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This post is a short guide for marketers who want to understand what APIs are, and the role that they will play in the future of search marketing.
But before we jump into APIs, I'd like to start off with a prediction that the search engines of the future will primarily gather data using APIs not by crawling a website.
I believe this will happen because we're quickly moving toward a world dominated by mobile, not desktop usage. In the mobile world, the best experience is delivered within a native app, not a mobile browser.
With this in mind, we can safely assume that brands and developers will focus their energy on creating apps and content for mobile devices as opposed to websites for desktop users. And, that's not much of an assumption, as it's already happening.
The difference between creating content for the web, and creating content for a native app is that search engines can't crawl the content inside native apps. They need to access that content if they are to send mobile searchers your way. The solution is an API, and this guide will help explain what it is and how it works.
What is an API and how does it work?
API stands for Application Programming Interface. It's fancy talk for, "A way for computers to talk to each other."
Computers talk to each other all the time. Look at Siri and Google's relationship when you ask Siri to perform a web search on your iPhone. Siri can answer our questions because Google has an API that allows external applications, to query its search results in the same way a user would enter a keyword in Google.com.
Why should we should we bother to understand how an API works? Because, in doing so, we'll know how to create one for our mobile apps to ensure search engines can crawl our content.
Now of course we don't want to get into the technical details in this guide, we simply want to get a feel for how things work at a high level so we can tell our developers what we need built.
A typical website
If your site sells products, has user-generated content, collects any consumer information, or has an admin panel where you can edit site content, it most likely has a database to store all that info.
When a visitor lands on your homepage, your website requests information from its database to display the right product details. How does that work?
Programmers write code on the homepage called a query. The query connects to your database and gives it specific instructions to extract the product details it needs.
The query might say, "Give me the top 10 most popular products in the database. Then give me the names, prices and images for those 10 products." The database will provide a list of results that's formatted and displayed on the homepage as the Top 10 Hottest Product list.
To write a query like the one above, a website will need two critical pieces of information, the database/username or password (since the database will only run queries from authorized users) and the exact names of the database tables (where you store the information).
Now your website shouldn't have any problems retrieving this information, but external applications, like Siri or Google, may. After all, they don't know your database username/password and they don't know the names of your database tables. This is where an API comes in handy.
An API allows an external application to say, "Give me a list of all your products, and their associated information." The API translates that into a query that contains instructions for the database to retrieve the right information. The beauty here is that Google doesn't need to know your database username/password nor the location of the information in the database. The API takes care of that for them.
Now what about security? You might be okay with sharing product information with external apps like Google, but you probably don't want them asking about member or credit card information. APIs manage that well too. They have the ability to, block unauthorized apps from accessing confidential data, and allow approved apps to access that information.
Your Mobile App and Your API
Twitter is a fantastic example of how an external API helped a company become successful.
When Twitter first launched, it was simply a very basic web interface that let members text an update, and allowed their followers to see this update online. Even when smartphones started to become popular, Twitter didn't create an iPhone app. Instead they asked developers to build mobile apps for their service using their API.
Soon there were dozens of mobile applications that brought the Twitter experience to the iPhone using APIs to request tweets, view member information, and send updates to Twitter's database.
What's even more amazing is a few years ago, Twitter started to gain widespread recognition as a platform that allowed information to be discovered and shared quickly.
And it was only a matter of time that Google saw Twitter as a way to add real-time updates to their search results. They worked with Twitter to gain unrestricted access to their "tweets" via a special API called the "Fire hose feed". This let Google display breaking news in their search in near real time… all powered by Twitter's API.
Without the API, Google wouldn't have been able to crawl Twitter's site fast enough to keep up with all of its updates.
Search engines crawl websites to get information. This can be a slow process and can use a lot of bandwidth because they have to load an entire webpage to retrieve its results. APIs, on the other hand, are fast and efficient, because they provide only the requested information in a streamlined format.
Deciding whether to use traditional website crawl methods or an API is similar to the decisions you make when renting a movie. You can either stream a movie from Netflix, or go to the store to rent one. Which one did you choose? That's the difference between a search engines using an API (streaming video) vs. crawling a site (going to a store to rent).
Long story short, search engines want websites to build APIs. With them, search results can be updated in near real time, site content that was previously inaccessible can now be accessed, and data that was once unorganized is now structured, which makes it easier to evaluate.
Now IS THE TIME
With mobile projected to overtake desktop usage in 2014, now is the time for brands to focus on building their mobile applications.
When your team starts building mobile apps, make sure they do so using API calls, like Twitter's apps, as opposed to hard coding queries like today's websites. Queries don't allow external apps like search engines to access data, which will be critical in the future.
Remember, consumers who prefer mobile also conduct searches through their mobile devices. Today, search engines deliver desktop pages to mobile searches. In the future, I see search engines delivering app results instead.
When you start building your mobile apps, build them on an API. Doing so will help ensure your organic traffic doesn't drop because mobile searches are rising and you're not ready to let search engines access your content.
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DOHA: Qatar Exchange pursued its upswing trend on Monday adding 14.60 points or 0.12 percent to advance to 11,900.38 points from 11,885.78 on Sunday.
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FishOn! Northwestern Pennsylvania fishing report, July 4
The best walleye fishing in the region is still in Lake Erie off Conneaut and other Ohio ports, but walleye fishing is fair to good off most of the Pennsylvania shoreline with signs that more migratory walleye are in local water.
In the Walnut Creek area and west, walleye have been caught in depths ranging from 37 feet to 70 feet. Most of the walleye in water in the depth range of 60 feet to 70 feet have been suspended 20 feet to 30 feet beneath the surface. Those deeper walleye are almost certainly fish moving here from the west. The better near-shore walleye fishing, in the depth range of 37 feet to about 40 feet, has been before 9 a.m. On the east side of Erie, there has been fair to good walleye fishing between 50 feet and 70 feet. They have been scattered. Stick baits including Bay Rat, Bagley, Reef Runner and Renosky have been effective. The best color patterns have included pink, purple, green and blue-green. Try Snap Weights run from planer boards. Also try spoons in similar color patterns run from downriggers at 30 feet to 40 feet. Snapping a release to let the spoon flutter to the surface might trigger a strike.
Perch fishing has been slow in Lake Erie west of Erie. Try 38 feet off Elk Creek. Some are being caught off the point of Presque Isle in depths of 26 feet to 45 feet, off Shades Beach and Northeast Marina at about 35 feet and off Twenty Mile Creek at 29 feet. Look for improved perch fishing over this weekend. Emerald shiners do not hold well in this warm weather. Bob Zawadsky on the O-Danny-O suggests a small amount of hydrogen peroxide in the bait well.
