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Email Deliverability Success Guide.
Email deliverability remains the most serious challenge for marketers. According to recent studies, one of six email recipients will not receive a message due to it being mistakenly blocked by a spam filter.
This whitepaper will help to increase both response rates and revenues by ensuring that your email campaigns are not blocked or routed to junk folders.
Recent surveys leave little doubt: email deliverability remains the most serious challenge for marketers. According to research by MarketingSherpa, one of six email recipients will not receive a message due to it being mistakenly blocked by a spam filter. And that means lower response rates and revenues for the marketer's business.
"The ability to deliver an email" ("deliverability") has now become a science that requires constant study if marketers want their messages to land in Customer inboxes. And with providers constantly coming up with new spam filter algorithms to prevent abusers from invading inboxes with unsolicited emails, marketers have to adapt to the new standards and ensure compliance with the most recent trends and technology.
How GetResponse maintains your 99% deliverability rate
Deliverability is typically managed by two entities:
- an ESP (email service provider), such as GetResponse
- the actual sender, who can control the content, list quality, frequency, etc.
Every reputable ESP should take measures to help ensure Customer inboxes at Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL, Windows Live Hotmail and other mailbox providers. These efforts can be broken down into the elements listed below.
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Permission-based email marketing only!
At GetResponse, we believe in permission-based emailmarketing only. Our 12 years of experience working with users and ISPs has helped us develop a robust anti-spam policy which we observe and practice every day. The combination of automated system review and the human expertise of our Compliance Department prevent spammers (or careless marketers) from using our system before their messages are sent out. That's the key to maintaining an impeccable reputation and the highest possible delivery rates. An ESP that allows spammers to use their system will see a downgrade in both user domain and provider reputation very quickly. Granted, there are fewer "bad apples" thanks to improved filter algorithms. However, hosting even 1% of bad apples can damage deliverability for the 99% of Customers who want to promote their business – and their brands – via legitimate email marketing.
Nurturing ISP relationships
In the email game, you need to team up with the mailbox providers and anti-spam organizations if you want to win. Every ESP should participate in major industry initiatives such as MAAWG, EEC and ESPC. This offers excellent opportunities to exchange knowledge and to cooperate with the ISPs (Internet Service Providers) in order to reduce abuse and create new legal and technical email deliverability fundamentals, which can directly benefit the ESP's clients.
Top notch tools for top notch deliverability
The technical process of sending a mass email campaign and tracking its results is a complex one. This is why partnering with companies who provide top notch technology can help to ensure that the technical aspect of the delivery process is seamless. GetResponse, for example, cooperates with Return Path, which offers inbox placement solutions that tell us which campaigns land in target inboxes and which end up in junk folders, and help diagnose any related problems. Another partner, Port 25, provides world-class Mail Transfer Agents capable of sending out millions of emails in record time. There's definitely more aspects of deliverability than addressed by these technologies, but the point is that an ESP that wants to maintain at least 90%+ email deliverability needs to monitor and invest in leading-edge technology.
Bounces, feedback loops, DKIM, opt-outs…
A clean list is the key to first-rate engagement and consistent inbox delivery. That's why a reputable ESP should automatically process all unsubscribe requests and bounces resulting from your sends. At GetResponse, we instantly remove all undeliverable addresses and subscribers that wish to opt-out from further mailings. It ensures CAN-SPAM compliance and reduces the risk of spam complaints affecting domain reputations.
As mentioned earlier, there's more to the technical side of deliverability that merits close attention by anyone planning to invest in an email marketing service. GetResponse also authenticates messages using SPF (Sender Policy Framework) and DKIM (Domain Name System validation format), which are required by ISPs but, more importantly, reduce the risk of forgery and of client emails landing in junk folders or being blocked.
Last, but not least, ESP participation in ISP feedback loop programs (FBLs) is a definite must. GetResponse establishes feedback loops for every client whereby ISPs notify us whenever someone marks an email as spam, so we can instantly remove that subscriber from your list.
10 steps you should implement to improve email deliverability
Since you already know what your email service provider can do for you in terms of deliverability, it's time to ask yourself a question: How can I help ensure that my email campaigns are not blocked or routed to junk folders?
It may come as a surprise to some of you, but in today's email world, it's the sender that has the biggest influence on deliverability, not the software. In other words, you might be using a premier ESP, with amazing features and an impeccable reputation, but if your mailing list is of poor quality, or your emails are tainted with content issues, you may never experience seamless inbox delivery. No software can solve the sender's content or list problems, period.
Therefore it's up to marketers to evaluate their mailing practices and review the current state of their email programs on a regular basis. Below we have listed 10 tips that should become your checklist for maintaining the health of your email program and avoiding deliverability issues.
Sending IP address and domain reputation
Mailbox providers rate senders based on two key factors: the reputation of an IP address and the domain from which the emails originate. Inbox providers such as Gmail or AOL keep a record of what kind of emails are being sent from a particular IP address. Their scoring system is similar to the one used by banks in credit score rating. If you build a strong and positive history of your IP and domain by sending solicited, relevant emails, you are most likely to enjoy relatively undisturbed inbox delivery. However, when your mailings are too frequent, your list hygiene practices inadequate, and no one opens your messages, there's a high probability your sending IP address score will fall through the floor and no ISP will allow you to enter the inbox area.
