Every savvy marketer knows that timing is key, which is why Braze provides multiple scheduling options that will empower you to reach users at precisely the right time. Ample flexibility, however, may cause uncertainty over which type of schedule fits best with your campaign's goals. To help you get the most of Braze's platform, we've created this handy guide that reviews your scheduling options, best practices and use cases.
Campaigns sent using time-based scheduled delivery are delivered on specified days.
If you choose to send a message as soon as it's launched, it will begin sending as soon as you finish creating your campaign.
This type of schedule is designed for one-off campaigns that you wish to send immediately, such as messages pertaining to a current event. A sports app, for instance, may schedule push notifications on score updates using this option. In addition, when sending test messages aimed at just yourself or your team, this option allows you to deliver them immediately. If you plan on editing the campaign and re-sending it after viewing the test, be sure to check the box that makes users re-eligible to receive the campaign. By default, Braze sends a campaign to a user just once, unless that box is checked.
Scheduling a campaign for a designated time allows you to specify the days and times your campaign will send. You can send a message once, daily, weekly or monthly at a certain time of day, as well as specify when your campaign should begin and end. If you choose Scheduled Delivery and don't choose to send at user local time, your campaign will send according to the time zone specified on your "Company Settings" page.
You can deliver the message in users' local time zones, so that members of your international audience won't receive a notification at 4am. Local time zone campaigns need to be scheduled 24 hours in advance to ensure that eligible users from all time zones can receive it. Read our FAQ page on this feature to understand how local time zone campaigns work and the associated delivery rules.
Designated time schedules are best suited for messages scheduled in advance and recurring campaigns - such as onboarding and retention - that run regularly on all qualified users.
Intelligent Delivery allows you to deliver a campaign to each user at a different time. Braze calculates each individual's time based on when that user typically engages with your app and its notifications. You can optionally specify that intelligent delivery campaigns send only during a certain portion of the day - for instance, if you are notifying users of a promotion that ends at midnight, you may want your messages to send by 10pm at the latest. Read our page on Intelligent Delivery for more details on how this feature works.
Because a user's optimal time can be anytime over the course of 24 hours, all Intelligent Delivery campaigns must be scheduled 24 hours in advance. In addition, similar to designated time campaigns, messages with a 1-day window will miss users who fall out of the segment before their optimal time in their time zone is reached. Segments for intelligent delivery campaigns should incorporate at minimum a 3-day window to account for this.
Intelligent Delivery campaigns work best for one-off and recurring messages where there is some flexibility regarding delivery time - for instance, they aren't well suited for breaking news or timed announcements.
You can also further filter trigger events through Braze's Custom Event Properties which allows for customizable event properties for both custom events and in-app purchases. This feature allows you to further tailor which users receive a message based off of the specific attributes of the custom event, allowing for greater campaign personalization and more sophisticated data collection. For example, in the following screenshot, an Abandoned Cart custom event is further targeted by the "cart value" property filter. This campaign will only reach users who've left between $100 and $200 worth of goods in their carts.
Note that the trigger event "start session" can be the user's very first app open, if your campaign's segment applies to new users (for instance, if your segment consists of those with no sessions).
Keep in mind that you can still send a triggered campaign to a specific segment of users, so users who aren't a part of the segment won't be able to receive the campaign even if they complete the trigger event. If you notice users not receiving the campaign even though they qualified for the segment, please read our section on reasons why a user might not have received a triggered campaign.
The trigger event will be fired after the user profile attribute updates. This means that the evaluation of the campaign's segments and filters will happen after the attribute updates. This is beneficial because it enables you do things like set up a filter of "email address matches gmail.com" to create a trigger campaign that only sends to Gmail users and fires as soon as they add their email address.
The trigger event will fire when an email address is added to a user profile. If you have multiple user profiles that you create that have the same email address, the campaign may fire multiple times, once for each user profile.
In addition, triggered in-app messages still abide by in-app message delivery rules and will appear at the beginning of an app session.
Step 2: Select how long to wait before sending the campaign, after the trigger criteria is met. Choose how long to delay your message after the user completes the trigger event.
In choosing your delay length, note that if you set a delay that is longer than the message's duration for sending (see Step 4), no users will receive your campaign. Additionally, users who complete the trigger event after your campaign is launched will be the first to start receiving the message once the delay has passed. Users who have completed the trigger event prior to the campaign launching will not qualify to receive the campaign.
You may also elect to send the campaign on either a specific day of the week (by choosing "on the next" and then selecting a day) or a specific number of days (by selecting "in") in the future. Choose the time you wish the user to receive your message on that day. Alternatively, you may choose to send your message using the Intelligent Delivery feature instead of manually selecting a delivery time.
Step 3: Select an exception event that will disqualify users from receiving this campaign. You can only do this if your triggered message sends after a time delay. Exception events can be making a purchase, starting a session, performing one of a campaign's designated conversion events, or performing a custom event. If a user completes the trigger event but then completes your exception event before the message sends due to the time delay, she will not receive the campaign. Users who do not receive the campaign due to the exception event will automatically be eligible to receive it in the future, the next time they complete the trigger event, even if you do not elect for users to become re-eligible.
You can read more about how to employ exception events in our section on use cases.
If you are sending out a campaign with the trigger event equalling the same exception event, the initial campaign will be cancelled. Instead of sending out both campaigns, your user's first campaign will be cancelled and we will automatically re-schedule a new campaign based on the exception event's message delivery time.
For example, if your first trigger event starts at 5 minutes and the exception event's time starts at 10 minutes, you would rely on the exception event's 10 minutes as the official campaign's message delivery time). Please also note that you cannot make a "session start" both the trigger event and exception event for a campaign (however, you always have the choice to select any other custom event outside of this option).
Step 4: Assign the campaign's duration by specifying a start time and optional end time. If a user completes a trigger event during the specified time frame, but actually qualifies for the message outside of the time frame due to a scheduled delay, then she will not receive the campaign. Therefore, if you set a time delay that is longer than the message's time frame, no users will receive your campaign. In addition, you can elect to send the message in users' local time zones.
Step 5: Select whether the user will receive the campaign during a specific portion of the day. If you give the message a time frame and the user either completes the trigger event outside the time frame or the message delay causes her to miss the time frame, then by default the user will not receive your message.
If a user doesn't receive the message because she misses the time frame, then she will still be qualified to get it the next time she completes the trigger event, even if you did not elect for users to become re-eligible. If you do elect for users to become re-eligible, then users can receive the campaign each time they complete the trigger event, assuming they qualify during the specified time frame.
If you have also assigned the campaign a certain duration, then in order to receive the message, a user must qualify within both the duration and the specific portion of the day.
Step 6: Determine whether users can become re-eligible for the campaign. If you allow users to become re-eligible, you may specify a time delay before the user can receive the campaign again. This will prevent your triggered campaigns from becoming spammy.
Triggered campaigns are very effective for transactional or achievement-based messages.
Transactional campaigns include messages sent after the user completes a purchase or adds an item to her cart. The latter case is a great example of a campaign that would benefit from an exception event. Say your campaign reminds users of items in their cart that they haven't purchased. The exception event in this case would be the user buying the products in her cart. For achievement-based campaigns, you can send a message 5 minutes after the user completes a conversion or beats a game level.
In addition, when creating welcome campaigns, you can trigger messages to send after the user registers or sets up an account. Staggering messages to be sent on different days following registration will allow you to create a thorough onboarding process.
Why Did a User Not Receive My Triggered Campaign?
The user completed the exception event before the time delay had fully elapsed.
The time delay caused the user to become qualified to receive the campaign after the duration has ended.
The time delay caused the user to become qualified to receive the campaign outside of the specified portion of the day.
The user has already received the campaign, and users do not become re-eligible.
While users are re-eligible to receive the campaign, they can only re-trigger it after a certain period of time, and that period of time has not yet elapsed.
Segmenting a triggered campaign on user data recorded at the time of the event may cause a race condition. This happens when a change in the user attribute on which the campaign is segmented hasn't yet been processed for the user at the time segment membership is determined and the campaign is sent, and can lead to the user not receiving the campaign.
For example, imagine you want to send an event-triggered campaign to male users who just registered. When the user registers, you record a custom event registration, and simultaneously set the user's gender attribute. The event may trigger the campaign before Braze has processed the user's gender, preventing them from receiving the campaign.
It is a best practice to make sure that the attribute on which the campaign is segmented is flushed to Braze's servers before the event. In cases where this is not possible, the best way to guarantee delivery is to use Custom Event Properties to attach the relevant user properties to the event, and apply a property filter for the specific event property instead of a segmentation filter. In the example above, you would add a gender property to the custom event registration so that Braze is guaranteed to have the data you need at the time your campaign is triggered.
API Triggered Campaigns are ideal for more advanced transactional use-cases. Braze API Triggered Campaigns allow marketers to manage campaign copy, multivariate testing and re-eligibility rules within the Braze dashboard while triggering the delivery of that content from their own servers and systems. The API request to trigger the message can also include additional data to be templated into the message in real time.
Setting up an API Triggered Campaign is easy. First, create a new multichannel or single channel campaign (with multiviariate testing). Note that an API Triggered Campaign is different from an API Campaign.
Next, simply configure your copy and notifications the same way as you would were it a normally scheduled notification and select "API Triggered Delivery". For more information on the triggering of these campaigns from your server please see the documentation section on API Triggered Campaigns.
For information regarding triggering messages with API Triggered Delivery, please see this section of our technical documentation.
The number of times a user receives an API triggered campaign can be limited using re-eligibility settings, meaning the user will receive the campaign only once, or once in a given window, regardless of how many times the API trigger is fired.
Whenever you schedule a recurring or triggered campaign or Canvas, you have the option of allowing users to become re-eligible for it. By default, Braze sends a message to a user only once, even if they re-qualify. By checking "Allow users to become re-eligible to receive campaign or re-enter this Canvas", you are overriding this default behavior and allowing qualified members to receive messages again once they've received the first instance of the campaign or Canvas. You can state the timeline on which users would ultimately become re-eligible.
Re-eligibility for Canvas variants is tied to Canvas entry rather than message receipt. Users who enter a Canvas and do not receive any messages will not be able to re-enter the Canvas unless re-eligibility is enabled. For example, let's say that a user without an email address enters a daily recurring Canvas that contains one step. The Canvas step only contains an email message, so the user does not get the engagement. This user will not be able to enter the Canvas again, unless the Canvas has re-eligibility enabled. If you have an active recurring or triggered Canvas without re-eligibility, and you'd like users to re-enter the Canvas until they receive a message from it, you can consider allowing users to be re-eligible for entry by adding a filter to the entry criteria that excludes customers who've received a message from the Canvas.
In the case of triggered campaigns with re-eligibility turned on, users who did not actually receive the campaign (despite completing the trigger event) will automatically qualify for the message the next time they complete the trigger event, even if you did not make users re-eligible. By making users re-eligible for a triggered campaign, you are enabling them to actually receive (and not simply trigger) the message more than once.
Additionally, if you are trying to send a message immediately with a re-eligibility of 0 minutes, we will always attempt to schedule it right away regardless of how a user has received previous iterations of the Campaign or Canvas.
When variant percentages are not changed, each user will always enter the same variant of a campaign, triggered in-app message, or Canvas entry every time they are re-eligible.
If the variant percentages change, users may be redistributed to other variants.
Control groups will remain consistent if the variant percentage is unchanged, and no users who previously received messages will ever enter the control group on a later send, nor will any user in the control group ever receive a message.
After launching your campaign, it's important to note what you can and cannot change and when the changes will come into effect.
Any content that is edited after your campaign is launched will be sent to your users correctly.
If you edit when your campaign is scheduled to send, or which users your campaign should be sent to, those changes won't be reflected in the actual campaign until after the current 24 hour period you are in ends.
Changing the rate at which your messages will send will go into effect at the beginning of the next time zone that is set to be delivered to.


