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Lucknow: FM radio in buses hopes to draw commuters
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LUCKNOW: Now you will be able to listen to foot tapping music on FM radio while travelling on city buses. Besides, information related to route and timing of buses will be broadcast on radio. Smart bus stations will display location of buses live on screen.
These were some of the decisions taken by the district administration on Wednesday at a meeting to review services of Lucknow City Transport Services (LCTS). Chaired by Lucknow divisional commissioner Mukesh Meshram and attended by LCTS officials, the meeting discussed how to boost revenue of the company.

This is a good initiative expected to motivate people to take public transport for work while keeping their vehicles at home. This will contribute in reducing fuel consumption and pollution. Roads will be de-congested as well. However, the success of the initiative will depend on cleanliness and hygiene in the buses because many people say they find their environment repulsing. Overcrowding will also have to be checked as it prevents many, particularly women and elderly, from taking buses.

It was decided that LCTS will publicise radio channels through stickers and posters on its buses for a fee. It will also ask channels to set up FM radio broadcast systems in the buses, which on one hand will provide entertainment to passengers and on the other, give more audience to the stations.
The FM stations will also be asked to broadcast information related to route and timing of buses so that their use as public transport can be promoted among people.
At present, more than 200 buses ply on 29 routes in the city daily. Before lockdown, about 70,000 people travelled on them per day. It was also decided that two smart bus stations will have charging points for electric buses running in the city. At these points, 35 buses can charge their batteries daily. This will promote the environmentfriendly mode of transportation, said Meshram.
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Walking April 23, 2018

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I walked without you tonight
Along the paths and sidewalks
Around the school
Near the football field
Visiting the places you loved to see

I walked without you tonight
Missing our chats and smalltalk
I spoke for you
As I always did
Though tonight you weren’t there with me

I walked without you tonight
Past feral cats and startled raccoon
Without you near
Close by my side
In shadow of bush and budding tree

I walked without you tonight
Quiet and calm and a lazy moon
Walking companions
Companions no more
Safe voyage crossing the midnight sea

The Embodiment of Cool February 11, 2016

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Charles BeldArgue all you want, but there has never been a man who embodied more cool than my Uncle Charles. He could fix almost anything, almost always wore a smile, and had a joy for life that was downright contagious.

Yes, the glasses in the pic look a bit dorky today. So?

I think his handwriting, which Mom told me was always beautiful (even on letters written in a foxhole during WWII), is the only characteristic of Charles that I haven’t tried to emulate at some point during my life. (I even took up smoking, albeit briefly, in spite of it certainly leading to his death.

Summer vacations at their house were filled with trips to the nearest store (whichever one sold the latest Revell plastic car kit, some Testor’s glue, and as much paint as they dared allow us to play with), playing football in the Zoysia-grass yard, helping him cut some roses from his garden for his wife, and hopefully eating homemade biscuits with sliced tomatoes (picked just before dinner). As dusk settled in, we would sit on the front stoop and drink Coke from little bottles and listen to the race cars a few miles away at Ohio Valley Raceway.

Before bedtime, if we were lucky, we would mix up some “dog’s mess” (an ice cream float in a bowl). That probably explains some of my weakness for sweets.

After he died, my Aunt Lorraine (who died last Monday) gave me his collection of Popular Electronics magazines, which covered a span from the late 60’s through ’72. Since I could no longer talk to Charles, or go visit him every Summer, I read these magazines cover-to-cover, imagining Charles reading them a few years before I did.

I soaked up everything I could, and by the time I decided to study electronics in high school, I already had a very solid foundation. I knew Charles had used what he learned from these magazines to build his own stereo system and speakers, and so I built the same kinds of things from the plans I found in those pages.

When I began driving, I wanted a fast car like Charles’ ’57 Bel Air. I wanted to drive like he did (I tend to drive too fast), fix my own car like he did (I generally can), and look as cool as he looked when he would take the wheel and let Tom and I accompany him on a trip to the store. When we returned, he would pause after we crossed the railroad tracks and see how fast we could go on the (nearly private) two-lane road that led to their house.

He always made us promise, with a grin, to not tell Aunt Lorraine about this. (When I asked her about it a few years ago, she said she knew, and that Charles knew that she knew, because it was impossible to not hear the sound of the Bel Air racing down the road.) I always felt bad for keeping a secret from her, so it makes me smile she knew, all along.

This week, in saying goodbye to Lorraine, I realized that I’m saying goodbye to Charles, again, 44 years later.

He’s still cool.

Ode to Tuesday’s Awakening February 2, 2016

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Behold! The sound in the distance! It draws near!
Upright I sit in bed, no longer beholden to fantasies of my slumber.
I must awaken with haste!

The behemoth, I hear it. He snarls and coughs the cough of a diesel and cries with the scream of grinding gears. He approaches, even now! (more…)

Penny and the Whispering Pines January 18, 2016

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Against the pale blue sky stood a whispering Pine
Majestic and proud with its height
Distracted by thoughts and cares of the day
I confess that I noticed it not

But amidst the crackle of dead winter leaves
Discovered with every step
The voice of the Pine gently whispered to us
As wind through its needles was caught

The look in your eyes told me you heard it too
Lifting your face to the sun
In silence we sat as the Pine told its tale
And the history of every knot

The Maple and Oak nearby quietly sleep
Perhaps they have nothing to say
But in stillness the voice of the whispering Pine
Shares the solace of win’try thought

A Long Walk January 2, 2016

Posted by TimTheFoolMan in death, Family, life, Love.

It’s about 3:00 AM, and my sister and I just finished helping our 94 year-old aunt make the trip to and from the bathroom. My aunt awoke around 2:15, needed help getting out of the recliner she now sleeps in, needed some help using her walker to navigate the 30′ trip (she’s fallen several times recently), and required both help and a bit of coaching to complete the return trip.

As you might surmise from the starting and ending times, we didn’t set any speed records on our trip. However, this isn’t written to complain about the early hour, the duration of the trip, or any inconvenience this represents to me.

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Titans injury report: QB Marcus Mariota cleared to go for Monday

When the Titans took the practice field on Friday, they were without left tackle Taylor Lewan (illness) and running back David Fluellen (knee).

Lewan is new to the injury report, while Fluellen has been sidelined for some time, ruled out several days before last week’s contest against the Indianapolis Colts.

Wide receiver Taywan Taylor (foot) and center Ben Jones (shoulder) were both listed as limited in Friday’s practice.

Quarterback Marcus Mariota participated in full, and has been steadily improving all week long. Head coach Mike Vrabel said he expected Mariota to be a go for Monday.

The Texans and Titans are set to kick of at 7:15 p.m. on Monday evening at NRG Stadium.

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Amazon: The Big, Bad Wolf

We all know the story of the big bad wolf, whether from Little Red Riding Hood, or The Three Little Pigs. It is a trope in morality tales going back farther than all of our lifetimes. The big, bad wolf is a deceitful, predatory, sneaky, and viciously intelligent creature that eats grandma and blows the house down. In recent years, the big bad wolf for the publishing industry is Amazon.

Amazon, the reason bookstores are closing, the reason publishers go broke. Capitalism in the form of a big, bad wolf, slowly destroying publishers big and small (huffing and puffing) and putting bookstores everywhere out of business (eating Red Riding Hood’s grandma for breakfast). It is an apt metaphor, and I would argue that publishers, or perhaps better to say the publishing industry, are those three little pigs, still living in straw houses, who need to find some bricks and build houses that that big, bad wolf cannot huff, and puff and blow down.

