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Over a whole year period, clicks from youtube represented 2% of the overall traffic to vitalcoaching.com
in the last month, this traffic is rising and is now at 6%
This accounts only for real clicks.
the direct traffic is 12% in the last month.
The overall traffic related with my youtibe activity could around 10% of my overall traffic.
This is like 70 visits/day
with 3000 videos watched/day, this represents a 2.3% CTR - clich through rate
for 100 videos watched, 2 persons visit my site
If I continue posting vids the way I do and get the same type of results, this number of youtube related visits could be at 180 by the end of the year.
This is equivalent to the traffic coming from yahoo right now
these are still small numbers and it is as well only a vague prediction.
Now parameters can come in place that could shift this around totally!
The key element to remembers is that right now, yotube accounts for about 10% of the traffic to my site.


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I have nothing to say to you today. It's not personal, I swear. I like you all, every single one of you just the same amount, and the amount is rather significant.
It's possible I'm suffering from a less known, and yet quite peculiar form of the Samson Syndrome. (Remember the story of Samson and Delilah?) I got a haircut today, and quite possibly along with the hair I lost my brainpower.
Another explanation could be hiding in my estrogen high. The hormone's levels have been rising for a few days now, and such high tide usually pushes all reason away through my ears. There's probably one lingering thought still roaming inside my skull. If I stay still for a minute I can actually hear it stumble upon pieces of leftover furniture in my head. It falls down, bounces against the walls, and….Wait, I can hear it now… Holly cow, I think the last rational thought I had left has just committed suicide and jumped off the cliff!
Popcorn anyone?
Luckily, I have a recipe sitting around that I had put together for my clients earlier, and now I can just pretty much copy & paste it here for your satisfaction. That requires little to NO thinking on my part. And who knows, you may actually go bananas over the salad. Check it out!
This guy's name is Foeniculum vulgare, or simply Fennel for close friends. Boy, is he vulgar! And it has anise flavor to add insult to injury. Hence, it makes a perfect sense paired with sweet and tart mango and intermixed with intensely green greens. Toasted pignoli not only add body to the salad, but also round its edges. Try it and you'll understand what I mean by that.
Fennel may look scary at the first glance, but in reality he's a pussy cat. With a sharp knife chop the green top off, then quarter the bulb. Using the tip of your paring knife cut out the "core" in each quarter, as it's too hard to bite, thus no longer pleasant. Now slice the fennel into paper-thin pieces. Voila! Ready for the salad.
– 1 bag of green salad mix
– fennel, thinly sliced
– ripe mango, diced
– 1/4 cup raw pine nuts (pignoli)
– scallions, chopped
– fresh basil, a bunch
– extra virgin olive oil
– white balsamic vinegar
– honey
– salt + pepper to taste
Get comfortable and toast your nuts, then set the pignoli aside to cool. Empty the greens into a large bowl. Add paper-thin slices of fennel, mango cubes, chopped scallions, and the pine nuts.
Using a blender or Magic Bullet, mix together 3 tbsp of olive oil with 1 tbsp of vinegar, a bunch of fresh basil leaves, salt, pepper and a touch of honey. Taste the dressing, and if approved by your taste buds sprinkle it over the salad mix, toss about, and serve along the Chicken Thighs dish we made last time. (You know, that night you and me had an online rendez-vous playing with those THIGHS and sipping white wine by the candlelight…shhh!)