First and foremost, your products can't deliver ingredients into the skin without a clean surface, free of makeup and dirt. This may be a no-brainer, but it never hurts to repeat! Always thoroughly remove your makeup, and even if you haven't been wearing makeup all day, cleanse anyway to remove any dirt particles or sweat that may have accumulated throughout the day. If you prefer to remove makeup with an oil cleanser, make that your first step and follow up with a gentle cream, gel, or foaming cleanser.
In most cases, exfoliating daily can be too traumatizing for the skin, but on the days that you do exfoliate, make sure it comes right after you cleanse. Exfoliation removes dead skin cells from the surface of the skin, meaning anything you apply afterward will be able to dive deeper into the skin, instead of getting blocked by dirt and rough skin cells on the surface. Tip: Stick with a product that contains a gentle, all natural exfoliant like Jojoba beads; other crushed or ground ingredients can be too sharp and create even more damage, or "micro-tears" on the skin.
If you're treating stubborn acne, age spots, uneven texture or anything in between, then load up on your facial treatment products in the evening on freshly cleansed skin. Because you'll be going to bed fresh-faced, these products will be under optimal conditions to work their best. If you're wondering just what falls under "treatment products," think benzoyl peroxide, retinoids, topical acne medication and prescription creams, to name a few. Tip: This includes treatment face masks, if you have one. If you prefer a simple soothing mask, apply it after your treatment products to calm and cool skin after active and intense ingredients.
Serums are products that contain very concentrated active ingredients, and usually come in smaller containers because a little bit goes a long way. Now that your skin has been cleansed, primed, and treated, you'll want to apply your serum at this stage. Doing this on clean skin, but before any moisturizer or heavy creams, means those concentrated (and often expensive) ingredients will be able to penetrate the skin without any roadblocks.
If you have an eye cream on hand for brightening tired eyes, boosting collagen, or anything else, then now is the time to use it. Since the under-eye area is so delicate and has thinner skin, applying your eye cream at this point will allow you to reap all the benefits without being blocked by a heavy moisturizer.
Whether you're applying a light daily moisturizer or a heavier night cream with active ingredients, make sure it always comes last in your routine. Not only will the heavier texture block ingredients from reaching the skin if applied too soon, but saving it for the end will create the added benefit of locking in all the ingredients you previously layered under it, as well as some much needed moisture.
If you ever forget the exact order, don't panic—a general rule of thumb is to simply apply your products in order of consistency, starting with the lightest, and ending with your heaviest or thickest product.
Do you apply your bedtime facial products in this order? Or did any of these tips surprise you?
Share your nighttime skin care routine with me below!
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The development and adoption of comprehensive Plan is requirement of a local Government. It is a guide to the growth and development of the city which includes development vision, policies, and implementation plan for the city.
MPCON in its endeavored associated in implementing urban infrastructure projects of the state government, initiating and contributing its consultancy services in plan preparation, city development planning preparation, Detailed Project Report (DPR) preparation and other related activities in this field.
MPCON has been involved in preparation of feasibility studies for Road section to enable the development. City Mobility plan and also conducted traffic survey by collecting information about vehicles, their type, weight, speed and other essential data required for transport planning.