While most publishers do not have the capital to build out the kind of infrastructure in the way of Amazon, there are methods to building stronger houses that can be borrowed from the way that Amazon does its business.

Amazon may indeed be the big bad wolf it is purported to be, but maybe, just maybe, the publishing industry is like Red Riding Hood’s grandma. Maybe, just maybe the publishing industry invited the wolf in.

James Bridle writes that, “…it’s the job of publishers to enable the reading experience,”  and that companies like Amazon with its Kindle are doing this to a degree that publishers are not. 1  He writes that “what they are showing their customers—who should be publishers’ customers, but barely are—is that what they are selling you is an experience. That beautiful, wonderful, extraordinary time that you spend with a book….the reading experience is really what publishing is all about.” 2 And whether big and bad and wolfy or not, Amazon has developed a platform, customer service-based and in their Kindle, that is all about selling the reader an experience. 3 Further Bridle writes,

Publishers are concerned—desperately concerned—about the loss of perceived value in what they do. Well, the value of books lies in the time we spend with them, and the time spent creating them. Publishing needs to recognise [sic] this, and share our passion for it with readers, not least because we are readers too. 4

Here, Bridle is drawing attention to a very real problem in the industry, the problem of value. If the shift in the marketplace can tell us anything, perhaps it is that the valuation of the experience of reading is changing, and that as publishers we MUST keep pace and value it to the same degree that our readers do. Further, the industry may need to re-evaluate its own system of values and begin privileging different ways of thinking and different hierarchies. In this current landscape, the experience is valued at a higher level than the object. Publishers need to begin thinking along those same lines.

Brian O’Leary, writing three years after Bridle has similar concerns. In discussing the future of the book in a digital reality, he quotes author Hugh Howey who claimed that publishers are busy, “’Describing yesterdays as if they were tomorrows’” and O’Leary agrees stating that “There’s more than a grain of truth in his assessment.” 5

In looking at the different predictions of that future he brings forward an argument that is very hard to resist. He claims that in the current landscape, “…our response should not become a lament for the role of editors, publishers, booksellers and other supply-chain partners. Instead, let’s ask an open-ended question: ‘How can we take advantage of these trends to better serve readers?’ That’s how our industry can once again grow”, and that,

The current supply chain was designed to make transactions between a known set of players – publishers, wholesalers and booksellers – as efficient as possible. It was not designed to provide publishers with an understanding of how, where, when and why consumers access and consume content. 6

Here he is describing a solution that involves many of the things that Amazon is already doing. While I am not sure that becoming enmeshed in a system where consumption dictates a publishing mandate or model, it is clear that struggling forward within the traditional framework is like rebuilding that house of straw over and again every time it gets huffed and puffed down around the ears.

O’Leary states that,

Treating the internet as an extension of the old order is a mistake. New technologies don’t just lower transaction costs; they provide new capabilities while eliminating some transactions entirely. Ultimately, eliminating transactions means eliminating one or more parts of the prevailing order….Now, we’re seeing the potential of a platform that includes everything – writers and content alike – and excludes nothing, offering access to markets around the world. In return, publishers can try different content forms, serve global communities and use the social web to discern and meet explicit and latent. 7

Again, this is where Amazon excels, and publishers lag behind. In treating the internet as a tool for marketing, as an extension of a broken model, publishers are inviting a visit from the wolf that is Amazon. Of course, it is not an easy move to break the model that is familiar,  that has worked for decades if not centuries, but the problem is, it does not work anymore. I do not subscribe to the “publishing is dying” ideology, but if the past decade of the industry is anything to go by, publishing, as it has existed, is a broken system.

Glenn Nano and Rich Adin offer concrete examples of methods for publishers to move into a future of publishing in a landscape dominated by Amazon, ways to build new houses, one brick at a time. Nano takes the approach that the first step for publishers (he focuses on the big five) is selling books (e- or otherwise) directly to the customer. He recommends following in the footsteps of Amazon and other start-ups. He writes that,

It’s implicit that since Amazon withholds nearly all customer, sales and engagement data from publishers, these data must be highly valuable. What’s explicit is: the more you know about your customer, the better you can serve her or him. Subsequently, the better you serve your customer, the more likely she or he will return. Building sustainable business means acquiring, growing and maintaining customers, not simply unit sales. 8

And further that, “There are a lot of important lessons publishers can learn from startups, like their digital-native methods of understanding and optimizing the customer lifecycle…. The direct exchange of value with customers and potential customers is the cornerstone of building a brand that consumers recognize and remember.” 9 For Nano, what Amazon does, and what publishers need to do, is own their data, sell direct and find a way to create that brand in a reader’s mind that Amazon has already, because the customers,

…know to go to Amazon to locate books online. For publishers to sell directly and make a significant impact – in order to create and sustain the cycle of knowing your audience, serving them better through that knowledge, and developing brand memory and a consistent set of quality expectations – they must also contemplate building user experiences…that are the initial destinations unto themselves. They must create digital journeys – entranceways and exits – that make their pathways both clear and memorable to consumers. 10

Nano is offering a solution here that is not to be dismissed. Embracing a digital nativity that is not, as O’Leary requires, treating the internet as a mere extension of publishing business as usual.

Adin takes this even further. For him it is not simply a matter of developing direct-sales systems, but an all-out, anti-Amazon revolution. Adin claims that publishers have the power to prevent the Amazon monopoly on ebooks but “lack the willpower to do more than just whine.”11 and that,

This problem with Amazon was brought about originally by publishers who didn’t look beyond their noses when giving Amazon significant product discounts in the early years. The problem is being compounded by the same publishers’ inaction and by authors scrambling to join the Amazon exclusivity club. If publishers and authors do not take steps to halt the rise of Amazon, there soon will be no outlet but Amazon for national exposure. 12

He claims that the solution is to only produce ePub formatted books with an Adobe DRM, thus opening the market out of Amazon’s “closed eco system”. 13

Maybe Amazon is the devil at the door, the big, bad wolf huffing and puffing down the door, having Grandma as a late-afternoon snack, but clinging to a traditional model, ignoring or disregarding the current landscape is not the answer. That way lies tumbled-down houses and well-digested Grandmothers. Instead, publishers could take leafs out of the Amazon book and build new models. A path that might be taken is one that highlights a reading experience, and that works more directly with its markets, both readers and authors. Selling direct, exclusively producing ePub, developing a model that borrows the aspects of the value system that makes Amazon successful. One of the wonders of an open and abundant market is the lowered barriers (financial and otherwise) to developing new models for publishing, models that can take the best parts of Amazon and work them into a brick house that will,  if not defeat, at least keep that big, bad wolf at bay.

Bridle, James. “Publishing Experiences”. February 17, 2011.

O’Leary, Brian. “Publishing has entered a new and different era”. FUTUREBOOK, A Digital Blog from the Bookseller. February 20, 2014.

Nano, Glenn. “Why Publishers Must Sell Direct” Code Meet Print. November 29, 2013.

Adin, Rich. “The Amazon Conundrum: Competition in eBooks”. The Digital Reader. April 11, 2012.


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Little Tin Soldier

Rose’s last ballet performance was yesterday.  It was an intense week with five performances, two on one single day.  She loved it, but it was hard on her, too.  It was wonderful to see how happy she was to be in a real ballet, but a relief now that it’s over.  Her poor cheeks are all red and chapped from having to pull the red cheek stickers off five times now.  It’s good there wasn’t a sixth performance, or she might not have any cheeks left at all.