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By JAMES ANYANZWA
Kenya's telecom sector is shaping up for a major transformation that is likely to lessen the dominance of the major player, Safaricom.
Competitive pricing of products and services, offers and promotions and a dramatic shift in the target market in favour of the youthful populace by rival firms is slowly putting Safaricom, the largest mobile phone operator in East and Central Africa, under pressure.
Latest data from the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) shows that the telco has lost about 17 percentage points of its market share over the past decade — dropping to 67 per cent as at March this year, from 84 per cent in March 2008.
However, Safaricom, which is 35 per cent owned by South Africa's Vodacom, still retains its dominant position with about 29 million subscribers.
"Clearly, the competition has become more effective. The over 80 per cent market share was the peak and was never sustainable," Aly-Khan Satchu, chief executive of investment advisory firm Rich Management told The EastAfrican.
"This trend spikes the entire dominance debate that seems to pop up every so often."
In the mobile data/Internet business, Safaricom's market share declined to 68.4 per cent from 72.8 per cent, while Airtel gained 4.6 percentage points to 23.1 per cent.
Telkom Kenya's market share dropped to 7.6 per cent from 7.8 per cent while that of Finserve Africa Ltd , which operates the Equitel network, fell by 0.1 percentage points to stand at 0.5 per cent from 0.6 per cent .
Safaricom's management had not commented on the firm's dwindling market share by the time of going to the press.
Youth market
Telkom Kenya on the other hand has rebranded and renewed its bid to win the youth market with affordable data bundles.
The firm has also adopted a campaign dubbed "Every bob counts" that aims to ensure that its customers get value for their money.
"We have always been clear that we want to become the challenger in the market," said Aldo Mareuse, the chief executive of Telkom Kenya, which is jointly owned by the British Private equity fund Helios (60 per cent) and the government of Kenya (40 per cent).
"Telkom continues to invest in its network both for expansion and better accessibility but also with regard to quality of service, which has seen us invest close to Ksh8 billion ($80 million) towards our network modernisation programme over the past two years," said Mr Mareuse.
Bharti Airtel's Kenyan unit is also implementing a five-year plan that seeks to provide free Internet to schools.
The programme, which started in 2015 with an annual investment of Ksh30 million ($0.3 million) seeks to lure the younger generation to the firm's data platform.
It is argued that the share of Kenya's youth in the total population is among the highest in the world, presenting a huge opportunity for firms seeking to expand their customer bases.
The ratio of Kenya's youth (aged 15-24) to the population stands at around 20.3 per cent, above the world's average of 15.8 per cent and 19.2 per cent for Africa.
This ratio ties with that of Sudan but trails Uganda's 20.5 per cent youthful population.
Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, has a youth share of 19 per cent, South Africa 18 per cent and Egypt 16 per cent.
The data/Internet market in Kenya has grown remarkably over the years, buoyed by the arrival of the Smartphones. The total data/Internet subscriptions grew by 8.2 per cent to 36.1 million users between January and March this year from 33.3 million between October and December 2017.
Rivals including Airtel Kenya and Telkom Kenya have over the years questioned Safaricom's dominant position, saying it is tilting the playfield in the telco's favour.
The regulator says the country's mobile market continues to undergo significant changes in the wake of rapid development in the telecommunication industry.
Between January and March this year Safaricom, which is listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange, lost 2.1 percentage points of its market share to rival firms 67 per cent in mobile subscriptions compared with 69.1 per cent the previous quarter.
However Airtel gained 2.5 percentage points to record a market share of 19.7 per cent while Telkom Kenya lost by 0.4 percentage points to register a market share of 8.6 per cent from nine per cent.
Similarly, Finserve Africa Ltd lost by 0.1 percentage points to post a market share of 4.4 per cent.
According to CA, the continued expansion of GSM networks, roll out of LTE technologies both on commercial and trial basis, development of new products and enhancement of existing products by various service providers has boosted the uptake of various mobile services.
Mobile voice and mobile data traffic is also growing remarkably due to special offers and promotions by the service providers.
The Kenyan data/Internet market has been characterised by the entry of new players, especially in the roll out of 4G mobile technologies, which offer more reliable and faster mobile Internet speeds.
It is expected that this will enhance competition in the data market in the coming quarters as service providers offer more friendly bundles at lower prices.
Competition in the mobile money transfer segment is also expected to increase following the launch of the T-Kash Money by Telkom Kenya.
Despite the drop in market share, Safaricom's mobile money service Mpesa remains Kenya's favourite means of sending money, with 80 per cent of the 664 billion mobile money transfer transactions valued at Ksh1.8 trillion ($18 billion), conducted in the first three months of this year.
During the period, money transfer transactions on the Mpesa platform stood at 531 million valued at Ksh1.48 trillion ($14.8 billion).
Equitel Money, associated with regional lender Equity Bank conducted 128 million transactions valued at Ksh389 billion ($3.89billion), compared with Airtel Money's 3.4 million transactions valued at Ksh1.88 billion ($18.8 million).
Telkom Kenya's T-Cash transactions stood at 2,226 valued at Ksh8.14 million ($81,400).
MPesa was launched in 2007 as the world's pioneer mobile money transfer service and has enjoyed relative success, expanding to more than 10 countries across the world.
However it is feared that the recent implementation of a cross-network mobile money transfer service could reduce its dominance in the Kenyan market.
The mobile money interoperability system which was implemented in April this year allows mobile money users to send money between the country's largest mobile networks, Safaricom and Airtel.
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Is your blog in need of visitors? Are you considering starting one, but you have reservations about doing it right? In order to run a blog successfully, you need to work hard on it and use your intelligence. This piece can help you get going.
Choose a unique design to make your site stand out from the competition. Although it can save time to use a standard design, you won't have a professional image. It is imperative to make a site that highlights your individuality and the personality of your business.
When using WordPress, you can even add videos to your site. It might require a little extra effort, but it's definitely worth it. Internet users are mainly visual. A video is just able to do so much more than the written word can when it comes to communication.
Create a posting schedule. You may actually do it, if you set a time. In fact, you have the option to write all of your posts in advance and schedule them to be published at regular intervals.
Delete comments or content that add no value to your site. This makes your site user-friendly for people of integrity who visit it. Akismet is a great plugin that you can include that will help you to filter out the daily spam on your site.
You might spend some time making changes, only to see that they haven't taken effect. That is usually not the case. See if clearing the browser's cache resolves the issue. Press and hold the Shift key when refreshing the browser for changes to show.
Do your posts have many comments? If so, you and other visitors might find it difficult to weed through all of them. Try using a plugin that adds page numbers to the comment section. This navigational tool will save time and make your site look organized.
You shouldn't pick a username such as "admin". Bots will attack your blog if you make your username ADMINISTRATOR or ADMIN. This is a risk to the security of your site. Delete usernames that appear with "administrator" or "admin" on your user pages. Choose a unique username to increase the security level of your site.
Use targeting titles and descriptions. Search engines direct web traffic to these pages first. This gives them great significance. Scribe, which is SEO software, allows you additional control over such WordPress issues. It allows you to edit these parts of your pages to get even more traffic.
Make sure you maintain an organized media library. It may be tempting to just upload images directly into the library, but things can become chaotic really quick. Instead, create folders and place your images in the appropriate folders. It will make images easier to find when you need them.
Don't go overboard with installing too many WordPress plugins. Although plugins can be beneficial, too many can slow down your site's load time. They can really bog things down, which will impact how you do in the SERPs. Slow websites do not rank very well in the search engines when compared to sites that are optimized to load quickly.
Make sure the WordPress you use on the site is always the updated version. Many updates have security updates to fix vulnerabilities. You can be at risk for malware if you use an old WordPress iteration that hasn't been updated. Therefore, always install any updates that WordPress rolls out to ensure that your site is secure and tight.
Always back up your blog. Regularly schedule this important task. There are some WordPress plugins available for this purpose, such as Xcloner. The actual plugin doesn't really matter, as long as it is something that you can use relatively easily. It would be very unfortunate if you lost your blog.
Schedule blog posts beforehand with WordPress. Have the articles posted at times when you are unable to post them. Look for the Publish box on the Edit screen. Underneath, there should be something that says Publish Immediately. Add the times you want, including days, months as well as years. When the correct time and date are on your screen, select 'ok'. Read through your "Schedule For" screen, then select "Schedule" if everything is right.
Do not waste your time on reviewing comments before they are posted. Akismet can take care of that for you! It is possible for you to receive an email whenever a comment is posted, but unchecking manual approval is the best course of action so that authors need not have their comments approved prior to posting. This will end up saving you quite a lot of time.
Read user reviews and feedback of plugins while searching for them. Remember, these plugins can be created by anyone who knows how to program. You should be careful with any plugin you are installing. A high rating and a lot of downloads usually signal that a plugin is safe.
Let readers comment on your blog. This builds a sense of togetherness, and it also allows you to know a bit more about your traffic. Different plugins can help you weed through and figure out which are the "real" comments and which are just spammers.
Try using all kinds of authoring tools for blogs. Is the WordPress dashboard unappealing to you? Consider Windows Live Writer or another program that does blog authoring. The tools can be used on WordPress, but are easier and more efficient. Try using a couple of them and find one you like.
Highlight your own comments. There are often concerns and questions in the comments. It can be easy for responses to get lost in the sea of feedback. You should use a different font color for the author's comments. This will make them stand out and be recognized easily.
After reading this article, you now know a little more about the mechanics of WordPress. Use these tips starting today. You will get more traffic on your site. It will also be a lot more user friendly. Make sure this page is bookmarked. After implementing the tips listed above, your blog should be improved.


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In the aftermath of the horrific, racially motivated mass shooting in Charleston that left nine people at Emanuel AME Church dead, the FBI revealed that the shooter should have failed his background check when he purchased the murder weapon in April. This tragic error draws attention to dangerous flaws in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) that we at the Law Center have been critical of since the system's inception.
To be clear, NICS has prevented over two million dangerous, prohibited purchasers like felons, domestic abusers, drug addicts, and the dangerously mentally ill from buying guns since its inception, saving countless lives. But there is, clearly, much room for improvement to ensure that the failure that enabled the Charleston shooting doesn't happen again:
- 72-Hour "Default Proceed": When a firearms dealer conducts a background check on a prospective gun buyer, most results come back instantly: approved or prohibited. But about nine percent of cases require further investigation by federal agents before rendering a decision. However, if the investigator doesn't return a result within 72 hours due to inconclusive research, inconsistent records, or simple inefficiency, the dealer is legally allowed to proceed with the sale. This is what happened with the Charleston shooter, and it's appallingly common. In 2012 alone the 72-hour default proceed allowed 3,722 prohibited purchasers to buy guns. Expanding the investigation period to give agents more time to fully investigate gun buyers is widely supported by Americans—including two-thirds of gun owners, and it will unquestionably save lives.
- State Reporting Improvements: Many states fail to report essential information like criminal history, mental health status, domestic violence records, and, especially important in the Charleston case, illicit drug abuse records to the agencies that perform background checks. Increasing NICS funding and changing federal law to require states to report relevant records to the NICS system will close this dangerous gap in the background checks system.
- Universal Background Checks: The best way to save lives from gun violence is require background checks on all private sales, including online and at gun shows. South Carolina has abysmal gun laws (we gave them an F on our 2014 Gun Law State Scorecard), and had the Charleston shooter failed his background check at the gun shop (as he should have), he still would have easily been able to purchase a gun through a private sale, where no background check is required. Eighteen states currently have some form of private sale background checks, but until we pass this smart gun law everywhere, we cannot act surprised when dangerous criminals get their hands on deadly weapons so easily.
NICS is great starting place for protecting our citizens from gun violence, but the system must continue to be improved and we must demand that our lawmakers stand up to the gun lobby and adopt lifesaving policies like universal background checks. Momentum is on our side, with 99 new smart gun laws passed in 37 states since Newtown, and we at the Law Center will continue to fight to keep deadly weapons out of the hands of dangerous people.
For more information on the importance of universal background checks, visit our policy page.


