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RESIDENTS ANNOUNCE $1M GRANT FOR BOYS & GIRLS CLUB BUILDING
Town Council President Danielle Moore and former Mayor Lesly Smith announced a $1 million challenge grant for the new Smith & Moore Family Teen Center in Belle Glade, adding to the $1 million they donated four years ago to begin the campaign for the new center.
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BLENDING INNOVATION WITH THE FAMILY FARM
Check out this article in FloridAgriculture, which features a Palm Beach County farm.
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BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS BREAKS GROUND FOR CENTER
BELLE GLADE — On Wednesday, April 18, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County (BGCPBC) hosted a ceremonial groundbreaking on the site where the new Smith & Moore Family Teen Center will open in Belle Glade. More than 120 donors, staff, elected officials and supporters attended the ceremony for the career readiness facility.
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FLORIDA CRYSTALS' ALFONSO FANJUL HONORED AS 2018 LEADER OF THE YEAR BY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF PALM BEACHES
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., April 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Florida Crystals Corporation founder, Alfonso Fanjul, was honored Wednesday with the prestigious 2018 Leader of the Year Award by the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches. Each year, the Chamber acknowledges the accomplishments of business leaders and the impact they make on the local community. Mr. Fanjul accepted the award at the Chamber's annual breakfast in West Palm Beach, which drew more than 400 attendees.
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GLADES CENTRAL VALEDICTORIAN HOPES TO WORK WITH SPECIAL-NEEDS KIDS
Often in life, we encounter moments of passion so strong that we want to hold onto them forever — even though we know well their fleeting form doesn't allow us to do that.
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ON TOUR IN THE EVERGLADES AGRICULTURAL AREA
The Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) is a unique region with a long, rich history. Last week, members of the AgNet Media team had the privilege to visit the EAA and surrounding farm areas to meet with some of the area's key players. During the three-day tour, the team explored agricultural production systems, ranging from sugar to citrus.
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ON THE TOWN: The Glades Region
Check out the Glades Region featured on WPBT2 South Florida PBS.
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BDB CONTINUES TO MARKET THE GLADES REGION AS AN IDEAL BUSINESS LOCATION
Check out recent relocation and expansion projects in the Glades Region and marketing materials used to promote the area.
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ENJOY A DAY OF FAMILY FUN AT THE PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE IN BELLE GLADE
BELLE GLADE – The Palm Beach State College, 1977 College Drive in Belle Glade invites the public to a Family Fun Day to be held on Saturday, April 21 from noon to 3 p.m. Festivities includes games, music, food, face painting and fire trucks. Take your chair and enjoy the afternoon. For information, call 561-993-1188 or visit www.palmbeachstate.edu
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GOVE APPRECIATES VOLUNTEERS
BELLE GLADE — On Friday, April 20, Gove Elementary honored the dedicated volunteers that help the school continuously. Their willingness to support and enhance the education of the students is greatly appreciated. Volunteer Coordinators, Ilianna Amezquita and Dora Lopez, are actively recruiting parents and community members to join the Volunteer Program.
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ZTE Is Starting To Resume Operations Under A Temporary Commerce Department Waiver
Jul 4, 2018, 2:30pm
A ZTE phone. (Photo: Joe RaedleGetty Images)
Chinese smartphone and networking equipment manufacturer ZTE scored another concession from the White House today, with Reuters reporting that the Department of Commerce had decided to grant it a "temporary reprieve" from a ban on purchasing components from US companies that recently led to ZTE shutting down its operations.
ZTE is the company the White House essentially sentenced to death earlier this year for allegedly violating sanctions on Iran and North Korea, slapping it with a seven-year ban on purchasing or using US-made components in its products.
That is, until Donald Trump struck some kind of backroom deal with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to lift the penalties in exchange for around $US1.7 billion ($2.3 billion) in fines, a total shuffle of its senior management, and a guarantee to allow unannounced site visits by US officials.
The Senate voted to intervene against Trump's decision to negotiate, citing in part concerns from the intelligence community ZTE could be using its products to spy on the US.
But as of late June, senators were negotiating with Trump to allow him to lift the ban in exchange for tighter security restrictions, an approach endorsed by the House.
Yesterday, Bloomberg more or less proclaimed congressional hawks' efforts to keep ZTE out of business dead as a doornail.
With Congress willing to compromise with Trump on the issue, the Commerce Department is apparently working to get ZTE back in order as soon as possible. According to Reuters, the temporary order today allows ZTE to purchase some US components necessary to maintain its current networks - and it's slated to be back at full capacity as soon as it completes transferring $US400 million ($539 million) to the US as a security deposit against future fines:
The escrow agreement is still pending, according to a source. Until it is executed, ZTE cannot deposit the $400 million in escrow necessary to get the ban lifted.
While the denial order is still in place, the authorization grants a waiver to some companies that do business with ZTE to do so for one month, a source told Reuters.
The waivers allow for a limited type of activity but does not authorise any new business.
Reuters added a Commerce Department official told the agency last month they expect the $US400 million ($539 billion) to be deposited in the "next couple of days".
No word on whether the temporary waiver will allow ZTE to finally fix its broken New Jersey-made urinal.
[Reuters]
David Nield 19 Jan 2020 3:00 AM
Browser tabs. Can't live with them, can't live without them. They're both incredibly useful and an extremely annoying suck on your productivity and your computer's system resources. But perhaps there is a way to use multiple tabs the way the universe intended without letting them run roughshod over your life.

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A Plague Tale: Innocence is a game that depicts a setting that remains shockingly underrepresented in video games- that of the Black Plague, when the bubonic plague, brought to Europe by rats aboard ships from seafaring and globetrotting merchants, ended up decimating the population in Europe.
Set against this backdrop, the game intends to depict the story of Hugo and Amicia, two siblings who have to avoid getting infected by the disease, while also being on the run from the Inquisition- and who, along the way, end up stumbling upon and uncovering a sinister and deadly supernatural conspiracy.
The trailer for the game that got released at E3 does appropriate justice to this hefty subject matter, depicting rats, death, the diseased, discomfitting flashbacks, and more. You can check it out for yourself below.
If this game interests you, you should pick it up when A Plague Tale: Innocence launches for PS4, Xbox One, and PC some time next year.


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Q: Reading a file in Rails Template I'm making a Rails template file as introduced below:

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*http://asciicasts.com/episodes/148-app-templates-in-rails-2-3
I have a big file I want to make, so instead of doing:
file "bigfile.txt", <<-EOF
  content of the file...
EOF

I want to read the content from another file. What I have now is:
file "public/stylesheets/sass/960.sass", File.read(File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "960.sass")))

The file is located in the same directory as the rails template file. The problem is: when I try to make a rails app with the template (i.e., rails new_app -m rails_template/rails_template.rb, I get the following error:
The template [rails_template/rails_template.rb] could not be loaded. Error: (eval):129:in `read': No such file or directory - /Users/myusername/Desktop/new_app/960.sass

This is all because __SELF__ is not working the way I expected. I expect __SELF__ to be the template file itself, but in reality, __SELF__ is poiting to the root of the app or somewhere else.
Is there a way to load file in a rails template?

A: There is no problem reading a file from within a template. If you were to hard code the path to the source copy of 960.sass then it would work fine.
As you suspect the problem lies with the use of __FILE__. The reason is that if you look in rails-2.3.4\lib\rails_generator\generators\applications\app\template_runner.rb you will see that load_template loads the template into a string and then executes it using instance_eval:
def load_template(template)
  begin
    code = open(template).read
    in_root { self.instance_eval(code) }
  rescue LoadError, Errno::ENOENT => e
    raise "The template [#{template}] could not be loaded. Error: #{e}"
    end
end

Hence when your code executes the context is an eval block and __FILE__ won't point to your file.
The good news is that the template parameter passed to load_template (containing the path to your template) is a local variable at the point when instance_eval is called and so is available from the code inside your template. If instead you just do:
File.dirname(template)

then it should work. Be aware though that you are then tying your code to the current implementation of load_template, which could change in the future.

