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I was thinking to remove step #2 because to support PortableApps it is enough to set the ANDREAMOSAIC_CONFIG_PATH variable to any desired value. I'm not sure if I should use/detect the "PAL:DataDir" environment because in the future it may change since its specific to. C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data). Else if this is the Setup version then AM will use a subfolder of the CSIDL_APPDATA (e.g. Else if this is the Portable version of AM (you can download the Setup version or the Portable version) then AM will use the subfolder "Data" of the Application executable folder.Ĥ. Else if there is an environment variable called "PAL:DataDir" then AM will use the subfolder "AndreaMosaic" of that path.ģ. If there is an environment variable called "ANDREAMOSAIC_CONFIG_PATH" then AM will use that path.Ģ. By trying to support better the Portable environment I followed this algorithm to defined the path for the local files:ġ. In the new incoming beta version 3.33.5 I moved all the settings away from the registry to a few local files. Generally speaking in the future it could be interesting to have some PortableApps running also under Linux/Mac maybe through Wine which too can be portable. You can specify the size of the tiles, the number of times each one can be repeated (if needed), tune color adjustments, and choose from a variety of mosaic patters. Let me know if there are any issues.īTW, AndreaMosaic runs quite well also under Linux/Mac OS X with Wine installed. create photo mosaics AndreaMosaic enables you to create a mosaic poster by using many small image tiles, that are analyzed and arranged to match the overall pattern of the original. So in the future it will be easy to make a backup of all the user settings from the portable device to your main PC and viceversa. A few old settings (date of first usage, mosaic count, last used folders) are still stored in the registry. Most of these parameters are actually stored in files located in the same folder of the executable ("AndreaMosaicSettings*.txt" and "AndreaMosaicConfig.txt"). ![]() ![]() Also in a next release I will detect the PortableApps environment and use it's Data folder for all the user settings (last used folders, saved mosaic parameters, etc). With the latest version I added a main menu so that it is not necessary to have 4 menus in PortableApps. ![]() Researchers found that Xanax use led to decreased neural activity in the area of the brain known as the locus coeruleus (LC). Opiate Withdrawal and the Locus CoeruleusĮarlier research with rodents attempted to investigate why those who abuse opioids often also abuse benzodiazepines. This allows your system to slowly adjust to decreasing amounts of the drug as you gain a strong foothold in recovery. Instead, you will receive increasingly smaller doses of the drug over time to wean you off of it. 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It's got high Pierce to back up it's Berserk and some Armor that's open to a bit of enhance from Silus or Alpha Scimitar when placed in a deck with jackals, it also pairs well with Tabernacle of Andor thanks to it's pierce and it's being Righteous. It only really suffers against Counter decks. The corrosive backs up it's low armor anyway, so it's not that bad. Xedronic Roamer is best placed in Silus decks with 2x Jackals and/or under Alpha Scimitar to boost it's Armor up. Varangian Bodyguard is an A class card but it's not on the list. Revenge and Barrier aren't overwhelmingly good, it is strong against Jackals but weak against near enough anything else. Sacred Jaunter probably isn't A class material, it's got no skills like Pierce, Valor, Avenge or Rally to back up it's Berserk and easy to prevent base attack. Will try to keep it updated please add your feedback if you disagree on some rankings, or if i missed some cards on the list (very likely). **F** (Trash i'm listing the name of the single because i'm copying them from ()) **Saint Mard's Casket** (PVE Legendary) - Everything on this card is outdated, including the mono rt deck it used to fit into. **Ravenous Scamper** (PVP Legendary) - Same as the two above. **Inheritor of Hope** (PVE Epic) and **Amon Matrix** (PVP Epic) - 1 delays with flurry to go with rickshaw or other enrage sources. **Riptide Capsizer** (PVE Epic) - It's fast weaken for a sunder deck, but those have better options in the f2p fusions. **Continent Quaker** (PVE Epic) - Not a bad skill set, but really outdated numbers **Shrouded Cherisher** (PVP Legendary) - Allegiance 6 makes it almost ok, but all other pieces of its deck are outdated. ![]() **C** (Never build these cards, probably safe to salvage, but some players may find use for them) **Wurklobe the Imbued** (PVE Vindicator) - Jam 2 saves it from being complete trash, but it's very old and it's numbers show it. **Myrvern's Design** (PVE Vindicator) - Great skills make it worth keeping, usually for pve. **Grail Guardian** (PVP Legendary) - It's not bad, but it needs an almost mono rt deck to work, and i don't think that deck is good. **Rumbler Rickshaw** (PVP Legendary) - So old, and yet still playable in some situations. **16-Barrel Boomer** (PVE Vindicator) - useful skill set for sunder decks. **Olivia's Collector** (PVP Epic) - It's new and i have no feedback on its performance, but doesn't look great. **Arsha Transcendent** - Still playable in some decks, but could use a buff. **B** (Unlikely to be worth building, but usually good enough to keep around if you already have them quadded) **Xedronic Roamer** (PVP Legendary) - Armor 9 is a joke, but coa 9 gives it a lot of