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Starting home businesses is like building a home. You need a good blueprint, a strong foundation, the right materials and a lot of help to do it right. The advice contained within this article is designed to assist you with putting a great home business enterprise strategy into action.
If you often entertain clients with dining out or other activities, remember that you can deduct expenses like these from your taxable income. Anything you spend on business can be deducted, even food! Remember, these meetings must pertain to work and are with viable clients or potential clients, otherwise, they cannot be allowed as a tax deduction.
Always maintain a separate phone line for your business from your home phone line. You need to send a certain message if you want your business to appear professional. You do not want your child to answer the phone unprofessionally.
Opening a business checking account makes keeping records of what your business is doing much easier. Funnel all your business transactions through this account. Once you are organized, you have a convenient way to review your business finances at any time. It is also a good idea to open a specific credit card for your business.
Have business cards made up. Many times, business cards can be had for little or even no money. Include all of your important information, such as your business name, your name, contact number, email and website address. Your business card should also provide an email address, and the URL for your website. All of this information gives current or potential clients multiple avenues for getting in touch with you.
You will find great support in a home business forum with others who are doing what you do. You can find a vast number of online forums and websites dedicated to a variety of home-business topics, and the advice, support and information you can gain from these resources are priceless. Many of the people you meet in online message boards and forums are more than happy to exchange tips, information and even warnings. This is especially useful when you find yourself with a new problem.
Use the tips outlined above as part of your educational resources that will help you create and flesh out a business plan. Make it one that will support your efforts to set up and perpetuate a successful work from home business. Prepare yourself to invest a lot of time and hard work into your business venture, but you will be rewarded in the long term.


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From healthy diet plans to helpful weight loss tools, here you'll find the latest diet news and information on The Other Side.
Nutritionist Robert Ferguson, famous for "The Diet-Free Life" weight-loss system knows how to shake up "established facts" in the food arena
No, he's not joking, says nutritionist and "diet-free" guru Robert Ferguson, one of the country's best known weight loss consultants.
If your career has anything to do with food, you are probably experienced at fielding questions and comments from others when you're at dinner parties.Read more →
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New Years Eve 2017 recipe
New Years Eve is just a flip of the page away. Are you ready for 2017! That just seems crazy to say. I still, very much, remember 1999. I remember imagining the futuristic year 2000; Sitting back listening to Pearl jam with my Chuck Taylors on and burgandy hair dye streaked my wild hair. Oh, wait, sadly I can still say the same about two days ago. That's beside the point.
Because I want to feel the same way I did 17 years ago; Have the same amount of energy and health, I will be doing a Daniel Fast (Read about that here). That means while everyone else is gorging on all the salty, fatty snacks and drinking their fabulous NYE themed drinks, I'll be drinking water.
It's all good. I will be bringing in the new year just as planned! That doesn't mean that you have to skip out on all the good stuff. So, how about one of my favorite celebatory drinks?
The best thing about moctails is that they are basically grown up punch in a fancy glass. Who doesn't love feeling fancy?
Blood orange mimosa mock-tail
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RUS Gold is a great game and many thanks for designing it. In the interest of constructive criticism from a loyal fan, I had some questions for the designers and some humble suggestions.
First, it seems there are some "dead" areas of the map where GHQ cannot reach. I have not analyzed all sides, but for example while the Reds Northern GHQ in St. Petersburg can cover all the way to the northern border and on to Murmansk, the radius of the Revolutionary Military in Moscow stops at Vologda and there is a long stretch towards Archangel where no Red GHQ can reach. Another example is in the south, where once the Armavir Red GHQ disappears, the next closest Red GHQ, in Tzaritsyn, doesn't cover the Kuban or Caucasus. Is this intentional or a limitation of the game engine? It seems to set up "mismatches" in several parts of the map where one side, but not the other, has the option to get coverage from a GHQ.
Second, there seems a pretty severe a limitation on the number of "corps/armies" that can be attached to each GHQ. I think no more than 5-6 at a time. Is this intentional? In EAW there is no limitation so long as you are in range.
Third, there are some "overlap" areas where several GHQ radius cross each other, the most obvious being around Penza, which is under the radius of three possible Red GHQ (South, Southeast, East). When you try and make a corps/army commander, the game engine seems to select based on which is closest. This is fine in the abstract, but sets up some weird patches (again Penza is an example) where a player has to tolerate corps which report to different GHQ and really has no option to assign which to which other than to take a turn or two to move them around and then back. Having stacks under a corps leader from the same GHQ seems very important, since this decides if they will March to the Sound of the Guns for neighboring combats. Again, is this intentional or a limitation of the design?
Fourth, there are some practical issues with both creating and changing GHQ leaders. One is that the EP cost system for creating them seems bugged - you never seem to get the GHQ created the same turn you spend the EP, it is always a one turn lag. Second, players have little control in choosing who commands a GHQ. This is a departure from other AGEOD games, such as CW2 and EAW, where players can choose to take a penalty if they wanted to put a particular lower ranked three-star (two-stars in this case for RUS) in command. While you can remove a GHQ leader by marching them away, it will cost you 7 EP to (again with the lag) create the GHQ and you still have no control over who gets it. Is this all a limitation of the engine? Why can't it be handled like it is in other AGEOD games?
I think these reveal a need for some improvements in the next version of RUS Gold. Here are my thoughts:
- consideration should be given to checking over the map so as to eliminate "blind spots" where no GHQ coverage exists (again, assuming this was an oversight and not part of the design)
- consideration should be given to allowing players to choose which GHQ to belong to if the corps leader is in an area with multiple coverages - maybe this can be handled with a pop-up decision each time?
- creation of the GHQ needs some attention - it should not take so long to create them and there should be some control, at a cost, for players to choose who heads them (assuming again this isn't part of the design); if it
remains as is, the EP cost should be lowered - right now 7 EP, especially early game, is a huge commitment just to establish them
- based on approaches to the above, one possibility might be to allow players to use RGD to create "minor GHQ" in some of the more out of the way areas. These "minor" GHQ would be associated with a "major GHQ" (limitation of one per) and have the sole purpose of extending corps creations within their limited areas - they would not have any of the other functions, e.g. creating a HQ that can train troops, etc. You could limit these to towns which have at least a level 2 depot, which would require players to prepare areas if they wanted to establish them. Again, the idea is just to make it so that you can create corps in the "blind spots." If you take this approach, you could probably tweak the coverage of the various GHQ and make them smaller so they don't overlap. The "minor" GHQ can play an admirable role in filling the gaps and would involve some strategy in their creation and deployment.
- I would give some thought to how GHQ leader bonuses are handled. Right now, it seems too random and constricting, given how GHQ coverage works and leaders are put in charge. I would give some thought to converting the leader attributes to ones similar to EAW. In other words, not just attack, defense bonuses, as now, so long as you are near. Instead have impacts like this in EAW (e.g. to defense, cohesion, attack) etc. That would allow players to choose GHQ leaders with attributes based on what they plan to do in that area
Thanks for listening. Again, this all may be off base on my part. Perhaps it is the intention of the design to reflect the chaos and randomness of the Russian Civil War itself - in which case RUS Gold succeeds admirably. But I get the sense some of these may not be design decisions, but simply either issues with how the engine handles things or maybe they slipped through the cracks (and can be revised in the future).


