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Are you looking for additional days on the weekend to supplement your current role, or perhaps some extra days in practice whilst you complete your DCT year?
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Building Tunable Models
This example shows how to create tunable models of control systems for use with systune
or looptune
You can tune the gains and parameters of your control system with systune
or looptune
. To use these commands, you need to construct a tunable model of the control system that identifies and parameterizes its tunable elements. This is done by combining numeric LTI models of the fixed elements with parametric models of the tunable elements.
Using Pre-Defined Tunable Elements
You can use one of the following "parametric" blocks to model commonly encountered tunable elements:
tunableGain: Tunable gain
tunablePID: Tunable PID controller
tunablePID2: Tunable two-degree-of-freedom PID controller
tunableTF: Tunable transfer function
tunableSS: Tunable state-space model.
For example, create a tunable model of the feedforward/feedback configuration of Figure 1 where is a tunable PID controller and is a tunable first-order transfer function.
Figure 1: Control System with Feedforward and Feedback Paths
First model each block in the block diagram, using suitable parametric blocks for and .
G = tf(1,[1 1]); C = tunablePID('C','pid'); % tunable PID block F = tunableTF('F',0,1); % tunable first-order transfer function
Then use connect
to build a model of the overall block diagram. To specify how the blocks are connected, label the inputs and outputs of each block and model the summing junctions using sumblk
G.u = 'u'; G.y = 'y'; C.u = 'e'; C.y = 'uC'; F.u = 'r'; F.y = 'uF'; % Summing junctions S1 = sumblk('e = r-y'); S2 = sumblk('u = uF + uC'); T = connect(G,C,F,S1,S2,'r','y')
Generalized continuous-time state-space model with 1 outputs, 1 inputs, 3 states, and the following blocks: C: Tunable PID controller, 1 occurrences. F: Tunable SISO transfer function, 0 zeros, 1 poles, 1 occurrences. Type "ss(T)" to see the current value and "T.Blocks" to interact with the blocks.
This creates a generalized state-space model T
of the closed-loop transfer function from r
to y
. This model depends on the tunable blocks C
and F
. You can use systune
to automatically tune the PID gains and the feedforward coefficients a,b
subject to your performance requirements. Use showTunable
to see the current value of the tunable blocks.
C = 1 Ki * --- s with Ki = 0.001 Name: C Continuous-time I-only controller. ----------------------------------- F = 10 ------ s + 10 Name: F Continuous-time transfer function.
Interacting with the Tunable Parameters
You can adjust the parameterization of the tunable elements and by interacting with the objects C
and F
. Use get
to see their list of properties.
Kp: [1x1 param.Continuous] Ki: [1x1 param.Continuous] Kd: [1x1 param.Continuous] Tf: [1x1 param.Continuous] IFormula: '' DFormula: '' InputName: {'e'} InputUnit: {''} InputGroup: [1x1 struct] OutputName: {'uC'} OutputUnit: {''} OutputGroup: [1x1 struct] Notes: [0x1 string] UserData: [] Name: 'C' Ts: 0 TimeUnit: 'seconds'
A PID controller has four tunable parameters Kp,Ki,Kd,Tf
. The tunable block C
contains a description of each of these parameters. Parameter attributes include current value, minimum and maximum values, and whether the parameter is free or fixed.
ans = Name: 'Kp' Value: 0 Minimum: -Inf Maximum: Inf Free: 1 Scale: 1 Info: [1x1 struct] 1x1 param.Continuous
Set the corresponding attributes to override defaults. For example, you can fix the time constant Tf
to the value 0.1 by
C.Tf.Value = 0.1; C.Tf.Free = false;
Creating Custom Tunable Elements
For tunable elements not covered by the pre-defined blocks listed above, you can create your own parameterization in terms of elementary real parameters (realp
). Consider the low-pass filter
where the coefficient is tunable. To model this tunable element, create a real parameter and define as a transfer function whose numerator and denominator are functions of . This creates a generalized state-space model F
of the low-pass filter parameterized by the tunable scalar a
a = realp('a',1); % real tunable parameter, initial value 1 F = tf(a,[1 a])
Generalized continuous-time state-space model with 1 outputs, 1 inputs, 1 states, and the following blocks: a: Scalar parameter, 2 occurrences. Type "ss(F)" to see the current value and "F.Blocks" to interact with the blocks.