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Dany Garcia bio: age, height, net worth, relationship with The Rock
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Dany Garcia is the ex-wife of the legendary Dwayne Johnson, but is she famous only because of her relationships with this famous man? Her biography can inspire many to work hard to achieve the set goals. .
Image: instagram.com, @danygarciaco
Here is the chance to learn about her childhood, a promise given to her parents, career, wealth and personal life. Her story will definitely touch you.
Dany Garcia profile summary
Full name: Dany Garcia
Date of birth: November 29th, 1968
Birthplace: Belleville, New Jersey, USA
Marital status: Dwayne Johnson (1997-2007), Dave Rienzi (from 2014)
Height: 173 centimetres (5'8'' feet)
Profession: Producer
Social networks: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook
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Dany graduated from high school and entered the University of Miami, where she continued to study and work hard. At this university, she liked a senior student who played football. This senior student turned out to be her future husband, Dwayne Johnson.
The woman graduated from the university in 1992 with a degree in International Marketing and Finance. Immediately after graduation, she began to work in finance. Very quickly, she was promoted to the Vice President of Merrill Lynch, and then to the executive of Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Being a person educated in finance and marketing, as well as having work experience, the woman established her company called Garcia Companies and Seven Bucks Productions in 2012, which specialised in management. Later, she became the manager of The Rock, who worked for the WWE at that time.
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Unfortunately, after ten years of marriage, the couple divorced. Nevertheless, they remained good friends and colleagues.
Now the woman is married to Johnson`s former trainer Dave Rienzi. The couple is incredibly happy and constantly shares photos of them together, smiling and happy.
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The woman was a bodybuilder in the past, so she has a wonderful body. Her height is 173 centimetres or 5 feet 8 inches.
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In this blog post, Kevin Hillstrom tells us to ask our business intelligence or data mining or SAS programming expert to profile our e-mail marketing list for us.
Keep your analysis simple. Take twelve month buyers, and split them into three groups ... those without an e-mail address, inactive e-mail subscribers, and active e-mail subscribers.
Urban, Suburban, and Rural Customers. Customers have different preferences. The rural e-mail subscriber might respond to free shipping promotions. The urban e-mail subscriber might appear to never respond, because she visits stores after receiving an e-mail campaign.
Merchandise Preference. E-mail subscribers typically prefer a different merchandise assortment than non e-mail subscribers. You're likely to find that active e-mail subscribers are hyper-loyal to a subset of your merchandise assortment. Brand marketing individuals sometimes wish to use e-mail to communicate a holistic marketing message, whereas the profile might indicate that various e-mail / merchandise combinations represent vital "micro-channels" to customers.
Advertising Micro-Channels. Do e-mail subscribers and active e-mail customers purchase using e-mail in combination with catalog marketing, direct marketing, search marketing, or any other kind of marketing? If the answer is yes, your multichannel expert may be right in seeking to align all marketing activities across the company.
Future Channels. One of the unintended consequences of multichannel marketing occurs when one form of marketing (e-mail marketing) is effective, causing the customer to switch channels. Most of the Multichannel Forensics projects I work on suggest that customers are much more likely to switch channels than they are to become loyal multichannel shoppers. See if your e-mail marketing activities shift customer behavior. If e-mail marketing causes a shift to a lower-value channel, re-visit the purpose of e-mail marketing.
See how a software provider entices 12% of past customers and 31% of all new customers to complete their surveys. Includes a dozen tips to help you craft your survey and subject lines that will gather revenue-boosting responses.
Using the open rate to measure email marketing performance is akin to the music industry measuring sales based on the number of CDs sold. It just doesn't reflect how people buy music today.
E-mail software on demand firm Responsys today unveiled a tool the company says will help marketers identify key areas they can work on to improve their e-mail marketing's relevance.
Providing the most popular links to your website within your email campaign can and will increase traffic to your website.
The first spam message was sent to 393 users of ARPANET on May 2 1978 by someone from computing pioneers DEC.
StreamSend Blog: What about Hotmail?
Over on the Yahoo Mail Blog they stated they have been doing work on Yahoo Mail classic, and of course, anytime they do work, there are bugs.
Did you know that many email clients display not only the subject line of a new email arrival, but also the first line of text within the email? Take a look at your current email design. What's the first line of text?
EmailKarma.net: Q&A | Is SPF2.0 Dead?
What's the verdict? Is SenderID dead? Do spfv2 records need to be published? Is it sufficient to just publish SPF (v1) records when sending to MSN/Hotmail?
Comcast let us know that the Comcast Feedback Loop powered by ReturnPath is now out of beta and has been moved into production.
Could your contacts DPI settings be causing your messages to display improperly? The answer is a resounding yes, which is definitely something to think about when conducting your testing.
Should the Email Industry Lobby for Stricter CAN-SPAM Legislation?
If we all agree that CAN-SPAM legislation is just the bare minimum that email marketers should adhere to in the US, doesn't that mean it's time the email industry lobbies for stricter legislation? In my view stricter US spam legislation (at least require prior consent before you can include someone to your mailinglist) will benefit the industry as a whole. What's your opinion on this?
"Yes, legislation for the right reasons, that can actually improve email as communication channel, I agree with. Legislation to punish only the people who can be found and sued is a waste of everybody's time."
"I do think that ISP's need to be more accountable for delivery/non-delivery of messages. I would love to see legislation that says if you provide a spam complaint button, you must deliver the complaints to the sender (just like a bounce message). I would like to see legislation against black holing of messages (aka Hotmail). I would also like to see ISP's held responsible for their own networks being abused and pumping out most of the bot-net spam that occurs."
"I believe CAN SPAM either needs to evolve or be superceded by stricter anti-spam legislation. However, I'm not holding my breath for that to happen anytime soon, seeing as it took at least eight years for CAN SPAM to be generated and pass."
"The biggest disservice Can-Spam did was legitimize the concept of opt-out. If I had a dollar for every forum post or email from marketers assuming Can-Spam compliance was a carte blanche to send what was effectively spam, I'd be writing this from a laptop on a very expensive cruise. Which is why I would love to see the US switch to opt-in. Almost everywhere else has permission as part of their anti-spam legislation, and I don't see email marketing in those countries suffering as a result. After all, permission is a basic best practice."
"The problem with legislation is that those who make these rules/laws often do not know the industry as we do and this makes the outcome unpredictable. Not to mention possible other political objectives than just making the world a bit better."
It seems that most people are against making legislation stricter, because they fear that only legitimate marketers will be punished. However, I continue to believe that the industry should lobby for an opt-in legislation in the US rather than the current opt-out legislation. The need to have permission before you can legally send marketing emails to consumers is instrumental in creating a positive perception of email marketing and will help safeguard email as an effective marketing channel in the longer term. And yes, I know that having permission is only the first step (of course your emails have to be relevant etc), but it's a very important first step.
Read all the answers to my question here (login required) and feel free to share your opinion as well! If you are not a member of the Email Marketer's Club yet, you can request an invitation to join.
To determine your optimal frequency, analyze your data and use common sense as your guide. Carefully monitor the results of each send, not just the emails that your subscribers are opening and clicking on, but also the emails they are not reading as this could be a sign of fatigue.
It is also important to monitor your open and click-through metrics along with the number of unsubscribes and complaints. While relevant emails have fewer unsubscribes and complaints, the increase in frequency could bump the numbers up somewhat if the emails aren't directly targeted with new offers and specific information the recipients want.
Remember that your subscribers, not your marketing department, are in charge of their own delivery schedule. The way they react and respond to each email lets you know what they like and dislike; so if you capture the right data, you will be able to send each of your subscribers the right information at the right time.
Listrak has put together a white paper that explains what you can do to determine your optimal frequency using relevancy tactics, such as metrics and analytics, as well as advanced features like dynamic profiling and dynamic content. Download it here.
Announced today the MAAWG Senders Best Practices Document (Version 2.0 - pfd) has been officially released.
New guidelines for legitimate email avoid being mistaken for image-based junk mail.
List permission and opt-in recommendations have been amended to reflect current best practices.
User-unsubscribe processes have been clarified.
along with a number of other updates to the document.
This is a great document to read as a marketer, and should set the bar for your marketing programs.
And in response to @covati's question on Twitter @EmailKarma added: that recommendations changed "enough that you should review it. But maybe not enough to have a drastic impact to your process".
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granny sends a letter asking to be unsubscribed "from your internet" :-) cute!
A bill is working its way through the California legislature that supporters contend would strengthen its anti-spam laws and could go in to effect as early as this fall, the San Francisco Chronicle reported last week.
Nearly 18% of permission-based e-mail sent in the fourth quarter of 2007 was diverted into recipients' spam folders, according to the latest deliverability study by e-mail service provider Lyris.
May 1st @ 2pm - What is triggered email marketing? When should you use it? Why should you use it?
If you're sending triggered emails in response to one-time events (for example, welcome emails, website confirmation downloads, etc.) then chances are your data is pretty good. Someone does "something" (subscribes, purchases, downloads, etc.) and you trigger an email in response to whatever that something may be.
But what about the following, more complicated, scenarios?
The "something" event is comprised of multiple data points.
The data lives in multiple systems.
Send #1 = Renewal date – 90 days.