Smallmouth bass have been hitting east from Erie in depths of 25 feet to 45 feet, with irregular rocky structure being key to the best numbers.
Channel catfish and sheepshead have been hitting in lower Elk Creek.
Largemouth bass fishing is good at Presque Isle Bay. Some pike have been hitting at Thompson Bay, Horseshoe Pond and in the Niagara Launch area. Fishing for bluegill is very good. Use red worms or nightcrawler pieces. A few largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, rock bass and perch have been hitting at the South Pier and the North Pier. Try half of a nightcrawler.
Crappie and small pike have been hitting at Eaton Reservoir outside the thick weeds.
At Lake Pleasant, bluegill and some crappie have been caught from boats near the weeds. Worms have been the most effective bait.
At Lake Wilhelm, crappie fishing has been slow this week. Some walleye, largemouth bass and muskie have been caught. Expect improved fishing as the weather settles this weekend.
Crappie fishing has been fair to good at Pymatuning Lake. Get right over cover for the best crappie action. Bluegill fishing has been good. Walleye fishing has been slow. Plenty of channel catfish have been caught lately.
Largemouth bass have been cooperating at Edinboro Lake. Bluegill fishing has been good. Crappie fishing is slow.
Muskie fishing at Chautauqua Lake has been good in the north basin along weed lines. Some hot spots have been near the green buoy at Victoria, Dewittville and the Bell Tower. In the southern basin muskie have been suspended halfway down in about 18 feet fo water. For walleye, troll Hot 'N' Tots in the southern basin, or fish pockets in the weed beds with black jigs in the northern basin. Bluegill have been hitting well on jigs tipped with grubs at Burtis Bay, the Rock Piles and Magnolia. Some crappie have been caught at Burtis Bay and Colburns.
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Grey's Anatomy: Dr. Bailey Was Almost a Blonde?!
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Can you imagine anyone other than the wonderful, Emmy-nominated Chandra Wilson playing Grey's Anatomy's tough-as-nails doc Miranda Bailey? Neither can we, though producers, initially at least, had other ideas.
Wilson appeared on The View earlier this week, where she told Barbara Walters–who said Grey's is one of the few shows she regularly watches–and the women that she wasn't exactly what the casting agents were looking for at her first audition for the show. "It was a regular old audition here in New York," Wilson said. "(And) they were looking for a short, white, blonde female … It wasn't going to me."
So how did she woo them over to considering someone less like Kristin Chenoweth and more like Chandra Wilson?
"I knew that (Bailey) was called 'The Nazi,' so I figured that that was gonna have to do with her demeanor somehow, how she treated the interns. So I just walked in with that."
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Light Reactions
split H2O, release O2, reduce NADP to NADPH, generate ATP from ADP by photophosphorylation
What is the first step in Light Reactions?
Electron transfer from Chlorophyll A to primary electron acceptor
Linear Electron Flow
Primary Pathway: involves both photosystems and produces ATP and NADPH using light energy
What are the three phases in the Calvin Cycle?
1. Carbon Fixation 2. Reduction 3. Regeneration of the CO2 acceptor
In the electromagnetic spectrum, the type of radiation that we call visible light occurs between _____.
ultraviolet radiation and infrared radiation
What is the product of light reactions during photosynthesis?
NADPH, high energy electrons, oxygen, ATP
When light strikes chlorophyll molecules, they lose electrons, which are ultimately replaced by _____.
Splitting Water
Photosynthesis is a redox reaction. This means that H2O is _____ during the light reactions and CO2 is_ _____ during the Calvin Cycle.
oxidized, reduced
C4 plants occur more commonly in desert conditions because _____
they can fix carbon at the lower CO2 concentrations that develop when the stomata are closed
In the Calvin cycle, how many ATP molecules are required to regenerate RuBP from five G3P molecules?
C4 plants differ from C3 and CAM plants in that C4 plants _____.
transfer fixed carbon dioxide to cells in which the Calvin cycle occurs
Accessory pigments within chloroplasts are responsible for
absoring photons of different wavelengths of light and passing that energy to P680 or P700
Linear Electron flow along with chemiosmosis in the chloroplast results in the production of
ATP, NADPH, and O2
CAM plants avod photorespiration by
fixing CO2 into organic acids during the night; these acids then release CO2 during the day
What are the final electron acceptors for the ETC in the light reactions of photosynthesis and in cellular respiration?
NADP+ in light reactions, O2 in respiration
In photosynthesis, plants use carbon from _____ to make sugar and other organic molecules.
Carbon Dioxide
In a rosebush, chlorophyll is located in _____.
thylakoids, which are in chloroplasts in the mesophyll cells of a leaf
The source of the oxygen produced by photosynthesis has been identified through experiments using radioactive tracers. The oxygen comes from _____.
In photosynthesis, what is the fate of the oxygen atoms present in CO2? They end up ______.
in sugar molecules and in water
The reactions of the Calvin cycle are not directly dependent on light, but they usually do not occur at night. Why?
The Calvin cycle depends on products of the light reactions.
the wavelengths of light most effective in driving photosynthesis are referred to as _____.
The action Spectrum
During photosynthesis in chloroplasts, O2 is produced from ______ via a series of reactions associated with ______.
H2O; photosystem II
During photosynthesis in a eukaryotic cell, a high proton concentration accumulates or is formed in the ______.
(inner) thylakoid space
The light reactions of photosynthesis generate high-energy electrons, which end up in ____. The light reactions also produce ____ and ____.
NADPH ... ATP ... oxygen
The energy used to produce ATP in the light reactions of photosynthesis comes from _____.
movement of H+ through a membrane
What is the role of NADP+ in photosynthesis?
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On Friday, the Seattle Seahawks announced the release of Mike Williams. The six-foot, five-inch wide receiver played two seasons with the Seahawks, tallying up 83 receptions for 987 yards and three touchdowns.
One of Williams' most memorable moments in Seattle is his touchdown catch against the St. Louis Rams in Week 17 of the 2010-2011 season. BMW also had a touchdown catch in Seattle's historic upset of the New Orleans Saints in the first round of the playoffs just a few days later.
Seahawks General Manager John Schneider said, "We would like to thank Mike for his contributions over the past two seasons and we wish him well in the future."
The news came as no surprise to many Seahawk fans, and even Williams himself was not shocked. Following his release, Williams said that he had been expecting the move for some time; he also expressed his gratitude for Seattle and the opportunity he was given.