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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Oct. 12, 2016 — /BackupReview.info/ – At Postgres Vision, EnterpriseDB® (EDB™), the Postgres database platform company, today announced the general availability of EDB Ark™, a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) for hybrid cloud deployments of Postgres to private and public clouds such as Red Hat® OpenStack®, Amazon Web Services™ (AWS), and other deployment platforms. In addition, EDB Ark will integrate with the leading cloud-native platform, Pivotal Cloud Foundry®.
"EDB Ark gives IT flexibility without giving up control," said Marc Linster, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Product Development, EnterpriseDB. "With EDB Ark, IT management can provide a DBaaS for developers or database administrators that runs in hybrid environments. Launching EDB Ark for OpenStack, Amazon, and other platforms gives organizations the ability to quickly deploy instances of Postgres, so they can more effectively support DevOps and continuous application development goals."
According to Gartner, Inc.: "IT departments are besieged by demands that come from two fundamentally different business needs: the need to provide stable and reliable performance to address the daily business functioning of the enterprise; and the need for flexibility and responsiveness to deliver digitally innovative results that drive new business outcomes…. To meet the challenge, Gartner recommends that CIOs adopt a bimodal approach that identifies a Mode 1 capability that is applied to situations that are more predictable, and focused on improving and renovating in more well-understood areas, and a Mode 2 capability that is exploratory, experimenting to solve new problems."1
EDB Ark Architecture
The EDB Ark console and APIs allow for quick and easy creation of Postgres clusters – each cluster is immediately set up with high availability, automatic backup and recovery, load balancing, and basic monitoring and management. Users have the option of encrypting every cluster to provide an environment that is both secure and transparent to the connecting applications.
EDB Ark Features and Functionality
Database administrators (DBAs) can work with EDB Ark through the GUI or a RESTful API. Applications connect to Postgres clusters through pgPool; if preferred, they can also connect directly to databases within the clusters. DBAs have full access to the databases via SSH.
EDB Ark provides a unified interface to control and manage deployments from an easy-to-use management console, as well as an API. EDB Ark deployments provide high availability, integrated disaster recovery, cross availability zone replication, and self-healing capabilities.
Additional key features and functionality of EDB Ark include:
Scale out and scale up: EDB Ark provides scale out for increased read performance and increased data storage, and scale up to increase RAM or CPU. Scaling thresholds for the number of server connections or the percentage of storage can be used to add new replicas to the cluster automatically or increase the storage assigned to the cluster. The User Interface (UI) allows for simple upscaling (or downscaling) of the machine types to change RAM or CPU as needed.
Migration and Compatibility with Oracle: EDB Ark offers full support for EDB Postgres Advanced Server, thus combining the flexibility of a DBaaS framework with database compatibility for Oracle. EDB Postgres Advanced Server's database compatibility for Oracle includes:
Replication: To extend capabilities, EDB Ark clusters can also be used in conjunction with EDB Postgres Replication Server. This allows for the creation of fully integrated digital business solutions that bridge traditional on-premises databases running on SQL Server or Oracle Database to DBaaS solutions running on Postgres. An order status website, for example, could run in the DBaaS framework while the order management system remains untouched as a legacy database on-premises, with continuous data replication to Postgres.
The EDB Postgres Replication Server supports continuous replication of data from the traditional on-premises systems to the DBaaS databases – a key capability needed to avoid data silos.
EDB Postgres Replication Server also can be used with EDB Ark to minimize downtime for migrations from traditional database platforms such as Oracle or SQL Server to Postgres-based DBaaS-managed databases. First, the EDB Postgres Migration Toolkitis used for a one-time migration of the database. Then EDB Postgres Replication Server is used to bring the DBaaS-managed database instance up-to-date with the original database, before redirecting the application to the DBaaS-managed instance. This approach combines the migration functionality with the continuous data replication capabilities to allow users to migrate to open source-based solutions with minimal downtime.
EDB Partner Ecosystem
EDB Postgres Ecosystem Partners include Alibaba, Amazon, Dell Technologies, Google, HP Enterprise, IBM, Infor, Pivotal®, and Red Hat, which provide customers the flexibility to choose an on-premises, cloud, or hybrid deployment model. EDB Postgres subscriptions support the ability to move workloads seamlessly on and off the cloud, worldwide, as needed, and provide enterprises with the flexibility to respond more quickly to shifting demands among internal constituencies.
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More information about EDB Ark can be found here or by contacting email@example.com
To register for a free, half-day EDB Ark Quick-Start course, click here. Also, two full-day, fee-based EDB Ark training courses have been designed for (i) Administrators and (ii) Users. To learn more about these fee-based courses click here – http://www.enterprisedb.com/general-inquiry-form
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I bought a van!
I'd like you to meet Vincent Van Gogh. Yep. I bought a van to convert into a glorious camper van and named him. It has a gorgeous blue paint job that, when in the sun, has flecks that sparkle like stars. (get it? starry night? VAN gogh? eh eh? I crack myself up!) Now excuse me while I go freak out for awhile about how I'm supposed to begin a conversion when I don't know the first thing about vehicles OR building!


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The necessity of digital security is increasing as more and more medical data is going digital. HIPAA guidelines necessitate that medical providers keep data protected. HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) is US legislation that provides security provisions and data privacy for safeguarding medical information. While some providers complain that their data isn't protected, many healthcare providers are managing security well. This request the question: what are their security options?
Organizations essentially have two choices when it comes to storing medical data,:
- Outsource your Data Storage
- Manage Your Own Data
Outsource your Data Storage
The hospital erp software, like cloudpital, necessary to input and retrieve medical data is provided by many outsource providers. They provide tech and hardware support. This option is generally utilized by bigger healthcare organizations.
Some advantages of outsourced data storage are:
- Less Work: Healthcare organizations are free to focus on just healthcare because someone else is managing their data,
- Quality Data Protection: A data storage center is likely to utilize quality server protection and up-to-date equipment. Some data centers guarantee HIPAA level protection.
- External Support: The outsource provider offers will provide its own external support instead of hiring a large IT staff for your company. The data center manages the servers for your healthcare facility.
- Low Upfront Cost: Many outsource providers offer packages that include different levels of storage and service. Your facility can save money on IT costs and hardware.
Manage Your Own Data
In this set-up, healthcare providers are responsible for all of their own hardware and software management. They can use hospital management software, like cloudPital, for efficiently and effectively managing their hospital. All data is stored on-sight. This is usually good for smaller healthcare organizations.
Some advantages of self-data storage are:
- Self-Monitored Data Protection: Security is in company's own hands. Compliance with HIPAA and other healthcare regulations can be handled internally instead of trusting it to another company.
- More Flexibility: Companies can select the equipment and applications they prefer.
- Complete Control: All of the data is local, and any changes to where or how files are stored is in company's own control.


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A Bonnaroo Media Round-Up, Plus What Was The New York Times Thinking?
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Speaking of the 10th Bonnaroo, this year's massive Manchester, Tenn., festival produced a load of good media: Ben Ratliff's commentary for The New York Times was slightly elliptical and very intriguing, like a set of elaborations carefully built from random notebook scraps. There's the excellent stream of The Arcade Fire set, too, plus this charming video of Sharon Van Etten that offers an interesting look at a first time at Bonnaroo. This MTV piece is kind of cute, while this Philadelphia Inquirer brief hopefully keys in on an infusion of increasingly interesting hip-hop programing in major American festivals.
The most ponderous piece to come out of this year's festival, though, might just be Carrie Jerrell's "A Postcard from Bonnaroo: A Music Festival to Make Your Head Spin," printed in the A section of Monday's The New York Times. An English professor and poet, Jerrell offers an editorial that's 635-words of gee-golly naiveté that, if she hadn't led with the statement that she's been going to music festivals for two decades, would probably lead most to believe that she decided to save the biggest festival for her first festival. She laments that it will never be Woodstock because of the need to stage multiple bands at once, and that the kids these days just don't care about politics when they've paid a lot of money to listen to music.
She reserves the bulk of her piece, though, for an ambivalent consideration of the festival's drug culture. "Transactions that could lead to a prison term on city streets are conducted openly here," she says, writing with a trace of hesitation and wonder that mostly suggests she might want to join in, save for her need to be sanctimonious. Fact is, though, two people died at Bonnaroo last weekend, bringing the death count for the festival's 10-year run up to 10. According to the most recent news reports, drugs haven't been ruled out in at least one of this year's deaths, a fact that makes Jerrell's meaningless postcard even more frustrating. Instead of disapproval or acceptance or anything like an assertive opinion, we got a conversation with an older fan who brought his kids–or a ham-fisted suggestion that festivals of this size should be for everyone when, clearly, they aren't.
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Mass Image Resizing Using Photoshop ActionsBy Dr Diablo | Photoshop CS3 | Beginner
We all have been in a situation where we had to take a bundle of photos from our camera at the end of the day to email these 80 pictures, it is no shock how large the total size of these images can be. The average image size from an 8 megapixel camera is around 2.5MB. Multiply that by 50 would throw you back at 125MB file size - which is basically a disaster for you in terms of uploading time and major problem for those running slow internet connections.
Of course the easy solution for this is to resize the images, but in practical terms that is impossible if you have tens or even hundreds of photographs. This tutorial will teach you how to use Photoshop Actions to resize a massive number of images in one go. An Action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files.
Our tutorial is divided into the following sections:
- Prepare the images.
- Record the command.
- Batch play the command.
Preparing Your Images
Start off by putting all the images that you want to resize in a separate folder on your desktop. I used five images as shown below (total size around 12MB), but you can use any number of images when you follow this tutorial yourself.
Recording Actions
Open up Photoshop and go through File>Open, select one of the images and click Open.
The image will now be open within your workspace, the idea here is that we are going to use Actions to record the steps for resizing a single image, and then automatically play those steps for the rest of the images to complete the resize process automatically. Go through Window>Actions to bring up the Actions Panel. Click the Create New Set to create a set for your custom made actions.
Click on the Create New Action button from the Actions Panel to start the recording process.
Give a name to your Action and click Record to start, I named my Action Image Resizing.
From now on, Photoshop will be recording every command you make, so make sure you follow the following steps correctly. Select the image and go through Image>Image Size, and just change the width to 640 and the height to 480. In my opinion, resizing images to 640x480 is pretty enough, but if you want to increase that, you can change it to 800x600 or whatever size you want as long as the proportions are constrained.
Go through File>Save for Web & Devices and input the options as shown in the screenshot below. Click the screenshot to enlarge.
Save your image wherever you want while making sure you leave the file name as it is. Close the image, go back to your Actions Panel and click on the Stop button. This has stopped the recording so that the action has been recorded until you closed your image in previous step.
Batch playing the command
Now that all of the actions are recorded all you have to do is simply Automate the action on a batch of images saved in a specific folder. Go through File>Automate>Batch and input the settings as shown in the screenshot below, you may want to click the screenshot to enlarge it. The Batch menu allows you to play a previously saved Action on multiple similar files. The Source section is where you select your desired source folder and the Destination section indicates where will the output images be located at. We selected to Override "Save As" Commands so that our Save for Web & Devices Step are also applied. Finally, the File Naming section allows selection of various ways to save your output files, in the screenshot below the output images will have their original file name along with their original extension.
Once you click OK, Photoshop will open each image and lays the saved action, this process will take you less than 10 seconds. Now if you check the size of your images, you will see that they will be 419 KBs in total, that makes the reduction rate of 96.5%!
This concludes our tutorial, I hope that you learnt something new from it, feel free to email me on email@example.com for any comments or questions or alternatively post in the Oman3D Forum to get instant feedback.
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The Library offers many other ways to help you avoid paying fines. Most items can be renewed online. All items, including audiovisual material, may be returned in the outside book drop after hours without incurring an overdue charge until after we open the next day. E-mail overdue notices provide more timely notification of mounting fines than conventional mailed notices. A receipt print-out of all items borrowed can be helpful in keeping track of what is due when. Ask for details at the Circulation Desk.


