I've been working at this for months, and somehow I'm still not able to track my e-junkie sales properly in Google Analytics. What I want to be able to do is see which sources of traffic are ultimately resulting in conversions.
Previously I had the buy now buttons, but since e-junkie can't provide support for those I switched to "add to cart".
3. I use the e-junkie common thank you page, so didn't add any code there.
4. Turned on ecommerce tracking in my GA account.
Can anyone point me to any mistakes I'm making or anything I'm missing?
I checked your site, and while I'm seeing our version of the GA tracking code on your homepage, I'm not seeing it on your ebook sales pages -- indeed, those pages don't have the same template (header/footer/etc.) as the rest of your site, so I'm wondering if that may explain why the GA code isn't getting inserted there?
THANK YOU!!! This was the missing piece! Somehow I didn't think about the sales pages not using the same header. If you have a moment, would you mind checking that I input the tracking code correctly on those two pages?
Thank you SO much! You're a lifesaver!
Me again! Can you think of any other reason sales still wouldn't be tracking? I made a sale last night and GA still shows no sales, both in e-commerce and goals.
Hi again! Have had a number of sales since properly putting the code on my sales pages and GA still shows no sales and no goal completions. Even did a test run myself making sure I allowed all cookies, and nothing is coming through.
All I can tell is that you've got our GA code in your sales pages, and we're inserting the GA/Ecomm Tracking code in your thank-you pages, so that's the extent of our involvement in the process.


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A growing series of quirky window messages and perspectives from around London.
Windows have been around for a long time - the Romans invaders even had a glass substance that sealed the chilly British air - and stench - from their sensitive Roman noses.
Nowadays, I'm attracted to the labelling and messaging that becomes attached to the inside or outside of panes of glass, as if they are urban, public post-it notes for anything an individual wishes to share or advertise.
Sometimes the message can be a warning, a cry for help or just an accidental freak of mis-spelling that somehow confuses meanings from that intended.
(See also the gallery called 'Bust - The Art of Recession' which narrows down this obsession to those windows of closed businesses).


It has been two long years since Ava packed everything and left the life she once knew far behind her seeking a new adventure. All except her broken heart.
Now, two years later, she finds herself back home and facing the past.
Ethan has lived with the guilt of leaving Ava since that fateful day. Punishing himself for hurting her. When he sees Ava again for the first time in years, he is determined to make things right.
Coming back home is never easy, and when someone else begins to pursue Ava, she finds herself questioning if she can open up to second chances and find forgiveness or does she leave the past behind and start anew.


Re: Interesting and unusual boaty type things.
Dans Broadstairs Sur le Mer.
Hold on - that last one doesn't have a bike in the shot!
A ship commissioned for a war which was over before it was launched. So they never fitted it with masts but kept it mothballed. When the next war came along it was obsolete so used as admiralty offices.
Dutch barge on the Rhine/Marne canal.
Captain Flint needed a few spare rooms for his monkeys and parrots.
Old ex-Soviet sub. used to be moored down at Folkestone harbour, but now sits rotting away in Rochester.
It was parked at Woolwich for a while too - can still see the tourist info signs for it, taped over.
That's *very* similar to our boat (which is a groningen boltjalk), just smaller. I'm guessing but I think the boat in your pic is about 45-50ft long.
There are some fantastic coastal boat designs in Norway and shetland that mirror the ownderful lines of a longship. One of the most awesome maritime experiences is to visit the vikinskipene museum on Bygdøy, Oslo and just marvel at the sheer beauty of thousand year old ships that crossed oceans. The cathedral - like setting really amplifies the emotion.
I did see a yacht dressed up as a square rigger last year, complete with faux gun ports. Unfortunately it had gone by the time I fetched my camera - presumably through the lock and up towards Worcester.
How this got into Lac de Vassiviere I'll never know . . .
I was looking for Philip Madoc but couldn't see him anywhere.
That's Lee's boat wot he built himself. Looks like him in the first pic with the hat.


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The SFFaudio Podcast #116
Monday, July 11, 2011 Jesse Willis Podcasts
The SFFaudio Podcast #116 – Scott, Jesse, Tamahome and Professor Eric S. Rabkin talk about The Space Merchants (aka Gravy Planet) by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth
Frederik Pohl's blog, differences between Gravy Planet and The Space Merchants Coca-Cola vs. Yummy Cola, com-pocalypse (a commercial apocalypse), advertizing, conservationists -> connies (or consies) is an analogue for communists -> commies, Tristan Und Isolde, Costa Rica, Chicken Little, Fowler Shocken, 1950s. Jews in "the Science Fiction ghetto", H.L. Gold, Phlip Klass (William Tenn), Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, the Wikipedia entry for The Space Merchants, a study guide for The Space Merchants, Levittown, Man Plus, The Merchants War, Pohl's interest in psychiatry, Gateway, structural problems in The Space Merchants, identity theft, a hero's journey, The Odyssey, katabasis, banana republic, the United Fruit Company, Cuba, U.S. Marines in Columbia, Vance Packard's The Hidden Persuaders, Jack O'Shea, little people are the perfect astronauts, pilots tend to be small people, the continuing relevance of The Space Merchants, "transformed language", The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, "the Glaciers didn't freeze overnight" (Rome wasn't built in a day), what side do you oil your bread on, pedaling your Cadillac into the future, are there more cars in the U.S.A. than people?, William Gibson, The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed, corporatocracy, Oliver Stone, does Wall Street run the world or is it Madison Avenue?, representative government per capita (per head) or ad valorem (to value), The Marching Morons, dystopia, utopia, citizen vs. consumer, CBC's The Age Of Persuasion podcast, the effectiveness of advertizing, feminine hygine products, "it has wings", coffiest vs. Starbucks, Jon Huntsman, Tim Pawlenty, how effective is advertizing?, saturation of advertizing vs. the message of advertizing itself, does advertizing work?, who consumes dog food?, soyaburger, Chlorella, algae, soylent red, despite what he says Eric is not a jerk vegetarian, seitan (wheat gluten food), Moby Dick, Mountain Dew in the U.S.A. vs. Mountain Dew in Canada, energy drinks, Jolt Cola, phial vs. vile, Philip K. Dick's Do Android Dream Of Electric Sheep?, the Penfield Mood Organ, caffeine, Tamahome likes unsweetened chocolate, what did Montezuma drink all day long?, does has the internet lessen the impact of advertizing?, the spillage from penis enhancement, Eric bought a wide cross section of pornography, "genuine spurious placebo", Boeing "forever new frontiers", the Dubai Ports controversy, Cisco Systems, I, Robot, Minority Report, gesture recognition, Yelp, Wikileaks: U.S. diplomats pressed Boeing deals, Bombardier, "he came from an old family", Kennedy, Bush, Heddy and Hester, Hedy Lamarr, Hester Prynne, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man, The Stars My Destination, "Eight sir, seven sir, six sir, five sir, four sir, three sir, two sir, one. Tenser, said the Tensor, Tenser said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun." Rebecca Black's Friday is a train wreck, Arthur C. Clarke's Tales From The White Heart, colonizing your brain, "you haven't read a book until you've talked about it", is solitary reading a different kind of thing than social reading?, satire, Monty Python's "The Funniest Joke In The World" sketch, advertizing in books, advertizing in paperback novels, propaganda, recommendation vs. advertizing, making something available vs. thrusting it upon you, metaSFFaudio, The Reapers Are The Angels by Alden Bell, Flannery O'Connor with zombies, why SFFaudio doesn't link to Amazon.com, Morning Joe, Fox News, Scott is now a politician, Douglas Adams, political debate being replaced by sound bites, Jon Stewart vs. Sean Hannity, Jon Stewart's appearance on Crossfire, Will Rogers, communication vs. advertizing, jokes are revelations, brand awareness, why do kids want to see Transformers 3?, Cedar Rapids is a coming of age movie about the nature of friendship, why is there no commercial released audiobook of The Space Merchants?, The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein, Them!, anti-consumerism (anti-Americanism), tobacco packaging warning messages (are ads), the tobacco industry vs. the anti-tobacco industry, church advertizing, Scientology doesn't sell the same message as many other religions, L. Ron Hubbard, A.E. van Vogt, Dianetics, the premise of Null-A, Friedrich Nietzsche.
Illustrations from the original serialization of Gravy Planet (aka The Space Merchants) in Galaxy Science Fiction magazine's July August and September 1952 issues:
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Dr. Carol and her team of wonderful assistants, made our daughter feel comfortable in the testing process, educated about selecting the right fit, and just giddy about the selection of color!!! My husband and I were also grateful for the reasonable price points and the kid-friendly warranty (which of course had to kick in 6 months after the fact, when they were stepped on!).
Dr. Carol Venn, St. Marys Optometry, knows the impact and the esteem issues that first-time glasses have for a child and she creates a happy experience for all involved.