Similarly, you can use real parameters to model the notch filter
with tunable coefficients .
wn = realp('wn',100); zeta1 = realp('zeta1',1); zeta1.Maximum = 1; % zeta1 <= 1 zeta2 = realp('zeta2',1); zeta2.Maximum = 1; % zeta2 <= 1 N = tf([1 2*zeta1*wn wn^2],[1 2*zeta2*wn wn^2]); % tunable notch filter
You can also create tunable elements with matrix-valued parameters. For example, model the observer-based controller with equations
and tunable gain matrices and .
% Plant with 6 states, 2 controls, 3 measurements [A,B,C] = ssdata(rss(6,3,2)); K = realp('K',zeros(2,6)); L = realp('L',zeros(6,3)); C = ss(A-B*K-L*C,L,-K,0)
Generalized continuous-time state-space model with 2 outputs, 3 inputs, 6 states, and the following blocks: K: Tunable 2x6 matrix, 2 occurrences. L: Tunable 6x3 matrix, 2 occurrences. Type "ss(C)" to see the current value and "C.Blocks" to interact with the blocks.
Enabling Open-Loop Requirements
The systune
command takes a closed-loop model of the overall control system, like the tunable model T
built at the beginning of this example. Such models do not readily support open-loop analysis or open-loop specifications such as loop shapes and stability margins. To gain access to open-loop responses, insert an AnalysisPoint
block as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Analysis Point Block
The AnalysisPoint
block can be used to mark internal signals of interest as well as locations where to open feedback loops and measure open-loop responses. This block evaluates to a unit gain and has no impact on the model responses. For example, construct a closed-loop model T
of the feedback loop of Figure 2 where is a tunable PID.
G = tf(1,[1 1]); C = tunablePID('C','pid'); AP = AnalysisPoint('X'); T = feedback(G*C,AP);
You can now use getLoopTransfer
to compute the (negative-feedback) loop transfer function measured at the location "X". Note that this loop transfer function is for the feedback loop of Figure 2.
L = getLoopTransfer(T,'X',-1); % loop transfer at "X" clf, bode(L,'b',G*C,'r--')
You can also refer to the location "X" when specifying target loop shapes or stability margins for systune
. The requirement then applies to the loop transfer measured at this location.
% Target loop shape for loop transfer at "X" Req1 = TuningGoal.LoopShape('X',tf(5,[1 0])); % Target stability margins for loop transfer at "X" Req2 = TuningGoal.Margins('X',6,40);
In general, loop opening locations are specified in the Location
property of AnalysisPoint
blocks. For single-channel analysis points, the block name is used as default location name. For multi-channel analysis points, indices are appended to the block name to form the default location names.
AP = AnalysisPoint('Y',2); % two-channel analysis point AP.Location
ans = 2x1 cell
You can override the default location names and use more descriptive names by modifying the Location
% Rename loop opening locations to "InnerLoop" and "OuterLoop". AP.Location = {'InnerLoop' ; 'OuterLoop'}; AP.Location
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The journey from Burt's South Carolina home to Nebraska Territory was arduous. By the time he and his entourage reached St. Louis, Burt was ill. He was so weak when he arrived in Bellevue that he went to bed in William Hamilton's mission house. He was administered the oath of office on October 16, 1854, and died several days later.