damage. **Xebor Comet** (PVE Legendary) - Still very annoying in defense and useful in certain attack decks. **Kentauros Rebel** (PVE Epic) - Another card for the coalition deck, may struggle to activate sometimes but hits very hard when it does. **Vlade's Refiner** (PVE Legendary) - Good revenge card, it's playable outside of mono faction decks, can heal Therion and crawlers. **Ruin Crawler** (PVE Epic) - Fast mortar is very valuable, and it deals enough damage for a 1 delay. **Bunker Breacher** (PVE Legendary) - Mono imp only. **Staring Orudrog** (PVP Epic) - Should be good support for pupils no one has it yet so i don't know how well it will perform. **Therion Aetherborn** - The dual is worth mentioning since many people can't quad it yet, and it's still a good card. **A** (Good cards, will help most f2p players in the proper decks) **Therion Aetherstorm **- Not exactly a reward card, but likely the strongest f2p card around. ![]() **S **(Can fit almost anywhere and are good options even for spenders) I'm not listing pvp vindicators since getting a quad of one of those is very rare and the list is really long and confusing already, but if people think it's worth doing i will. With the base set list already done (()) I think it's useful to have this one too. ![]() You cannot use the -NoNewWindow and -WindowStyle parameters in the same command. Prevent the process from running in a new window.īy default, the process runs in a new window. This parameter does not affect the PowerShell profiles. Load the Windows user profile stored in the HKEY_USERS registry keyįor the current user. If only a file name is given, use -WorkingDirectory to specify the path. doc file, that is associated with a program. Enter the name of an executable file or of a document, The path (optional) and file name of the program that runs in the PSCredential object, such as one from the Get-Credential cmdlet.īy default, the cmdlet uses the credentials of the current user. Type a user-name, such as "User64" or "Domain64\User64", or enter a The parameter name (-ArgumentList) is optional.Ī user account that has permission to perform this action. Specify parameters or parameter values to use when starting the process. Staff on the front line will understand what to do when they are prompted to ‘be interested’, ‘be fair’ and ‘be enthusiastic’.Start one or more processes, optionally as a specific user. Plus a re-articulation of Company Values as simple-to-action Brand Behaviours. A simple statement of belief - why we exist and what good we intend to do for customers. Reactivating lapsed customers notifying promotion winners inviting happy clients to recommend friends.īegin the briefing process for your online team by talking them through your organisation’s Brand Promise.Ī well crafted Brand Promise takes the Business Purpose and recasts it in language that outsiders will understand. So it’s important that young people in the online front line get the opportunity to tackle other challenges. But, if those departments have not been aligned to the brief, they will not help.Īnyone who has worked in Customer Care will tell you that an entire day spent resolving complaints would test the stamina of a saint. Others will not have the skills to tackle complex issues alone and will need to refer to other internal departments to achieve resolution. Staff may interpret ‘reduce’ as ‘suppress’. While that gives a clear metric, the word ‘reduce’ will create problems unless it’s properly unpacked. I have seen briefing documents which give the online objective as ‘reduce customer complaints by 50 per cent’. Why is it important for the organisation to engage customers and what do we hope to achieve by doing this?įor most companies, the priority tends to be complaint resolution. That is a good start, but they deserve clearer guidance on what they can say, and how they should say it.īetter still, their orientation should begin with ‘why’. The young people who manage communications in the online space tend to be well intentioned. Their managers (drawn almost exclusively from preceding low tech generations) don’t know how to do it themselves so prefer to delegate the problem. If, as a business owner, that doesn’t worry you … it should.īecause very few employees permitted to speak on behalf of their organisations on a daily basis, have been given any more than vestigial guidance on how to do it. This is because social media activity and online marketing are now integral to almost any organisational seeking to influence external publics.Īnd online marketing is decentralised: permitting individual members of staff to engage outsiders. This was always true in the service sector but today it applies equally to consumer brands, business to business brands, government agencies - in fact almost any collaborative human activity. ![]() However good your business strategy or impactful your marketing, delivery of your brand promise to customers relies on the daily behaviour of your staff. There’s a saying in modern business ‘ your culture is your brand’. ![]() well-known, so that you can just provide an email address and it’ll figure out the rest) instead of two with no consistently applied configuration procedure is a surprisingly big deal for users. And having only one thing to configure and get right, with a standard configuration procedure (SRV and. Even things like synchronisation and notifications come at very low cost even without a library, especially if you are running in a web browser.