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ITIL Explained: Adding Structure to Your IT Services
By Stacey Watkins
Sure, you might not be implementing ITIL on the same scale as Disney, but that doesn't mean it isn't a little intimidating to start. (For those who need a refresher, ITIL is the Information Technology Infrastructure Library — a set of practices that focuses on aligning IT services with the needs of the business.)
At the heart of ITIL is something we all want and what every business needs to survive: customer satisfaction. ITIL accomplishes this by proposing four main processes:
- Incidents
- Problems
- Changes
- Release Management
More simply put, it's a way to manage deadlines, priorities and SLAs that creates a better customer experience. The four processes are broken down below.
Incidents are single, negative events that often give birth to problems and require changes.
Problems affect the quality of a service and are at the root of each issue.
Changes can occur to services or things that affect those services.
Release management allows change to be delivered more efficiently with less risk.
These four processes are the big hitters, but there are two more pieces to the puzzle. Underpinning everything are configuration and knowledge management, which house your company's data, information and knowledge.
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This article first appeared on the Business Insider website at this link: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/rba-policy-failure-stephen-koukoulas-2018-10
The RBA is failing on the most basic measures and it's time it was held to account
How's this for an economic plan?
The RBA cuts the official cash rate to 0.5 per cent and on the back of that, the unemployment rate drops to 4.75 per cent on a sustained basis, underlying inflation hits the mid-point of the 2 to 3 per cent target range and annual wages growth lifts to 3.25 per cent.
This is what a range of credible economic models suggest would happen with such a simple and transparent monetary policy move from the RBA. And what's more, it is free to implement!It would be, on all measures, a good economic outcome.
So why is the RBA not going to do it?
What kind of monetarist poltergeist has possessed them it is now a bad idea to try and hit their inflation target, put tens of thousands more Australians into work, and stoke a much-needed rise in wages growth?
Why is the RBA the only central bank on the world seemingly obsessed with peripheral issues when the inflation target has been missed so comprehensively for so long?
This article first appeared on the Yahoo 7 Finance website at this link: https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/bond-market-crashing-itll-affect-232320713.html
The bond market is crashing - and it'll affect you
There are two very important trends unfolding in financial markets.
One is the surge in government bond yields, the other is the free-fall of the Australian dollar.
To the bond market first.
In the US, bond yields – or interest rates – have jumped sharply since Donald Trump was elected President and he took the decision to lock in trillions of dollars of government borrowings to fund a range of tax cuts. When Trump was elected, the 10 year bond yield in the US was around 1.9 per cent, with the 2 year yield around 1.0 per cent. Now, with the US budget being trashed and inflation pressures building, those yields have jumped to around 3.2 and 2.9 per cent, respectively.
Part of this surge in yields is linked to the US Federal Reserve hiking interest rates in reaction to the extreme sugar hit to the economy from the extraordinary fiscal policy easing. It is also engaging in quantitative tightening, which is unwinding the money printing that was instigated in the wake of the banking crisis.
The other part of the jump in US yields is linked to expectations of an inflation surge as the economy is flooded with borrowed government money.
This article first appeared on the Yahoo 7 Finance web site at this link: https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/government-debt-record-high-heres-good-news-013049695.html
Government debt is at a record high
In May 2014, then Treasurer Joe Hockey announced that the budget deficit for 2017-18 would narrow to just $2.8 billion. The projections in that budget indicated a return to surplus in 2018-19.
Fast forward a little over four years and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Finance Minster Mathias Cormann confirmed that the budget deficit for 2017-18 came in at $10.1 billion, nearly four times the estimate presented in the first Coalition government budget. Progress on repairing the budget has clearly been slow and marginal under the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison governments, despite some of the strongest global economic conditions in a decade.
Policy actions of the Coalition over the five years it has been in office have actually damaged the budget balance with a raft of extra spending, and the quest for a return to surplus has been driven by a strong global economy, not local policy changes.
While the budget deficit was the smallest in a decade, the narrower deficit was based on unexpected riches flowing from surprisingly buoyant prices for iron ore and coal which have seen tax collection rise to levels also not seen in a decade.
This is not to sniff at the good fortune of the current government. It is always great news when the prices of our main commodity exports are strong. It adds to Australia's national income, adds to government tax revenue and should always been welcome.
But it is important to realise it is simple luck rather than good economic management.
While Martin North from DFA rejected my generous offer to have a wager based on his call for a 40 to 45 per cent fall in house prices, Tony Locantro, an Investment Manager with Alto Capital in Perth has decided to take up the offer on the same terms that I offered Mr North.
Specifically, we are wagering $15,000 to $2,500 that Sydney or Melbourne or national wide house prices will or will not fall by more than 35 per cent from their peak at any stage before and up to the December quarter 2021.
The measure will be based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics Residential Property Price Indexes, Eight Capital Cities, Catalogue No. 6416.0.
This means that if, at any stage the price index for any of Sydney, Melbourne or the aggregate eight capital cities prices is down 35.0 per cent or more, I will give Tony $15,000 cash. Conversely, if by the time the December quarter 2021 data are published and the peak to trough decline is 34.9 per cent or less in Sydney, Melbourne or the eight capital cities, Tony has to give me $2,500.
Who knows, it might be the start of a wonderful friendship. We have added a nice informal touch – when the cash is handed over, the winner will buy a dinner with a nice bottle of red to console the loser.
I will be providing regular updates as the numbers roll out.
This article first appeared on the Yahoo 7 Finance website at this link: https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-boosts-us-stocks-borrowed-government-money-011637215.html
Trump boosts US stocks with BORROWED government money
US stock prices continue to trade at near record highs and a lot of the recent rise has a lot to do with the policies of President Donald Trump.
