Stockholm: Sweden's Robin Soderling finally announced his retirement on Wednesday, more than four years since his last match.
"I have realised that I will not be fit enough to play tennis at the level I demand of myself," said Soderling, 31, to the Swedish news agency TT. Soderling fell ill with glandular fever in the summer of 2011, but he did not realise the seriousness of his sickness and continued to train, although he struggled physically.
He described his condition as "overtraining syndrome" and said in a press release that "with this disease it has been impossible for me to train 100 percent".
Soderling reached the final of the French Open in both 2009 and 2010, before rising to a career-high fourth in the world rankings in late 2010. His greatest moment was perhaps inflicting on clay court king Rafael Nadal his first ever defeat at the French Open in 2009.
In fact, until the Spaniard lost to world number one Novak Djokovic in the Roland Garros quarter-finals earlier this year, that remained his only defeat on the Parisian clay in 71 matches. "Although my career as a tennis player is over I still have a bright future ahead of me and my schedule for the next few years is full," said Soderling, who won 10 titles in his career.


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Q: Loop over a list separated by '\r\n' and concat item in bash I have this code:
echo `echo "$site_ids" | od -c`
for site_id in $site_ids; do
  wp_options_table="wp_$site_id_options"
  echo "$wp_options_table"
  echo `echo "$site_id" | od -c`
done

it prints this output:
0000000 1 \r \n 2 \r \n 3 \r \n 4 \r \n 5 \r \n 0000017
wp_
0000000 1 \r \n 0000003
wp_
0000000 2 \r \n 0000003
wp_
0000000 3 \r \n 0000003
wp_
0000000 4 \r \n 0000003
wp_
0000000 5 \r \n 0000003

I can't figure out how to remove the \r\n so that the output is wp_1_options instead of wp. Or whatever other problem prevents the output from being wp_1_options
edit I got it working with :
echo "$site_ids" | while IFS=$'\r\n' read site_id
do
  wp_options_table="wp_${site_id}_options"
  echo "$wp_options_table"
done

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AMERICAN FLYERS BUILDING to be built. Lot size 7260sf. We have plans that have been approved but would gladly reconsider your needs. Present owner is construction management consultant and would gladly speak with potential buyers. Contact listing agent for further information. Downtown St. Charles, west side of river, Rt 64 1 block west of Rt 31, south 2 blocks to property.


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Drew Endy Seminar Media
by Andrew Warner on October 2nd, 02014
This lecture was presented as part of The Long Now Foundation's monthly Seminars About Long-term Thinking.
The iGEM Revolution
Tuesday September 16, 02014 – San Francisco
Video is up on the Endy Seminar page.
Audio is up on the Endy Seminar page, or you can subscribe to our podcast.
Massively collaborative synthetic biology – a summary by Stewart Brand
Natural genomes are nearly impossible to figure out, Endy began, because they were evolved, not designed. Everything is context dependent, tangled, and often unique. So most biotech efforts become herculean. It cost $25 million to develop a way to biosynthesize the malaria drug artemisinin, for example. Yet the field has so much promise that most of what biotechnology can do hasn't even been imagined yet.
How could the nearly-impossible be made easy? Could biology become programmable? Endy asked Lynn Conway, the legendary inventer of efficient chip design and manufacturing, how to proceed. She said, "Go meta." If the recrafting of DNA is viewed from a meta perspective, the standard engineering cycle—Design, Build, Test, Design better, etc.—requires a framework of DNA Synthesis, using Standards, understood with Abstraction, leading to better Synthesis, etc.
"In 2003 at MIT," Endy said, "we didn't know how to teach it, but we thought that maybe working with students we could figure out how to learn it." It would be learning-by-building. So began a student project to engineer a biological oscillator—a genetic blinker—which led next year to several teams creating new life forms, which led to the burgeoning iGEM phenomenon. Tom Knight came up with the idea of standard genetic parts, like Lego blocks, now called BioBricks. Randy Rettberg declared that cooperation had to be the essence of the work, both within teams (which would compete) and among all the participants to develop the vast collaborative enterprise that became the iGEM universe—students creating new BioBricks (now 10,000+) and meeting at the annual Jamboree in Boston (this year there are 2,500 competitors from 32 countries). "iGEM" stands for International Genetically Engineered Machine.
Playfulness helps, Endy said. Homo faber needs homo ludens—man-the-player makes a better man-the-maker. In 2009 ten teenagers with $25,000 in sixteen weeks developed the ability to create E. coli in a variety of colors. They called it E. chromi. What could you do with pigmented intestinal microbes? "The students were nerding out." They talked to designers and came up with the idea of using colors in poop for diagnosis. By 2049, they proposed, there could be a "Scatalog" for color matching of various ailments such as colon cancer. "It would be more pleasant than colonoscopy."
The rationale for BioBricks is that "standardization enables coordination of labor among parties and over time." For the system to work well depends on total access to the tools. "I want free-to-use language for programming life," said Endy. The stated goal of the iGEM revolutionaries is "to benefit all people and the planet." After ten years there are now over 20,000 of them all over the world guiding the leading edges of biotechnology in that direction.
During the Q&A, Endy told a story from his graduate engineering seminar at Dartmouth. The students were excited that the famed engineer and scientist Arthur Kantrowitz was going to lead a session on sustainability. They were shocked when he told them, "'Sustainability' is the most dangerous thing I've ever encountered. My job today is to explain two things to you. One, pessimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Two, optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy."
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ALCOHOL EFFECTS Babies exposed to alcohol in utero can have lifelong learning and developmental problems. A new study in rats suggests one way alcohol might hurt a developing fetus, moving closer to a treatment.
A common blood sugar medication or an extra dose of a thyroid hormone can reverse signs of cognitive damage in rats exposed in utero to alcohol. Both affect an enzyme that controls memory-related genes in the hippocampus, researchers report July 18 in Molecular Psychiatry.
That insight might someday help scientists find an effective human treatment for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, which can cause lifelong problems with concentration, learning and memory. "At this moment, there's really no pharmaceutical therapy," says R. Thomas Zoeller, a neurobiologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.