Send #2 = Triggered thank you upon completion OR reminder email 7 days after survey invite sent.
You have multiple (sometimes hundreds) subscribers stored per account in your CRM system. Not all contacts should receive the message.
The data about what is due to renew / when it is due to renew is stored in a separate area of your CRM system, with no easy way to tie a subscriber to the renewal opportunity.
Because you don't delete data from our CRM system, the subscriber may no longer work at the company.
The extensive survey is hosted by a third-part vendor, which means there is no real-time visibility into whether someone has completed the survey within our own system.
The list goes on, but suffice it to say that there is a lot of manual data cleaning that goes into pulling a satisfaction survey list and sending the series. So while this seems like an ideal campaign to trigger, it's just not easy.
Understanding what data is needed, where it lives, and what obstacles stand in the way of easily getting that is a huge first step in the right direction. So if you're looking to automate or optimize your triggered email marketing and have found yourself in a similar situation, understanding your data is a good place to start.
eROI surveyed over 500 marketers about their subscribe/unsubscribe process and found that while these processes are improving, they have yet to reach what we would call exceptional.
only about 30% of email marketers use a confirmed opt-in method, where a confirmation e-mail including an activation web link (or requiring a reply email) is sent to verify the subscriber.
Only 29% of email marketers reiterate the benefits of subscribing on the thank you page, 11% define the email frequency, 11% offer a promotion or coupon, 20% display whitelist instructions and 8% offer additional subscription options.
When subscribers opt-in, about 30% of email marketers don't pass them on to other sytems. When subscribers opt-out, about 65% of email marketers don't pass them on to another system.
After opting out, 90% of email marketers do not follow up with subscribers, leaving a huge opportunity for additional channel communication. Of those that do follow up, 5% use direct mail, 4% follow up via telephone.
over three-quarters of marketers do not allow subscribers to adjust frequency settings as an alternative means of unsubscribing.
Nearly one-quarter of email marketers don't know what they currently do with abuse complaints, or how they are handled.
Read more here or download the survey results in eROI's resources section (Quarterly Studies tab) .
These are very interesting results and they definitely show that there's still a lot of room for improvement.
PS. Would you like to have your email marketing program audited and optimized? Let me know!
Jeanne Jennings reviews a number of birthday emails she received recently. Very inspiring!
We often see emails tied around holidays--especially the ones that mean big bucks for retailers. However, I was delighted to see a few emails in my inbox talking about Earth Day. Two were even completely dedicated to it!
Environmental issues are hot right now (and thank goodness - it's about time we start looking after the earth), so it makes great sense to promote your eco-friendly products via email or even your brand's earth-loving attitude. After all, email is the ultimate "green" marketing tool.
My favorite of these emails was one by Banana Republic--who promote a cause-related marketing campaign in conjunction with earth day.
The chic retailer is promising to donate 1% of its sales--up to $100,000 to Trust for Public Land, a non-profit dedicated to protecting green space. At the bottom it even calls for volunteers in New York and San Francisco to come out and help the cause in person.
While it's still all about the bottom line, this campaign just seems a lot more caring than the 'buy our eco-friendly products' by some of the other emails.
A great way to do something good for the world, and an awesome use of email.
Another interesting challenge posed to us by Kevin Hillstrom. Do you know the answer to his questions?
How does personal e-mail use and influence vary between online US Hispanics and non-Hispanics? To what extent have US Hispanic e-mail users adopted social messaging instead of e-mail for personal communication?
But consumer standards of relevance are high.
Q: Do I need to be concerned about my sender reputation when sending triggered email messages?
think about what message you want readers to take away from their 51 seconds with your e-newsletter.
Consumers feel in control: Most consumers (88%) feel mostly or completely in control of their inboxes – up nine points from 2004.
General attitudes toward corporate e-mail are positive: More people (58%) believe e-mail is a great way for companies to stay in touch – up from 45% three years ago.
E-mail is effective: Half of the respondents made an online purchase in the previous year as a result of permission-based marketing – up 3 percentage points from one year ago.
E-mail can influence decisioning: Half of respondents reported that a company that does a good job with e-mail influenced their decision to do business – up 6% points from last year. However, e-mail can also close doors:About one-third (32%) have stoppeddoing business with at least one company as a result of poor e-mail marketing practices.
Relevancy is in the eye of the beholder: Consumers (41%) consider transaction confirmation emails to be most relevant, followed by account summary emails (18%).
It's important to let subscribers know exactly what they can expect from you even before they opt in to your program. Then, meet or exceed those expectations throughout the relationship. This creates engaged subscribers who will anticipate your messages and act on them.
"If you ever happen to meet me in real life, I'm a twenty-something male, 6'2" tall, 180 pounds of pure muscle, with a full head of curly dark hair.
Alas, if we ever do meet or you see my photo, you'll find out the only part of that description that is accurate is the fact that I'm male. I would fail to live up to your expectations."
So it is with email. If you don't live up to subscribers' expectations, they might end up making false assumptions based on their experiences with other Web sites, email campaigns and newsletters.
Which are those crucial touch points? What are the basic principles that apply throughout the subscriber relationship? And what are typical things your subscribers expect from you and where they have likely been disappointed before? Read the full article to find out.
Event-based email - so many messages, so many modules!
event-based email marketing - what is the best way to manage them? Does it make sense to leverage enterprise marketing management systems (EMM) or technology from an on-premise or hosted email service provider?
They simply use their brand name.
They use their dot-com branding.
They use their brand name plus the name of the newsletter.
They use their brand name plus the name of their division.
Branding in the sender address is critical become not all email clients display sender names; some just display sender addresses. When looking at the branding of sender addresses of promotional emails, it comes down to whether the retailer uses branding after the @-sign in their address, or both before and after it. The consensus is the more branding the better, with 73% of major online retailers including their brand name both before and after the @-sign. The remaining 27% use branding only after the @-sign; none use branding only before it.
Clearly, a lack of branding before the @-sign is not a reason to change your sender address, but it's something to consider the next time a change of sender address is required.
Please join me in welcoming Kelly Rusk as our newest co-blogger on BeRelevant!
Kelly Rusk offers a fresh, yet insightful look into the email marketing world. She began her email career as communications manager for cardcommunications, an email marketing professional services firm based out of Ottawa, Canada, where she managed the company newsletter and blog while helping clients devise smart email strategies and analyze reporting metrics.
In 2006, she led an initiative to be the first Canadian company publishing email trends report, which she oversaw until the company was acquired. She was also a contributor to Chris Baggott's book "Email Marketing by the Numbers."
While at Sitebrand (which acquired cardcommunications) her focus shifted to email marketing clients in the online retail sector. Now Kelly has a broadened professional focus as a communications officer in the public sector, however she still keeps her mouse on the pulse of email marketing through the BeRelevant blog and other industry resources. She also blogs about using social media for PR and marketing at web2dotwhat.com.
Are you interested in becoming a regular blogger on BeRelevant as well? Let me know!
For my debut on BeRelevant, I'm going to share five lessons about email you should master, because they will help you in other marketing scenarios as well.
Although I've spent most of my career working in email marketing, my current position is a broader communications role (email still plays a part) I also spend a lot of time on the social media bandwagon--current obsession is Twitter, of course! However, no matter what I'm doing, I'm finding what I've learned about email works in almost any marketing/communications situation.
Be concise - Email marketing requires you to capture your recipient's attention in an instance. Since we all live by our inboxes, on average the population's attention span has deteriorated greatly over the past few years. I think long copy has its place--in a book, magazine or even a user manual. However, short snappy copy wins for virtually any marketing application.
Put the customer first - Sure we always say "the customer is always right," but we don't always practice what we preach. With email, failing to give subscribers exactly what they want can have serious consequences (Hello "Report as Spam" button!), so smart email marketers strive to provide targeted, relevant and interesting content that subscribers want to receive. Sure, other media have constraints, but if always approach marketing with a truly customer-centric mindset, we'd see a lot less ineffective marketing out there.
Test, measure, refine - The granular nature of email metrics paired with the ease of testing makes email the ultimate tool to measure and constantly improve. With a little analysis, you can easily pinpoint where a campaign went wrong, or what is causing a drop in subscribers, opens, etc. Once you've mastered the process of constantly testing, measuring and refining, it's easily applied to any sort of marketing campaign.
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The sign-up form is your flirtatious comment, the kind gesture, the body language that encourages someone to enter into a relationship with you (by submitting their email address). So it better be good.
In this Special Report, MarketingSherpa looks at how to market in Central and Eastern Europe and give examples of email campaigns that are working there.
The new service allows e-mail marketers to monitor the mailing behavior of firms with which they share data The service can be used with existing seeding accounts, Gmail, AOL, Yahoo MSN Hotmail accounts, and custom domains provided by LashBack.
If there is one message American marketers should take away from last week's court ruling against e-mail marketer e360 Insight, it's this: Rightly or wrongly, simply being Can Spam compliant is not enough to get e-mail delivered.
Email Authentication - Are you in the game?
David Baker uses Maslow's hierarchy to talk about email programs and where they fit in helping consumers fulfill needs.
Melinda Krueger answers the question "Do you have any hard facts (statistics!) or success stories that prove the way to the readers' hearts is through content that they actually care about, and not what we want to tell them?"


