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- Romans 9:13
- Romans 1:20
- Romans 1:4
- Acts 20:24
- Acts 19:10
- Acts 17:6
- Acts 15:15
- Acts 7:55
- Acts 5:38-39
- Acts 4:11
- Acts 3:21
- Acts 2:22
- Acts 1:11
- Acts 1:3
- John 21:25
- John 17:24
- John 16:13
- John 14:27
- John 13:19
- John 2:11
- John 1:14
- Luke 24:6
- Luke 21:24
- Luke 19:42
- Luke 17:28
- Luke 16:22
- Luke 4:8
- Luke 2:12
- Luke 1:37
- Mark 14:25
- Mark 13:30
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Friday, July 30, 2021
Romans 1:20
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.
For further study - Romans 1:19-32
The extended portion of the reading for today is very difficult to read and then apply to our understanding of the Lord's way for us during these days.
The first two verses of our reading for today, including our key verse, reveal to us that all of "mankind" is without excuse, if they reject Jesus Christ. You might say, what about those who have never heard the gospel, the un-reached peoples of this world.
My first response has to be what Paul wrote to the Romans and, in fact, to all of us. All of humankind has the "light of conscience" and the "light of creation".
We are all born as sinners but until we sear our conscience we know right from wrong. Also, in God's creation we can see His glory made manifest, Psalm 19.
After these un-reached accept the "light of conscience" and the "light of creation" the Lord will get the message of salvation to them. By the way, this is a great passage for worldwide missions. There are people out there who need to hear, and how can they hear unless we go?
Verses 21-32 discuss a lifestyle that is prevalent today, "man leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their flesh, one toward another, men with men", verse 27. This is referring to a sexual relationship. The passage tells us that woman would do the same, "change the natural use into that which is against nature," verse 26.
Please notice also that Paul warns those who allow this to continue, they are actually sinning against God and nature, they are in a position of receiving judgment as well, verse 32.
Before we conclude our thoughts on this passage I am reminded of a passage of prophetic truth recorded by Dr Luke who wrote the record of the Lord's message, which refer to these days.
The passage in Luke, chapter 17:28-30, speaks of the coming of the Lord back to the earth. The passage describes a day when He comes that will be similar to the "days of Lot". Remember, Lot was one who lived in Sodom.
Remember, the sins of "Sodom", described in our extended reading for today, brought judgment upon the people and Sodom and Gomorrah, which were both destroyed, forever.
We must pay attention to society today, as we study God's prophetic word, ie: Luke's record of the words of Jesus. We must realize where we are in God's time. These days are as it was in the "days of Lot".
It seems that we are quickly approaching the day when Jesus will shout and call us to join Him in the heavenlies. Today could be that day.
PRAYER THOUGHT: Lord, help me to discern the times and to realize that your coming is very close. Help me to live my life in light of this knowledge.
PRAYER THOUGHT: Lord, help me to discern the times and to realize that your coming is very close. Help me to live my life in light of this knowledge.


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Loxley-fx Review: Is Loxley-fx.com a Scam or Legit
In the digital age, the allure of online trading and investment opportunities has propelled various investment portals into the limelight. Among these platforms, Loxley-fx.com has garnered significant attention, offering a wide array of investment options in stocks, commodities, forex, indices, bonds, and cryptocurrencies.
Unveiling Loxley-fx: An Overview
Understanding Loxley-fx's Operations
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How Loxley-fx Works
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Loxley-fx functions as a digital arena, allowing users to invest in different financial instruments. Users can create accounts, deposit funds, research investment options, execute orders, monitor portfolios, and engage in comprehensive financial planning.
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Loxley-fx boasts a lucrative referral program, incentivizing users to invite new members through unique referral links. This collaborative approach enhances platform profitability and improves user experience.
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Despite its offerings, Loxley-fx.com raises questions about its legitimacy. Lack of transparency regarding the website owner, duplicated content, and a low Trust Score contribute to concerns about the platform's credibility. Users are advised not to trust this platform as it can lead to loss of funds.
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1. No Owner Information: One red flag is the lack of transparency regarding the website owner, which raises doubts about the platform's legitimacy.
2. Duplicated Content: Utilization of duplicate information across various sites hints at potential unoriginality and questionable practices.
3. Trust Score of Loxley-fx: A significantly low Trust Score indicates potential trust issues and questions the platform's credibility.
The Role of Online Scam Reviews: Why They Matter
Online scam reviews play a pivotal role in identifying and avoiding scams, raising awareness, holding scammers accountable, and building trust in online platforms.
How to Determine Online Scams
Several methods, including domain registration checks, online reviews, and intuitive judgment, aid in assessing a website's legitimacy.
Drawing Conclusions: Staying Safe in the Digital Investment Space
The Need for Comprehensive Research: Emphasizing the necessity of online scam reviews, it's crucial to conduct comprehensive research before engaging with new online platforms or services, fostering a safer and more reliable online environment.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. Is Loxley-fx a safe investment platform?
Loxley-fx is not considered a safe investment platform. Several red flags, including the lack of owner information, duplicated content, and a notably low Trust Score, raise concerns about its legitimacy. Therefore, it is advisable to avoid investing through this platform due to potential risks.
2. How can I protect myself from online investment scams like Loxley-fx?
To safeguard yourself from online investment scams like Loxley-fx, consider these precautions:
- Thorough Research: Conduct extensive research on the platform. Check reviews, authenticity, and any available information about the platform's owners or team.
- Trustworthy Sources: Rely on reputable sources or official websites for information regarding investment platforms.
- Avoid Unrealistic Promises: Be wary of platforms promising unrealistically high returns or using aggressive marketing tactics.
- Secure Transactions: Ensure secure transactions by using trusted payment methods and avoiding sharing personal or financial details hastily.
3. What are the key indicators of a fraudulent online trading platform?
Key indicators of a fraudulent online trading platform include:
- Lack of Transparency: Platforms withhold crucial information about their owners, teams, or operations.
- Unrealistic Promises: Guaranteeing unusually high returns or offering benefits that seem too good to be true.
- Negative Reviews and Complaints: The presence of numerous negative reviews or complaints from users regarding the platform's services or authenticity.
- Duplicated Content: Using identical or similar content across multiple websites, indicating potential unoriginality or questionable practices.
4. Does Loxley-fx's referral program assure significant passive income?
Loxley-fx does offer a referral program where users can earn rewards by inviting new members through unique referral links. While this program might generate additional income, the platform's overall legitimacy and associated risks should be considered before engaging in such programs.
5. What steps can users take to verify the legitimacy of online investment portals like Loxley-fx?
To verify the legitimacy of online investment portals such as Loxley-fx, users can:
- Check Reviews and Feedback: Explore reviews from various sources and forums to understand others' experiences with the platform.
- Domain Registration Details: Use domain registrar tools like WHOIS to check the domain's registration details, including registration date and owner information.
- Personal Judgment: Evaluate the platform's professionalism, website design, and clarity of information provided. Be cautious of any suspicious or unclear elements.

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eReader is the name for a particular program used to read a Palm based eBook format. It is also used by many people as a generic term to indicate eReading devices. This page covers the Palm Reader program. If you were really looking for hardware Readers go to E-book devices.
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[edit] Overview
This page is now archived.
eReader is the latest name for Palm Reader. It is a viewer for electronic documents on PalmOS and other platforms and devices. eReader is also used by many people to indicate eReading devices. If you were really looking for hardware Readers try E-book devices. Barnes and Noble purchased Fictionwise and thus eReader software and uses this as their eBook format on their web site and the new Nook eBook reader. This format is no longer used in new devices and publishing in this format has ceased.
[edit] History
Palm Reader was originally Peanut Reader, a product of early ebook publisher Peanut Press. Palm bought Peanut Press and renamed them the Palm Digital Media division. The product was renamed Palm Reader, and a freeware version was bundled with most PalmOS devices as an optional install, or included in device ROM.
