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EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second in a six-part series exploring the many facets of the Montgomery County domestic violence agency Laurel House and the services it provides to the community.
For Rita, the events of June 2, 2011 will forever be burned into her mind.
That was the day that the man she had been dating for two years — the man she'd met through her best friend and had fallen madly in love with, the man who'd moved into her home with her two kids, the man who started to grow more jealous and controlling six months earlier, the man who forbid her to wear makeup or sandals out of the house, the man who began pulling her hair and hitting her during fights, the man who took her cell phone away and started driving her to and from work every day and following her during her lunch break to make sure she wasn't going anywhere he didn't want her to go — nearly killed her.
Click here for Part One of the Laurel House series.
Around three in the afternoon he came, enraged, to the office where Rita (not her real name) worked as a receptionist. He went behind her desk, grabbed her by her hair, told her to come with him or he was going to kill her children, and then started dragging her toward the front door.
"I was screaming, and then one of my co-workers came out to help and he told her, 'Back off, I have a gun,'" says Rita. He dragged her out of the building and shoved her into his car. They wrestled inside the vehicle as he started it up and tried to pull out of the parking lot.
The car door was wide open as he drove. "I jumped like I was diving into a swimming pool," she says. She hit her head on the car door, and then her head hit the pavement. "My skull felt like it exploded into a million pieces, like a glass hitting the floor," she recalls. For a few moments she was unconscious, under the car, the tire just inches from her head, when a co-worker rushed over and pulled her out. On her feet and awake again, Rita started running away from her attacker through the parking lot, screaming "He's gonna kill my kids! He's gonna kill my kids!"
As he got out of the car to chase her down on foot, another co-worker ran out of the building, grabbed him, knocked him to the ground and held him until police arrived and hauled him off to jail.
Rita says she escaped the incident with only bruises and a concussion. But that was hardly the end of her terror.
"I was real bad," she says. In the ensuing weeks, she was constantly sick to her stomach with fear and lost 40 pounds off her already slender frame. She had nightmares that he was under her bed, or waiting outside the front door of her house.
And then Rita got a call from Wallis Brooks — "Walli" to her friends, to domestic violence victims and advocates, and to her colleagues at the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office, where as an Assistant District Attorney she heads the Domestic Violence Unit — informing her she had to go to court for her abuser's preliminary hearing. She'd have to see him for the first time since the assault.
"I was crying, I was like, 'Please, please, I don't wanna go, I don't wanna see him, I'm scared of him,'" she remembers. Brooks gave her the phone number for the Domestic Abuse Response Team (DART) program at Laurel House — the Montgomery County domestic violence agency — and Rita got in touch with DART manager Stacy Sweinhart.
"She said, 'I'm here to help you, do you want me to go to the preliminary with you?'" says Rita. "I was going to go myself; I don't have any family here, so I said yes." Sitting in the parking lot of the district courthouse before the hearing, "I started crying and shaking and shaking and shaking," she recalls.
She went inside, told them what case she was there for, and sat down in the lobby. "I had my sunglasses on because I didn't want anyone to see me crying, and then someone mentioned his name and I started crying hysterically. And then Stacy came in, came over to me, and I hugged her and she was like, 'Don't worry.'"
"I couldn't stop crying for nothing," Rita says. "I was like, 'Please, please, please, don't make me do this.' I just wanted it over. I had too many feelings — I felt like, 'What did I do for him to get that angry?' I felt bad because his sister was my best friend, I felt like I was hurting her, and hurting his mom. All this stuff was in my head and I told Stacy, 'I think I'm gonna drop the charges.' And she was like, 'Don't do that — look at all you've gone through.'"
Sweinhart stayed with her for hours at the courthouse, comforting and advising her, walking her to her car when it was all over. "She was so supportive," says Rita. "She talked me through it. She said, 'If you don't go through with this he's going to get out and maybe do something even worse to you.' If it wasn't for her, I definitely would have dropped the charges."
In 2012, Rita's abuser went to trial. He was convicted on assault charges and got a two-year jail sentence followed by three years' probation. Rita's since moved from Montgomery County to a different location in Pennsylvania with her kids, and has started her life over. She still talks to Stacy once in a while. "I know she doesn't have my case anymore, but she is the best," says Rita. "I told her, 'I'm sorry, but I love you and you saved my life and I'll never forget that.'"
AS THE REPORTER DETAILED in Part One of our Laurel House series, since its inception in 2005 the DART program has provided crisis response services to victims of domestic violence in the hours immediately following an incident. But DART also exists to help survivors navigate through their often difficult, anxiety-ridden, time-consuming and traumatic journey through the legal system — including Protection from Abuse (i.e. restraining order) hearings, preliminary hearings, status hearings, trials and more — with the ultimate goal of holding abusers accountable for their crimes.