Marcel is a Marriage and Family Therapist with a master's degree from Southern Connecticut State University. He has one year specialized training in Gestalt therapy. He is anclinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.
Marcel believes that each client is the expert of his/her own life. Therefore, his approach is to work collaboratively with each client to explore the underlying roots of the individual issues being experienced, in order to equip the client with tools that will aide in getting freedom from the yoke of the burden. This may be accomplished through the exploration of family origin, patterns of repetitive attachment and fears, or thoughts and ideas that have become ingrained in the client's approach and outlook in dealing with the world.
The aim of therapy is to help the client understand both the benefits and the cost of change, in order to make better informed decisions and take more purposeful actions. This will ultimately benefit both the individual and the overall family, by allowing them to experience freedom from pain through resolution of the underlying issues, so that they can experience and enjoy a meaningful life filled with purpose.


For adventure lovers and experience seekers alike, the world knows no bounds. For these people, Costa introduces its new line of rimless sunglasses, the Boundless collection. Built for living life outside the limits, each of the eight rimless styles are incredibly lightweight, with a comfortable "forget-they're-on" fit for all day wear.
Costa's Boundless line includes four new styles, West Bay, Seagrove, Gulf Shore and Oyster Bay, as well as four existing rimless options, Ballast, Cayan, Galveston and Rockport. Six of the eight rimless sunglasses (excluding Rockport and Cayan) will be available for the first time with a green mirror lens option, as well as gray, copper, and blue mirror, in Costa's patented color enhancing polarized 580™ lenses.
The brand's 580 lens technology selectively filters out harsh yellow and harmful high-energy ultraviolet blue light. Filtering yellow light enhances reds, blues and greens, and produces better contrast and definition while reducing glare and eye fatigue. Absorbing high-energy blue light cuts haze, producing greater visual clarity and sharpness.
Costa's 580™ lenses, the clearest lenses on the planet, are available in all of the rimless styles in impact resistant, lightweight polycarbonate material. Each rimless style is also available in customized prescription lenses, handcrafted in Costa's in-house optical lab.
Costa's new West Bay style, named for the long inlet alongside Galveston Island in Texas, is a medium sport aviator, blending a classic shape with performance features such as durable integral hinge technology and hypoallergenic rubberized nose pads and temple tips for superior fit. Frame color choices include shiny black and shiny tortoise.
Named after the iconic beachfront town along the Gulf Coast, Costa's new Gulf Shore style features an extra-large rectangular-shaped lens shape, built from a nearly indestructible bio-based resin nylon material, which ensures the frames hold their shape even in extreme hot and cold weather. Bio-based resins reduce Costa's manufacturing process emissions, and cuts the company's overall carbon footprint significantly, a key part of the brand's sustainability promise.
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Sony Sends Discount Codes for PlayStation Network
Sony is looking for a way to thank its PlayStation Network members so it has implemented a 10% discount on a select amount of games.
While Sony's 10% off discount code doesn't apply to all the games on the PlayStation Network, players can enjoy this one-time discount code on many of the games in the store. To break it down, Sony announced on the PlayStation Blog that the discount code will not be available on subscriptions for PS Plus, Music Unlimited, PS Now, rental video content and pre-orders. If you weren't planning on using your discount code on any of those things, you're golden!
You can check out the PlayStation Store's code for your specific region and get shopping for those games you have been wishing would just be a little cheaper. You can even use the code on TV shows or movies, if you're a boss and have all the games that you want.
Also happening now is the extension for PlayStation Plus membership holders. Over the holidays, the PlayStation Network service was interrupted pretty frequently and consistently. Because of this, Sony is extending the membership for PlayStation Plus members for five days and it's starting now.
Make sure to use your discount code soon as it expires at 12PM EST on Jan. 26, 2015.
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Daly learns lots in tough test for Dubs
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Friends of Dublin Hurling January 10, 2011 0 0
Dublin's preparations for their upcoming Walsh Cup campaign continued yesterday lunchtime as an experimental selection improved after the break to record an eight-point win over Ulster Club Champions Loughgiel at a chilly Portmarnock.
This victory followed up on Friday evening's 4-17 to 1-11 win over NUI Galway which saw the much-heralded return of Conal Keaney who impressed as did Shane Durkin and Daire Plunkett but the encouragement derived from that display was largely negated by a sometimes sloppy and uncertain performance yesterday.
That the Dubs gave a lethargic display was understandable given their workload at present, with manager Anthony Daly far from concerned as he assessed his afternoon's viewing.
"I think the attitude was a bit sharper on Friday evening. Mind you, we had a couple of words at half-time and we were able to up our display after that," added the Clare native.
Certainly, there were mitigating factors in a less than impressive opening period where Dublin produced an error-strewn effort which was punctuated by misplaced passes and the concession of far too many scoreable frees.
A heavy training schedule over the past week which included a fitness test on Saturday morning and the energy sapping pitch at Naomh Mearnóg (Portnarnock) were obvious factors in Dublin's initial struggles, a fact acknowledged by Daly.
"It wasn't quite as sharp as we would have liked but the boys did a fitness test on Saturday and there was definitely an element of tiredness there this afternoon.
"We've had a good week with training on Tuesday and Thursday added to a match on Friday night and that fitness test on Saturday but that's what you need to be doing in January," said Daly.
"We were also stretched a bit with the flu with five lads missing today so we brought in lads like Robbie Mahon, Jack Doughan and Tomas Connolly, who all did very well despite not being current members of the panel.
"It was great to bring them in and have a look at them and it's a very good incentive for them coming in and being part of the set up."
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Mahon, in particular, availed of the opportunity given to him with an impressive display from wing-forward and later at midfield with the Craobh Chiaráin player plundering 1-3 from play, showing great composure and athleticism throughout.
Another player to impress was Conor McCormack, who also notched 1-3, and the Ballyboden St Enda's clubman could well become a central figure in Daly's plans, offering a strong physical presence, allied to deceptive pace and genuine aerial ability in the half-forward line.
His goal, six minutes from time, was a quintessential McCormack strike as he gathered the ball 50 metres from goal, leaving defenders in his wake before planting a cool finish to the net from 10 yards to seal Loughgiel's fate.
The Antrim club, continuing their preparations for the All-Ireland Club Championship semi-finals, showed up well from the start and both Bernie MacAuley and Joey Scullion punished Dublin's indiscipline with metronomic free taking. Scullion was also on hand to avail of a slip from Dublin full-back Stephen Hiney to plant a cracking pull to the net across Finn McGarry for the game's opening goal on the half hour to help his side to a merited 1-9 to 0-9 interval lead.
Dublin improved markedly upon the restart and after Connolly and David Curtin added early points, Mahon was on hand to sweep home after Damien Quinn had acrobatically denied Shane Ryan with a sublime save in the 38th minute.
This score had a galvanising effect on the Dubs, who began playing with a greater degree of fluency and confidence with points from Ryan, David O'Callaghan, McCormack and Niall McMorrow the highlights in a largely dominant second period.
Manager Daly will now turn his attention to the Walsh Cup and he is reasonably optimistic despite a large number of absentees due to college commitments.
"It was a good work-out today. The scoreline doesn't matter too much as we're just trying to reach a certain level of performance at this time of year.
"We'll be down at least 11 players with the Fitzgibbon Cup lads absent … I still think we'll have a nice team out, with the likes of Conal (Keaney) coming in and Joey Boland won't be involved with the colleges this year so he'll be available," said Daly, whose side will play the winners of Westmeath and Antrim on Sunday January 23 in the Walsh Cup.
– Rónán Mac Lochlainn – Evening Herald
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Oregano essential oil takes center stage in this DIY cleansing oil, adding its powerful antimicrobial properties to the mix. Meanwhile, avocado oil and sweet almond oil help to moisturize the skin and unclog pores. This free beauty recipe is designed for normal or combination skin.
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New Brighton Electricity Rates
Commercial Electricity in New Brighton
^ The average commercial electricity rate in New Brighton, PA is 3.72¢/kWh.[1]
Residential Electricity in New Brighton
^ The average residential electricity rate in New Brighton, PA is 11.44¢/kWh.[1]
Industrial Electricity in New Brighton
^ The average industrial electricity rate in New Brighton, PA is 1.35¢/kWh.[1]
New Brighton, PA Electricity Statistics
Commercial electricity rates in New Brighton
The average commercial electricity rate in New Brighton is 3.72¢/kWh.[1]
This average (commercial) electricity rate in New Brighton is 60.59% less than the Pennsylvania average rate of 9.44¢/kWh.[2]
The average (commercial) electricity rate in New Brighton is 63.13% less than the national average rate of 10.09¢/kWh. Commercial rates in the U.S. range from 6.86¢/kWh to 34.88¢/kWh.[2]
Residential electricity rates in New Brighton
The average residential electricity rate in New Brighton is 11.44¢/kWh.[1]
This average (residential) electricity rate in New Brighton is 10.27% less than the Pennsylvania average rate of 12.75¢/kWh.[2]
The average (residential) electricity rate in New Brighton is 3.7% less than the national average rate of 11.88¢/kWh. Residential rates in the U.S. range from 8.37¢/kWh to 37.34¢/kWh.[2]
Industrial electricity rates in New Brighton
The average industrial electricity rate in New Brighton is 1.35¢/kWh.[1]
This average (industrial) electricity rate in New Brighton is 81.33% less than the Pennsylvania average rate of 7.23¢/kWh.[2]
The average (industrial) electricity rate in New Brighton is 79.76% less than the national average rate of 6.67¢/kWh. Industrial rates in the U.S. range from 4.13¢/kWh to 30.82¢/kWh.[2]
Pennsylvania Electricity Rates & Consumption
Commercial electricity in Pennsylvania
Commercial electricity rates in PA [3]
The average commercial electricity rate in Pennsylvania is 9.44¢/kWh, which ranks 24th in the nation and is 6.44% less than the national average rate of 10.09¢/kWh.[3]
Commercial electricity consumption in PA [3]
Commercial electricity consumption in Pennsylvania averages 5,201 kWh/month, which ranks 35th in the nation and is 16.62% less than the national average of 6,238 kWh/month.
Commercial electricity bills in PA [3]
The average monthly commercial electricity bill in Pennsylvania is $491, which ranks 35th in the nation and is 21.94% less than the national average of $629.
Learn more about commercial electricity in Pennsylvania
Residential electricity in Pennsylvania
Residential electricity rates in Pennsylvania [3]
The average residential electricity rate in Pennsylvania is 12.75¢/kWh, which ranks 16th in the nation and is 7.32% greater than the national average rate of 11.88¢/kWh.
Residential electricity consumption in PA [3]
Residential electricity consumption in Pennsylvania averages 837 kWh/month, which ranks 32nd in the nation and is 7.31% less than the national average of 903 kWh/month.
Residential electricity bills in PA [3]
The average monthly residential electricity bill in Pennsylvania is $107, which ranks 20th in the nation and is exactly equal to the national average of $629 per month.
Learn more about residential electricity in Pennsylvania
Industrial electricity in Pennsylvania
Industrial electricity rates in Pennsylvania [3]
The average industrial electricity rate in Pennsylvania is 7.23¢/kWh, which ranks 16th in the nation and is 8.4% greater than the national average rate of 6.67¢/kWh.
Industrial electricity consumption in PA [3]
Industrial electricity consumption in Pennsylvania averages 160,367 kWh/month, which ranks 21st in the nation and is 42.98% greater than the national average of 112,158 kWh/month.
Industrial electricity bills in PA [3]
The average monthly industrial electricity bill in Pennsylvania is $11,591, which ranks 20th in the nation and is 54.9% greater than the national average of $7,483.
Learn more about industrial electricity in Pennsylvania
Household Income in New Brighton, PA
New Brighton, PA Income Breakdown [4]
Income Summary for New Brighton, PA
Electric bills: The average residential electricity bill in Pennsylvania is about $107/month, ranking 20th in the U.S. and exactly equal to the national average of $629.[5]
Income: New Brighton vs. Nation [4]
Additional information about New Brighton
About New Brighton
New Brighton is a borough located in Beaver County in the state of Pennsylvania, and has a population of approximately 6,025.[6]
More about New Brighton utilities
For more information about New Brighton electricity, or for additional resources regarding electricity & utilities in your state, visit the Energy Information Administration.
Seven southern states (AL, FL, GA, SC, TN, TX & VA) are often in the top ten in electricity consumption due to high cooling demand.
Additional Cities in PA
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Local Electricity Rates in New Brighton, PA