In recent years, SMEs in Maltese economy increased by approximately 20%. Notwithstanding, fostering an entrepreneurial culture and the creation of start ups is still a significant challenge. Ensuring that this momentum is sustained and gains speed is a priority in order to foster a competitive and sustainable economy that is resilient to meet upcoming challenges.
By their very nature, through their novelty, start ups offer just as many challenges and risks as rewards and opportunities. As part of the normal dynamics of a healthy economy, only 50% of businesses survive five years after inception.
This, together with the potential welfare gains to the economy that can accrue from nurturing an environment that supports start ups, further instigates the need for tangible assistance to start ups on early stages.
The Start up Investment Grant-Scheme provides a part-financing 50% of eligible expenditure, up to a maximum grant of € 300,000. Total budget is set at € 7 million.
Target companies are Micro and Small Start ups, being autonomous, unlisted enterprises, established for less than three years, on condition that the start up has not yet distributed profits and has not been formed through a merger.
Start ups proposing products and/or services that can be marketed and distributed internationally and which are typically more advanced than those prevailing in their respective industry in terms of technology, know-how and skills.


Only 1 out of 21 films in the Venice Film Festival was directed by a woman – seriously?!
Yep, that was the pass-the-buck response from Venice Film Festival director Alberto Barbera when he was called out about the fact that only one of the 21 films screening in the competition this year was directed by a woman.
He's been quoted saying: 'I don't like to think in terms of a quota when you make a selection process' but isn't it imperative that he does think like this?
Diversity needs to be represented throughout all walks of life – and although his defence is that he judges films for their content, rather than the team behind it, isn't it all of our responsibilities to ensure all voices are heard?
And, it's hardly like we're short on amazing female directors either (hello Kathryn Bigelow, Patty Jenkins, Sofia Coppola and Ava DuVernay, among others).
But, no, none of these women's films are screening this year in the festival that starts today and ends on 9th September. Instead, the only woman waving the female flag is Chinese director Vivian Qu with her film Angels Wear White – which at least is something.
In fact, better representation is only going to improve it.


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Rufous-throated Tanager Yellow-bellied Tanager
Speckled Tanager Ixothraupis guttata
Family: Thraupidae
Authors: Nicholas A. Mason and Kevin J. Burns
© Luis Agudelo
The Speckled Tanager is a charismatic, brightly colored member of the genus Tangara that is rarely found alone. This species usually travels in small family groups and joins larger mixed species flocks containing many other congeneric species. Found in southern Central American and northern South America, the Speckled Tanager is an active forager, eating mostly fruits and terrestrial arthropods in the high canopy while deftly flitting among the trees of humid primary and secondary forests.
Andrew Spencer
Bolívar, Venezuela
Macaulay Library ML51866831 eBirdS35327640
© Andrew Spencer
Mason, N. A. and K. J. Burns (2010). Speckled Tanager (Ixothraupis guttata), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.spetan1.01


Incepta believes in promoting teamwork and collaborative culture. We organized a holiday party for all the employees and business partners. It was great to have the whole team in one place and have them participate in various activities. Having the event at the start of the week was the best way to kick off the holiday season with the team.


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Sportin' Life is the sixth and final studio album by the rock band Mink DeVille, released in 1985. Since the band's third album, 1981's Le Chat Bleu, when the original members of the band departed, lead singer and composer Willy DeVille had been assembling musicians to record and tour under the name Mink DeVille. After Sportin' Life, Willy DeVille began recording and touring under his own name.

The album was recorded for Polydor at the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. As he had done on Le Chat Bleu, DeVille wrote some songs with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Doc Pomus. Members of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section — Roger Hawkins (drums), David Hood (bass), and Jimmy Johnson (guitar) — played on the album. Except for saxophonist Louis Cortelezzi, none of the musicians had played with Willy DeVille before.

The song  "Italian Shoes" was a hit in Europe.

Reviews

Trouser Press said about the album, "Sportin' Life maintains (high) standards with a set of brand-new oldies that effortlessly evoke the bygone era of sweet soul music. 'Something Beautiful Dying' (note The Righteous Brothers reference) is tenderly melancholic; 'Little by Little' tries barrelhouse rockabilly; 'Italian Shoes' is classic bad dude strutting. Apt self-production and a sharp backing band make this first-rate."

Allmusic thought that the album suffered from overproduction and a lack of verve: "Sportin' Life is for the hardcore fan only, one who can appreciate DeVille's canny and soulful songwriting that almost gets through this abortion of a production job."

However, David Wild of Rolling Stone praised Sportin' Life, calling it "the most modern, polished sound of (Willy DeVille's) career." He added, "Pushed to center stage, DeVille delivers, singing with more passion and more personality than ever before... The songwriting is uniformly solid. 'In the Heart of the City' takes DeVille down a side street of Springsteen's musical neighborhood, and the album-closing 'Something Beautiful Is Dying' is a wonderfully overwrought ballad of heartbreaking elegance."