This situation does not concern those who use a professionally monitored, shared IP space, such as GetResponse.com clients. However, if you are on a dedicated platform, you should definitely monitor the reputation of the IPs and domains from which your email campaigns originate to ensure the good standing of your sender reputation.
Hint: For more information on this important step, you might find the resources below useful:
- Return Path's Sender Score (https://senderscore.org/)
- Cisco's SenderBase (http://www.senderbase.org/)
- McAffee's Trusted Source (http://www.trustedsource.org/)
- BlacklistAlert.org (http://www.blacklistalert.org/)
List Quality
Many companies are keen on purchasing lists of "fresh" email addresses to expand their field of prospects. It appears to be so much faster and easier than building up an organic list from their own trusted sources. They're simply not aware of the problems purchased lists can cause – until it's too late.
People only respond well to emails they've requested – or what we call "permission based emails". No one likes to receive unsolicited emails from vendors, known or unknown. It's an invasion of inbox privacy that could lead to more serious offenses, like unwittingly giving someone permission to sell and resell one's personal data to strangers for a couple of dollars.
Sending campaigns to purchased lists riddled with dead and inactive email addresses could damage your reputation beyond repair, and eventually lead to losing inbox access – and even domain blocking in the long run. Purchased lists are also full of spam traps – addresses created not for communication, but solely to "lure" spam.
So, again, the key word here is permission. Growing your list organically via web sign up forms will guarantee that your leads are fresh and responsive. After all, they are consciously opting-in to receive information from you so you know they are interested and pre-qualified to receive offers.
Hint: We encourage you to read up on best practices that support organic list growth and to download our list building white paper "How to Grow Your Email Marketing List".
We think you'll agree that organic growth is the safest and most effective way to build a successful mailing list.
Content Issues
Sometimes the issue with deliverability may not be due to mailing list quality or IP reputation, but with the message content itself. Now "content" covers a lot of areas and functions of a message. That's why, when you deploy your email marketing campaign, the receiving servers put it through a wide range of spam filters that analyze:
- the frequency of potential spam words
- reputation of links in your email
- image-to-text proportion
- size of your email
- reputation of image hosting services that you use
- with more being added all the time.
What can you do to help eliminate these problems before you hit the send button? Try the following methods:
Hint: make sure that the content that you create is engaging and relevant, from the subject line through the last sentence. Senders that get high response rates are more likely to have their broadcasts delivered to inboxes by service providers. Conversely, if senders persist in targeting non-response inboxes, their messages could be blocked
- use the GetResponse SpamScore Check system. It will assign a score to your message copy assessing the likelihood of it ending up in junk folders due to content issues.
- use services such as BlacklistAlert.org (http://www.blacklistalert.org) to check the reputation of the links in your email. If any of them are found on prominent blacklists like URIBL, SURBL or Spamhaus, you can be sure that your message will struggle with inbox delivery.
- host your images and documents on GetResponse Multimedia Studio. It's an abuse-free hosting service that will not affect email delivery in any negative way.
- make sure that you include at least one short paragraph of text in the message copy section of every large email. Sending an image-only newsletter is a common tactic used by spammers to get past content filters, but most email services and ISPs have developed filters for this gimmick.
FROM field address reputation
This is a hot topic these days! The GetResponse Email Solutions Team has examined and discovered that your FROM field address might influence whether your email lands in an inbox or the junk folder. This is especially characteristic of Yahoo! Mail and, during our tests, we even noticed different results for the same email sent with the email@example.com address and firstname.lastname@example.com addresses.
The main takeaway for senders is that they should stick to one, easily recognizable FROM field name and address. It has to have a decent reputation built by sending solicited and engaging emails over time.
Hint: If your campaigns are struggling to reach inboxes at certain ISPs, you can try tweaking the FROM field address and testing it with the same creative. This will tell you whether a tainted FROM field might be the root of the problem.
Ask recipients to whitelist you
Did you know that when a recipient adds your FROM field email to their address book, all your messages will land directly in their inbox? While that may seem obvious, many marketers still waste this great opportunity to increase delivery rates! And it's so easy.
Simply remind your subscribers in the email preheader section that they can "whitelist" you by adding the address to their address books. It's also a good idea to provide brief instructions on how to add an email to the address book. By getting on the "allowed senders" list, you will be released from the constraints of spam filters, so it's worth the minute or less it takes either party.
Hint: The first email you send out right after a subscriber opts-in to your list (the welcome email) is the perfect time to ask for whitelisting. Get in the habit!
Avoid gimmicks!
It's that simple. Permission based email marketing means no gimmicks. And trust me, ISPs these days really know how to tell which sender is using tricks to get their email delivered. In fact, it's quite common for those caught in the act to suffer the worst possible punishment: an IP / domain block preventing any further emails from being delivered.
Among the gimmicks that should be never be part of any legit email program are:
- hashbusting (randomly adding certain characters within the mail subject line / content to fool the spam filters, e.g. "F.ree. p.r!z.e")
- deceptive/ trick subject lines, e.g. starting the email message with "Re:" or "Fwd:" in order to create the illusion of previous communication initiated by the sender.
- dishonest/ misleading claims, e.g. subject line states the recipient won the prize while the copy says that there are conditions to be fulfilled in order to claim it.