Kate Snow formerly a correspondent for Dateline NBC and she continues to serve as a fill-in anchor for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and contributes for all platforms of NBC News.
Snow has covered breaking news stories such as the earthquake in Japan and the oil spill in the Gulf. She has explored issues affecting parents and children, including a recent "Dateline" special on bullying. Over her career she has covered politics, three presidential elections, the White House and Congress.
Previously, Snow was the anchor of the weekend edition of Good Morning America; frequently reporting for Good Morning America, World News with Diane Sawyer and Nightline.
Snow is a graduate of Cornell and holds a master's in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. She serves on the national board of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America. Snow and her husband have two children.


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Infertility following termination
The patient, aged 40, was 16 weeks into her fifth pregnancy when she sought a termination at a private clinic. The gynaecologist, an MDU member, discussed the potential risks of carrying out a termination, including hysterectomy and possible transfer to an NHS hospital should anything untoward occur during surgery. The conversation was recorded in the patient's notes and she signed a consent form that warned of haemorrhage, cervical damage and uterine perforation as serious or frequently occurring risks.
The procedure was carried out a week later. The gynaecologist dilated the patient's cervix and evacuated the pregnancy using open forceps, then emptied the uterine cavity using suction curettage. The whole procedure was carried out under ultrasound guidance. The patient's uterus was soft and she lost approximately 400mls of blood during surgery. Blood loss was controlled with oxytocin.
The gynaecologist asked for the patient to be observed every 15 minutes due to her high parity. Her blood pressure and pulse remained stable and vaginal bleeding was minimal.
However, two hours after surgery, the patient started to pass blood clots. The surgeon re-examined her and found her uterus had contracted and she was not in significant pain. The blood clots soon became heavy again, and uterine massage and continuous oxytocin were used to help her uterus contract. The patient began to complain of pain and the gynaecologist arranged transfer to the nearby NHS hospital.
Laparotomy revealed a large broad ligament haematoma and a perforation above the cervix. Unfortunately, the patient required an abdominal hysterectomy to stem the blood loss.
Some two years later, the gynaecologist received a letter of claim from the patient's solicitor alleging that the termination had been performed negligently, causing a uterine perforation and resulting in hysterectomy. He contacted the MDU for assistance.
MDU response
The MDU obtained expert advice from a consultant gynaecologist who observed that perforation of the uterus is a recognised complication of termination of pregnancy and may happen even in the hands of an experienced surgeon. The expert advised that the procedure had been carried out in a standard manner, with all necessary precautions to reduce the risks.
The use of ultrasound in a second trimester termination, although not mandatory, can be very helpful, and may reduce the risk of perforation and help ensure that the termination is complete. In this case, the expert added, there was a degree of placenta accreta, which may cause bleeding into the uterine cavity but can also produce bleeding externally from the uterus, depending on the depth of invasion. Possibly, in this patient's case, this may have been into the broad ligament, producing the haematoma. It might be that the damage to the uterine wall and the resultant haematoma were inevitable because of the pathological implantation of the placenta.
In view of the supportive expert advice, the MDU wrote to the claimant's solicitor denying liability. Nothing further happened and some time later the claim was discontinued.
The consent form contained sufficient information to show that the patient had been properly counselled and warned of the recognised complications of termination. If the discussions had not been noted in the records, the patient's allegation that she had not been properly warned of the risk of infertility may have been more difficult to rebut.
The practice of using ultrasound was not specifically recorded in the records. However, it was the gynaecologist's invariable practice to use ultrasound in late terminations, which provided supporting evidence of his cautious approach.
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Anyone else getting a problem running the application?
Not use it for a few weeks and now it thinks I'm not registered. Getting a "Bad Gateway" error.
Same problem now - What's up folks?
I'm getting the same problem. Bad gateway error.
The admin hasn't logged in since October last year.
All working now thank goodness.