The New York Times, November 9, 1854, noted: "THE DEATH OF GOV. BURT.–The Omaha (Nebraska) Arrow extra, of Oct. 18th, contains the following particulars of Gov. Burt's death: Francis Burt, governor of Nebraska, died at the old Presbyterian Mission House, at Belleview, at about 3 1/2 o'clock this morning, retaining at the last hour a realization of his situation, and surrounded by the friends who accompanied him from his Carolina home. Immediately upon his arrival in the territory he was confined to his bed by sickness, occasioned by the long and tedious journey hitherward, commencing, we are informed, upon reaching the limestone country of Tennessee in his overland journey to Louisville, Ky. Retaining about an hour previous to his death, a consciousness of his situation, he called his friend, Mr. Doyle, who had accompanied him from South Carolina, to his bedside, and gave such directions concerning his private matters as the urgency of the case seemed to demand, then calling Rev. J. Hamilton to his bedside, after a brief conversation he passed into that sleep which knows no waking. He was a native of Pendleton, S. C., and was about 45 years of age. He leaves an affectionate wife, two sons, and four daughters to mourn their afflicting bereavement." Burt's death contributed to the ongoing dispute (principally between Omaha and Bellevue) over the location of the territorial capital. Thomas B. Cuming took over as acting territorial governor and located the territorial capital at Omaha.


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This week is depression awareness week (11-17 April). The most important thing I have to say in relation to depression is about self-care.
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Why Self-Care?
There's something wrong with me that needs fixing.
The most striking thing, for me, after several years of working as a psychotherapist, has been that virtually every person who comes for counselling or therapy believes that there is something wrong with them which needs fixing. A big part of this is the sense that everyone around them is managing life fine, whilst they are really struggling. There must be some lack or flaw in them in comparison with the rest of the world and they are desperate to put it right. Why can't they just be normal? What is wrong with them? Why aren't they like everyone else?
Sound familiar? I was certainly extremely grateful for this experience of person after person expressing sentiments that I had felt myself so many times. I now try to imbue therapy sessions with this sense that what is normal is to feel abnormal and wrong in this kind of way.
Reading about this sense of lack I've recognised that much of it is down to the difference between the image we present to others and our own inner experiences. The reason that people feel that there must be something wrong with them is that they are comparing themselves against the perfect, shiny people they see every day at work, on television, in the shopping mall, on facebook. But of course they themselves are likely also presenting a similar image to other people. When someone asks how we are we generally say 'fine' and accentuate the positive. Recent research has found that we write about the good stuff in our lives on social networking sites far more than what we are finding difficult. We know the messy, ugly and frightening stuff of our own selves because we live in them, but our point of comparison is a bunch of people who are unlikely to reveal that similar stuff to us unless we are very close to them indeed, or perhaps their therapist!
There may have been an element of this kind of comparison through history, but it is certainly exacerbated at the time we currently live in. Just think about the number of times each day that you receive the explicit or implicit message that there is something wrong with you which needs fixing. Maybe try counting for just one day. The explicit messages are easiest, although we don't often think about them. Every billboard advert and commercial on television, radio, or at the cinema, tells us that we need to be younger, more attractive, more successful and happier by owning more products or have more experiences of the kind that they are offering. This is also an implicit message in many newspaper articles, Hollywood movies, and reality television stories which tell accounts of the achievement of happiness, success or beauty through doing certain things, or sometimes of failure to achieve because of not having done such things as going on a diet, buying a lottery ticket, starting up a business or appearing on a television show. And we are certainly encouraged to compare ourselves to the airbrushed images in magazines, the snapshots of people we get in a brief news story, or to the characters who are being acted out by professional performers. We become used to comparing against a selective version of somebody's life rather the full warts-and-all picture. We could also think more widely about educational systems and organisational processes which are about comparing people against each other and striving for 'excellence' rather than being good enough.
Clearly there are important political conversations to have about this socioeconomic situation which underlies a good deal of current human misery. This is something that is frequently ignored by solutions which focus entirely upon the individual, including many forms of therapy, drug treatments, and people suggesting that we 'pull our socks up' (not that these things can't be helpful in their place, but if they obscure the wider context then there is a danger that they reinforce the idea that there is just something wrong with the individual person). In addition to addressing the wider context, what can we do as individuals to protect against this kind of toxicity, to help us to see these process as they operate through us, and to support each other better?
One suggestion is self-care.
What is Self-care?