We had a funny thing happen on Friday when we all went to see the show.  Ethan, Mirin and I dropped Rose off backstage to get ready.  We were walking around to the front of the theater when a tall, thin guy elbowed us aside and rudely marched ahead to a vehicle, slamming the door shut behind him.   Seconds later he was roaring through the parking lot, and we had to dive out of the way to avoid being squished.  He barely tapped his breaks at the stop sign, and ripped away like a NASCAR driver.  We made speculations about why he was in such a hurry that varied from “he really had to go to the bathroom,” to “one of the ballerinas needs a sandwich.”

Imagine our surprise when we sat down in the theater and an hour later the curtain opened, and there he was on stage!  We were like, “Hey, there’s the guy who tried to run us over in the parking lot!”  So maybe he forgot his tights or something.

Apparently this year was a difficult one for the company.  There was a major mix-up with the music at one point, and on Saturday’s performance the Mother Goose fell over on stage.  Luckily he (it was a Mother Gander this time, and it happened to be the same guy who tried to run us over in the parking lot – karma?) didn’t squish any tumblers, and they managed to carry on while the dance director struggled with the large skirts and the wheeled platform Mother Goose glides around on.

Rose did her part beautifully, and we are all so proud of her.  She was one of the smallest dancers on stage.  She says she can hardly wait for next year.

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Brands should leverage influencer partnerships to amplify their feel-good content during pandemic

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An Influence Central survey found 70% of their influencer’s audiences were looking to them on guidance to how individuals can help.

Influencers are seeing a significant surge in social media impressions and engagements across platforms as audiences are looking for more of their content. Influencers are interested in feel-good brand campaigns and “philanthropic efforts” to help audiences cope with the difficult situation.

With audiences increasingly looking to influencers for guidance, influencers (73% of those surveyed) are also addressing the pandemic in their content. 89% of influencers said they are trying to help small businesses in the best possible manner.

Brands can collaborate with influencers to amplify their feel-good content to strengthen their bond with customers and prospects while expressing care for them. But, marketers should select influencers based on their relevancy with the companies’ businesses.

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BUG: gestures do not work when Jolla lies on a table

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When the phone lies on a table (or any other surface) it can not be used. Almost no gesture is recognized correctly. To use the phone you must take it in the hand.

Update 20140516

I can reproduce it any time. Connect to power supply, wait for 2 hours and there you go!

Edit 2019-02-05

With the Xperia XA2, closing the apps and opening top menu doesn't work if the phone is on a flat surface.

Edit 2019-08-10

Still happening in

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There must be some kind of trouble with your device. Contact care.

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Works for me.

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Works even better than in hand for me.

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I had the same experience with double-tap to wake up. After a while on a table, double-tap no longer works.

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me too, but not always...

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Time for Memsahib to pack her Sari once again

At an Hindu wedding in Goa

It was a real ‘spur-of-the-moment’ decision a couple of months ago that saw me make a booking for India. We were spending a few nights of relaxtion up at our country retreat ( calm down… It’s really just a rural 50 acre lot, with a comfortable ‘country style ‘weekender’ house on it, hidden away in the outback of Gidgiegannup in the Perth hills….. certainly not as grand as the image that ‘Country Retreat’ conjures up! ) when an email arrived in my inbox late one afternoon from Emirates Airlines ,with an offer just to good to refuse….. Perth to Delhi return for only just over OneThousand dollars…. Eleven Hundred and Fifty to be precise….. how can you ignore that sort of bargain? ‘Act quickly’ , the email advised, ‘ Dont miss out, Sale On for 2 days only’. So, a discussion then with Yineka-mou ( hereafter known as the ‘Memsahab’ or M for short), who thought it a great idea, ‘ Lets do it!’ Don’t you think we ought to discuss it properly I asked…..so, we sat down to dinner and discussed … and discussed….. but what’s to discuss really…. this is to good to let pass…. As the evening progressed, Memshaib became more and more enthusiastic at the idea of yet another trip to the land of the Kama Sutra…..a couple of bottles of Margaret River’s finest SSB later, and we both agreed that it would be really silly of us to miss out on this one…..

I awoke the next morning to find yet another email from those nice folks at Emirates. This time the email informed me that I had indeed ‘not missed out’ , and was to confirm that flight EK423 to Indirah Ghandi Airport in Delhi was both booked and paid for. Mmmmm! I’d forgotten that I had actually booked the flight, and what seemed such a great idea last night, didn’t seem quite so wonderful now. India! …… I cast my mind back to last night’s discussion….. but I find that I couldn’t actually remember making the booking. I asked Memsahib if she remembered, but all she could say was that we really ought to think about it some more before committing ourselves. Oh, great advice M, but 12 hours too late….. how come her enthusiasm dissappeared almost as fast as the empty bottles of SSB on the kitchen floor did?

I spent the next few weeks looking up the options available to us travelling in India. We’d already experienced train travel two years earlier, when we were unlucky enough to catch the midnight express (express !!!) from Mumbai to Goa. It really did leave at midnight….. well OK, it was SUPPOSED to leave at midnight, but was 40 minutes late in departing…..and was scheduled to arrive in Goa at 8am next morning.

Mumbai's Victoria Terminus Station at Midnight...

After a really peaceful and quiet nights sleep in our First Class grubby little compartment, I was woken up around 7:30am by the sound of the train starting to move….. I hadn’t even realised that we had stopped. I opened the door and aked a passing ‘conductor’ how long before our arrival, only to be told unfortunately Goa has been ‘re-scheduled’. I can’t do the Indian accent thingy, but he said in a pretty good Peter Sellers imitation, that ” sso sso sorry sir, but our expected time of arrival in Madgaon ( Apparently the name of the main railway station for Goa) is now four ‘o’clock in the Pee-Emm” What, I replied, that is 8 hours late… how can that be, it’s only supposed to be an eight hour journey anyway. ” Yess Ssir, unfortunately we were experiencing small problem with track outside Bombay…..we had to stop all the night…..we are only now beginning our journey proper” Well, that explains why it was so quiet….and there was me thinking that Indian trains were possibly the quitest trains on the planet. ( better even than those experimental French Trains in the 60’s, that had rubber wheels…. anyone remember them?)

Our 2 berth compartment on the Konkankanya Express!

OK then, no good dwelling on the past…. with a map of India up on the ipad screen, we looked at touring options that excluded any form of train travel. Memshaib said she didn’t care where we went as long as it included the Taj Mahal. Anywhere else you’d like to visit I asked….. No, I’ll leave it up to you….. which is code for ‘ If it doesn’t work out, you’ll be the one I’ll blame’!

The ‘Golden Triangle’ as it’s called, is a well trodden tourist route around Rajasthan, that starts and ends in Delhi, with visits to the main cities and towns of Agra ( Taj Mahal) Jaipur, Jodphur and Udaipur. I opt also to add the small fort town of Jaiselmer in the mix, as it really is somewhere I’d always wanted to visit ( brought up on a diet of Errol Flyn and Gary Cooper action movies at the Saturday morning matinees at the Odean cinema, and lately, ‘The Jewel in The Crown’ TV series. It seems a really romantic exciting place, with lots of Pukka British soldiers holding the fort against dastardly infidels…. or was it the other way around? )

I did quite a bit of research, and found lots of interesting info on the website http://www.i-escape.com a company that I have used previously with great results. They specialise only in unique ’boutique’ style accomodation, and give a very good review of each hotel etc…… Not a Hilton, Sheraton or Raddison in sight! I picked out the hotels that I wanted to stay at, and apart from Delhi and Agra, they are mainly ex-Marahaja Palaces, although in Jaiselmer we are staying in an refurbished Haveli inside the old fort in Jaiselmer. Prices range from US$900 a night ( Agra, view of Taj Mahal while laying ( lying?) in bed) to just US$110 a night in Jaiselmer…..!!! I contacted a travel agency in Delhi that they had recommended to arrange transportation. Over a couple of weeks of exchanging emails, between us we managed to nut out an itinerary that suited. Our driver picks us up at Delhi airport on arrival, and takes everywhere on our journey around Rajasthan, acting as a guide and ‘minder’ as well as a driver. Well,that’s the plan anyway, but this being India, always expect the unexpected!