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INTERVIEW: Ben Montague
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Ben Montague chats with Kevin Cooper about his Pledge Music experience, going to his first gig, his fondness for Nottingham, his as yet untitled new album and his forthcoming tour.
Ben Montague is a young British musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Farnborough, Kent. Best known for his single 'Haunted' from his first full length album Overcome, he received high praise from UK Radio Stations, when his single from the same album; 'Can't Hold Me Down' was added to the BBC Radio 2 playlist for 5 weeks.
It is to his credit that as an independent artist he has managed to have his follow up single, 'Haunted', similarly recognised when it became Radio 2's Record of the Week, followed in June 2010 by 'Broken' which also topped the Radio 2 A List for 6 weeks.
After successful tours supporting The Wanted, Shane Filan and Amy MacDonald, the time has come to tour on his own. With established tour dates and the release of a new album early next year, Kevin Cooper caught up with him whilst he was having a few days holiday in France, and this is what he had to say:
Hi Ben, how are you?
Hey Kevin, how are you mate, are you alright?
I'm good thanks, so what are you doing over here in France?
I'm just taking a few days out to relax and hopefully get to do some surfing before my tour starts in September.
I have to tell you that I have seen you twice previously; once supporting The Wanted and the other supporting Shane Filan. So it is time that we saw you out there on your own tour.
That's fantastic Kevin (laughter). I am really looking forward to doing my own thing and it's happening in September. After that I am going back out on the road with Shane. That's going to be another really good tour I think.
So you are looking forward to doing it on your own?
I really am, I can't wait. It's been a long time since I have been out on the road on my own and it feels as though the fans really want me to see me. I am really excited.
What can we expect from the tour?
I have to say that after supporting Shane Filan on his tour, I kind of fell in love with the intimacy of just me and my acoustic guitar, a stomp-box and a piano. I think that for this tour I am pretty much going to do the same thing. I've got my friend Charlie Grant supporting me, and who is going to get up on stage and play a couple of tracks with me. So generally speaking I am just going to strip all of the tracks right back to their very basics and come out a bit Ed Sheeran style and just do it with one man and a guitar.
You recently got involved with the Pledge Music scheme and it only took 30 days to raise the cash for your new album. How did that feel?
I think that is was actually a little less than that Kevin. It was an incredible experience and I couldn't believe just how quickly we hit the 100%. Pledge Music are an amazing company to be working with. As amazing as the pledges are, it is really all about the fans Kevin, and I was overwhelmed at just how quickly the fans responded to the campaign, and how they all wanted to be a part of it. That's the best thing about it, it is so instant and you are immediately interacting with your fan base. It really is an incredible experience.
So taking that on board, when will the new album be ready?
Well, I have written the album. It's all done now and I am now at that tricky stage of picking all of the songs, which is always a very difficult thing to do. You write a whole bunch of songs and then you try to pick the ones which you think are going to be the stand out ones and those which the fans will like the best. I am doing that bit as we speak but the album is set to be recorded during the first three weeks of October so I have now got a pretty full-on schedule (laughter). I don't have a single day off in September because obviously throughout the whole of September I am on tour, and then I go into the studio the first three weeks of October. After that I go straight out on tour with Shane (Filan) for about 30 days until December. So it is a busy time for me (laughter).
The main bulk of the album will be recorded during the first three weeks of October and then whilst I am out on the road touring, the album will be mixed, and hopefully it will be set to be released in either February or March next year (2015).
Will you be showcasing the album on the tour?
Oh yes, definitely Kevin, definitely. I have got to get my teeth into the songs (laughter). I will probably pick the main four or five potential singles that may be included on the album, and play them on the tour. It is always good playing them live on the road because you then get a feeling for how the audience reacts to them. Hopefully it will be a good reaction (laughter).
Have you got a title for the album yet?
Do you know what Kevin, I don't have one yet. I have got a couple of titles that I am playing with but I can't say yet as I don't want to give the game away (laughter). This album is going to be very personal to me lyric wise. I have lost a grandparent and there are a few other things that have been happening in my life so it is going to be quite an emotional album. I have got a couple of track titles that I think will be the name of the album. I don't think that I will do what I did last time, which was Tales Of Flying And Falling. I don't think that I will go for something that isn't a lyric. I think that I will either pick a lyric or a song title. You will have to wait and see (laughter).
Please don't take this the wrong way but you seem to be in Nottingham all of the time. Am I to take it that you like our fair city?
Kevin I love Nottingham. I have always had really great gigs in Nottingham. The reaction that I got from the gig that I did with Shane (Filan) was incredible; absolutely incredible. When I came out to do my signings the queue was just so long and was going back up the stairs. Everyone who works at the Royal Concert Hall are really lovely. I have done a whole bunch of gigs in Nottingham but I have never played The Maze so I am quite excited about that. All of my gigs have been great. I even did a gig for Smooth FM on the beach in front of the Council House up there which was a lot of fun. I love looking around the shops in Nottingham and I have to say that I have never had a bad experience when visiting.
At least you didn't say that Nottingham has some fantastic curry houses
(Hysterical laughter) I'm always so blooming busy that I never get to eat out, I just do a gig and then I'm out. Maybe this time around you can recommend a good curry house for me to visit (laughter).
You have supported both Shane Filan and Amy Macdonald. What experiences have you gained from that?
The thing is, for artists that are coming through the independent route, it is all about playing live really. For me personally it is all about building a live following which is possibly at the top of the list of things that you are wanting to achieve, because that means that your career can go on a lot longer. The one thing that was really incredible supporting Shane and Amy was that it has enabled me to play in front of their big crowds; some of whom have now become fans of my music which I am very grateful for.
You mention big crowds; you have been playing the Festivals this year. How has that gone?
I have Kevin, I have played a number of Festivals this year actually. It has been a real mix; I have played some big ones like the Isle of Wight Festival, and I have done a whole bunch of little ones too. I have done a lot of work with the Hard Rock Cafe this year, so I did a gig in Rome which was quite a big one. I then did another one in the O2 Arena in London which was really great. And then I did lots of little ones like the Hazlemere Festival and the Fringe Festival which I really love. The smaller ones are just as much fun as the larger ones. It doesn't matter if it's a big stage or a small stage Kevin; it's just nice when there is a crowd of people there who have all come to listen to your music.
On the subject of large and small crowds, do you have to adjust the set to suit the occasion?
Do you know what, I used to think that you did, if I am being really honest. I used to think that when you went out in front of a big crowd, that you need to go out with a big band and be really full on. However, we have got such great singer songwriters now who are really doing well; the likes of Passenger, Ed Sheeran, Ben Howard and Amy Macdonald. All of these singer songwriters do not necessarily go out with a massive band; they are quite stripped back. So I think that as you do more and more gigs, you adjust your set naturally to the size of the crowd and what they are going to want to expect from you. So in a word, no really (laughter). It's actually quite an organic thing, you just go out there and you just do your thing. I think that if you are doing it genuinely and honestly then people will fall into that and appreciate it.
You have mentioned singer songwriters, does the song writing side of the business come easy to you?
To be honest with you Kevin, I have good days and bad days (laughter). It's like any other job in the world, some days you feel like you are on top of it whilst others are a bit of a struggle. I have written a song for the new album called My Father Said and I literally wrote that song in an hour. I just sat down with the guitar one morning and the lyrics and melody came out very, very quickly. But then you have days when you have written the track and you have written the melody, but you are just not quite happy with the lyrics and you want to tweak them. So I would say that it's never something that I struggle with, because I think that if it doesn't come out organically as in the melody and the music, I will put it to one side and start something fresh. I don't think that you should ever really thrash something out for too long otherwise you will get too caught up in it you know.
How did you get started in music?
To be honest Kevin I landed on my feet in many ways. I came out of University and did the whole working thing in the pubs and clubs. I was doing jobs to try and keep music going, working in bars and playing on live music nights, all that kind of stuff. Then when I had got a bit of money together I made an E.P. with my Manager at that time, and then we met a radio plugger who said that the songs were really good. He advised us to take them to the radio stations. I told him that at that time I didn't have much money in order to do that. He said that if the songs got played on the radio then we could work something out then.
So taking his advice we put together Haunted as an E.P. and the first song was a song called Can't Hold Me Down which went straight onto the C List on Radio 2 and we were all like "wow we can't believe it". None of us ever expected that as we didn't have a label behind us and everything was being done independently. And then I went in with the next single which was Haunted and we got record of the week. And it all sparked from there Kevin. And here we are (laughter).
Who were you listening to when you were growing up?
I suppose that I was influenced by what my dad listened to really and he was listening to rock such as Cream, The Who, (Eric) Clapton, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin, all of those guys. So I listened to a lot of that whilst I was growing up together with Buddy Holly and all those types of classics. They would always be playing in the car. But then my mum always loved the slightly more soulful stuff, like Stevie Wonder, Prince, George Michael, so it was quite an eclectic mix. I would have to say that for me Kevin it was always slightly more the singer / songwriter roots so more The Beatles and The Rolling Stones that were really my passion.
What was the first record that you ever bought?
Wow Kevin, good question (laughter). I think that would be (What's The Story) Morning Glory? by Oasis (laughter). You really made me think about that (laughter).
That's not a bad first record (laughter). And who did you first see perform live in concert?
That would be Eric Clapton at the Royal Albert Hall in London with my dad. I do remember that; my dad was pretty good and he would take me to a lot of gigs. I remember going to that one and listening to all of the songs in the car; White Room, Lay Down Sally, Layla and all those kind of songs that when you see him play them live it was like "oh my goodness me, that is what I have got to do, I want to be like that" (laughter).
Who has influenced you most in your music career?
It's a funny one that Kevin. I always say the same thing; I was just always influenced by really good song writers such as John Lennon and Paul McCartney. There are so many, even the likes of Prince with his lyrics and melodies but I guess growing up, it would be people like Noel Gallagher from Oasis, who is a phenomenal songwriter. Even down to songwriters like Gary Barlow, he has had an effect on me definitely. It's quite a wide range really.
What has been the highlight of your career so far?
The highlight for me has to be getting Album of the week on Radio 2. That was probably the highlight for me.
Ben thanks for taking the time to speak to me. I am sure that you will be successful in everything that you do in the future and that the tour will be a great success.
Thanks Kevin; that's nice of you to say and I look forward to seeing you at The Maze. Thanks mate, cheers.
Ben Montague Solo Tour Dates
Date Venue Location
Sep 04 Boileroom Guildford
Sep 05 Gorilla Manchester
Sep 06 Junction 2 Cambridge
Sep 11 Komedia Brighton
Sep 12 Mr Kyps Poole
Sep 13 The Louisianna Bristol
Sept 14 Clwb Ifor Bach Cardiff
Sep 19 Cluny 2 Newcastle
Sep 20 Kings Tuts Glasgow
Sep 21 The Maze Nottingham
Sep 25 Arlington Arts Newbury
Sep 26 Chequer Mead East Grinstead
Sep 27 The KPH London
Sep 28 The Brook Southampton
Oct 02 Academy 2 Dublin
Oct 03 The Empire Belfast
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Despite its location close to the Arctic Circle, Reykjavik's climate is similar to that of the northwestern U.S., although cooler and windier. The Gulf Stream helps keep the annual mean temperature at 40°F. Changes between summer and winter are not extreme. It is rarely very cold in winter or warm in summer. Winter temperatures below 20°F are unusual, as are summer temperatures above 60°F. The wind blows year round, however, and a wind chill factor between -15°F and 10°F is common in winter.
Cooler weather lasts from October through April. Snow may fall in Reykjavik as early as September and as late as June, but the normal season is between October or November and March or April. Even in midwinter, rain is as likely as snow. A large accumulation of snow is rare. Average annual rainfall is 31 inches in Reykjavik. During winter and spring, winds in the capital can reach hurricane force.
Iceland is so far north that the amount of daylight varies considerably throughout the year. An average daily gain of 6 minutes of daylight follows the winter solstice on December 21, and a daily loss of 6 minutes follows the summer solstice on June 21. December and January days have only about 4 hours of daylight; in February the days rapidly begin to lengthen; and by April they are as long as at midsummer in the U.S. From late May to late July, there is no darkness at all-20 hours of sun (or clouds) and 4 hours of twilight. Following this period of "white nights," the sun slowly retreats, and by October the days begin to shorten as rapidly as they lengthened in the spring.
Earthquakes are common in Iceland, but are rarely felt in Reykjavik. Volcanic activity is infrequent but rather spectacular when an eruption does occur. The underwater volcano that created the new island of Surtsey in the Westmann Islands off the south coast began erupting in November 1963 and remained active through mid-1967. In January 1973, a volcanic eruption on Heimaey Island in the Westmann Islands forced the evacuation of all 5,000 residents and destroyed more than 300 homes and buildings. In the Krafla area, near Lake Myvatn, an eruption took place in December 1975, lasting several days; this area subsequently has seen seven lesser eruptions, and further volcanic activity is expected there. The most famous of Iceland's volcanoes, Mt. Hekla, which had been expected to remain dormant for a 100 years or so after its spectacular 1947 eruption, produced eruptions in August 1980, April 1981, and January 1991. A volcano under the Glacier Vatnajokull erupted in November 1996, melting tons of ice and creating destructive flooding.
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Re-issue, 400 copies in white vinyl with black splatter, 180g. Gatefold cover, 350g with gloss lamination + insert 250g, all assembled in a PVC overbag.
Recorded in spring 2006 at Radio Halland, BM Studios Andersberg and Slaughterhouse Recording Facilities. Mixed at The Slaughterhouse. Mastered at Radio Halland.
Really beautiful reissue of this masterpiece that sounds perfect !