- including the text message within one large image to fool the spam filters.
Reduce risky words to nil
You've probably heard this one before. Over-using words such as "free", "prize", "bonus" in your newsletters can hinder it from reaching Customer inboxes. Although ISPs today are smarter than ever and analyze more factors than just message copy, you still need to keep an eye on those pesky spam words. The GetResponse built-in SpamScore Check will ensure that your email copy is not tainted by the over-use or placement of these words.
Hint: avoid cluttering your emails with too many all-caps words and exclamation marks. This pertains especially to the subject line, so ensure that you maintain a healthy balance here (two exclamation marks is enough, one per sentence).
Rely on SpamScore Check
We've mentioned this a couple of times, but it deserves repeating: Spam Assassin's SpamScore Check engine is the email marketer's best friend!
Incorporating a whole lot of rules that it updates on a regular basis, SpamScore Check will verify the content of your emails for:
- risky keywords
- blacklisted URLs in the content
- text-to-image ratio
- and many more.
If you would like to learn more and obtain the entire set of codes used by SpamScore Check, please visit this page.
Hint: Any score above 5.0 points should set off alarms. Please always analyze the issues pointed out by SpamScore Check and optimize your newsletters. Otherwise, there is a very high probability that your emails will continue to miss subscriber inboxes and damage your sender reputation.
Monitor your deliverability
Even though GetResponse has a specialized team of Deliverability Experts working around the clock to keep your deliverability rates high, there's no harm in monitoring it yourself. The more informed you are, the better you'll be at optimizing your emails.
As an ESP, we leverage industry-leading tools from Return Path, which tell us how many emails land in junk folders, which ISPs have connectivity issues at a given time, etc.
As a sender, you can employ a method that is way easier and will cost you nothing.
Simply create a list of seed addresses, which are nothing more than the mailboxes and ISPs your Customers use most often. Set up approximately 5 mailboxes at every provider and attach the list of these seed emails to your regular mailing list.
After each newsletter is deployed, you will be able to log in to each seed account and verify if the email was delivered successfully by that provider. Very useful!
Keep in touch!
Last, but not least, don't forget about maintaining a regular mailing pattern. You may be surprised at what's considered "regular" these days. For example, did you know that sending emails once every 2-3 months can be more detrimental than sending 2-3 emails per day. Why?
- your Customers begin to forget your FROM field name and address, deleting messages and decreasing open ratios.
- subscribers may think that they never signed up to your emails, so they mark them as spam, and you get negative feedback.
For these reasons and more, ISPs actually prefer to see a steady flow of communication (e.g. 2-3 newsletters per week) instead of infrequent, massive "blasts" to an entire list.
We sincerely hope that this whitepaper sheds some more light on the complex and dynamic world of email deliverability. Implementing the recommendations we've provided will definitely have a positive effect on your email program and the conversions it generates. After all, even the world's most beautiful email template becomes useless if your emails get blocked or land in the junk folder!
Have a question? Talk with GetResponse experts!
GetResponse is created by email marketing experts with passion and enthusiasm to deliver a product that meets and exceeds marketers' needs. If you have any questions, you can contact our expert support by phone at 1-877-EMAIL-GR or any of the talented professionals on our team.
Maciej Ossowski
GetResponse Email Marketing
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CRM will be a top spending focus for enterprises this year and next, according to a Gartner report. What's more, CRM will be THE top spending focus -- edging past the behemoth category of enterprise resource planning -- based on a newly released survey of IT investment priorities for 2013 and 2014. Following CRM are ERP and office and personal productivity tools.
ERP is such a corporate mainstay -- a veritable IT backbone -- that to see any application push past it in terms of spending priorities is an interesting trend. It's even more striking considering that the hot application is CRM -- a software category that has experienced slow growth in recent years.
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The expected surge can be attributed in part to the economic cycle. Companies are emerging from their bunkers to focus less on financial risk mitigation and more on growth.
The boost in CRM spending also may be due to the evolution of the software category itself, Neolane VP of Marketing Kristin Hambelton told CRM Buyer.
"ERP has been around for a long time, and there have been many different iterations," she pointed out. "CRM, though, hasn't seen that many dramatic changes."
That may have been true until recently. New technologies have come to market in recent years -- especially in digital marketing, which many companies see as key to their growth.
"Marketing budgets are clearly growing this , and CRM will be part of that," Hambelton said.
Social media is another software category that is driving interest in CRM investments.
"Both customer and prospect interactions are now all about social, and that has massive implications for customer interaction," Michael Idinopulos, chief customer officer of Socialtext, told CRM Buyer.
"Managing customer relationships used to be about tracking transactions. Now it's all about creating interactions -- both the ones you're having with your customers and the ones they're having with each other. Doing that effectively and to scale requires infrastructure," he explained.
"the old tools -- email blasts, static websites, white papers -- just don't cut it anymore," said Idinopulos.
Easier and more advanced integration technologies also are driving CRM, allowing companies to incorporate once-separate operations into the CRM backbone. Contact centers are an example of this.
"The contact center has long been siloed, but in this new era of CRM, everything must be integrated," Marty Beard, CEO of LiveOps, told CRM Buyer.