The surge in the Dow Jones Industrial Average has been phenomenal. Since the November 2016 Presidential election, the Dow Jones is up around 50 per cent despite a few hiccups at the start of 2018 as the US Federal Reserve hiked interest rates and the threats of a US trade war turned into a reality.
The rise in US stocks, whilst impressive, is built on all the wrong things. 'Wrong', that is, in terms of sustainability.
As President, Donald Trump has delivered a range of tax cuts that have a total cost to the budget of around US$1.5 trillion. This one-off, impossible to replicate policy like any other policy that dumps cash into the economy has underpinned stronger economic growth and a temporary lift company profits. The tax changes has seen US companies engage in a record level of stock buy-backs which by design, has been a powerful driver behind rising share prices.
The problem with the Trump tax cuts is that every cent of the US$1.5 trillion has been funded with money borrowed by the government.
Such is the destruction to the US budget, that the US Congressional Budget Office is now estimating the US budget deficit to average a staggering 4.8 per cent of GDP in every year in the decade from 2018 to 2028. When Trump became President, the budget deficit had narrowed to just 2.5 per cent of GDP.
This article first appeared on the Business Insider website at this link: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/government-debt-stephen-koukoulas-2018-9
Everyone stopped talking about government debt, but here's why it still matters
Having been a headline issue for many years, government debt no longer gets the media or political focus that is used to.
At one level, this is odd, because the level of gross and net government debt have continued to rise unrelentingly in recent years, with gross debt at a record high and net debt touching a peace-time high.
The lack of focus on government debt probably reflects the fall from grace of the chief debt fear-mongers Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey and Barnaby Joyce who were vocal advocates of the "debt and deficit disaster" that Australia was allegedly confronting five years ago.
The fact that the Coalition government has demonstrably failed in its policy approach to the issue is also likely to be a factor why it has dropped off the list of popular political topics. It could also reflect the fact the belated realisation that Australia level of debt and deficit are, and always have been, low and manageable.
So low is Australia's government debt, even today, that the three major sovereign credit ratings agencies have assigned a triple-A rating even though the path to a balanced budget and debt stabilisation has been slow and unconvincing.
This is not to say that the level of government debt is not an issue. It still is.
And just because it is not a constraint on the economy or a meaningful concern to markets, it doesn't mean policy makers should take their eye off managing government debt, especially at the moment when the economy is growing and the global economy is giving Australia a helping hand.
Sensible and pragmatic economists are usually pragmatic about debt and deficit. Pragmatic in a sense that a move to debt and deficit are good policy when the economy is weak and debt reduction and surplus are good policy when the economy is growing strongly. Suffice to say it will be important to ensure that the path to small, but growing, budget surpluses over the next few years is kept, but only if the economy continues to grow at a reasonable pace.
The ABS residential price series confirmed further broadly based price falls in the June quarter.
It will no doubt get the hysterical house price forecasters very excited.
It also allows me to give an update on the offer I made to Martin North from DFA about his heroic forecast that house prices would drop by between 40 and 45 per cent over the next few years. The letter to Martin and the offer are reproduced below.
Suffice to day, house price falls are continuing. And from the peak level:
- Sydney: down 3.9 per cent (peak June qtr 2017)
- Melbourne: down 1.4 per cent (peak Dec qtr 2017)
- 8 cities: down 1.4 per cent (peak Dec qtr 2017)
We are, unsurprisingly to sober analysts, a long, long, long way from the 40-45 per cent Martin is forecasting a long way from the 35 per cent I offered to wager Martin at 6 to 1; and still a long way from the 22.5 per cent fall, in any of those markets, I offered Martin at 2 to 1.
The offer is still open to Martin for a couple of weeks, if he wishes to reconsider.
My open letter and offer to DFA's Martin North – Skin in the game on house prices
I have sent this to Martin North, founding Principal, Digital Financial Analytics.
Dear Martin
Congratulations on your cameo on the TV program 60 Minutes. It was gripping viewing and a quite fantastic story.
I note with a huge amount of interest your forecast for property prices to fall by "40 to 45 per cent".
It is a big call and certainly grabbed the attention of many in the public.
I note also that on your blog, you suggest the quote which included that forecast was not given the context you attached to it, namely, you rated it "only a 20 per cent chance" and that the 40 to 45 per cent price fall would be "over 3 years or so".
That context is important.
Over the many years I have been making forecasts for the economy and markets and seeing others do the same, I find that forecasts without any skin in the game are often compromised. It is easy to construct a headline grabbing forecast for a significant move in markets, including house prices for example, but when they fade into oblivion, there are no implications for the forecaster. Forecasts really only has validity if the forecaster has an interest in the forecast being correct.
In other words, would the forecaster really make that forecast if they put their money where their mouth is?
This article first appeared on The Wire website, for FIIG, at this link: https://thewire.fiig.com.au/article/commentary/opinion/2018/08/21/three-downside-risks-to-the-aud
Three downside risks to the AUD
A certain calm in currency markets, including for the Australian dollar, was briefly punctured in early August when the Turkish lira collapse spread to other emerging markets and sparked a jump in the US dollar.
Since early 2015, the AUD has traded over 90% of the time in a 71-78 cent range against the US dollar. The moves outside this range have been marginal and short lived. It was and still is rare for the AUD to be so steady, for so long. A bevy of factors that normally impact its value have had minimal lasting impact or have been offset by news elsewhere. Even the Turkey and emerging markets disruptions appear short lived with the Aussie dollar bouncing back in recent days.
That said, for reasons other than the global turmoil, we are probably starting to see the early stages of a realignment of the AUD which will have important implications for other markets and investors. In recent months, the AUD has been trading in an even narrower range around 72 to 76 cents, with the data flow and run of events having little lasting impact.
Any upbeat news is offset by downbeat news, meaning the net effect is inconsequential. Think of the following events: US interest rate hikes, commodity price falls, clear weakness unfolding in the Chinese economy, the emerging markets ructions and the changing outlook for Australian interest rates are all big news, but have not been enough to see the AUD break out of its range.