While BMW will be missed in Seattle, this gives guys like Sidney Rice, Doug Baldwin, Golden Tate, and Kris Durham more reps and a chance to prove their talent. Williams suffered a season-ending ankle injury in 2011 and never really found a rhythm with Tarvaris Jackson.
Keep in mind that the Seahawks have tight ends Zach Miller and Kellen Winslow; it is more than likely that a large part of Seattle's game plan in 2012 will revolve around a two tight end set. This reduces the need for taller receivers on the outside.
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Unlike Airbus, Boeing produces military aircrafts and spatial material besides commercial airliners. Boeing owns also the company McDonnell Douglas. Airbus produces only commercial aircrafts ( nope A400M is not commercial). But they are the most sold in their field. Indeed, Airbus produces around half of the world's commercial airliners. Currently the company produces the following aircrafts : A318, A319, A320, A321, A330, A340, A350, A380 (which is the biggest commercial aircraft in the world). And Boeing : B737, B757, B767, B777, B747, B787 Dreamliner plus military and spatial products, weapons, rocket launchers...
747 vs A380[edit]
Boeing made the 747, while Airbus made the A380. Both planes are jumbo jets, but the A380 is larger and more fuel efficent than the 747. HOWEVER the tables have turned back to Boeing, with the 747-8 variant being even more fuel efficient with it's General Electric GEnx 2B67 engines, similar to the 787 engines with the waffle cone design. The cargo version is popular, but so far only Lufthansa has snapped up some 747-8. 747s have been around for a long time, but the A380 was introduced in 2007.
787 vs A350[edit]
The Airbus A350 XWB is going to compete with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. 61 different airlines are going to get some Dreamliners, and there is a longer variant called the 787-9, with it's debut customer being Air New Zealand (there is also a 787-10). There is the 757-800, 757-900 and the 757-1000. 39 airlines/groups are going to get them, total orders in planes=812. I think the 787 is more popular[[File:http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&docid=Np-ZaUpTAGXkwM&tbnid=gSCYCARGsMasqM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbloga350.blogspot.com%2F2013%2F01%2Fbatteries-incident-in-787-could-impact.html&ei=j9NaU9WEG4XXkAW1goCIBw&bvm=bv.65397613,d.dGI&psig=AFQjCNFC5AnhTzgNnqDa9wurJLiS634SqA&ust=1398547647162377]]. That was a battery incident early on.
757/737 vs A320/A321(longer A320 variant)[edit]
The Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 are short to medium range airliners. Budget airlines always buy them. Both of them are extremly popular! The Boeing 757 is a narrowbody mid size jet. It ended production in 2004 due to loads of the customers buying the 737, but any pilot who was trained to fly the 757 can also fly a 767 due to their very similar type!! The A321 is a variant of the A320 that is longer. My belief would be that the A321 won.
767/777 vs A330/A340[edit]
The Boeing 777 200LR broke the world record for flying the world's longest routes, so it is good. The a330 is a smaller jet than the 777, and some budget airlines like AirAsiaX bought it. Note that the 767 isn't fuel efficient when compared to the 787, and the a340 has four engines! The a340 ended production in 2011, which suggests that the 777 won.
A little note...[edit]
Airbus planes use a small joystick at the side of the plane, opposed to the (traditional?) central yoke. Also, according to a book, (QF32 I think) you can pull back on the joystick, then return to neutral, and the plane will keep climbing at the same rate.
Also, the biggest cargo plane airbus has is the Beluga (I think). Boeing has also got an oddity like that, the dream lifter (carries Dreamliner parts)
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During the period 1904 to 1944,1 14,304 autopsies were performed in the Board of Health Laboratory, Gorgas Hospital, Ancon, Canal Zone. (The high autopsy rate of 68 per cent can be explained, in part, by the fact that the morticians who are employed at the Board of Health Laboratory obtain permission for autopsies.) In this series were 2,132 autopsies on children aged 10 years or less. The bodies came from Gorgas Hospital (known until 1927 as Ancon Hospital), Colón Hospital and Canal Zone dispensaries, and in many instances a coi oner's inquest had been held. They represented
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The Young Naturalist Awards is a research-based science competition for students in grades 7-12 to promote participation and communication in science. The contest is sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History. On their website, they have a helpful video to explain more about the contest as well as tons of resources for creating a project (for both students and teachers. By participating in the contest, students gain an understanding of how the natural world works, reinforce their inquiry-based research skills, and deepen their interest in science. The entry deadline for this year is March 1, 2015. Winners can receive cash prizes, publication of their work, and other incentives.
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Major gifts
We are very grateful for the support we receive from major donors, trusts, senior volunteers and our committee members, all of whom play a significant part in enabling us to carry on our work helping children and young people with cancer, and their families.
CLIC Sargent has a dedicated team that works closely with our major supporters and philanthropic individuals. We are here to discuss how you or your trust might support us financially, or share with us your business expertise and networks through involvement with our volunteer led event and fundraising committees.
Above all, we are committed to understanding your philanthropic objectives and working with you on a personal, one to one level. You will be at the very heart of our plans to support all families and parents that receive a devastating cancer diagnosis for their child and ensure that every child and young person has access to the full spectrum of CLIC Sargent's clinical, emotional, financial and practical support.
Major donors
CLIC Sargent is almost entirely reliant on voluntary income and private donations to fund its work. Our major donors are essential in helping us to deliver our services and plan for the future. Currently, we reach only two out of every three children and young people that need our support. We want to reach each and every one of them. But we can only do this with your support.
How major donors help us
We rely on major donations to help us:
- Provide free 'Home from Home' accommodation close to specialist hospitals, so that families can be close to their children during treatment.
- Provide clinical, practical and emotional support to children and young people with cancer, and their families through our staff including CLIC Sargent nurses, social workers and play specialists.
- Offer free breaks so that families can spend time together away from the everyday challenges of childhood cancer.
- Provide children, young people and families with a wide range of valuable information, literature and practical materials on childhood cancer and its impact.
- Give financial support including grants and benefits information to young people and families, to help them deal with the financial impact of cancer.
- Campaign and influence others to raise awareness of the needs of children and young people with cancer to improve the support they receive.
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Our dedicated team works closely with individual donors giving £5,000 or more. We are here to discuss your support and work with you to ensure your gift is used according to your wishes. For more information, please contact Charlotte Reichwald, Major Giving Manager on 020 8752 2911 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Charitable Trusts and Foundations
The support of trusts and foundations is crucial to CLIC Sargent's work, enabling us to continue providing vital support to children and young people with cancer, and their families.