In short, companies are turning their energies toward forward-looking activities. They are done re-engineering the back office and are now looking to the front office to find and engage customers," Ray Grainger, founder and CEO of Mavenlink, told CRM Buyer.
"CRM is now expanding to encompass a whole host of lead-generation and client engagement activities," he continued. "For example, new ways to find customers through social channels and digital marketing require a host of new skill-sets, processes and applications."
Enter the Cloud
CRM is also a popular application to be delivered via the cloud -- a trend the Gartner survey also captured. The survey found that organizations expressed "overwhelming interest" in cloud computing and other options that externalize IT.
There is a big need for a flexible, affordable and enterprise-strength CRM system, said Matt Gorniak, cofounder of G2Crowd.com. "Enter the modern cloud-based CRM system."
Some of the CRM vendors are taking this trend one step further by offering platforms to build processes that are related to CRM but do not have to be, he told CRM Buyer.
"This is great for the customer because they can extend the data in their system," said Gorniak, "and great for the vendor because it makes the platform stickier."

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Innovative, aerospace power-transmission technologies, highly sensitive sensors, and digital data networking: Audi dynamic steering integrates the collective know-how from numerous mechanical and electronic systems for enhanced driving pleasure and safety.
This is the system that makes it easy for you to navigate around parking lots at low speeds with minimal steering input, and tightens up the faster you go for straight-line stability. This is one of those systems that you don't really notice when driving, and that's the point. It's made for driver comfort and pleasure, and is another one of those transparent features that make Audis so nice to drive.
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Drinking The Bottom Shelf: Castillo Silver vs. Bacardi Silver Rum
Will Gordon drinks his way through the bottom shelf of the liquor store...so you don't have to.
Editor's Note: Your drinking buddy Will is back, tasting all the cheap booze so you don't have to.
I don't drink nearly enough rum, which doesn't make any sense. I really like the stuff, and it's the exclusive hooch of two of my brightest drinking beacons: my Aunt Mary and Julian from Trailer Park Boys. Plus rum is cheap, and "rummy" has an endearing ring to it.
What can I say, I don't always act in my own best interest—I've worn velour on two different first dates—which is why I doubt I had more than 20 rum drinks last year. That is shameful; I probably had 20 mouthwash drinks in 2010, for hell's sake. But do not despair, sugarcane planters, for I am an avid resolver, and I pledge to ramp up my rumload in the new year.
Darker rums are more likely to show real molasses-type flavor (or at least real barrel-type flavor), whereas the light are more generically sweet. Alas, light is more popular in our rum-dumb country, so that's where we'll start. The silver lining is we still have dark rum to look forward to later, after we've already fallen for the entry-level version. If you're still not sold, I offer the following reasons why you should join me in my light rum immersion therapy:
- Rum is the most rewarding white spirit to mix. Vodka's too easy and gin's too hard, but rum's just right.
- Rum seems festive and uplifting, due to its associations with piracy and vacation. Vodka makes me feel like an underachiever, and gin makes me feel like a 19th-century British sociopath.
- You know how annoying it is when you move in with a person who takes up half the fridge with Diet Coke, so you say, "What's with that? You're already thin!" and she looks you up and down and then side to side, as if to communicate that your non-dieting magnificence takes a while to regard in full, and then she says, "Yes, I am..."? Well, if you have rum, you can say, "You're right, I should drink more Diet Coke myself," and then calmly fix yourself a tall glass of her soda and your sweetener.
So what's our rum going to be? I'll admit I'm quite taken with the Bacardi Corporation's bat logo. When I was 5, my grandparents took me into the bat house at the Bronx Zoo and I spent the next week in constant, shivering fear, which is good for a lad's development. So I don't begrudge Bacardi Silver's domination of the category, but it does make the light rum aisle one of the least interesting sections of the liquor store. But I'm determined to do this right, and that means I must explore my options, such as they are.
Other than Bacardi Silver, what's widely available? Bacardi-owned Castillo Silver and Moët Hennessy's 10 Cane, but 10 Cane's expensive, so who cares if it's any good? Castillo costs $10 a liter at my liquor store and Bacardi is $18; I grabbed one of each and headed back to the lab for a blind tasting.
It just so happens that my research assistant spent a year on a Caribbean island. She is mostly silent on the topic and I have no idea what she was doing there; I would assume she was in prison, except that on the rare occasion she acknowledges the experience, she always mentions beaches and rum. I feel this more than qualifies her to declare that Castillo Silver is significantly better than Bacardi Silver. And after our blind taste test, I agree.
The difference is mostly in the nose, where Castillo is pleasantly if blandly sweet, while Bacardi's sugar is undercut by a hot alcoholic astringency. Castillo tastes like it smells, sweet and simple; Bacardi's deficiencies are muted, though still present, in the mouth. Seedier precincts of the Internet report that Bacardi Silver and Castillo Silver are the exact same product in different bottles, but I suspect the truth is even sunnier for the bottom-shelfer: they are altogether different rums, and the cheaper one is better.
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Target of Houston WorldFest director's search doesn't want apology
A Muslim student whose backpack was searched at Houston WorldFest, igniting a controversy over racial profiling, said she doesn't want an apology, only more understanding of her faith.
Fatima Hye, 37, was attending a seminar for the annual film festival Saturday at Westchase Marriott when she was singled out by Hunter Todd, the festival's executive director, who asked to search her backpack. The reason, he later said, is that she was wearing traditional Muslim covering.