Richard Peck was the original creator of the Invisible Dog Fence. Mr. Peck was a traveling salesman, who in 1973, noticed a lot of folks struggling to keep their pets safely contained in the yard. New housing developments restricted these homeowners from constructing physical privacy fences, so Mr. Peck had an idea.
Richard Peck teamed up with an electronic engineer and developed the first patented Invisible Dog Fence® and named it "Stay-Put."
The patent consisted of a transmitter that produced a radio signal through a buried wire and a receiver collar worn by the dog that would respond to the radio signal. When the collar picked up the radio signal that was produced through the buried wire, the collar would react by delivering a static irritant. The concept was that this static irritant would teach the dog to avoid the boundary wire, resulting in successful containment.
Mr. Peck was a fellow dog lover and although he was excited about this new product, he was concerned about the effects of delivering this static irritant to dogs. He did his due diligence and teamed up with the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine to research the short and long term effects on a dog using this type of fence. The study reveled that there were no negative health concerns (both short and long term) for a dog using the Invisible Fence®.
Once he received this clarification, he began selling these dog fences by mail order and catalogs. Mr. Peck retired and sold his patent rights in 1976 to John Purtell, which was the beginning of the Invisible Fence Brand® we know today. After 1993 Peck's original patent expired and several new dog fence companies came to market. Such as, Dog Watch®, Pet Stop®, Dog Gaurd® and Outdoor Pet Solutions® to name a few.
We have used all of these various brands through our professional installation company. We have become experts in working with these products and training dogs how to properly interact with these products.
In the following article we will explain how an Underground Dog Fence System works.
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The Mahli are a scheduled tribe. The word Mahli means bamboo.
The Mahli of Bihar speak Sadri and read and write in Devanagari. They are not vegetarians and eat rice, maize and wheat as cereals. Hinduism is their religion. They mainly do basket work for a living. Some of them work in agriculture. They have a community council to look after them. Their literacy level is low so the gospel will need to be given in oral form too. They do not like to use family planning.
The Sadri in Orissa speak Thar and can speak in Hindi. The Sadri live in West Bengal too.
* Pray that the the council leaders come to Jesus Christ and lead others to Him.
peoplegroupsindia.comView Mahali in all countries.