We have a dedicated team who work closely with trusts and foundations, whether it's finding an appropriate project that fits with your objectives and interests, providing a progress report or arranging a personal visit to see our services.
Projects supported by trust funding
Miss Agnes H Hunter's Trust has been part-funding a CLIC Sargent Young Person's Social Worker based at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh since 2001. This post helps to reduce the impacts specific to young people with cancer living in the East of Scotland, covering Edinburgh, Fife, East Lothian, West Lothian and the Borders.
A Grants Administrator from the Trust says:
"Our founder, Miss Hunter, had a special interest in supporting people with cancer and we welcome the work of CLIC Sargent in developing a much needed service for teenagers and young people which helps them to increase in self-confidence and independence and minimise the impact of cancer on their lives."
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Last year we supported over 6,200 children and young people with cancer, and their families, providing them with vital emotional, practical and financial support.
£1,000 could pay for a family to stay for one month in a Home from Home – close to where their child is receiving cancer treatment.
£3,560 could pay for a CLIC Sargent Social Worker for one month.
£9,325 could fund our information service for one month.
£12,600 could pay for a year's supply of What now? – our new resource that supports parents and carers whose child has just been told they have cancer.
£30,000 could pay for a CLIC Sargent Play Specialist for one year to help children with cancer understand their treatment and reduce their fear.
£53,100 could run CLIC Haven, our Home from Home in Southampton, for one year – providing free accommodation close to Southampton General Hospital, so that families can be close to their children during cancer treatment.
£165,000 over three years could pay for a CLIC Sargent Nurse to maximise the amount of time they can safely spend at home, and ensure that treatments can be given closer to home where possible.


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Hope Chapel to address science
Hope Chapel in Kihei will be holding a conference titled "Christianity & Science: Enemies or Allies" from July 19 to 21 at the church.
The free conference will feature Paul Nelson, Discovery Institute and adjunct professor in the master of arts program in science and religion at Biola University; and Pat Zukeran, director of The Pacific Apologetics Center.
On July 19 at 7 p.m., Zukeran will speak on "Why I Believe in God." Between 9 a.m. and noon July 20, Nelson will speak on "Chopping Down Darwin's Tree" and "Could Evolution Build the Animals?" and Zukeran will discuss "Three Views of the Age of the Earth."
On the last day of the conference at 8:30 and 10:30 a.m., Nelson's topic will be "Knowing About God vs. Loving Him."
The conference is sponsored by the Bible Institute of Hawaii and The Pacific Apologetics Center.
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For more information, go to the website www.hopechapelmaui.com.
Jews to observe Tisha B'Av
The Jewish Congregation of Maui will observe Tisha B'Av, the Ninth of Av, from sundown Monday until Tuesday night at the Beit Shalom Synagogue at 634 Alulike St. in Kihei.
The Ma'ariv/evening service, which will include the recitation of Eicha/Lamentations, will be held at 7 p.m. Monday. On Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. will be the Shacharit/morning service with a Torah reading. At 6:30 p.m. a Mincha/afternoon service will be held where participants will don tallit and tefillin and again read from the Torah.
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Every year some 32,000 young volunteers are selected, sent to around 29,300 far-flung villages around the country and tasked to teach some 290,000 pre-school and elementary students. In return for a two-year volunteering stint, these young Mexicans will receive a three-to-five year college scholarship.
Analú and Silvia, who also come from poor backgrounds, were assigned last year to Sta. Elena, a typical Mexican remote area where residents consider themselves lucky to even have a school.
"At first I was very nervous because I was told that this was a very demanding community," recalls Analú. "And in fact they laid out a bunch of rules. They told me that I could not be late, should spend all my time with the children during class hours and that I could not have boyfriends as visitors, because there had been a problem with that with the previous teacher."
But after a few months, the two young teachers settled nicely and won the hearts not only of their 16 students but their parents as well.
"Since the previous instructor had not done a very good job, the parents at first thought I would be the same and they were sort of resentful," Silvia remarks. "But when they saw that I was doing a good job and that the kids were advancing to the next grade level, they started to get along fine with me."
These small successes motivated the government to invest more in encouraging more volunteers and improving rural education. Recently, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), through Mexico's National Council for Education Development (CONAFE), approved a $210-million loan to widen the education programme's coverage and provide more quality teaching.
Most of the volunteers do obtain university degrees -- something that is remotely possible for poor Mexicans. But more than that, the programme enables these young volunteers to understand the realities of Mexico's poorest people and communities and provide learning opportunities for every Mexican child -- a valuable lesson not even a university degree can teach.
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Credit Card Processing: How It All Works
The credit card processing system is confusing. The players are numerous and the process is complex. To understand how it all works, it helps to grasp the types of companies that are involved, and how much money they typically charge for processing a transaction.
David Schwartz is director of marketing at a leading payment gateway, Authorize.Net. He says, "This is by far the most complex industry I have ever been associated with. I always tell new employees to give themselves six to nine months to become comfortable with the lingo and to understand how the payment processing system works." Diagrams of the process can also help. Schwartz continues, "We added a detailed 'how it works' diagram to our new corporate website in March 2005. It has since become one of the most visited pages, proving that people want to better understand how a payment is processed."
To understand the payment process, Schwartz suggests a working knowledge of the participants and the services they provide along the way. He also suggests tracking a hypothetical transaction through the entire payment processing system. In that way, Schwartz says, ecommerce operators can understand not only what services these participating firms provide, but also what fees they charge for processing a transaction.
The Participants
For a typical ecommerce credit card transaction, a number of participants play key roles in the process. Those players include:
- the customer,
- the merchant,
- the payment gateway,
- the acquiring bank's processor,
- the credit card interchange,
- the customer's credit card issuer, and
- the merchant's acquiring bank.
Seven participants, in other words, normally interact with each credit card transaction. Notes Schwartz, "With all of these companies involved in the process, it takes, amazingly, just 2- 3 seconds on average for a transaction to be approved."
Follow the Money
Let's say you are a $100 credit card purchase. The moment the customer hits the buy button on the ecommerce merchant's website, you are zooming across cyberspace on a multi-stop journey, during which you will shed, typically, nearly three dollars as companies that you interact with assess varying fees for their service. (Actual fees vary based upon a number of variables, including merchant type, card type and risk factors.)