Palm subsequently sold the Digital Media division to Motricity, Inc., who renamed the product eReader, and created versions for Windows Mobile devices, Windows and Mac platforms. As of Jan 09, 2008, Fictionwise acquired eReader from Motricity. Barnes and Noble purchased Fictionwise as of Mar 05, 2009 which includes eReader.
[edit] Features
Like PalmReader, eReader is available in freeware and Pro versions. Currently the Pro version is released free as well on some platforms and for a reduced price on others. The additional features include downloadable font support and dictionary look up. The same executable is used in both the free and pro versions with the pro version reverting to basic support after a trial period. Most platforms now include the Pro version for free. This is also available from Barnes and Noble for free as their eBook format, as they now own eReader and Fictionwise.
eReader files are produced from source text in Palm Markup Language (PML) format. eReader files in PNRd format can be produced by the older MakeBook and DropBook programs, or by the shareware eBook Studio. They will generally have a .pdb extension.
eReader is capable of displaying PalmDOC files and its native PML (Palm Markup Language) formatted files. Documents may be in device RAM, or may be on an expansion card in the /Palm/Launcher or /Palm/Books directories on a PalmOS Device. eReader is available on a wide variety of platforms.
In addition, eReader supports Digital Rights Management, and can be used to view downloaded commercial titles. These titles are encrypted, and use a key based on the purchaser's credit card number to decrypt for viewing. They have a temporary license capability that can be used by libraries and for sharing eBooks.
Two other data files are associated with this reader: Ex and Kx. These letters are appended to the file name (just ahead of the extension) and store metadata.
[edit] Platform Support
eReader is supported on Android, Blackberry, PalmOS, Windows Mobile, Symbian OS, Windows, Linux, MacOS X, iPhone and one optimized for Windows on OQO. See http://www.ereader.com/ereader/software/browse.htm
[edit] Supported formats
- PalmDOC - like almost all readers that have their origin on Palm devices.
- PDB - Standard Palm extension. Fictionwise uses -ER.PDB to help distinguish this from other PDB formats. Others sometimes use the term PML to distinguish this format.
[edit] Content Creation
The easiest method to make content in this format is to use eBook Studio which is available for Windows and MacOS. If you are willing you learn PML, Palm Markup Language, you can create files in a text editor and then drag them to Dropbook or use a Java version called Makebook. Dropbook is also available on Windows, MacOS, and Unix. Makebook is no longer supported but will run anywhere Java is supported. Dropbook and Makebook are free.
If you include a file called cover.png it will be recognized as a cover and displayed as such.
odt2pml is a macro to export an OpenOffice Writer document to Palm eReader. It creates a PML file for use with dropbook. Another Macro, this one for word, called PublisheBook allows using SaveAs to make a eReader PML file.
Adobe Framemaker includes a convert option supplied by the Webworks connection.
Book Designer can also be used to create these kinds of books. It also uses Dropbook but includes a really old copy. Replace the copy in the install directory with the latest version for better results.
[edit] Palm Markup Language
Palm Markup Language is the source language used to create documents for eReader. Files in this format are then compiled for use with the reader. The following table specifies the Palm Markup Language commands, and what they do. Looking at the table provides insight into what can be done with the PNPd format which Fictionwise calls -ER.PDB.
\p | New page |
\x | New chapter; also causes a new page break. Enclose chapter title (and any style codes) with \x and \x |
\Xn | New chapter, indented n levels (n between 0 and 4 inclusive) in the Chapter dialog; doesn't cause a page break. Enclose chapter title (and any style codes) with \Xn and \Xn |
\Cn="Chapter title" | Insert "Chapter title" into the chapter listing, with level n (like \Xn). The text is not shown on the page and does not force a page break. This can sometimes be useful to insert a chapter mark at the beginning of an introduction to the chapter, for example. |
\c | Center this block of text; close with \c on beginning of line |
\r | Right justify text block; close with \r on beginning of line |
\i | Italicize block; close with \i |
\u | Underline block; close with \u |
\o | Overstrike block; close with \o |
\v | Invisible text; close with \v (can be used for comments) |
\t | Indent block. Start at beginning of a line, close with \t at end of a line |
\T="50%" | Indents the specified percentage of the screen width, 50% in this case. If the current drawing position is already past the specified screen location, this tag is ignored. |
\w="50%" | Embed a horizontal rule of a given percentage width of the screen, in this case 50%. This tag causes a line break before and after it. The rule is centered. The percent sign is mandatory. |
\n | Switch to the "normal" font, which is specified by the user |
\s | Switch to stdFont; close with \s to revert to normal font |
\b | Switch to boldFont; close with \b to revert to normal font (deprecated; use \B instead) |
\l | Switch to largeFont; close with \l to revert to normal font |
\B | Mark text as bold. Unlike the \b tag, \B doesn't change the font, so you can have large bold text. You cannot mix \b and \B in the same PML file. |
\Sp | Mark text as superscript. Should not be mixed with other styles such as bold, italic, etc. Enclose superscripted text with \Sp. |
\Sb | Mark text as subscript. Should not be mixed with other styles such as bold, italic, etc. Enclose subscripted text with \Sb. |
\k | Make enclosed text into small-caps; close with \k. Any characters enclosed in \k tags (including those with accents) are made uppercase and are rendered at a smaller point size than a regular uppercase character. |
\\ | Represents a single backslash |
\aXXX | Insert non-ASCII character whose Windows-1252 code is decimal XXX. See the PML character table for details. |
\UXXXX | Insert non-ASCII character whose Unicode code is hexadecimal XXXX. See the Extended PML character table for details. |
\m="imagename.png" | Insert the named image. See the section on Images below. |
\q="#linkanchor"Some text\q | Reference a link anchor which is at another spot in the document. The string after the anchor specification and before the trailing \q is underlined or otherwise shown to be a link when viewing the document. |
\Q="linkanchor" | Specify a link anchor in the document. |
\- | Insert a soft hyphen. A soft hyphen shows up only if it is necessary to break a word across a line. |
\Fn="footnote1"1\Fn | Link the "1" to a footnote whose name is footnote1, tagged at the end of the PML document. See the section on Footnotes and Sidebars below. |
\Sd="sidebar1"Sidebar\Sd | Link the "Sidebar" text to a sidebar whose name is sidebar1, tagged at the end of the PML document. See the section on Footnotes and Sidebars below. |
\I | Mark as a reference index item. Enclose index item (and any style codes) with \I and \I. See Creating Dictionaries for more information. |
The extended \UXXXX characters can be compared to other readers at special characters. They can be directly viewed at Extended PML character table on this wiki.
[edit] Images
The following rules are intended to guarantee that images in your eBook will be viewable on all platforms that eReader runs on.
On low-resolution Palm OS handhelds, an image wider than 158 pixels or taller than 148 pixels will be represented in the text by a thumbnail that the user can tap to view the entire image. Images smaller than 158 x 148 will be presented in-line with the text.
On high-resolution Palm OS handhelds (those having screens of 320x320 pixels or more), images smaller than 158 by 148 pixels will be pixel-doubled. Images larger than 158x148 may be shown in-line with the text, if they will fit on the screen.
On non-Palm OS platforms, small images will be scaled up appropriately. Large images will be scaled down to fit on the page; in this case the user can tap on the image to view the entire image and zoom in or out.
For DropBook to find the image, it must be present in a directory whose name matches that of the PML text file. For example, if "pmlsample.txt" contains a reference to an image called "intro.png", then there must be a directory called "pmlsample_img" that contains intro.png. The directory's name is the name of the PML file (without the .txt extension) with "_img" appended.
Images must be in PNG format and cannot be filtered or interlaced. Image depth must be 8 bits or less. Any color table may be used for color images.
Image files must be less than or equal to 65505 bytes in size, since they are embedded into the .pdb format of the book; Palm database records are limited to 65505 bytes in length. Since images are compressed, the actual image displayed by the reader may be much larger than 64K.
Any or all of these restrictions may eventually be removed.