So, we leave tomorrow afternoon on Emirates, via Dubai. Our first stop will be 2 nights in Delhi at the Imperial Hotel, which all the guides agree is THE hotel…..Delhi’s answer to Singapore’s ‘Raffles’…… i-escape say it’s ‘ Delhi’s landmark hotel which makes the perfect entry point to India – grand, luxurious and very elegant’ ….. We shall see!

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  1. Hi TT and LL,Great to see the blog again.
    We were going to call you on Saturday to say bon voyage ,Im glad we got this today.
    Have a great time and keep us posted on progress.
    GP and I send lotsa love from Salies.

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Larkfield Leisure Centre is set to close for swimming in the main pool for about 36 weeks from October 2019 to May 2020. This will enable work to go ahead on replacing the boilers with more efficient ones (last done 1981) and the air handling system too (last looked at in 1991). At the same time replacement of the
polycarbonate pool hall barrel vault roof will be undertaken.

The Centre was opened in the early 80s and the polycarbonate roof was last replaced in the early 1990s. The framework though is original so that will be fully restored. The new roof will be more thermally efficient but to do the work requires there to be a full scaffolding structure in place underneath it.

Although not for this contract, Borough Councllors are pressing for solar panels to be installed to enable the centre to have a lower carbon footprint. These are being considered for the flat Sports Hall roof.

Whilst the Leisure Trust has full control over the running of the Centre, the building is still owned and maintained by the Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council. The refurbishment works will therefore be fully funded by the Borough Council from its capital expenditure budget. Works are expected to cost in the region of £2m.

The Leisure Trust are keen to keep their swimming classes going and have found an innovative solution to the problem.

The 25 metre pool, which will remain in operation, will have a false floor installed so that novice swimmers will still be able to touch the bottom.

Anita said, 'It's fantastic for our local community to have this first class facility on their doorstep. The fact that the Borough Council are prepared to make this significant investment is amazing, considering that
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Health officials reported 401 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, which is the highest number of new cases since June 2 when 446 infections were added.

Friday's case count is also a large increase from Thursday when 293 new infections were reported.

The seven-day rolling average has now increased to 287, up from 260 on Thursday. With 35,862 tests conducted in the previous 24-hour period, the positivity rate remains around 1.1 per cent.

Ontario reported no additional COVID-19-related deaths on Friday, leaving the total number of fatalities at 2,825.

The number of lab-confirmed infections in the province now stands at 46,077, including 40,600 recoveries and deaths.

There are currently 58 people in the hospital being treated for the disease. Twenty of those patients are in the intensive care unit and 10 are breathing with the assistance of a ventilator.

Of the new patients on Friday, the majority are between the ages of 20 and 39, with 200 new cases reported.

There were 67 new cases in people under the age of 19. In the 40 to 59 age group, there are 99 new cases.

There are 38 new cases in people above the age of 60.

Where are Ontario's new COVID-19 cases?

The majority of Friday's cases are concentrated in Ontario's three COVID-19 hotspots.

The regions reporting the most new cases include:

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  • Peel Region - 82
  • Ottawa - 67
  • York Region - 40
  • Halton Region - 19
  • Middlesex-London - 12
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  • Durham Region - 8

Ontario rolled back social gathering limits in Toronto, Peel Region and Ottawa to 10 people indoors and 25 outdoors as of Friday to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the province's hotspots.

Premier Doug Ford made the announcement on Thursday afternoon at Queen's Park, saying that the new rules apply to "unmonitored social gatherings and organized public events" held on private property or in parks.


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Bachelors in Economics — Business

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Add step about fixing the Portfile before submitting.

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How to create portfiles for CPAN Perl modules

  • Audience: Perl users
  • Requires the following MacPorts perl ports: p5-list-moreutils p5-parse-cpan-meta p5-module-depends p5-cpan-meta-yaml. Not that perl 5.16 is the default, you can install them as follows:
    port install p5.16-list-moreutils p5.16-parse-cpan-meta p5.16-module-depends p5.16-cpan-meta-yaml

When you find you need a Perl modules from CPAN that does not yet have a MacPorts port, cpan2port can help you create a port file.

Step 1: Set up cpan client

You must have a properly configured cpan client for cpan2port to work. You can either step through the questions, or let it auto-configure.

$ cpan
CPAN is the world-wide archive of perl resources. It consists of about
Would you like me to configure as much as possible automatically? [yes] ''yes''
cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9301)
ReadLine support available (maybe install Bundle::CPAN or Bundle::CPANxxl?)

cpan[1]> ^D

Step 2: Find the CPAN package name

$ perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan[1]> m Date::Parse
Module id = Date::Parse
   DESCRIPTION  ASCII Date parser using regexp's
   CPAN_USERID  GBARR (Graham Barr <>)
   CPAN_FILE    G/GB/GBARR/TimeDate-1.20.tar.gz
   DSLIP_STATUS Rdpf? (released,developer,perl,functions,)
   MANPAGE      Date::Parse - Parse date strings into time values
   INST_FILE    /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.9/Date/

So you want the TimeDate module.

Step 3: Check that port is not available

Perl modules have names of the form p5-modulename.

$ port search p5-timedate

This particular port actually is available, but we'll pretend it isn't.

Step 4: Create MacPorts directory

$ mkdir ~/macports
$ cd ~/macports
$ curl -O
$ chmod u+x cpan2port

Step 5: Create the port file

$ ./cpan2port -t Date::Parse
trying to find dist in /Users/dtls/.cpan/build/TimeDate-1.20*
md5: 7da7452bce4c684e4238e6d09b390200
rmd160: 513094a2d2fb3678c1ad893abc28c94d344ec7b8
sha1: 6394cd243e05c3c2073fa73348a4ad90d8d5963e
creating perl/p5-timedate/Portfile

Step 6: Build the port

First you can review the portfile:

$ cd perl/p5-timedate
$ cat Portfile
# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: tcl; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- vim:fenc=utf8:ft=tcl:et:sw=4:ts=4:sts=4
# $Id$

PortSystem      1.0
PortGroup       perl5 1.0

perl5.setup     TimeDate 1.20
platforms       darwin
maintainers     cpan2port
description     ASCII Date parser using regexp's
extract.suffix  .tar.gz
checksums sha1 6394cd243e05c3c2073fa73348a4ad90d8d5963e md5 7da7452bce4c684e4238e6d09b390200 rmd160 513094a2d2fb3678c1ad893abc28c94d344ec7b8

The build it:

$ port build
Warning: MacPorts running without privileges. You may be unable to complete certain actions (e.g. install).
--->  Computing dependencies for p5-timedate
--->  Fetching p5-timedate
--->  Attempting to fetch TimeDate-1.20.tar.gz from
--->  Attempting to fetch TimeDate-1.20.tar.gz from
--->  Attempting to fetch TimeDate-1.20.tar.gz from
--->  Attempting to fetch TimeDate-1.20.tar.gz from
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for p5-timedate
--->  Extracting p5-timedate
--->  Configuring p5-timedate
--->  Building p5-timedate

