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Email Marketing is effective and profitable, with an average ROI of 2850% — that's a return of $28.5 for each $1 spent. This applies to any type of business, industry, product or service.
Email campaigns are useful in every stage of the customer lifecycle: building brand awareness, extending brand knowledge, building interest in an offer, generating action and conversions, fostering relationships, and turning existing clients into loyal brand advocates.
You can start with simple campaigns: creating and sending emails to existing subscribers. But armed with a little knowledge, you'll soon be testing, analyzing results, segmenting email lists, and optimizing campaigns to generate better results.
The single most important element of your program is email list building. For consistent success, you'll need to attract new leads and turn them into subscribers.
Why? You may have the most amazing product or service (such as a perpetual motion machine!) but until you capture the attention of your market and develop relationships, you'll achieve only mediocre results. To generate better results and a thriving business, you'll need an audience you can contact frequently through newsletters, autoresponders, transactional messages and social media channels.
This guide teaches you all about building a profitable email list. At the end, you'll have a solid knowledge of the methods, tactics and factors involved in acquiring new email list subscribers to skyrocket your business.
You'll get answers to these questions:
- What is email list building?
- What's the difference between permission-based email marketing and spam?
- How do you add your subscribers into GetResponse?
- How do you build an email list using online methods?
- How do you build an email list using offline techniques?
What is email list building?
Email list building is the core of email marketing. It is the process of accumulating a database of subscribers — prospects, clients, fans and influencers — who have agreed to accept your emails. When you persuade prospects and clients to give you their email address, you open the door to ongoing communication, which can improve relationships, sales and brand loyalty.
With GetResponse, you can create or import an email address database of any size. It can store additional information about each subscriber, such as the subscriber name, so you can identify individual clients. You may decide to collect phone number and address also.
Over time, your database accumulates useful data, such as past purchasing behavior, survey answers, and history of email opens and clicks.
Permission-based email marketing vs. spam
Email marketing is sometimes mistaken for the practice of sending out unsolicited bulk email, commonly known as spamming. Permission-based email marketing means communicating with audiences that have expressed willingness to receive promotional newsletters and updates from brands they wish to follow and stay in touch with.
Regulations vary by country, but the principle is the same: you must get express permission to communicate via electronic mail. In some countries, it's strictly required by the law; in others it's simply a best practice. Email marketing providers such as GetResponse have joined together to fight against spam, putting great emphasis on data protection. They have formed organizations to support only companies that have received permission to contact their subscribers.
Typically, subscribers grant permission by entering their email address and indicating (often with a checkbox) that they wish to receive promotional and commercial communication from the brand. Permission can be granted in other ways, such as by phone, with a contest entry form, or in social media channels. Nevertheless, permission is required and cannot be implied only.
How to build an email list
Building an email list is an important task regardless of the size and type of business. Whether you're launching your first product or have been on the market for some time, it's equally important to convert leads and prospects into subscribers. Although it may sound like a difficult project, the techniques are quite easy.
You can collect subscribers offline and online. Depending on your type of business, product or service, some methods may or may not apply. But the concept remains the same.
To get started, imagine all the times and places where prospects may come across your brand. Those are your best opportunities for converting them from prospects into loyal, engaged subscribers.
Methods of building an email list online
Web forms
There are many places to build an email list online, including your website and sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and discussion boards. The most common method is to create a sign-up form (web form) and place it on your website.
Sign-up form types include:
- Inline
- Lightbox
- Popover
- Exit-intent
- Bar
The last two types are more advanced, so we'll focus only on the first three. The idea is the same: to provide a field where the subscriber can enter an email address and, optionally, other data.
How to create a sign up form
GetResponse includes an advanced sign-up form builder for creating inline, lightbox, and popover web forms for your website, social media profile, or blog.
The GetResponse web form generator makes it quick and easy to create a sign-up form, even if you have no HTML skills.
Just log in to your account, choose a campaign, and select Web Forms > Create New.
To see the process in action, view this video tutorial or download our user manual.
You'll discover how easy it is to create a form like this.
What to include in a sign-up form
A typical sign-up form consists of 2-3 fields, where the new subscriber enters their email address and other information, such as name or hometown
The number of fields is up to you. But numerous studies have shown that the more fields users have to fill in, the less likely they are to complete the form.
So double-check whether all the fields are necessary. Perhaps you could ask for the information in a survey after they've signed up.
The form should include a headline stating the benefits of joining the email list and a strong call to action (CTA) on the action button. To improve your chances of capturing new subscribers, offer a sign-up bonus, such as a free handbook, report or a discount.
You can also include a checkbox to confirm their willingness to join the list, information about the terms and conditions, and reassurance of data protection.
How to add a web form to your website
Once you've created your sign-up form inside GetResponse and adjusted the settings (such as linking it to a campaign and redirecting to a thank-you page) you can choose who will install it.
There are four options:
Install it manually - You'll receive HTML code or JavaScript to place on your website. Send it to my web designer - Enter an email address, and we'll forward the appropriate code. GetResponse will host my web form - Your web form will be hosted on the GetResponse domain. Place it on Facebook - You'll be redirected to an app page for GetResponse Facebook Web Forms.
To install the sign-up form manually, copy the source code and place it on your website.
The GetResponse WordPress plugin makes it easy to connect your GetResponse account with your WordPress website. Just follow the steps on the plugin website, and you'll be ready to build your email marketing list.
If your website isn't WordPress-based, look through the integrations section to find one that fits your needs. If your service isn't supported yet, copy the source code of your sign-up form and place it in the 〈body〉 of your website, wherever you want it to appear. It may take a few tries, so be sure to preview the results before you publish it live.
How to add a web form to your Facebook fanpage
After designing your web form, you can place it on your Facebook fanpage using one of these methods:
Log in to your GetResponse account, edit the web form, and choose Go To Application in the Publishing settings of your form.
You'll be redirected to the GetResponse Facebook Web Forms app page. After you install the form on your fanpage, you'll find it at Fanpage > Settings > Apps.
There you can edit how your app is displayed (such as tab icon and name).
To integrate it with your GetResponse account, go to your fanpage wall, find the GetResponse app, and click it. You'll be asked to enter the API key, found in your GetResponse account at My Account > Account Details > GetResponse API.
Then choose a web form, set the alignment, and indicate any additional message to display.
How to add a sign-up form to other social media channels
Unfortunately, other social media channels, such as Google+, Twitter and LinkedIn, don't support apps. But if you have a web form on your website or landing page, you can provide the URL in your bio. Then you can direct prospects to your website, where they can sign up for your email list.
Other methods of building an email list online
Methods built into your GetResponse account include surveys, socialmedia sharing buttons and newsletter archive.
Once you've mastered the basics, feel free to explore advanced techniques. Some may require additional financial and human resources.
Discussion boards
Discussion boards, forums and social media groups on channels such as LinkedIn can be a great source of new potential clients. Identify boards where members discuss topics your company deals with and has expertise in.
When you find your target audience, focus on the topics they are interested in and the questions they ask. Since your company provides a product or a service that helps them, you can get their attention by providing answers and clearing doubts. If you're an expert in your field, you can distinguish yourself as knowledgable and trustworthy.
Others will seek your advice and check your public profile and bio. Include a URL to your website, so if someone likes your posts and views your profile, they can click to your site, landing page or personal blog. Make sure you have a sign-up form ready to collect new subscribers.
Landing pages
Landing pages are like regular web pages but usually contain focused information about one specific offer. Typically they exclude the menus and links usually found on websites and blogs. They include a powerful headline, detailed information about a specific offer, perhaps a YouTube Video or other visual aid to help the reader imagine the product, and a sign-up form for visitors who are interested in the offer.
Landing pages are used to promote individual offers and have one clear goal: to attract new leads. So avoid information clutter and unnecessary elements that distract readers. Include only elements designed to get them to convert (make a purchase or submit a form).
If you build a landing page (using a tool such as GetResponse Landing Page Creator) add a web form and promote it through marketing channels such as email marketing campaigns, social media profiles and your website. The more traffic, the higher the chances of building a quality email list quickly. For more information on landing pages, check out this guide.
Webinars, online workshops and consultations can help your business succeed. Although people like self-service solutions that save time, they sometimes have questions and prefer human contact before making a decision.
Why is this method so effective?
First, by reaching out to your audience and answering their questions, you remove doubts and obstacles that prevent them from subscribing or doing business with you. It's always easier to ask questions in person than to perform research.
Second, you establish your expertise. You and your brand become more visible for users who may be experiencing the same problems.
If you decide to organize a webinar ( using a service such as ClickMeeting ) add a checkbox or option for signing up for the webinar or other upcoming events, promotional videos, materials or newsletters. You can do all that through Landing Page Creator. Or if you prefer to place the information on your website, use the GetResponse sign-up form generator.
Webinars and email marketing campaigns can be effective. But sometimes the challenge isn't in your offer but your limited reach. Co-promotion and partnerships can extend the reach of your promotional campaigns and attract new audiences.
Partnerships can include sponsored articles, guest blogging, joint webinars and offline events such as forums and conferences. By combining the audiences, both parties can expect more visibility and a growing client base.
Consider partnering with companies or authors whose target audience is similar to yours. If you work out a deal, you should have no problem expanding your business.
When organizing such projects, direct your new audience to a website or landing page with a sign-up form designed to convert them into newsletter subscribers. Then keep them updated and informed with well-planned email marketing campaigns.
Promotional campaigns
If you have the resources, consider investing in paid solutions to extend your reach, get new subscribers, and improve search engine rankings.
Popular methods include promoted posts on social media channels, search engine marketing (SEM), and video ads.
Contextual advertising is gaining popularity. It's an effective way to present ads and build brand awareness among visitors to other websites.
Contextual ads are available through services such as Google Adwords and Microsoft adCenter and are presented as sponsored URLs or banners. Their biggest advantage is that your ad is matched with the content of the website, which increases the likelihood of generating good quality responses. The ad is visible only on websites or search engine results that are related to the content. And you have full control over duration and costs.
Methods of building an email list offline
Offline activities can also generate online traffic and sales. So evaluate offline activities and places where your audience sees your brand. Use these touch points to boost your online efforts and generate higher conversions. We'll briefly cover some best practices and places where you can generate new leads.
Printed material & promotional items
Your printed materials (business cards, packaging, receipts, catalogues) and promotional items (pens, usb drives, mascots) can be another great source of traffic for your website.
Place the URL of your site on these products. If people like your freebies, they can visit your website to learn about your business. Include a sign up-form to convert visitors into subscribers.
Offline meetings
As with webinars and consultations, you can organize offline events for local clients. This could be trade shows, one-on-one client meetings, book signings for your new publication, open discussions about upcoming projects, or a conference discussing the topics relevant to your industry.
These work especially well if you promote them in several marketing channels and partner with other brands with similar target audiences. This can improve your credibility and earn the trust of potential clients.
When organizing such events, think of ways to attract new leads. Distribute free promotional items and printed materials. Or collect business cards in a fishbowl contest. State clearly that their email address will be added to a newsletter list or perhaps a good ol' paper mailing list.
If you want to automate this process, try Forms on the Go by GetResponse. It captures information from in-person contacts, places them in the campaign of your choice, and sends a cycle of automated messages you've prepared in advance.
Snail mail and customer service
If you have customer mailing addresses, you can send printed materials such as catalogues and offer a special discount for joining your email list. Just ask them to fill out the form and mail it back or visit your website to sign up.
Don't forget your customer service team, the front line of your company. They interact with your audience every day. Train them to ask every caller to join the email list. Make it a policy to add an email footer with a link to a sign-up form, so every correspondence is an opportunity to attract new subscribers and grow your email marketing list.
How to add your email list to GetResponse
It's easy to transfer your email list from an existing service or database to GetResponse. Just prepare a file (such as an Excel spreadsheet) and import it into the appropriate campaign. To see this process watch this video.
This isn't necessary for those who subscribe using sign-up forms created with GetResponse Form Builder, Landing Page Creator or the Forms on the Go App. They will be added to your account automatically.
Building an email list is by far the most important and fundamental part of any email marketing program. Email marketing works well with other promotional techniques and generates strong returns. If you want to extend your reach and expand your business, consider email marketing campaigns.
Email marketing helps build brand awareness, extend brand knowledge, build interest in your offers, generate actions and conversions, foster relationships, and turn existing clients into loyal brand advocates. So it's worth the time and effort required.
There are many methods of building a mailing list to stay in touch with your audiences. We've covered the most popular and effective online and offline methods to help you jump-start your marketing program .
To explore these topics and find other ways to expand your business with online marketing, please visit our Learning Center and the GetResponse blog.