[edit] Metadata
DropBook normally presents a dialog in which the title and other Metadata information for the eBook may be specified. This information may be embedded in the PML file instead.
To specify the eBook title as it will appear in the Open dialog on the handheld, place a block of invisible comment text at the beginning of the file using \v tags. Inside this comment block, put the string TITLE="My eBook", where "My eBook" is replaced with the name of your eBook. It should look something like this:
\vTITLE="Palm Sample Document"\v
You can also specify the author using the AUTHOR meta-tag, the publisher with PUBLISHER, copyright information with COPYRIGHT, and the eBook ISBN with EISBN. A fully-specified set of meta-information might appear in PML as:
\vTITLE="Palm Sample Document" AUTHOR="Sam Morgenstern" PUBLISHER="eReader.com" EISBN="X-XXXX-XXXX" COPYRIGHT="Copyright \a169 2004 by Sam Morgenstern"\v
Cover art: If an image named "cover.png" is present in the eBook, it is assumed to be the cover art for the eBook. See the rules for images for sizing and other information.
[edit] Footnotes and Sidebars
Footnotes and Sidebars are specified with an XML-like syntax at the end of the PML document. For example,
<sidebar id="sidebar1"> Here's some \itext\i for a sidebar. </sidebar>
would specify the sidebar to be displayed when the user taps on a sidebar link in the text that was specified using the \Sd tag.
Any text or PML placed after the first footnote or sidebar is ignored as part of the book text.
Sidebars and footnotes can include most PML features, but there are some PML tags that cannot be used inside of a sidebar or footnote.
These include
- Chapters \x, \X, \C
- Links \q, \Q
- Footnotes \Fn
- Sidebars \Sd
See the palmsample.txt file (included with Dropbook) for examples of how to use many of the PML tags.
[edit] Creating Dictionaries
The \I PML tag is used to delimit an index item. Example: \Iaardvark\I
Each entry must start in the normal font. If DropBook shows an error beginning with "No styles permitted before...", there is probably a missing end style tag before the text shown in the error message.
Links, chapters and other PML structures are not permitted in dictionaries. Images, however, are.
A special dictionary entry, "(Front matter)" is shown before other entries in the list of entries, and should be used to include pronunciation symbols and other front matter.
Note that use of dictionaries requires eReader Pro.
[edit] Tips
- Making eReader files using Open Office and Dropbook
- PMLZ is a ZIP of the full set of source files.
[edit] File Format
The eReader format is contained within a Palm Database Format container. The first record in the container is the eReader header which contains information about what type of data is in the rest of the sections as well as other information. All subsequent sections contain data such as compressed text, images, footnotes, sidebars, bookmarks...
[edit] Identiy
[edit] PDB record 0, eReader header.
This is only for 132 byte header files created by Dropbook. 202 byte header files created by Makebook is unknown.
bytes | content | comments |
0-2 | compression | Specifies compression and drm. 2 = palmdoc, 10 = zlib. 260 and 272 = DRM |
2-6 | unknown | Value of 0 is used |
6-8 | encoding | Always 25152 (0x6240). All text must be encoded as Latin-1 cp1252 |
8-10 | Number of small pages | The number of small font pages. If page index is not build in then 0. |
10-12 | Number of large pages | The number of large font pages. If page index is not build in then 0. |
12-14 | Non-Text record start | The location of the first non text records. record 1 to this value minus 1 are all text records |
14-16 | Number of chapters | The number of chapter index records contained in the file |
16-18 | Number of small index | The number of small font page index records contained in the file |
18-20 | Number of large index | The number of large font page index records contained in the file |
20-22 | Number of images | The number of images contained in the file |
22-24 | Number of links | The number of links contained in the file |
24-26 | Metadata avaliable | Is there a metadata record in the file? 0 = None, 1 = There is a metadata record |
26-28 | Unknown | Value of 0 is used |
28-30 | Number of Footnotes | The number of footnote records in the file |
30-32 | Number of Sidebars | The number of sidebar records in the file |
32-34 | Chapter index record start | The location of chapter index records. If there are no chapters use the value for the Last data record. |
34-36 | 2560 | Magic value that must be set to 2560 |
36-38 | Small page index start | The location of small font page index records. If page table is not built in use the value for the Last data record. |
38-40 | Large page index start | The location of large font page index records. If page table is not built in use the value for the Last data record. |
40-42 | Image data record start | The location of the first image record. If there are no images use the value for the Last data record. |
42-44 | Links record start | The location of the first link index record. If there are no links use the value for the Last data record. |
44-46 | Metadata record start | The location of the metadata record. If there is no metadata use the value for the Last data record. |
46-48 | Unknown | Value of 0 is used |
48-50 | Footnote record start | The location of the first footnote record. If there are no footnotes use the value for the Last data record. |
50-52 | Sidebar record start | The location of the first sidebar record. If there are no sidebars use the value for the Last data record. |
52-54 | Last data record | The location of the last data record |
54-132 | Unknown | Value of 0 is used |
Note: All values are in 2 byte increments. All bytes in the table that have a range larger than 2 can be broken into 2 byte segments and have different values set for each grouping.
* Starting with Dropbook 1.5.2 this value became 25152.
[edit] Records Order
Though the order of this sections is described in eReader header, DropBook makes the following order:
- eReader Header
- Compressed text
- Small font page index
- Large font page index
- Chapter index
- Links index
- Images
- (Extrapolation: there should be one more record type here though yet uncovered what it might be).
- Metadata
- Sidebar records
- Footnote records
- Text block size record
- "MeTaInFo\x00" word record
[edit] Text Records
All text records use cp1252 encoding (although eReader documents talk about UTF-8 as well). Their total compressed size is unknown however, anything below 3560 Bytes is known to work. The text will be either zlib or palmdoc compressed. Use the compression value from the eReader header to determine which.
Starting with DropBook 1.6.0 text is divided into 8KB (8192 bytes) blocks trimming the end to the closest space character and then being compressed. Earlier version of DropBook 1.5.2 tries to behave the same way, though sometimes it trims the block in unexpected place.
[edit] Chapter Index Records
Each chapter record corresponds to 1 chapter and points at the place in the book. Chapter record takes a form of 'offset name\x00' First 4 bytes are offset of the original pml file where the chapter index points to (offset of the \x|\X?|\C? tags). Then without a space goes a name of a chapter in chapter index. It should contain only text, all formatting tags should be removed. \U and \a tags are not permitted in chapter name. To maintain sub-chapters 4*n spaces (\x20) are added to the beginning of the name, where "n" is level of chapter: 0 for \x tag and N for \CN="" and \XN tags. And then an ending \x00 symbol.
[edit] Image Records
Image records must be smaller than 65505 Bytes. They must also be 8bit PNG images.
An image record takes the form 'PNG name\x00... image_data'
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Total Monoliths
Welcome to Monolith Tracker, a collaborative effort on tracking the Monoliths that are appearing around the world. We need your help report new monoliths that we are missing. You can connect with us on our Monolith Tracker Discord server.
The monoliths have been researched, and classified. Our top tier class is Class-S and stands for Significant monoliths like the Utah one. Followed by that is Class-P, Possibly significant monoliths. Class-Q is questionable but verified. Unverified monoliths have their classes and will show a banner if we have not been able to confirm it with a source. Learn more about the Classification System we use.


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Lead generation defined: Navigating paid vs. organic
In the small business world, the quest for leads is much like searching for treasure. While there's no true "X marks the spot" on the lead generation treasure map, there are certainly two different paths you can take. And as farfetched as it may seem, you can take both paths at the same time. So, let's talk about paid vs. organic lead generation.
Two sides of the coin
As the name implies, paid lead generation involves money. You pay for ads through Facebook or LinkedIn, Google Ads or sponsored content. Basically, you're buying visibility so you can reach a wider span of potential leads. On the flip side, organic lead generation is when you grow your customer base more naturally. Think search engine optimization (SEO), content marketing and social media platforms without paying for ads.