I've been playing around with my cat pattern. It works well, but I decided to try something different. So I made a stand up version. He turned out cute, didn't he? These little buddies hope to make some child smile. I'll post my second pattern on the yarn cats page. Make a few for someone (old or young) who loves cats!


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Q: Slider in repeat control and manipulation of text via jOuery I have a slider with a range selector. Now I display the values in a computed field.
The script for that is:
$( document ).ready(function() {
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I use a class for the manipultion of the text. In a repeate control now all text manipulate. Correct, that's clear.
Now I use the ID but the function can find it. I use the x$ function but the function can find it.
x$(sliderID).text(sliderDspValStr);

What is the fault.

A: How are you calculating the ID in your CSJS? "#{id:myComponent}" cannot access the client-side ID of a component of a repeat if it's placed outside the repeat.
Client-side IDs within a repeat control are calculated dynamically, part of which includes the row index. Look in Firebug and you'll see this. Outside the repeat row, the component tree has no concept of how many rows are displayed or which row you want.
For any CSJS manipulation of a repeat control, use classes. To make a class unique for a specific row, compute it using "myClass#{idex}" where idex corresponds to the variable name you've assigned to the indexVar property of the repeat.


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Q: can I select columns based on their name in Mysql? is there a way to select columns using '%' or 'like'?
for example:
I have a table with 20 columns , and 4 of them are starting with "GPS_"(GPS_long,GPS_Lat,GPS_sat,GPS_Speed)
I want to run something like this:( I know this is NOT the way...)
SELECT like '%GPS_%' FROM sample.table

so it will bring only the GPS columns  ?
Thanks ,

A: No, you can't, nor should you even consider it.
This is a variation on ...

Never use "select *" in Production Code

.. and the risk is the same.
At the moment, your table is nice and tidy, with a few columns of limited size.
At some point, someone is going have the "Great Idea" of adding a whole bunch of BLOB fields and populating them with terabytes of video data.  If you're unlucky and those new fields just happen to be prefixed "GPS_", then your code would start retrieving these fields, even though it has absolutely no interest in them.
Always specify the fields that you want to retrieve explicitly.

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Maybe say something more about your case - is this only to spare some typing or it may happen that these columns will be changed dynamically by something external? Like @Phil W. said you should avoid such solutions, but sometimes it may happen that this is inevitable. Then you may need to have construct such columns list dynamically in some external tool.


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import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Hashtable;

/**
 * This is a index where textures can be registered
 *
 * @author michael
 */
public class TextureIndex {
	private final Object imageIndexMutex = new Object();
	private final Object textureCounterMutex = new Object();
	private final Hashtable<String, Integer> imageIndexes = new Hashtable<>();

	private final File generatedResourcesDirectory;
	private final File generatedSourcesDirectory;

	private int textureCounter = 0;
	private int imageIndexCounter;

	private DataOutputStream textureIndexOut;
	private PrintWriter textureConstantsOut;

	public TextureIndex(File generatedResourcesDirectory, File generatedSourcesDirectory) {
		this.generatedResourcesDirectory = generatedResourcesDirectory;
		this.generatedSourcesDirectory = generatedSourcesDirectory;
	}

	public void openTextureIndex() throws IOException {
		generatedResourcesDirectory.mkdirs();
		textureIndexOut = new DataOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(new File(generatedResourcesDirectory, "texturemap")));
		textureIndexOut.write(new byte[] { 'T', 'E', 'X', '1' });

		generatedSourcesDirectory.mkdirs();
		textureConstantsOut = new PrintWriter(new File(generatedSourcesDirectory, "TextureMap.java"));
		textureConstantsOut.println("package jsettlers.common.images;");
		textureConstantsOut.println("import java.util.Arrays;");
		textureConstantsOut.println();
		textureConstantsOut.println("// DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE, IT IS GENERATED");
		textureConstantsOut.println();
		textureConstantsOut.println("public final class TextureMap {");
		textureConstantsOut.println("	private TextureMap() {}");
		textureConstantsOut.println();

		textureConstantsOut.println("	public static int getIndex(String name) {");
		textureConstantsOut.println("		int arrindex = Arrays.binarySearch(names, name);");
		textureConstantsOut.println("		if (arrindex < 0) {");
		textureConstantsOut.println("			throw new IllegalArgumentException(\"Could not find \" + name + \" in image map.\");");
		textureConstantsOut.println("		}");
		textureConstantsOut.println("		return indexes[arrindex];");
		textureConstantsOut.println("	}");
		textureConstantsOut.println();
		System.out.println("Opened texture index");
	}

	public int registerTexture(String name, int textureFile, int offsetX, int offsetY, int width, int height, Integer torsoIndex, boolean isTorso, TexturePosition position) throws IOException {
		synchronized (imageIndexMutex) {
			String safename = name.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9._]", "_");

			imageIndexes.put(safename, imageIndexCounter);

			textureIndexOut.writeShort(offsetX);
			textureIndexOut.writeShort(offsetY);
			textureIndexOut.writeShort(width);
			textureIndexOut.writeShort(height);
			textureIndexOut.writeShort(textureFile);
			textureIndexOut.writeInt(torsoIndex == null ? -1 : torsoIndex);
			textureIndexOut.writeShort(isTorso ? 1 : 0);

			textureIndexOut.writeShort(toShort(position.getLeft()));
			textureIndexOut.writeShort(toShort(position.getTop()));
			textureIndexOut.writeShort(toShort(position.getRight()));
			textureIndexOut.writeShort(toShort(position.getBottom()));