DART advocates connect with clients either by responding to crisis situations and sticking around for the subsequent legal process, or by coming in later in the process through referrals from prosecutors, such as in Rita's case.
"There's something to be said for the consistency of knowing there's a person there that's going to go through the process with you — a shoulder you can lean on, someone to talk to, someone to ask questions of and who can shed light on what can be a very confusing and frustrating process," says Brooks.
"My sad reality is that I have so many (domestic violence) cases, and when a hearing is done on one, frankly, I'm usually pulled quickly into another one," says Assistant District Attorney Alec O'Neill, who works alongside Brooks in the Domestic Violence Unit. He estimates that DART advocates are involved in about half of the hundreds of cases the unit handles annually. "(DART) picks up the slack or fills that gap where I wouldn't be able to go back and talk with a victim for a period of days or weeks. They're there for that and to offer that kind of counseling and support."
The process that can be overwhelming for just about anyone, but particularly so for those for whom the court system is completely foreign. "(Domestic violence) can happen to anyone, and if it reaches the point where someone is arrested and charged, a lot of the time a victim will have no idea what's coming next and what they need to do," says Tina Reynolds, Laurel House's senior director of community programs and support.
In one sense, the direction DART can provide through the system is literal. "The (county) courthouse (in Norristown) is so frightening," says DART advocate Ashley Thompson. "It's big and it's cold and it's ugly, and then you get into the courtrooms and they're ugly and the people are nice but they're not friendly. And then you have to sit there by yourself — people look so alone and small all by themselves at that big (plaintiff's) table."
"That courthouse is a huge facility and if people have to find their way and walk the hallways several blocks deep to get to their courtroom, if they have to do that alone, that's a very intimidating set of circumstances," agrees Towamencin Township Police Lt. Jeffrey Kratz, who helped found the DART program. "Prosecutors and police can't always be there to escort them."
DART's guidance is also deeply informational. Though DART advocates are not attorneys and thus cannot legally represent their clients (Thompson says advocates are barred by law from sitting at the plaintiff's table during hearings), they're adept at explaining procedures and protocols and legalese, intricacies and nuances, and can advise clients on the pros and cons of pursuing certain legal avenues. One example is the PFA. While DART typically recommends abuse victims seek a PFA (which is a civil proceeding, though violations of the provisions of a standing PFA can become a criminal proceeding), there are times, Reynolds says, where "applying for a PFA is not the best thing, it's not for everybody."
"A PFA can stop the behavior, sometimes it lessens it, but other times it agitates people," Sweinhart clarifies. "Not to mention that you have to be there with your abuser in open court for a PFA hearing. If you're fleeing someone, hiding somewhere from them, that could jeopardize your safety. What if he follows you after the hearing?"
DART advocates will explain some of the things to expect at a preliminary hearing — the demeanor of the particular judge and what kind of questions that judge might ask, or how some of the negotiations between prosecution and defense attorneys might play out. In many cases, they'll decipher what just transpired following a hearing.
They'll also enlighten clients about some of the services available to them beyond the courtroom, such as recently created PA-SAVIN: The Pennsylvania Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification system, which provides up-to-the-minute status of any offender housed in a county jail, state prison or under state parole supervision in Pennsylvania, and sends alerts via phone or e-mail regarding an inmate's release, transfer or escape.
"Anyone can apply for it," says Sweinhart, "and when you tell people that this program exists, you can see the relief on their face."
It's that kind of solace, that feeling of emotional support, that DART clients may need the most. "We're not really pushing or nudging them what to do, but we're saying, 'We'll be there for you and we'll go with you,' and sometimes that's all people need to hear," says Thompson. "Just sitting with them, finding out how they're doing, prepping them. A lot of times we see victims who don't want to testify — they're embarrassed or fear that they're gonna get in trouble with the abuser once this is all said and done, or they're afraid a lot of things from their past will be brought up by the abuser's lawyer while they're on the stand in an attempt to discredit them. But having an advocate there can calm some of those fears and you can say, 'Yes, that might happen, but you need to also think about what he did to you.'"
MONTGOMERY COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY Risa Vetri Ferman says there's a world of difference between how domestic violence cases are handled now and when she began her prosecutorial career in 1993. "You would have a case and it was your expectation that the victim would be calling you at some point to say that she did not want to prosecute," Ferman recalls.
"I think a lot of times victims saw no value in it," she says. "Many of them endured months and years and lifetimes of abuse without ever thinking they could have an escape mechanism, and I don't think that back then anyone looked at the criminal justice system as that escape mechanism. In fact, to the contrary, I think they looked at it as a system likely to generate more abuse. The fear was, 'If I prosecute, nothing's gonna happen to him and I'm just gonna get hurt more,' so it was easier to just maintain the status quo."