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Macworld attendees have been busy capturing the iPhone in video. One user posted a really good product demo given to attendees by Apple, which shows off more of the device's features in action. Nothing that we haven't already seen, just done by someone other than Jobs. Enjoy.
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text: The Utah Utes filled one need by bringing in a seasoned, experienced coach as a co-offensive coordinator with the hiring of Dennis Erickson on Monday. Now, perhaps, they can find some offensive consistency. New coaches, different philosophies and changing roles have prevented Utah's offense from forming a solid identity under coach Kyle Whittingham. Since he was hired as Utah's head coach in 2005, Whittingham has had Andy Ludwig (2005-08), Dave Schramm (2009, 2010 co-coordinator), Aaron Roderick (2010, passing game coordinator 2012), Norm Chow (2011) and Brian Johnson (2012) serve as either coordinator or co-coordinator. Now comes Erickson, who will share coordinating duties with Johnson. Roderick remains as the passing game coordinator, according to Utah officials, which makes one think, how many people does it take to run Utah's offense? Let us re-phrase that, how many people does it take to run Utah's offense well? Hopefully for Utah fans, three will be the magic number. Whittingham admitted last year Utah's coaching changes and quarterback changes led to poor production because of a lack of consistency. Players spoke out about it as well, noting Utah's frequent experimentation in various schemes and philosophies hampered their ability to develop within an offense. At 65-years-old, Erickson might not be looking at a lengthy stay with the Utes, but perhaps a two or three-year stint will be enough to help stabilize Utah's offensive philosophy and take some of the pressure off Johnson. Johnson had just two years of coaching experience, as a quarterbacks coach, before he was promoted to coordinator last year. Johnson might be a sharp, quick-learning coach, but it was clear last year that learning on the job in the Pac-12 wasn't an ideal situation. Throw in the career-ending injury to quarterback Jordan Wynn, the development of freshman Travis Wilson as the starter and it's no wonder the Utes struggled to get points on the board. The Utes averaged just 26.7 points in scoring, ranking only 73rd nationally. The last time the Utes had a formidable offense was 2008 when they averaged 36.9 points. That wasn't such a bad year, was it? That year marked the Johnson's playing highlight as he led the Utes to an undefeated season with his fiery attitude and instinctual play. Now, with Erickson in the ranks, perhaps Johnson can continue to be a leader on the field and a mentor to the young quarterbacks while Erickson and Roderick split the other duties. How their roles will be divided exactly has yet to be determined. However, one thing is certain, spring practice, which begins March 19, marks a new era for Utah's offense. Let's hope it is an era of stability. Offense under WhittinghamScoring OffenseYear Average National Ranking2012 - 26.7 - 73rd2011 - 25.0 - 74th2010 - 33.1 - 23rd2009 - 29.9 - 34th2008 - 36.9 - 15th2007 - 26.2 - 68th2006 - 27.9 - 33rd2005 - 30.0 - 36thTotal OffenseYear Average National Ranking2012 - 324.42 - 105th2011 - 310.9 - 109th2010 - 389.0 - 57th2009 - 389.5 - 54th2008 - 400.9 - 35th2007 - 369.9 - 79th2006 - 368.4 - 41st2005 - 473.0 - 12th