After arriving home a bit late from my workout, I decided to find out when the ISS was going to pass by my house. I realized that I only had 15-20 minutes to set up my equipment. I grabbed my tripod, attached my camera to it, and little did I know, my camera battery was completely dead. Hastily, I put the battery on the charger and gave it a quick charge (5-10 minutes). In the nick of time, I ran outside, extended the legs on my tripod, framed the shot and luckily I was able to capture the photo(s) above.
Each photo in the composite above had a 5 second exposure time. The single photo above is a combination of ten 5-second photos which makes for a total exposure time of 50 seconds. I used Photoshop to combine the photos and made sure to select the Screen layer mode when doing so. The Screen layer mode is important here because it essentially creates a mask to ensure only the brighter parts of the images are "visible". It really is a lot more complicated than that, but you get the gist. The process is really quite simple. In fact, there's even a Photoshop Action that you can download and use in your star trail (or ISS) photos.
In the end, I managed to capture a photo of the International Space Station and the Big Dipper (top right), which was a happy accident for me. I honestly did not know that the Big Dipper would be in the shot when I framed it. I'm really quite pleased with the outcome. What do you think?
This entry was posted in Long Exposure, Space and tagged in Big Dipper, International Space Station, ISS, NASA, Space, Stars.


Social media users are in awe of the striking resemblance between Elizabeth Hurley, 53, and her 17-year-old son Damian Hurley.
The actress shared a photo of her son on social media to wish him a happy 17th birthday and social media users responded with shock at their likeness.
Elizabeth, who shares a very close bond with her actor/model son, wrote: "Happy 17th Birthday to my heavenly @damianhurley1 . No one could have brought me more joy. You have made me a very proud mama".
Damian's godfathers, Elton John and David Furnish also joined in wishing him a happy birthday.
Akpororo asks DaddyFreeze - Since you have stopped paying your tithe, how many churches have you heard has closed down?


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Auke-Pieter Colijn (1971) is a particle physicist working at the University of Amsterdam and at Nikhef, the Dutch institute for subatomic physics. After completing his PhD he joined the CDF experiment as a Fermilab research associate (Chicago). In 2003 he joined Atlas experiment, where he build the detectors that were later to find the Higgs boson. In 2011 Auke-Pieter joined the XENON collaboration that aims to find the particles that are responsible for most of the matter in our Universe.
We know since many years, that most of the matter in the Universe does not consist of the ordinary atoms that we all know. For every gram of ordinary matter there is about five grams of an as yet unknown substance that we call Dark Matter. In this talk I will describe the astrophysical evidence that makes us believe that Dark Matter exists. Then I will focus on the strategies that we employ to discover new elementary particles that could be Dark Matter, with a focus on the XENON1T and XENONnT experiments in the underground Gran Sasso laboratory in Italy.


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Ayala Foundation sustains relief activities in Pampanga
BY Ayala Foundation May 04, 2019 Ayala, Disaster Relief, Pampanga earthquake
As part of a sustained effort to provide relief and rehabilitation support for families severely affected by the April 22 earthquake, the Ayala group, through Ayala Foundation, conducted relief operations for Aeta families in Porac, Pampanga, on May 4.
Working closely with award-winning journalist Kara David and her personal "Project Malasakit" initiative, Ayala Foundation distributed food and water for at least 300 Aeta families living in Katutubo Village in barangay Planas, Porac, Pampanga.
Ayala Foundation President Ruel Maranan together with partners from Manila Water Foundation, Project Malasakit with David, the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office of Pampanga, and Apl.de.Ap Foundation at the relief operations in Katutubo Village in Porac, Pampanga
Ayala Foundation also came with the Manila Water Foundation to the relief operations, with assistance from the Apl.de.Ap Foundation, the Pampanga Social Welfare and Development Office, and the Philippine Air Force stationed at the Cesar Basa Air Base in Floridablanca, Pampanga.
The May 4 relief initiative was the second of several similar activities for Aeta families who lost their homes and livelihood during the 6.1-magnitude Luzon earthquake. The previous week Ayala Foundation and internationally renowned performer Apl.de.Ap distributed sleeping mats and drinking water for 800 families in Floridablanca, Pampanga.
Members of the Aeta community living in Katutubo Village in Porac, Pampanga
"For any initiative to have an impact, it must be sustained and done in collaboration with the community and other partners," said Ayala Foundation President Ruel Maranan. "This is why the Ayala group is actively consulting local stakeholders and the community members themselves on their needs after the earthquake, not only in terms of immediate relief but also for reconstruction and rehabilitation."
The Ayala group has also started the delivery of plywood and galvanized iron sheets to help at least 1,000 Pampanga families who lost their homes to the earthquake.
Aside from helping rebuild shelters, Ayala is also working closely with Pampanga communities and officials in identifying other needs, particularly in the area of reconstruction and rehabilitation.
Ayala steps up earthquake relief efforts in Pampanga
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Q: javascript conflict with jquery fadein of button I have a conflict with my javascript which is causing elements not to fadein. I have a button set to fadein after 10 seconds which works fine when I remove my javascript that I'm using for something else.
Can anyone help me figure out what the conflict might be?
You can see the test page I'm working on here: https://training.handcraftedbusinessfilms.com/test-fade-in/
I've currently removed the javascript that is causing the conflict but you can see it below.
<script type="text/javascript">
    // Custom code by James
    jQuery( document ).ready( function ( jQuery ) {
        // binds to the plugin's function
        jQuery( "input[name='gform_payment_method']" ).on( 'click', gfpStripeToggleCreditCard() );
        // triggers the change to default option
        jQuery( "input[id^=gform_payment_method_card_]" ).click();
        console.log("Hello James");
    });
</script>

A: Bro, your script is correct, but I see that you have 2 calls of "document.ready" in different parts of the html, so just need use once. I have merged and tested the script in the "head" tag and it works:
<script>
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $("div.button").fadeIn(2000);

        //By James
        //binds to the plugin's function
        jQuery( "input[name='gform_payment_method']" ).on( 'click', gfpStripeToggleCreditCard );
        //triggers the change to default option
        jQuery( "input[id^=gform_payment_method_card_]" ).click();
        console.log("Hello James");

    });
</script>

A: The jquery was being called before it was defined in the header b/c the scripts were injected into the header via the theme and we couldn't control exactly the order of the scripts.
The solution was to create a site specific plugin that set a function to hold off on calling any jquery before the jquery was defined.

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Liberty Property Trust UK is the visionary developer behind Kings Hill. Guided by a mission to enhance people's lives through extraordinary environments, our philosophy is evident in every feature of Kings Hill. The development is now 25 years in the making and Liberty's involvement from the start has ensured continuity. Our parent company, Liberty Property Trust is quoted on the New York stock exchange (LPT) and comfort can be taken from this in that we are a well-funded public company, able to take the long view in our commitment to the people of Kings Hill - www.libertyproperty.com.
Liberty's commitment to quality and our attention to detail in executing and delivering our carefully planned developments creates value. As we continue to develop Kings Hill we will maintain the quality that underpins the investment made by our home owners and businesses, as it does Liberty's own investment. Kings Hill is our signature project in the UK. We understand that good development is about placemaking and providing the soft and social infrastructure needed to create a true community. We wish to leave a lasting legacy of which we, the people of Kings Hill and future generations can be proud.


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Q: Because I played the piano or because I was playing the piano? Here is a task in an English test:

Last night my neighbors got angry because I (played / was playing) the piano. They repeatedly came to my door and knocked, but I didn't hear the knocks. Why? Because I (played / was playing) the piano.

I was taught that I should choose the simple tense to talk about habits or routines, and the continuous tense to talk about being in the very process of doing something, but that doesn't really help make the choices in this particular task. The sentences are neither about a habit nor about any particular moment of time. What's more confusing is that two choices have to be made, which suggests that the answers might be different.
So which choices should I make and why?