Moments before, the 200 attendees at the seminar had returned to the conference room after hotel staff gave the all-clear from a fire alarm.
Todd said he approached Hye out of concern that she might be carrying explosives. The backpack search netted a bottle of water, a coffee cup and a sweater.
Hye was born in Bangladesh and moved to Houston in 1983. She is pursuing a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Houston.
In her first interview since the incident, Hye on Wednesday said she was more surprised than angered by being singled out by Todd, who did not ask to search anyone else's backpack at the workshop.
"I'm not a very confrontational person," she said. "When he asked for the backpack, it was weird, but I just did it. I'm not one of those people who are insensitive that there are tragedies out there. Obviously I'm not to blame for it, but I'm understanding of it.
"There's no doubt that I was asked based solely on the way I was dressed. Even Mr. Todd didn't deny that," Hye said.
"The question is whether it was justified or not."
Profiling denied
Todd acknowledged that he singled out Hye because of the burqa she wore. He said he could not tell the race or gender of the person wearing the burqa, and he denied racially profiling the student.
Todd said he was on guard because of the Boston Marathon bombings just days earlier that killed three people and injured at least 260.
Hye said she emailed Todd after the incident to find out his perspective.
"I told him that 'The way you handled it reflects on you and your organization' and that Houston is a diverse community," she said. "In his reply he was pretty nice, but kind of thinks it's my fault."
WorldFest officials sent an email to the Chronicle late Wednesday afternoon with the subject line, THE PLOT THICKENS.
"She (Hye) is not telling you the whole story ... she is being quite disingenuous," the email states. "She entered a Video into the WorldFest competition this year... RITUAL II ... a 02:37 minute - short experimental video showing a man smoking a lot and a woman drinking a lot of alcohol... or at least a brown liquid coming out of a scotch bottle. Her company is BLACK REVEL PRODUCTIONS.
"It was not a winner... she was sent a 'Loser Letter' on March 5, 2013... she has never mentioned this, and we think the whole thing is a case of super-sour grapes. ... We have the DVD, we have the signed entry form and her college transcript. ... It is all quite interesting. ... She is much older than you might suspect. Full-time graduate in 1993... 20 years ago... she seems to have attend 3-4 seminars in normal clothing, not a [sic] Hajib."
Hye on Thursday declined to comment on the WorldFest accusations.
'Where does it stop?'
Deloyd Parker Jr., founder and executive director of SHAPE Community Center, said Hye and the Muslim community deserve an apology.
"Where does it stop?" he asked. "Are we going to fall into a state of paranoia against Muslims or any person of a certain religious background that may be perceived to be unacceptable by some people in this country? It saddens me that a person who is in charge of an international event is going to operate and have those kinds of views."


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Hey Dolls! My name is Latrenda and I love all things fashion! I love incorporating new trends with the classics and making them my own. I also love cooking, redoing antique furniture, most specifically vanities and much more! I would love it if you followed me so that we can have some fun together. Below you can read about how I came up with the name Ruby Madison!
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Ruby comes from Proverbs 31 where the Bible is describing a woman of Noble Character:
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She is far more precious than jewels and her value is far above rubies or pearls.
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Her clothes are well-made and elegant, and she always faces tomorrow with a smile.
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I was grocery shopping the other day and noticed that Sunkist soda pop was on sale for...twenty-five cents!! Holy smoke. I have teenagers. They like soda pop. I figured there had to be a Valentine idea in there somewhere, so I bought a few.
If you don't want to go the sugary caffeinated (can you believe they put caffeine in their orange drinks?) route, Sunkist also makes fruit snacks! Perfect for the pre-schooler crowd.
Here you go--a hanging tag for the soda pop!
(Print out the tags onto white cardstock. Cut out the tags. I liked leaving a bit of white border on mine. Punch or cut out the circle. Fold the hanging tag just above the circle and just below the circle. Place tags over the lid on the soda pop bottle.)
And a tri-fold envelop for the fruit snacks!
(Print out the envelopes onto white cardstock. Cut out the tags. Once again I liked the white border. Fold the envelope just above the greeting and just below, making sure the ends overlap in the back. Staple the fruit snacks to the top and then add a little piece of double-sided tape to hold it closed on the back. A heart sticker would be super cute!)
Consider yourself kist!
I love Valentine's Day. Always have. Always will.
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John Robert Boatman, 76, of Winona died at Winona Manor in Winona on Monday, Nov. 19, 2018.
Visitation was from noon until service time.at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 24, in the Oliver Funeral Home Chapel, with burial to follow in the New Hope Cemetery in Winona. Rev. Bennie Watson officiated the services.
Mr. Boatman was born on August 24, 1942, to Eddie Louis and Lula Ruth Palmertree Boatman. He was a retired employee of the City of Winona Street Department and a member of New Hope United
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He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Shirley Blaylock Boatman; two sisters, Maxine Cummings and Lady Carroll Howard; and his brother, Pete Boatman.
Mr. Boatman is survived by two sisters, Eddie Ruth Boatman of Durant and Meredith McCain of Eupora; and a host of nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be DeLynn Cummings, Paul Cummings, Billy Ray Cummings, Bubba Shaw, Bennie Costilow, and Mason Costilow.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the New Hope Cemetery Fund, c/o Annette Mills, 504 Jones Street, Winona, MS 38967.