Collaboration with Doc Pomus
In Lonely Avenue, a biography of Doc Pomus, Alex Halberstadt wrote about the DeVille-Pomus composition "Something Beautiful Dying":

Track listing
Unless otherwise noted, all songs by Willy DeVille.
 "In the Heart of the City" - 3:19
 "I Must Be Dreaming" - 4:21
 "Italian Shoes" - 4:23
 "Slip Away" - 4:06
 "When You Walk My Way" - (Willy DeVille, Doc Pomus) - 3:24
 "A Woman's Touch" - 3:18
 "Easy Street" - 3:30
 "Little By Little" - 2:28
 "There's No Living (Without Your Loving)"  - (Jerry Harris, Paul Kaufman) - 3:21
 "Something Beautiful Dying" – (Willy DeVille, Doc Pomus) - 3:39

Charts

Personnel
Ava Aldridge -  background vocals
Albert Boekholt - emulator
Mickey Buckins -  percussion
Duncan Cameron -  guitar, cuatro, background vocals
Louis Cortelezzi -  saxophone
Willy DeVille -  vocals, background vocals
Roger Hawkins -  drums
David Hood -  bass
Jim Horn -  saxophone
Wayne Jackson -  trumpet
Jimmy Johnson -  guitar
Boris Kinberg -  percussion
Micro Mini -  background vocals
Steve Nathan - keyboards
Cindy Richardson -  background vocals
Charles Rose -  trombone
Harvey Thompson -  saxophone
Mink DeVille Band (Kenny Margolis, Ricky Borgia, Louis Cortelezzi, Boris Kinberg, Shawn Murray, Bob Curiano)
Joe Elliott, Steve Clark, & Phil Collen of Def Leppard provided backing vocals for "Italian Shoes".

Production
 Michael Barnett - executive producer
 Duncan Cameron - co-producer
 Willy DeVille - producer
 Ronald Prent - recording engineer
 Charles Rose - arranger
 Greg Smith - arranger

References

1985 albums
Mink DeVille albums
Polydor Records albums
Albums recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio

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St. Louis has the Mighty Mississippi. Nashville has the Cumberland. New York as the Hudson. Portland? We have the Willamette (pronounced Will-lamb-it).
The major tributary of the Columbia River (the one Lewis and Clark made famous), the Willamette flows 187 miles from Eugene, Ore. to Portland. During the trip, the river absorbs agricultural runoff and city waste including recently-discovered forsaken cars, but despite about 200 years of mistreatment, this artery is regaining her health.
To celebrate and raise awareness, the Human Access Project (oh, so Portlandia-named) hosts The Big Float – the day when 2000+ people toss their rubber tubes into the water and jump in. Some are looking for a new view of the city, others want to cool off during a hot summer day, but most are looking to party and possibly hook up with the hottie in the inflatable kayak. Take a look at the fun and don't eat the fish.
Look just past the ladies... yep,that's a dog in a life vest.
In true Portland-style – there are food carts along the route.


Gregoria and fellow surgery patient, Margarita, pictured with missioner Kori Martodam, CRNA.
On our first day at the Tiquipaya Hospital, the mission team was consulted on the case of a young woman in the emergency room with severe abdominal pain, nausea, and high fever. Gregoria, a 25-year-old student and single mother, was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis caused by gallstones. She was very weak, and was admitted for close observation while being treated with IV pain medications and fluids. By the following morning, her condition had stabilized sufficiently to be cleared for surgery. Following her laparoscopic gallbladder removal, Gregoria spent two more days in the hospital recovering her strength.
Her long hospital stay provided opportunities for several on the mission team to meet and share moments with Gregoria. Hailing from humble roots in a Quechua-speaking family, Gregoria is now studying gastronomy at a local university.
We later learned from our social worker that Gregoria, her mother, and young daughter live in an improvised, unfurnished room with no bathroom. Gregoria works as a part-time cook and her mother sells cheese and milk, through which the women scrape together around $150 dollars a month, hardly enough for food.
Their stark financial situation had kept Gregoria from seeking help when her pain first started. As she explained to our social worker: I put up with the pain for a long time because I knew we didn't have the money to spend on this operation. I thought it would go away. But when I almost passed out, I decided to come to the hospital and they admitted me.
We learned all of this later, given that once her initial pain was controlled, Gregoria never complained. In fact, Gregoria was intent on focusing on others. While blessing her before surgery, Fr. Bob Oldershaw was moved by Gregoria's request that he write down his name so that she could in turn pray for him. She extended her prayers to other team members as well as they stopped by on rounds. Gregoria also became close friends with her roommate and fellow surgery patient, Margarita, for whom Gregoria translated between Quechua and Spanish, thereby assisting the mission team in their work.
It was a gift to meet and care for Gregoria and to see her back on her feet.


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CXO J164710.2-455216, también llamado informalmente Magnetar Westerlund 1, es un magnetar y estrella de neutrones en la constelación de Ara. Situado en el supercúmulo estelar Westerlund 1 —único cúmulo estelar de este tipo conocido en la Vía Láctea—, se encuentra a unos 15.000 años luz de la Tierra.
El objeto fue descubierto en 2005 por Michael Muno.

Las propiedades de otras estrellas del cúmulo han permitido deducir que la progenitora de CXO J164710.2-455216 poseía al menos 40 masas solares, colapsando para formar una estrella de neutrones y no un agujero negro como cabría esperar en función de su masa.
Su masa actual, unas dos veces mayor que la del Sol, implica que durante su colapso más del 95% de su masa fue expulsada al espacio circundante.