A: You should choose because I was playing for both - you were 'in the very process of doing it' when the neighbours knocked on the door.
I played the piano often means I was able to play/habitually played.


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Category Archives: Protecting our Environment
International, National Politics, Protecting our Environment
Environmental Concerns About the TPP
As the TPP negotiations continue to wind their way through the legal and legislative system, many of the environmental concerns expressed have largely gone ignored or stayed out of the mainstream of the public's awareness. This course of action; of not informing the public or politicians giving people tacit assurances, happened with the NAFTA agreement in the 90's. The NAFTA agreement allowed companies to avoid environmental regulation by moving their operations to out of country localities in Mexico that bordered their US market.
In the 90's, Republicans made little effort to hide this fact and often blamed the over regulatory environmentalist lobby for moving companies out of the United States. People bought this line and thus the NAFTA trade agreement moved through Congress and became law. But now after many years the environmental damage of NAFTA is now a generally undisputed fact, even though most people are not aware of the extent of pollution that effects every living creature within its wake.
Now we have a public much wiser to consider the ramifications of these open trade agreements. Most people realize that these agreement enable mutli-national corporations to fatten their pockets while doing sometimes irreversible damage to our vital natural resources. Mexico and South America has suffered with polluted water ways and land, habitat of humans and animals is constantly threatened and even our own planetary breathing apparatus; forests, are being stripped away permanently for the hardwoods they contain (many taking hundreds of years to grow).
Here are some studies on NAFTA's affect on environmental regulation and the environment as a result:
NAFTA : 20 Years of Costs to the Community and the Environment
Public Citizen: NAFTA's Broken Promises, 1994-2013
Multinational Monitor – 1993 – NAFTA and the Environment: Free Trade and the Politics of Toxic Waste
New Report Reveals Environmental Costs of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 2014
According to a short summary from the National Geographic, a leaked copy of the draft TPP already shows the extent to which business interests have trumped preserving the health of people and the planet. Check out their resport, 4 Ways Green Groups Say Trans-Pacific Partnership Will Hurt Environment
The environmental group 360.org has a petition up based on the very specific and disconcerting charge that the TPP will put into law the ability of fossil fuel producers to sue town, city and state governments that impose environmentally conscious rules or ordinances aimed and cutting fossil fuel consumption. This of course is translated in market speak as "if climate action hurts their profits". In other words, the profits of global corporations matter more than our planet staying alive. In addition, fossil fuel companies have managed to negotiate that the government should prevent environmental oversight of fracked gas imports.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/06/12/3669269/pelosi-bashes-fast-track/
Friends of the Earth also points up a couple other troubling areas about the TPP's possible effects on the environment.
– effectively banning the regulation of chemicals used in food production such as pesticides and other compounds and enabling rules and proofs (such as cost-benefit analysis requirements before regulation could be put in place –effectively placing profit before the health of the planet and people) that regulation would not hurt the company's bottom line.
– changes in how regulatory bodies enforce rules in the treaty also effect the ability of any enforcement at all; provide for the ability to corporations to sue municipal bodies for attempts at regulation that slow down their profit stream. The sweeping of this change is the proposal to install international regulatory bodies that would supersede the authority of United States courts. This basically would mean that international "tribunals" would come together to install their own regulatory mechanisms and they would only have to follow the lowest-common denominator for the standard to putting in place environmental regulation in the first place.
Public Citizen, a washington watch-dog group also points up the extensive intellectual property protections inserted into the trade agreement. These protections, written by and for global corporations, would mandate the international recognition of genetic patents on living things such as plants and animal life. This would enable corporations to place 'ownership' on living organisms, allow them to create and modify living organisms as they please and allow their marketing worldwide. This threatens the integrity of our international food supply and most seriously threatens the natural practice of sustainable farming and creates a frightening dependency on corporate commercial power for our food supply. No group of individuals or corporations should have the ability to control the food supply globally, but this trade agreement will do just.
Already American farmers have suffered the bullying tactics of Monsanto and other seed companies in an obvious strategy to create a captive market for their seed product. While Monsanto currently uses the court system as a means to force monopoly of their product, the TPP will in fact put into law what they now must fight case by case in court.
Tagged NAFTA, Trade and Environment, Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, TTP
NH Politics, Protecting our Environment
Representation of what the Northern Pass would do to the White Mountains. From steveswhitemountainblog.com
News and notices from Bury Northern Pass:
Concerned About the Northern Pass Project's Impact on Historic Resources and Scenic Landscapes?
Critical steps for public input in federal and state review processes for the proposed Northern Pass project are imminent. Now is the time to learn more about how you can speak up for historic resources and scenic landscapes.
Attend an Advocacy Workshops in June
Special Historic Places, Northern Pass and You
Presented by the N.H. Preservation Alliance and National Trust for Historic Preservation
with presenters:
Rebecca Harris, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Maggie Stier, New Hampshire Preservation Alliance
and special guests from the
N.H. Division of Historical Resources
To Learn More and get dates and times of these workshops go to NH Preservation Alliance, News and Events
Vermont Underground Power Line Project Passes with Overwhelming Resident Support
VT buried project kicks butt (there's no better way to say it)
Just one year after Blackstone -TDI's New England Clean Power Link filed for a presidential permit, the DOE has issued the Draft EIS, which is mostly favorable. NECPL is an entirely underground HVDC transmission project that will run from the Quebec border 100 miles under Lake Champlain, then 55 miles across VT buried in highway ROWs. It has generated virtually no opposition; indeed, it enjoys community support. The unprecedented speed with which the Draft EIS was issued shows what happens when developers design projects with community concerns in mind, not in spite of them. NECPL is also about halfway through the VT state permitting process.
This project garnered a mere dozen scoping comments v. nearly 8,000, overwhelmingly negative, for NP. The Draft EIS took only a year v. the nearly 5 years that NP's will have taken when it is finally issued. By one opposition member's count, NECPL's total lobbyist expenses are approximately $2,500 while Northern Pass lobbyist expenses just for the year 2014 alone totaled approximately $250,000, not to mention the enormous sums spent on expensive NH and nationwide PR consulting firms, e.g., Scott Tranchemontagne's Montagne Communications, Erik Taylor's Elevare, Saint Consulting Group, TargetPoint Consulting, and others.
Selected quotes from the NECPL Draft EIS:
Following construction, the transmission cable would not affect use of the recreation facilities in the Overland Segment, because it would be buried underground in road and railroad ROWs. No permanent aboveground facilities would be constructed along this segment of the proposed Project route that would affect recreational resources. (5-63)
Operation of the Project would pose no risk to public health and safety because most of the cable would be buried underground. (5-64)
Because the Project would be buried, no long-term impacts to property values would be expected. (5-36)
Because the Project would be buried, no long-term impacts to residential property values would be expected. (5-37)
The next step in NECPL's Draft EIS process is the 60-day hearing and comment phase. Public hearings are on July 15-16, with final written comments due on August 11.
The Draft EIS is posted at http://necplinkeis.com/?page_id=10
News reports:
Union Leader: Dave Solomon, "Vermont hydro project 'leapfrogs' Northern Pass" – http://www.unionleader.com/section/news05#sthash.vnE2Jbb2.dpuf (Read comments on this one.)
Burlington Free Press: Wilson Ring, "Minor harm to lake from power lines." http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/vermont/2015/06/04/feds-report-champlain-power-project/28501673/
VT Digger: Morgan True," Environmental study sees little problem with cable under Lake Champlain," https://vtdigger.org/2015/06/03/environmental-study-sees-little-problem-with-cable-under-lake-champlain/
VPR: Taylor Dobbs,"Transmission Line Under Lake Would Have Minor Environmental Impact," http://digital.vpr.net/post/study-transmission-line-under-lake-would-have-minor-environmental-impact
Tagged New Hampshire, no northern pass, power lines, white mountains
Want Your Say On Northern Pass? Speak Now.
Editorial in published June 1, Concord Montior My Turn
by Susan Schibanoff
My Turn: Want your say on Northern Pass? Speak now