It could be argued that, at the same time that society has become so consumer-oriented and focused on individual improvement, we have also lost some of the means we had in the past for caring for ourselves and for reflecting on our lives. It is very easy now to go through days and weeks without ever having a moment of quiet alone. We can easily fill our lives with noise, work and distraction such that we are always playing games on our phone, listing to podcasts, emailing, watching television, meeting people, getting tasks done, or socialising. When we do this it often gets increasingly frightening to be alone with ourselves. We can be anxious about what we will find. If we are struggling this means that it can often reach a crisis point before we do anything about it.
I'm not saying that those kinds of activities can't be done in caring ways (see my last blog entry on mindfulness), but I'm arguing that it is useful to ensure that we have some time in our daily lives devoted to being quiet, to looking after ourselves and to tuning in to where we are at. Otherwise it becomes increasingly difficult to tune into our needs (are we getting enough rest, food, support, activity, etc.) and also to tune outwards towards other people and the wider world.
Self-care is not just another form of monitoring ourselves and finding ourselves lacking, although we are so used to doing this that we need to watch out for it ('damn I haven't built any self-care into today – bad me!'). Similarly it isn't about just giving up on ourselves and thinking we may as well do comfortable nice stuff because we are no good anyway.
People's biggest block to doing self-care is often the idea that it is a selfish or self-absorbed thing to do. My own view is quite the opposite. Constant self-monitoring and self-improvement is self-absorbed because it is so internally focused that it often prevents us from seeing the fullness and struggles of other people. It also exhausts us to the point that we have very little to give to anyone else.
Caring for ourselves means that we are more aware of the kind of painful processes going on for us that make us despondent or fearful. This means that we can tune in better to the fact that other people likely have those same processes, so we can be more compassionate with their snappiness, withdrawal or neediness. We are less likely to just feel hurt and betrayed when others treat us poorly, because we understand it better. Also, when we have looked after ourselves we generally have more energy and patience for looking after others and for engaging with the world more broadly. We are more able to open up because we are less fearful of showing the fact we are lacking and imperfect: we know that everybody is.
What kind of self-care, and how to build it in, is up to each person. Different things work for different people at different times. I'd suggest making space for two things: kindness and reflection. Kind self-care is a way of demonstrating to ourselves that we are as deserving of kindness as anyone else (even when we don't quite feel that we are). Reflective self-care is a way of checking in with ourselves, tuning into our body and our emotions, asking ourselves how we are, thinking through any issues we are currently dealing with, making sense of why we are finding something difficult.
Examples of kind self-care that work for some people include: having a hot bath, giving yourself a treat, taking half an hour in a cafe, spending time with friends, being in the garden or park, sharing a hug with a friend or pet, and watching your favourite programme. Example of reflective self-care include writing in a journal, having a session with a close friend where you both have time to talk through whatever is on your mind, going for a walk, and meditating.
It seems to be really hard to build these into our everyday life. Our tendency is often to leave them till last (if we get everything else done) rather than prioritising them. When things get tough we are often even less likely to do these things because we feel that we don't deserve it, and we are often scared to be quiet or to tune into ourselves because we fear that we really will find something terribly wrong with us. Gently trying to build in a daily kind act towards ourselves is often a good first step at such times, followed later by also taking some time to kindly listen and reflect upon what is going on in our minds and bodies.
Given the world that we live in it is likely that we will keep forgetting self-care and needing to remind ourselves, and that we will easily slip into beating ourselves up about it or doing it with the secret hope that it will make us all 'better' or stop us from ever struggling again. When those things happen it is just another reminder of our imperfect humanness, and of the messages that surround us and others that make this so hard.


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Think Long Comes Up Short
The following first appeared in City Journal California.
By STEVEN GREENHUT
California's ongoing budgetary and political dysfunction has spawned a host of reformers backed by wealthy donors. The latest scheme, released with much fanfare in late November, is a report produced by the Think Long Committee for California and funded by billionaire Nicolas Berggruen. It's called "A Blueprint to Renew California," and it leaves much to be desired.