ĭon’t forget that JMAP replaces IMAP and SMTP for the MUA. ![]() Because it speaks HTTP and JSON and is deliberately designed as a synchronisation protocol, and because it lacks the cruft of decades of fragmented extension that IMAP has¹, JMAP is really easy to work with. JMAP allows you to get started quickly and efficiently. Sure, you’ll probably want to introduce offline support and may want to reimplement search on the client somewhere down the track, but it’s not necessary-work-that-must-be-done-before-the-client-is-generally-useful like it is in IMAP. JMAP, on the other hand, is designed to work in such a situation, and suffers from few of those sorts of shortcomings. We couldn’t make something like the FastMail web UI speaking IMAP it just wouldn’t work in too many places. You can do it, and many clients have over the years, but you will sacrifice a lot, like the ability to search multiple folders efficiently. IMAP is not particularly well suited to being used as a purely-online client with no local storage or persistent cache. They’ll be other things altogether that just happen be able to send or receive emails directly, now, because it’s finally easy enough to. Some of the experiments that I’m looking forward to seeing won’t look like existing MUAs at all. But for authors of new MUAs and other programs that might want to do email at all-sending or receiving-JMAP really is “all that”. You can send messages without having to implement SMTP and grok MIME, too.įor authors of existing MUAs, JMAP doesn’t have much to offer by this stuff from the last paragraph-they’ve already done the hard slog. ![]() as lists of addresses and fields like preview, htmlBody, textBody and attachedFiles to save you the trouble of deriving the crazy convoluted rules of multipart messages. is answered by no library that I know of.) JMAP doesn’t solve all these problems, but it handles most of them by handing you a sanely parsed message (putting the burden of sanity on the server, and the spec provides good guidance and there’s a JMAP test suite being made to ensure the sanity of the server): things like exposing To, Cc, &c. (You’ll find some that do the plain parsing of most of the message, but how do I decide what to do with multipart/alternative, multipart/mixed, text/plain, Content-Disposition, Content-Encoding, &c. IMAP is also only one part of the app: one of the hardest parts is MIME, and figuring out what to show for an email and how to craft an email there are fewer libraries to do this than there are IMAP clients-and almost none that are any good. Bugs in clients or servers that cause data loss over IMAP are not unheard of. There are many extensions for many features, poorly supported in various clients and servers, and various things that are slow, difficult, or impossible to do in IMAP that JMAP can express elegantly. IMAP is a mess if you try to do much beyond the basic “retrieve list of folders, retrieve messages, now just leave it alone” and most IMAP client libraries are worse than IMAP need be. I perceive that you haven’t ever tried programming against IMAP or making a MUA, or not seriously at least. ![]() What kind of pet would you get? What would you do on that first day with your pet? 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This software is perfect for you, thanks to features like Linked Parts, Drum Groove, Multiple Page Editing, Save Audio Files, ScoreMerger and Video Support. You can find a free Finale music sofware download here. You can download Finale to your computer for free as a “try before you buy”. This Finale 2011 demo works with both Macintosh OS X and Windows platforms. It only has a small sample of the Music Education Worksheets.It does not include the new AlphaNotes Font or the Finale Mallets and Finale Percussion fonts.Instead of Garritan Instrument Sounds, Finale Demo includes a sample mp3 file.You can only print the first page and it appears with a demo watermark.Some limitations of this Finale music software include: However since you’re not paying for the software, it has it’s limitations. It’s a good idea to download this demo to see whether or not Finale is right for you.įinale 2011 software includes more than 375 instrument sounds from the renowned makers Garritan Personal Orchestra, 100+ sounds from Tapspace Virtual Drumline, and support for external sound libraries. It includes Exclusive SmartMusic support, over 800 customizable Music Education Worksheets, and the ability to share files with students via Finale NotePad(R) or the free downloadable Finale Reader(TM).Īre you a songwriter? You have the option of buying Finale Songwriter. It sells for about $39.95 at leading online musical instrument retailers. With this software, you can hear your music play back, print sheet music, share songs with the free downloadable Finale Reader and save MP3 files for your iPod. Finale SongWriter is perfect for songwriters, band and choir directors, church musicians, students and other musicians. Then there’s Finale PrintMusic 2011 Notation Software. With this software, you can arrange full ensembles and extract individual parts, play your music with professional sounds and nuance, and share your music with iPod-ready MP3 files. Here's the definitive guide to mastering music notation with Finale NotePad This easy-to-use reference unravels the intricacies of NotePad, the introductory yet powerful program that enables musicians to edit, reformat and reorganize notation for any composition into a musical masterpiece. Finale PrintMusic 2011 is perfect for arrangers, composers, teachers, band and choir directors, church musicians, students, and other musicians. Then there’s Finale Notepad which is an introduction to the world of music notation software. 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