This article first appeared on the Yahoo 7 Finance web page at this link: https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/political-fallout-new-morrison-government-232153917.html
The political fallout of a new Morrison government
The revamping of the government's leadership team and the elevation of Scott Morrison to Prime Minister and Josh Frydenberg to Treasurer opens the door for some much needed revamping of the economic policy agenda. Ironically, Morrison has left Frydenberg a number of awkward policy issues that will need to be addressed.
One that is clearly having a political effect and hurting the government is the health, or lack thereof, of the labour market. Wages growth is hovering around a record low, barely keeping up with inflation. This weakness in wages is a major constraint on consumer spending, which is also being impact by a sharp fall in the growth of savings and record household debt.
The fact that the unemployment rate has been entrenched well above 5 per cent right through the Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison period of government is a policy failure. The economy is simply not strong enough to generate the number of jobs needed to deliver a material lowering in unemployment and with that, a lift in wages.
If Frydenberg can deliver policies that help engineer a stronger economy and a lowering in the unemployment rate, he will have done something Treasurers Hockey and Morrison could not. This is where some meaningful fiscal policy changes and reforms to labour laws (industrial relations) would be welcome.


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My Favourite Things: Soap & Glory The Righteous Butter (Mini)
Because it's just perfect for it. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Soap & Glory The Righteous Butter (Mini), now a firm favourite of mine.
How much do I love it? Read on to find out.
As a body butter, it sure delivers in providing moisturisation, with it's softening shea butter and aloe vera. But better yet, it doesn't quite have the greasy reputation that many other body butters have. My hands were just feeling a tad dry as I was typing this, and so I conveniently whipped a little out and slathered it over my hands.
And continued typing. No greasy stains on the keyboard yet! Wonderful!
(It sure makes for an excellent hand cream too!)
As for the scent, it is to die for. It carries Soap & Glory's signature scent, and is simply divine. A blend of "bergamot, strawberries and mandarin, with floral and fruity mid notes and musk, amber and warm vanilla notes on the bottom", it has fruity, floral and vanilla all mixed together in a wonderful concoction that just does wonders to lift my mood and makes me all happy inside.
(Compared with The Body Shop's Moringa Body Scrub, so you can see how teeny it is. Cute!)
But what makes it a real travel champion is the mini 50ml packaging. Packed in a teeny-weeny pink container (so cute), it's perfect to be toted everywhere, even on a plane. Toss it into your transparent bag for your liquids and you'll be assured of happy, moisturised skin when you arrive at your destination.
I picked this tubby up in the UK in a Buy 3 For 2 promo, so it was less than the £2.25 (~RM11) it usually retails for in Boots. Big tubs (300ml) go for £10 (~RM50).
I don't know if I would purchase a big tub (seeing as moisturiser's my middle name), but I suppose I wouldn't mind picking up another mini one for when I'm on the go.
It's moisturising, it smells incredible, and it's perfect for travel. This one's a winner alright! Care to try?
5 comments:
- Petra said...
Totally agree! I picked up a mini tub when I was in England for three weeks, and it finished just before I left - the smell's heavenly and the texture isn't too oily. Plus the fragrance lasts all day.
I'm not sure how it would fare on my skin back in Malaysia (my skin tends to flare with eczema cos of work) but it worked wonderfully on eczema clear skin.
- 10 August 2010 at 06:50
i love this! I got this from the travelling set, totally awesome!
- 10 August 2010 at 22:50
- xin said...
awww the mini tub is so so cute! i usually have depot my body butter to a smaller jar for easy use, but the 50ml size is just perfect! too bad, no boots here
- 11 August 2010 at 09:50
- Syen said...
Petra: You finished it in 3 weeks?? Wow. Granted, I really slapped my moisturiser on when I was there too. LOL. Too drying. Over here, I don't use it all over. It's great as a hand cream, and I use on the extra dry spots, if I want to. Over the lighter moisturiser. Seems to work. Not sure about the eczema bit though, coz the hubs doesn't use this.
[miss hazel]: Agree! =)
xin: Yeah, it's really too bad. Hope it comes over soon. So unfair isn't it? That Thailand and Sg has it, and we don't. Heh. =P
- 11 August 2010 at 11:14
- Petra said...
I used it all over. Finished it in just under 3 weeks. Was lovely :)
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I just thought I'd show you some different things that have been stitched in Friday's hand sewing class. The first is Carolyn's beautiful 'Welcome' cross stitch of red Cosmo thread on linen. I haven't seen the finished design, so I'm not sure if there is much more to go but it looks lovely so far. The second is Prue's Christmas tree skirt which has just begun and is made from linen and French General's 'Joyeux Noel'. Very nice work ladies x


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2018 is young, but already companies like Orbitz, Panera, Saks Fifth Avenue, Delta, Best Buy, and others have suffered data breaches we can all learn from.
No organization wants to find itself in the tough position of disclosing a data breach. The consequences can be both immediate and long term, for the company as well as for its customers. Fallout can include damage to the company's value and reputation, potential regulatory fines, lawsuits, and victim recompense such as paid credit monitoring. It can be a painful experience for anyone affected or involved, but there can also be a silver lining. If details about the source of the data breach are shared, other organizations can make sure they don't suffer a similar compromise.
To that end, here are lessons that can be learned from six big data breaches that have already made headlines in 2018.
What happened:
On March 1, Orbitz discovered that someone had gained unauthorized access to one of its legacy travel booking platforms. The travel fare aggregator service believes the attacker had the permissions required to view sensitive information including customers' names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, billing addresses, gender, and payment card information. No evidence was found to suggest the incident exposed customers' passports, travel itineraries, or Social Security Numbers.