A recent letter to the editor ("A Cleaner Concord," Monitor, May 2) urges readers to "please vote no on the Northern Pass coming to Concord unless they bury it." The writer does not explain when or where this vote would take place, or whether there will be a statewide referendum on the project.
There won't be. Neither you nor your town will have the opportunity to vote Northern Pass up or down. Nor will your elected representatives in the Legislature say "yea" or "nay" to Northern Pass on your behalf. The governor won't decide either, at least not directly. Two agencies, one federal and one state, control the fate of Northern Pass, not the voters. The Department of Energy will decide whether to grant the project a Presidential Permit to cross the international border; the state Site Evaluation Committee will make the critical decision whether to permit the project to actually be built in New Hampshire, and, if so, how and where.
The DOE is expected to issue its Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Northern Pass this month or next. The DEIS is not a permit; it is a preliminary statement of the DOE's evaluation of the project's various impacts. Soon after the DEIS is made public, project sponsors have said they will file an application with the state permitting authority, the SEC.
The DOE will take public comment about the DEIS before it decides whether to issue a Presidential Permit. The SEC will also consider the public's views.
But neither the DOE nor the SEC will come to you directly and ask you what you think. If you want your voice, or your town's voice, to be heard, it's easy enough, but you or your town must initiate the action with both the DOE and the SEC.
The time is drawing near for everyone who cares about Northern Pass and its impacts on our communities and state to act. This is your final chance to affect the outcome of this project.
Tagged no northern pass, white mountains
ACTION ALERT: SAVE IMPORTANT MOUNT SUNAPEE FORESTS AND TRAILS!
After a nearly seven year battle the Mount Sunapee ski resort in Newport, New Hampshire is inching very close to approval for an expansion that will wipe out important old-growth forests and related wildlife and important hiking trails in the area.
Your action is needed now to stop what will amount to a complete decimation of one half of Mount Sunapee's forest area by the resort adding an entirely new skiing area complete with a base lodge, a new lift, new trails, a parking lot and even plans to approve the building of condos.
From the Sierra Club email correspondence:
Mt. Sunapee State Park is the jewel in the crown of New Hampshire's State Park system where people can explore, enjoy, and protect the natural wonders of our forests. The nearby Pillsbury-Sunapee Highlands Corridor connects the park with over 30,000 acres the Sierra Club included as one of the 52 exceptional wild places in the country. The park, however, may change forever.
Send a letter to protect Mt Sunapee State Park.
The NH Dept. of Resources and Economic Development (DRED) has drafted a decision that will allow ski expansion into an area designated by the NH Natural Heritage Bureau as an exemplary natural forest with trees over 150 years old. The proposed ski lift and trails would bisect the area despite its "high ecological value" and rarity. Further, the proposal will disrupt the Summit Trail in several places.
The public comment period ends on June 5th – send your letter today!
A group Friends of Mount Sunapee along with the New Hampshire Sierra Club have diligently and determinedly fought this battle but now they need your help! The state commissioner for the New Hampshire park system has the power to either approve or disapprove this deal. Commissioner Rose has given a temporary approval of the expansion but he has allowed for a comment period to hear from concerned citizens.
Friends of Mount Sunapee Change.org petition: Protect Mount Sunapee State Park: Say 'No' to Private Resort Expansion
Everyone can comment, you don't have to be a New Hampshire citizen just someone who is concerned about human destruction of precious forests and habitat. Mount Sunapee Resort has had a long campaign of pressuring employees and their "guests" (customers) to put in their comments, so we need plenty of concerned folks to chime in as well.
Please read go to the link of the Friends of Mount Sunapee website or at the Sierra Club website petition page and put in your comments. NOTE: YOU MUST PUT "I OPPOSE" OR SIMILAR VERBIAGE IN THE BEGINNING OF YOUR FIRST SENTENCE OR YOUR COMMENT WILL BE DISCARDED OR COUNTED AS SUPPORTING — THESE ARE CONSIDERED AND COUNTED LIKE BALLOTS.
The commissioner will be counting the pro and the con ballots and this will have some weight on whether he decides to approve this expansion. There exist many reasons why this should not be approved, please read up!
Tagged friends of Mount Sunapee, Mount Sunapee resort expansion, NH State Parks, Sierra Club NH
WA-PO Exposes Direct Campaign by Energy Companies to Battle Solar Growth
From the Washington Post, an indepth look at the way in which the electric energy giants have begun to team up with the fossil fuels industry to block renewable energy. In particular, they have started attacking home-installed solar energy systems. The article is from March of this year, but relevant still today.
Many legislators in the state of New Hampshire have been fed lies by the energy industry, in particular PSNH and now Eversource lobbyists about the supposed negative effects of individual, off-grid power systems. Reader take note: once agin its clear that industry has no concern about the effects of green house gases, no concern about the effects of grid dependence, especially the effects of dependence on an ever aging grid. No, industry's only concern, as always is profit generation and if they have to punish citizens and block sensible, progressive policy, they will do it.
Also, what most people, in particular libertarians fail to understand is that most government agencies have become portals through which industry uses government to ensure their profit streams do not get interrupted. Rubber-stamp agencies like New Hampshire's PUC are filled with political appointees often poorly qualified for their job and industry hacks — former employees, lobbyists, subcontractors or executives of industry.
The article is telling in its exposure of how completely co-opted our regulatory system has become and how as common sense dictates, but seemingly cannot be repeated enough, capitalist enterprise works for the good of profit not for the good of people. Any benefit to the public good that arises out of the pursuit of profit, especially when conducted by huge authoritarian corporations, comes purely as a byproduct or an accident of their operations. Twisting government to serve themselves at the expense of the public good has become the modus operandi since even before the 19th century.
h/t to Bury Northern Pass
Utilities Wage Campaign Against Rooftop Solar
By Joby Warrick March 7
Three years ago, the nation's top utility executives gathered at a Colorado resort to hear warnings about a grave new threat to operators of America's electric grid: not superstorms or cyberattacks, but rooftop solar panels.
SolarCraft workers install solar panels on the roof of a home in San Rafael, Calif. According to a report by the Solar Foundation, the solar industry employs more workers than the coal-mining industry. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
If demand for residential solar continued to soar, traditional utilities could soon face serious problems, from "declining retail sales" and a "loss of customers" to "potential obsolescence," according to a presentation prepared for the group. "Industry must prepare an action plan to address the challenges," it said.
The warning, delivered to a private meeting of the utility industry's main trade association, became a call to arms for electricity providers in nearly every corner of the nation. Three years later, the industry and its fossil-fuel supporters are waging a determined campaign to stop a home-solar insurgency that is rattling the boardrooms of the country's government-regulated electric monopolies.
The campaign's first phase—an industry push for state laws raising prices for solar customers—failed spectacularly in legislatures around the country, due in part to surprisingly strong support for solar energy from conservatives and evangelicals in traditionally "red states." But more recently, the battle has shifted to public utility commissions, where industry backers have mounted a more successful push for fee hikes that could put solar panels out of reach for many potential customers.
[Solar energy's new best friend is . . . the Christian Coalition]
In a closely watched case last month, an Arizona utility voted to impose a monthly surcharge of about $50 for "net metering," a common practice that allows solar customers to earn credit for the surplus electricity they provide to the electric grid. Net metering makes home solar affordable by sharply lowering electric bills to offset the $10,000 to $30,000 cost of rooftop panels.
A Wisconsin utilities commission approved a similar surcharge for solar users last year, and a New Mexico regulator also is considering raising fees. In some states, industry officials have enlisted the help of minority groups in arguing that solar panels hurt the poor by driving up electricity rates for everyone else.
Utility companies take on solar power View Graphic
"The utilities are fighting tooth and nail," said Scott Peterson, director of the Checks and Balances Project, a Virginia nonprofit that investigates lobbyists' ties to regulatory agencies. Peterson, who has tracked the industry's two-year legislative fight, said the pivot to public utility commissions moves the battle to friendlier terrain for utilities. The commissions, usually made up of political appointees, "have enormous power, and no one really watches them," Peterson said.