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HOUSTON - A homeowner discovered his home was being burglarized when he checked a video feed on his smartphone, investigators said.
Harris County Precinct 4 deputy constables said the homeowner called them when he saw two men looking into the windows of his home in the 1500 block of Rushworth Drive about 10 a.m. on Monday. Investigators said the homeowner told them there was a gate in his back yard that led to a bayou.
A deputy constable headed toward the home and went to the bayou, where he saw a man walking down the shoreline. The deputy constable told the man to stop and arrested him without incident, investigators said.
The man, identified as 18-year-old Jacoven Levi, was carrying several hand-held video game devices and some games, officials said. He was also carrying several hundred dollars in cash, investigators said.
Detectives said the video game devices, games and cash were all taken from the home.
Deputy constables said they determined that Levi and another person threw a rock through a back window of the home to get inside.
Levi has been charged with burglary of a habitation.
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On January 10, 2013, I penned a letter to the Financial Times, pointing out an error in its characterization of lending-of-last-resort operations. As the letter below describes, these central bank operations often do not go according to plan:
Sir, Your leader "Basel bends on liquidity rules" (January 8) asserts that: "Central banks can always provide liquidity, and while their facilities should not be a first resort for banks, the Basel Committee is right to signal it will incorporate access to them in its rules."
You might have added: "But, central banks have a propensity to make a muddle out of what should be routine operations – like those associated with the provision of lender-of-last-resort liquidity." The Bank of England provides the most recent evidence of this in what turned out to be a catastrophic government failure and arguably the start of the current financial crisis.
On August 9 2007 European money markets dried up after BNP Paribas announced that it was suspending withdrawals from two of its money market funds. This put Northern Rock – a profitable, solvent bank – in a liquidity squeeze. Northern Rock turned to the BoE for a relatively small infusion of liquidity.
This routine lender-of-last resort operation would have worked, according to the textbooks, but for a BoE leak to Robert Peston at the BBC. The BBC story broke on September 13 2007 and the next morning a devastating bank run ensued.
In a flash, Northern Rock went from being solvent (if temporarily illiquid) to bust. Indeed, it was government failure – the BoE's bungled attempt to provide emergency liquidity – that transformed the Northern Rock affair from a minor, temporary liquidity problem to a major solvency crisis.
So, when it comes to central banks, there is often a wide gulf between the textbooks and reality. It's time to close the book on Basel III and its liquidity coverage ratio, and to focus on fixing central banks, so that they can properly deliver liquidity, when needed, at a price.
Steve H. Hanke, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, US
To my surprise, what I thought was a simple factual clarification of a Financial Times editorial quickly drew the ire of none other than The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. Indeed, Nils Blythe, the Bank of England's communication director was quick to reply in the next morning's FT:
Sir, In a recent letter (January 11) Professor Steve Hanke made the unsubstantiated claim that the Bank of England leaked information about a lender-of-last-resort operation at Northern Rock to the BBC. This claim is wholly untrue. As the governor made clear in evidence to the Treasury Committee of the House of Commons, the Bank wanted to provide support to Northern Rock covertly, precisely because of the risk of a run by retail depositors.
Prof Hanke also argues that Northern Rock was suffering "a minor, temporary liquidity crisis". It is worth noting that even when it was supplied with abundant liquidity Northern Rock could not find a buyer and had to be nationalised. With hindsight it is clear that Northern Rock was an early example of the solvency crisis which gripped much of the banking sector in the following years.
Nils Blythe, Communications Director, Bank of England
To put it plainly, I am quite underwhelmed by Mr. Blythe's argument and evidence. Although it would appear that his response is in line with standard central banking protocol, I found his letter quite concerning for two reasons.


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A Surbiton pub has re-opened after a refurbishment under a new name and new management.
The Copper Kettle, in Brighton Road, formerly the Saucy Kettle, is serving once more following a revamp.
New landlord Madeline Bartley, who worked at the pub for 18 years before taking over the management, has promised a more "chilled out" atmosphere at the establishment, to appeal to a more mature crowd.
She said: "It has changed quite a lot.
"All the sports paraphernalia on the walls, that's all gone.
"We've sandblasted the walls, brought in leather sofas and put artwork on the walls, all by local artists.
"I want to make it feel more comfortable and brighter."
Previously, the Saucy Kettle had a reputation around town as Surbiton's problem pub - the establishment most likely to attract drink-related trouble.
That was due in part to its late night entry policy and weekend opening hours, which saw the pub close at 2.30am.
Mrs Bartley said she wanted to make the pub "brighter and more comfortable"
But Mrs Bartley has promised to turn the venue's image around - and would be reducing the Copper Kettle's opening times.
"Before hand, you had people coming in at midnight who had already had a lot to drink and it just got messy," she said.
"We'll still be having discos, but last entry will be 11pm and we'll be closing at 1.30am.
"The music will be different too. I want something more chilled out. I want to attract a more mature crowd."
Madeline Bartley wants a fresh start as landlord of the Copper Kettle
The new landlord said the pub would also be serving food once the kitchen had been refurbished.
And Mrs Bartley is hoping to bring in more people during the day, particularly families.
"I want people to come here and see the difference," she said. "I want them to realise how much things have changed."


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I have been posting on other topics but now found this one. Has anyone tried the H.acres diet? it is mostly raw vegan diet consisting of raw fruits vegetable, whole grains nuts and seeds. My husband Joe.66. who has cc (intrahepatic) unresectable and I have been on it for two months since he was diagnosed. Ony 15% of daily food is cooked. I am back in the kitchen much more but I will do anything if it will help. He also take 6 glasses of home made carrot juice a day plus barley max which is an alfalfa product. It took awhile to get used to it and all the medical doctors don't put any value in it but at least we felt we were doing something while we were waiting for tests results and second opinions. We just got back from Mayo and still all they offer is systemic chemo which the oncologoist at Northwestern says is not very effectve. Is there anyone out there who has opted for no chemo? Joe has great quality of life right now and we question whether to change this at this point. Any advice or experience would be helpful. Mary anne


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Nobody is quite sure yet what does and doesn't count as macroprudential policy. But, given it's seen as a force for good, central bankers are keen to pin the tag on as much of what they do as possible. Once the hype fades, though, it is unlikely to displace interest rates as their most important tool.
A key, perhaps even the question for policymakers, then, is how monetary policy and macroprudential policy can best interact.
According to research from Standard Chartered's Natalia Lechmanova, which looks at the lessons that can be learnt from how Asian policymakers have used macroprudential tools such as loan-to-value ratios, the two policy strands are most effective when they are combined. Read more


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HOUSTON - A man was in custody Friday in connection with the killing of a young mother who was shot in front of her baby.
Neil Mukherjee, 20, was arrested Thursday night and charged with capital murder.
Houston police said Vanessa Rodriguez, 23, was shot to death in an apartment near Hempstead Road near West 43rd about 11 a.m. on Nov. 8. Rodriguez's 1-year-old daughter was in the apartment during the slaying. Police said there were no signs of forced entry and that an iPhone appeared to be the only thing that was stolen.
"Her husband was able to locate her iPhone about three-fourths of a mile away from here," Sgt. W.L. Meeler said. "We were able to locate that and get a scent."
Police dogs tracked the killer's scent throughout and around the apartment complex.
Police released surveillance video on Nov. 9 of a suspicious man seen around Rodriguez's apartment before and after her death.
Detectives said the man walked outside the apartment gate and got into a light-colored SUV and headed west on Pitner.
"She was a good wife, a good mother and a good person," said Rodriguez's husband, Josefino Ortega.
The couple had been married for eight years.
"We don't have issues with no one. We try to stay out of any situations," Ortega said. "You never imagine that this can happen to you ... and it did."
Investigators said they don't know the motive for the killing.
"Vanessa was a loving mother, and I don't see any reason that anyone would want to harm her," Meeler said.17350128
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A veteran Clarkstown police officer has resigned rather than challenge potential departmental accusations that he filed for several hours of overtime and didn't work the hours, authorities confirmed.
William "Bill" Sherwood, a decorated officer for more than a decade, filed for routine overtime of four hours allowed for a scheduled appearance before a Rockland grand jury, authorities said.
"We came across a discrepancy in his overtime," Police Chief Michael Sullivan said. "We did an investigation and some overtime he submitted he didn't work."
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- Input overvoltage protection, 32 V above and below the supply rails
- No phase reversal for input voltage up to ±32 V beyond the power supply
- Rail-to-rail input and output swing
- Unity-gain bandwidth
800 kHz typical @
550 kHz typical @
465 kHz typical @
- Low power: 60 μA per amplifier typical
- Single-supply operation: 3 V to 30 V
- Low offset voltage: 300 μV maximum
- Large signal voltage gain:120 dB typical
- Unity-gain stable
Product Details
The ADA4096-2 dual and ADA4096-4 quad operational amplifiers feature micropower operation and rail-to-rail input and output ranges. The extremely low power requirements and guaranteed operation from 3 V to 30 V make these amplifiers perfectly suited to monitor battery usage and to control battery charging. Their dynamic performance, including 27 nV/√Hz voltage noise density, recommends them for battery-powered audio applications. Capacitive loads to 200 pF are handled without oscillation.
The ADA4096-2 and ADA4096-4 has overvoltage protection inputs and diodes that allow the voltage input to extend 32 V above and below the supply rails, making this device ideal for robust industrial applications.
The ADA4096-2 and ADA4096-4 features a unique input stage that allows the input voltage to exceed either supply safely without any phase reversal or latch-up; this is called overvoltage protection, or OVP.
The dual ADA4096-2 is available in 8-lead LFCSP (2 mm × 2 mm) and 8-lead MSOP packages. The ADA4096-4 is available in 16-lead LFCSP (3 mm × 3 mm) and 14 lead TSSOP packages.
The ADA409x family is specified over the extended industrial temperature range (−40°C to +125°C) and is part of the growing selection of 30 V, low power op amps from Analog Devices, Inc.
- Battery monitoring
- Sensor conditioners
- Portable power supply control
- Portable instrumentation
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Practical Design Techniques for Sensor Signal Conditioning, 1999
Compete sensor signal conditioning manual including bridge circuits, strain, force, pressure, flow measurements. high impedance sensors, position and motion sensors, temperature sensors. Fundamentals of amplifiers and ADCs for signal conditioning.
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Analog Filter Wizard
Use the Analog Filter Wizard to design low-pass, high-pass, or band-pass filters with actual op amps in minutes. As you progress through the design process, you can observe the characteristics of your filter design from ideal specifications to real world circuit behavior. Quickly evaluate the tradeoffs in op amp specifications - including gain-bandwidth, noise, and supply current – to determine the best filter design for your requirements.
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Use Photodiode Wizard to design a transimpedance amplifier circuit to interface with a photodiode. Select a photodiode from the library included in the tool, or enter custom photodiode specifications. Quickly observe tradeoffs between Bandwidth, Peaking (Q), and ENOB/SNR. Modify circuit parameters, and immediately see results in plots for pulse response, frequency response, and noise gain.
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Sometimes we need to do some rich text formatting in a Label which may include "SuperScript" and "SubScript".
Flex 4 and spark controls offer a very strong and easy way to implement this through "Text Layout Framework" . Flex 3 can also use the same provided we have included the swc of TextLayoutFramework. This is pre-included in Flash Builder 4.
The property we use is baselineShift of textFlow object of RichText controls.
A very similar example of how to use this in button is given at : http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Superscript___Subscript_with_Text_Layout_Framework-18175.html
But to use this for a Label where we don't need the user interaction to achieve the same we need to set the "baselineShift".
Below sample illustrates the usage of the same, both in MXML and ActionScript:


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New York City is more than skyscrapers and taxis. As one of my favorite cities, the "Big Apple" never seems to disappoint, even when it's disgustingly hot and humid outside. Just like it was last week when thousands of bloggers and I headed to BlogHer 2012. I'm sorry…if temperatures hit over 80 degrees, it's hot in my book!
Unfortunately, I really haven't had time to just explore the city to my heart's content, but I've been there six times now (five for business) and I know my next trip will be totally and strictly touristy and corny in all aspects. That's how I roll.
Because I've been there a few times, there are a few essentials that make it into my suitcase when warm weather hits and I travel to NYC.
- Nation LTD's Shanghai Maxi Skirt is that one item that's not only easy to pack, but it can be worn a million-and-one ways. With slits on both sides (sexy), the 95% viscose makes this a soft and really cool skirt. It's only available in straight sizes on their web site, but I currently have the plus size version, which is sold out on the Bloomingdales site.
- If you're going to rock shorts or skirts on a hot day and want to avoid chafing then I suggest a bottle of Lane Bryant's Cacique Body "Keep It Smooth" Anti-Chafing Cream to Powder. I love this stuff!
- Sometimes shape wear makes it a little hot under my dress, that's why I had to try Spanx's Higher Power Brief. It offers tummy control, while keeping me cooler than other mid-thigh shapers.
- Not only is my goal to keep cool in this hot city, but comfy sandals are a must. I currently have two pairs of Steve Madden's Achilees sandals. They go with everything and are pretty comfy. Annnnd they're on sale right now!
- No matter what time of the year I travel I always take a travel-size umbrella with me. Weather is so unpredictable right now. The day I flew out of NYC it was raining like crazy! This Eddie Bauer Mini Travel Umbrella is also on sale!
- If you wear hairspray and don't want to deal with hair falling flat in the hight humidity check out Tresemme's Climate Control Finishing Spray. I actually picked up a travel-sized bottle and it worked pretty good. It smells good, held great, and didn't leave my hair stiff or crunchy.
- Torrid's Twist Tees White Foxy Cotton Scoop Cami is that perfect basic top. I love the length of the cami and it's so versatile. It can be worn underneath something or even alone. I think I've worn this in all possible ways already LOL! And you'll never believe it's also on sale!
- Last, but not least…after a long hot day trekking around the city I just want to take off my makeup and hop into my hotel bed. I always make sure to have a box of Neutrogena's Makeup Remover Towelettes. I've tried a lot of different brands and this one seems to be the best.
What essential items do you take with you when you travel during the summer?


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Cookie Craft - Designs and Techniques for Creative Cookie Occasions
this cook book is a must have for the supermommy! a great resource for making any and all occasions fun and fond memories. full of great projects to share with the kids in the kitchen. make beautiful as well as delicious cookies and wow them all.


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A student with excellent credentials may design an individualized, interdisciplinary major using existing courses to prepare for a unique career goal not available from a specific major. Courses are usually drawn from two or more existing programs, combined in such a way as to create a distinctive and clearly defined interdisciplinary major. The program must bridge academic disciplines and receive approval of the dean of University College or (for Honors College students) the dean of the Honors College. An application is required before completion of the final 60 semester credits. The student must identify and work with a faculty advisor to design the program of study; maintain a grade-point average of 3.33 or higher; and complete a minimum of 45 credits in the program of study. At least 24 credits must be at the 300-level or higher.
For more information, call the Honors College at 765-285-1024.


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Milton Turns to Charter TV® for Entertainment
It's time to get the most value from your entertainment dollar while watching your favorite shows, movies, and sporting events. Chances are that yours is one of the 1,736 homes in Milton with an HDTV. If so, then it's time to switch to Charter Cable and get HD programming delivered to your living room. Charter TV® deals bring you:
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With Charter Cable, you'll feel like your right in the middle of the track with Carl Edwards and Kasey Kahne fighting for position. Catch a previous episode, start a new series, or watch the big game. Charter Cable delivers the goods. It's time to watch TV how it's meant to be seen with HD programming.


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On the Adobe Digital Publishing blog, Dave Dickson, Product Marketing Manager, Adobe Digital Publishing wrote about a report that describes how readers engage with interactive ads in digital magazines. If you're undecided about your digital publishing endeavor, this report will surely help.
Titled "Digital Ad Engagement: Perceived Interactivity as a Driver of Advertising Effectiveness," (PDF – 260KB) and conducted by Alex Wang, Ph.D. (Univ. of Connecticut) the study exposed participants ages 18 to 32 to print or iPad versions of advertisements featured in a past issue of a digital magazine. It then surveyed them to measure perceived interactivity, perceived engagement, message involvement, attitude towards the ads, and purchase intent, and compared the results. Overall, the research discovered that readers are more likely to engage with interactive than static ads, as well as have a more favorable attitude to the ad and greater purchase intent. See a summary of the results below; participants responded using a scale from 1-9 and considered both all ads in the magazine, as well as a specific ad presented to them.
Read the entire report here.


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Top Ten Rejected Ideas For Roberts Stadium
This week Evansville Mayor, Lloyd Winnecke's task force looked over 600 different suggestions for the use of Roberts Stadium. They are now in the process of taking the public input and helping the mayor decide the fate of the building and the grounds it occupies. Now, from the home office in Nebo, KY...it's the Top 10 Rejected Ideas for Roberts Stadium!


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Last night's dinner was a grand success, even if I didn't grill it. I'm keeping this recipe in the back of my mind, though, because it'll be even better done over the coals.
I combined chopped onion, chopped garlic, chopped black olives, and chopped sun-dried tomatoes in oil and herbs, a couple dashes of Cholula sauce, and sauteed them in olive oil. Then I added a can of chopped, processed ham. Got everything good and mixed together.
Then, chicken breast tenderloins, or "chicken fingers." I pounded them flat, put the sauteed mixture on, and rolled them up. There was just enough left over to put on top of each roll and coat them with the oily residue. Baked at 325 for 20 minutes. Served it with couscous and a green salad. Delicious.
I've GOT to try this on the grill! C'mon, weather, warm up!
My biggest difficulty in cooking, though, as the subject line indicates, is that I rarely measure anything, unless I'm following an established recipe. The stuff I concoct on my own are just tossed together. My daughter asked for this recipe so she could take it back to college, but I deal mostly with "dashes," "pinches," "smidgeons" and "skoshes." I tend to just figure something looks right, and I usually balance the flavors quite nicely by instinct. Any ideas on how to translate into actual measurements?