The paid path
If you're looking to fast-track your lead generation, paid can be the right path to take. It's fast and direct, and it gets you in front of potential customers quickly. It's ideal for meeting short-term goals and can be effective during product launches or promotional campaigns. But this path takes a mighty big budget (it costs money, after all).
To use paid lead generation to your advantage, follow these three best practices.
1. Know your target audience
Make sure you know exactly who your ideal customer is before you go live with paid advertising. You want to ensure your messaging gets to the right demographic, so use the targeting tools available to you in platforms like Google Ads and Facebook.
2. Use analytics
Platforms like Google Ads and Facebook provide data so you can track and analyze the performance of your campaigns. Make adjustments to your strategies based on what the data insights tell you.
3. Create quality over quantity
Craft engaging and compelling ads that will resonate with your target audience. It's not just about reaching people; it's about reaching the right people. Also, keep your budget in mind when you consider multiple ads.
The organic route
While the paid path can get you the quick results you want, the organic route moves a little slower. It takes time, patience and consistency. But it's more sustainable and cost-effective in the long run. When you create valuable content, optimize your website with SEO best practices and engage with your audience via social media, you start building a community around your brand.
When your goal is organic lead generation, keep the following in mind:
1. Content reigns supreme
Address the pain points and questions your target audience has with valuable and relevant content. Use different outlets such as blogs, videos and podcasts for more exposure to your brand.
2. SEO should be your bestie
SEO may sound intimidating, but it's a great way to drive organic traffic. Be sure to optimize your website and content for search engines by using relevant keywords, improving your website speed and keeping mobile-friendliness in mind.
3. Relationships are key
Use social media to engage and connect with your audience; it's a fantastic way to build relationships. Be authentic and share educational and/or useful content with your followers.
Two paths are better than one
No hard and fast rule says you can only take the paid path or go the organic route. You don't have to choose between the two. Using a balanced approach can work wonders. Use paid strategies to boost your visibility in the short term. This can help you when you're just starting or launching a new product or service. At the same time, investing in organic strategies strengthens your long game and helps grow community and brand loyalty.
Your lead generation journey
Whether paid or organic, your lead generation journey isn't a one-size-fits-all solution. You have to find the right mix that works for your business. Use the tools at your disposal to experiment, learn and adapt. The goal is to build meaningful connections with potential customers so that they can become loyal patrons. Happy lead hunting!
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In this video, Tiger Woods is chipping near to the green from short grass like you'd find on the fairway. His chip has a slight angle to get it over the grass, drop, then roll to the cup. If I were doing this chip, I would use my pitching wedge.
The green in this picture is a good one to use the technique Tiger Woods is showing in the video, but only after you get past the sand trap. If you were to go over the trap and drop near the flag, I would use an angle on the club face that is 45 degrees or more to the surface and use a pitching wedge or sand wedge (best) depending on the distance.
Sand Wedge: A sand wedge has a more angled face than a pitching wedge. I use a sand wedge if I want the ball to drop onto the green and stop. I prefer to use sand wedges only on flat surfaces as the chance of hitting turf and sticking increases with the surface angle.
7-Iron: A seven iron has less of a surface than a pitching wedge, but it will run further after it hits. A 7-iron is good when the grass near the green is short, especially in dry months and the area is fairly flat. You can do the chip Tiger Woods is doing in the video from a further distance--up to 80 yards in the conditions I mentioned. The distance is controlled by your back swing. Your accuracy is controlled by your follow through and where your shoulder is pointing.
10-Iron: I don't have this club in my bag, but my husband does since men's clubs are sized and angled differently than women's clubs. He uses it like I use my sand wedge.
One thing that improved my chipping was Amateur Golfer Benefits of Phil Mickelson's Secrets of The Short Game
Final Stats on the BMW Championship: 1: Rory McIlroy 2: Phil Mickelson 2: Lee Westwood 4: Tiger Woods
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Giving Thanks for Furry Friends: Thanksgiving Time Pet Tips
Thanksgiving is a time for gratitude and togetherness, and that includes our beloved pets. As we gather to celebrate, it's important to consider the well-being of our furry companions amidst the festivities. In this blog, we'll explore some essential Thanksgiving pet tips to ensure a safe and enjoyable holiday for your four-legged family members.
- Mindful Feasting: While we indulge in a Thanksgiving feast, it's crucial to resist the urge to share certain foods with our pets. Traditional Thanksgiving fare like turkey bones, rich gravies, and seasoned dishes can be harmful to animals. Stick to pet-friendly treats or provide a small amount of plain, cooked turkey as a special treat.
- Pet-Safe Decorations: Festive decorations are a hallmark of Thanksgiving, but some can pose risks to curious pets. Keep an eye on candles, table centerpieces, and decorative plants, as they may be knocked over or ingested by pets. Opt for pet-safe decorations and secure items that could be tempting to chew or play with.
- A Quiet Retreat: Thanksgiving gatherings can be overwhelming for some pets. Create a quiet, comfortable space where your furry friend can retreat to if the holiday festivities become too much. This safe haven will allow them to relax and feel secure while you enjoy time with friends and family.
- Watch the Trash Can: The aroma of a Thanksgiving meal can be irresistible to pets, leading them to explore the trash can for tasty morsels. Dispose of leftovers securely and use a pet-proof trash container to prevent your curious companion from digging in and potentially consuming harmful items.
- Avoid Harmful Foods: Certain Thanksgiving staples, such as onions, garlic, grapes, raisins, and chocolate, are toxic to pets. Ensure that these items are kept well out of reach and that guests are aware of what not to share with their furry friends.
- Introduce Guests Gradually: If you're hosting guests, especially those who are unfamiliar with pets, introduce them to your furry friend gradually. Some pets may be anxious or shy around new people, so allow them to approach at their own pace. Remind guests not to feed your pet without your permission.
- Stay Mindful of Allergies: Just like humans, pets can have food allergies. Be cautious about offering new foods to your pet during the holiday festivities. If you're unsure about whether a particular food is safe, consult with your veterinarian beforehand.
- Express Gratitude with a Walk: Incorporate your pet into the holiday spirit by taking them for a brisk Thanksgiving walk. This not only provides exercise but also allows you both to enjoy the crisp fall air together.
Thanksgiving is a time of gratitude, and our pets are undoubtedly a source of joy and companionship. By following these Thanksgiving pet tips, you can ensure that the holiday remains a festive and safe time for both you and your furry friends. Whether you're enjoying a special treat together or creating a cozy retreat, including your pets in the Thanksgiving celebration can make the day even more memorable.


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Life is pretty good if you're Tyson Beckford.
For 17 years he has been lusted after as one of the world's most beautiful people. He's fronted myriad international fashion campaigns and is currently filming Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model with Elle Macpherson. He owns and races three motorbikes — a Ducati, a Yamaha and a Jesse James West Coast Chopper — and two drift-racing cars. And at 41 he's dating a Victoria's Secret model, Shanina Shaik, who is half his age.
So he must really love fashion? 'It's all BS,' he says. 'You have to recognise the fashion industry can be ugly, mean and shallow. One day you're invisible, the next you're fabulous.' It's a lesson he's imparting to his girlfriend. 'When I found her she was a regular girl. I helped place her with the right people, get her teeth cleaned, her body toned up,' he says, framing himself as the Henry Higgins of fashion. 'Everything changed and now everyone wants a piece of her. I hear people say, "You can do better than Tyson." I'm like, "Really? Really?! I created her!"?'
He shrugs his massive shoulders.
Tyson grew up in upstate New York. 'My friends were in gangs. Today a lot of them are dead or in jail. It was a horrible time and I vowed once I left I would never go back.' It's hard to believe but back then Tyson, who has African-Jamaican and Chinese ancestry, was skinny with buckteeth. But in his late teens a sudden growth spurt took him from 5ft 8in and 145lb to 6ft 1in and 185lb, and with his body sculpted by weights and athletics, he was soon picked up to be the face of a series of campaigns for Ralph Lauren.