If a victim came to prosecutors requesting that they not proceed with a case, "our approach was, we're going to respect their wishes," says Ferman. "It was just accepted. You were never looking to bolster the victim. It wasn't even part of our lexicon back then that you could provide support so she could come through the system. If you look at files from back then, you had a lot of charges dismissed based on the victim not wanting to proceed."
That mindset began to change in the mid-1990s, Ferman explains, as domestic violence became more of a public issue through awareness and education campaigns, and organizations such as Laurel House began to establish support programs for abuse survivors. Rather than simply acquiesce to a victim's decision to drop charges made out of fear or weariness, the approach — which Ferman has maintained and advanced further under her watch — became "to give them the resources so they can stand up and not tolerate the abuse," she says. "It's to help give them the strength and the support to go from being victims to being survivors, and to be able to continue with the prosecution of the case."
DART advocates, Ferman says, can be a rock for abuse victims at that crucial moment "when they're worn down emotionally and it's easier for them to say 'never mind.' They're decent, compassionate people, well-trained in dealing with the issues that someone who's been victimized is going to face, and they make a difference time after time after time."
Yet even with that institutional shift and progress, Brooks — who estimates she's handled approximately 4,000 domestic violence cases since joining the unit in January of 2003 — says that "the single biggest issue in domestic violence is still the reluctance of victims (to cooperate). Sometimes getting them on board is tough."
O'Neill notes that prosecutors don't always need victims to testify against their abusers in court. In Rita's case, surveillance video cameras captured her abuser's assault on her at her workplace, enabling prosecutors to win a conviction without putting her on the stand. Sometimes there's a family member, neighbor or someone else who witnessed an incident of domestic violence and is willing to testify; other times, hospital records, photographs of injuries and testimony from cops who responded to an incident might be enough.
But, he says, "It's probably fair to say that at some point down the line (victims are) going to have to testify. Unfortunately, we can't get away from the fact that they're the victim and they're always gonna know the story better than anybody else, other than the abuser. Oftentimes we have to worry about what a jury is going to want us to show, and all too often they're going to want us to show the victim's perspective. But we do try not to have a victim testify any more than they absolutely have to, in order to avoid further traumatizing them."
On a recent Monday morning, Brooks' point was proven in Courtroom 6 of the Montgomery County Courthouse. A 30-year-old defendant was facing two counts of felony aggravated assault and related charges for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend in their Norristown home last August. DART advocates were not involved with the case.
According to the police criminal complaint, the woman – who was approximately four-to-five-months pregnant at the time – told investigators that the defendant threw a suitcase at her, pushed her down a flight of stairs and punched her in the face and stomach. And when she cried out that she was pregnant, the complaint states, the defendant said to her, "I don't care. I don't even care about the baby."
Police said that the woman managed to escape the house and get the attention of a passerby, who gave her a cell phone to call 911. When cops arrived, according to the complaint, they observed that she had a black eye and was "visibly shaken," and she was flown to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Upon her discharge, the complaint states, the woman told investigators about other incidents of physical abuse at the hands of her boyfriend. She claimed that last May, after she'd retrieved her cell phone – which her boyfriend had taken from her – and hid it under a sofa cushion, he pointed a gun at her face and said, "I'm going to blow your head off if you don't give me my phone."
In court, though, the woman told Brooks she didn't want to testify, didn't want to proceed with the case.
"I never thought it was going to get to this level we're at right now," the woman said from the stand as the defendant stared straight at her. "It's just that I was pregnant at that time and I was very emotional," she continued. "He is the father of my child…I don't have any other family that can help me."
"You understand that you had injuries that were visible to the (responding) officer, you understand that?" Brooks asked her.
"Yes," she replied softly, crying into a tissue.
"You understand we're dropping the felony charges here?" said Brooks.
"Yes," she said.
Without her testimony or cooperation, Brooks had little chance of a felony aggravated assault conviction, which could have meant a sentence of up to 20 years. The defendant pleaded guilty to misdemeanor simple assault and misdemeanor recklessly endangering another person, with a recommended sentence of 23 months in jail and an additional year of probation.
"It was the best I could get — I got her three years of protection," Brooks says afterward.
"I just try to work with the situation and do the best we can and hopefully prevent another incident, and that's all you can do," she says. "Because ultimately we're trying to prevent more serious incidents and possibly a homicide."
Would DART presence have helped? "It's hard to know for sure," says Brooks, but she mentions other, similar cases in which DART advocates made a difference. One young woman, she says, "didn't want to prosecute, she was scared, she was young, she didn't know what was involved. And Tina (Reynolds) worked with her and we got through the hearing, and he wound up with a felony aggravated assault conviction and he went to jail."
THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY A VICTIM will decide that they don't want to go through with domestic violence-related charges, says Brooks – they're still "in love" and he says he'll change; they want to stay together for the sake of the kids; she may be dependent on his paycheck. One of the biggest reasons is the fear factor, that there'll be some sort of reprisal, perhaps lethal, from the abusers – especially if they're free on bail pending the outcome of legal proceedings.