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Q: Apache2 - 301 Redirect when missing "/" at the end of directory in the url I haven't really noticed this Redirect(301) when requesting a url like this without slash("/") at the end: http://server/directory
The server will respone with a 301 Redirect Permanent header with a Location header locating to http://server/directory/.
See this live example:
User Request:
GET /social HTTP/1.1
( http://192.168.1.111/social )

Apache Server Responce:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://192.168.1.111/social/

User Request:
GET /social/ HTTP/1.1
( http://192.168.1.111/social/ )

Apache Server Responce:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Apache access.log:
192.168.1.130 - - [05/Apr/2014:22:06:47 +0200] "GET /social HTTP/1.1" 301 558 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0"
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192.168.1.130 - - [05/Apr/2014:22:06:47 +0200] "GET /social/ HTTP/1.1" 200 942 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0"

The /social/ directory contains an index.html file.
Apache Software: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
Directory Options: Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
So, my question is: Why is apache doing this? And how to prevent the redirect and send out the index.html directly? Clients have to send two requests which is really unnecessary. And maybe some of the clients doesn't allow Redirects and will not be able to go to the site without the ending slash ("/").
I don't want to disable the redirect. I wan't the server to send out the response directly without any redirect. Even when requesting /social.
Is apache designed to redirect those requests? The server could just send the data without redirecting, right? Should I use the mod_rewrite to prevent this? Or another configuration? Or should I just let it be like this and add a slash at the end of all html links and live with some redirects?
What do you guys think?

A: Sending the data without a redirect would break relative links. If http://server/directory contains file, then the full URL for that would be http://server/directory/file. A link specified like <a href="file"> will point to http://server/directory/file if the base URL is http://server/directory/, but if the base URL was only http://server/directory it would point to http://server/file instead, which is not the intended result.
Apache could have generated the directory listing in two different ways depending on the URL instead of redirecting. However that would not work if there was an index.html file in the directory. So instead Apache is using the approach, that works in both cases.
This is not a new behavior, one decade ago Apache was behaving the same way. Clients which cannot handle a redirection should have been fixed by now. But for any clients who cannot handle a redirection, Apache should be sending along a tiny html file with a link that can be followed instead.

A: mod_dir adds this redirect, and you can disable it with a DirectorySlash Off directive.
Note, however, that disabling the trailing slash redirect could cause some pages to break.  If the page being returned contains relative links, then those URLs would resolve differently if the page is served without the trailing slash.

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A group of 13 intrepid Chillex members were given the awesome opportunity to go on a fishing Charter with Ultimate Charters aboard the Koru. The Charter left Westhaven on Saturday 29th of September and the team were taken out to some great fishing spots for the day. There was plenty of cold ales and food, resulting in the group enjoying both the fishing and entertainment. Overall the day was another great way for the team to bond and get to know each other outside of work. Definitely something we would all recommend doing more of in the future. The only pity was the fishing stories were bigger than the fish we caught!!
On behalf of the group we would like to thank Chillex for a great day.