He went on to play Toni Braxton's love interest in the video for 'Unbreak My Heart', which saw him smouldering semi-naked — broad shoulders, strong jaw, unfeasibly immaculate abs — with her in the pool, the shower... 'I'd always wanted to act, and that gave me a chance to show the world I wasn't just a pretty model but that I could portray a character without speaking. I love silent film, Charlie Chaplin and The Artist. Inside, I was always acting. An actor playing the role of a male supermodel.' And his cameo in Zoolander? 'I was playing myself, which is one of the hardest things you can do.'
Next to acting, Tyson loves music (a passion he shares with his 13-year-old son Jordan, from a relationship with the stylist April Roomet) and motorsports, though for the moment he lacks sponsorship to race his drift cars. 'Man,' he sighs, 'my cars are on bricks. It's too expensive to do without funding. I don't know what to do with myself...' Does he love racing more than sex? 'Mmmmm,' he growls. 'If I had to give up one of them, it would have to be the sex, even though I've got a hot girlfriend. She'll understand,' he smiles, shooting me a look that's pure Blue Steel. 'She's a speed junkie, too. She rides on the back of the bike with me and we do wheelies, though we don't let her agent know, or her mum. Sometimes I really gotta take her and go. You need that thrill.'
His life doesn't seem short on thrills. 'As a supermodel I go with the other supers round the world: Dubai one day, Paris the next. There's partying. I'll wake up in a hotel room and there are people all over the floor and I'm like, "Is this really happening?" One time in Miami I woke up in the bathtub.' Working with female supers continues to be a rush. 'I play second fiddle to them, but that's fine. Linda's great, and Elle, Naomi — though I've seen her dark side. They all like to have fun.'
But for all his jet-set life, Tyson's ultimate passion is football — and Arsenal. The other night he accompanied Arsenal's Johan Djourou and Chelsea's Didier Drogba to a match. 'I was always a fan of football but then the king came. [Thierry] Henry. I was like, "Who is this Frenchman? I must know him!" Now he's a friend. I'd trade my life to be a footballer any day of the week.' ES
Height 6ft 1½in
Weight 88kg
Nickname My girlfriend calls me Tyty. I call her Kangaroo — she's Australian and pounces on me whenever she feels like it.
Chat-up line 'Hello. How are you?' I don't think guys should have lines, you should just say hello and not in a cheesy, corny way.
Seduction dinner Shanina loves my chicken. I do it barbecue or jerk. When she has a bad day I cook it for her and it makes her smile.
Exercise regime At the moment, cardio and abs. I have such muscle definition I don't need to lift weights any more.
Best ab exercise I hang from the bar and do leg lifts, pointing my toes.
Best health tip Hydrate.
Favourite food Fish and lobster.
Favourite fruit Pineapple.
Favourite drink Pineapple juice.
Anything else? I hate champagne. I'd rather have a beer.
Favourite piece for 2012 My Arsenal sweatshirt.
Fashion trend for 2012 Real men. On the catwalk at Milan there were fewer skinny models. I was walking with men, not boys.
How do you look good in a photo? Don't overthink it. Be yourself.
Favourite track Tupac's 'Me Against the World'. I feel like it's me against the world to this day.
Favourite chocolate Dairy Milk.
Is it tough to be really, really good-looking? I used to get 'He's too good-looking' but I haven't heard that in a long time.
Do you get out of bed for less than $10,000? In this economy, you do it, but you have to know your worth.
Original article published in Evening Standard, in March, 2012


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Posted May 14, 2009, 7:16 PM.After a warmer than normal first half of May, longer term weather models indicate that conditions, especially temperatures, will snap back to seasonal norms after Wednesday or so next week. Dry weather is still predicted; we may exit the month without any measurable rain in the inland valleys. Temperatures should be warm or even very warm this weekend, ranging from the middle 80's in Fallbrook and De Luz to the upper 80's in southwest Riverside County, to the middle 90's and above in the inland valleys north of Elsinore convergence zone, including Lake Elsinore, the Riverside metro, Perris, Sun City and the San Jacinto Valley. By the middle of next week, temperatures are projected to settle back to normal, and, according to NOAA's CPC outlook and the GFS model, should remain in the normal range for the rest of the month. For most of the inland valleys, that likely means a return to onshore flow and morning low clouds, seasonal climate features nicknamed "May Gray" that have been sporadic in the first half of this month. It isn't unusual for May to be dry, but there have been some wet Mays in the past decade, including 2008 and 2003. Last year's rainfall was from thunderstorm activity that also spawned tornadoes in Moreno Valley and Perris. 2005 and 2006 also experienced moderate rainfall. May rainfall in the inland valleys, on average, runs about a quarter to a third of the rainfall typically received in April. Afternoon temperatures have been running near to slightly above normal for the last several days. |
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578Examination of the Caroline Books.
I. Authorship of the Caroline Books.
I find that many writers on the subject of what they call "image worship," speak frequently of these "Caroline Books," and refer to them with great admiration. It is also absolutely certain that many of these writers have never read, possibly never seen, the books of which they write so eloquently. I have used the reprint of Melchior Goldast's edition (Frankfort, 1608) in Migne's Patrologia Latina, Tom. xcviij., in this article.
The work begins thus. "In the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ beginneth the work of the most illustrious and glorious man Charles, by the will of God, king of the Franks, Gauls, Germany, etc., against the Synod which in Greek parts firmly and proudly decreed in favour of adoring (adorandis) images," then follows immediately what is called "Charlemagne's Preface."
Now of course nobody supposes for a moment that Charlemagne wrote these books himself. But Sir William Palmer (Treatise on the Church, Vol. II., p. 204) says that the prelates of the realm of France "composed a reply to this Synod," he further says that "This work was published by the authority and in the name of the Emperor Charlemagne and with the consent of his bishops, in 790" (p. 205). I am entirely at a loss to know on what authority these statements rest. The authorship of the work has not without great show of reason, been attributed to Alcuin. Besides the English tradition that he had written such a book, there has been pointed out the remarkable similarity of his commentary on St. John (4, 5, et seqq.) to a passage in Liber IV., cap. vj., of these Caroline Books. (On this point see Forster, General Preface to the Works of Alcuin n. 10.) But after all whether Alcuin was the author or no, matters little, the statement that the "bishops of France" were in any sense responsible for it is entirely gratuitous, unless indeed some should think it may be gathered from the statement of the Preface;
"We have undertaken this work with the priests who are prelates of the Catholic flocks in the kingdom which has been granted to us of God."547547 It is curious that Michaud (Sept. Conciles Œcuméniques, p. 294) should say "the title priest given to those who composed the book proves that no one of them was a bishop." The Latin is "Sacerdotum Prælatorum"! But this would not be the only book written at the command of, and set forth by, a secular prince and yet claiming the authority of the Church. I need only give as examples "The Institution of a Christian Man" and the Second Prayer Book of Edward the VIth.
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The Helicopter Controlled Entirely by the Human Brain
By The Week
By Harold Maass
Call it the quadcopter mind meld. A group of biomedical engineers at the University of Minnesota has developed a novel way to fly a robotic helicopter, using their own brains as the remote control. The team's research was published Tuesday in the Journal of Neural Engineering.
They're not the first to try such a trick. A Duke neuroscientist implanted electrodes into a monkey a few years ago to allow it to control a walking robot. But this research team managed its feat using an EEG cap laden with 64 electrodes, which can detect electric currents produced by neurons in the brain's motor cortex. That allows the wearer to control the aircraft by simply thinking about a series of hand gestures.
The subjects simply watched where the quadcopter was going on a computer screen, and clenched their fists to navigate it — left to go left, right to go right, both to rise. The commands were sent to the craft via WiFi, and the five subjects managed to pilot the helicopter to its target 66 percent of the time.