Your first destination is the payment gateway (-.10¢), which routes you to the appropriate processor (-.08¢). The processor immediately submits you to what is known as the credit card interchange (-.09¢). After you've cleared the interchange, your next leg takes you to the issuing bank (-1.93¢), which verifies the available funds in the customer's credit card account. Whether you are approved or declined, you now begin the journey back to the customer. However, if you're approved, you and your authorization results are soon to part after speeding by each stop you made on the way. Your detour is through your merchant account at the acquiring bank (-.65¢) to, ultimately, the merchant's bank account, where you will be deposited; that is, the $97.15 of you that remains.
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Complex you say?
Many would argue it much simpler to explain the 'complex' physiology of one's body or perhaps even the dynamics of man-made global warming (fact or fiction).
Not to suggest that credit card processing is rocket science or that swiping a piece of plastic through a terminal requires a medical degree.
However, my wife earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry and a doctoral degree in pharmacy and would often inherit a migraine trying to decode what I did for a living (in the world of credit card processing).
In the past six years, I have started and sold two successful ISO (Independent Sales Organization) companies, both being directly registered agents with Visa and MasterCard. As a matter of fact, I remain a significant shareholder in the first ISO Company, but I have not been active in the industry for a little over a year now.
It is bazaar how people seem to stumble into this industry, because the elements of complexity (e.g. technology, regulations, risk, liability, etc.) keep most real 'players' at arm's length.
Here's the dirty little secret, The Electronic Payment Industry is no more than a sophisticated shell game.
From a financial and infrastructural perspective, there are so many people, at so many different levels with the tips of their (pinky) finger in the industry pie, that given the opportunity, Stephen Hawking himself, would go blind trying to decipher it all.
That is because at the end of the yellow brick road is an ever-illusive wizard, and that son-of-a-gun not only pulls all the cords, but has an insane amount of industry money and power.
BTW, ever heard of merchant profiling, probably not, because I created the term some time ago, but it happens every day.
Visa and MasterCard's Interchange Pricing {Ponzi} Matrix, in a nutshell, is all over the board, depending on merchant type (e.g. Grocery Store, Car Dealership, Rock Band, Work-Out Gym etc.).
Based on merchant's average profit margin V & MC will tweak their interchange pricing accordingly.
For instance, a grocery store operates on wafer-thin profit margins, and it would be impossible for a grocery store to accept credit card related sales at the same interchange pricing as the automobile dealership's service department next door.
However, in both pricing scenarios, V & MC's Interchange matrix parlays a profit. For purposes of example, a $100 bag of groceries may cost that merchant 1.29%, but it will cost the car dealership for a $100 brake job 1.79 % (a whopping 50 bases point spread for V & MC using this example).
This is how dysfunctional and unfair V & MC's Interchange Pricing Matrix is designed, which has and continues to spawn a significant amount of lawsuits.
So, based on a genius, but nevertheless, purposefully complex (an unfair) pricing Interchange matrix, the grocery store receives processing rates that are insanely lower than the referenced car dealership pays. This example, in my opinion, denotes merchant profiling and removes all together, a level playing field for merchants that accept or seek to accept credit cards for payment.
Easily, a novel dwarfing 'War and Peace' could be written about the complexities and inner workings of the electronic payment industry; however, just writing these few paragraphs is starting to blur my vision again and the churning in my stomach requires an immediate fix of extra strength Mallox (before I hurl on the laptop).
"Trust no one but your mother (and only when she is handcuffed to a door)".
— *Jonathan Grubbs*
Well I did not think the process was so complex and required that many fees, but anyway it keeps being very practical.
— *Alejandro*
I work at a company that sells people payment gateways and merchant account. I'm one of their web designers here that sets up ecommerce shopping carts, and your explaination of how payment process works is amazing. I'm going to make a digital copy of this so I can use it to explain it to customers that ask me questions on this. Your article made good sense in figuring out how the process works and explains it in a way that makes sense to the merchant. Good post!
— *William Mitchell*
Indeed, a fine and easy to understand overview of the payment processing "journey"
Payment processing may appear complicated; once the basic terminology is understood, it's fairly simple & straight forward.
— *Tina Brandon*
I also found this post to be very enlightening. I'm actually doing some research into this area for a colleague. I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some good development resources for credit card processing and similar systems. I'm primarily interested in technologies and architectural info but information on the legal side would also be very helpful. I'm worried that there is a lot of red tape involved in implementing such a system in a production environment. True? Any comments much appreciated.
— *Vivian Farrell*
Is ISO refers to payment gateway company and TPP refers to processor?
Why do merchant not deal directly with a processor ? What do processor offer that payment gateway do not?
Thanks :)
— *Jack*
What are the legal requirements for merchants to check ID from Card holders in order to make payment? Are merchants required to check the card holder's ID before processing the payment or not?
— *pam*
Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc., the U.S. discount carrier that serves 70 destinations from Denver, filed for bankruptcy, becoming the fourth U.S. airline to seek court protection in less than a month.
Your explanation of processing is great. Given the following news clip where in the process does the credit card processor get the right to withold payment ? Is the issue that the pieces of the pie accumulate and then are settled at end of month ?
Frontier took the step after its credit-card processor, First Data Corp., began withholding proceeds from ticket sales, the Denver-based carrier said in a statement today. Frontier pledged to continue flying and keep paying workers while it seeks additional financing.
— *Bill S*
Frontier is required by FDR to have on deposit a reserve. As the processor that underwrites the account, FDR is liable for every and all transactions processed by Frontier (per membership agreement). If Frontier folds, FDR would be stuck with all unfilled tickets charged by customers of Frontier. FDR's decision to seek a larger reserve from Frontier was most likely made due to the financial status of Frontier, as quoted in recent article, FDR was concerned that Frontier would be able to operate beyond a couple of more months. Every merchant account that is opened is basically a line of credit. The merchant in most cases receives their money for the transaction within 48 hours. HOwever most customers can dispute the charges for up to 6 months. Fraud is a very real concern as well. Reserves minimize the exposure of the underwriter for the account. IN other words, it is a liability and you need good credit.
— *A. Smith*
Am I the only one that sees that -.10 cent is not -.10 dollar?
Eli, no you aren't. This particular type of error in this discussion kind of hurts the credibility of the author. but then I was more surprised that no one called attention to it before now.


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Social anxiety, also sometimes known as social phobia, is a condition in which you experience high levels of anxiety about being criticized by or judged in a negative way by others. In some surveys as many as 10% of people have been found to suffer from the condition, although it was not commonly recognized as a form of anxiety disorder until the 1980s. If you suffer from social anxiety then you may experience some or all of the following:
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Four air traffic control towers in Oklahoma will be shut down in the coming weeks as the Federal Aviation Administration moves to close nearly 150 towers nationwide as part of sequestration.