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Every NFL team has a salary cap specialist. These people are highly educated, highly specialized sorts that normally have many degrees and many hours of training in all things NFL salary cap.
So how the heck could the Dolphins so royally screw up the termination of Joey Porter on Friday?
I mean, seriously, talk about adding stink to a pile of trash.
The club announced Friday afternoon it had terminated Porter's contract, ending three interesting years with the enigmatic linebacker.
Routine. After all, a handful of teams cut a handful of players last week with zero problems or issues.
But two hours after announcing Porter's termination, the Dolphins had to basically eat their press announcement because the NFL determined the termination to be invalid. Seems the Porter termination would have violated the 2009 salary cap as it would have cost more than Miami has the ability to handle in cap space.
And this one arose out of one of several possibilities:
A. Somebody in Dolphins management messed up when figuring Porter's cap acceleration as it pertains to 2009. This is hard to do because it really is a simple math issue. The responsible party here would have to be the team's capologist.
B. Somebody in Dolphins management didn't know or fully understand the league salary cap rules as they currently stand. The responsible party here would have to be the team's capologist.
C. Somebody wasn't fully up to speed on the Dolphins salary cap situation. Again, the responsible party here would have to be the team's capologist who is supposed to be able to recite the team's cap situation from memory if need be
D. Somebody in Dolphins management took it upon themselves to release Porter without consulting the team's capologist. The responsible party here would be whomever didn't work with the capologist.
Although it is possible, it is hard to fathom D. Somebody doesn't just get a hankerin' to cut Joey Porter one Friday afternoon and simply do it without consulting anyone. The Dolphins pore over decisions such as these (I hope) and plan the steps to carrying them out. One of those steps is typically to check with the capologist to see what salary cap ramifications the move has.
I'm more inclined to think A, B or C betrayed the Dolphins on this matter. And that points directly to new senior vice president of football operations Dawn Aponte.
Aponte is Miami's new capologist. She started only three weeks ago after Matt Thomas, Miami's capologist the past dozen seasons, left to go to Cleveland. Thomas was hired in Cleveland by former Dolphins president Bryan Wiedmeier, who left to go to Cleveland in January.
Aponte, incidently, came from the Browns.
Call it a capologist trade of sorts.
[Quick aside: When Thomas was hired 12 years ago, I quizzed Wiedmeier about the hiring because I had gotten wind of it through league circles. He couldn't understand why I would be curious because, as he put it, "Your readers care about players and coaches, not administrators." I mostly agreed with him and still do today, which is the reason I only reported Aponte's hiring on my twitter page which you should follow. But when the work of administrators drifts into the lane of competitive advantage, I become interested.]
So now I'm interested.
Friday's error -- and don't be fooled, it was an embarrassing one noted around the NFL -- will be glossed over by the fact Porter will eventually be released or traded as I've been reporting for weeks.
But it nonetheless calls into question not only how much Miami will miss Thomas, but also to what degree Aponte is reliable. I don't want to sound harsh here, but if she can't get the routine termination of a veteran right, how can we be confident she can maneuver the coming maze of capped-uncapped-possible lockout issues facing the Dolphins, and every team, the next two years?
The NFL's horizon is littered with uncertainty about labor issues. We don't know what the new rules will look like in 2011, but every team wants people in place that will gain an expertise on the new issues virtually on the fly.
How can the Dolphins have confidence they will successfully navigate and, indeed, master those new issues in the future when they couldn't successfully cut a player under the old system on Friday?


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The mission of the South Carolina Pediatric Practice Research Network (SCPPRN) is to improve health care for South Carolina children, with special attention to those most at risk, and to enhance primary care practice by conducting collaborative practice-based research.
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The South Carolina Pediatric Practice Research Network (SCPPRN) is a practice-based research network established by concerned primary care physicians who see a need for outcomes-based research that is "relevant" to their practice. The network is community-wide with participation of independent practices and their clinicians from Charleston, South Carolina and the surrounding areas.
What does SCPPRN do?
We develop substantive and practical research activity across practice settings for all primary care Pediatricians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners in primary care throughout the southeastern region of South Carolina. Members can choose their level of participation in all activities to match their interests, practice setting, and time commitments.
Who is eligible to join and how much time is involved?
Any physician, physician assistant, and/or nurse practitioner involved in the delivery of primary care. Individuals or entire practices may join. There is no cost to be a participating member of the network. The only requirement we ask initially is that all members complete a questionnaire that asks about your training, research experience, and the characteristics of your practice.
Why should you (your practice) join SCPPRN?
Have you ever had a question pertaining to your patients that hasn't been addressed in the medical literature? Does the research literature that you read seem like it does not apply to your patients? Many great ideas start with a question such as: "How can we make this better?" or "Why can't we change this?" SCPPRN has the tools to take you beyond the questions and toward the answers. As a group of practicing primary care Pediatricians, we realize the need for practice-based research.
As a practitioner, you possess expertise on how "front line" medicine operates and know research questions are important for primary care practice. By linking you with the experts in study design and research methodology, SCPPRN capitalizes on your expertise and lets you participate in generating new knowledge about primary care practice. We encourage as much network practitioner involvement in the design and conduct of research. Your participation at any level is vital to the planning and continuation of a successful practice-based research network in our community. All network members are invited to author or co-author any publications, if they are interested.