According to numerous reports, those responsible for the breach exposed the details of 880,000 customers' payment cards between October 1, 2017 and December 22, 2017.
This incident highlights the importance of replacing outdated legacy software and systems. These systems can present a significant security risk, especially when they stop being supported and no longer receive the latest security patches and updates. Orbitz is far from the only organization to suffer for this mistake. Outdated technology and software was also at least partly responsible for the 2014 hack against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in which black-hat hackers are thought to have exposed personal data for millions of potential employees of the federal government.
Funding for replacing legacy systems isn't always easy to come by, but it's important to point out the hidden dangers of these systems and to put a dollar amount on that risk. Research suggests that for every one percent of spending that organizations shift from maintaining legacy systems to buying new ones, they can expect a five percent reduction in security incidents.
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On April 2, Brian Krebs broke the story about a flaw in the website for the Panera Bread chain of restaurants. The weakness essentially leaked the plaintext data of customers who signed up for an account to purchase food online using panerabread.com. The exposed information included customers' names, email and physical addresses, dates of birth, and the last four digits of their payment cards.
Krebs wrote his story after receiving a tip from security researcher Dylan Houlihan, who discovered the vulnerability and tried reporting it to Panera in August 2017. After the company insinuated that Houlihan himself was a scammer, Panera's security team members took the vulnerability and apparently did nothing with it for eight months.
After the story broke, the company tried downplaying the weakness, saying that it had fixed the issue and that it only affected 10,000 customers. Further investigation by Krebs found that the company had not patched the flaw, however, which is believed to have actually affected 37 million customers.
The breach of Panera Bread's website should serve as a reminder to all organizations about the value of conducting regular penetration tests of their web-based assets. Companies should also be open to working with security researchers on responsibly disclosing bugs, including through vulnerability disclosure frameworks. This willingness signals that organizations care about the security of their customers' information and will work with external researchers to strengthen it.
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Fin7, a financially motivated threat actor with a history of targeting retail and hospitality organizations, went public with this data breach on March 28 when it posted a new sale to an underground market hub. The sale, called "BIGBADABOOM-2," advertised the details of five million payment cards for sale. Security firm Gemini Advisory took note of this sale and worked with financial institutions to trace the information back to Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor.
According to the security company's analysis, the breach occurred in May 2017 and affected all Lord & Taylor as well as 83 locations of Saks Fifth Avenue.
As of the publication of Gemini Advisory's findings, Fin7, also known as JokerStash, had released the details of 125,000 cards stolen from the two luxury department stores. The firm wrote that it believes the criminals will gradually release the remaining information over the next few months.
It was a short time thereafter that one of the affected shoppers filed a class-action lawsuit against Hudson's Bay Company, owner of the two affected luxury department store chains.
First and foremost, this incident highlights the need for companies to institute stronger malware precautions on their point-of-sale (POS) systems. But because Fin7's sale listing for the stolen data claimed to offer "track dumps" of the credit cards, some experts believe there may have also been another simple way this breach could have been avoided. The mention of track dumps suggests the data was obtained via swipe-card transactions. By insisting on chip and PIN transactions instead of letting customers swipe their credit cards, the data could have been better protected.
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On April 4, Sears Holding Corporation and Delta Airlines both announced data belonging to hundreds of thousands of the companies' customers had been exposed via a data breach at [24]7.ai, a third-party service that provides online chat support.
According to a statement from Delta, the breach is believed to have occurred from September 26, 2017 to October 12, 2017 and may have exposed credit card information for an undisclosed number of customers. The airline stressed that no other information, such as passport, government identification, or SkyMiles information, was impacted. Sears estimated that credit card information for less than 100,000 of its customers may have been exposed during the breach.
A day later, retailer Best Buy announced a small portion of its customers may also have been affected by the breach.
This incident is the latest reminder that any organization's security is only as good as its partners' security. Not only can mistakes by third-party service providers expose customer data; they can also serve as entry points for attackers and malware campaigns. Perhaps the most infamous example is the 2014 Target breach, which was traced back to network credentials stolen from a third-party HVAC company.
Companies should conduct due diligence when bringing on third-party service providers and make sure proper controls are in place to limit and secure what they have access to.
Today's criminals are using an increasingly advanced set of tools and techniques to perpetrate breaches. To learn more about how cyber attacks are evolving and how Barkly can help protect your network, see the 2018 Malware Trends Forecast.
David Bisson is an infosec news junkie and security journalist. He works as Senior Content Manager, Associate Editor for Tripwire's "The State of Security" blog, Contributing Editor for IBM's Security Intelligence, and Contributing Writer for Barkly, Palo Alto Networks' Security Roundtable, Gemalto, Venafi, Zix Corp, AlienVault, and others.
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Image Comics and the Female Experience
There has been a great deal of discussion in the last few years about the role available to women in comic books, their representation and how creative teams address women's experiences. Mainstream comics has been grappling with such issues, making great strides in some cases and falling flat on their faces in others. But beyond how scripting, artwork, and the corporate culture help to shape how women are presented on the page, there is another critical component to affects these characters: the worlds in which they operate.
Why Midnighter Is So Important For Queer Fans
My relationship with queer superheroes has always been a little complicated.
As a child growing up in the 1990s, I came into my own reading Marvel Comics and watching DC Saturday morning cartoons. Back then openly queer characters were hard to come by. There was the heavy queer implications of Mystique's relationship with Destiny, the more-than-friends flirtation of Rictor and Shatterstar, and the thinly veiled romantic attachment shared by Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn in Batman: The Animated Series, but nothing concrete. (Both Rictor/Shatterstar and Ivy/Harley have been confirmed as canon, but when I was a kid, no such luck.) Even Northstar, Marvel's first openly gay character, was tiptoed around, his sexuality rarely mentioned for several years after coming out in 1992. For most of my life as a comics fan, queer representation was most often found in meaningful looks and lingering touches, leaving readers to fill in the details. That left queer fans like me feeling left behind.