Step 7: Fix the Portfile

The Portfile as generated is in rough form and not ready for submission as a new or updated port. Please at least check and update the following in the Portfile:

  • Check if the port compiles any files or is simply straight perl code. If the latter, then uncomment the following line and delete the comment above it. Otherwise delete the lines entirely.
    # Uncomment this line if you know there will be no arch-specific code:
    #supported_archs     noarch
  • Determine and add the correct license. There is a commented license line that is common to many perl ports.
    #license             {Artistic-1 GPL}
  • Dependencies need to be put into an if block so that they only appear in the sub-ports, not the stub p5 port. See below as an example.
    if {${perl5.major} != ""} {
        depends_lib-append  port:p${perl5.major}-digest-md5 \
  • Check the appropriate perl versions supported by the port. If the dependencies exist for perl 5.18, then add it too.
    perl5.branches      5.8 5.10 5.12 5.14 5.16 5.18

Step 8: Read up on local port repositories

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LocationLake Avenue, Duluth, Minn.
Coordinates46°46′44.5″N 92°5′33.9″W / 46.779028°N 92.092750°W / 46.779028; -92.092750Coordinates: 46°46′44.5″N 92°5′33.9″W / 46.779028°N 92.092750°W / 46.779028; -92.092750
reconstructed in 1929
ArchitectThomas F. McGilvray; C.A.P. Turner
NRHP reference No.73002174 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 22, 1973

The Aerial Lift Bridge, earlier known as the Aerial Bridge or Aerial Ferry Bridge, is a landmark in the port city of Duluth, Minnesota. The span began life in 1905 as the United States' first transporter bridge: Only one other was ever constructed in the country, Sky Ride in Chicago.[2] The span was converted in 1929–1930 to a vertical-lift bridge — also rather uncommon, although there are six such bridges along Ontario's Welland Canal — and continues to operate today. The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 1973. The bridge is owned and operated by the City of Duluth. The United States Army Corps of Engineers maintains a nearby maritime museum.

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By Manoj Rupareliya

In this pacy life, with all the hassles and tussles of life, we forget something important that is the backbone of our competency in this world — Body and Mind!

Time is today’s currency and that is one hell of a treasure to be protected. So, while you don’t have enough time to pay attention to deteriorating mind and body over the daily routine, you need to look for options in this digital era that can save time.

Regardless to say that with half the earth’s population having smartphone ownership, digital options are not so much of a farfetched idea. While you are using mobile apps for shopping, music streaming, video streaming, gaming, etc. using an app to help your body and mind improve will never hurt.

Here, we are going to discover five apps that can change the way you see your body and mind!

1. MyFitnessPal:

One-stop app for all your daily tracking activities of your body. MFP(MyFitnessPal), currently owned by a sports brand called “Under Armour”. This app lets you track your food intake on a daily basis by allowing you to logit into the app through a personalized journal.

You can also track the amounts of water that you drink with options for adding compatible wearable device data to the app. This can help you track your workouts, steps and calories burned. It also helps to count your regular calorie intake.

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App provides encouragement to the users to achieve targets initially set during the registration and onboarding of users. The application uses gaming theory for user engagement and encourages target achievement. The sense of goal achievement drives many users to this app.

It is considered as one of the top health apps for 2019 and is quite popular among health trackers and weight watchers.

2. Sleepcycle:

Sleep can be deceptive, as many think oversleeping can reduce productivity, a report states that sleeping well can increase your salary! Sleeping well maybe the sole reason to earn more, jokes apart, sleeping is considered one of the most vital health problems in the modern world.

Sleepless nights can curtail your lifespan and several diseases can occur on a recurring basis. From the people who slept less than 7 hours a day, 33% are reported overweight, which can lead to health risks like heart problems, swollen liver, and diabetes. Further, 27% of them are physically inactive which is definitely not a good indication for health.

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This is where sleepcycle comes in. I have personally used the app and it's recommended highly for sleep analysis, identifying sleep patterns and peak hours when you really deep sleep. These data can help you know optimal timings to go for sleep and wake up for a day filled with energy.

3. Fooducate:

Browsing the food items in a grocery store, looking over the labels for nutrition information to decide whether to go for the food or not! This is a very common dilemma for any normal person. Knowing what to eat is a bit of a challenge these days as every other health journal or article would refer to some foods unhealthy and the same are tagged healthy by some experts.

Body Mind Apps

But, what if an Artificial Intelligence algorithm can decide whether the food is right for you or not? And here comes Fooducate - an app where you can scan the barcode on the label of your food item and its algorithm will tell you whether the food is fit for health or not based on the grading system- A, A+, A-, B, B+, B-, etc. Based on the grade, the food is rated. The obvious being, more natural the food higher the rating.

4. Happify:

As of 2017 statistics suggests 284 million people suffering from anxiety disorders. As the happiness index world over is quite low and people are subjected to more mental issues due to work stress and other personal reasons, there is also this ignorance towards it that makes the matter worse.

Body Mind Apps

Happify begs to differ as it offers mental health solutions through its application. Many enterprises are now trying to build apps like Happify through state-of-the-art mobile app development methods. During the onboarding process, the app uses a questionnaire to score the happiness of a user. Further, it provides some tricks and traits that you can follow to lead a healthy life.

The app has more than 50 activities to its core with themed tracks to be followed. Each of these tracks like for example, I answered a questionnaire and reached for the track page as can be seen in the below image and I chose a free track named “Cope better with stress”, as you can see there are several activities to reach silver and gold badges.

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It states that it can improve resilience and reduce stress for a better and more stress-free life. As you move towards the free track there will be another set of questionnaire and then there will be tasks assigned to you in phases.

5. HealthTap:

It is a consulting app for patients and health advice seekers. This app was designed with the sole purpose of connecting users to doctors and health experts for consultation and health-related questions. This is no doubt a revolutionary app as it does not charge its users for any consultations.

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With dedicated apps for users and doctors, HealthTap has been able to accommodate close to 40,000 physicians and doctors on their platform and over 1 million users on the Android platform alone. This has been a comprehensive first step and there were several such apps following up the trail of healthcare solutions.

Wrapping it up:

Keeping up with the stress, anxiety, fatigue and monotonous chores of daily life is difficult and can be considered as the most prolific reason for health risks and diseases. With people deprived of peace, rest, sleep and happiness, we see rising mental issues leading to suicidal tendencies.

With proven technologies by these apps as we explored some of the people can certainly cope up with mental, physical and emotional issues to lead a blissful life and help them curate a better body and mind.

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In this article, I’ll be looking at 6 signs that tell you a tree needs to be cut down.

We all know how beautiful trees are and how helpful they are to the Earth’s ecosystem, however, there comes a time when they just have to go. Knowing when to cut down a tree is very important, as it could save lives and property.

Read on!

How to Know When To Cut Down A Tree

  1. Trees With Branches Hanging Over Your House Or Leaning Trunks

It is very dangerous to have overhanging tree branches, especially if they are long, thick branches.

Such branches pose a threat to both life and property.

In the case of a storm or heavy winds, those large branches might break off and fall on your roof. Roof repairs will cost you a decent amount of money and I’m sure you’d like to avoid the unnecessary expenses.

Besides roof repair costs, falling tree branches can also injure or kill a person if it falls directly on them.

If it’s a small branch, then cutting the tree down may not be the best option, you can simply cut the branches off. On the other hand, if the branches are very large and have extended too far across the top of the house, then the tree just has to go.

In a case where the upper part of the trunk leans towards the building, then the tree has to go as well.

Tree removal costs between $75 and $100, that is way cheaper compared to the damages the tree will cause if it is not removed.