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This is one old athlete who has found a way to cheat Father Time but not the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. The latest target on the U.S.A.D.A's list: An 80-year-old weightlifter who was busted for steroids, according to The Associated Press. The agency that brought down Lance Armstrong announced a two-year suspension for Don Ramos of Colorado Springs, Colo., who tested positive for steroids while attempting to set a world record in his age group at the Pan American Masters Weightlifting Championships in June. USADA was contracted to test at the event for athletes 35 and older. The suspension means Ramos can't compete again until July 2015. Organizers of masters events have been cracking down on doping. Two years ago, USADA suspended nine masters athletes for positive tests, including one in his 50s and three in their 60s.
Pretty sad that after eighty years you still have to cheat and have yet to work hard for what is right!
for gods sake let him go. lol he is almost DEAD
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Need a fun place to leave the kids while you go out and enjoy some time alone with your sweetheart on Valentine's Day? Look no further than Oakland Zoo. Starting this year, the Zoo is offering a fun new program called "Parents Night Out" that might be just what you're looking for. But it's more than simply "babysitting at the Zoo" – geared for children aged 4 to 10 years, this program offers a full evening of entertaining animal-themed fun. Once you drop off your kids, you can rest easy knowing they're having a good time and being well taken care of. They'll start off enjoying a pizza dinner, followed by a cool guided walk through the Children's Zoo to visit animals such as alligators, bats, turtles, frogs, lizards and bugs. They will even get a sneak peek at where the ZooKeepers prepare the food for all the animals of the Zoo. Later, in the auditorium, your kids will be able to participate in a fun game or craft, followed by an 'animal close-up', where they get to meet an animal up close and personal. Then, we top off the evening with an exciting animal-themed movie. All this for $30 per child (plus $25 for each additional sibling.) Not bad to ensure some quality couple time on Valentine's Day.
You can drop off your kids at the Marian Zimmer Auditorium at 5:30 in the evening and stay out till 10:00pm, giving you a full evening to "get away from it all" with dinner, dancing, a movie, or a romantic stroll. And when you come back to pick up your kids, they'll have plenty of exciting things to share about their evening at the Zoo. And if things take off like we're expecting, we're hoping to expand our Parents Night Out program on selected Friday or Saturday evenings at other times during the year. So if you want to have one of those special Valentine's Days like you used to have, give Oakland Zoo a call and sign your kids up for "Parents' Night Out." Then, go out and hit the town. We'll see you when you get back!


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The current public egress IP address for the BrowserLab service is:
(Updated August 28, 2012)
These addresses are subject to change, but we will try to keep this blog post updated with the latest changes.
What are the egress IP addresses and why should you care? When you ask BrowserLab to return screen shots for a url, our servers will make the request from one of these two addresses. Users of BrowserLab can take advantage of this information in a few different ways:
First, since a single test run from BrowserLab could result in almost 20 visits to the page, you might decide you want to exclude BrowserLab visits from your site analytics. Most analytics tools will allow you to list individual IP addresses or a range of addresses to ignore. Here are some examples for Google Analytics and WebTrends.
Second, since BrowserLab will make so many simultaneous requests for your page, it can sometimes be mistaken as an attack by some pieces of hardware or software. To avoid this, you can put our egress IP addresses in as trusted IP addresses that can safely be ignored.
Third, you can use the IP addresses to exempt BrowserLab from some types of password protection you can set up for your web pages. For example, you can use the htaccess configuration file in Apache to password protect a site from the general public, but configure the htaccess to allow BrowserLab access without a password.
Finally, you can use the IP addresses to allow BrowserLab to reach through your firewall to get screen shots for pages it couldn't otherwise get to. Port forwarding allows you to access a machine behind the Firewall at a specified port. For instance you could have your firewall direct public traffic on port yourIP:9999 to port 80 on an internal webserver. By limiting access to the BrowserLab servers, you are limiting the exposure to the outside world. The risk in doing this is that another BrowserLab user could guess that you've done this and submit URLs that they think are internal to your network. If they guess correctly, they will get screen shots of the pages that they correctly guess. The other risk is that you do something wrong and open an internal machine to the internet. If you have confidential information then it would be best not to use this method for testing secure content or to only allow our IP addresses access while you are actively testing. The primary reason for port forwarding would be if you have a webserver at home or in a small office and don't have access to a staging server on the internet. In most cases, this should not be done unless you know what you are doing.
If you want BrowserLab to be able to access your pages behind a firewall, we recommend that you either talk to a knowledgeable person in your IT department or, if you are without an IT department, here are some links with instructions on how to set up port forwarding for some of the more common routers: Netgear information; Linksys information.
A full discussion about port forwarding is outside the scope of this blog post since the process can vary widely from router to router. It can help to have a friend from outside your network try and access the content you want to test (just make sure to add their IP address to your whitelist). If your friend can't get to your content, the BrowserLab servers won't be able to either. If you find yourself having difficulty getting it to work, your best bet is to consult the documentation for your own hardware or contact a qualified IT support person.
As I said above, these egress IPs are occasionally subject to change. We'll do our best to keep this post updated with the latest IPs and are also considering ways to make finding the current ones more convenient. For now, if you want to ensure you have the correct IP address, you can determine that by submitting http://www.thismachine.info/ as a URL to BrowserLab. The returned screenshot will show our current egress IP.
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Iowa Central Community College Continuing Education utilizes the Gap Tuition Assistance Program to provide tuition support for eligible participants. To be eligible, the Continuing Education Program itself must offer one of the following:
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Non-credit certificate programs are not eligible for federal financial aid. This program fills the gap in providing resources to populations that would otherwise not be able to afford training. Currently, we have four programs to offer:
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An easy drive-up viewpoint of the entire picturesque Hood River Valley, this small park is handicapped-accessible and provides parking, restrooms, and picnic tables, so the entire family can relax and soak in the panoramic views from Mt. Hood to Mt. Adams. Park facilities and interpretive signs offer geological history of the Hood River Valley. The view features more than 15,000 acres of orchards and vineyards, and the fruit trees in bloom in spring offer a photo opportunity not to be missed.
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Traveling Through Hood River's Fruit Loop
Our first time to Hood River, my wife and I had absolutely no idea of what lay behind the town, on the way up to Mt. Hood. So we took a Saturday afternoon and did the Fruit Loop, 36 different stands that banded together 15 years ago to sell the…