Industry officials say they support their customers' right to generate electricity on their own property, but they say rooftop solar's new popularity is creating a serious cost imbalance. While homeowners with solar panels usually see dramatic reductions in their electric bills, they still rely on the grid for electricity at night and on cloudy days. The utility collects less revenue, even though the infrastructure costs — from expensive power plants to transmission lines and maintenance crews — remain the same.
Ultimately, someone pays those costs, said David K. Owens, an executive vice president for Edison Electric Institute, the trade association that represents the nation's investor-owned utilities.
"It's not about profits; it's about protecting customers," said Owens, said. "There are unreasonable cost shifts that do occur [with solar]. There is a grid that everyone relies on, and you have to pay for that grid and pay for that infrastructure."
Nearly 174,000 people work in the solar industry compared with close to 80,000 in the coal industry. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Whether home-solar systems add significant costs to electric grids is the subject of intense debate. A Louisiana study last month concluded that solar roofs had resulted in cost shifts of more than $2 million that must be borne by Louisiana customers who lack solar panels. That study was immediately disputed by clean energy groups that pointed to extensive ties between the report's authors and the fossil-fuel lobby.
Other studies commissioned by state regulators in Nevada and Mississippi found that any costs are generally outweighed by benefits. For one thing, researchers found, the excess energy generated by solar panels helps reduce the strain on electric grids on summer days when demand soars and utilities are forced to buy additional power at high rates. Other experts note that the shift to solar energy is helping states meet new federal requirements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while also producing thousands of new jobs. The residential solar industry currently employs about 174,000 people nationwide, or twice as many as the number of coal miners.
"Independent studies show that distributed solar benefits all ratepayers by preventing the need to build new, expensive power plants or transmission lines," said Matthew Kasper, a fellow at the Energy & Policy Institute, a pro-solar think tank. "Utilities make their money by building big, new infrastructure projects and then sending ratepayers the bill, which is exactly why utilities want to eliminate solar."
Solar-panel costs plunge
Residential solar panels have been widely available since the 1970s, but advances in the past decade have transformed home solar energy in many areas from an expensive novelty to a cost-competitive alternative to traditional power.
The average price of photovoltaic cells has plummeted 60 percent since 2010, thanks to lower production costs and more-efficient designs. Solar's share of global energy production is climbing steadily, and a study last week by researchers from Cambridge University concluded that photovoltaics will soon be able to out-compete fossil fuels, even if oil prices drop to as low as $10 a barrel.
To read the rest of this article go to Washington Post Utilities Wage Campaign Against Rooftop Solar
Tagged electric companies, Eversource, PUC NH, solar power
Economics, International, Labor and Worker Justice, National Politics, Protecting our Environment, Public Health
Fast-Track: An Undemocratic Path to Unfair "Trade"
As promised we bring you some more opinion and analysis on the Fast-Track push by Obama for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. From the blog of the group Public Citizen:
An Undemocratic Path to Unfair "Trade"
President Obama is asking Congress to delegate to him extreme Fast Track authority to railroad into place job-killing trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
ALERT! A Fast Track bill has recently been introduced. Click here for the full analysis.
Fast Track was an extreme and rarely-used procedure initially created by President Richard Nixon to get around public debate and congressional oversight. Fast Track is how we got into the job-killing, wage-flattening North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Thanks to Fast Track, NAFTA and the WTO included terms that promote the offshoring of U.S. jobs to low-wage countries.
Fast Track also empowered executive branch officials advised by large corporations to skirt Congress and the public and use secretive "trade" agreements to roll back a wide range of non-trade policies on which our families rely for safe food, a clean environment, affordable medicines, financial stability and more.
Fast Track set up a system of more than 500 official corporate U.S. trade advisors who have access to secret trade agreement texts and who have set the "U.S." trade agenda whether we have Democratic or Republican presidents.
Fast Track is such an extreme power grab that in the past 21 years Congress has only allowed it to go into effect for five years total. Why? Because under the U.S. Constitution, Congress is supposed to write the laws and set trade policy. For 200 years, these key checks and balances helped ensure that no one branch of government had too much power. But, starting with Nixon, presidents have tried to seize those congressional powers using the Fast Track mechanism. hide
Fast Track has only been used 16 times in the history of our nation, often to enact the most controversial of "trade" pacts, such as the NAFTA and the establishment of the WTO. Meanwhile, hundreds of less controversial U.S. trade agreements have been implemented without resort to Fast Track, showing that the extraordinary procedure is not needed to approve trade agreements.
Fast Track allowed the executive branch to unilaterally select partner countries for "trade" pacts, decide the agreements' contents, and then negotiate and sign the agreements – all before Congress had a vote on the matter! Normal congressional committee processes were forbidden, meaning that the executive branch was empowered to write lengthy legislation on its own with no review or amendments. These executive-authored bills altered wide swaths of U.S. law unrelated to trade – food safety, immigration visas, energy policy, medicine patents and more – to conform our domestic policies to each agreement's requirements. And, remarkably, Fast Track let the executive branch control Congress' voting schedule. Unlike any other legislation, both the House and Senate were required to vote on a Fast Tracked trade agreement within 90 days of the White House submitting it. No floor amendments were allowed and debate was limited.
Because Fast Track's dramatic shift in the balance of powers between branches of the U.S. government occurred via an arcane procedural mechanism, it obtained little scrutiny – until recently. Its use by Democratic and Republican presidents alike to seize Congress' constitutional prerogatives, "diplomatically legislate" non-trade policy, and preempt state policy, has made it increasingly controversial.
A president cannot obtain Fast Track empowerment without a vote of Congress. President Clinton, renowned for trade expansion, only had Fast Track authority for two of his eight years in office due to congressional opposition. Indeed, in 1998 Clinton's effort to get Fast Track authority was rejected by 171 House Democrats and 71 House GOP members.
The last time Congress authorized Fast Track was in 2002, with a 3:30 am vote before a congressional recess in which the antiquated mechanism was approved by just three votes. Since 2007, Congress has refused to authorize this extreme procedure, even after its proponents tried to escape Fast Track's bad reputation by renaming it "Trade Promotion Authority." The bill currently before Congress would replicate the widely-opposed Fast Track bill from 2002.
As a candidate, President Obama said he would replace this anti-democratic process. But now he is asking Congress to grant him Fast Track's extraordinary authority – in part to try to overcome growing public and congressional opposition to his controversial TPP and Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) deals. To prevent an expansion of this unfair "trade" model, Congress must not allow the executive branch to once again gain Fast Track's undemocratic powers.
Tagged Fast-track
Protecting our Environment, Public Health
Updates from Bury Northern Pass
Sign from angry New Hampshire resident during an anti-Northern Pass action.
We will post the newsletter that Bury Northern Pass releases, as soon as we can every time we receive it. While we do not support the idea of burying the lines for Northern Pass; we'd prefer that southern New England states produce their own power as they need it, see our analysis of Northern Pass. That being said, the Bury Northern Pass group does very important and thorough work in watching the players in this continuing issue and informing the public. We thank them for their hard work and encourage everyone to stay on top of this real threat to the New Hampshire way of life.
Here is the newest issue from April 26:
The Most Important NH Conservation Campaign Since the Creation of the WMNF
and Saving Franconia Notch a Century Ago
Leave Your Legacy to NH – A Landscape Unscarred by 2300 Steel Towers Up to 155′ Tall from Pittsburg to Deerfield
Please Donate Now to the Forest Society's "Trees Not Towers" Legal Defense Fund to Bury the Northern Pass
Where to Donate: https://www.forestsociety.org/trees-not-towers-defense-fund
Tuesday, April 28: 4:15 PM: City of Concord Northern Pass subcommittee meeting – "public to be heard."
Agenda at http://www.concordnh.gov/Archive.aspx?ADID=2086
Thursday, April 30: Senate floor vote on HB 192 (utility property tax) scheduled. (*Double check floor date before traveling to attend*)
HB 192 would prevent utilities from using a single cut-rate valuation method (depreciation) to abate their property taxes. This is relevant to how much property tax Northern Pass, if built, would actually pay.
Audio of March 24th testimony by bill sponsors, attorney for NHEC, NH Municipal Assoc., etc: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/senateaudio/committees/2015/wm/HB0192_03242015.asx