  1. Diseased Tree

A diseased tree poses potential dangers to the residents of a home.

An infected tree is weak and it can fall at any time. This would be a total disaster for the residents so it’s best to take action as soon as you notice the tree is diseased.

There are a good number of signs that will tell you that your tree is diseased. These include –

  • Discolored leaves (mostly faded yellow)
  • Weak branches that break or fall off
  • Rotten roots
  • Rotting trunks and branches

If you notice any of these signs, be sure to call the attention of a tree specialist to determine which action is best to take.

If the tree can be treated then it’s fine. If not, you have to cut the tree down, just so property damage, injury, and even death is avoided.

  1. Fungus Growth Around The Tree

Fungus around the tree is a major indicator that the tree is infected and is being weakened. It also shows that the tree is gradually rotting.

An occurrence of mushrooms around the base of the tree or on the trunk is a common characteristic of fungus growth.

If left alone, the fungus will continue to damage all parts of the tree, including the roots. It will get to a point where the roots will no longer be able to support the tree and sooner or later, the tree will collapse.

To stop this from happening, you should cut down the tree as soon as you can.

  1. The Tree Is Infested With Pests

Your tree can serve as a home and a source of food for birds and other small friendly creatures. However, it could also serve as a home to rodents, snakes, and destructive insects.

These pests can play the role of unwanted visitors and cause extensive damage to your home. Animals like snakes and scorpions are dangerous to humans, so you need to take action quickly.

If there is no way to rid the tree of the pests, then you will be left with no choice than to cut it down.

  1. Invasive Roots

There is nothing in your yard that can slowly destroy your building’s structure like invasive roots.

Invasive roots are known to grow horizontally, they creep into the ground in search of moisture and their major targets are pipes, sewers, and any other form of drainage.

GUIDE: Cutting A Tree Root

These roots don’t care, they will slowly but surely cause damages to any structure they come across. They can break or clog drainage pipes, and they can leave cracks in your building.

This is too much of a problem and it isn’t worth keeping the tree if it has become so destructive.

To save your structure, you have to cut the tree down.

  1. The Climate Isn’t Right For Your Tree

There are different species of trees and they have climates where they thrive effortlessly.

Some are suited for cold regions while others are made for tropical regions.

You may have planted a tree that can’t adapt to the temperatures in your region. If this is the case then the tree is as good as dead. They will experience stunted growth, and they will not look healthy.

You have to take such a tree down and plant a tree that will thrive in your region’s climate.

Should Dead Trees Be Cut Down?

Some people assume that dead trees are harmless, after all, the branches or roots can no longer encroach into the building or drainage. That may be true, but root encroachment isn’t the only thing that makes a tree dangerous.

Dead trees can serve as hiding spots for animals as dangerous as snakes or scorpions. Having such animals living in your yard is far from being a good idea.

A dead tree is also weakened, from the root up to the branches. They have become brittle and they can break at any time, causing damage to property.

Speaking of property, dead trees add zero value to your property, it devalues it. A dead tree is an eyesore and a turn-off for visitors and potential buyers (if the property is for sale or rent).

There is no benefit of keeping a dead tree standing.

With that being said, the answer to the question –should dead trees be cut down, is a big YES!

How Long Can A Dead Tree Remain Standing?

This depends on a variety of factors. Some of them include –

  • The tree species
  • The size of the tree
  • The soil type
  • The occurrence of heavy storms or wind
  • Human or animal activity around the tree

The above-mentioned factors are major determinants of how long a dead tree can remain standing.

Generally speaking, it should take between 1 to 5 years for a dead tree to lean or fall.

What Time Of Year Should Trees Be Cut Down?

This depends on what you’re trying to achieve.

If you want to cut parts of the tree without killing it, then the dormant season is the best time for this.

However, if the tree is infested, or the branches and trunk are rotting, and it poses a serious threat to lives and property, then it doesn’t matter what time of the year it is. The tree has to be cut down as soon as possible.

You can consult with a tree expert to come over and assess the situation.

Are Dead Trees Dangerous?

This is a question people ask a lot, and the answer remains the same. Yes, dead trees are dangerous. They become more dangerous over time.

Live trees are moist and flexible while dead trees are dry and brittle. It will only take time for the branches to start breaking off and falling.

The longer you wait to cut down a dead tree, the more danger you put yourself and your property.

It is not a matter of “if” the tree or the branches will fall, it is a matter of “when” they will fall.

If you can’t remove the dead tree yourself, then you need to hire the services of a professional. This will cost you some money though.

A large tree will cost more money to cut down than a small tree.

If the tree in question is large and you don’t have the funds to remove it outright, then you can cut off the dangerous parts of the tree, like hanging branches.

You can also cut it down to a level where the threat to lives and property will be significantly reduced.

Signs That A Tree Is Dead

Certain signs tell you a tree is dead. You may not notice them immediately but they are there. You just need to pay attention to.

Below are some of those signs.

  1. Bare Branches

When you notice that the branches of your tree are becoming bare, then you can tell it is dead or dying.

Trees are usually dormant during the winter, and branches become bare at this time, so check for bare Branches during the spring.

  1. Trunk Damage

Cracks in the bark of the trunk are also signs that the tree is dead. Especially when you can see clear patches that expose the wood-like part of the trunk.

  1. Root Damage

If you notice your tree leaning extensively, then it means the root has been weakened or is dead.

Was this article helpful? I trust it was.

Knowing when to cut down a tree is important, for the sake of both lives and property.

Take care.


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Introduction to Trendle’s advanced automation rule creator (Step 6)

This article is step 6 of our step-by-step guide to Amazon PPC Advertising

With our Ads Automation Rules you can custom build your own campaign management system. If you don’t want to spend time customising your own rules, you can simply follow the sample rules that you will find in the next article.

In this article we’ll show you how to use the Trendle application to create and edit rules.

The most customisable Amazon Advertising Automation solution! #

Important: We only recommend you to use Automation if you are confident of the rules you want to put in place. Keep reading through all the step-by-step guide to help you understand when and how to use Automation.

Concepts #

  • Rule Groups:

At the rule group level you will define:

  • Rule Group Name: This is a name only used within Trendle
  • Countries, Campaigns, Ad Groups: Define for which specific ad groups this Rule Group will be applied to
  • Buffer Period: The time delay to apply before Rules within this Group are applied. Read more about Buffer Period in this article [LINK]

Once you’ve created the Rule Group, you’ll be able to create Rules that will belong to it.

  • Rules

Automation rules are extremely customisable and follow the following structure:

    1. A rule is composed of [Condition] + [Timeframe] leading to an [Action]
    2. A condition is composed of a [KPI (Key Performance Indicator)] + [Equation] + [Value]
    3. When the rule is met, an [Action] is taken

See the below diagram that illustrates the structure and options available:

In addition, you need to define if the rule will apply at the Search Term, Keyword or Product level. This is important as not all actions are possible in all cases. For example, you cannot change the bid on a Search Term.

Here’s what it looks like to create a new rule:

Once you are happy with your rules, make sure both the rule and the rule group are “Play” and that you have chosen which campaigns and/or ad groups should automated by your Rule Group

Rules are run once a day based on the latest data downloaded from Amazon

  • Automation error log:

In some cases, the automation will have some errors due to the restrictions applied by Amazon. Some of the errors you will be able to resolve, others you won’t.

Read this article for more information on this topic.

Here’s how you can review the errors and make changes:

For some ideas on what rules to implement, see the next step! Step 6 “Automation: Example rules to get you started“!