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Wenceslas Square is one of the most popular places to stay in Prague as it has it all...a thriving nightlife, great shopping, and the fact that most of Prague's sights and attractions are within easy walking distance.
This large and stylish top floor apartment is furnished with modern flair and comfort. It is a great apartment to explore the city from either on foot or by tram. The apartment consists of a living room, a dining area, a fully fitted kitchen, two double bedrooms and a bathroom.
The living room is very spacious and has three single sofa beds, coffee tables, lamps and a 42\" plasma screen TV with international satellite channels. The apartment also has WiFi internet charged at EUR 5 per day, and parking (subject to availability) at EUR 15 per day. There is a very light and bright dining area with a dining table and six chairs. The living room has a beautiful wooden floor. and a pitched roof with sky light windows.
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Calm and spacious Apartment in the center of Prague. Close to Vegetarian Restaurents. Everything was cleen and in working order.
Very good accommodation, central, with parking, and very nice and good care to recommend again
Sehr gute Unterkunft, zentral, mit Autoabstellplatz, und sehr nette und gute Betreuung,
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We have spend 3 lovely days in Prague and choosing this apartment was a great idea. Excellent location, friendly hosts, clean and convenient. Well equipped kitchen, a bit small and not very comfortable dining table (max 3-4 people). We have recommended this apartment to our friends and they were also very pleased.
Very good location, right next to Metro station Mustek. Clean and very large apartment. Highly recommended!
Sehr Gute Lage, direkt neben Metrostation Mustek. Saubere und sehr grosse Wohnung. Nur zu empfehlen!
The reception was very friendly, we were in spite of late from the station by taxi (free) picked up because we had a mobile number. The apartment was on the 5th floor and the lift was broken (manana!). The rooms and the whole apartment (at least 3.50 m high) are spacious and tastefully furnished. Everything worked. The location is for a city quietly (especially the back yard, is there work only bankers) very central: 5min walk to Wenceslas Square, 10 minutes to the National Theater, 10 minutes to the Old Town Square. On departure day we were again in vain brought to the station, which was lucky at the onset cloudburst. One star deduction, because the "King" bed was only 1,60 mattress.
Der Empfang war sehr freundlich, wir wurden trotz Verspätung vom Bahnhof mit dem Taxi (kostenlos) abgeholt, da wir eine Mobilnummer hatten. Die Wohnung war im 5. Stock und der Lift war kaputt (manana!). Die Zimmer und die ganze Wohnung ( mindestens 3,50m hoch) sind geräumig und geschmackvoll ausgestattet. Alles hat funktioniert. Die Lage ist für eine Großstadt ruhig (vor allem zum Hof hin, da liegt arbeiten nur Banker) sehr zentral: zu Fuß 5min zum Wenzelsplatz, 10 min zum Nationaltheater, 10 min zum Altstädter Ring. Am Abreisetag wurden wir wieder umsonst zum Bahnhof gebracht, was bei dem einsetzenden Wolkenbruch ein Glück war. Ein Stern Abzug, weil das "King-Size" Bett nur 1,60 Matratze hatte.
Great spacious and luminous apartment in the centre of Prague, but not in a busy tourist street so you don't get all the noise. The apartment is just beautifully decorated, the rooms are huge, as well as the nice living room with a big plasma Tv with satellite connection. The beds are really comfortable, and there's lots of towels to use if you want to. The hosts were very helpful and easily accesible. We had a superb time in a stunning city and having chosen this apartment was just the icing of the cake!
Fantastic location, 200 feet from all the main shops in Wenceslas Square, and also from nearest Metro stop and a Tesco for supplies. Very comfortable apartment.
Great Apartment with 4 large bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a toilet. Lovely living room and large kitchen. In the middle of town and something I highly recommend.
Kjempeleilighet med 4 store soverom, 2 bad og et toalett. Herlig stueløsning og stort kjøkken. Midt i byen og noe jeg anbefaler på det sterkeste.
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Finally, give it time. I work with a lot of people who stress out when they don't lose 10 pounds of fat in the first week after changing their diet and exercise. Relax! It took me more than two years to lose 50 pounds and change my body completely. You have to be patient and trust the process. It will come. Your determination will definitely be rewarded!
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Hart jumped to a 14-2 lead after the first quarter and then held host Montague to only 12 second half points in a Class C district game.
The win sends Hart (11-10 ) into Wednesday's second round game against Hesperia at 5:30 p.m. at Montague.
Landyn Lorenz had 12 points and Macayla Greiner 10 for Hart, which only scored 16 second half points. Lorenz had five rebounds and Greiner five steals.
"We started out really well. We played good defense, created some turnovers and made some layups to get out to the nice lead," Hart coach Dean Bates said. "They made a little run on us in the second quarter, so we went back to a man-to-man defense in the second half and shut them down.
"When you give up 29 points, you're going to win a lot of games."
Montague got 13 points from Elyse Taylor.
Montague coach Bill Stone said fast starts haven't exactly been a strength.
"That's been a pattern," he said. "We recovered, but we spend so much energy doing it that we run out of gas in the long run. We played them fairly even, but the first quarter did us in."
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Modeling Multiple Relationships in Social Networks
Asim Ansari
Columbia Business School - Marketing
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Florian Stahl
University of Mannheim - Department of Business Administration and Marketing; University of Zurich - Department of Business Administration (IBW)
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Journal of Marketing Research, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 713-728, 2011
Firms are increasingly seeking to harness the potential of social networks for marketing purposes. Therefore, marketers are interested in understanding the antecedents and consequences of relationship formation within networks and in predicting interactivity among users. The authors develop an integrated statistical framework for simultaneously modeling the connectivity structure of multiple relationships of different types on a common set of actors. Their modeling approach incorporates several distinct facets to capture both the determinants of relationships and the structural characteristics of multiplex and sequential networks. They develop hierarchical Bayesian methods for estimation and illustrate their model with two applications: the first application uses a sequential network of communications among managers involved in new product development activities, and the second uses an online collaborative social network of musicians. The authors' applications demonstrate the benefits of modeling multiple relations jointly for both substantive and predictive purposes. They also illustrate how information in one relationship can be leveraged to predict connectivity in another relation.
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NILES - Nearly 100 teachers and other employees from area school districts jammed into a meeting room in Ciminero's Banquet Hall on Friday to learn why they should oppose Senate Bill 5, which, according to local legislators, would limit collective bargaining in their contracts.