Un año después del descubrimiento de CXO J164710.2-455216, el objeto produjo un estallido de rayos X mientras estaba siendo profusamente observado por varios satélites, entre ellos el satélite XMM-Newton de la Agencia Espacial Europea y el observatorio Swift de la NASA. Solo cinco días antes del estallido, el magnetar, observado con el XMM-Newton, se encontraba relativamente tranquilo tal y como se había mostrado en el momento de su descubrimiento.
Al igual que muchos otros magnetares, CXO J164710.2-455216 generaba un haz de rayos X provocando un barrido a través de la Tierra una vez cada diez segundos. Esto permitió que su período de rotación, de 10,6107 segundos, fuera determinado con gran exactitud. El acontecimiento que produjo el estallido también hizo que aumentara su brillo 100 veces, creó tres rayos separados barriendo la Tierra cuando antes solo uno había existido, y aceleró su período de rotación en aproximadamente un milisegundo.

Véase también
 Estrella de neutrones

Referencias
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 CXO J164710.2-455216 X-ray source (SIMBAD)
 SGR/AXP Online Catalog
 CXO J164710.2-455216 Jumk.de/astronomie
 X-ray satellites catch magnetar in gigantic stellar 'hiccup' (ESA)
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Enlaces externos
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Constelación de Ara
Púlsares


Tipsy Totes collaborated with Heart & Soul Hospitality CDC on a fundraising event. The fantastic event was held at the Tipsy Totes shop with several other creative artists participating as well. A portion of the sales from the evening were donated back to Heart & Soul.
Heart & Soul is a provider of community resources, education and information. The non-profit organization provides a "unique hospitality training and development experience". Designed to serve individuals seeking employment enhancement which ultimately leads to a greater quality of life despite economic hardship and disparities.
About Us: Tipsy Totes has designed a new twist on gift giving with its extensive line of handcrafted, luxury bottle carriers and wine bags. Made to be gifted and regifted or kept as unique pieces of art, the creative products made by Tipsy Totes allow individuals to customize each item purchased—from simple bags and bottle totes to wine and bottle carriers shaped like a bustier, cowboy boot, tube of lipstick, kilt, Stiletto and a shot gun shell. With their innovative designs, the talented artists at Tipsy Totes create custom pieces for everyone from the casual wine drinker to the wine enthusiast.


The Washington watchdog Judicial Watch pointed out the illegal immigrants are being represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The far-left SPLC has been the target of multiple lawsuits by groups put on its "hate" list. Two cases recently were resolved through multimillion-dollar settlements.
SPLC's complaint against the federal government charges Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents violated the constitutional rights of the illegal aliens against illegal seizure and equal protection under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
The illegal aliens were caught up in the law-enforcement sweep because they were being paid in cash, meaning the company was not withholding and submitting taxes, according to Judicial Watch.
The IRS staged the raid after slaughterhouse owner James Brantley of Bean Station, Tennessee, was targeted in the investigation of tax fraud.
Brantley later pleaded guilty to federal crimes, including tax fraud and wire fraud.
"The feds say he avoided paying nearly $1.3 million in taxes by hiring at least 150 illegal aliens and paying them off the books in cash. The scheme began in 1988 and continued through 2018 when he got busted," Judicial Watch said.
Brantley had claimed he employed only 44 wage-earning employees, according to the Department of Justice. His apparent objective was to avoid various federal taxes and unemployment premiums by paying the workers in cash.
But SPLC and pro-immigrant groups claim in the lawsuit that the victims had their "rights" violated.
SPLC called it the largest workplace immigration raid since the George W. Bush administration.
The case against nine ICE agents accuses them of being "brutal" and cursing and shoving workers.
SPLC recently has been sued for labeling organizations such as the Family Research Council as "hate" groups. It has reached huge settlement payments in several cases, and as many as 60 separate lawsuits are planned.


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Read about Maharaja who first explored the possibility of a railway line connecting Jammu with Srinagar
It was Maharaja Pratap Singh, of the Dogra dynasty, who first explored the possibility of a railway line connecting Jammu with Srinagar in 1898 but the idea was put on hold because of complications involved in laying the track over a hilly terrain.
However, in 1905, the maharaja approved a railway line between Jammu and Srinagar via Reasi through the historic Mughal Road. Involving a 763 mm gauge railway climbing through the Mughal Road at 11,000 feet on the Pir Panjal Range, this would have been a spectacular low gauge. But an elevated pass would have meant it was not all weather which made it impractical.
Prior to 1947, train used to come to Jammu from Sialkot. When Sialkot went to Pakistan, the train service was resumed to Jammu from Pathankot in 1972 during then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's tenure.
With partition in 1947, the state was disconnected from the Indian rail grid and a new line from Pathankot to Jammu had to be laid.
Years later, in 1983, the then PM, Indira Gandhi laid the foundation for the 54-km Jammu-Udhampur stretch. The railways later promised that a rail link would be extended by 290 km to Baramulla in the Kashmir Valley. But nothing was done till 1996, when then prime minister P V Narasimha Rao sanctioned Rs.2600 crore for the extension of the rail link from Udhampur to Baramulla, covering 290 km.
Read also: Step By Step to activate Free google Railwire wifi in Jammu Tawi Railway Station
Rao's successor Deve Gowda laid another ritualistic foundation stone in March 1997, again in Udampur. Just two months later, his successor I K Gujral flew all the way to the Valley for the same ceremony, this time at Baramulla.
For 19 years, the link to Kashmir could not see the light of the day. In 2003, it was Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who declared it a national project. The railway project that still remains incomplete witnesses piecemeal inauguration now and then, even for as small a stretch as 17 km.
The remaining project has been divided into three parts – 41 km long Udhampur to Katra, 130 km long Katra to Qazigund and 119 km Qazigund to Baramulla. In the final stage, it will stretch from north to south Kashmir.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2005 inaugurated a stretch — 54 km long Jammu Udhampur — of this 344 km rail link.
The 66 km long section of Qazigund Baramulla – from Anantnag to Mazhama -was inaugurated by the then Manmohan Singh in October 2008.
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Litoria meiriana es una especie de anfibio anuro de la familia Pelodryadidae. Se distribuye por el noroeste de Australia, al norte de las regiones de Australia Occidental y Territorio del Norte entre los 150 y los 600 metros de altitud.