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L'optimisme by Aphoride
Format: Novel
Chapters: 30
Word Count: 125,003
Status: WIP
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Mild violence, Scenes of a sexual nature, Substance abuse, Sensitive topic/issue/theme
Genres: Romance, Angst, LGBTQA
Characters: Dumbledore, McGonagall, Grindelwald	, Aberforth, Ariana, Bathilda, Doge, OtherCanon
Pairings: Albus/Gellert, Other Pairing
First Published: 09/25/2012
Last Chapter: 12/08/2017
Language shapes the world, for good or for evil. In silence, wounds fester and arguments begin. And what are wars but arguments out of control?
Albus/Gellert
||2014 Dobby Winner: Best Quote; 2014 Golden Snitches Runner-Up: Best Romance||
Breath-taking banner by lonely star xo @TDA
Chapter 21: Clauses
Has there ever been anything more comforting and more addictive than the absolute promise of uncertainty? It pushes and pulls with an intoxicating irregularity; it balances you, on the very edges of your toes, with your arms outstretched so as not to fall, on a cliffside and summons and cajoles you to cross the rope to the other side, even as the rocks glint below. Even as you are afraid, more afraid perhaps than you ever have been, you are enthralled: the adrenalin pumping around your body, stirring your blood and keeping your mind pressed against the glass, burns as it goes like alcohol, and when it is gone you miss it more than you could possibly imagine.
One of us said that once – only now I am not quite certain which one of us it was. The words sound like mine, but the voice they speak with, the passion and the danger and the heady, dark thrill licking along them is yours.
Does it matter, when it comes to you and I? Has it ever truly mattered?
Others would say that it does – that that is precisely what matters, which of us spoke those words, any words, and which of us merely sat there, sunlight glancing over our shoulders, and listened – but, darling, I remain unconvinced. When that summer it felt like we understood each other more perfectly than two people could ever have understood each other, as though we were two halves of one whole who had finally found each other and were slotting, slowly and carefully, back into place, what does it matter which voice sounded them when both minds thought them, both tongues formed them?
Ah, but I have distracted myself – forgive me.
I have grown old, now, or at least older than I was when we last saw each other, on that hot, happy day in Germany, and I find myself wandering more than before: I trail off into strange rambles of thought, diverted from my original meaning, I amble through the worn paths of the Forest with scarcely a thought to the time or the dangers which hide behind every tree. It was always a habit of mine, to deviate, but now, now alas it is a common occurrence.
We never were certain, were we? Of all the things we were – young and so very in love, drunk on our own intellect, on the thousand possibilities the future spread before us, at once naïve and wise and brave – we were never certain.
We lived on a knife-edge, then, clinging onto every moment in the anticipation that it would vanish when we least expected it (and it did, didn't it? In a way neither of us had ever dreamed, and neither of us was quite prepared for).
There were some certainties, some truths we knew: that you and I would not separate, that we would never find another who could match either of us, that Aberforth would find some way to damn us with anger alone. Some of those still linger, even now, when that summer has long passed and I have been cloistered up here in the highlands long enough for it to have lost its charms.
Do you think of them, on the wonderful desperation with which we seized everything that summer?
I would like to think you do – I would hate to think you have lost your passion, your fire, your certainty.
(It is perhaps more than a little ironic that separately we were so certain – we are so certain – about ourselves, our thoughts, the world entire, but together, in the one thing we should have made solid beyond anything, we were always so very fragile.
We assumed we were unbreakable, swore that nothing the world could do would tear us apart – and when the world put us to a test, we discovered our coats of adamantium were only china.)
After everything we had woven together had been ripped and torn beyond repair, a wall sunk into the ground between us neither of us could see or feel but which was always there, always pushing us further and further away, we were more uncertain than ever – but now, as I sit here and recall our time together, all the stolen, secret meetings, I cannot help but think that we were wonderfully certain in uncertainty.
It did not matter where or when or for how long, but one way or another, my darling, we always inevitably found ourselves walking down the same paths again – tumbling and stumbling across the top of the wall to fall down together, hand in hand and blissfully complete again. In the same manner as the sun rising and the moon turning through her cycle, we repeated the same dance, the same, tragic dance over and over until it was natural to run to each other, natural for our worlds to revolve around each other.
In effect, Gellert, every clause of my life, every period of time I have spent anywhere, anyhow, has almost always ended with you, and that at least shows no sign of stopping. If that is not a form of certainty, then I am bewildered as to what is.
(Perhaps, then, to finish the metaphor, we only needed a little more time, a little more growth, for our china coats to harden and slide into adamantium; and perhaps, then, we were merely too early for each other, in the end.)
9th June, 1924; Alvanley, Cheshire, England
The air was hot, thick with clouds of cigar smoke – electric blue and heavy, hanging low over heads, the candles floating around the room pinpricks through them – and the old mahogany panelling on the walls, separating out crimson-and-gold patterned, velveteen canvases, shrunk the space down, making it feel cage-like, prison-like almost, as though there was no escape. In my mouth, the taste of red wine, full-bodied and fruity, lingered, drying out the back of my throat, and my head was swimming pleasantly.
Around me circled a number of faces, of famous names at the time, their voices quiet and punctuated every now and then by a cough, gruff and short, and the soft patter of footsteps on the carpet. In one corner of the room, Cantankerous Nott was nodding solemnly as Ariadne Greengrass emphasised a point with a flailing arm, her husband silent by her side and looking deeply uncomfortable. Cornelia Adams stood on the opposite side from their small party, with Heather MacKay and Horatio Prewett, her cheeks flushed and her voice hushed and quick.
"Albus, my friend!" Horace bounced over to me, yet another glass of wine in his hand, his face ruddy and his green striped waistcoat stretched thinly over his stomach. "How are you enjoying yourself? Not as bad as you had thought, eh?"
He laughed at his own joke, taking a large sip, and I could only smile in response – a short, strained thing.
"It has been quite delightful so far," I responded automatically, the words tripping off my tongue without much thought at all. Stock words; there was nothing sincere about them – indeed, my tone was almost painfully bland – but that did not dissuade him at all.
"Well, I did tell you! Though really, it's no surprise – a clever chap like you, the Ministry's the perfect place!" he smiled conspiratorially, leaning in a little with a slight sway. "Minister McLaird's always looking for advisers, you know, on anything – an easy way in, as well, to go through the support staff channels, and I hear the pay isn't half bad either."
"Naturally," I murmured in response, draining the last of my glass in one go. Too quick, in truth; old habits always have a tendency to sneak up on us when we least expect it, when we are most vulnerable to them. "If you would excuse me…"
Without waiting to see if he would reply, I skirted around the edge of the room, past a pair of elderly men in matching tasselled robes with wide bell sleeves, and dipped into the dining room.
With white-plastered walls, edged with pale pink and gold, and windows lining the length of one side, it was brighter, the air clearer and cleaner, light pouring in and glancing over the gilt on the rims of the teacups and the candlesticks, bouncing off of the wine glasses and champagne flutes lined up on the table, turning the glaze on a round, two-tiered cake already divided into slices into a mirror. Still, my throat did not loosen, my stomach twisting uncomfortably as I searched for the jug of water and a fresh glass.
He could not have known how what he had said would affect me – could not have predicted that I would react thus – but the casual way he had suggested it, the reminder that it would be so simple if I wanted to, if I would allow myself to… that I could, even then, switch careers, follow you down the long road to political infamy. It was still possible for me, for us: the dream we had spun from the air around us that summer, pulling wisps of cloud and feverish whispers from the sky and weaving them into the greater good.
(The Greater Good. Even now, it makes me flinch as it reminds me of you, of that summer, of everything you have ever been to me.
It was a beautiful dream: pure and simple and so wonderfully perfect in its imagining. It was idealistic and grounded in history, revolutionary and yet the best solution, something to believe in and to strive for, to follow and to trust. It was everything you were, everything I had dreamed of becoming, and everything the world did not need or want.
I can never quite decide if I should admire you or despair of you, for the passion and the zeal with which you committed yourself, body and soul, to the cause you chose for yourself.
Martyrdom is glorious in theory, in books and legends, but my darling, I am not certain I could have borne the loss.)
Wandering about the room, the water slowly eating away at the layer of red wine encrusted on the roof of my mouth and the top of my tongue, I found that I was not fighting the urge to go and talk to the members of the Wizengamot, ingratiate myself with them, a childish sort of glee, wicked and hopeful and thirsty, whispering that I should, I could help people, I would be great and wonderful and so very revered. Instead, I was angry that Horace would presume I longed for power, made sick by the thought of holding it – responsibility for so many lives, all the power I had ever wanted, heavy and rich and so very malleable – in my hands.
If I could not manage to succeed with one life, if I could not simply be a brother, how on earth could I father a nation?
(Now, they have offered it to me twice, the duty and the gift, and both times it has been easy to refuse. There will come a day when it is not, I know, and I am afraid, Gellert.)
"Albus," the call was unexpected and unwelcome after Horace's reminders of the glorious future I had thrown away, and my smile was brittle when I turned to face Bathilda. If she noticed, she did not comment on it, and later, when I was calmer and far more rational, I would be grateful for it: she had been a great friend to mother, after all, there was no need for rudeness or incivility.
(She had, of course, given me you at the time I most needed you, longed for you, and that was far more precious a gift to me than anything else. Fool that I am, I can never hope to repay her for that, no matter what came after our introduction.)
"Bathilda, I confess I did not expect to see you here," I responded neatly, keeping my glass of water in front of me like some kind of wet, weak shield. "Though I am, of course, delighted as always. I hope you've been well?"
"Oh yes," her smile was softer and wider than my own had been, genuine warmth emanating from it, if a little cooler, more reserved than perhaps it should have been, but given the history, the facts and the secrets of it all, what more could I really have expected?
It had been nearly twenty-five years since the day you had left; it seemed like an age then, now it feels like it could have been yesterday: time, in all her strange, twisting wonder.