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It's a drizzly Tuesday night, and six armed police are manning a checkpoint on one of the main access roads into seaside Cronulla, in Sydney's south. It works like this: an officer waves approaching cars to the side of the road, where an expressionless colleague with a torch takes over: "Hi. How are you? Where are you going?" There's a brief exchange, a license checked, whereupon the driver's either waved on or turned back. Nearly everyone is good-humored�some are clearly pleased to see the police out in force. But the officers are on edge: "We don't know what's going to happen,"...


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An adaptive protease and probiotic solution, Syncra® SWI delivers unique energy and amino acid digestibility for pigs, powered by the probiotic's agile enzyme-production. working in harmony with the protease.
Syncra® SWI is a highly effective feed additive with an agile enzyme producing capacity which adapts to different feed ingredients. This action significantly improves energy and amino acid digestibility, as well as gut health, in grower and finisher pigs.
Delivering exceptional consistency, Syncra® SWI has been shown to improve Feed Conversion Ratios (FCR) in 75% of animal trials. Its use improved FCR by more than 3% compared to the control groups.
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Its powerful protease/probiotic combination works in harmony to optimise energy and amino acid digestibility – regardless of any variations in feed substrate levels.
As a live and responsive organism, the multi-strain probiotic adapts its enzyme production profile to the available substrate in the pig's small intestine, enabling the same additive to degrade substrate in many different feed ingredients and so powers the protease component.
By using the spore-forming Bacillus species probiotic - which are highly stable to heat and processing – Syncra® SWI also acts as an enzyme delivery system. It allows unstable enzymes, which would not normally survive pelleting or the stomach, to safely reach the pig's small intestine where they are needed to break down substrate.
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I was on the verge of ending this blog. First, after pouring my heart out in a profound meditation on traffic management the other day, a friend put the following comment on my Facebook page:
You so need to get out more!
(I wouldn't normally repeat personal comments, but this was already alarmingly public in the first place.)
Second, and much more seriously, I read this article by Todd Gitlin about the effects of using the Internet. Gitlin reviews Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. It's a challenging thesis. It's not just that the Internet dumbs information down (it's easy to respond to this by pointing to the profusion of intelligent content on the net). It's that the way we read and process ideas on the Internet is actually making us less able to think and reflect in any meaningful way.
So no matter how profound the ideas in this blog, it is just contributing to the cultural malaise of our times. That's the suggestion. Do you agree? I don't mean "is this blog in particular contributing to the malaise?" I mean "would we be better just switching off the computers and going to the library?"
It's worth quoting a few paragraphs.
Carr grabs our lapels to insist that the so-called information society might be more accurately described as the interruption society. It pulverizes attention, the scarcest of all resources, and stuffs the mind with trivia. Our texting, IM-ing, iPhoning, Twittering, computer-assisted selves—or self-assisted computing networks—are so easily diverted that our very mode of everyday thought has changed, changed utterly, degraded from "calm, focused, undistracted" linearity into "a new kind of mind that wants and needs to take in and dole out information in short, disjointed, often overlapping bursts." Google searches, too, break our concentration, which only makes matters worse: "Google is, quite literally, in the business of distraction," Carr writes. Because we are always skimming one surface after another, memories do not consolidate and endure. So we live in a knife-edge present. We turn into what the playwright Richard Foreman called "pancake people—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button." We collect bits and the bits collect us.
Worse still, no one has dragooned us into the shallows. Nobody is forcing us from pixel to post. We are our own victimizers, because we crave interruption. When we grow up texting every few minutes, legato—which now feels like an eternity—yields to staccato. Taking a break during the writing of this review, while watching a recent Lakers-Suns playoff game, I observed a couple of women in four-figure courtside seats behind the Suns' bench working their thumbs on BlackBerries as the camera panned over them. Maybe they were live-blogging, or day-trading on Asian markets.
With so many interruptions so easy to arrange, Carr argues, it is no wonder that we cannot concentrate, or think straight, or even think in continuous arabesques. Where deep reading encourages intricacies of thought, the electronic torrent in which we live—or which lives in us—turns us into Twittering nerve nodes. The more links in our reading, the less we retain. We are what we click on. We no longer read, we skim. With Wikipedia a click away, are we more knowledgeable? Or even more efficient? Multi-tasking, Carr quotes the neuroscientist David Meyer as saying, "is learning to be skillful at a superficial level."
After all, the brain that has been re-wired online governs us offline, too. The more we multi-task, the more distractible we are. But aren't we more sophisticated at "visual-spatial skills"? Sure, but at the price of "a weakening of our capacities for the kind of 'deep processing' that underpins 'mindful knowledge acquisition, inductive analysis, critical thinking, imagination, and reflection," writes Carr, quoting a Science article that reviewed more than fifty relevant studies.
And so we devolve inexorably into "lab rats constantly pressing levers to get tiny pellets of social or intellectual nourishment." These sweet tidbits are rotting our mental teeth. This is so, Carr maintains, because "the Net delivers precisely the kind of sensory and cognitive stimuli—repetitive, intensive, interactive, addictive—that have been shown to result in strong and rapid alterations in brain circuits and functions," and that consequently, "with the exception of alphabets and number systems, the Net may well be the single most powerful mind-altering technology that has ever come into general use."


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This is the final post in a three-part series on commercial resource planning.
As pharma companies begin to think about reorganizing and deploying their commercial resources to better align with changing customers and an evolving healthcare landscape, their strategy for transforming commercial resource planning can't be piecemeal, but their approach to implementing the change likely should be. It's going to take time to develop the right customized approach to suit your company's specific needs and challenges, and to get buy-in. Data and technology will carry some of the weight, as will coordinating internal processes and roles, and adopting an on-demand, customer-specific mindset.