Es una rana pequeña que mide alrededor de 2 cm de longitud. Los dedos de las patas traseras están palmeados pero los de sus patas delanteras no. Es de color marrón oscuro y muestra dos patrones de coloración, uno con tonos oliváceos y otro con un moteado oscuro abundante.

Habitan arroyos, estanques y charcas permanentes. Es una rana diurna. Es capaz de saltar sobre la superficie del agua como una cabrilla. Ponen entre 30 y 40 huevos en pequeñas charcas junto o en salientes rocosos y rocas sumergidas.

Referencias

Anfibios de Australia
meiriana


We celebrated the visit of the wise men with a special Epiphany Service and Procession. All of the children made crowns and we followed the star to the church where we added the (knitted!) wise men to the nativity scene. We sang 'We three kings' on our journey!
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Today, browsing my old notes on mobile game performance optimization, I've decided to structure them in a single post. I've started write my notes from that time, when together with my fellows we launched our first mobile game on production. That was really outstanding experience. At that time most of things were new and unknown for me. But despite this fact, rich work experience at leading global software development and consulting company allowed pretty quickly setup environment and establish required processes. And few months later we achieved first result. It was time when we published our first game on Google Play and Apple Store. Finally, first downloads and installs. We started receiving first comments from real consumers. It was first market feedback on our new game. Later we realized that having all these data was not enough to understand whether our product successful or not. At the end we faced with task to transform "successful product" term into something measurable, something that we can calculate and optimize, something that we can have direct influence on.
Before I will tell you how we measure success of our products I would like to give you simple example from everyday life. Let's imagine that you've opened cafe in your city. Your cafe has nice interior and delicious cuisine. It is located very close to downtown and it's visited by a huge number of locals and tourists every day. Can we assume that your cafe is successful, based on this information? From the first point of view, yes we can, because of big flow of customers that are coming. But let's take a look deeper and we will see that many of customers are tourists, who visiting your cafe because of advertising posters in their travel guides. And the rest of customers are locals, who walking along the street and seeing new sign decided to look inside and try something new. After a while you decided to stop all marketing campaigns and remove advertising posters from travel guides. As a result, flow of new visitors significantly reduced. Tourists no longer visit your cafe and locals also skip it another way. Such seemingly successful cafe is now half empty. What actually was the reason for such significant fall of visitors and whether you could respond to this issue in advance. Actually, if we look deeper, your cafe was not successful from the very beginning. All the tourists, who came to your cafe, was result of advertising posters in their travel guides. And locals, after visiting cafe for the first time, almost never come back later, because of unfriendly staff and quite inflated prices. I'm sure having this insights from the very beginning you would execute all possible preventive actions to avoid such terrible situation.
The same behavior we can observe with mobile games. Seemingly large number of downloads and comments does not mean "successful product". We discovered this with our first mobile game and right away decided to introduce quantitative metrics in order to measure product performance, which eventually impacts product success. As a core metrics we took Retention and LTV.
Let me briefly visualize and explain these two metrics.
Retention – reflects ratio of returning users on specific day that belongs to some group within a defined timespan (let's say Cohort A), to users from the same Cohort A, who installed and launched game for the first time. By analogy with cafe, those visitors who came to cafe for the first time and continue visiting it next days.
D1 = 60% | D2 = 40% | D3 = 40% | D4 = 35% | D5 = 40% | D6 = 40% | D7 = 30%.
30% – amazing | 20% – good | 16% – average | 12% – poor | 8% – oh god, something's wrong!
LTV (customer lifetime value) – revenue accumulated for single user that staying and interacting with a game during predefined period of time. By analogy with cafe, accumulated income from single visitor who came to cafe for the first time and continue visiting it next days.
Apply Virality. Decrease cost of acquiring new user to the game by distributing total cost among multiple users using viral approach. So having $1 engagement which result in 1 new user and further this user acquire 3 more users for free (e.g. using word of mouth) we can say that final CAC is distributed among 4 users and equals $1 / 4 = $0.25.
Unfortunately, not so good as we originally thought based on downloads and installs. But at the end it was valuable experience that we've gained and now continue spreading among our products. Ultimate success of any single product boils down to knowing and understanding of its quantitative and qualitative attributes. That is why introducing Retention and LTV as key performance metrics for your product, will allow continuously check it's health status and make right and reasonable decisions.
Thanks for taking a peek at my notes. I'm excited to learn more about different techniques and approaches in the area of product design and development. Later I'll check back in and share with you what I've learned. In the meantime, feel free to share your own experience on how you measure mobile game performance and what is your average Retention and LTV. I'd like to hear your thought in comments below.
Originally published at measureofluck.com on August 25, 2015.