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Imagine a 6-foot shrub that blooms six months of the year in near-drought conditions. Its wiry stems, studded with white, pink or violet flowers, may be cut for mixed bouquets and vase arrangements where they keep their vitality for more than a week. The shrub is Geraldton wax flower (Chamelaucium unicum), native to southwest Australia. It flowers from midwinter until late summer. Geraldton wax flower has a light and airy growth habit. Its shoots lengthen rapidly and, once the plant matures, may be cut back by one-third on an annual basis. It is easily propagated from stem cuttings in fast-draining soil or potting mix. Flowers are bowl shaped with five petals and leaves are 1 1/2-inch needles. Both flowers and needles have a lemon scent. Plant it in half to three-quarters of the day's sun.
For millennia, Jerusalem has been a magnet to people from all parts of the globe. Perhaps its unique history helps to explain its uncanny horticultural diversity — why just about anything, it seems, can grow in Jerusalem.
I have never been to a city where you could harvest almonds, cherries, oranges and lemons from trees growing no more than a few minutes' walk from one another. Jerusalem's winter cold explains the success of cherries and almonds, trees that must have a good winter chill in order to flower and bear fruit. Locally, you have to go to the Antelope Valley, Leona Valley or to Big Bear and Lake Arrowhead before you can experience winter temperatures cold enough to grow cherries and almonds, and these areas, where it regularly freezes, would not be recommended for planting citrus trees.
Perhaps one of the reasons citrus grows in Jerusalem is because of the many favorable microclimates, based on the city's architecture, which provides protection for these tropical trees. Nearly all Jerusalemites live in apartment buildings that are three or four stories tall and closely spaced. The buildings are low enough to let sunlight into each building's garden plot but tall enough to provide garden shelter on cold nights. In addition, by law, the facade of every Jerusalem building must be made of stone. Stone does a wonderful job of holding in the warmth of the day until night comes, when this warmth is radiated outwards, to the benefit of adjacent plants.
Golden marguerite
Walking by a vacant lot in Jerusalem, I saw a vast expanse of golden marguerite (Anthemis tinctoria). The more I learn about this plant, the more it seems to be suitable as a lawn alternative — especially in the case of front lawns, which are generally just square patches of green that have no purpose other than to absorb water, fertilizer and lawn mower fumes.
Golden marguerite is a clumping perennial. It may be divided at the roots but it also self-sows so that it constantly will be bringing up new seedlings wherever it is planted. It tolerates poor soil conditions and drought. Golden marguerite has classic daisy blooms and its foliage is fern textured and finely laced.
A bonus of planting golden marguerite is its excellence as a cut flower for vase arrangements. You do not have to water golden marguerite during the summer. It grows to a height of 3 feet, but if you want to keep it more compact, you can so by chopping it down as often as you like. Its clumping growth habit ensures that it will grow out in a more horizontal direction when it is vertically constricted. Golden marguerite blooms nonstop from early spring until summer ends.
Watering plants
Jerusalem plants flower more abundantly than plants I have seen elsewhere. I can't help thinking that this has something to do with the fact that throughout Jerusalem's long Mediterranean summer — a doppelganger for the summer in Los Angeles — water never touches the foliage of any plant.
All garden irrigation — and much of agricultural irrigation, too — in Israel is done via drip systems. It is environmentally obtuse to water dry summer plants in dry summer climates with conventional sprinkler irrigation, in which foliage is doused with sprinkler spray. Such water is anathema to dry climate plants and, reason dictates, such plants' performance will be adversely affected when leaves get wet during overhead irrigation in warm weather.
My feeling is that a dry-climate plant must expend energy fighting off insect pests as well as pathological fungi and bacteria that are attracted to wet summer foliage. This energy, where foliage is kept dry, is channeled into flower production as opposed to being diverted for pest control.
Italian jasmine
Speaking of warm-weather and drought-tolerant plants, there is no better informal hedge than Italian jasmine (Jasminum humile). This plant has a fountainesque growth habit, needs no water once established, and flowers with deep yellow blooms in both spring and fall. Flowers have a carnation fragrance. If Italian jasmine ever seems to be getting out of control or too big for its allotted space, you can hack it down to any height with confidence that it will regrow with renewed vigor. Plants can grow as high as 10 feet with a somewhat larger girth.
Red hot poker
Red hot poker or torch lily (Kniphofia uvaria) is a plant whose flowers, which are encountered in yellow, red, orange or a combination of these colors, always make you stop and take a second look. Red hot pokers require no attention once established in the garden. A testimony to their robustness is the unfortunate fact that they have become invasive weeds in some Australian locales although this aggressiveness, to the best of my knowledge, has not yet been observed in Southern California.
For more information about area plants and gardens, go to Joshua Siskin's website at www.thesmartergardener.com. Send questions and photos to email@example.com.


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Hello All,
I need some tips on using my new vertical electronic water smoker. I am a grill man by nature and have never smoked or been around anyone who smoked anything. Sad, but true.
So I get this new smoker and no where does it say if I add wood chips, lava rocks or anything under the electric element. Just put the water pan on top of the element and cook away. I fould one web page that mentioned you add nothing but that seems like steaming to me, not smoking.
Am I missing something? Should I just fire it up and see what happens?
Any advise would be helpful.
Thanks, Marc


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From the Rangers:
New York, May 25, 2010 – New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that the club has acquired defenseman Jyri Niemi from the New York Islanders in exchange for a sixth round pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. The Rangers and Niemi have agreed to terms on a contract.
Niemi, 19, skated in 50 games with the Saskatoon Blades of the Western Hockey League (WHL) this past season, registering eight goals and 21 assists for 29 points, along with 67 penalty minutes and a plus-nine rating. He ranked second among team defensemen in goals and power play goals and third in assists and points. Niemi recorded a career-high, five-game scoring streak from October 7 vs. Kootenay to October 18 at Edmonton, tallying seven points over the span, including a two-goal effort on October 7. He recorded a point in each of his last four regular season contests from February 20 vs. Brandon to February 26 vs. Prince Albert (one goal and three assists), and registered 10 points (two goals and eight assists) in 13 games during the month of February. The third-year player established career-highs in post-season games played, goals and penalty minutes while ranking second among Saskatoon defensemen in playoff goals and tied for third in playoff points.
The 6-3, 210-pounder has appeared in 159 career regular season contests for Saskatoon, registering 29 goals and 66 assists for 95 points, along with 198 penalty minutes and a plus-27 rating. He established career-highs in games played (60), assists (25), penalty minutes (74) and plus/minus rating (plus-19) during the 2008-09 season. Later that season, Niemi made his WHL Playoff debut, and led Saskatoon with a career-high six assists and seven points in six post-season contests. In 2007-08, he finished first among WHL rookie defensemen with a career-high 14 goals, and ranked third with 34 points while skating in 49 games. He was selected to participate in the 2008 CHL Top Prospects Game, where he won the hardest shot competition with a shot registered at 97 miles per hour. Saskatoon's first pick, 13th overall, in the 2007 CHL Import Draft, Niemi made his WHL debut on September 21, 2007, at Brandon, and notched his first point with a goal and added two assists for a career-high, three points on September 26 vs. Moose Jaw.
Prior to joining Saskatoon, Niemi played with HPK Hameenlinna in the Finnish Junior League, registering six goals and three assists for nine points, along with 72 penalty minutes in 35 games during the 2006-07 season. Internationally, Niemi has represented his native country in several international tournaments, most recently serving as Captain for Finland at the 2010 U-20 World Junior Championship. He finished the tournament tied for second among all defensemen and ranked second among Finnish skaters in goals (three), and tied for third on the team in points (five).
The Hameenkyro, Finland native was originally selected as the New York Islanders' third round pick, 72nd overall, in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. The Rangers and Islanders last completed a trade on November 14, 1972, when the Rangers sent right wing Ron Stewart to the Islanders in exchange for cash.


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Mixed financial market action seemingly left corn unaffected Tuesday morning. That is, while the equity markets rebounded from recent losses, the U.S. dollar resumed its late rally, thereby offsetting the supportive stock market impact upon commodity demand. Nearby corn futures seemingly reflected firm cash trading, whereas improving crop conditions apparently weighed upon the deferred contracts. July corn futures edged 0.25 cent higher to $6.535/bushel around midsession Tuesday, while December dipped 4.0 cents to $5.425.
Soybean price proved relatively strong in early Tuesday trading. Traders cited the tight old crop situation for supporting the nearby bean and meal contracts, whereas limited farmer progress in completing soy plantings last week appeared to boost new crop prices. In contrast, ideas that beans will be aggressively crushed for meal may have undermined support for soyoil futures. July soybean futures climbed 8.5 cents to $15.205/bushel Tuesday morning, whereas July soyoil sank 0.35 cents to 47.20 cents/pound, while July soymeal gained $4.6 to $455.6/ton.
The slow start to the winter wheat harvest reportedly boosted wheat futures Tuesday morning. That is, the weekly USDA Crop Progress report released late Monday stated the U.S. winter wheat harvest as being 20% complete, whereas the five-year average pointed to a normal rate around 37% by this time. Traders may also have been buying spring wheat futures in reaction to ongoing weather problems, but surprisingly good yields in some winter wheat areas seemed to undercut the Kansas City market. July CBOT wheat advanced 1.5 cents to $6.805/bushel around midday Tuesday, while July KCBT wheat lost 4.25 cents to $7.11, and July MGE futures climbed 4.0 cents to $8.1525.
Cattle futures sustained their modest overnight gains Tuesday morning. The positive influence of rebounding equity values seemingly outweighed the negative implications of concurrent U.S. dollar gains. Traders may also be thinking seasonal and technical factors are pointing toward higher levels. August cattle climbed 0.30 cents to 121.25 cents/pound just before lunchtime Tuesday, while December moved up 0.05 cents to 126.75. Meanwhile, August feeder futures declined 0.10 cents to 147.57 cents/pound, and November fell 0.55 to 152.30.
Hog futures proved vulnerable to fresh selling Tuesday morning. Although the wholesale market performed well again Monday, the late downturn in cash hog prices has probably persuaded many in the swine industry that the traditional second-half price decline has begun. July hog futures dropped 0.62 cents to 100.32 cents/pound around midsession Tuesday, while the December contract lost 0.42 cents to 82.45 cents/pound.