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How to Choose the Best ESP for your Email Deliverability Check

Zack Aab

Choosing the best ESP (Email Service Provider) can feel like shopping for a car; a ton of conflicting recommendations, a thousand different models, and a lot of excessive features that seem neat in the showroom, but won’t ever be used on the road. Similar to this, in marketing, it’s important to be organized and have a clear goal. Check your email deliverability first. This means identifying your needs and your nice-to-haves first, while also knowing the difference between the two.

First, answer these questions:

What’s my budget?

This means you also need to know your email ROI, or at least your target ROI. There are a lot of options, so knowing how much you are willing to spend can help you narrow down the field.

What does your buyer’s journey/nurture/conversion look like?

Tracking your metrics is critical to a successful email program, so identify the data you’ll need before you get started.

What’s your sending volume?

You need to know if a shared or dedicated IP is right for you. Some ESPs only offer one or the other, and there’s often a significant price difference.

  • In order to sustain a good sending reputation on a dedicated IP, we recommend sending a minimum of 300,000 emails per month.

What tools are you already using?

Your ESP needs to communicate with your other platforms and tools smoothly and quickly. You’ll waste hundreds of hours if you are constantly exporting, re-formatting and importing.

      • For example, if you already have a great CRM, you therefore know you need an ESP that integrates with it and you don’t need to spend the money on a bundled CRM.
      • The converse is that many ESPs offer bundled tools that work perfectly together, such as CRMs and content design services, but these may take time to switch to. Always consider the cost in time, as well as money.

Having this information will help you identify your actual needs, and narrow the field of potential ESPs.

Once you’ve started to connect with salespeople and investigate features, don’t forget the following:

How will the ESP help you maintain a good reputation with the ISPs you send to?

  • Does the ESP offer white-labeled authentication, Feedback Loop registration, reverse DNS, subdomains, and/or link-tracking?
  • If you decide on a shared IP, does the ESP monitor and work with the reputation of its customers to avoid bad apples in the IP pool?
  • Does the ESP offer assistance with legal compliance for your market, such as CAN-SPAM, CASL, or GDPR?
  • Does the ESP automatically suppress unsubscribes, hard bounces, and misspelled domains?
  • How can you synchronize this information with your current tools?

That’s it.  Answering those questions will help you identify your needs and cut through the sales pitch to make sure your ESP is the right choice.

Have more questions about ESPs? Send us a message.

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Zack Aab

Before learning how to use email, Zack worked in computer repair, blacksmithing, video production, and knot-tying, but not all at once. Zack has his CIPP/US certification, is definitely not a lizard person, and likes normal human things like email and data privacy and having eyelids.

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North Carolina has an important reckoning this spring as to whether it will relocate three Confederate monuments from the State Capitol grounds in Raleigh to the Bentonville Battlefield, a Civil War landmark in Johnston County.

The lingering public mortification surrounding the bloody events of Charlottesville, where white supremacists gathered to defend Confederate statues and then visited mayhem and murder on the city, likely affords North Carolina a rare opportunity to take down its monuments to white terror with minimal opposition. But don’t count on the state to make a clean break; the resolution of the matter is likely to be messy and fraught with racial division.

The Confederate Monuments Study Committee, a subcommittee of the NC Historical Commission, conferred by phone on Monday. David Ruffin, a banker who chairs the study committee, told his fellow members: “I remind you that our charge is rather daunting, and that is to formulate our recommendations by the end of April.”The five committee members, who were appointed to the Historical Commission by Gov. Roy Cooper and his predecessor, Gov. Pat McCrory, also voted unanimously to hold at least one public hearing.

A bitterly polarized political shouting match is almost preordained by the uncertainty surrounding the study committee’s authority and the habit of the Republican leadership in the General Assembly to impose their will on political adversaries instead of delegating power.It’s not even clear that the study committee can take any action: Through his department of administration, Gov. Cooper proposed that the three monuments be removed to the Bentonville Battlefield. The Historical Commission, in turn, voted to establish the study committee to solicit opinions from the NC Department of Justice, the Institute of Government and six separate law schools on what actions the commission may take, including relocation or reinterpretation of the statues. The study committee will also review documentation assembled by staff that speaks to “the prominence, honor, visibility, availability, and access of both sites, Capitol Square and the Bentonville Battlefield.” The charge may seem arcane, but it’s important because a 2015 law signed by Gov. McCrory holds that “an object of remembrance that is permanently relocated shall be relocated to a site of similar prominence, honor, visibility, availability and access….”

Members of the study committee and staff expressed skepticism as to whether they’ll be able to work through their tasks in time to meet their April deadline.

Three members of the study committee have already tipped their hands, although their personal feelings about removal of the Confederate monuments may well be irrelevant.

Ruffin, who is the descendant of a Confederate soldier, told NC Policy Watch’s Joe Killian that he concluded that the monuments need to be removed last summer.

“Charlottesville was so toxic, it really changed my mind about some of these things,” Ruffin, the banker, said. “History and politics aren’t my profession — in fact, getting into some of this can be harmful in my profession. But you do know what is right and wrong. In this case, this is a runaway train. There’s no choice. You have to pick your battles — but in this case, you have to take a stand.”

Valerie Johnson, a study committee member who directs the Africana women’s studies program at Bennett College in Greensboro, likewise told Killian that she favors removing the statues.

“As a scholar and anthropologist by training, I can’t help when looking at these statues but be reminded that these are statues memorializing oppression and suppression,” Johnson said. “They were erected when Jim and Jane Crow were ramping up, to remind people of the superiority of whites.”

Chris Fonvielle, an associate professor of history at UNC-Wilmington, opposes removal. Fonvielle told Killian removing the statues “would be denying opportunities for teaching and learning about the South’s complex, troubled, and sometimes dark past.”

Noah Reynolds, a Winston-Salem venture capitalist and trustee for the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and Sam Dixon, a lawyer in Edenton, also serve on the study committee.

By law, the state cannot remove, relocate or alter any monument without the approval of the NC Historical Commission, but the Republican leadership in the General Assembly has already short-circuited the process.

House Speaker Tim Moore and dozens of other lawmakers signed on to a memo clarifying, as Killian paraphrased, that “the provision in the 2015 law allowing for movement of the monuments was intended only to protect them from things like harsh weather or construction that might damage them. Public protests — even ones that might lead to the statues being pulled down as the Confederate monument was in Durham over the summer — were not to be considered.”

Killian also wrote that the House lawmakers objected to moving the monuments to the Bentonville Battlefield on the grounds that it would not be a site of “similar prominence,” and Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger asked Cooper to withdraw his request, calling it “insincere.”

Whether the Republican lawmakers genuinely care about preserving symbols of white supremacy isn’t clear. But it’s a good bet they’re happy to exploit a polarizing issue guaranteed to rile up their base in an election year.

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With Royals requiring 51 from the last three overs, Rahul Tewatia, who made 53 from 31 deliveries, slammed five amazing sixes in Cottrell’s third over, to swing the game in his side’s favour.

However, the momentum shifted when Royals lost Robin Uthappa for nine to the first ball of the 19th over, lofting seamer Mohammed Shami down the throat of West Indies star Nicholas Pooran at long off. But Archer (13 not out) then lashed back-to-back sixes from the next two deliveries and Tewatia slammed the fifth ball for the third six of the over, to leave Royal with just two runs for victory off the final over.

And even though Tewatia fell to the final ball of the over and Riyan Parag was bowled off the second ball of the final over by off-spinner Ravi Ashwin, Royals completed victory with three balls to spare to cap a magnificent contest at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium.