Predictably, tech-savvy reviewers found the idea of controlling a quadcopter by thought alone to be pretty cool. George Dvorsky at i09 said it was a truly remarkable accomplishment:
First, there's the order of complexity to consider. This quadcopter has to be navigated across three different dimensions... Incredibly, the copter can be seen zipping around the room as it flies through various sets of rings. It's wild to think that it's being navigated by an external, human mind.
Second, the achievement offers yet another example of the potential for remote presence. Thought-controlled interfaces will not only allow people to move objects on a computer screen, or devices attached to themselves — but also external devices with capacities that significantly exceed our own. In this case, a flying toy. In future, we can expect to see remote presence technologies applied to even more powerful robotic devices, further blurring the boundary that separates our body from the environment. [i09]
Previous leaps forward with brain-computer interfaces have involved transmitting a command to a machine — say, a robotic arm — and triggering a pre-programmed task that would then be carried out to completion. Rachel Nuwer at Popular Mechanics said that explains why the researchers think their work could open new possibilities for those with physical limitations such as paralysis.
"This new system allows users to make asynchronous (real-time) decisions and change course in midstream rather than having to wait until the prior task is completed," Nuwer says. "In the real world, this would allow a person to start walking forward to the bathroom, for example, but then change his mind and head left into the kitchen."
The aim, said Leo Mirani at Quartz, is to help "the paralyzed to restore their 'autonomy of world exploration.' For healthy users, the possibilities are boundless."
More from The Week...
Forget Cronuts: 7 Crazier Ideas for Food Hybrids
Solving the Mystery of PRISM
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The ancient fascination of Mah-Jongg meets the cutting edge of video games in the most captivating strategy game to challenge the Western world - Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye. Calculate your moves! Beware the art of maneuver. An intricate ever-changing layout of ancient tiles marked with mysteriously eye-catching designs challenges your every move. Think before you make your move - it could be your last. Clear the board! Snap off matching pairs until the board is empty. Looks simple enough... but looks can be deceiving. The next tile you need may be buried five deep. Choose from 13 deceptively simple tile formations and 9 unshakably addictive tile sets with surprising animation, exciting sounds and enchanting musical themes. Master the basics, and then confront the ultimate challenge: Dragon's Eye!
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Gov. Bill Haslam tweeted on October 3, 2013: "Teachers are the key to classroom success and we're seeing real progress. We want to be the fastest improving state in teacher salaries."
The first hint that being fast-improving might take some time came in the Governor's 2014 budget presentation, when he proposed a 2% pay raise for the state's teachers. By way of comparison, Kentucky's Governor also proposed a 2% raise for his state's teachers. It's tough to be the fastest improving when you move at the same rate as your competition. It's like being down 40-30 at halftime of a basketball game. Then, in the second half, you match the other team and score 40 points. You end up losing 80-70. To be fastest-improving, you have to score more points, but maybe Haslam's not a sports fan.
Then, comes yesterday's news that Haslam's budget is facing trouble because state revenues are down. So, surely he's going to focus on keeping those all-important teacher raises and commitment to K-12 education, right? Wrong. Haslam is balancing the state budget by denying promised raises to teachers and state employees and ditching his proposed increases to higher education. What's worse, Haslam's Commissioner of Education convinced the state Board of Education to mandate that Tennessee school districts adopt differentiated pay scales. The 2% increase in salary money available to districts was to help them meet this goal. Now, the districts still face the mandate but will lack the state support to make truly meaningful change.
Below Mississippi? The Tennessee Education Association was quick to jump on the proposed cuts as unacceptable. Citing research by the National Education Association, the TEA notes in a press release that Tennessee will now invest less per student than Mississippi. According to the research, Tennessee's per pupil investment is 45th in the nation and below every neighboring state but North Carolina. TEA President Gera Summerford said, "In order to attract and retain the best teachers, it is critical that the state properly fund teacher salaries."
Where'd the Money Go? Governor Haslam blames the $160 million hole in the budget on lower than expected corporate taxes. However, no mention is made of the $46 million in lost revenue from a 1/2 cent decrease in the state portion of the sales tax on food. While removing or reducing the sales tax on food is a laudable goal, doing so without finding revenue to replace it is irresponsible. The sales tax on food is the most reliable portion of state revenue. Additional revenue is lost by the gradual phase out of Tennessee's estate tax, previously impacting estates over $1 million. The plan is to phase that out entirely by 2016, with an estimated revenue loss of around $30 million this year and around $97 million in 2016-17's budget. So, that's roughly $76 million, or close to half of the projected shortfall for the upcoming budget cycle. To his credit, Haslam says he wants to hold off on efforts to repeal the Hall tax on investment income – a tax paid by a small number of wealthy Tennesseans with investment income. However, he has also said reducing or eliminating the Hall tax is a goal. Phasing out the tax, as proposed in legislation under consideration this year at the General Assembly, would mean a loss of $20 million in the 2015-16 budget year and an ultimate loss in state funds of $160 million a year and in local revenue of $86 million a year.
Other options? It's not clear, what, if any other options were considered. In Kentucky, Governor Steve Beshear proposed a budget that included 5% cuts to most state departments while raising teacher pay and increasing investment in K-12 education. So, while his state faces a tight budget situation and difficult choices, he chose to put forward a budget that increased spending on public education and invested in Kentucky's teachers, who are already better paid than Tennessee's. The Kentucky General Assembly passed a version of that budget this week. Tennessee's General Assembly may make changes to Governor Haslam's proposals, of course. But it's difficult to claim that Bill Haslam is putting education first. Of course, that tweet back in October could also have been a set up for a rather cruel April Fool's Day joke. For more on Tennessee education politics and policy, follow @TNEdReport


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Yes, I would buy this in a heartbeat. |
Not that it's exactly relaxing. As we reach the end of the physical remodeling of the house (praise Cthulhu!) we have to start taking things out of 100+ boxes to put back...after first deciding whether these myriad things will stay or go.
Which means we're spending days tossing out old VHS tapes, vinyl albums (including the rare "Best of Marcel Marceau"), ill-considered DVD purchases, books we meant to read but didn't, clothes we hoped to "slim down into" but really didn't, family photos so old that NO ONE living knows who these people are anymore, tools and materials for "someday" projects which we now believe unlikely to happen, and memorabilia of times and places which, in Life's not always kind hindsight, seem better forgotten.
It's tiring and emotional work, especially for a certifiable pack rat, and doesn't leave many brain cells for political analysis or levity. Not that we had a superabundance of brain cells to start with.
So we're "draining the swamp" - our own personal swamp - today and for days ahead. But hopefully we'll be back with a regular post on Wednesday. See you then!
Alleged actress Rose McGowan has been among the loudest voices accusing Harvey Weinstein of being a sexual predator who didn't treat her as a "nice girl."
Just for the record, here's how Rose dresses for important, high-profile Hollywood events, to make sure everyone present notices her...mind.
We still think Weinstein needs the book thrown at him, but more importantly the whole Hollywood T&A culture - in which many men and women know exactly what they're really buying and selling - needs to change.
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Meta-research and medical skepticism
The Atlantic features an important article about "meta-researcher" Athina Tatsioni, who has published a number of influential papers about the quality of biomedical research:
He and his team have shown, again and again, and in many different ways, that much of what biomedical researchers conclude in published studies—conclusions that doctors keep in mind when they prescribe antibiotics or blood-pressure medication, or when they advise us to consume more fiber or less meat, or when they recommend surgery for heart disease or back pain—is misleading, exaggerated, and often flat-out wrong. He charges that as much as 90 percent of the published medical information that doctors rely on is flawed. His work has been widely accepted by the medical community; it has been published in the field's top journals, where it is heavily cited; and he is a big draw at conferences…
He chose to publish one paper, fittingly, in the online journal PLoS Medicine, which is committed to running any methodologically sound article without regard to how "interesting" the results may be. In the paper, Ioannidis laid out a detailed mathematical proof that, assuming modest levels of researcher bias, typically imperfect research techniques, and the well-known tendency to focus on exciting rather than highly plausible theories, researchers will come up with wrong findings most of the time. Simply put, if you're attracted to ideas that have a good chance of being wrong, and if you're motivated to prove them right, and if you have a little wiggle room in how you assemble the evidence, you'll probably succeed in proving wrong theories right.