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#region Namespaces
using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Windows.Forms;
#endregion // Namespaces

namespace WinTooltip
{
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  /// A tooltip window designed to move
  /// around with the cursor position.
  /// </summary>
  class JtTooltipForm2 : Form
  {
    /// <summary>
    /// The offset from the mouse pointer
    /// at which to show the form.
    /// </summary>
    public Point Offset { get; set; }

    /// <summary>
    /// Tooltip text.
    /// </summary>
    Label _label;

    /// <summary>
    /// Set the tooltip text.
    /// </summary>
    public void SetText( string s )
    {
      _label.Text = s;
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Move the window to an offset of mouse pointer.
    /// </summary>
    protected override void OnShown( EventArgs e )
    {
      base.OnShown( e );

      Location = new Point(
        MousePosition.X + Offset.X,
        MousePosition.Y + Offset.Y );
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Move the window to an offset of mouse pointer.
    /// </summary>
    protected override void OnVisibleChanged(
      EventArgs e )
    {
      base.OnVisibleChanged( e );

      if( Visible )
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        Location = new Point(
          MousePosition.X + Offset.X,
          MousePosition.Y + Offset.Y );
      }
    }

    public JtTooltipForm2()
    {
      Size = new Size( 200, 20 );

      _label = new Label();

      SuspendLayout();

      _label.AutoSize = false; // the label will not change it's height automatically, only width, so switch off AutoSize to wrap text
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      BackColor = SystemColors.Info;
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      Controls.Add( _label );
      FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;
      Name = "JtTooltipForm";
      Opacity = 0.8D;
      ShowInTaskbar = false;
      TopMost = true;
      TransparencyKey = Color.White;

      ResumeLayout( false );
      PerformLayout();

      Offset = new Point( 10, 0 );
    }
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}

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We Are All Dragons
September 30, 2016 Pam Uphoff Uncategorized 25 comments
We have our lairs, and fill them with our hoards.
Oh, some people call them by other names. Houses, apartments, mansions . . . but we know what they are. And our hoards are furniture, books (lots and lots of books!) dishes and flatware. Knickknacks; gifts from friends, mementos of vacations. Art, from posters of our favorite bands to original water colors.
Tools and toys.
Oh yes my precious. We have jewelry and clothing and other fine things.
And we have ideas in our minds. Memories. Stories. People who never really existed. Wild ideas and wonderful dreams. Entire worlds, universes, all times and all places.
But the most precious is not thought to be a thing of dragons.
We have friends and family. People we share lair and hoard with, especially those ideas and dreams. Or perhaps they too are a part of our hoards, we certainly save and treasure our interactions with them.
Writers go one further. We write out our ideas and spread them, broadcast them to any who will give us a token in return. We do not hoard our ideas, although a few expressions of them will never be seen by others. We want to share them with the world.
And then, dragon-like, we collect reviews, facebook comments and "likes." We hoard our readers opinions of our wild flights of fancy, retreat to our lairs to count and weigh our Amazon reviews, track our author ranking, the sales ranks of the latest dragonette we've kicked out of the lair to fly, to soar or falter.
And we tread a circle in our nests of old rejection slips and best reviews, and start incubating the next idea.
And the last idea:
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Jasini says:
c4c with chocolate for Shadow.
All of the above (you should see my hoard of vacuum tubes and variable capacitors) but I only breathe fire after eating at one of several local Asian restaurants.
wyrdbard says:
My boss insisted on keeping the spares for a machine we haven't had in 10 years (according to our IT guy who was the one who junked the thing) when we moved offices. I don't think it's just authors.
Anachronda says:
It's not just authors. I got the packrat gene from both sides of the family.
For a while, my grandfather ran the county dump. You couldn't throw anything away because it would come right back with "can you *believe* the stuff people throw away?"
nothermike says:
On one project long ago, I was given a lengthy list of terminals to interface (make sure our software could talk to). One of them was problematic, at best, from the manuals. I asked our contact, a sergeant, if it was necessary. After checking, he reported that there were supposed to be two (2!) in the world-wide army inventory, but no one could find them. So I could drop that terminal from the list. Whew!
Later, I was introduced to the RCA government spares inventory. At that time, the government sent a fair chunk of change every year to RCA to keep spare parts on hand for a large variety of systems that had been purchased by the government over the years. I could not find anyone who was checking whether those systems were still in use, though.
Hoards are especially well-liked by librarians and archivists, of course. But to do it right, you need a multi-terabyte disk and a good version control system!
Backups. I . . . with great reluctance have tossed not just the 3.5 inchers, but the 5 in floppies as well. I needed the room for for the CD backups from the more recent parts of the Holocene.
*curls around his hoard of cheap synthesizers and snarls
JamesandBluejay says:
I'm wondering – what kind of music could you make by combining a cheap synthesizer and a snarl? *thinks acid-rock guitar*
(sorry. My mind's organized like my office – stacks of unrelated papers.)
industrial metal.
The younger son was like that, yet his hoard of cheap synthesizers, not to mention many instruments, was abandoned as he flew the nest for far territories. The lure of the exotic orient has claimed him, but he has no doubt started a new hoard.
i was saying that synthesizers and a snarl would be industrial metal.
I do darkwave
If your son abandoned his synths, what's left? 😀
Ukulele. Acoustical guitar. However, he's gotten a Chapman stick so he hasn't abandoned tech altogether.
no i meant what synths had he abandoned 😛
Oh! Well, see, there's a room full of "stuff" that I haven't a clue about. It's boxed up and fills every nook and cranny, under the bed, the walk-in closet, along the wall . . . Most of it's "physical" rather than digital, so probably not what you'd call a synth, even though they make music. Ahem, in hands other than mine. It's interesting, checking the definition, as used. I'd have thought an electric guitar would qualify, but since the sound is created physically it isn't.
well, a good portion of my synthesizers are mostly analog, not digital.
Eh, Eric's a purest. He's informed me that if the music is made by vibrating a string, it's not synth. I should have asked him about the electric organ.
Wasn't "word horde" one of the Anglo-Saxon kennings for a book?
The Other Sean says:
Better Dragon than Dagon, that's my thought. 😉
George Carlin's riff about stuff…
Randy Wilde says:
You say we're all dragons, but I have yet to have any success when I ask the community to bring me beautiful young maidens.
Confutus says:
Have you eaten any of the villagers yet? Carried off any cows? (More than a quarter pound at a time.) Burned any wheatfields? Then they probably aren't sufficiently terrified. None but the bold deserve the fair, 'tis said.
Speaking of dragons, I have what you might call a puff piece here. http://sapiencekb.com/wp/?p=510
Yeah. All kids need a dragon. All pirates deserve a dragon.
J.M. Ney-Grimm says:
Awesome! 😀