Review: Zodiac Starforce #1
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(Crux) On Thursday, the Jesuit-run journal La Civiltà Cattolica, which is reviewed by the Vatican's Secretariat of State prior to publication, carried an article by two close friends of Pope Francis arguing that a "Manichean vision" underlies a "a strange form of surprising ecumenism … between Evangelical fundamentalists and Catholic Integralists" in the United States.
("Manichean" refers to an ancient Persian religion that believed in a cosmic battle between light and dark, good and evil, and is used now to mean black-and-white thinking.)
By "Catholic Integralism," the article appeared to have in mind, at least in part, Catholic support for U.S. President Donald Trump. It cited Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who's a Catholic, suggesting he's a "supporter of an apocalyptic geopolitics."
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While using ADempiere many times we come across a need to scan a document or image and upload that scanned document into one of ADempiere standard window as an attachment. Right now, It is two step process where you need to manually scan the entity and store it in your system and them upload that document as attachment
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This article demonstrates automation of scanning and uploading of documents in ADempiere in one step. It demonstrates seamless integration of scanner device with ADempiere attachment functionality.
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1. ADempiere 343 onwards
2. Jfreesane.jar ( Version 0.8)
3. guava.jar ( Version r09)
4. Sane Daemon (SANE Server)
Prerequisites :
Sane daemon must be installed in machine where scanner is attached, it can be server machine or any machine in the server LAN. Steps install SANE daemon is not covered in this document, but you can find detailed steps at http://www.sane-project.org/docs.html
Implementation Detail :
Step 1: Create system configuration variables to allow user to configure machine on which scanner is connected and device name
Step 2: Enhance attachment popup window to show additional button for scanning
Step 3: Enhance attachment functionality to store the scanned image as attachment in database or file system
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Mary Lynn reigns from Columbus, Ohio and have come through with a stunning collection of pop-rock tunes filled with emotional empathy. After her previous band dissolved, Mary Lynn started to piece together an album for herself; the result is My Animal, a disarmingly honest collection of songs that feel immensely personal and universal in their scope. Vibrant flickers of piano overlay fuzzed-out guitar leads and durable drumming as Mary Lynn spins ear-worm hooks and melodies with bravado. It is an impressive debut, and I was excited to get to chat with Mary Lynn about the background of My Animal and her motivation for creating music.
The Grey Estates: Would you mind delving a bit into the creative process? It seems to me that you and your bandmate, Joe, are the primary songwriters for Mary Lynn, but how is it trying to transfer your ideas to the rest of the band and make them full rock songs? Also, when/how did this band find its origin?
Usually my songs start with a little spark of a feeling or idea that pops up in my head. Sometimes it comes at really random times, like while I'm driving, and I'll sing a melody into the 'memos' app on my phone until I have time to find an instrument. Once I have some time to work on the song myself(sometimes I'll write a song in one sitting, sometimes it takes months or years for me to really finish it), I'll usually bring it to the band to flesh it out with a few ideas of what I want their parts to be, and we finish it together. With this album, a couple of the songs Joe and I got to write together, which were pretty much awesome accidents. In both cases, he was playing something cool on guitar or piano and I happened to overhear. I had some lyric ideas that matched the vibe and so we put them together. I actually started writing songs before I really had a band, and played my first solo show in 2009. When I was recording my first album and adding tons of instruments and layers, I ended up developing a full band after that.
The album features a lot of self-reflection, some good, mostly leaning toward the negative; although the negative feelings typically seem to find some sort of resolution. Was following a more introspective and personal subject matter important to you? Or, is that just a natural lyrical muse for you?
I've always written for myself as a sort of therapy. Before I even showed any songs to anyone, I was writing & recording demos for years just because it was how I expressed myself and worked through my feelings. I definitely write from my heart, because that's really all I know how to do. It has always been important to me to come off as a real human being, because that's what I am, and I don't think I could be anything else if I did try.
"The Same" especially seems to feature a lot of self-criticism, particularly in regards to another person. I think a lot of people can relate to the feeling of inadequacy when compared to someone idealistic – is it motivating for you to try and share your experiences with people across the world?
With "The Same" I really wanted to express the feeling of loving someone who doesn't love you back. It's a really specific feeling, but sometimes it's hard to admit it when it's happening to you, and so I wanted to be blunt and forward about it. It's motivating for me to try to get that specific feeling into musical form - so that other people experiencing it can click with it and maybe feel like we're in it together. That's something I love about music in general. If I write a song and it helps me out, it's really cool to share it and think it might help someone else, in whatever way they hear it.
Building on that, I found "Funeral" to be very relatable. I believe you're using burial imagery to illustrate how people in your life can disappear even if they're still alive. People let you down, and time pulls us apart, so they might as well be dead, right? What particularly inspired you for this song? (I especially love the imagery of someone being stuck in their own world and looking down to see how much you have grown).
I'll spare the specific details in hopes that the listeners can take it in their own way. But I will say it is not necessarily about being let down, but more about how sometimes people become someone else and it leaves you hanging onto who they used to be, wondering if you mean anything to each other afterwards.
"The Break" sounds like it's suited to be played at an arena; it possesses a massive sound that is different from the rest of the album. How did this track come about? The guitars in particular soar like a classic rock song.
Thanks! I wrote the verses first, which are a little more quiet and delicate, and the chorus came later. The nature of the lyrics is a pretty heavy subject, and as soon as we started playing it full band the music just followed. It's a sad song but the rock and roll keeps it powerful - and I really like that. The guitar solo in the bridge is one of my favorite parts of the record - and every single time I hear it makes my heart turn over itself.
"When you tell me those mean things, oh it really brings me down. I got enough mean things in my head to go around…" was a line that really jumped out to me. "Tough Skin" in general really sounds empowering but it features that moment that stands in contrast with the chorus of "I'll be alright." How did that line come about?