This raises a number of important issues from a life extension perspective. For starters, these findings reinforce that it is just not credible for mainstream researchers and medical professionals to sustain these arrogant attitudes towards serious research efforts in life extension and cryonics. Good research is hard to do, and there is little of it. This applies particularly to research that translates into meaningful medical benefits. It may be hard to swallow that a lot of what constitutes conventional medicine is based on flawed studies and interest-driven research, but there is no escaping this conclusion.
Having a strong interest in the results is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it makes one more susceptible to bias and cherry-picking. On the other hand, it can produce a determined mindset to tackle ambitious research goals (rejuvenation, vitrification). For example, the breakthroughs in vitrification technology at a company like 21st Century Medicine would have been unthinkable if the principal researchers would not have had an enduring strong personal interest in the technologies they are researching. This phenomenon can also throw some light on the observation that often committed amateurs have more knowledge than professional researchers. Academic researchers often move from one (grant-funded) fad to another without obtaining a wide and deep understanding of the fields they are investigating. Unfortunately, such fashionable researchers are often featured in the media as "experts."
Athina Tatsioni's findings should also have a sobering effect on those who think we are in a period of accelerating medical progress. Even the more credible medical research often fails to contribute to the expected clinical breakthroughs. To those familiar with the complex biochemistry of life, and the opportunity to introduce (long term) side-effects along with beneficial interventions (including attempts to just "repair" something), this should not be a surprise.
Naturally, Athina Tatsioni does not have a high opinion on research that claims benefits for vitamins and supplements:
For starters, he explains, the odds are that in any large database of many nutritional and health factors, there will be a few apparent connections that are in fact merely flukes, not real health effects—it's a bit like combing through long, random strings of letters and claiming there's an important message in any words that happen to turn up. But even if a study managed to highlight a genuine health connection to some nutrient, you're unlikely to benefit much from taking more of it, because we consume thousands of nutrients that act together as a sort of network, and changing intake of just one of them is bound to cause ripples throughout the network that are far too complex for these studies to detect, and that may be as likely to harm you as help you. Even if changing that one factor does bring on the claimed improvement, there's still a good chance that it won't do you much good in the long run, because these studies rarely go on long enough to track the decades-long course of disease and ultimately death.
The take-home message is that skepticism is a useful disposition when looking at all research, medical practice, and triumphant claims about accelerating technological progress. One advantage of those who have made cryonics arrangements have is that they have time and, in theory (!), should be less prone to wishful thinking and jumping on the latest bandwagon. As Michael Anissimov writes, "When I talk to older transhumanists that are into cryonics, I see people who are psychologically calmer than those who endlessly obsess over their food, questionable supplements, and other minutiae that will mean jack squat if they get into a simple car accident." It also reinforces the approach of arguing in favor of cryonics using skeptical arguments (about our arbitrary and evolving concepts of death) instead of making bold claims about existing and future science.
Further reading: John P. A. Ioannidis – Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.


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PHP and the Myth of the Slow Interpreted Language
How to Build a Bulk Email Sending Application in PHP
Bulk Email Sender PHP Script Optimized for Newsletters with the Same Body for All Recipients
PHP Mass Mailer Script for Sending Personalized Messages to Many Recipients
Optimizations for the Latest PHP Versions to Improve Mass Mailing PHP Script Performance
Optimizing the Mail Server Communication Process with a PHP Mass Email Script
Mass Email PHP Script using Cloud Mailing Service APIs
Download the PHP Bulk Mail Script Code
PHP and the Myth of the Slow Interpreted Language
The fact that most PHP applications run directly from PHP source code makes many developers believe that PHP is necessarily slow because it needs to interpret the source code to be executed.
Since PHP 4.0 when Zend Engine 1 was introduced, PHP source code is not interpreted during execution. Instead PHP is compiled into byte code before executing just like other languages, such as Java and C#. Only after the compilation process PHP is executed by the Zend Engine. This fact makes PHP code execute much faster than many developers imagine.
However, there is a factor that makes PHP even run much faster for heavy duty tasks. That factor is that PHP provides many functions that can process large amounts of data and the speed of lower level languages such as C and C++.
As a matter of fact those functions are written in C, rather than PHP code that is compiled into byte code. PHP acts only as glue language that passes data to those C functions.
This factor makes PHP suitable for performing many types of heavy duty tasks like for instance sending email messages to many recipients.
As a matter of fact PHP comes built-in with many functions specifically to encode data to compose email standards compliant messages very efficiently.
This MIME message class uses as much as possible many of those functions to compose and send email with great efficiency.
How to Build a Bulk Email Sending Application in PHP
Very often PHP applications need to send messages to many users. That is the case of sites that need to send newsletters or other types of mass mailings.
One optimization that this class provides for mass mailing is the SetBulkMail function. It hints the class to prepare itself to send many messages, one after another.
What this function does in practice depends on the actual way the message is sent. The base class email_message_class uses the PHP mail() function to deliver the message. In this case the SetBulkMail does not do anything.
However for specific sub-classes like the smtp_message_class that uses a SMTP server, it prevents the class to close the connection with the server between sending messages to two recipients. This avoids the overhead of closing and reopening the SMTP server connection.
In the case of the sendmail_message_class it sets the delivery_mode variable to a value that tells the sendmail email server to store the message in a local queue instead of waiting to deliver the message to the destination SMTP server.
In the case of the qmail_message_class the SetBulkMail function does not make a difference because qmail always stores messages in the local queue instead of attempting to send it to the destination SMTP server immediately.
Here is sample code to initialize the sendmail_message_class in preparation for mass mailing. This class is suitable for use when you are running PHP on a server that has Sendmail or another compatible mail server like Postfix, Qmail, Exim, etc..
$message=new sendmail_message_class; $message->SetBulkMail(true);
Bulk Email Sender PHP Script Optimized for Newsletters with the Same Body for All Recipients
The simplest case of mass mailing is of newsletters that have the same body content for all recipients. This means that the message body is the same, only the message headers may vary from recipient to recipient.
The MIME message class has a variable named cache_body that when set to true it tells the class to cache the assembled body of the message when it sends it to the first recipient, so it avoids the overhead of reassembling the message for subsequent recipients.
Here is a sample message delivery loop for sending messages with the same body to many recipients:
$message->SetEncodedHeader('Subject', 'Some subject'); /* * Define the recipients list */ $to=array( array( "address"=>"email@example.com", "name"=>"Peter Gabriel" ), array( "address"=>"firstname.lastname@example.com", "name"=>"Paul Simon" ), array( "address"=>"email@example.com", "name"=>"Mary Chain" ) ); /* * Create a place holder text message body part */ $text = 'Hello, some text message'; $message-> CreateQuotedPrintableTextPart( $text, '', $text_part ); /* * Create a place holder HTML message body part */ $html = 'Hello, some HTML message'; $message-> CreateQuotedPrintableHtmlPart( $html, '', $html_part ); /* * Assemble the text and HTML parts as alternatives */ $alternative_parts = array($text_part, $html_part); $message->AddAlternativeMultipart( $alternative_parts); /* * Cache the message for all recipients */ $message->cache_body = true; /* * Iterate for each recipient. */ foreach($to as $recipient) { /* Personalize the recipient address. */ $message->SetEncodedEmailHeader('To', $recipient['address'], $recipient['name']); /* Send the message checking for eventually acumulated errors */ $error=$message->Send(); if(strlen($error)) break; }
PHP Mass Mailer Script for Sending Personalized Messages to Many Recipients
Sending messages with personalized message bodies is a bit more complex because you need to set a different body data for each recipient.