Victim intimidation during most stages of the journey toward a domestic violence conviction feeds that fear.
Outside a county courtroom where PFA hearings were being held on a recent morning, a dozen women stood together waiting for their turns before the judge on one side of a hallway – anxiety and trepidation etched on their faces – while the men accused of abusing them stood or sat on the other side of the hallway, glaring at the women, unfazed by the presence of the two armed officers standing nearby.
"It's a terrible set up there," says Sweinhart.
Meanwhile, DART volunteer advocate Heather (who declined to give her last name out of privacy concerns) says she's seen even worse during preliminary hearings and trials. During one case of a man who'd been in and out of jail for repeatedly abusing his wife, and was again charged with savagely beating her, Heather says, "in the courtroom, with all those police officers there, he tried to intimidate her again, staring her down and doing things like this at her" – Heather draws her finger across her neck in a throat-slashing gesture. "They had her surrounded with police officers and he still had these outbursts where he'd yell horrible things at her. In court she said, 'I think it's actually going to take him killing me before he doesn't get out of jail again.'"
Ferman believes that most of the intimidation happens outside of court. "It's the anxiety of preparing to go to court, the not knowing if something you say will trigger a violent response after court by the person against whom you testified. People are generally on their best behavior in court, but we're not there when the victim leaves court and goes home and starts to doubt themselves. When they ask themselves, 'Am I doing the right thing? Is he going to come attack me and kill me?' They question whether or not it makes sense to move forward, and often that becomes, ignore it and it will go away."
Based on the countless thousands of domestic violence cases Ferman's handled or overseen, "It rarely just goes away; it only gets worse," she says.
"Sometimes they say, 'How can you possibly protect me?' and I can't get upset with them for saying that," says Sweinhart. "If someone could absolutely guarantee that they'd be safe, I'm sure we'd see all the cases go through. But we can't guarantee that. I know how hard it is for them, I get it. We can help them with a safety plan, we can be there for them whenever they need us, we can try to reassure them and help build up their confidence and their courage, but it takes a lot of strength sometimes to get past that fear."
But, as Rita can attest, DART can help mitigate some of that fear.
In the year between her abuser's arrest and his conviction, Rita says that "every time I was feeling sad, feeling this pressure in my chest, every time I thought I was doing the wrong thing, I would call Stacy and she was always there for me, talking me through it."
"I'm honest with them, but I tell them that things really can get better for them once they get past all of this," says Sweinhart.
Likewise, Thompson says she never sugarcoats anything for the victims she counsels, explaining to them that going through the court system may be scary, but that they just need to focus on telling the truth, on telling what happened to them. "I can't promise anyone that they'll get the outcome they want, but I tell them the fact that many, many times, abusers get significant sentences," she says.
"I tell them, you need to understand that what he did to you is a crime," she says. "And to help them remember that they're a victim of a crime and that's not something to be ashamed of, but something to get justice for."
Part 3 of our series next week: A look at Laurel House's emergency shelter, hotline and counseling services.
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Various departments and activities of each institution requiring the use of an institution-owned bus will be charged for the use of the bus at a rate adequate to cover all maintenance and operating expenses as well as the replacement cost of the bus. Money collected from such charges shall be placed in a revolving fund from which shall be paid all maintenance and operating expenses of the bus, with the balance accumulating in the fund to an amount adequate for replacement of the bus.
220.127.116.11 Vehicle Regulations
USG institutions are authorized to adopt appropriate traffic regulations, including the authority to impose reasonable penalties and/or fines for violations of the regulations (BoR Minutes, June, 1971).
7.11.5 Farming Operations
USG institutions shall not operate any farms that are not essential to the teaching or research programs of the respective institutions (BoR Minutes, 1953-54, p. 262).
7.11.6 Faculty Housing
Rental rates for faculty housing units shall be fixed to:
- Provide for all operating costs of the faculty housing program;
- Provide the reserve for future renovations and replacements required to conform with the policy of the Board in the operation of auxiliary enterprises;
- Provide for liquidation of any outstanding indebtedness that relates to the specific faculty housing project. No such project is covered by Georgia Education Authority (University) leases, and no lease rental funds will be required from any faculty housing project; and,
- Keep the rates at a level which will be competitive with the rates charged for privately owned comparable quarters in the immediate area.
Each USG institution with faculty housing shall develop a policy that will describe the priority by which renters will be selected. This policy shall note the fact that faculty housing is primarily a tool for recruiting able faculty members, that faculty housing is offered as an option available to faculty members as a temporary, additional employee benefit, and that tenured faculty members will not be permitted to continue occupancy in faculty housing indefinitely (BoR Minutes, 1968-69, pp. 363-65; 1984-85, pp. 113-14).