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How to make your cat happy
Famed for their dogged indifference, cats just want to be understood and not terrified by your seemingly innocent human behavior. These tips can help ensure a happier, and thus healthier, kitty.
At TreeHugger we have a soft spot for natural remedies to help pets, but sometimes the best medicine is simple prevention. And as it turns out – according to the experts – an environment that a cat finds stressful can lead to a number of chronic cat diseases.
Despite thinking that we really know our cats, Tony Buffington from Ohio State University says that few of us understand how to listen to our cats, notes Wired magazine. This leads to frustrated humans who can't fathom, for the life of them, why kitty keeps scratching the sofa or attacking the hand that strokes. And it leads to a stressed cat, which can lead to poor health and disease.
The best cure, he says, is "learning to listen to your cat, giving him choices, and reducing the environmental factors that trigger his stress response."
"No matter how much we love them, cats are our captives, domesticated aliens with no way of explaining their customs, or of interpreting ours," writes Nick Stockton.
Unlike dogs and (most) humans, cats are not innately social. They evolved as solitary hunters and are not adept at reading our social cues. You may yell, snap, clap, make gestures and noises at a cat who is not minding you. A dog gets it, a cat thinks: "BIG AGGRESSIVE PRIMATE ACTING CRAZY, BE WARY!"
Without the cognitive ability to make the connection between your anger and their behavior, cats just see aggression. This is frightening for the cat, frustrating for both cat and human, and ultimately leads to stress for the cat because of the constant disruption to natural feline behaviors.
"Cats get sick when they want to express their natural behaviors and they can't," Buffington says. And they will continue to sneak in their feline activities while you're not around. It's just their nature.
Buffington offers these tricks for working with your cat; rather than an unintended fear campaign, these smart approaches take your cat's view into consideration.
Train your cat through their environment
Pay attention to what's whereFood bowl by the fridge? Litter box in the laundry room? While these seem perfectly fine for us giant animals, Boffington says that household appliances sound like monsters to the cat who's trying to eat and poop in silence. Make sure the food bowl and litter box are in calm areas where there is an exit route if kitty feels threatened.
Afford your cat a good viewCats are interested in other animals, but don't want to feel exposed. They don't understand glass and don't understand that a window offers protection, says Boffington. Provide hidden observation places, and importantly, make sure there is someplace high – like a shelf or cat tree – where your kitty can observe in peace.
Watch the hands, buddy!Must. Pet. Soft. Fluffy. Cat. It's almost impossible to resist, as if we are hard-wired to reach out feel the warm silky fur on our fingers. But cats are not naturally as affectionate as we are, says Boffington, and we should let them initiate and lead the cuddling. If your cat rubs against you, she is saying it's ok for you to pet that part of her.
Resist the belly
Beware the rumpA cat's raised tush is not an invitation to give the base of the tail area a good hard rubbing. The rump of a cat is chock full of nerves and is very sensitive. Some petting there will probably be tolerated, but overstimulating the area is like being uncomfortably tickled.
Don't force a BFF on themDogs love to have dog buddies, cats, not so much, says Boffington. Or course some cats will have their best friends, but cats do not need to be around more cats, he says; in nature, wild cats are solo hunters and other cats indicate competition, not friendship. If you need to introduce new cats to each other, it's good to do so gently. You can rub each cat with a dry towel and then rub the same towel on the other cat so that they can become accustomed to the other's scent. Make sure each cat has eaten and had plenty of affection so that they are comfortable, and introduce them while making sure both are receiving human attention. Allow them to mingle without forcing it, and make sure there is an escape route in case one of them gets freaked out and needs to hit the road.
And remember, they really do want to bondAs aloof as they may be, Boffington says that cats really do want to connect with their human – and great bonds are often made. If Kitty seems upset when you leave for the day, try to create a ritual for when you leave and return. When you're ready to depart, call your cat, talk to him or her and give some affection; let him know you are saying good-bye. And create a similar re-entry ritual.
While some of this may seem like common sense and many of you may have cats who defy these descriptions and behaviors altogether, it's really a wonderful exercise to step out of our human skin and get a cat's eye view of things. You've got nothing to lose and everything to gain, especially if you can help your cats be the happy and healthy creatures that they deserve to be.


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[Image above] Thermochromic paint-coated conductive fibers allow researchers to change the color of thread with a little power supply. Credit: University of California Berkeley
A few weeks ago, a popular Australian online fashion retailer called Showpo posted a video on its Facebook page that seemed to debut a magically color-changing dress.
In the video, the dress appears to be wirelessly connected to an iPad, on which the touch of a finger on a digital color wheel instantly changes the color of the dress.
Watch for yourself.
Credit: Showpo Channel; YouTube
But you know you can't believe everything on the internet.
Although the company afterwards admitted that the dress isn't "yet" real, Showpo nonetheless says it's confident it can create such a magical color-changing dress.
And the company might be right.
One way to change the color of thread is to make it conductive, using an electrical current to catalyze a color change.
Making conductive threads and weaving them into pieces of clothing is not nothing new. In fact, Google has a whole project dedicated to innovating and mass-producing interactive textiles called Project Jacquard.
But, as Wired reports, although conductive fabric isn't anything new, producing conductive fabrics at scale is. And that's what Project Jacquard is all about. It wants to create interactive textiles that can be made in the same factories that are already producing textiles—no new technology, machinery, or equipment needed.
The idea behind the technology itself is simple—interweave a small amount of conductive threads in with other normal textile fibers, allowing an ordinary piece of cloth to become connected and interactive. Project Jacquard has a goal of manufacturing interactive textiles that can transform clothing, furniture and more into interactive objects that can recognize touch and gestures.
The idea is similar to that of a capacitive touchscreen—the technology can recognize the conductivity of your skin and translate simple movements or gestures into commands.
And if you can create conductive threads, it's not that much more of a stretch to create conductive threads that change color.
Researchers at UC Berkeley did it just earlier this year. Their project, called Ebb, is one under the umbrella of Google's Project Jacquard.
Ebb uses conductive threads coated with thermochromic pigments, which change color as electricity flows through the threads and heats them up (ever so slightly), according to a Berkeley news release.
The authors presented the work earlier this year at the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
According to the conference proceedings, Ebb's conductive thread is made of cotton wound with copper and insulated with a thin coating of enamel.
Current heats up the thread and "changes the pigments in the fabric paint from an opaque to transparent state and results in a visual effect of the thread fading to its uncoated white color," the authors write in the proceedings.
Credit: University of California Berkeley
In addition to changing the color of your shirt on a whim, part of the idea behind Ebb is to create e-ink that could essentially integrate electronics and wearables right into your clothing—so that your watch would be a part of your shirt, for example, or your cuff could alert you to a missed call.
Watch this short demonstration of a few of the ideas Ebb has fabricated using its thermochromic conductive threads (no camera tricks here!).
Credit: Ebb CHI 2016; YouTube
Just like Project Jacquard's idea of integrating new technology into existing textile factories, the idea is to eliminate extra unnecessary elements—instead integrating technology into our existing clothing and environment. However, Ebb's technology so far changes colors slowly, so fast responsive displays aren't yet feasible.
And because Ebb's thread is coated with thermochromic paint, that also means that the thread changes color with any heat—not just heat from a supplied electrical current. So sitting in a patch of sunlight on a warm day or getting a little sweaty after riding your bike could also change the color of your shirt, too.
Another downside of Ebb's fibers is that the threads have a limited lifecycle—the researchers report that the thermochromic paint becomes permanently transparent after repeated heating cycles. The threads held up for more than 500 short heating cycles in the researchers' tests, but that lifetime depends on how much power is supplied through the thread and how long it's heated.
But thermochromic paint isn't the only option for color-changing threads.
Take an example from nature: chameleons have color-changing skin that contains photonic crystals that reflect different wavelengths of light as they change orientation, changing the perceived color of the lizards.
"The animal changes its colors via the active tuning of a lattice of nanocrystals," physicist Jérémie Teyssier and biologist Suzanne Saenko say in a Huffington Post story. "When the chameleon is calm, the latter are organized into a dense network and reflect the blue wavelengths. In contrast, when excited, it loosens its lattice of nanocrystals, which allows the reflection of other colors, such as yellows or reds."
It's not hard to imagine materials scientists could devise a similar crystal orientation-dependent color-changing textile. In fact, researchers at Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal and Concordia University in Canada already developed photonic bandgap fibers that can change appearance depending on how they're illuminated by light.
In that unpublished paper's abstract, the authors write: "We demonstrate how photonic crystal fibers enable a variety of color and structural patterns on the textile, and how dynamic imagery can be created by balancing the ambient and emitted radiation."
Although the color changes with such threads likely wouldn't be quite as simple as the tap of a touchscreen, the idea of a color-changing dress may be less magical than completely feasible.
So the short answer is yes, materials science can create color-changing clothes—but we're still waiting for a dress as dynamic as Showpo's.