			System.out.println("Added image " + imageIndexCounter + " to texture " + textureFile + " and added to constant index as " + safename);

			return imageIndexCounter++;
		}
	}

	public void closeTextureIndex() throws IOException {
		ArrayList<String> sortedIndexes = new ArrayList<>(imageIndexes.keySet());
		Collections.sort(sortedIndexes);

		textureIndexOut.close();
		textureConstantsOut.println("	private static final String[] names = new String[] {");
		for (String n : sortedIndexes) {
			textureConstantsOut.println("		\"" + n + "\",");
		}
		textureConstantsOut.println("	};");

		textureConstantsOut.println("	private static final int[] indexes = new int[] {");
		for (String n : sortedIndexes) {
			textureConstantsOut.println("		" + imageIndexes.get(n) + ",");
		}
		textureConstantsOut.println("	};");

		textureConstantsOut.println("}");
		textureConstantsOut.close();

		System.out.println("Closed texture index");
	}

	private static int toShort(float left) {
		return (int) (left * 0x7fff);
	}

	public int getNextTextureIndex() {
		synchronized (textureCounterMutex) {
			return textureCounter++;
		}
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Been foiling for 2 years, and enjoy going fast. I don't want to race, but I'd like to know what the "correct" technique for trimming the kite is while riding. Both upwind and downwind. Sometimes I try to lean back as hard as possible, and sometimes I ease off. Perhaps an even better question is how to achieve the fastest speed (not VMG), and also the steepest angles (not necessarily both at the same time).
Maybe some racers will come by and give better info, but since nobody has yet, I'll give my take on it, as top speed runs are something I've been playing with lately, but really I'm not very fast yet.
For a top speed run, come off the wind until you can sail the board flat. When you're angled upwind the wing doesn't go straight through the water, but cuts through it at an angle of a track that helps you go upwind, but creates drag.
Don't come down too far that the wind is light though. To create speed, you need tension in your lines to pull you forward faster. So fly the kite low, and sheet in to build speed. If you can't get enough tension in your lines, point up toward the wind a little more.
As you build speed, you build apparent wind, so as long as you don't make a mistake and slow yourself down, you get more pressure to work with as you go faster.
Balancing the pressure on the lines and the drag on the wing is a dance you just need to get used to, but as you get the hang of it, you can eek out higher top speeds.
Another thing is the faster you go, the more lift your wing generates, so the more forward you need to be to keep the wing underwater.
That's my completely amateur take on it, hope it's helpful.
Edit: Oh, and fly the next bigger kite size than you'd usually pick for the conditions. Bigger kites give you more line tension to work with.
Good tips above for top speed. but..
When racing we rarely try for top speed but instead are concerned with VMG (velocity made good) going upwind or downwind. Most race courses are set up with upwind and downwind legs because across the wind (where you might achieve top speed) is less challenging.
The easiest way that I know of to improve your upwind and downwind performance is to match race with at least one other kiter on similar equipment. You quickly learn what technique works. When I'm kiting with my friends we are constantly trying to outperform each other. We have a destination about 4 km downwind that we often visit. It is certainly a race between us going downwind and then on our return going upwind. I rarely have a session where I have not been near to another kiter or windsurfer or sailboat and tried to outperform them.
Of course your overall performance will also require you to master gybes and tacks.. and the tack is a challenging trick to learn.
I'll share my technique, I'll make no claims that it's "correct" I use a stock Ozone Foil Race control system with lots of depower.
For the power stroke, I usually trim in about 2-3" so the kite doesn't stall, then as I'm up and riding and accelerating I'll trim in another 6-8" so that I have 15-20% trim remaining. I only ever fully trim when I'm super over powered in somewhat survival mode.
My goal when going upwind is to accelerate, get my board/body in the right position, then pull in the trimmer until the bar is in a comfortable position with my arms. I have a low-back injury, so I can't do the full poo-stance anymore, so I get where I feel balanced with my chest out/shoulders back, and then trim so that my arms aren't reaching and that I can comfortably sheet the bar out in a puff or if I get overpowered. If you're on the right kite, you should be able to sail with a pretty stable body position and just move your arms in and out 3-4" to control gusts.
One thing to note, you're not trimming the kite to feel more bar pressure, you're trimming to go faster. Sometimes, you can let the trimmer out and feel a lot more line tension, but that's not necessarily power, it's actually probably just a bunch of drag. You want to pull enough trim that when you're riding you can sheet in and prevent yourself from falling backwards, but when you sheet out a bit the kite flies forward in the wind window and accelerates.
I'll describe the bear-away at a windward mark of a race. You approach the mark, usually on Starboard tack, and right as you're rounding it and starting to head downwind, pop the trimmer ALL the way off (which in my case causes backstall) and the kite should fall WAY back in the window and pull like a friggin truck. Use this pull to 'slingshot' yourself around the mark, then pull on about 1-2" of trim (or however you have your bar tuned) so that riding with the bar at or near the chicken loop is full power (not backstall, as is the case with my bar when the trimmer is all the way out). If the kite feels slow, backstally, or draggy pull about 2" of trim. If the kite feels like it's too far forward in the WW and you can't head deep enough downwind to be competitive, you can let the trimmer out and the kite will fall back in the WW more and get you deeper.
This is always a trade-off with speed, so what you're trying to do is go deep when the puffs hit and you're powered up, and edge upwind slightly to accelerate when the wind slacks and you feel like the kite isn't keeping up. Like was said before, you can go downwind a bit flatter to the water which will reduce drag, but if you're going properly fast, your apparent wind will shift forward and actually fake the kite out into feeling like it's sailing upwind; for this reason, ripping downwind is almost the same body posture as ripping upwind, although you're not trying to edge upwind incrementally you're doing the opposite, edging downwind when the gusts allow.
Thanks so much for all your answers. Helps me think about it a bit differently. I always thought for example that going downwind the board would be flat, but as I ride more I'm engaging the board more in order to go faster, so I think I'm on the right track. I'll read this again and practice more.
Also, for the trim line, I once built a bar where the trim was long, and it ended up just constantly tangling with the center line. How do you manage the long trim line? Do you always keep it in your hand?


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Virginia Court Hears Challenge to Taxing Power of Local Authority
Joseph Bishop-Henchman
The D.C. Examiner reports on yesterday's argument in Arlington County Circuit Court, involving the constitutionality of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority's power to impose taxes and issue bonds:
Only elected governments have the power to issue bonds, levy taxes, and appropriate money under Virginia's Constitution, argued Patrick McSweeney, an attorney representing the [plaintiffs].[…]
"The general assembly can do anything it is not prohibited from doing and it's not prohibited in this case," said Deputy Attorney General Francis Ferguson, who supported [the defendants'] arguments Monday.
A ruling by Judge Benjamin Kendrick is expected quickly, perhaps today. This suit is separate from challenges to the statewide traffic offense surcharges.
UPDATE: Judge Kendrick ruled in favor of the Authority on all counts, upholding the Authority's new taxes on home sales, car rentals and hotel rooms, and new fees for auto registrations and safety inspections (all taking effect in January). The plaintiffs stated that they will appeal to the state supreme court.
Center for Legal Reform
Definition of Tax


Balance the karmic traces that currently inhibit you from using your subtle vision - you will gain the ability to see the physical world well with your physical eyes closed, and you will be able to see the celestial worlds as well. This is accomplished by the programmed silent subliminal samyama on the sutra "pratibha darshasa" and this samyama is repeated throughout this meditation.
Balance the karmic traces that currently inhibit you from experiencing that you are the Creator of this Universe - Brahman Consciousness. This is accomplished by an audible guided meditation and samyama on the sutra "aham brahmasmi" plus the Brahma Sutras are present throughout the meditation as silent subliminals.
To accomplish these two objectives, you must only perform this meditation once or twice a day (more times is even better - you will make faster progress). Each time you perform this meditation, many karmic traces will be balanced. Your subtle vision will spontaneously improve and over time the experience of Brahman Consciousness will dawn in your life.
To enhance the effectiveness of this meditation you can wear the Perfect Vision Vitara during the meditation. This Vitara will help to restore your physical vision to perfect 20/20 and block out all physical light, which will make it easier for you to see with your subtle senses.
You can also wear the Nirvana Vitara during the meditation for an even greater enhancement. If you wear the Nirvana Vitara your brain will spontaneously create new brain cells (neurogenesis) and these new brain cells will be established as 100% capable Sat Yuga brain cells (capable of supporting an IQ of 100,000).
When performing this meditation, sit before your computer display with your eyes closed. You may wear headphones for beter clarity of the silent subliminals. it is very important that you engage in the process, do not just listen passively. When the speaker says something, you must repeat it exactly in your mind.