7.11.7 Student Housing
188.8.131.52 Comprehensive Plans
Each institution that provides, or plans to provide, a residential student program shall develop a student housing comprehensive plan that addresses all facets of the creation, expansion, and operation of the student housing facilities.
The student housing plan will address the:
- Academic mission;
- Specific role or purpose of student housing within that mission including student life programs;
- Access to the campus or other needs;
- Enrollment projections in relation to housing goals, geographic, economic, and demographic factors at the institution and in the local community; and,
- Financial considerations, including an evaluation of the desirability and practicality of achieving these student housing objectives through private sector partnerships on institution lands or lands proximate to the institution.
The student housing plan will include the following:
- A business plan that explains the role of the student housing program in the context of the institution's academic mission, includes concrete goals and objectives, and defines an operating strategy including marketing plans, programs and services, fees, assignment of indirect costs, and use of reserves for repair and maintenance, major renovation and, if planned, expansion of capacity. The plan should also contain a financial pro forma that projects future revenues and expenditures consistent with stated goals and objectives and includes plans for capitalization, maintenance and operations, and facilities renewal;
- A facility evaluation assessing the appropriateness of rehabilitation versus demolition and new construction;
- A market needs assessment, including justification for additional student housing capacity where appropriate; and,
- The housing facilities component of the institution's physical master plan, including site, circumstance, and impact on other campus functions.
(BoR Minutes, October 1997)
126.96.36.199 Financial Statements
To support requests for changes in housing fees, each institution shall submit, in accordance with procedures established by the USG chief fiscal officer and Treasurer, a financial statement that projects revenues and expenditures based on estimated housing enrollments, salary adjustments, inflationary expense, and other relevant factors (BoR Minutes, October 1997).
7.11.8 Trademarks
For purposes of this policy, the term "trademark" shall include all trademarks, service marks, trade names, seals, symbols, designs, slogans, and logotypes developed by or associated with the USG or any of its institutions, or not yet registered under federal and state trademark statutes.
All trademarks of USG institutions constitute property of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia and all applications for registration under Federal and State laws pertaining to trademark registration shall be made in the name of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
Authorization by the Board of Regents shall be required for the private or commercial use by any person, firm, association, corporation, institution, or other entity of any trademark developed by, or associated with the USG or any of its institutions.
The presidents of USG institutions are authorized to execute on behalf of the Board of Regents:
- Certain applications for trademark and service mark registration;
- Declarations of continuing use;
- Declarations concerning use of specimens;
- Conversions of applications from Principal to Supplemental Register;
- Applications for renewal; and,
- License agreements that permit the manufacture, sale, use, or distribution of services or goods bearing USG trademarks representative of the institution.
(BoR Minutes, 1990-91, pp. 388-389)
Notice of trademark and service mark applications shall be sent to the Chancellor within ten (10) days after filing (BoR Minutes, 1990-91, pp. 388-389).
License agreements shall name the Board of Regents as licensor, and shall be effective for the period of time as specified in the agreement. All such license agreements shall be executed on forms approved by the Attorney General, and, if not, shall be null and void and of no effect whatsoever. Funds derived from such license agreements shall remain at the institution, shall be used for educational purposes, and shall not inure to the benefit of any individual. A signed or conformed copy of each license agreement shall be filed in the office of the chief business officer of the institution (BoR Minutes, 1990-91, pp. 388-389).
The content of licensing agreements authorized as aforesaid shall follow guidelines as established and promulgated by the Chancellor (BoR Minutes, 1982-83, pp. 124-25).
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Weird and Unique Gardening Tips
Some people may think the best gardens come from following the book, but sometimes unique gardening ideas outside the box turn out to be the best. There are many weird, tried-and-true gardening tips that work.
Here are a few unique, yet effective, gardening secrets and garden tips that might surprise you:
- Use rusty nails for iron. If your plant needs plenty of iron, keep a covered coffee can of rusty nails soaking in water. Just dump the rusty water on your plant as fertilizer when needed. Then fill the can back up with water for next time.
- Help the bees drink. Meems from Hoe and Shovel says to place small rocks in your birdbath for bees to land and drink. They need water, too.
- Till in the moonlight. Gardening by the light of the moon is cool and breezy, but that's not why this tip works. Tilling by the light of the moon discourages weed growth because seeds can't germinate without the sunlight.
- Don't toss your eggshells. Jennah from Jennah's Garden says to crush eggshells and sprinkle them around tomato plants. This provides extra calcium to the plant.
- Keep plants warm with water. You can extend your gardening season by keeping garden plants warm. Simply keep buckets of water in the garden during the day so the sun can heat them. At night, the heat releases gradually from the buckets to warm the garden. Bonus? Use the water for morning watering.
- Let compost happen on its own. Douglas from A Gardener's Notebook says there is no need to give special attention to compost. Just pile it up, let it rot and reap the garden gold.