"I have been well, but busy, though I do regret not keeping in touch," Bathilda told me, one finger running around the rim of a wine glass slowly, absently, constantly. "I meant to, but it kept slipping my mind."
"In which case, I should apologise as well, since I did not write either," I assured her lightly, though in truth it felt tiring, so very tiring, having to pretend to be light-hearted and jovial, the perfect guest, when all I wanted to do was shout and pace like thunder, raise a hand and see wardrobes and desks crack and splinter, fine china vases reduced to dust.
Anger in the face of fear; it is lucky, perhaps, that on that fateful day, I was too afraid to be properly, truly angry.
"No need," Bathilda promised me, taking a small, half-hearted sip of the wine – white and surely tepid by now. "I hear you are at Hogwarts now – I hope you're enjoying it? I would never have pegged you for a teacher, but I suspect it will suit you quite well, as most things would do."
"Yes, it has been a very rewarding experience so far," I replied, and the words seemed heavier and lighter at the same time, meaning more and costing less than they had done previously. It did not strike me then, not so soon, but that was when I found that I had fallen into – not love, never quite love – admiration, perhaps, with my cage.
You would say it is merely a type of Stockholm Syndrome – that in having been isolated from the world for so long, separated from my heart and my soul and my true, real dreams, I had forgotten what the outside looked like, what those things were.
Perhaps you are right, darling; but I cannot say.
"It is remarkable," I therefore continued, entirely unaware of the significance of the moment which had just passed. "How much one can learn from students – and usually, I must say, without them knowing they are teaching another at all. Of course, it does leave me free enough to do my own research, which has always been a passion of mine."
"I am glad," Bathilda smiled again, and this time there was something wistful about it. "Your mother would be pleased to see you happy and thriving. I think I read an article of yours the other day on the misunderstandings surrounding the properties and symbolism of moonstone – it was really excellent. I am hardly an expert in such things, as I have rarely journeyed outside of Europe, to my regret, but I would be very happy to assist with the historical side of things, should you need any? It is a fascinating topic – and a potentially controversial one in these times!"
"If you wouldn't mind, that would be incredibly helpful," I found myself smiling back, and easily, naturally this time – academic research was a much safer topic, after all, and a much simpler one to manage. "Hogwarts' library is excellent, but not up to par in this area, I'm afraid."
"Oh, it would be no trouble," she nodded sympathetically, looking at once thoughtful and business-like, a frown creasing her forehead. "Most ordinary libraries, no matter how well-stocked and expansive they are, do not tend to cover topics and subject matters they feel are unnecessary to discuss – or even, in some cases, non-existent. Why, I was saying to Gellert the other day…"
She trailed off, giving me a strange, nervous look, quick and sharp, and took a gulp of wine. The silence hung between us, weighty and so potentially dangerous, and I swallowed, closing my eyes for a heartbeat, gathering myself, steeling myself, and praying to whatever forces might exist that I would be strong enough for what could come.
"I should be glad to hear what he said – he always did have such extraordinary, if fierce and researched, opinions," I felt myself say, far more aware of the flick of my tongue against my lips, against the roof of my mouth and my teeth.
I took a mouthful of water, a tiny lump of ice accompanying; it was cold, bitterly so, and it grounded me from where you had sent me soaring.
She touched the hem of her jacket, plum-coloured and fashionably tight and stiff, before continuing, the words falling faster than before, as though she was almost pushing them out of her mouth, tiny drops of acid she wanted rid of, so that we could return to the blissful, polite conversation we had had before.
"I was saying to him about how things exist differently in different places – in different forms, if at all, in different words and with different intonations and emotions and social thoughts attached to them. He said how he finds it is the same with people: they exist differently in different places, with different people. With one group, they are one facet of themselves; with another, another; and so on, until they have a hundred different parts of themselves tied to a hundred different places or groups or aspects of a society."
"I suspect," I replied quietly. "That he is quite right about that."
The rest of the conversation passed swiftly – a few more pleasantries, insistences on both our parts that perhaps this time we might remember to write (I did, in the end, but I focused very much of our proposed collaboration, and not at all on anything remotely relating to you or my mother or that wretched, beautiful summer) – and was entirely unremarkable.
Soon enough, I begged my leave of her and then Horace in turn, citing papers to mark, essays to grade and detentions to supervise, and luckily eliciting only a grimace and commiserations rather than pleas and cajoling to stay, and vanished back up to Hogwarts, through the gates and onto the wide, open fields of the grounds.
Absently, I wandered towards the edge of the lake, shimmering silver-blue in the distance, the sun blazing down from the sky and turning the surface of it to a crust of diamonds, glinting and winking at me.
Overhead, a bird cawed, winging its way over the school, a pair of owls flapped steadily southwards, and the trees rustled continuously, their leaves plump and bright, vivid shades of green, touched here and there with yellow and white. The sky was a brilliant azure, the few white clouds near the sun followed by thicker, heavier grey ones a few miles away, bringing the promise of a thunderstorm and an end to the sticky, humid pressure which had enveloped seemingly the whole country – even up in the Highlands, we had not been spared.
It was mercifully cooler there, though: a small wind, impertinent and fierce, jostled its way through the trees and the bushes of the forest, picking and nipping at my hair, my face and the jagged crests of tiny, half-formed waves on the lake.
Once there, with the surges of the lake beating on the ground only two feet away from me, a barrier of tiny, pebbled rocks separating she and I, I could relax, free and safe, and think.
A separation of selves – that was your idea, your philosophy, as you had told Bathilda; the way you perceived the world to impose on each one of us. Some unspoken force behind the scenes, invisible and impossible to counter, dividing up our souls until we are merely sums of parts, characteristics and traits and inherent, unchanging facts, nothing more and nothing less and certainly never quite unified, never whole. Hidden shards of diamond, concealed from some and uncovered for others… was it not how it had worked for us, after all? How it had to work for us, condemned and damned as we were – or so they would have us believe.
Oh my darling, you have always had a gift for rhetoric, and you have always had a gift for stirring things in me, sending my mind soaring off to new pastures in search of truths I had never known could exist; you have always made me restless, restless and stupefied and irresistibly challenged.
If I believed in such things, destinies and predestination and fate, you would be the other half of my soul, and that in every life and in every universe somehow, somewhere, we would always have met and loved.
When I am melancholy and lonely and hopelessly in love, I do not discount it.
In truth, it has never surprised me how deeply you could touch me with such simple words, how easily you could understand me even in perfect, still, silence. On that, at least, we are somewhat more evenly matched, I think: I have unravelled you, to some extent, just as you did to me.
There, though, on the bank of the lake, as much as your words had shaken me and turned my thoughts back onto you, onto us and the secrets we shared, the histories and the anger and the sufferings which scarred us both, they pushed onwards, onto Hogwarts, almost beyond you and I and onto solely myself.
How true your words seemed, and how hollow they made me feel! To think that I, so lauded for my intelligence, for my wisdom and my wit and my learning, could have missed something so basic, so obvious when laid out before me so plainly.
It explained so much to me, so much of my resentment at school, for being cast as the golden child, the genius youth; the perfectly poised, perfectly spoken, perfectly presented student – for the inability it gave me to make a mistake, to be anything less, to be not quite what they wanted me to be. It explained why I had dreaded home, where I was cast as the solitary scholar, the son who could not help, who was better for avoiding it and worse for struggling when asked to do it.
It explained why for so long I had felt so separate from society, from my friends and foes alike, from scholars and teachers and everyone, in truth, but you: to others I was not white enough to be properly British but not foreign enough to be foreign, not openly wild enough to be classed as an ingrate but not normal enough to be a man as everyone else was.
For so long I had existed in a state of limbo, between one thing and the next and not really either, without realising that was where I was.
To realise, though, is to find the heart of the problem, and, for me then, to find a solution.
Why should the fact that it was what the world wanted me to be force me to bear it? Why did I have to split, in the opinions of others, in the way I viewed myself, simply because it was what was done, if I did not want to be?
Why could I not be Albus Dumbledore, revolutionary, and Albus Dumbledore, teacher, at once, in my own way and in my own time?
What would it change, such a small rebellion, to blend the glass shards of my soul together so I am whole again, other than to make me happy? After all, one man is not a revolution – there would be no grand shaking of society, no trembling of the earth as the moral pillars which upheld it were cracked down to their very cores.
Do not think that I did not still want you, Gellert, that I did not still care for you or wonder if perhaps I should be with you and not at Hogwarts, that I had given up forever on our dreams and our beautiful utopia – or even on my secret, private dreams of you and I in a paradise all our own. I had not. I still have not, in some things.
But then I made the decision to be happy and to be solely myself entire – and I think, darling, that you of all people would have smiled, soft and bright, and wished me luck.
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Hosted by the WVU Davis College & WVU College of Creative Arts, students will travel to multiple cities in Italy from June 22 – July 20, 2019. Preference given to those who apply by February 15th.
The Disegno Italia summer program provides students with the opportunity to study Italian art, design and culture. This four-week program begins at il Sillabo in San Giovanni Valdarno, located twenty minutes outside of Florence in the Tuscan countryside. At il Sillabo students will take conversational Italian language, Italian art, design, culture, and history. As part of the cultural immersion experience students will participate in field trips to several Tuscan cities as well as Rome and participate in a cooking class.
The group then will travel to Milan and spend two weeks at Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA). Their time at NABA builds upon the Italian art and design lectures covered at il Sillabo and introduces the design culture of contemporary Italy in the design center of Milan. The courses feature lectures by professional Italian designers from each field, field trips to professional venues, and a project.