The run chase was set up by Sanju Samson who top-scored with a superb 85 off 42 balls, the second consecutive half-century for the 25-year-old right-hander. He belted four fours and seven sixes and anchored two crucial stands -- 71 for the second wicket with Australian Steven Smith who made 50 from 27 balls with seven fours and a pair of sixes, and a further 61 for the third wicket with Tewatia.

Tewatia then blasted seven sixes in a knock to dominate a 42-run stand with Uthappa before Archer arrived at the start of the penultimate over to add the finishing touches. Cottrell, who claimed the first wicket of Englishman Jos Buttler for four in the third over, finished with one for 52 from his three overs.

Earlier, the left-handed Pooran smashed an eight-ball unbeaten 25 with a four and three sixes at the death as Kings XI piled up 223 for two after they were sent in. However, it was opener Mayank Agarwal’s 106 (50 balls) with 10 fours and seven sixes, which propelled Kings XI.

Agarwal put on 183 for the first wicket with captain KL Rahul who scored 69 off 54 deliveries before Pooran plundered 18 runs from the last over sent down by speedster Archer.

DYLAN CARTER, Trinidad and Tobago’s leading swimmer, splashed to sixth and seventh place finishes when the season-opening Match 1 of the International Swimming League (ISL) concluded at the Duna Arena in Budapest, Hungary yesterday.

Liverpool were left frustrated after a 2-2 draw at Everton in the Merseyside derby yesterday with VAR ruling out a potential winner from Jordan Henderson in stoppage time and key defender Virgil van Dijk suffering a knee injury.

An injury to seam-bowling all-rounder Dwayne Bravo may have cost Chennai Super Kings (CSK) what at one point had seemed an inevitable victory in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Delhi Capitals in Sharjah yesterday. The Capitals won by five wickets.

Trinidad and Tobago youth footballers Jesse Williams and Gary Griffith III have not signed professional contracts with Northern Irish Club Coleraine FC, but may be installed in the academy team of the 2019-2020 Danske Bank Premiership runners-up, which offers a progression path to the first team.


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Stephen Gomez

THREE S’s: From left, Selby Browne, Stephen Gomez and Sheldon Gomes.

The funeral and cremation of former national cricketer Sheldon Gomes will take place on Sunday in Las Vegas, United States. And below is a tribute to the all-round sportsman from Selby Browne, president of the Veteran Footballers Foundation of Trinidad and Tobago, a former teammate.

When news of the passing of Sheldon Gomes was received on Wednesday September 15, 2020, all our tightly bonded Queens Royal College cricket and football teammates of the late 1960’s shed a silent tear.

I therefore immediately wish to extend condolences to the entire Gomes family, and in particular to Sheldon’s wife, children and grandchildren and we pray that big sister Dianne and the girls and brother Larry and the boys, would be strengthened during this difficult time of mourning.

Sheldon Gomes was born in Arima on October 18, 1950, the second son of Pa Cecil Gomes and mom Kimlan. His four brothers Lester, Larry, Gregory and Randy all played sport and the girls, all five, were very supportive. In the close-knit Pro Queen Street family, the boys all literally walked across the road to the savannah where, with Pa Cecil, and several youngsters they became proficient at all sports.

Sheldon was a student at Holy Cross College but later moved to QRC and went on to represent the College with distinction at both cricket and football in 1967 and 1968.

At football, Sheldon was an excellent header of the ball who, in spite of his five-foot-five-inch frame, defied gravity from a standing position with minimal effort. He was a deadly striker who turned sharply and apart from lethal headers, he had a powerful shot with both feet. His speed and ability to read the game made him an excellent footballer. How well I recall when taking corners or hitting the ball from either wing, I would call to him “S. Gomes” and his response when in position was - “S. Browne”. The other “S” on the team was Stephen Gomez. We were the “Three S’s.”

In the 1967 season, QRC were crowned North Colleges champions.

Ian Jeffers was our captain with other players being Brian Bain, Terry Thornhill, Stephen Gomez, Andre Pollard, Roger Mathew, Reynold Mc Kenzie, Raymond Borel, Kenley Rudder, Anthony Halfhide, Rolph Clarke, Jesse Blackman, Neil Springer, Garnett Harris, Earl Best, Patrick Rabathally and Larry Springer. We all made it our duty to protect Sheldon who was repeatedly targeted.

The 1968 season was even more memorable as QRC became Colleges League champions.

How well I remember the opening match on Saturday 14th September 1968. QRC met the St Benedict’s team in that match at the Queens Park Oval. St Benedict’s were the National League and InterCol winners of the 1967 season (the titles were later stripped from them) and QRC were the North Champions. QRC won the opening match and did not lose a match in the League that year and Sheldon was our outstanding goalscorer.

As QRC cricket teammates, Sheldon would score a century on any given Saturday afternoon. At that time, we played against the adult teams like Maple, Crompton, Shannon, Paragon and Queens Park Club.

Apart from his batting prowess, Sheldon was exceptional fielding close up or in the covers where his knowledge, anticipation, quick movement and safe pair of hands,

made it difficult for batsmen to score runs freely. After fielding in a cricket match, we would tell him he was going to bat with a plus of 50 runs. To which his response was, “I would only make the runs if I bat well”.

Earl Best was our cricket captain and the 1967 team included; Ronald Navarro, Selby Browne, Clifford Murray, Garnett Harris, Anthony Lewis, Roger Mathew, Rolph Clarke, Reynold Mc Kenzie, Andre Pollard, Stephen Gomez and several others.

Sheldon went on to represent Trinidad and Tobago while at college. Younger brother Larry was selected to both the T&T and West Indies teams.

After leaving school, I recall while Sheldon represented Trinidad and Tobago against Jamaica in Jamaica, he registered his highest first-class score with an innings of 213 runs in the 1977 season. But in Sheldon’s early knocks for the T&T, he encountered a most unfortunate challenge, being out without scoring on more than

one occasion. We were all devastated and several of us reached out to him which we knew he would have immediately done if it was one of us. His usual smile and acceptance were there but we knew he was hurting.

The opportunity arose for me to remind him that in one of our practise sessions at the cricket nets while at college, our coaches Lennie Kirton, Gervais Hannays and Rex Dewhurst, pointed out that he was bringing the bat from the direction of third man and that action offered one point of contact, which with his quick eye sight and excellent timing proved okay. They also stated that Sheldon should focus on bringing the bat from directly behind the straight line of the ball in the event that he would face a genuine quick bowler. With a smile he acknowledged the reminder and the rest was history. Good history.

In 2008 at the 40th Anniversary celebration for the historic QRC 1968 team that won the Colleges Football League, we all thanked Sheldon for his enormous contribution as we reminisced on the great days.

DYLAN CARTER, Trinidad and Tobago’s leading swimmer, splashed to sixth and seventh place finishes when the season-opening Match 1 of the International Swimming League (ISL) concluded at the Duna Arena in Budapest, Hungary yesterday.

Liverpool were left frustrated after a 2-2 draw at Everton in the Merseyside derby yesterday with VAR ruling out a potential winner from Jordan Henderson in stoppage time and key defender Virgil van Dijk suffering a knee injury.

An injury to seam-bowling all-rounder Dwayne Bravo may have cost Chennai Super Kings (CSK) what at one point had seemed an inevitable victory in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Delhi Capitals in Sharjah yesterday. The Capitals won by five wickets.

Trinidad and Tobago youth footballers Jesse Williams and Gary Griffith III have not signed professional contracts with Northern Irish Club Coleraine FC, but may be installed in the academy team of the 2019-2020 Danske Bank Premiership runners-up, which offers a progression path to the first team.