Most of Think Long's proposals—the creation of a "citizens' accountability committee," additional spending on infrastructure and education, streamlining the environmental-permitting process—are window dressing for the main one: a $10 billion tax increase, imposed through a ballot initiative that would go before voters in 2012. And then, after it gets voters to sign off on the tax hike, the committee (like many in California's majority party) wants to rein in the voter-initiative process. Berggruen and Think Long believe that the key to renewing California is to raise taxes on almost all Californians. Their plan would make the state's tax code less progressive by trimming the corporate tax rate and imposing a new sales tax on services. The goal: to provide still more revenue to a state government that's already bloated and wasteful.
Conventional Thinking
Think Long released its utterly conventional recommendations with a burst of self-congratulation: "At a time when political leaders in both Sacramento and Washington seem hopelessly mired in gridlock, the committee has shown that difficult bipartisan compromise can be reached if politics is set aside and the public interest is put first." These words might be more persuasive if Think Long weren't composed of so many politicians who wielded power during the period when California's budgetary problems became unmanageable. The committee's members include former governor Gray Davis, bounced from office in the 2003 recall election; former assembly speakers Bob Hertzberg of Los Angeles and Willie Brown of San Francisco; and former state supreme court chief justice Ron George. Other advisors include former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, current lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom, and Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Most of these are poster children for what's wrong with California; they are an unlikely group of saviors.
The report ignores the Golden State's real problems: excessive government spending and dominance by public-sector unions and other special interests. The closest that Think Long comes to acknowledging them is three perfunctory paragraphs at the report's end, which cite the pension crisis crushing municipal governments and offer this solution: "We recommend that the governor, legislature and local government officials make it the highest priority to work with public employee unions to find ways to address the long-term costs of pensions and the unfunded liabilities that have already been built up." That's as far as it goes.
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Nothing in the report comes close to articulating major reforms that would help the state stretch its dollars. For instance, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office recently reported that the cost of incarcerating inmates in California has more than doubled over the past decade, the result not only of court decisions regarding inmates' health care but also of escalating compensation costs for correctional officers. A braver committee would have considered prison privatization or constraining the influence of the noxious California Correctional Peace Officers' Association, which resists even modest reforms and holds outsize influence over both parties.
Even soft-pedaling, Think Long provoked the ire of the California Teachers Association. The CTA resents the committee's proposal to junk Proposition 98—which directs 40 percent of the state's budget to education from kindergarten through community college—even though the report goes on to propose an extra $5 billion for the schools from other sources.
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Childhood trauma may contribute to teen weight problems
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who have gone through trying times are more likely to be overweight by age 15, a new study suggests.
Stress in childhood has been associated with a greater risk of becoming overweight, although the link isn't always consistent from study to study, researchers said.
"I felt like I was seeing a lot of children who had experienced stress early in their lives later gain weight pretty rapidly" Dr. Julie Lumeng at the University of Michigan Medical School told Reuters Health.
"There has been quite a bit of research looking at stress in the lives of adults leading to weight gain, but it has not been studied as much in children," said Lumeng, who led the new study.
"We did this particular study because it looked at simply 'events' that had occurred in children's lives and then asked mothers to rate the events in terms of how much of an impact they had," Lumeng said.
The researchers used data from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development.
The mothers of 848 children enrolled in the study completed surveys when their children were 4, 9 and 11 years old. They were asked if any of 71 different life events had occurred during the previous year, and they rated the impact of the event on a scale from -3 (extremely negative) to zero (no effect) to +3 (extremely positive).
Four categories of negative life events were studied: health problems in the family; work, school or financial stability; emotional aspects of family relationships; and family structure, routine and caregiving.
The kids' height and weight were measured at age 15. Teens with a BMI above the 85th percentile for age and gender based on CDC growth charts were defined as being overweight.
Of the 848 children, 260 were considered overweight and 488 were not. Thirty percent of the overweight children had experienced a significant number of negative life events, compared to 22 percent of the non-overweight children.
Experiencing many negative life events was tied to a nearly 50 percent higher risk of being overweight, versus no negative events.