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MoD to come out with a simpler Make II Process: Ajay Kumar, Secretary (Defence Production)
National Defence Bureau,
New Delhi, 12 December 2017
Ministry of Defence is considering simplification of the Make 2 process to expedite defence manufacturing and greater participation by private sector in achieving self-reliance and indigenisation, said Dr Ajay Kumar, Secretary (Defence Production), Ministry of Defence, India at the India-Sweden Defence Industry Day organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry in partnership with SOFF (Swedish Security & Defence Industry Association) & SIDM (Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers) in New Delhi.
In addition to a liberalised FDI regime, the Government is also making available 20 to 24 projects under Make II category that will create ample opportunity for the industry to make inroads and realising the country's aim to become a defence manufacturing destination through strategic partnerships, the Secretary added.
Reiterating the stronger business and bilateral relations of the two countries, Jan Salestrand, Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Sweden said, "Sweden ranks as one of the most competitive countries in the world for innovation and research and ties between Sweden and India have grown stronger in trade and investments" He also cited the successful implementation of the Sweden-Brazil model for Grippen fighter plane.
Lt Gen Subrata Saha, Director General, Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers (SIDM) & Principal Adviser, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in his welcome address spoke about the role SIDM will play for bringing technology into discourse, get them absorbed with appropriate enabler of transfer of technology. He also highlighted the need of transition from the prescriptive to a more predictive system.
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Shailesh Kumar is an independent journalist with over 17 years of experience in crime, political and defence reporting for leading media brands including Star News, India TV and NewsX. He is the founder editor of defence and security news portal, National Defence.