- Reuse mini blinds. Gina from My Skinny Garden says an easy way to make inexpensive plant labels is by reusing old mini blinds. Simply cut the slats into short pieces and use them to mark your plants.
- Plant by phases of the moon. The first agricultural communities knew that if they planted at certain times, the crops would be of a better quality. What these ancient cultures understood is that not only does the moon's gravity affect the ocean's tides, it also affects groundwater. As the moon approaches its full status, the groundwater rises as well, making water more easily available to new plants.


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WHITEWATER, Wis. (Blugolds.com) – There were stretches when the UW-Eau Claire men's basketball team hung with third-ranked UW-Whitewater, but in the end the Warhawks were too much for the Blugolds to handle as they fell 79-65 at Kachel Gymnasium today.
Eau Claire opened the contest with a 6-0 run, holding the Warhawks scoreless for more than four minutes. Whitewater then scored six straight to tie the game, but Eau Claire never trailed for the first seven minutes of the game.
An 8-0 Whitewater run over a two-minute stretch that began at 12:31 gave Whitewater the lead and the Warhawks never trailed the rest of the night.
Whitewater continued to build its lead into double-figures during the first half but the Blugolds began chipping away at the Warhawk lead and found themselves down by just two (33-31) a minute into the second half.
Again, the Warhawks took back control of the game and found their way to a double digit lead. The closest Eau Claire could get the rest of the night was five points (57-52) with just over seven minutes remaining. Whitewater used a 14-3 run over a four minute stretch near the end to get up by 18 (78-60) before winning by 14.
Four Blugolds reached double figures in scoring with Jordan Petersen (Sr.-Strum, Wis./Eleva-Strum) leading the team with 17 points. He and two others led the Blugolds with four rebounds each.
Eau Claire led Whitewater in shooting from the field, going 25-for-53 (47.2 percent) to 22-for-60 (36.7 percent). On the boards, however, the Warhawks had a big game, leading Eau Claire 44-26. A total of 26 of the Warhawks' rebounds came on the offensive end, and Whitewater scored 31 second-chance points to 10 for the Blugolds.
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I was reading this article on paidcontent over the weekend, which points out the value of analytics to publishers, but only if they are using the right metrics.
The key point was the danger in focusing on pageviews, as this doesn't necessarily help to build the kind of audience that publishers and their advertisers need.
I would agree with that, and though pageviews are not insignificant, there are many more useful metrics for publishers to view.
In this post, I'll attempt to answer the question by sharing some of the ways I use Google Analytics for this blog, while this post presents 10 shortcuts to Google Analytics reports and dashboards for publishers, bloggers and content marketers.
Content metrics used by publishers
Our Content Marketing Survey Report found a focus on the page view among respondents. The most common metrics for publishers are unique visitors (88%), page views per visitor (76%) and page views (71%).
Only a third (33%) stated that ad clicks were used as a metric.
Q: Which metrics do you use to measure performance and engagement with your web property or web properties?
What can pageviews tell us?
The obvious thing is the popularity of various types of content, which can be very useful. In our case, it can help us to identify what our readers see as hot topics / areas of concern.
For example, posts published on Pinterest a year or so ago (when the platform was new) were very popular, which told us that people wanted to know how to use it for marketing.
This may prompt us to delve deeper into a subject on the blog, or perhaps to produce reports or incorporate this into training and events. In the case of Pinterest, we have written a gazillion blog posts and a best practice guide.
It's also important for advertisers. We don't rely on advertising as much as some other publishers may do, as we have various revenue streams, but we do have ads and, in this case, pageviews do matter.
I think the danger explored in the paidcontent article is the focus on pageviews at the expense of metrics which can actually tell you a lot more about your audience.
Then there's the risk of putting pageviews ahead of decent content and going the Daily Mail route of producing tons of articles on Miley Cyrus:
Measuring engagement
Our aim is to keep people on site for as long as we can, browsing blog content, and hopefully exploring the rest of the site to find useful reports, training courses or events.
To this end, I look at how effective different articles are for keeping the visitor on site and sending them elsewhere. To achieve this we try to give people ideas for where to go next, with internal links, mentions of reports at the foot of articles, as well as list of tags and most visited / most commented articles.
To measure this, I pay close attention to metrics like bounce rates and average time on page. In the stats below, the post on blogger relations seems to have hit the sweet spot in terms of time on page.
Another metric to look at is the number of pages per visit, to see whether people are browsing around after reading the first article. If you have a good proportion of visitors doing this, it suggests a segment of loyal and engaged readers.
For this, I use a custom segment (which you can find in the previous link) that looks at visits where people view more than three pages.
The same can be done for less or more than this number, or it can be combined with dimensions such as traffic sources, or the location of the visitor. For example, I can use this to compare the level of engagement of UK and US visitors (the former are more engaged according to this).
Monetising content
While the blog is there to inform and entertain, we do also need to build awareness of the other areas of the site/business. We want to promote awareness of our subscription packages, report content and events.