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Biographie
Robert de Fitz-James est le fils d'Henri Charles François de Fitz-James (1805-1883) et de son épouse, née Cécile de Poilly (1814-1856).
Il épouse à l'âge de quarante-neuf ans le  une juive autrichienne de petite naissance mais très fortunée, Rosalie von Gutmann (1862-1923) qui a vingt-quatre ans, et qui tient dès lors un salon réputé. Ils n'ont pas d'enfants.

Boni de Castellane évoque « Le ronchonneux comte Robert de Fitz-James, type de clubman aristocratique, ancien marin, avec des dons multiples ; il dessinait à merveille, quoique peu préoccupé des choses de goût. Très sévère pour ceux qui agissaient comme lui, il adorait jalousement toutes les femmes et quelques-unes en particulier. Sa nature avait été changée par notre régime. Il serait devenu sans doute un grand homme en un temps moins démocratique s'il avait occupé la situation à laquelle sa naissance et ses aptitudes lui donnaient droit. » (Comment j'ai découvert l'Amérique, 1986, page 55).

Il était proche de la comtesse de Chevigné, l'un des modèles de la duchesse de Guermantes du roman de Marcel Proust,  À la recherche du temps perdu (elle éconduit le futur écrivain, de sa phrase fameuse ), et ami de Charles Haas, du prince de Sagan, du général de Galliffet et de Louis de Turenne qui ont inspiré Proust. C'était un habitué du salon de la duchesse de La Trémoille.

Notes et références

Naissance en juin 1835
Décès en septembre 1900
Comte français du XIXe siècle
Décès à 65 ans

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Demi Lovato's New Year's Kiss in Miami
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Demi Lovato is ringing in the new year by sharing a photo of a New Year's Eve kiss with one of her dancers.
Lovato, who gets flirtatious with dancer Jojo Gomez as part of their Cool for the Summer choreography, posted a series of photos on Instagram from her show in Miami on New Year's Eve.
The photos included three performance shots of the pop star, plus a photo of the celebratory kiss. She captioned the shot with, "Last performance of 2017 and first kiss of 2018." Gomez, who's also a choreographer, shared the picture on her own Instagram page.
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Q: How to get comma separated values in query? Hi I have a table Called tbdSales
Brand     Cust_ID  Prd_ID

Aftron  44301   T3485
Aftron  44301   T0628
Aftron  44301   T2952
Aftron  44301   T1958
Aftron  44302   T1940
Aftron  44302   T1939
Aftron  44303   T2419
Aftron  44303   T2045

In this table I want the Product_ID in comma separated with group by the Brand & Cust_ID
I have produced the query as follows:
SELECT DISTINCT
      Brand
    , Cust_ID
    , (
        SELECT DISTINCT second_id + ', '
        FROM tbdSales t2
        WHERE t2.Brand = t1.Brand AND t2.Cust_ID = t1.Cust_ID
        FOR XML PATH('')
    ) AS prd_ID into SalReport
FROM tbdSales t1
GROUP BY Brand,Cust_ID

The above query is giving results. But, if the records are more (10,000) then it's taking much time like 5 mins.
Please let me know any other way for reducing query completion time.

A: Try this SQLFiddle example. It uses recursive query with CTE. For faster results you need indexes on Brand, Cust_ID, Prd_ID:
with t2 as
( select t0.*,
  row_number() over (partition by Brand,Cust_id order by Prd_id asc) G_id
  from
 (
  select distinct Brand,Cust_id,Prd_id from tbdSales
 ) t0

 ),
  t1 as (
    select t.*,
           cast(Prd_id as varchar(max)) as m2
     from t2 t where g_id=1

 union all
 select b.*,
        cast(c.m2+','+b.Prd_id as varchar(max)) as m2
     from t2 b
         inner join t1 c
             on (c.g_id+1 = b.G_id)
                and (b.Brand=c.Brand)
                and (b.Cust_id=c.Cust_Id)

)
  select brand,cust_id,M2 as Prd_id from
  (
  select t1.*,
         row_number() over (partition by Brand,Cust_id order by g_id desc) rn
             from t1
  ) t3 where rn=1
 order by Brand,Cust_id

A: SELECT distinct brand, Cust_ID, Replace( Replace( Replace(
                            (   select t2.Prd_ID
                                from @Sales as t2
                                where t2.brand = t1.brand and t2.Cust_ID = t1.Cust_ID
                                For XML Raw)
                                 , '"/><row Prd_ID="', ', ')
                                 , '<row Prd_ID="', '')
                                 , '"/>', '') FROM  @Sales t1

Hi, try this.


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His search parameters were pretty simple. He wanted something mid-sized, so it would be easy to navigate and decent on the fuel economy front. It had to be rugged enough to go off-road and have enough towing capacity to pull his motorcycles. So, Spike decided to show him two pre-owned vehicles and one over-budget brand new one.
Before we get into which three vehicles Spike lined up, I should point out what they did at the beginning of the episode. They went to an off-road training school and drove what appeared to be a newish Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. This of course allowed them to play up the fact on how they almost got stuck on a side hill. I guess even car shows have to have drama these days. Back to the three contenders. The first was a brand new Chevy Colorado Z The second vehicle was about as boneheaded of an option as you could have picked.
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Truth be told, the Sport was a last minute, though not under-researched choice that I made. I found out just before signing for my original vehicle that it could not tow it was a Porsche Panamera S E-hybrid. Every other Panamera model there are 8 I think tows what I needed, but not that model; a key piece of esoteric information that the dealer had to contact Europe to find out, which, since towability was my reason for buying, he also knew would break the deal.
While I understand why they do it group and compare cars of similar price point , the reality is that it's value, more than price, that counts when many people not just me shop for vehicles. Not only did it meet my requirements, but the Sport does stand head and shoulders above other vehicles out there in many respects that I value. I am also not one to pay a premium to have a fancy badge on the car, but sometimes that is what you must do because the non-luxury badges just don't provide the required features.
If the Aviator Sport were offered, that's what would be in my garage right now, but the Sport will do most of the things I need it to do, at any price point.