State Sen. Capri S. Cafaro, D-Hubbard, called SB5 a ''full-frontal assault'' on public employee unions.
"It will place a lot of limitations on teachers' ability to negotiate their health care and eliminate seniority," Cafaro said. "You won't be able to negotiate what buildings you want to work in."
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State Sen. Joe Schiavoni discusses Senate Bill 5 Friday in Niles.
Cafaro reported that state Republican leadership worked a compromise to allow collective bargaining but removed the right to go on strike.
"In my view, it is window dressing," Cafaro said. "I don't see it as a compromise. Taking away the ability to strike is taking away the unions' leverage."
Republican state senators said Wednesday that they will support allowing unionized state employees to collectively bargain for their wages.
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Sandra MaCali and Mary Little, both employees of the Niles School District, fill out cards that will be sent to Ohio House and Senate representatives across the state voicing their opposition to Senate Bill 5.
Republican Senate President Tom Niehaus said then that the bill still would not allow unions to bargain for benefits, sick time, vacation or other conditions, and the bill would permit no strikes for any public employee from the local level to the state.
State Sen. Joe Schiavoni, D-Canfield, said it is strange that this is one of the first bills Gov. John Kasich and the Republican majority are working to pass during a time when the state has an $8 billion debt.
"They are trying to pit private employees against public employees," Schiavoni said.
Schiavoni suggested when people accept public sector jobs, they generally know what they will be making when they take the jobs and about what they will be making when they retire.
"In the private sector, you can fall on your face or you can become the next Bill Gates," he said.
Schiavoni emphasized that Democrats were not given a chance to offer amendments to the bill because its supporters presented them the bill on the day the hearings on it began.
"We did not have time to thoroughly read it," he said.
They expect to add amendments to the bill next week.
Schiavoni encouraged teachers and others that have personal days available to attend hearings scheduled for Tuesday morning.
Kasich, speaking at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna on Thursday, said the changes aren't a personal attack against workers.
"This is all about trying to get the state in the right position. Private (industry) workers have made sacrifices," he said Thursday, noting private workers on average pay 23 percent of their health care cost versus 9 percent for the average public worker.
Senate Bill 5 is designed to give local government leaders greater ability to negotiate such issues with unions, he said.
Rep. Tom Letson, D-Warren, told the crowd Friday not to let the bill's proponents define it with the generic term of public employees.
"When talking to people about SB5, don't say public employees. Remind them they are talking to teachers, police officers, firefighters, snow plow operators and other city and county workers," Letson said. "These are people they know."
Brian McConnell of Niles called SB5 bogus.
"My parents were teachers," McConnell said. "I am a teacher. We work very hard. We should have the right to bargain to place ourselves in the best possible position to earn a living."
Joe Burnham, a custodian, said if public employees have to pay more in benefits and see their incomes decline, it will affect the rest of the economy.
"Who will go and buy the new cars, homes and go to local stores to buy things that help to keep the economy running?" Burnham said.
Theresa Rohland described SB 5 as too much of an intrusion into the rights of workers.
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In March 2009, it struck me that SEC Commissioner Luis Aguilar, who had only joined the SEC in July 2008, seemed to have quickly positioned himself as the SEC Commissioner with the strongest interest in enforcement issues. In his less than a year at the SEC, Aguilar had already taken strong positions advocating changes in the enforcement program and even being critical of certain SEC policies and practices. Impressed, I wrote a post on this blog entitled, "Luis Aguilar: The Enforcement Commissioner" that noted his obvious interest in the enforcement program and that analyzed key points in what was then his most recent speech on the subject.
I had to smile when I saw that last week, in his speech at the annual SEC Speaks conference, Commissioner Luis Aguilar mentioned this "Enforcement Commissioner" reference, stating:
When I was referred to as the "Enforcement Commissioner" in Compliance Week, it was a title that I never expected, but it's one I don't run away from. The continued reinvigoration of Enforcement is essential.
Commissioner Aguilar stated that he was particularly pleased that an initiative he advocated last year at SEC Speaks--streamlining the formal order process--had been launched at the SEC, with positive benefits already evident. This was a reference to the SEC's relatively new process that delegates to senior staff the power to issue a subpoena. Under the prior system, Commissioner Aguilar noted, it would often take staff many months to pass through all the bureaucratic hoops required to obtain the Commission's approval for a routine subpoena. Now, he noted, the new process vastly improves the speed and efficiency by which the SEC's enforcement staff can conduct an investigation: "Last October, staff in San Francisco discovered a fraud and managed to investigate and file the case within a three-week timeframe. This would have been virtually impossible under our prior system."
Commissioner Aguilar added that that the streamlined process provides the additional benefit of dismantling a regime that micro-managed a routine process. He believes it helps him and his fellow commissioners send the message that they support the staff.
Commissioner Aguilar also reiterated two proposals that he has been championing since he arrived at the SEC. First, he repeated his call for the SEC to revise its current "Penalty Statement of 2006," which he described as a "misguided approach to how to weigh factors one considers when deciding whether to seek a corporate penalty." This Statement prioritizes two factors
- The presence or absence of a direct benefit to the corporation as a result of the violation; and
- The degree to which the penalty will recompense or further harm the injured shareholders.
Commissioner Aguilar said these guidelines could be significantly improved and do not reflect his views because the conduct itself becomes of secondary importance, and the Commission fails to appropriately focus on deterrence. "Every day these guidelines are in place they adversely impact the cases we are working on," he stated.
He also reiterated his continued support for the SEC to be self-funded, a subject I discussed at length in this column back in September. Doing so would be "transformational," he believes, because it would enable the SEC to set multi-year budgets and respond promptly to drastically changing markets, while also maintaining appropriate staffing.


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"Hey, can I zap you."
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As a result of this acquisition, Samsung will become an anchor tenant for Joyent's Triton and Manta solutions, and will help fuel the growth of our team and the expansion of our worldwide data center footprint and business.
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The Autopilot Pattern makes it easy to build applications that can automatically configure themselves when you deploy them (making it easy to bring up copies of the application for testing and development), and reconfigure themselves when you scale them up and down with traffic or roll out updates. Today we're introducing two Node.js modules to make it even easier to build Node.js apps that use the Autopilot Pattern.
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Confession: upon starting my job at Joyent as Documentation Editor, my experience with Docker amounted to hearing the word and having a vague understanding of what it means for the state of development. Previously, I had worked as a front-end developer, for the most part without total knowledge of the environment my work was running in. I started playing around with the concepts of containers and images and got up to speed quickly. Now that I'm done with my first week, I'm going to walk you through step by step how to dockerize an app.