The associations were strongest for negative events related to family physical or mental health, among children of obese mothers and among children who waited longer for food, the researchers report in the journal Pediatrics.
"The number of negative events that had happened in a child's life predicted the likelihood that the child would be overweight in adolescence," Lumeng wrote in an email. "We thought this was important as well because while lots of interventions focus on healthy eating and promoting more exercise, if stress is related to children's risk of becoming overweight, this could be a new focus for interventions," she said.
The results were about the same for boys as for girls. "There is prior evidence in adults that women may be more likely to 'stress eat' than men, so we thought that girls may be more sensitive to the effects than boys. This was not the case, however," Lumeng said.
It's also important to note the risk was greater for kids whose mothers were obese. Obese mothers may have more obesity-promoting environments, which could lead to their children being overweight as well, the researchers point out. It could also contribute to some of the family health problems reported as negative life events.
"I think without a doubt that if you work in the field of weight management, you often hear about challenging situations that folks are coming from. Seeing this study just further documents what we're already experiencing in the clinics," Dr. Stephen Pont told Reuters Health. Pont is Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Provisional Section of Obesity.
"This study starts to show that there may be significant stressors that these children have experienced that has to some degree resulted in the weight problem they have right now. If we understand that, then maybe we can be more empathetic and not guilt or blame or look down on them," said Pont, who was not involved in the new research.
Family support is crucial for managing both stress and weight issues. Parents can help children get through stressful events by talking to them and focusing on coping skills, Pont said.
"Conversations are very important," he said. "Sometimes we can't know how a child is experiencing something unless we talk to them about it. With anything regarding stress or behavioral health, we recommend talking to your kids."
Parents can ask children how they feel about any stressful life events. Pont cautioned that some kids may not admit there's a problem and that younger children may not be able to verbalize how they feel. In those cases, parents should look for other clues like problems with friends or school, or unexplained headaches or stomach aches.
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The Zodiac Killer. John Wayne Gacy. The BTK Killer. Ted Bundy. Son of Sam. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names and pseudonyms of these killers are burned into the collective consciousness of Americans, thanks to massive coverage in newspapers, books, films and TV specials. Many of those who have been captured appeared average -- attractive, successful, active members of the community -- until their crimes were discovered.
This kind of killer doesn't just "go crazy" one day and kill a lot of people. He doesn't kill out of greed or jealousy. So what makes a person not only murder, but murder multiple people over periods of days, weeks and years? There's a special name for these types of murderers: serial killers. In this article, we'll learn about what makes them tick.
The term "serial killer" was coined in the mid-1970s by Robert Ressler, the former director of the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program. He chose "serial" because the police in England called these types of murders "crimes in a series" and because of the serial films that he grew up watching. Prior to this, these types of crimes were sometimes known as mass murders or stranger-on-stranger crime.
The FBI defines a serial killer as one who murders three or more victims, with "cooling-off" periods between each murder [source: U.S. Code]. This sets them apart from mass murderers, who kill four or more people at the same time (or in a short period of time) in the same place, and spree killers, who murder in multiple locations and within a short period of time. Serial killers usually work alone, kill strangers and kill for the sake of killing (as opposed to crimes of passion).
According to a recent FBI study, there have been approximately 400 serial killers in the United States in the past century, with anywhere from 2,526 to 3,860 victims [source: Hickey]. However, there's no way to really know how many serial killers are active at any point in time -- experts have suggested numbers ranging from 50 to 300, but there's no evidence to support them.
Serial murders also appear to have increased over the past 30 years. Eighty percent of the 400 serial killers of the past century have emerged since 1950 [source: Vronsky]. Why this is happening is a question of some debate; there is no answer, just as there is no simple answer as to why some people become serial killers.
In the next section, we'll look at some classifications of serial killers in use by criminal researchers and profilers so we can begin to understand this phenomenon.


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If you own another email address, you can send mail as that address. For example:
- Yahoo, Outlook, or other non-Gmail address
- Your work, school, or business domain or alias, like @yourschool.edu or firstname.lastname@example.com
- Another Gmail address
Tip: You can send emails from up to 99 different email addresses.