I was at a point in my life where I had allowed myself to be really vulnerable to criticism, from others and from my own self, and I realized that I was the one letting it break me down. 'Tough Skin' is about wanting to be stronger emotionally and learning that you're gonna be okay no matter what anybody says, even yourself. Sometimes you have to be the one to remind yourself that everything is going to be okay - and you have to believe it, too.
Ultimately, what is the general message you'd want a listener to leave with after listening to this album?
I hope the album moves people in some way. Whether they connect to the lyrics, or smile or dance, or headbang, or cry. To me, it's about going through something tough and learning that you're strong enough to get through it. It's about being a human being and getting through life by following you heart.


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When you are playing golf a lot of times you have to hit chip shots off tightly mowed grass or off the fairway. There are two common shots that you usually have as a golfer: one is that low bump and run and the second one is where you have to get it up in the air off of a tight lie. When you do that I am going to show you two techniques in the takeaway that are going to help you. For a low shot, when I swing the club back on my backswing, I want very little wrist hinge. That keeps the club hooded when I go back and then when I come through the handle leads the clubhead, hitting a low shot. So I have a lot of arm swing with very little wrist hinge. Now if I want to hit it higher I do the opposite. When I set up I will open the clubface according to how much height that I want on the ball. Then on my backswing I will have more writs hinge and less arm swing. By hinging the wrists it gets the club more upward, allowing it to work down off that tight lie to pop the ball up in the air. I am going to demonstrate the low shot first, I will set up ball back, hands forward, and when I go back I have very little wrist hinge and that gives me the low bump-and-run shot. To go higher I am going to set up and open the face a little more. On this shot I am going to hinge my wrists on the backswing with very little arm swing going back. That gives me a steeper angle of approach for hitting the ball up in the air. So the next time you go out and practice you should practice off of tight lies, hitting low shots and high shots to improve your short game.
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My memory of the excellent novel by Jeff Vandermeer is shaky, but not THAT shaky. ANNIHILATION really is a case of a major book "inspiring" a big-budget movie. The director/writer Alex Garland is no slouch with a pen, and he wrote a loose adaptation of the book, with little worry about being faithful.
The result is an impressive attempt to bring an adult sensibility about life and love to a story of a quasi-military mission into a distorted region that may be a case of first contact with an alien life form. It's part of the wave of mainstream non-action SF, and would appeal to fans of CONTACT, INTERSTELLAR and THE ARRIVAL.
Natalie Portman is very good as the lead, but Jennifer Jason Leigh really holds the screen as a scientist leading the expedition into "The Shimmer," a region affected by a meteor strike, resulting in mutation of plants and animals.
Like The Zone in Tarkovsky's STALKER, The Shimmer is a place of wild vegetation. This being a Hollywood flick, there are also mutated animals a.k.a. monsters. The encounters with these are highlights. I can imagine people talking about movies they've seen bringing this up, and in less than ten seconds someone says, "And what about that BEAR thing? That was messed up!"
This has a small cast for a movie with such scale. That the team is made up of women is brought up and dispensed with in probably three seconds. We get snapshots of each of these people and understand who they are and why they're interested in The Shimmer.
Where the movie goes off for me is in the reaching of the heart of The Shimmer. STALKER dealt with this issue by not penetrating the mystery, and making the reasons why the characters choose to NOT go into the room they've come to see the whole point–WHY would they not go in? You can only play that card so many times, though. ANNIHILATION climaxes with an encounter with the alien life inside The Shimmer, in a kind of biological version of the 2001 Star Gate sequence. Like another Tarkovsky, SOLARIS, the alien is TRULY alien; unlike something like STAR TREK, here the alien remains totally Other and incomprehensible. After discovering what happened/is happening to those who tried to explore The Shimmer before her, Portman confronts and interacts with the alien/aliens. We're left with an "Is she or isn't she?" ending, but it was like Garland shrugged and said, "Whatever."
Worth seeing? Definitely. A masterpiece I'm too slow to grasp? Probably. But there's something missing that makes ANNIHILATION feel thin, to me.


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ESA and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, together with the BBK Foundation, have joined forces to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this emblematic arts centre. Chasmata is a pioneering journey to Mars through the medium of contemporary art, music and architecture.
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Well, this past weekend my only sister got married. I can't tell you how difficult it is to let go of someone who's been your rock and role model throughout your entire life. I love her with all of my heart. The one thing that's keeping me sane at this moment in time is that she's marrying an absolutely wonderful man who loves her more than his own life. To see him look at her is to see what love really is. He's the quiet type of guy who you can never quite tell if he's enjoying himself...until she walks in the room. Then he glows. All of this to say...I haven't really lost a sister (aside from the fact that their house is literally 2 miles from mine), but I've gained a brother. A brother who is incredibly kind to my family as well as myself. Who will take care of my sister until the day she dies. That's all I could really ask for :)
I took her engagements as well as her bridals and let me say...this girl is gorgeous. I don't care if you think I'm biased because she's my sister...she's stunning. Would you like to see some of her bridals? Well okay if you insist ;) Enjoy!


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The Boston Society of Architects' Emerging Professionals Network invites you to join industry peers for a night of networking and fun at Scholars American Bistro & Cocktail Lounge (25 School Street, Boston). Hear about the events and programs that are happening throughout the city this year, and learn how you can get involved. Come grab a drink and a bite to eat, and meet someone new in the industry. Complimentary light snacks will be served and the first 100 attendees will receive a free drink ticket.
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"Never say God is not good enough. Not great enough." -Keith Daniel
God is good enough and great enough, always!
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"Never say God is not good enough. Not great enough." -Keith Daniel
God is good enough and great enough, always!