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Combining VPN and wireless links
Secure your wireless networks by adding a VPN.
Ask any security-savvy IT professional about using wireless networks in a business setting and they'll tell you that ordinary access point security measures don't really cut it. Alas, the broadcast nature of wireless communications, increasingly sophisticated wireless eavesdropping tools, and methods of cracking the protection that wireless access points deliver nowadays means that without taking additional measures, wireless networks aren't really secure. Most experts recommend situating wireless access points on their own network cable segment, and firewalling that segment for additional protection of other internal networks.
Go one step further, and use VPN software on all your wireless clients and you'll be that much more secure. At the same time, if your network has a DMZ (a semi-secure area halfway between internal networks and the big, bad Internet) use it. If there's no DMZ, stick to the old trick of using a separate cable segment or virtual network for APs, and run that traffic through a firewall on its way in and of your internal networks, just to stay on the safe side.
There are two approaches to combining VPNs and wireless APs. One approach is to put the AP on an interface on a Windows server and using Windows built-in VPN to add its coverage to wireless communications. This lets you use built-in Windows client software, along with L2TP and IPSec, to make secure encrypted wireless connections part and parcel of the way your wireless networks do their thing. The same technique also works with other operating systems that support similar built-in or free VPN client software (several varieties of which are available for BSD Unix, and many flavors of Linux). The pros of this approach include working with built-in software, minimal client changes that are relatively easy to set up and deploy, and no additional server or hardware costs. The cons of this approach include imposing an extra load (which varies by the number of APs you need serviced, and the number of clients that use them) on existing server(s), which may or may not go down well with those who use them for other purposes. If the same server also provides firewalling (perhaps using ISA Server 2004 or something similar), the impact of the extra load may dictate using another server or taking a different approach.
The other approach involves using a wireless access point that includes built-in VPN gateway services. Companies like SonicWall, WatchGuard, and Colubris, among many others, currently offer single box solutions that integrate both AP and VPN capabilities to make it as easy as it gets to deploy a secure wireless network. The pre-packaged combination also makes it easier to install, set up, configure and manage, and makes it easy to impose a policy of requiring every wireless link-up to also use a VPN to complete the connection. Encryption is also streamlined, since this approach makes it easy to pick and choose what you'll use, and avoids the overhead that 802.1x encryption can impose on VPN links. Downsides to this approach include higher expense, and the fact that buying new boxes is usually only justifiable (not to mention practical) for new WLAN subnets. It's also difficult to impossible to upgrade from one wireless technology to another without making hardware changes (from 802.11b to 802.11g, as one obvious and likely example).
A hybrid approach might involve using software clients with existing wireless APs and planning to migrate to newer device-based offerings on the next migration. Another tack might be to dedicate a server on the DMZ (or its own network segment) just to handle wireless links, VPN gateway needs, and firewalling traffic on and off the wireless segments it serves. But by adding a VPN to the equation, you can boost security and feel more confident that typical, sometimes sensitive day-to-day network traffic will be nearly as safe on the wireless infrastructure as on the wired side.
Ed Tittel is a regular contributor to numerous TechTarget Web sites, and the author of over 100 books on a wide range of computing subjects from markup languages to information security. He's also a contributing editor for Certification Magazine, and edits Que Publising's Exam Cram 2 and Training Guide series of IT cert prep books. E-mail Ed at email@example.com.


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after three long years of empty harvests when we just were not able to collect any of our KATZ Raspberry Flower Honey
we finally have a new batch! Given another drought year and the ongoing issues with honeybees and their habitat, I was not yet expecting the return of the raspberry floral source. But alas we now have gathered enough of this truly extraordinary nectar to offer it for as long as it lasts.
Light amber in color, it has that unique floral tone that immediately announces it is gathered from the raspberry flower with hints of fruitiness embedded in the aroma.
In flavor, it is truly harmonious and balances pronounced sweetness of the berry with a piquancy that makes for such an appealing 'culinary' offering. For those who know their honey, you understand that it is very rare mono floral honey where you get some of the nuances of the fruit source in the taste, as we do in this case.
SERVING SUGGESTIONS: This is a delicious baking honey that pairs well with fruit. With biscuits and rolls, certainly a part of many upcoming holiday feasts, why not drizzle over warm for an ethereal treat. We have increasingly been replacing a good percentage of sugar in many recipes with honey and the balanced sweet and tart aspects of this offering makes it an ideal 'tool' for such a transition. And, of course, dont forget to add a bowl to your cheese platters!
Fantastic honey is like a superb wine: sophisticated, complex, distinctive. Oprah Magazine
About Our Honey
Bees produce honey from the nectar of blooming plants, but the nectar produced by one flower will be different than that of another flower. Our mission is to seek out distinctive California flora which produce honeys that have the qualities in aroma, taste, texture and color reflective of their particular species of flower.
All of our honeys are gathered directly from the hives and bottled unpasteurized, thus maintaining the multitude of health benefits associated with honey that are often lost in traditional commercial honey from overheating to eliminate crystallization.