Step 1: Add an address you own
- On your computer, open Gmail.
- In the top right, click Settings See all settings.
- Click the Accounts and import or Accounts tab.
- In the "Send mail as" section, click Add another email address.
- Enter your name and the address you want to send from.
- Click Next Step Send verification.
- For school or work accounts, enter the SMTP server (for example, smtp.gmail.com or smtp.yourschool.edu) and the username and password on that account.
- Click Add Account.
Step 2: Confirm the address
- Sign in to the account you added.
- Open the confirmation message you got from Gmail.
- Click the link.
Step 3: Change the "From" address
- In the message, click the "From" line.
(If you don't see this, click the space next to the recipient's email.) - Select the address to send from.
- Check your Spam or Bulk Mail folders for a message from firstname.lastname@example.com.
- If you're trying to add your work or school account, ask your administrator to configure your domain alias and email alias.
If your recipient uses Outlook or another mail service, they might see something like, "From email@example.com on behalf of firstname.lastname@example.com."
Your recipients might also see your original @gmail.com address if you:
- Set up an out of office reply
- Create a filter with automated response
- Have a full mailbox, and your recipient gets notified
If you don't want to send emails from an alias or if the alias is invalid, you can remove the email or alias. If you send an email from an invalid alias, you get a bounce email.
- On your computer, open Gmail.
- At the top right, click Settings See all settings.
- Click the Accounts and import tab or Accounts tab.
- In the "Send mail as" section, next to the email address you want to remove, click Delete.
Tip: If you get a bounce email from a valid email address and need to reverify it, you must delete the "Send mail as" email address then add it again.
Always send from a different address
If you want to always send from your other address, you'll need to change both your default "From" and "reply-to" address. If you only change the "From" address, replies will go to your original Gmail address by default.
To always send email from a different address or alias:
- On your computer, open Gmail.
- In the top right, click Settings See all settings.
- Click the Accounts and import or Accounts tab.
- In the "Send mail as" section to the right of the address you want to use, click Make default.
When you send a message, replies will go to your original Gmail address by default. To choose a different address, follow these steps.
- On your computer, open Gmail.
- In the top right, click Settings See all settings.
- Click the Accounts and Import or Accounts tab.
- In the "Send mail as" section, click Edit info next to your email address.
- Click Specify a different "reply to" address.
- Add a reply-to address.
- If necessary, click Next Step.
- Click Save Changes.
"Couldn't reach server," "TLS Negotiation failed" error
If you see one of these error messages, you might need to select a different port number and authentication type. Make sure you have used the correct outgoing mail server for your provider. You might need to contact your third party email provider for the correct settings.
We recommend you send your email over a secure (encrypted) connection.
However, if your other mail service doesn't support these secured connections or doesn't use a valid certificate, you can choose port 25, then select the Unsecured connection option that appears.
If you do this, your information won't be encrypted for your protection.
Use Gmail aliases
An easy way to sort your email is to add categories after your username.
For example, messages sent to the following aliases will all go to firstname.lastname@example.com:
- email@example.com
- firstname.lastname@example.com
- email@example.com
Step 1: Choose aliases
Think of how you want to sort your email, then choose an alias for each category. For example:
- Use firstname.lastname@example.com for work emails.
- Use firstname.lastname@example.com to sign up for newsletters.
- Use email@example.com to create an account with an online retailer.
Step 2: Filter your messages
Create filters to take automatic actions, like:
- Adding a label or a star
- Forwarding to another account
- Archiving or deleting
If you use Gmail with your work or school account, you can send from a group alias. To receive the verification email to send from a group alias, you need to give delegates access to the group.
You'll need access to the group's permissions to change access for other members.
- Open Google Groups.
- Click My groups.
- Under the group name you want to send from, click Manage.
- On the left, click Permissions Posting permissions.
- In the "Post" section, click the Down arrow .
- Select Anyone on the web.
- Click Save.