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As of this writing, the Flex team does not know of any scenario that pins a module in memory forever assuming the developer has cleaned up all references.
If you have a module that does not unload, the steps to diagnose the problem are:
1) Make sure the module is being loaded into a child applicationDomain (use default parameters for the load() method in most cases)
2) Use the profiler to make sure there are no references to objects in the module. The most common causes of leaks are:
a. Styles. Even without any mx:Styles tag in your MXML, if a module uses a component that is not used by the main application, the module will register the default styles for that component with the StyleManager and pin the first instance of the module. You can use the -compiler.keep-generated-actionscript compiler option to see which default styles the module and main application are using. You can use the -compiler.keep-all-type-selectors compiler option on the main application to force the main application to register the default styles for every component in the defaults.css file. Prior recommendations to load style declarations via runtime CSS (StyleManager.loadStyleDeclarations) are withdrawn. Runtime CSS modules register styles in a different way so they can be unloaded and will not prevent this problem.
b. Resources. If a module uses components that use ResourceBundles that are not used by the main application, those resource bundles will get registered with the ResourceManager and pin the first instance of the module. You can use the -compiler.keep-generated-actionscript compiler option to see which resource bundles the module and main application are using. You can force the main application to have those additional resource bundles by adding the resource bundle metadata to the main application. For example, to add the "controls" resource bundle, you would add to the main application MXML file: [ResourceBundle("controls")] If you are loading your resource bundles as modules, make sure the resource modules have completed loading before loading the module that is being pinned.
c. ExternalInterface.addCallback. Modules should not use ExternalInterface.addCallback. That registers the method with the browser and there is no way to unregister it at this time. The recommended practice is to have the main application register a method that will call a function reference and put the module's method in that function reference, then set the function reference to null when the module unloads.
d. Timers and other timer mechanisms. The use of Timer, setTimeout(), and setInterval() can cause leaks. Timer's must be stopped and have their listeners removed, setTimeout and setInterval must be paired with calls to clearTimeout() and clearInterval().
e. Listeners to events from objects outside of the module. Use weak references or make sure to remove the event listeners. Remember, when you call a.addEventListener("foo", b.someMethod), it is 'a' that has a reference to 'b', not the other way. If you are listening to a parent or stage or singleton, those objects now have a reference to the object that whose method is going to get called and can cause leaks.
f. Focus. If an object in the module has focus, the FocusManager will still have a reference to the module. A good UI will move focus to some other object outside the module before removing the module.
g. RemoteObject. If a module brings in a data class that is going to be part of a server query, that class can get registered with the Player and result in a reference to the module. Link data classes into the main application when possible.
h. Loaded Images. If a module loads an image, that image must be unloaded otherwise the player will still keep some data buffers around.
3) Once there are no references to objects in the module, the Flash Player can still keep a module in memory for a while if objects in the module ever had focus. Other activity in the application, such as typing and clicking will eventually release references to the module and the module will be freed from memory. Try typing and clicking in the main application or another module and see if the pinned module gets garbage-collected.
4) Debug-versions of a module on the Debugger Player can also lead to a module being stuck in memory. Debug-versions contain debug information that can get registered with the debugger and not released. The final test is always to use release versions of the modules and application on a release version of the player.
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The full name of the recipe is Pepper Jack-Stuffed Chicken Breasts with Chipotle and Bacon Slather. It is every bit as tasty as it is long. I found the recipe on Big Green Eggs site in a publication about planking.
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I havent done much planking and wanted to give it a try. The name made it jump right to the top of the list and it did not disappoint. The full recipe is in the link above so I will let the photos tell the story. All I can say is... delicious!


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Mumble - VOIP for playing with other readers - Updated 22/02/2015 - See OP!
Mod Edit: The Mumble server (listed below) is being terminated on 23rd March 2015. We have a new Mumble server and this (along with all of the other relevant details) can be found here. Please use that server from 23rd March onwards. Thanks!
Mumble is a VOIP client like Ventrillo, Teamspeak, Roger Wilco and Mohawk. Unlike the rest, it has something resembling a stable overlay so if you're chatting to strangers you can actually tell them apart. It's also open source and free, which is nice.
We have a 512 slot mumble server running with generous bandwidth limits.
Address: server.herosquad.org
Port: 64738 (default - you can leave it blank when connecting)
We use Mumble for many different games. It provides excellent audio quality, without having to fight with whatever game you're playing. I'm looking at you, release-day Battlefield 3!
It's also useful for coordinating large numbers of people. In games with their own VOIP solution, a two-tier approach of using ingame for banter and Mumble for information or e.g. inter-squad communications works very well.
Smaller groups use it too. In addition to the big fish (currently planetside 2), there are also dozens of people using the server for everything from Dota 2 to Neverwinter. Some folks even use it for playing pen-and-paper RPGs or just idly chatting when not playing anything.
The server has dozens of channels by default, but by right clicking on one you'll be able to make your own temporary one. This works well for those Hot Releases that there aren't enough permanent channels for. You can even put a password your temporary channel. If you're playing something regularly enough to warrant a permanent channel, or find that you need admin rights over a channel for some reason, post here or send me a PM.
- Q: Do I have to use push to talk?
- A: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE USE PUSH TO TALK. Yes, it can be annoying having to press a button, but its better than having to listen to constant heavy breathing! Be considerate of other users!
- Q: Someone is being annoying!
- A: Right click on them, select local mute. If theyre being truly offensive/abusive, find an admin or name and shame them here.
- Q: How do I find an Admin?
- A: If its urgent, you can right click on the root channel (Rock Paper Shotgun Mumble Server), go to groups, and select either admin for global admins (just me for now) or a relevant acronym (e.g. ps2 - vanu - eu - full is channel admins for the EU Planetside 2 Vanu outfit) and see a list of people you could bug. Alternatively, post here or send me a PM.
- Q: I want to hear one person but not the rest of this rabble!
- A: Select said person, right click, pick priority speaker. Useful for group leaders, but note that this is a local setting. You can't currently prioritise speakers for others, even when you're an admin!
- Q: There are no empty slots to connect to!
- A: Unlikely. If this happens, report it here and Ill increase the number of slots.
- Q: Theres no room / too few subchannels for the game I want to play!
- A: All users should be able to make temporary channels by right clicking an existing channel (e.g. games) and then going to Add. If you're playing a lot of a game, or need local admin powers for some reason, post here or send me a PM.
- Q: How do I create/use a passworded room?
- A: When creating a room there will be an option to specify a password. If a room is created with a password specified, you need to go to Server->Access Tokens, then add the password. Youll then be able to access the room.
If you already have Mumble installed, you can click here. If not:
- Download Mumble.
- You do NOT need Murmur, as that is the server executable.
- Run the Mumble installer executable.
- Follow the prompts.
- Create a certificate when asked (painless, works instead of passwords).
- A pinging sound whenever you try to click something is a sign that you're supposed to click on another menu. If you have multiple displays, perhaps the box you seek is on another screen?
- Please SET UP PUSH TO TALK.
- You'll reach a prompt that looks vaguely like Fig. 1:
Fig. 1: Welcome screen and RPS server details (animated gif)
- Click "add new" and fill in the following details per Fig. 1. The label and your name do not matter, but try to keep it clean.
- You can leave the port blank if it isn't filled in automatically!
- Click OK.
- Attempt to connect to the server by double clicking on your new Rock Paper Shotgun! entry. You'll always be able to find the server easily through your favourites (Server->Connect or Ctrl+o).
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Holdren established the Energy Resources Group (ERG) graduate program at Berkeley, an interdisciplinary program that fosters the "Physics approach" in estimating costs and benefits of various energy supplies. He has also chaired numerous government advisory committees on arms control issues, most recently the National Academy of Science's Committee for International Security and Arms Control, which developed guidelines for the disposition of the hundreds tons of surplus plutonium from US and former Soviet weapons. He is the author of numerous publications in environmental impacts of fusion power, comparative costs and benefits of alternate energy technologies, strategic arms control issues, the role of human population in environmental dilemmas, and the prospects for sustainable development.