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"Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true. Murmur not at the ways of Providence. So shall the life into which you have entered be the portal to one of eternal and ineffable bliss." –Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 1825
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A godly godly man, Reverand Keith Daniel spoke those words last night.
Don't do it. It is a serious thing to play the fool with God! And yet even as I write these words I know I have played the fool with God many times. My spirit cries because of that and I pray that God will forgive me and that I may not do it again. Don't do it, it isn't worth it!
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(At least according to Thomas Jefferson.)
"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing. And that you may be always doing good, my dear, is the ardent prayer of yours affectionately." -Thomas Jefferson, letter to Martha Jefferson, 1787
This is good advice. We would do well to follow it.
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"People don't seem to realize how often you have to come in second in order to finish first. I've never met a winner who hadn't learned to be a loser." Jack Nicklaus
I really like this quote. I want to be a winner and I've been learning to be a loser for years. There is still hope for me. There is also hope for you if you feel like a loser. Keep going you can be a winner!
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The former NFL player who famously took a knee during the American anthem to protest racial injustice is the divisive choice for Nike's new ad campaign.
While some applauded Nike's selection of the activist Kaepernick, others were outraged he was chosen and the hashtag #NikeBoycott was one of the trending topics on Twitter. Social media was briefly flooded with images of people cutting the Nike 'swoosh' out of their clothes and even setting their Nike products on fire.
Nike is the world's most valuable apparel brand but its market cap fell around 4%, plummeting from around US$3.75 billion to US$127.82 billion in the wake of the news though it had recovered slightly at time of writing.
Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. #JustDoIt pic.twitter.com/SRWkMIDdaO
— Colin Kaepernick (@Kaepernick7) September 3, 2018
Whether the fall in share price is a temporary blip remains to be seen though ESPN journalist Justin Tinsley told NPR that the endorsement of Kaepernick would not hurt the company financially in the long term.
"You might see people burning their shoes on social media but it's nothing that (Nike) need to be concerned about from a widespread angle," Tinsley said.
Similarly, sports marketing executive Bob Dorfman told Bloomberg the signing of Kaepernick is commercially sound as it positions Nike as a risk-taker and leader. "It's not a move that any company can make, but for Nike it's definitely smart business," Dorfman said.
Nike's Kaepernick ads have sparked calls for a boycott – but analysts say the campaign will ultimately benefit the brand https://t.co/CIdzWVjt7H pic.twitter.com/c2FHrMeI9v
— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) September 4, 2018
Kaepernick, a 30-year-old quarterback, last played in the NFL in 2016 and was best known for 'taking a knee' during the anthem to protest racial inequality and police violence against black Americans. Polls on Kaepernick's actions have produced mixed results; one poll concluded a majority of Americans think the football players should have a right to protest, but almost half of respondents thought players should find another way to express their views. The practice of kneeling during the anthem has been particularly unpopular among Trump voters and conservatives.
Colin Kaepernick has become a key player in the US 'culture wars'
The issue of NFL players protesting the anthem has become one of the most high-profile and divisive stories in the US media. A number of players began protesting in 2016 but many have now stopped the practice. US President Donald Trump has been a vocal critic of the protesting players, at one point even suggesting they "shouldn't be in the country".
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of colour," Kaepernick said of his protests back in 2016. "To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder."
In an interview with The Daily Caller, Trump said Nike's choice to use Kaepernick in its new campaign sent a "terrible message" and there was "no reason" for them to do it.
President Trump says Nike's Colin Kaepernick ad sends a 'terrible message' https://t.co/3lshZk8cpD
— TIME (@TIME) September 4, 2018
"I think as far as sending a message, I think it's a terrible message and a message that shouldn't be sent. There's no reason for it.
However, Trump said Nike was free to endorse Kaepernick. "In another way, it is what this country is all about, that you have certain freedoms to do things that other people think you shouldn't do, but I personally am on a different side of it."
"As much as I disagree with the Colin Kaepernick endorsement, in another way — I mean, I wouldn't have done it," Trump said, though he added that Nike was a tenant of his."They pay a lot of rent," Trump said, in reference to Niketown New York which is located in his 6 East 57th Street property, though Nike will move that store next year.
Donald Trump, who has been critical of Colin Kaepernick and NFL players who have protested, also said the ad "is what this country is all about." https://t.co/1KubOBPDIn
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) September 5, 2018
Kaepernick's protests have been a high-profile issue in the US
Kaepernick announced the new campaign with Nike in a tweet with the words: "Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. #JustDoIt". Other athletes featured in the campaign including tennis superstar Serena Williams, basketball icon LeBron James and Shaquem Griffin, an NFL rookie who has made it into the league despite having an amputated left hand.
Colin Kaepernick has become one of the most influential athletes in the current sports landscape, all while rarely saying a word https://t.co/MOIb1V8iG2
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 4, 2018
Although Kaepernick has been out of the league since 2016, he has remained a Nike-sponsored athlete but this new campaign puts him front and centre of the footwear and apparel giant's marketing for the first time. At one point, NFL team Seattle Seahawks offered him a tryout but cancelled it when he confirmed he would not stand for the anthem if he did make it onto the team. Analysis from data journalist site FiveThirtyEight suggested Kaepernick's performances have been good enough to secure an NFL contract, suggesting teams are reluctant to sign him for political and PR reasons rather than a lack of ability.
In 2017, Kaepernick lodged a grievance against the NFL owners under its collective bargaining agreement, arguing they had colluded to exclude him from the league because of his political beliefs.


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While update server packages I faced issue with yum, it show the below error
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos.aol.in * epel: epel.mirror.net.in * extras: centos.aol.in * remi: mirror.smartmedia.net.id * remi-php55: mirror.smartmedia.net.id * rpmforge: mirrors.ispros.com.bd * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror.smartmedia.net.id * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror.smartmedia.net.id * updates: centos.aol.in Error: database disk image is malformed
Which is because of the issue with the epel repo url, which I added in the server. once after removing it shows the error, by clearing the cahedb I fixed the issue. Steps below
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Sean and Leena still get little moments of alone time, even with 3 girls around.