So, we do produce posts which are designed to promote our report content, but they should also be useful in their own right so that, even if readers don't go on to download the full report, they can take something useful from the post.
First and foremost the content has to be good. In a way, we're showing a bit of leg to encourage people to explore further...
I do look at how successful these sorts of posts are at promoting our paid content, so I measure how many visitors are referred to report pages with a handy advanced segment.
In this shot, it shows which posts sent viewers to report pages, and I can delve deeper into this to see if visitors downloaded reports or bought subscriptions after viewing a blog post.
Setting goals
We don't obsess over pageviews, but we do set targets for writers, and these do include number of impressions. These are achievable targets given the typical traffic we receive on the blog.
This is more about encouraging writers to use analytics to see what works and what doesn't, and that their content is popular with readers. Also, a little bit of competition between writers doesn't hurt.
For this one, I use a custom report created by Ben Barass, our resident analytics guru, which uses a custom variable so we can view stats by author.
This allows us to see pageviews by each author, which of their posts are most popular, which have the lowest bounce rates etc, while the page value is a measure of how many conversions followed posts by a given author.
We can also look deeper into the conversions that come from authors' posts, and look to see what lessons can be learned.
For example, we can look at things like placement of links in posts, types of post that 'inspire' people to join up or download a report and use this to inform the way we write and present future articles.
Measuring 'evergreen' content
Evergreen is my favourite type of content, and it's what we try to do as much as we can. News can be found in many different places online, and it's often basically the same article with subtle differences.
This is why it's so hard for news sites to attract paying customers, and why they need extra hooks such as the Premier league goals app offered by The Sun, but that's a topic for another post.
News articles tend to be popular for a day or so, then this tails off very quickly, with perhaps just a trickle of views thereafter. We know because we tried news and it didn't really work so well for us.
Our aim is to produce content that is valuable for our readers, and that will keep people coming back again and again. This means the article is useful beyond the first few days after publishing, and is also likely to produce better results in terms of SEO and promotion of our site.
If an article is consistently popular, it also tells us that we have done something right, and we can learn from this.
We manage to do this with reasonable success, so if you look at the top posts for August, you can bet that a good percentage weren't published in that month. 50% in this case:
To take one example on that list, Chris Lake's post on scrolling websites, this shows the value of evergreen content. It was published in March 2012, but still brings in around 5,000 visitors every month.
So, for publishers, it's worth identifying these posts, as they may well be bringing in the most engaged visitors, meaning they may have greater potential for monetisation.
In our case, we try to ensure that they have some links to relevant reports and events, as well as to other posts.
In the case of a large news site, whose visitor numbers are far higher than ours, these posts could be used for targeting contextual ads, or links to ecommerce areas of the site.
Social traffic
This is something that our Social Media Manager Matt Owen looks at regularly and, as he explains, measuring social media via Google Analytics isn't always straightforward.
For a quick overview, you can use a social media dashboard like this one, which you can download here (when logged in to GA).
In summary
It's not all about the pageview, but the most important thing is that publishers are using analytics tools. There is much to be learned by studying the behaviour of visitors and how different types of articles perform.
I would add that there is extra value in providing the whole writing team with access to analytics, and this is what we do at Econsultancy. The writers can see the various reports, custom reports, segments and dashboards I've mentioned here. We also provide analytics training if required.
It makes them more aware of how their work is performing, so they can absorb the lessons themselves.
If they write a post and it doesn't go so well, they know and can address any issues, or they can see how changes they make to style and layout affects things like bounce rates and time on page.
This has the added benefit that our writers become more clued up on the use of analytics, a vital skill for writers and marketers today.
Have I missed any key metrics for publishers and others? Please let me know below.
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thanks for the post, Graham.
Here are some vagueish thoughts on some of the bits I think are really important:
I v much like the point that setting targets can be a way to help people to pay attention to the data & the feedback it gives them, rather than necessarily being about the targets themselves.
I also like the "risk of putting pageviews ahead of decent content" point which is the big risk for many publishers. You only have to look at your 'most viewed content' report to see there is huge appetite for one particular type of post - great that you also publish other types of posts (like this) alongside. I suppose that really underlines the importance of having overall goals & objectives.
'Author' is a great example here of using other attributes to add nuance to the data. Adding other attributes (or dimensions) like 'content length', 'category', 'purpose' from the point of view of the content itself, and dimensions like new/returning, 'member type', (or even more detailed information as used in your 'project arachnid' thing: http://econsultancy.com/uk/labs/arachnid), and then things like 'shares', 'reads', 'comments', 'sign ups', (maybe) 'resulting ad revenue' from an action point of view too. Having said that, it's best to take it step by step & look at the most important one or two most useful first.
Thanks Dan - the targets thing has worked well for us, but I do try to emphasise that it isn't just about pageviews.
