up steps for Conversion Tracking.
An ecommerce merchant may want to track purchases of iPhone cases on their online store. In this case, the site owner would paste the snippet of code onto the page the customer lands on after purchasing an iPhone case. In practice, the following is a typical channel from click to conversion:
Counting ConversionsYou may ask – how does Google track conversions in terms of clicks? In other words, if someone clicks more than once on my ad, but they only make one purchase, how is this measured? The answer is that Google records two types of conversions:
ConclusionI hope that this article shines a light on how Google AdWords Conversion Tracking works, and more importantly - why you should start using it today if you do not already have it in place. If you're not assessing the impact of your AdWords spend, you're just guessing - and this is far from helpful when deciding whether to continue with your campaigns, or when looking for additional marketing budget. It may well be that your spend is bringing you lots of sales and providing great value in other ways, but you'll never know if you don't track it! With this free, easy-to-use tool, you can easily track your ROI and gain a really valuable insight into the true value of your AdWords campaigns.
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June 11 2012, 10:11AM
We have been using conversion tracking on our store and from that wd can see that a very large number of users are falling out at the screen where the funnel jumps out to the secure server.
We feel this is because of the radical change from our store design into the secure server. We desperately need to get our page styling translated into the secure server. Please show us how?
Thank you.
June 12 2012, 02:00AM
Hi Ifraz,
As you suggested – use the existing design and recreate it on the checkout page.
That is quite a simple page to configure in your theme template settings.
June 14 2012, 04:09AM
Really nice blog info!!
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June 19 2012, 12:58AM
Hello All,
So Ifraz, what you are saying is that you have a cart that leaves the site upon checkout? And you are losing sales that way? and for the response… are you stating to redesign the checkout so it will stay within the store site?
June 20 2012, 11:20AM
Love the quote at the top of the post. The journey begins with knowing what's working, and oftentimes more importantly whats NOT working.
June 28 2012, 10:51AM
Can you tell me does the conversion tracker fire the cart checkout value to the adwords conversion tracker? If yes how does it dynamically insert?
July 25 2012, 11:40PM
Conversion tracking doesn't have to end at the sale. If your payment gateway offers transactional emails, you can track the click-through rate of the ads in your email receipts, as well as delivery statistics.
Great article! We offer AdWords credit to our merchants, and this will help them spend it wisely.
Kind regards,
The eWAY Team
September 14 2012, 01:37PM
I like the quote. thanks very much!
June 01 2016, 12:39PM
How do you set up google adwords to track transaction-specific conversion values? Meaning google adwords cant track the sale price of the item so you know how much your sales are compared to paying for ads?
October 14 2016, 02:38AM
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I'm having the following situation:
In a cross platform rendering library for iOS and Android (written in c(++)), i have two threads that each need their own EGLContext:
Thread A is the main thread; it renders to the Window.
Thread B is a generator thread, that does various calculations and renders the results into textures that are later used by thread A.
Since i can't use EGL on iOS, the library uses function pointers to static Obj.-C functions to create a new context and set it current.
This already works, i create the context for thread A using
The context for thread B is created usingCode :EAGLContext *contextA = [[EAGLContext alloc] initWithAPI:kEAGLRenderingAPIOpenGLES2];I can then set either of the two current:Code :EAGLContext *contextB = [[EAGLContext alloc] initWithAPI:kEAGLRenderingAPIOpenGLES2 sharegroup:[contextA sharegroup]];
Code :[EAGLContext setCurrentContext:context];
To use the same logic (function pointers passed to the library) on Android, i want to do this in the C side of the JNI bindings, this time using real EGL instead of Apple's EAGL.
I can easily create contextA using a WindowSurface and the native Window, i can create contextB and pass contextA to the shareContext parameter of the eglCreateContext call.
But when i want to make contextB current, i have to pass a surface to the eglMakeCurrent call, and i'm trying to figure out what kind of surface to pass there.
- I cannot use the WindowSurface i use for contextA as the spec [1] says in section 3.7 that "At most one context for each supported client API may be current to a particular thread at a given time, and at most one context may be bound to a particular surface at a given time."
- I cannot specify EGL_NO_SURFACE, because that would result in an EGL_BAD_MATCH error in the eglMakeCurrent call.
- It seems I could use a PBuffer surface, but I hesitate because I'd have to specify the width and height when I create such a surface, and thread B might want to create textures of different sizes. In addition to that, the "OpenGL ES 2.0 Programming Guide" [2] states in section 3.8 that "Pbuffers are most often used for generating texture maps. If all you want to do is render to a texture, we recommend using framebuffer objects [...] instead of pbuffers because they are more efficient", which is exactly what i want to do in thread B.
I don't understand what Munshi, Ginsurg and Shreiner mean by that sentence, how would a framebuffer object be a replacement for a pbuffer surface? What if I create a very small (say 1x1px) pbuffer surface to make the context current - can i then still render into arbitrarily large FBOs? Are there any other possibilities I'm not yet aware of?
Thanks a lot for your help!
[1] eglspec.1.4.20130211.pdf - Unfortunately I cannot post a link to the Khronos website.
[2] Aaftab Munshi, Dan Ginsburg, and Dave Shreiner. OpenGL ES 2.0 Programming Guide. Addison Wesley, 2009.


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