As many of you know, it has become increasingly difficult for the fantastically hard-working honeybees to gather the nectar from dwindling floral sources given the drought in California, the ongoing impact of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and the increasingly harmful effects of habitat loss. We work closely with beekeeper friends to bring you the highest quality and best tasting honey that is currently available.
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To Our KATZ Farm Friends:
We remain here and ready to 'embrace' you in the best way we know how, by offering you 'comfort' food during these challenging and difficult times.
We remain humble and focused on keeping the 'proverbial' pantry stocked for you and yours.
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Pacific NW Mt St Helens Eterna Thread Pt 7
Posted 29 August 2013 - 01:18 PM
For nostalgia, here's a link to Pt 6 thread (now locked). Link
Thanks everyone!
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This thread has gotten a little long to navigate, so it is now locked; and let's switch over to the spanking new Pt. 7 thread here
Uh, thanks Carol, but really, it's not too bad if you don't start reading on page 1 every time. Try it. You might like it.
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Guys; we ordinarily restart threads at around 1500 posts, the previous one went quite a ways over that, so it was time to restart it.
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Will be at Windy Ridge or the Smith Creek lookout (probably that one).
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I'm probably pointing out the obvious, flogging Kerry's dead horse, but if you haven't checked out the Pixieland S.P. Thread you might consider wandering over there the following weekend. You can find directions to the place here. Some guys will also be there this weekend and you'd be welcome.
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On Call for 3 weekends straight, get two off with one a bust and the other a holiday weekend (everyone's on the road).
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Thanks for the re-start, Carol.
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I didn't bring Sugaree with me, and I planned on a night of binoc. viewing. However, my friend John G. was doing an outreach presentation and had two scopes set up, so what's a guy to do? He entertained a crowd around his 12.5" and I worked a (generally smaller) crowd with his 20". What a kick! So binoc viewing started much later than expected but was very enjoyable.
One notable sight from Saturday night: After the crescent moon rose above the trees (actually it was a ghostly presence *behind* a big evergreen as it first rose) I looked at it with the binocs. The shadowed side, bathed in earthglow and sporting ghostly mares, was a beautiful sight.
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A little girl once asked as I showed her the Moon with my telescope, "Are you a scientist?" No, it's just a hobby....
Yup, I was asked the same question Sat. night.
One off-key note: A week previously I had knocked over Punk, my trusty 80 mm. refractor, while pulling a recliner out from behind it. It & its tripod toppled and hit the concrete garage floor, landing on its side. I had been planning to take it with me to Hurricane, but it turned out that I broke something in the focuser, and the drawtube within it is unattached. I've been yearning for some time for a 102 mm. scope and I may take this incident as a message from the gods.
I'm thinking that a 80 mm. Megrez with a good objective lens but no focuser (and also with some cosmetic issues) might go for about $100. I'd appreciate your opinions on that before I try to sell it.
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I think it would be snatched at $100. Have you taken it apart to see if it just needs to be put back into place or is something really broken? If I did not already have an 80mm I'd snatch it at $100. So I think I'd start at $200 at least.
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So Rob, what do think a fair price range might be?
Well Mike..is the extent of the damage known...apart from the broken focuser? Is there any element damage...are the secondary elements misaligned? Knowing this can impact the price you are attempting to gain.
I'm not sure of the price of such a scope in good condition on the resale market...let alone a broken one with unknown damage. Cement is brutal and a further investigation to assess said damage might be in your interest.
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I do want to make it up there sometime.
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One of the architects of Rick Santorum's presidential campaign is calling for an end to the Iowa straw poll, adding to the ranks of Republicans seeking to eliminate the contest for the 2016 cycle.
Nick Ryan, the Iowa-based strategist who advised Santorum's campaign before heading up the pro-Santorum super PAC, the Red, White and Blue Fund, said in an email that Gov. Terry Branstad was right to declare "the Iowa straw poll's time has come to an end."
"Presidential campaigns should not be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy for a beauty contest straw poll," said Ryan, who also heads the deep-pocketed American Future Fund. "Presidential campaigns should be welcomed into Iowa with open arms and be encouraged to campaign everywhere, meet voters and organize a real caucus effort. That's good for the process and good for Iowa. Simply put, a Randy Travis concert may help you win a straw poll beauty contest but does nothing to build a winning, successful presidential campaign."
The quadrennial straw poll has come under serious criticism over the past week, after Branstad told The Wall Street Journal that the contest had "outlived its usefulness." The governor said Monday that the 2016 presidential candidates would determine the significance of the Ames ballot.
Though the straw poll occupies a special place in the lore of presidential politics, it has a weak record of predicting the outcome of the Iowa caucuses. That was certainly the case in 2012: Michele Bachmann won the straw poll, after organizing heavily and bringing in country singer Randy Travis for a concert in Ames, before finishing last in the January caucuses. Santorum won Iowa after coming in fourth in the straw poll.
"Those that bemoan the end of the straw poll would be better served by focusing on planning events that are inclusive and welcoming for all candidates and Iowa Republicans," Ryan added.
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To honor guitar great, Les Paul on the anniversary of his birth, Google featured a play-along doodle on their search page Thursday.
Many in the NBC Bay Area newsroom declared it "Best Google Doodle Ever" as they tried there hand a composing a little diddy's.
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Here is our effort to play the NBC tune.
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