Exceptionally well maintained and completely modernised (2014) and extended three bed-roomed end of terrace family residence circa 1,026 sq.ft. (95.33 sq.m.) with lounge, open plan kitchen and family area, utility and downstairs w.c. Private garden to rear with side passage circa 9'6" close to Nutgrove Shopping Centre, walking distance to Dundrum Town Centre, Luas, bus routes and many leisure amenities. Excellent selection of local primary and secondary schools. There are double glazed pvc windows & all carpets are included in the sale.
Private Rear Garden Circa circa 36ft.
Floor Area circa 1,026 sq.ft.– 95.33 sq.m.


Petitioner Sengthiene Bosavanh ("Counsel"), attorney for Plaintiff Fernando MedinaHerrera, filed the instant Motion for Fees on October 4, 2012. Counsel requests fees in the amount of $11,629.00 pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 406(b)(1).
Defendant did not file an opposition.
Plaintiff filed this action on October 6, 2009. On September 30, 2010, the Court granted the parties' stipulation and remanded the action for payment of benefits.
On December 23, 2010, the Court granted the parties' stipulation for attorney's fees pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act ("EAJA") in the amount of $4,650.00.
On August 5, 2012, the Commissioner issued a notice indicating that Plaintiff's retroactive benefits totaled $46,516.00. Exhibit 3, attached to Motion.
This amount is equal to 25 percent of the past-due benefit award. After crediting $4,650.00 received previously pursuant to the EAJA, Counsel requests a net fee of $6,979.00 from the past-due award.
Whenever a court renders a judgment favorable to a claimant under this subchapter who was represented before the court by an attorney, the court may determine and allow as part of its judgment a reasonable fee for such representation, not in excess of 25 percent of the total of the past-due benefits to which the claimant is entitled by reason of such judgment . . .
In Gisbrecht v. Barnhart, 535 U.S. 789, 807 (2002), the Supreme Court explained that a district court reviews a petition for section 406(b) fees "as an independent check" to assure that contingency fee agreements between claimants and their attorneys will "yield reasonable results in particular cases." The Court must respect "the primacy of lawful attorney-client fee agreements," id. at 793, "looking first to the contingent-fee agreement, then testing it for reasonableness." Id. at 808; see also Crawford v. Astrue, 586 F.3d 1142 (9th Cir. 2009). Agreements are not enforceable to the extent that they provide for fees exceeding 25 percent of the past-due benefits. Gisbrecht, 535 U.S. at 807. "Within the 25 percent boundary. . . the attorney for the successful claimant must show that the fee sought is reasonable for the services rendered." Id.


I have been waiting to share this card with you till my friend Margarita received it so am hoping it reached it's destination in Japan by now. This was my oh so late swap card last month!
I CASEd this card from one of my favorite stampers, Dawn Griffith at Dawn's Stamping Thoughts. Her video tutorials are so easy to follow!
When you pull the tab you get to see the other side. I should have turned these pictures around because it actually pulls up and down; not side to side. Oh well, you get the idea!
Thank you, William! Now if I could just get the photography right!!!


New upskirting laws mean the Daily Mail may no longer be allowed to print carefully-angled paparazzi photographs of B-list female celebrities getting out of their car, lawyers have warned.
The Sidebar of Shame, which attracts huge audiences with shots of women accidentally displaying a bit of thigh or knicker, may be prohibited by new legislation – meaning the paper could face almost immediate bankruptcy due to having no content.
"We're very concerned about this new legislation which we fear will have a chilling effect on Freedom of Speech," said Mail editor Simon Williams.
"Clearly it's vitally in the public interest that people should know what colour pants Geri Halliwell is wearing, and whether minor members of the Royal Family have something a bit saucy on when they stagger out of a Chelsea nightclub and fall over at 3am.
"Without our incisive, long-lens journalism we might actually have to do some research and maybe learn things to write about, rather than just speculating what is covering Robbie William's wife's arse today.


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Eumycota (or Eumycetes)
Lignin-degrading fungi
Article By:
Dosoretz, Carlos G. Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Salame, Tomer M. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.
Hadar, Yitzhak Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.
Last reviewed:2014
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.900151
Lignin degradation
Lignin-degrading enzymes
Applications of white rot fungi
Genomic research
Links to Primary Literature
Fungi that are able to degrade lignin (a polymer that together with cellulose forms the woody cell walls of plants and cements them together). The plant cell wall consists of a multilayer structure in which cellulose and hemicellulose are intimately associated with lignin. Lignin provides strength and impermeability, and serves as a barrier against microbial attack across the cell wall. In contrast to other natural polymers composed of regularly interlinked, repetitive monomers, lignin is an amorphous polymer made of randomly distributed phenylpropanoid monomers. Lignin production is estimated at 20 × 106 megatons annually; lignin therefore plays a central role in the global renewable carbon cycle. Its structure imposes unusual restrictions on its biodegradability. See also: Biodegradation; Cell walls (plant); Cellulose; Fungal ecology; Fungi; Lignin; Polymer
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Season Ticket Holders Vote For Option A
Bolton Wanderers season ticket holders have voted overwhelmingly in favour of 'Option A' for when the Club is permitted to welcome back supporters to a capacity-restricted University of Bolton Stadium when the local region moves into Tier 2.
Season ticket holders were invited to select from one of two options last week to assist the club in planning for their safe return to the stadium.
Over 90% of season ticket holders voted for Option A which the club will now implement.
Option A will see season ticket holders become evenly divided into four 'Matchday Groups' (A – D), in the bubbles that they originally purchased their season tickets so that they will be attending with those persons they normally go to the match with (subject to social distancing guidelines).
Each Group will then be assigned a designated fixture for them to attend. This selection process will be random, although there will be some tailoring to maintain 'bubbles' and ensure balanced, socially distanced seating plans.
The Rule-of-6 will apply and any subsequent season ticket bubble larger than 6 will be split out and sat close to each other in the same area of the stadium.
Each Matchday Group will be assigned a designated fixture by way of a draw. This process will be repeated so long as Tier 2 COVID-19 regulations remain in force, with each Matchday Group attending one game in every four.
All Lead Clients (purchaser of the season tickets) will, over the next 48 hours, receive email notification of the Matchday Group their booking has been allocated to.
The Board recognises and appreciates the challenges for spectators of attending capacity-restricted matches at the Stadium under new Covid-compliant rules and obligations and is grateful to all those who took part in the vote.
Please note: if the 'bubble' doesn't comply with Tier 2 social distancing guidelines, then the Lead Client must email the ticket office at ticketsales@bwfc.co.uk and seats will be adjusted accordingly.