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San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 4, 2011 – USA defeated Puerto Rico 3-1 (25-23, 26-24, 22-25, 25-12) for its third victory against one loss in Pool A of the 2011 FIVB World League on Saturday before a crowd of 4,512 fans at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan.Matt Anderson led four Americans in double digits with 23 points. Clayton Stanley totaled 17, including five aces, Reid Priddy added 16 with four blocks and David Lee recorded five blocks among his 10 tallies.Puerto Rican Hector Soto led all scorers with 24 points, while Victor Rivera and Roberto Muñiz added 16 and 11, respectively, for the defeated side.The Americans out-blocked the Puerto Ricans 13-6 and also had a slight 9-7 advantage in the serve category.
USA jumped to an early 8-5 lead in the first set behind the combined offense of Stanley and Priddy, who scored three points apiece. Victor Rivera kept Puerto Rico close with a pair of spikes and the local team tied things up at 10-10 with a right-handed spike from Soto. With Soto serving, Rivera and Escalante scored on consecutive spikes to put Puerto Rico 12-10 up, prompting a U.S. time-out. On the resumption, Soto added two straight aces, but Lee and Priddy answered back with a pair of kills. Puerto Rico went to the second TTO with a 16-14 advantage behind a right-side spike by Soto. The Americans equalized at 16 behind the spike and serve of Stanley and edged into the lead at 19-17 on the back of good play by Millar and Stanley. The Puerto Ricans reacted with a V. Rivera spike and a service winner by Muñiz to narrow the gap, and the scores were all square at 23 after a shot by Soto. But Priddy and Lee combined for an attack and block to wrap up the first set 25-23.
A couple of David Lee spikes down the middle contributed to a two-point American lead at the first TTO of the second set. Puerto Rico tied the scores at 8-8 through Soto and an ace by V. Rivera. The two teams stayed close before USA regained their two-point advantage behind a kill by Stanley and a block by Thornton. They went 22-19 up with a block by Anderson, but the home team recovered with kills by Soto and Muñiz and leveled the scores at 23-23 through Muñiz and V. Rivera. After a USA time-out, Rivera scored with a push shot for set-point to Puerto Rico, but Priddy tied the scores again. A block by Lee and an ace by Millar finally gave the Americans the second set at 26-24.
USA led 8-6 at the first TTO of the third set, but the home team sparked a reaction by turning things around, with a Soto kill helping his side to a 10-8 lead, forcing a USA timeout. After some powerful cannon shots from both sides, the home team found themselves a point up at the second TTO after a big bomb from V. Rivera. The scores were tied again at 17, before Soto put Puerto Rico ahead with a shot from the right side and V. Rivera increased the margin to two points from the left wing. Jose Rivera hit off the American block for a 23-20 lead and the set finished 25-22 in favor of Puerto Rico with a push shot by V. Rivera.
Matt Anderson was in full gear at the start of the fourth set and scored five points as the Americans took an 8-4 lead. Lee blocked Soto for a five-point advantage at 11-6 and another block by Stanley against J. Rivera stretched the difference to 13-7, forcing a Puerto Rican time-out. Two consecutive aces by Stanley gave the Americans a 16-9 lead at the second TTO. When play resumed, Stanley continued his serving show with two more aces. The Americans then cruised toward victory, wrapping the set up at 25-12.


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Hey wrestling fans. The Saviour here with this week's edition of Sudden Impact, where it's all TNA, all the time. We are three days away from Hardcore Justice, and the much anticipated rematch between A Double and Bobby Roode. But before we get ahead of ourselves, let's talk about this coming home show, and throw out some HJ Predictions.
Let's jump into it, shall we
The Opening
As much as I love the Dudley Boys, I'm now, after a long time, finally warming up to the Bully Nation heel character, and his fire breathing Twittah machine. He cut an awesome promo. Then James Storm came out and made it even better, even if he did rip off a Rock catch phrase. Add Aces & Eights and I'm already edge of my seat waiting to see what happens next. I think Bully makes the better accuser of James Storm than Roode does. Roode just sounds whiney when he does it. Bully is hard nosed and in your face.
BFG Series Continues
Before I get into this week's matches, am I wrong in thinking that maybe they should eliminate the four last place guys at some point...have 8 and then the final 4? Just my opinion. Okay onto the matches.
RVD and Magnus opened things up with a very competitive match. I enjoyed Magnus' theme, by the way. Magnus looked pretty dominant, and RVD struck out of nowhere, in usual RVD fashion, for the win. I think this is a situation where Magnus is clearly not going to be a factor when BFG is all said and done, but he is awesome and hope big things happen for him soon.
AJ Style and Kurt Angle. If you saw this match, it obviously speaks for itself. I've talked about potential matches of the year, but this one, I can say in all seriousness, is a match of the year candidate, and I'm going to include PPV matches from both promotions. I was expecting a shortened match with Claire interference or Aces & Eights or something. Instead, we got a PPV main event quality match, with a clean finish. After the match, AJ denied Claire, and she gave me the chills with her facial expression, in a Kathy Bates from Misery sort of way.
Bully Ray battled James Storm and once again, I was expecting a shortened match with interference. My jaw dropped to the floor when Bully got the clean win. I seriously couldn't believe it. And all night long, I was waiting for an Aces & Eights attack, but instead, we got threats. And Bully Ray looks to be next on the list at Hardcore Justice.
Tag Team Title Match
What? Is this for real? I thought Daniels and Kaz only served to piss AJ off. They defended against Devon and Garrett Bischoff. I know not many people are fans of Garrett, but I'd like to see him in the X Division. He would fit okay in there. I wasn't expecting much of this match but it turned out really well. Devon and Garrett got a few close calls. Then, the champs won in true heel fashion, by cheating with the title belt. And Daniels is funny with his little hump dance move he does now.
The Knockouts
If you're a fan of women's wrestling, you gotta watch TNA. They have real women's wrestling with talented, wrestlers. Not jokes like some other wrestling show I know. Gail Kim battled the champ, Tessmacher. Gail's always in good matches. Her and MIckie James. I'm not a Tessmacher fan, except to look at of course. A good, competitive match and it seems Tess has Gail's number. Looks like Madison Rayne and Earl Hebner are next at Hardcore Justice.
Roode and A Double: The Contract Signing
I find contract signings to be a complete waste of time. Also, I'm not sure I like the stipulation. It reveals too much about how BFG will end up. Also, I fear that they're already gonna drop A Double from the Main Event, which would be a horrible move. In fact, it would be bad to drop either one from the title picture.
Everything Else
Jeff Hardy goes through a table thanks to Big Rob. I think Big Rob can drop the pink sweater and be a real force.
Joe lays it out. He's not gonna talk, he's gonna beat people up. I loved it. Snort and Sweet, as only Joe can do.
The absence of Hogan(s) is a great thing isn't it? Easy on the eyes and ears.
TNA staying Live through September. I hope it continues after that.
Hardcore Justice Predictions
I'm gonna keep these fairly quick as I wrap up this week's Sudden Impact.
Knockouts Championship: Madison Rayne vs Tessmacher
Madison Rayne wins thanks to a controversial decision by Mr. Controversy himself, Earl Hebner.
X Division Championship: Kenny King vs Zema Ion
Zema Ion retains the title by usage of the hairspray. I do expect a lot of high spots in the match though.
BFG Fatal Fourway Tables Match: Hardy vs Storm vs Bully vs Robbie E
There are two factors in this match. Big Rob, and Aces & Eights who promise to get Bully. In the end, the only logical choice is to have Storm win, to continue to push his involvement in the stable.
Tag Team Match: Hernandez & Chavo vs Kidd Kash & Gunner
Every PPV has an okay but not great match. This will be it. They will continue to showcase Chavo as he gets the win after the Three Amigos and Frog Splash. I'd like to see Hernandez jump him afterwards and get a feud going.
BFG Falls Count Anywhere: Anderson vs RVD vs Pope vs Magnus
This one should be interesting. There's not much of a storyline behind it. All four guys are basically middle of the pack in the BFG Series and neither really figures to be a factor in the final standings. I'm gonna go with RVD for the win, and catapulting himself into the top tier.
BFG Fatal Fourway Ladder Match: Angle vs Joe vs AJ vs Daniels
What a shocker. Angle, AJ, Daniels, Joe...this one will clearly steal the show of all PPV's this year. I expect a ridiculous amount of high spots and "Holy Shit" moments. Angle will probably miss a moonsault off a ladder. AJ will probably Styles Clash Daniels from 50 ft in the air through every structure possible. In the end, Joe wins this match and puts all kinds of pressure on James Storm.
World Title Match: Bobby Roode vs Austin Aries
Someone drops from the title picture here. My guess is, Bobby Roode snakes his way for the win in an incredible match between two awesome performers. There will be a lot of close calls. And somehow, Sting will be involved and could inadvertently cost A Double. There could be some Aces & Eights involvement as well.
I hope you enjoyed this week's Sudden Impact. I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on the upcoming Hardcore Justice PPV. Also, we're debuting a new debate type of blog this weekend. I'm partnered with bearkg88 on it and we'll be giving our opinions on the hottest topics each week, in discussion format. It was fun putting it together and invite everyone to be involved in this.
Have a great weekend everyone. Be Safe.