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Roy Chapman Andrews
Andrews was born on January 26, 1884, in Beloit, Wisconsin. As a child, he explored forests, fields, and waters nearby, developing marksmanship skills. He taught himself taxidermy and used funds from this hobby to pay tuition to Beloit College. After graduating, Andrews applied for work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He so much wanted to work there that after being told that there were no openings at his level, Andrews took a job as a janitor in the taxidermy department and began collecting specimens for the museum. During the next few years, he worked and studied simultaneously, earning a Master of Arts degree in mammalogy from Columbia University.
From 1909 to 1910, Andrews sailed on the USS Albatross to the East Indies, collecting snakes and lizards and observing marine mammals. In 1913, he sailed aboard the schooner Adventuress with owner John Borden to the Arctic. They were hoping to obtain a bowhead whale specimen for the American Museum of Natural History. On this expedition, he filmed some of the best footage of seals ever seen, though did not succeed in acquiring a whale specimen.
He married Yvette Borup in 1914. From 1916 to 1917, Andrews and his wife led the Asiatic Zoological Expedition of the museum through much of western and southern Yunnan, as well as other provinces of China. The book Camps and Trails in China records their experiences.
In 1920, Andrews began planning for expeditions to Mongolia and drove a fleet of Dodge cars westward from Peking. In 1922, the party discovered a fossil of Indricotherium (then named "Baluchitherium"), a gigantic hornless rhinoceros, which was sent back to the museum, arriving on December 19. Andrewsarchus was named after him.
Andrews, along with Henry Fairfield Osborn,was a proponent of the Out of Asia theory of humanity's origins and led several expeditions to Asia from 1922 to 1928 known as the "Central Asiatic Expeditions" to look for the earliest human remains in Asia. The expeditions did not find human remains. However, Andrews and his team made many other finds, including dinosaur bones and fossil mammals and most notably the first nests full of dinosaur eggs ever discovered (see below). Andrews's main account of these expeditions can be found in his book The New Conquest of Central Asia.
In his preface to Andrews's 1926 book, On the Trail of the Ancient Man, Henry Fairfield Osborn predicted that the birthplace of modern humans would be found in Asia and stated that he had predicted this decades earlier, even before the Asiatic expeditions were carried out.
On July 13, 1923, the party was the first in the world to discover dinosaur eggs. Initially thought to be eggs of a ceratopsian, Protoceratops, they were determined in 1995 actually to belong to the theropod Oviraptor. During that same expedition, Walter W. Granger discovered a skull from the Cretaceous period. In 1925, the museum sent a letter back informing the party that the skull was that of a mammal, and therefore even more rare and valuable; more were uncovered. Expeditions in the area stopped during 1926 and 1927. In 1928, the expedition's finds were seized by Chinese authorities but were eventually returned. The 1929 expedition was cancelled. In 1930, Andrews made one final trip and discovered some mastodon fossils. A cinematographer, James B. Shackelford, made filmed records of many of Andrews' expeditions. (Sixty years after Andrews' initial expedition, the American Museum of Natural History returned to Mongolia on the invitation of its government to continue exploration.) Later that year, Andrews returned to the United States and divorced his wife, with whom he had two sons. He married his second wife, Wilhelmina Christmas, in 1935.
In 1927, the Boy Scouts of America made Andrews an Honorary Scout, a new category of Scout created that same year. This distinction was given to "American citizens whose achievements in outdoor activity, exploration and worthwhile adventure are of such an exceptional character as to capture the imagination of boys...".
Andrews joined the Explorers Club in New York in 1908, four years after its founding. He later served as its President from 1931 to 1934. In 1934, Andrews became the director of the Natural History museum. In his 1935 book The Business of Exploring, he wrote "I was born to be an explorer...There was never any decision to make. I couldn't do anything else and be happy." In 1942, Andrews retired to Carmel Valley, California, where he wrote about his life.
He died on March 11, 1960 of a heart attack at Peninsula Community Hospital in Carmel, California. He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in his hometown of Beloit.
"Indiana Jones" connection
Douglas Preston of the American Museum of Natural History wrote:
Andrews is allegedly the real person that the movie character of Indiana Jones was patterned after. Andrews was an accomplished stage master. He created an image and lived it out impeccably—there was no chink in his armor. Roy Chapman Andrews: famous explorer, dinosaur hunter, exemplar of Anglo-Saxon virtues, crack shot, fighter of Mongolian brigands, the man who created the metaphor of 'Outer Mongolia' as denoting any exceedingly remote place. Although some sources speculate that Andrews was the inspiration for Indiana Jones, neither George Lucas nor the other creators of the films have ever confirmed this. Other candidates have been suggested, including Colonel Percy Fawcett. The 120-page transcript of the story conferences for the movie does not mention Andrews. An analysis by the Smithsonian Channel concludes that the linkage was indirect, with Andrews (and other explorers) serving as the model for heroes in adventure films of the 1940s and 1950s, who in turn inspired Lucas and his fellow writers.
(From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Chapman_Andrews)
Works by Roy Chapman Andrews:
Monographs of the Pacific Cetacea (1914–16)
Whale Hunting With Gun and Camera (1916)
Camps and Trails in China (1918)
Across Mongolian Plains (1921)
On The Trail of Ancient Man (1926)
Ends of the Earth (1929)
The New Conquest of Central Asia (1932)
This Business of Exploring (1935)
Exploring with Andrews (1938)
This Amazing Planet (1939)
Under a Lucky Star (1943)
Meet your Ancestors, A Biography of Primitive Man (1945)
An Explorer Comes Home (1947)
My Favorite Stories of the Great Outdoors Editor (1950)
Quest in the Desert (1950)
Heart of Asia: True Tales of the Far East (1951)
Nature's Way: How Nature Takes Care of Her Own (1951)
All About Dinosaurs (1953)
All About Whales (1954)
Beyond Adventure: The Lives of Three Explorers (1954)
Quest of the Snow Leopard (1955)
All About Strange Beasts of the Past (1956)
In the Days of the Dinosaurs (1959)