I find that using Google Analytics, even in my own amateur way, has had a lot of benefit for the blog. We're a small team, and analytics does help to give us an edge.
I noticed you don't have any metrics for traffic by channel. That is, for particular posts is traffic from search, social, campaign, etc. This can be a very effective measure - certain channels will have different conversion patterns - so understanding what will drive channel traffic can be used strategically for conversion goals.
Overall a very good article!
Good post Graham, thanks for sharing!
Another thing I find useful for content / informational websites is scroll reach tracking using events in GA - this allows you to determine how far down people are scrolling on a page. There are a few articles out there that detail how to do this, check out Justin Cutroni's "Advanced Content Tracking" articles parts 1 & 2.
Also, couple of little nitpicks below.. ;)
Should dimensions replace metrics here?
"metrics such as traffic sources, or the location of the visitor"
In your first GA data table (where the dimension is page title), some questions could be raised about the inclusion of the 2 goal-related metrics. The reason I say this is due to Avinash Kaushik's post "Align Hits, Sessions, Metrics, Dimensions" ('hit-level dimension' vs 'session-level metrics') on Occam's Razor - you will understand what I'm referring to if you have a read. Shuki Mann's comment and Avinash's reply under the main article addresses this point even further. The concept is thought-provoking and one that I'm still getting my head around in some instances!
@Ian L Thanks - corrected now. I am a bit of an amateur, and though I attempt to understand Avinish's posts, some of it goes way over my head ;)
Hi Graham,
Great post and some good pointers for people getting to grips with using data to help them focus their efforts on what adds most value to the business.
The key point i always make is this: start by defining what your core goals, objectives and KPIs are before you even consider doing any analysis on content performance. By tying the data analysis back to strategic goals, you're measuring against your success criteria, not a metric that may be useful but won't drive the right decisions.
The Daily Mail model was actually incredibly successful because initially it was about monetising content through ad revenue - so the more impressions, the higher the revenue. It may have led to a dirge of soulless content but heh, it paid the bills and I've seen some of the data. I'm not saying that's the right focus or it will endure but it achieved the goal.
Really interesting article and some great comments above.
One additional thing that definitely worth considering is the issue with tracking time on pages and the option Google offers in the way of their Event Tracking API to correct this by capturing an event every 10 seconds that someone spends on a page. By implementing this (there are numerous articles and blogs on how to do this) there are two major advantages:-
* It actually limits bounce rates to anyone who truly bounces from the site (i.e. arrives and leaves straight away as they are no longer a bounce if they are there for greater than 10 seconds) - A separate goal can always be created to show anyone who only views a single page if you want to be able to see both metrics
* The time on page is much more accurate irrespective of whether it is the first or last page they view on the website. This means you can start to look at people who will have read the entire article versus those skim reading or simply bypassing the page all together
The only issue that is occasionally hit is that customers who leave their browsers option can seem to spend hours upon hours on a given page. This can be resolved with the help of a clever developer to either set it to only continue to fire when the tab / window is being viewed or to stop capturing the event data after x. iterations...
Hello Graham,
Another thing to look at would be visitor flow from page to page - Analytics has a very good visual representation of this. If you find out where most of your visitors are dropping off it can tell you which pages need to be improved OR if visitors on those pages have trouble finding their way to the next step which ultimately leads to the conversion page.
Nice summary Graham! At Megalytic, we've got a lot of clients that like to measure the total size of their engaged audience. You can get that information out of Google Analytics, but it takes some work exporting and manipulating data. Here are the details: http://blog.megalytic.com/measuring-engagement
Disclaimer: that blog post also shows how we automate the process in Megalytic.
@ Mark
That's an interesting approach however the difficulty I always hit with the basic GA engagement data such as bounce rates and average durations is that given any timings don't take into account the last page viewed and that if someone moves away from the page (to another tab or program) they are still tracked as viewing the site, then those figures aren't overly accurate...
Yes, that's true - the basic metrics are not super-accurate. Have you found any better way to measure, say - avg visit duration?
I find, however, that they don't need to be. We look at them directionally over time - are they moving up or down?, how do they look for visitors from cohort A vs B? Used like this, and looking at the changes in the overall size of the engaged user audience, we find to provide good insight.


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Summit Introduction » February 3, 2005 » February 4, 2005 » White Paper [90k pdf]
The US Department of Education (ED) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) hosted a Ready To Learn summit titled "A Child's Life: Learning, Literacy and the Role of the Media," aiming to examine the impact of media on children's literacy skills. The invitation-only event offered participants an opportunity to learn about and exchange information on current research, insights and future projections. The seminar also laid a foundation to forge new partnerships among the public broadcasting, reading research, technology and entertainment fields. Summit attendees heard from nationally renowned education experts who considered how media — television, video games, computers and the Internet — shape and influence children's abilities to process and retain information in their preschool and early elementary years.
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