The <object/> tag is now enabled in help files (XHP) and points to objects such as external videos, files to download or more generic objects.
The @data attribute of <object> may point to different object depending on the language of the help files. For example, an external video can have a localized version for the language.
We need to extract the <object> tag from the help files and place it in Pootle for translation and put it back in the localized files.


One thing we love about travel is the people that we meet. Locals and fellow travelers alike are what makes travel so interesting and exciting. It was while sitting in a campsite near Nice, France that we met Kelleigh and Andy who told us about a great campsite in Haute Provence that just so happened to be the entrance to a Via Ferrata.
What is a Via Ferrata you ask?
A Via Ferrata is one of those walks that you have seen so many times on photos on the internet. The photos where people call this hike the most dangerous hike in the world or the craziest trail in the world.
We always wondered what these people were thinking of walking along cliffs until we realized that they were simply doing a Via Ferrata. A Via Ferrata is a lot like rock climbing but you don't have to have any technical skill or training. If you know how to attach a carabiner to a steel cable and climb a ladder you can do a Via Ferrata.
Originally used to military squads in WWI across mountains, Via Ferratas are now used by hikers and climbers to connect routes and go up scrambles with relative safety and security. But I think that it is used today more by people to go out and have a thrill dangling off the side of a cliff for a day while getting the instant satisfactions of tackling a route.
If you have never tried rock climbing before we strongly suggest hiring a guide. Via Ferratas are safe, but they are extremely high and if you are not used to dangling off of a cliff you may want to have a professional around.
Dave and I used to rock climb a lot so all we had to do was go to the front desk at our campsite and rent the equipment. Our Campsite had everything that we needed to tackle a via ferrata and it had signs leading us directly from our campsite to the entrance of the trail.
Camping near the Via Ferrata.
Located in Digne Les Bains in Haute Provence France, Camp du Bourg is a friendly and quiet place to stay. It may not have the swimming pools and hot tubs of other places that we stayed at it in France but it was exactly what we were looking for.
The sites were grassy and comfortable for picnics, it had a bar-b-que area and it even had tennis courts. From the looks of it, Camp Du Bourg is the main place in town for people to practice and play. For 3€ you can get yourself a wifi hookup for 24 hours as well.
Follow the yellow Blazes to the Via Ferrata!
We rented our harnesses and helmets for 12 € and listened to the friendly owner and his wife explain how to find the Via Ferrata trail. The trail is free so we had an adrenaline filled adventure for a meer 24 €! There is a sign pointing in the direction at the campsite but it is an hour trek up and over a mountain to get to the start.
We found our way easily by following the yellow markers and eventually made it to the start of our first Via Ferrata.
We didn't realize that we would be starting so high up already. We were already halfway up a mountain in the Alps and now we faced a sheer rock face going higher up to a cave and a Nepali bridge.
You are clipped in at all times.
What else could we do? We had walked all this way and had rented all this gear we had to just hold our breath and climb. Once we started it was incredibly easy and we felt perfectly safe. A steel cable lines the entire way as you walk along ladders, ledges and wires.
Stay clipped in at all times!!
The harness is supplied with 3 clips. Two are clipped in at all times, when you come to an obstacle in the route, you unclip each carabiner one at at time. You make sure to unhook one and hook it onto the next cable before unhooking the other and hooking it onto the next cable.
It is a very simple system. You are never at a point where you aren't secured to the rockface.
The third hook is for relaxing and sitting back. But you always make sure to have the other 2 connected to the cables at all times. This cannot be stressed enough.
The bridges were terrifying but luckily we had just finished trekking in Nepal and were used to walking over gorges. We weren't prepared to take photos of each other from that high up however and never managed to take that crazy photo that you see of people walking along planks and wires high in the air.
We were too worried about taking the camera out and dropping it at that height. We are determined to find another Via Ferrata in our travels and get that shot, but for now we are happy to be able to try one.
Give it a try! You will love it!
A Via Ferrata is excellent fun and if you have ever had the urge to climb like Dean Potter but want to be sure to be able to live to tell about it a Via Ferrata is definitely for you.
Climbing in Hampi? Who Knew?
14 Responses to "Tackling A Via Ferrata in Haute Provence"
Via Ferrata provide some of the most amazing experiences! We have done a few in the Italian alps, but not in France. Yet another reason to travel! 🙂 Great photos too — so inspiring!
Hi Jennifer, you are right. We had never done them before France, but we would love to travel Europe and do them all now. It's fun! So right, always another great reason right around the corner as to why travel is awesome!
OMG! Well since I'm absolutely petrified of heights I will content myself with just being super-impressed with you guys for doing this….the pictures make it look much more dangerous that you say it is, so I'll take your word for it.
Thanks Trisha. Our climbing friends certainly wouldn't be impressed. A few years ago, we used to be very avid climbers. We ended up cycling Africa and couldn't keep up with the climbing, (a person can only have so many hobbies) but this is a close second to experience the thrill of climbing.
Thanks Mary Louise! You will be happy with the photostory on Friday, we went out in search for photos just for you!
I'm off for my first taste of via ferrata next week – and I'm not sure whether to be inspired or scared stiff reading this post!
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Oh No NO Abi, you are going to have a blast. Do you have a guide? They are very high, but also very safe. Let us know how it goes!
OK, so it's over a year later and I don't want to seem spammy, but here's the link!!
Hi Abi! Awesome, I just went over to your site to have a look. Great photographs! I couldn't leave a comment for some reason. It's like the comments wouldn't load (there wasn't a place to leave comments) But i saw it and so glad that you had the chance to do it. I am going to do more for sure!
Awesome! I did my first via ferrata in Sabah on Mt Kinabalu and I'm eager for more around the world.
.-= Dustin Main – Skinny Backpacker´s last blog ..Photo of the Day – Bat Exodus =-.


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Q: What is different between writeBinaryMessage() and write() of Vert.x WebSocket? I'm working on a server project using Vert.x and its ServerWebSocket class.
Currently, my project uses the Pump#pump() and ServerWebSocket#write() methods to send large binary data to clients and it works well. But I found that ServerWebSocket has another method to send binary data, writeBinaryMessage().
The manual says:

writeBinaryMessage() : This data might be written as multiple frames if it exceeds the maximum WebSocket frame size

But I think that ServerWebSocket#write() also sends data as multiple parts by pumping the stream.
What is the difference between writeBinaryMessage() and write()?

A: writeBinaryMessage():

*

*Writes a (potentially large) piece of binary data to the connection. This data might be written as multiple frames if it exceeds the maximum WebSocket frame size.

write()

*

*Write some data to the stream. The data is put on an internal write queue, and the write actually happens asynchronously. To avoid running out of memory by putting too much on the write queue, check the WriteStream.writeQueueFull() method before writing. This is done automatically if using a Pump.

Both returns the same type of data and takes Buffer type of parameter.
Only the difference is that the both functions handle the data internally different.
If you want to write a big binary data, then you should use writeBinaryMessage(Buffer data) and if you send alot small messages dynamically then you should use async function write(Buffer data)
See:

*

*write(Buffer data)

*writeBinaryMessage(Buffer data)