/* * Create a place holder text message body part */ $text_template = 'Hello {name}, some text message'; $message-> CreateQuotedPrintableTextPart( $text_template, '', $text_part); /* * Create a place holder HTML message body part */ $html_template = 'Hello {name}, some HTML message'; $message-> CreateQuotedPrintableHtmlPart( $html_template, '', $html_part); /* * Assemble the text and HTML parts as alternatives */ $alternative_parts = array($text_part, $html); $message->AddAlternativeMultipart( $alternative_parts); /* * Iterate for each recipient. */ foreach($to as $recipient) { /* Personalize the recipient address. */ $message->SetEncodedEmailHeader('To', $recipient['address'], $recipient['name']); /* Create personalized body parts */ $text = str_replace('{name}', $recipient['name'], $text_template); $message-> CreateQuotedPrintableTextPart( $message->WrapText($text), '', $text_part); $html = str_replace('{name}', HtmlSpecialChars($recipient['name']), $html_template); $message-> CreateQuotedPrintableHtmlPart($html, '', $html_part); /* Make the personalized parts replace the initially empty part */ $message->ReplacePart($alternative_parts[0], $text_part); $message->ReplacePart($alternative_parts[1], $html_part); /* Send the message checking for eventually acumulated errors */ $error=$message->Send(); if(strlen($error)) break; }
Optimizations for the Latest PHP Versions to Improve Mass Mailing PHP Script Performance
When you want to reduce the time and CPU usage of queueing messages for a mass mailing campaign, it is necessary to optimize the code that is inside the recipient iteration loop.
In this case what takes most CPU is the encoding of the messages to form the MIME message envelopes that are sent to the mail server.
For regular HTML messages with alternative body parts as defined in the examples above, what takes most CPU is the encoding message bodies using the quoted-printable algorithm. This encoding is necessary to encode message, so they do not contain special characters that are illegal, as they could confuse mail server gateways.
Older PHP versions did not provide a core function to encode message bodies using quoted-printable. You could use the imap_8bit function for this purpose, but this required that the PHP IMAP extension be enabled.
Therefore the email_message_class provides a pure PHP implementation of the quoted-printable encoding algorithm. This is not a very fast solution, especially when you need to send personalized messages to many recipients.
Since PHP 5.3 there is a function named quoted_printable_encode for this purpose. The email_message_class uses this function in PHP versions that support it, thus making it much faster for mass mailing.
Optimizing the Mail Server Communication Process with a PHP Mass Email Script
The other part of the delivery loop that takes more time is the communication with the mail server. In this case there is not much more to do besides what the classes already do.
Anyway, if possible use the specialized delivery sub-class that uses sendmail or equivalent, like Postfix, Qmail, Exim. This is most times faster than trying to queue the messages in the mail server via SMTP protocol.
That is because the SMTP servers often use a program equivalent to sendmail to store the messages in their queues, so you woudl be adding the TCP/IP communication protocol overhead to server communication process.
I noticed that some developers believe SMTP queueing is faster than sending messages via sendmail. That may be the case when sendmail is configured to attempt to immediately send the message to the destination SMTP server.
As mentioned above, when you use the SetBulkMail function, the sendmail_message_class will pass parameters to sendmail, so it just stores the message in the mail server queue, rather than trying to immediately send the message to the destination SMTP server.
Another aspect is sending messages to remote SMTP servers of third-party mail server providers. This makes deliveries even slower because of the overhead of communicating with remote SMTP servers that are in different data centers.
Mass Email PHP Script using Cloud Mailing Service APIs
Not covered by this article are the solutions based on APIs of cloud mailing services. These mailing services are usually only recommended for sending bulk mail for a small number of recipients.
The cost of sending messages to many recipients is often very high. Depending on the purposes of your mass mailing application, it may not be worth hiring those services.
That is the case of PHP Classes which sends between 3 to 5 million newsletters and alert messages a month to the site subscribers.
That is why the MIME message sending package does not provide any direct support to those mailing service APIs. I may add support to some of those APIs though if there is enough demand from the users. Just let me know if you have interest, so I can evaluate the implementation of sub-classes that support those APIs.
Download the PHP Bulk Mail Script Code
As you may have read, it is possible to implement heavy duty task like mass mailing in PHP with great efficiency.
The MIME message class has been under active development since 1999, so nowadays it is very mature. It implements many smart optimizations that provide significant performance improvements to mass mailing applications.
You can download the ZIP archive of this class and the bulk mail scripts that use it
This article provides guidance on how to take advantage of those optimizations to achieve top mass mailing performance. Please post your comments and questions to this article if you need further clarification on how to take the most out of this package.
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8. want to try the script - dmca team (2021-04-28 16:53)
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6. Cool script - maruis fontin (2017-05-08 22:51)
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4. it was not possible to open sendmail input pipe - Siddiq Ansari (2014-09-26 22:37)
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3. There seems to be an error? - dan (2013-10-24 19:16)
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As we enter the season of the summer blockbuster I thought it would be fun to reflect on how many of the books that have been featured on my blog have also been made into movies. It seems that movie and TV show adaptations of books are becoming increasingly popular.
Some of these movies and TV shows listed below have been ones that I have seen and enjoyed; in some cases, seeing the movie first has prompted me to read the book just for comparison's sake.
Have you seen or read any of the movies or books from my list? I'd love to hear your thoughts but I also want to know which ones I'm missing or you think I should read. What's your favorite movie adaptation of a book?
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (pre-production)
- Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
- The Best Laid Plans by Terry Fallis (Canada)
- Blindness by José Saramago
- The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill (Canada)
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (U.K.)
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (adapted into Blade Runner)
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (adapted for TV/big screen)
- Last Orders by Graham Swift
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- One Day by David Nicholls
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq (France)
- Room by Emma Donaghue
- The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
- Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple (pre-production)
- Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (adapted for TV/big screen)
- The 100-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (Sweden)
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed
- Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Kid Lit/YA Fiction
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (Canada)
- Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
- The Borrowers by Mary Norton
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O'Brien (adapted into The Secret of NIMH)
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare (not pictured)
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (not pictured)
Graphic Novels
- Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- The Original Frank Miller Batman by Frank Miller
Psst- wanna see which books have previously graced my bookshelves? Click here. Want even more fun reading recommendations? I've got some for you here. Don't forget to find me on Goodreads so we can snoop each other's bookshelves and dish about our favourites.


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Write a paper of 500-750 words (not including the title page and reference page) on your proposed problem description for your EBP project. The paper should address the following:
Describe the background of the problem. Tell the story of the issue and why it deserves attention.
Identify the stakeholders/change agents. Who, or what organizations, are concerned, may benefit from, or are affected by this proposal. List the interested parties, patients, students, agencies, Joint Commission, etc.
Use the feedback from the Topic 2 main forum post and refine your PICOT question. Make sure that the question fits with your graduate degree specialization.
State the purpose and project objectives in specific, realistic, and measurable terms. The objective should address what is to be gained. This is a restatement of the question, providing focus. Measurements need to be taken before and after the evidence-based practice is introduced to identify the expected changes.
5) Provide supportive rationale that the problem or issue is an important one for nursing to resolve using relevant professional literature sources.
Develop an initial reference list to assure that there is adequate literature to support your evidence-based practice project. Follow the "Steps to an Efficient Search to Answer a Clinical Question" box in chapter 3 of the textbook. Use "NUR-699 Search Method Example" to assist you.
7) The majority of references should be research articles. However, national sources such as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Department of Health and Human Resources (HHS), or the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and others may be used when you are gathering statistics to provide the rationale for the problem.
Once you get into the literature, you may find there is very little research to support your topic and you will have to start all over again. Remember, in order for this to be an evidence-based project, you must have enough evidence to introduce this as a practice change. If you find that you do not have enough supporting evidence to change a practice, then further research would need to be conducted.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
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Upon receiving feedback from the instructor, refine "Section B: Problem Description" for your final submission. This will be a continuous process throughout the course for each section.


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