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Kristina is making friends with Bryer Marsh.
Uh oh.. I thought I told you no more kids! Then I realized Leena wants to marry off 6 children.
Saskia celebrated her transition into teenhood.
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Texas can do its own background checks on refugees, AG says
Paxton rules security audit legal, but officials say there is little info
AUSTIN - Texas' controversial plan to conduct background checks on refugees coming to the state for resettlement is legal because there is no federal law prohibiting the practice, Attorney General Ken Paxton ruled Tuesday.
Even so, law enforcement officials said they expect the ruling will have little effect because there is little information on most refugees that can be checked.
In a three-page decision, which carries the force of law until challenged in court, Paxton also said Tuesday that conditions placed by federal officials on federal refugee funding likely are unenforceable "because the conditions do not provide clear notice to the state of how it must use the federal funding."
While the legal opinion appears to clear Texas' plan to do background checks on incoming refugees from Syria and other countries in the Mideast, it does not address whether the state can refuse the resettlement of those refugees in Texas as top state leaders had called for earlier.
It also notes that the U.S. Supreme Court has thrown out certain state laws on the grounds that they are pre-empted by the federal government's authority over immigration.
Refugee agencies earlier had decried the state's plan to deny entry into Texas for some refugees as a violation of federal law, which they said gives the federal government total authority over the resettlement program.
The attorney general's opinion was requested by state Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, who wanted to know whether the state was required to comply with restrictions on the federal resettlement funds that were not specifically found in federal law.
Perry also asked whether the state could do background checks on incoming refugees, a step that Gov. Greg Abbott and other state officials said was a key to determining whether any had ties to terrorist organizations or a past that could pose a security threat to Texans.
Paxton said that while the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement requires states to "meet standards, goals and priorities" to ensure refugees are resettled properly in the United States, "few restrictions on refugee funding to the states are found in the text of the federal statute."
"A court would likely, therefore, conclude that any such conditions that are not found in the text of a federal statute are unenforceable under the law," the opinion states.
On the question about the legality of background checks by the state, Paxton said "security concerns may provide a rational basis on which a state could distinguish between individuals deemed to pose a heightened security risk and those who do not.
"While we do not opine on the legality of any specific security verifications that the state may impose, we have not been directed to, nor do we find any law generally prohibiting the state from performing security verifications when allocating refugee funding."
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Last December, Texas went to court to keep Syrian refugees out of the state, claiming the federal government and the International Rescue Committee - one of about 20 private nonprofits that have state contracts to resettle refugees in Texas - were violating federal law by moving forward with the planned resettlement of two Syrian families.
The lawsuit alleged that the federal government and the IRC had not fulfilled their contractual obligations to consult and provide information to state officials under the Refugee Act of 1980.
The suit was dismissed, and several dozen Syrian refugees since have been resettled in Texas.
Abbott's office had no immediate comment on the attorney general's opinion Tuesday.
Late last year, however, Abbott said the issue was one of public safety.
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Abbott back then asserted that the federal government did not have adequate background information to conduct proper security checks on the Syrian nationals. He cited an attack on a Garland event that hosted a contest to draw the Prophet Muhammad last May.
Two Phoenix men opened fire on security guards outside the event, wounding one. Police returned fire, killing both men. ISIS claimed credit.
Earlier, state officials had acknowledged that conducting background checks on refugees could prove problematic, since they did not have access to overseas files on the men and women from the war-torn region, files that may not even exist. They were insistent, however, that some form of background checks needed to be done to ensure public safety.
The issue flared into political controversy last year when Abbott joined 19 others governors in refusing to take Syrian refugees because of concerns that some could be terrorists. Initial lawsuits to block the admissions were dismissed.
Last fiscal year, nearly 1,700 Syrian refugees were resettled in the United States, including 90 in Houston, among 213 statewide. Brian Black, a spokesman for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, said 21 Syrian refugees have resettled in Texas since the end of August.
Of the 18,000 Syrians currently being referred by the U.N. refugee agency, about 10,000 are well along in their clearance and expected to arrive in greater numbers in the next few months, federal immigration officials said.
State officials said Texas' role in resettlement primarily is one of coordination and distribution of federal funds to local agencies and nonprofits for employment, health, education reimbursements and cash assistance.
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White House officials said the refugees are subject to the highest level of security checks of any travelers to the United States, including an investigation by the National Counterterrorism Center, the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center and the departments of Homeland Security, State and Defense.
On Tuesday, state Health and Human Services Commission officials said that private agencies continue to work with the federal government to resettle refugees in Texas.
State agencies expect to receive about $68 million this year in federal funds for refugee-related services, officials said.


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Last month, Microsoft announced Video Pulse, a new tool which allows professionals of any kind to collect feedback on top of a recorded video in a flexible and comprehensive way, quickly and at scale, on any digital property and at any time. At NAB 2016 Show today, Microsoft announced that Video Pulse preview is now available for all.
With today's release, Video Pulse will also enhance the producer controls through the following solutions:
- A one-page, streamlined setup for a Video Pulse that makes it easier than ever to create a Pulse quickly and effectively.
- With Azure Media Services, YouTube and Vimeo integration, users can use any mp4 video from their content library for a Video Pulse.
- Producers will have the tools to provide commentary and annotations tied to specific moments within the video.
Whether you're an ad tester running a virtual focus group, a market researcher organizing a large-scale poll, a teacher allowing your students to interact with recorded lessons, or a broadcaster giving your audience a new way to engage with your online content, Video Pulse will elevate the way you understand and interact with your audience. Read about this announcement here.