Electricity supply constraints are a significant hurdle to future growth, but a regional approach using market mechanisms will go a long way to addressing electricity shortfalls and to reduce expenditure on wasteful projects, to the benefit of electricity consumers and economies in the whole region.
Despite all the efforts, Africa's quest for unity has never really got off the ground. The objectives of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), the forerunner of the African Union (AU) which was founded in 1962, included ridding the continent of the remaining vestiges of colonisation and apartheid, promoting unity and solidarity among African states, and coordinating and intensifying cooperation for development. The AU has the stated vision for the African continent as "an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in the global arena". Any assessment shows that Africa is very far from achieving the objectives of the OAU much less the bolder vision of the AU.
There are several well known reasons for this. When Africa was divided between the colonial powers, and the divisions formalised at the Berlin Conference, African borders were a result of contestation between the European powers, with no regard to African's themselves. These dysfunctional borders persist to this day, and are responsible for many of the dysfunctional states. But that is the legacy, and realising the danger of never ending wars, the OAU cemented those borders and made them inviolate.
To this day, Africa is the least integrated continent, both politically and economically. Trade between African states trade is a small proportion of total trade in any one African country. Almost every African country trades more with the developed world than it does with other African countries. Research done by Tralac, an organisation developing trade-related capacity in east and southern Africa shows in great detail the extent to which this is true .
In economic terms, if an African country were to magically disappear, it would make little difference to the others. The terms of trade that African countries have with the rest of the world are not that different from colonial times. Africa exports raw materials and commodities, and imports the added- value of processed and manufactured products.
In this respect, South Africa stands alone. Its exports to the rest of Africa include a wide range of manufactured goods and services, and it only imports raw materials and commodities from the rest of the continent. South Africa runs a trade surplus with every other African country except those countries from which it imports oil. So South Africa is not dissimilar to the rest of the developed world in its relationship with Africa.
However, South Africa benefits more from African growth than other developed countries because of its greater exposure and links to Africa by virtue of its location and African heritage. But within Africa generally, there is little opportunity to exploit the virtues of comparative advantage through which the net economic welfare of two or more countries is improved by specialisation in one product and trading the surplus with another country. Under these circumstances, any talk of a United States of Africa, or a common currency, is premature – but we can learn from the European efforts at unity and the European Union (EU).
The EU started modestly in 1950, eleven years before the founding of the OAU, as a community to integrate the coal and steel industries of Europe. The rest, including political union, was built on this foundation. It is true that European economies were much more integrated, even then, than African economies are now. Africans don't need what other African countries produce, so finding something like coal or steel is harder. But something is emerging that could provide the foundation: electricity may be the perfect candidate.
Even with the electricity supply problems in South Africa, some 40 000 MW of generating capacity produces nearly 200 TWh of electricity per annum, just short of ten times that of Nigeria, a country with a population more than three times that of South Africa, and a GDP, as we have seen post its re-basing, 35% bigger than South Africa. Within Africa, only South Africa has broken the viscous "chicken-egg conundrum": it has an industrial economy – built on abundant and cheap electricity – which, in turn, can immediately absorb new generation capacity. Put another way, Medupi on its own, once fully commissioned, would represent 80% of all the electricity generated in Nigeria right now. Besides the technical shortfalls in Nigeria, a project the size of Medupi would not be built because its economy could simply not immediately finance or absorb the electricity produced in the short to medium term. It would need to build a grid as well.
So, because of a lack of industrialisation, electricity demand within Nigeria is not there, yet the shortage of electricity prevents industrialisation – the "chicken-egg conundrum". Africa's great potential lies in the development of its vast hydroelectric potential. One could argue that all this is a dream that has been deferred for over a century. In 1906, well before the establishment of Eskom, the Victoria Falls Power Company was registered in then Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) "to harness the Victoria Falls and supply electricity to the mining industry on the Witwatersrand".
But there is an existing precedent for the idea. The Cahora Bassa hydro-electric power plant in Mozambique already supplies nearly 65% of its total output to Eskom. The 11 TWh/annum of electricity received by Eskom from Cahora Bassa is just less than the total output provided by the Koeberg nuclear power station (about 13 TWh/annum). The contract with Eskom allows Mozambique to use excess Cahora Bassa capacity for its own development or to sell to its other neighbours. This could be massively expanded. Table 1 shows the potential for Southern Africa's two main rivers, the Congo and Zambezi.
Table 1: Installed and potential hydro-power generation capacity for the Congo and Zambezi rivers. Source: South African Power Pool (SAPP) Transmission and Trading Case Study by ECA .
The Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) was formed in the mid-1990s with several other southern African (SADC) countries. The institutional capacity of this body, being largely technical, functions better than is generally understood. But the impact of electricity trading is, for now, very limited. This is because, firstly, South Africa's generation capacity completely dominates that of other SAPP members, and secondly, South Africa is represented on this body by Eskom, a monopoly with its own interests that are different from those of the country or the region. Even when economically unfavourable, Eskom favours its own generating assets above those of others.
A properly functioning power pool requires an operational market mechanism for trading electricity. In general, regional electricity supply is dominated by long-term bilateral agreements (like that for electricity from Cahora Bassa), and it is only the surpluses (which are not that much) that are traded via short-term energy market mechanisms.
While there are technical constraints to deeper integration, namely the reliability and security of the existing regional grid and its expansion, the biggest constraint is when national utility monopolies like Eskom feel threatened by the available market mechanisms and choose not to use them.
New technologies now make it possible to restructure our electricity industry on a regional basis. In many areas of the world, the generation of electricity and the retail sale of electricity are no longer seen as natural monopolies, and the entry of new players can be more easily accommodated. Competition, through the exploiting of comparative advantage, is now possible. South Africa's draft updated Integrated Resource Plan for Electricity  anticipates increased imports of hydro-electric power, but for now this source of electricity remains at modest levels. But if we planned correctly on a regional (as opposed to a national) basis, the best projects with the most effective returns, the lowest costs of generation, and/or the lowest carbon dioxide emissions, would win.
This is important: according to the current SAPP plan, the medium- to long-term projects (to 2025) are expected to require US $83-billion for an additional 57 000 MW that will more than double the present regional generating capacity, and that a further US $6-billion for regional transmission investments. These are huge amounts of money but are in the ballpark of South Africa's proposed nuclear programme. Moreover, South African companies would be able to contribute far more to hydro-electricity construction than a nuclear build programme. If South Africa was to be seen as a serious buyer of electricity or could provide the initial baseload demand (to coin a phrase) many regional electricity projects would become bankable.
Once constructed, many African countries would be able to develop their own industries and economies using the same power sources creating a fresh demand for South African manufactured goods and other services.
South Africa's distance from its main markets has long being considered a disadvantage. It is therefore in our interest that our region continues to experience high rates of economic growth. Electricity supply constraints are a significant hurdle to future growth but a regional approach using market mechanisms will go a long way to addressing electricity shortfalls and reduce expenditure on wasteful projects, to the benefit of electricity consumers and economies in the whole region.
Most sensible Africans are as tired of pronouncements emanating from the AU headquarters in Addis Abba, as the statements by the Pan-African Parliament in Midrand. It is time to build a proper foundation for African unity. A determined effort to develop trade in electricity would be meaningful. It could be the foundation and beginnings of our own African economic community, as the coal and steel industry was for the Europeans. And who knows what could develop further from there? Africa might just escape the marginal role assigned for it at the Berlin conference 129 years ago.
 Economic Consulting Associates: "The Potential of Regional Power Sector Integration".