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If there's one thing to be sure about in the design and business world, it's that in order to attract an audience (and then turn them into customers) you're going to need a brand. It doesn't matter if you work for a large-scale company or are working on a part-time passion, the importance of having a consistent brand for all of your marketing cannot be underestimated.
A good brand should not only allow people to remember who you are but communicate your entire essence, history, and values all at once. Here is an introduction to branding, plus four levels of branding—from basic to advanced—that will have your brand looking smart and professional.
Branding basics: An introduction to branding
Why do we need branding?
Whether it's a global corporation that specializes in buying and selling tropical islands, or a small business that makes shoes with funny limericks on them, without good branding anyone can quickly fall into obscurity. If the information isn't delivered fast, and with an engaging angle, it's likely that you will lose the majority of your audience. Luckily, grabbing your audience's attention isn't difficult. In fact, a clever logo or exciting color scheme can deliver just as much information as a three-page mission statement if designed properly.
What makes a good brand?
- Good branding is trustworthy. It should make people feel at ease and allow them to be confident that your brand is the right choice. Know your audience and understand what would make them feel most comfortable in trusting you.
- Good branding is memorable. Take Apple, for example. The visual simplicity of Apple's branding is aligned with the functional simplicity of its products. So to be memorable, think about the most basic essence of your product and run with that concept throughout your branding.
- Good branding is flexible. A successful brand needs to evolve with the times in order to stay on top of the market and branding design is no different. Whether changes are subtle or obvious, flexibility will help a brand stay relevant.
Branding level one: Image and identity
The use of typefaces, color palette and images together is an imperative part of the brand development process and a style guide will help you to apply them correctly and consistently and ultimately build your brand like a pro.
01. Brand personality
Brand personality is the style or unique voice of your brand respective to the product or service you are selling. For example, is it masculine or feminine? Natural or man-made? Trendy or traditional?
- What are the main goals or ideas of the brand?
- What makes it different from competitors?
- How would you describe your brand?
- How would a consumer summarize your brand?
- How do you want people to experience your product or service?
- What kind of emotions do you want your brand images to evoke?
Answering these questions will help you develop your brand identity. It might help to create lists of words that speak for your brand in order to find the fitting visual response for your graphics.
Take Corona, for example. The brand's marketing images often depict exotic outdoor scenes, beaches, sunsets and cold bottles of beer. Corona's color palette is warm and yellow and many of its branded images feature a highly saturated filter. The consistent application of these visual features creates a recognizable 'sun drenched' look that leads many people to associate Corona with summer and holidaying. By doing so, Corona sells an experience – not just a bottle of beer.
By having a clear idea about how you want your brand to be perceived, you can start planning how to apply your visual assets consistently. Let's take a closer look at some good practices to develop a strong visual brand.
02. Brand colors
Color gives your brand the ability to express different moods as each color. It has the power to express a brand's attributes and values as well as increasing brand recognition by up to 80%. When used effectively, your brand color palette should evoke an emotion reflecting your brand identity.
Choose your colors in order of importance: from your primary palette (the one you will use the most, which you want to be the primary voice of your brand) to your secondary palette (the ones you will use the least). Use colors that are going to be functional as well as visually effective, ensuring there are good contrasting tones to layer text on flat colored backgrounds.
Apply your brand colors across graphic elements such as text, icons and backgrounds, and make an effort to use images that harmonize with your palette. For example, if your palette is pink, choose images with a similar tone.
Benefit Cosmetics does a good job of expressing its feminine identity using a predominantly pink color palette and these three images from Benefit's Instagram use the color pink in clever and creative ways.
03. Brand typefaces
Consider your brand essence and choose a typeface reflects it. For example, is your brand traditional or modern? The typeface/s you choose will affect the way the audience perceives your brand.
You should consider choosing two typefaces for your brand and using them consistently throughout all of your materials. The font for headings should be the largest and expressive of the persona of the brand. If you want to use a script, uppercase or title font then the heading is the place as these typefaces aren't easy to read in small or dense copy.
Subtitle fonts and body fonts should be easy to read. A great option for subtitles is to use the same font as your heading, but at a smaller size or in a different style, such as bold or italic, or increasing the letter spacing.
Consider Nike's uppercase, bold, sans serif font that it uses consistently across marketing graphics. This font is designed for its impact, which works well with Nike's call to action style images.
Limiting your font selection is a good fit for social media graphics that don't need heavy amounts of text. If you're just going to use one font, like Nike, choose the most recognizable font associated with your brand.
04. Brand images
Whether it's with tints, vibrancy, contrast, saturation or blurring, how you manipulate your images will also set a mood for your brand and can give a unique look and feel.
Some filters will brighten your images, while other will bring out certain colors, so it's important to have a clear idea about how your want your images to look. Just remember consistency is key: ensure your filters have the same synchrony as the other elements within your style guide.
Lifestyle magazine Kinfolk always uses the same style of images for its publication, website and social media platforms. Its desaturated, muted, almost film-processed photos complement the brands 'less is more,' minimalist approach and suits its understated brand essence.
05. Brand layout
The position and size of your logo, tagline and other visual assets should remain consistent.
Position your logo in the same place every time and with even padding around each side for balance and aesthetic harmony. If you're using it over images, be sure you can see it. Having alternate versions (black, white, color) will ensure it can be offset against your background.
In terms of size, your logo should never overpower your design, but it's also important that it isn't too small. Determine a minimum size for your logo so that it is still clear to read.
BRANDING LEVEL 2: Professionalism
06. Brand language
Language is how you communicate with your clients and potential customers and it applies across multiple platforms: website, social media pages, packaging, advertising, emails, and so on.
Here are some tips to remember with brand language:
- First person plural shows there's a united team behind your brand and generally if there's a happy team, customers are more likely to want to get involved: "We love funky graphics" or "Here at Canva, we love funky graphics."
- Be definitive and avoid language that lessens your authority in the field. "The color mint goes well with grey" is much stronger than "We think the color mint goes well with grey."
- Correct spelling and grammar is a professional must – no excuses. People don't notice when it's correct, but they certainly do when it's incorrect and clients, customers and potential partners will think twice about your brand and how seriously they should take it. Proofread, copy edit, and search grammar and spelling online.
- Even if your brand identity is playful or cheeky, you can still inject your brand language with these attributes without diminishing professionalism. If you always remain polite, considerate and helpful, you'll still express a professional brand identity no matter what cool and crazy vernacular.
07. Be user-friendly
Websites, products, services, apps should all be user-friendly or clients and customers will be turned away. User-friendliness wins over complicated design every time. When it comes to developing a website, ensure there are enough features such as search bars, drop down menus and categories to help customers find information or buy products as quickly as possible. The process should be as streamlined as possible: Just remember, less clicks is better.
08. Domain name
If you're serious about your business venture, bypass the free domain names and commit to a top level domain name (.com or .com.au) from the get-go. This projects a professional and consistent image to clients, reflecting an investment has been made (because if a company won't invest in itself – why should a customer?).
09. Email
Email is a primary means of communication and they need to reflect you and your brand. Your email address should have the same domain as your website, for example [email protected], rather than [email protected] or [email protected].
10. Social media presence
Ensure that your social media pages all showcase the same logo as the profile picture so that your brand is easily recognizable and you are presenting a unified look.
While posting regularly and providing useful resources to your clients is crucial, always remember your brand language – be professional while still expressing your brand essence.
BRANDING LEVEL 3: Personalization
11. Use data
A successful brand is all about the customer and establishing a positive relationship with them. Personalization by using data such as their name, gender, age, where they live, what their hobbies are and ask about their preferences can win a customer over and encourage them to use your services again. Your clients should feel as though they matter to you as individuals; understanding their habits and what's behind their need to purchase can take you and your brand a long way.
Take the Coca-Cola Share A Coke campaign that dominated billboards, social media and selfies for the better part of a year. To increase the consumption of the soft drink and kick start an ongoing conversation about the brand, Coca Cola's marketing experts worked with data they had about their target audience (social media-savvy young adults; the 'selfie' generation; the demographic that used colloquial terms like 'mate' and 'bestie') and used this to change the current attitudes towards the brand.
The results of the campaign were jawdropping. When the stats came in, it was found that young adult consumption had gone up 7%, traffic to the Coca Cola Facebook page had increased by 870%, while the page itself grew a further 39%. On a smaller scale, this means saying goodbye to templates and bulk emailing — you need to tailor your emails.
"96% of organizations believe that personalized marketing improves response rates and personalized emails improve click through rates by 14% and conversion rates by 10% ." – Hubspot.
12. Create a team graphic
Creating a team graphic shows that your brand isn't just a one-man show, that it is in fact, a legitimate business. Secondly, it allows your clients and potential clients to put faces to names they may have seen across emails or elsewhere. Lastly, it's great to show there's a happy team behind your company – if people are happy to work with you, there's obviously something good going on.
Include individual photos or a group shot with each team member's name, position and one or two 'fun facts' about them. The photo and information should suit the tone of your brand – professional and friendly if you're a corporate organization, or fun and cheeky if you're a young start-up.
The at Mashable incorporated headshots of their leaders, separate pages for their departments as well as an editorial team list, which includes the team member's social media pages.
13. Guest posting on social media
Relax and have a little fun with your marketing on social media, which is one of the best ways to personalize your brand. But, always be sure that your posts and topics are centered on your clients.
As Margin Media says, be human and encourage engagement, so get your team involved with guest posts across your social media platforms. For examples, ask team members to share their advice/expertise from a different department each week. This is a great way to introduce your clients to the people behind the scenes as well as show them that you've got a range of experts across all fields.
BRANDING LEVEL 4: Make your brand pop
14. Build social media campaigns around new features and products
Your online presence acts like a spotlight, so you want to be as interesting and engaging as possible. Highlighting new features and products as the core of your social media campaigns will present your brand in the best possible light.
Post with relevance! Remember that one of the top reasons why people lose interest in a brand is because they post online too frequently, without relevance.
15. Advertise directly to your target audience
In all advertising, consider your target market factors, such as age, sex, occupation, etc. Analyzing this data in relation to your brand will help you establish which groups to target, giving it the best chance of being noticed.
16. Use visual devices to engage with your audience
Up to 90 % of information transmitted to the brain is visual, so images, infographics and other visual devices can play a crucial role in making your brand identifiable.
In one case, analysis of Facebook's timeline feature showed that brands received 46% more engagement per post with images, while another case study revealed that the traffic of publishers using infographics grew at an average of 12% more than those who didn't.
17. Build a brand narrative
Humans connect with stories. In an experiment conducted by a London research firm, it was discovered that in just 90 minutes a person could be exposed to 250 different advertising messages from more than 100 brands. Of those, it was revealed people are most attracted to brands with authentic or unique narratives. Indeed, research shows that the brain has a natural reception to storytelling, as it helps us process news and events as experiences, rather than information. As such, a great brand experience is one with a plot (news), characters (your staff), context (your unique background) and core values and beliefs.
How to build a brand narrative:
- Know why you're a great brand. By determining why your brand is great, you'll be confident about what kind of narrative you want to share with the world.
- Put names and faces to your team. Introducing the members of your team will add a personal touch to your brand narrative as the characters of your story. This will ensure that your brand becomes 'real' and authentic, rather than generic. Check out this blog for useful tips.
- Make sure your story is evolving with your. Blogs, social media platforms, and press websites allow content to be updated quickly and regularly, which is a great advantage for showing the evolution of your brand. Social media campaigns can be a great way to incorporate new features, products, or additions into your brand narrative in the online environment; and having a good relationship with the press will also give you a chance to have the greatest scope for storytelling as you grow and evolve.
- Match your story to your style. Visual storytelling is just as important as writing or speaking about your brand. This blog explains how visual interpretation is actually our strongest developed sense. Even just choosing colors that reflect your mission statement and target audience can be a great way to develop a more direct brand narrative.
- Make it easy for your audience to share. Allowing your users to comment on your social media posts, blog or website can be a great way to add numerous voices to your narrative. Facebook has even created a function to integrate blog and social media commentary. Social sharing can also increase by adding social media 'buttons' to interesting posts. Remember that people share content that reflects well on them. Creating content that is visually interesting, insightful and newsworthy will make your brand more sharable.
18. Make bold decisions
Steve Jobs once said: "You've got to be willing to crash and burn. If you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far". Success, in every field, is owned by the game changers and the rule breakers. By pushing the limits of an idea, your brand will become an innovator.
Your turn
Whether you're starting your own business or creating marketing materials at work, branding is a fundamental part of a strong visual strategy. A consistent application of images, colors, fonts and layouts are all elements of graphic design that will play a huge role in making your brand image stand out; while language, narrative, and engagement with your audience will all having you branding like a pro.


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Learn About PCHA and its Benefits
Packard Children's Health Alliance (PCHA) is a new network associated with Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and the Stanford School of Medicine. We bring the best community physicians together in a network that provides healthcare for children and expectant mothers from San Jose to the East Bay and Peninsula.
In fact, we're proud to be the only Bay Area medical network with an exclusive focus on women and children, and we understand the unique value provided by our more than 650 leading pediatricians and obstetrician/gynecologists. What's more, we're growing fast.
PCHA Benefits
The health and happiness of you and your family is a priority for us. That's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package that rewards your talent and commitment and makes sure you feel valued.
We want to remain among the country's pre-eminent health care providers. So we make sure everyone has access to comprehensive health care options while also being able to manage costs. The benefits you'll enjoy as a PCHA employee include:
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- EAP and Flexible Spending
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- Flexible Savings Account (FSA) and Dependent Care Savings Account
- Paid Time Off
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