News report by Robert Blechl, for the Caledonian Record, 4/25: New Hampshire Utility Bills Head Toward Votes
Earlier reports by Blechl are at http://burynorthernpass.blogspot.com/2014/10/north-country-towns-incur-big-expense.html
April 29-May 4: Ever$ource Q1 investor call (estimated date)
May 6-7. Open House/SEC Info meetings in Londonderry and Hudson for MVRP (above ground line in NH, buried in MA).
Link to the PR tell-all Northern Pass doesn't want you to read: "Case Study: Northern Pass"
This past week's news in review
Seacoast residents revolt against E$ plan for above-ground lines, E$ downgraded by financial giant UBS, NP lashes out at opposition, and more.
1. In downgrade of E$ stock, UBS cites Northern Pass delay.
2. Newington and Durham revolt against E$'s plans for an overhead "Seacoast Pass" (aka Seacoast Reliability Project). Newington's lawyer says town won't support project unless it's buried.
More from Seacoast Online and Union Leader
Durham Residents Voice Concerns Over Eversource Project
Newington Residents Air Concerns Over 13 Mile Transmission Line
Durham Objects to Power Towers
3. Coos County biz group opens Northern Pass jobs funding program
More from NHPR: Northern Pass Funds Available for Coos Businesses
4. Forest Society Blasts Foundation National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for Northern Pass Partnership, report by Robert Blechl
5. Goliath not a happy camper this week: Northern Pass lashes out at opposition in PR offensive. In the wake of the revelation about the PR agency, Saint Consulting Group, lampooned as "fooling the politicians since 1983," and its claimed ties to Northern Pass and of the UBS stock downgrade, the project went on a PR rampage this week to change the channel.
Project flacks who usually stay in the shadows surfaced on Twitter – e.g., Scott Tranchemontagne (Montagne Communications), Erik W. Taylor (Elevare Communications), Scott Spradling, Rich Killion — and, phrased in euphemisms of "concern" and "disappointment," project spox Murray and Collins attacked the Conservation Media Group's Concord video, The Power of Place and whatever else they could think of to target.
Anti-Northern Pass Video Targets Concord, Concord Monitor
Northern Pass Opposition Video Lacks Credibility, Fosters.com
Tiny Section of Proposed Route Sparking Latest Verbal Sparring About Northern Pass, Union Leader
Northern Pass Cries"Foul" Over Opponent's New Video, NHPR
6. New England Governors's private tete-a-tete on energy, infrastructure. [Mass. Gov.] Baker not bullish on Northern Pass, NH not bullish on sharing bill for southern New England energy wants.
Governors Renew Commitment to Reg'l Energy Solution, Nashoba Publishing
7. Buried Champlain Hudson line receives final, ACOE permit, moves on to funding negotiations with Hydro Quebec
Hudson-Champlain Powerline Gets Ok to Build, Poughkeepsie Journal
Quebec Energy Minister says "we are negotiating [with ChHud] at this current moment" , E&ETV
8. Hydro Quebec Phase 2 line goes on unexplained spring vacation, raises prices in New England. How's this for a secure, reliable source of energy? It's not even winter.
Boston Power Rises 4th Day This Week as Demand Tops Forecasts
Tagged Hydro-Quebec, northern pass
Parasitic Northern Pass
Excerpts from Bury Northern Pass: A monthly newsletter. This month Shaheen lays it straight about burying Northern Pass and the energy company's foot dragging on the issue, Jeb Bradley's next effort to help his friends in Big Energy falls flat and an opinion piece from a concerned citizen to the Colebrook Chronicle. Enjoy!
Shaheen: "If NPT can bury 7.5 miles, why not all of it?"
Excerpt from "Senator Shaheen holds town meeting [Colebrook, April 2], answers questions."
Coos County Democrat, p. 15
Bill Schomburg of Columbia asked how things stand with the proposed Northern Pass Transmission project, which he has steadfastly opposed.
Senator Shaheen replied that the clock had been reset in 2013 when NPT proposed a new northern route.
The draft Environmental Impact Statement should be released between now and June, she said, noting that 7,000 comments had been received from 5,000 people. Another comment period will be held before the Final EIS is issued.
The senator said she still has questions about Northern Pass, including why the whole line cannot be buried underground as is being proposed in both Vermont and New York State.
"If NPT can bury 7.5 miles, why not all of it? Shaheen asked. And, she said, the project must directly benefit New Hampshire. Shaheen noted that she believes that, as proposed, the electricity would all go to southern New England. She said that she is looking to ensure that the process is transparent and there are sufficient opportunities for Granite Staters to be heard.
Parasitic Northern Pass, excerpts from an LTE by John Amey
Colebrook Chronicle, April 3
Like a parasite on an animal that never really goes away,Northern Pass LLC is rearing its ugly head, once again. Now it comes in two forms, to the North Country, a bearer of small gifts, as in participating in long-overdue cell service and throughout the state with "chump change" for conservation projects. To make matters worse, they are trying to bring gifts of cash to the doors of N.H. Fish and Game and other Conservation organizations, allegedly for bona fide purposes but under the radar, thinking that we, the public, have forgotten that NHFG is one of the stakeholders when the High Voltage DC plan comes to a vote at the state Site Evaluation Committee.
And furthermore, to add insult to injury,letters of "concern and instruction" are being circulated to certain towns along the proposed route, regarding wetland mitigation issues that might concern them.
Northern Pass LLC has yet to receive a Presidential Permit to enter the United States from Canada, has yet to solve issues blocking a complete route on the ground, through properties of unwilling landowners and is just now ready to present the Environmental Impact Study which is coming to all intervenors to the project from the US department of Energy. It is my fear that town officials are going to feel pressured to do something, quickly, as the proposal moves forward, trying to appear that approval is imminent. In my opinion, the people have spoken in the 31 towns most affected, and the answer is a resounding "NO." Only a complete burial of Northern Pass Lines will garner any support from the countryside and only then will town officials need to talk about construction details. . . .
We have recently learned, through the State DOT that where current underground segments are proposed by Northern Pass, there will be multiple conduits installed to make further expansion of the original proposal more convenient and we all know that once the corridor is in place, more lines will come, as demand for electric power expands in southern New England and beyond. . .
We, the opposition, are fighting this above-ground proposal by Northern Pass for free, against very high odds and millions of dollars of lobbying, but we don't intend to lose. Even former employees of Hydro-Quebec are saying that the '"New Hampshire route for export of power to Southern New England is blocked." Energy conservation, coupled with more modern energy transmission proposals will, in the end, prove that our efforts have been well worth our time. We are thankful for all the hard work of our people toward this goal.
John Amey, Pittsburg
Northern Pass loses a shill
Marc Brown/New England Ratepayers Association stripped from SB60
The mysterious Mr. Brown, who has always declined to reveal the source of the funding for NERA and who has consistently promoted Northern Pass, ran into trouble this week when two legislators (Moffet, Backus) on the House STE Committee questioned why SB60 was giving him a berth on the decoupling commission as the ratepayer representative. They'd never heard of him or his organization and weren't happy with his lack of transparency. Dave Solomon reports the story: unionleader.com/article/20150406/NEWS05/150409554
STE later voted 16-5 to remove Brown from SB 60.
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Tagged Jeb Bradley, northern pass
Economics, International, National Politics, Protecting our Environment, Public Health, Undoing the military-industrial complex
Cartoon for the Day, Stephanie MacMillan
Stephanie MacMillan's work can be found here : Daily Affirmations for the Revolutionary Proletarian Militant
Tagged economic justice, Environment, human rights, Monsanto, stephanie macmillan
Actions Around NH
Last week during the Shaheen-Brown debate in North Conway, the environmental group NextGen Climate set up a display to draw attention to Brown's ties to big oil. Politifact NH has looked into the claims made by the democratic supporting PACS, in particular Senate Majority and finds the claims true in that Brown does in fact receive a large portion of his funding from big oil and gas.
Of course to most people who pay attention this isn't really big news since big oil and gas have always supported GOP candidates and races far more than Democrats. Mostly due to the Democrats long standing tradition of standing up for and funding regulation for healthy people and communities. While big oil fights government support for renewable energy development, the gas industry has been working double time to ensure continued support for fracking.
The degree to which the oil industry has chips to cash in with New Hampshire politicians should be of concern to residents as the north-east's dependency on oil is greater than any other part of the United States. Residents want other energy alternatives but without prioritizing government funds for subsidies or credits for such development, the dream of energy independence cannot be realized. Geo-thermal and solar, two of the most important renewable energy opportunities still remain far out of reach of most residents and businesses.
Next Gen Climate will be holding actions all over the state during the election season, those interested in participating can contact them through their website at Next Gen Climate.org
Tagged Big Oil, climate change, election 2014, Next Gen Climate, Scott Brown