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Samsung is pumping up its cloud-based capabilities with the acquisition of San Francisco-based Joyent for an undisclosed amount. Information Week reports that Joyent's private and public cloud computing services will support the South Korean electronics giant's Internet of Things (IoT), mobile and cloud-based lines of business.
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Samsung stepped away from its usual strategy of building intellectual property in-house by announcing yesterday that it was buying cloud provider and container pioneer Joyent for an undisclosed sum, but one that should, by all accounts, be significantly less than the $26 billion that Satya Nadella promised to LinkedIn earlier this week. The move makes sense for Samsung, which up until now has been heavily dependent on Amazon Web Services at Amazon to provide its cloud infrastructure and services.
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In this post, I'm going to share my thoughts about an on-premises private cloud configuration for collaborative software development. These are just some conceptual notes, but I'll try to double back later and provide step-by-step directions for setting up the system I'm going to describe here.
Today, Joyent introduces our free, automated DNS solution, Triton Container Name Service. Triton CNS makes it easy to use consistent and predictable addresses for all Triton compute instances, including Docker containers, infrastructure containers, and hardware virtual machines. The FAQ below includes examples for using it as a global DNS or to connect application components, and for instructions on how to turn it on and off, using it via Docker, and with the Triton CLI/CloudAPI.
One of the most confusing challenges developers and operators face when building modern applications is how to design them for easy deployment and scaling. The most critical factor in that is how to automate the process of connecting the components of the application together, and doing so in a way that works on our laptops as well as it does in production.
Rags Srinivas
Deploying containerized applications and connecting them together is a challenge because it forces developers to design for operationalization. The autopilot pattern is a powerful approach to solving these problems. By pushing the responsibility for understanding startup, shutdown, scaling, and recovery from failure into the application, we can build intelligent architectures that minimize human intervention in operation. But we can't rewrite all our applications at once, so we need a way to build application containers that can knit together legacy and greenfield applications alike.
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For this podcast, Bryan Cantrill assumed the role of historian and explained how technologies such as AJAX, JSON, COBRA and SOA contributed to the rise of monolithic systems. From this historical vantage, Cantrill discussed legacy providers and also how the idea of "microservices" is significantly older than the word itself. Cantrill also talked about creating optimal development environments for microservices, the CAP Theorem, and about the "Uber-ization" of software-driven enterprises.
You've never heard of it before, right? However, if you want a manageable, container-oriented architecture that is production ready and proven today, Joyent is a name to know. Joyent is a company with an impressive technology portfolio, and Triton -- software for running Docker-compatible containers on bare metal -- is the cornerstone.
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The world of cloud computing is dominated by Tyrannosaurus Rex-sized corporations like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, big companies that have used their prowess and might to build giant data centers full of racks and racks of machines. Then there's Joyent, a small but nimble competitor that might be called mammal-sized, if only for the sake of a metaphor. It deserves notice for shaking up the cloud marketplace with clever mods of the operating system layer that are producing great results.
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**Replying to @joyent:** Introducing our #Terraform provider for #Joyent Triton and improved Terraform support for #Docker.
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A father died after he suffered a fall when getting out of a car into his wheelchair, an inquest heard this week.
David Maxfield, of Ettrick Drive, Bedford, hit his head on the pavement when he was returning home from a visit to his doctor with his carer on April 11.
Bedford Coroner's Court heard that David went to Bedford Hospital, but he was made to wait for "good while" where he was constantly being sick, before he was seen by a doctor.
He was discharged from hospital after medics chose not to give him a scan, but he returned that night after his condition worsened at home.
A scan revealed a skull fracture and some bleeding and swelling, and a second scan later that night revealed hit was got a lot worse.
After returning to hospital he was transferred to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge as he was very fidgety and confused, which he had to be anaestesised and could not be mobitored at Bedford.
After returning to Bedford his condition gredually got wosrse and he died on May 5.
His children Amy and Christian are questioning the treatment their father, who was paralysed after a previous spinal injury and suffered with a number of conditions, received when he first went to hospital and why he was not given a scan straight away.
Christian, who went to hospital with his dad after the fall, told the court: "We were in the hall for a good while with the ambulance crew, he hadn't been seen for a "good while."
"He was consistently vomiting and was very fidgety.
He added: "The wait did not help, The doctors and nurses were not supportive at all to be honest. If anything they saw him as over-exagerating. He was in extreme pain. "
Christian added that once his father was seen, the doctors happily discharged him, but no information was given as to how to manage a head injury,
Doctor David Small saw the deceased after he had been seen by a senior nurse and doctor.
He told the court they made a clinical decision not to give David a scan because they could not seen anything abnormal.
He said: "If a CT scan was carried out and we saw he had a fractured skull we would not have discharged him. This would have affected the way we treated him, but in my opinion, not the outcome."
Coroner Bob Amos could not reach a decision in in the hearing, but is planning to send aout a written verdict in the next week.


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Player of the Game
David Huff won tonight's Player of the Game award with a score of 6.72. You couldn't have asked for a much better start from Huff. Huff pitch six shut-out innings, giving up just 3 hits. This is Huff's fourth award of the year.
Feathers Up
The Indians did not provide much offense tonight, but it was enough to support David Huff's great start. The first Tribe run came in the bottom of the 6th inning when Kosuke Fukudome hit a double, scoring Ezequiel Carrera from first. The second run came in the bottom of the 7th inning when Carlos Santana powered a ball over the fence in right-center field.
Even though the Mafia gave up a run, the Tribe bullpen did not give up the narrow 2-run lead. Pure Rage Chris Perez closed the game in the 9th with a 1-2-3 inning with 2 strike outs. Chris Perez now has 30 saves this season.
Feathers Down
Jason Donald was a late scratch today with a contusion on his index finger. Cord Phelps took his spot in the lineup.
Congratulations, Brandon McCarthy, for getting a new career high for strike outs in a game. The A's starter struck out 10 Indians hitters in 8 innings.
After a great weekend crowd for the return of Jim Thome, attendance was pathetic tonight. It could be because the excitement for Thome's return has worn off. It may also be due to the fact that today was the first day of school for many Ohio kids. Just from reading a few Tweets over the weekend, it is obvious that big crowds pump up the players. If we truly are in a pennant race, the attendance numbers do not show it.
Final Score: Oakland Athletics 1 – Cleveland Indians 2