This screening is to be experienced WITHOUT HEATING. Please bring a hot water bottle and a bean bag for this Siberian work in progress, presentation and discussion. Hot Vodka will be supplied.
Perestroika: Reconstructed re-mixes, develops and extends Turner�s critically acclaimed film, Perestroika, into two sequences. The two sequences reconfigure and revisit a combination of elements - structural, visual and affectual - in order to explore the process of memory: both what we forget and how we remember.
The sequences are connected through mirroring and correspondences, an experience of d�j� vu which echoes and haunts: In Sequence One the journey to Siberia is constructed as a documentary. The filmmaker inscribes herself into the narrative as both a real and fictional character, indistinguishable from one another. Suffering from retrograde amnesia following a serious cycling accident, the fictional character Sarah Turner retraces a journey she made 20 years ago on the Trans Siberian train to Lake Baikal. In Sequence two the journey structure is repeated but framed through a narration that recounts a completely different journey; effectively one of �Sarah�s� stories, re-remembered and re-told. This re enactment reconfigures familiar elements: characters are referenced from Sequence One, and the mirroring is further developed through time frame and historical period; New years eve 1989/90, the era of perestroika itself.
Perestroika: Reconstructed re enacts the refusal of the opposition between storytelling and document, (the fact of event or the fiction of memory) by foregrounding the affectual in the audience�s experience: here, memory is a narrative response to affectual spaces; memory determines the affectual filter of now as much as then. The re-experience of the work is crucial to the idea of the uncanny return - enacted within the content - but the formal return locates the experience within the immersive space of cinema; journeys are always both psychic and geographical, experienced physical and imagined space. Both sequences of the film culminate at the haunting expanse of lake Baikal; our first experience of the lake is terror/apocalypse, the second, an experience of beauty/tranquility, but now that experience is something that only exists in memory, the 'real' that we no longer have access to as our 're-experience' of the water is 'contaminated' by the affectual knowledge of our initial encounter. Here, form stages theme through twinning the instability of the environment with the instability of memory and re-enacting that within the projective cinematic experience. Reading across both sequences pulls into play what we both feel and know; an uncontaminated experience of landscape is now literally and metaphorically something that only exists in memory.


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Try out the company before you sign on for a long term agreement. A short term contract will let you know if you have found the right company and if you will be able to work together as your company moves into the future.
The answers to all of your security needs are only a few steps away. Knowing your security needs will help you begin the process of finding the right company to meet those needs. Doing some research on the security company that you are considering will help you narrow down the process.
It is also important that you check to be sure that the staff working for the company is fully licensed and the company is insured. The safety of your company and your employees may come down to the decision that you make. It is important to invest the time and effort into finding security vehicle patrol in San Mateo that will give you the safety that you seek.
Adding security vehicle patrol in San Ramon is one more way to make your business and your community safer. Many neighborhoods are moving beyond the traditional watch program of volunteers. They are considering the added security of a professional company. The staff at Overton Security has the experience and the knowledge to help you plan and execute the right security vehicle plan for your area.
All private security vehicle patrols in San Ramon will be permitted through the state. The state has guidelines that help ensure the quality of the protection that the company will be providing.
The uniforms and vehicles of the private security will be easy to distinguish from federal, state and local law enforcement and other government agencies. It is important that people recognize the private security, but that they also realize the difference between them and law enforcement officials.
The word PRIVATE will appear on the vehicles used for patrol at least four inches in size. This is one more feature that will help set the private patrols apart.
Security vehicle patrols in San Ramon serve as deterrents. They have limited enforcement capabilities but may be authorized by the company or community to issue citations or other notices. In some circumstances private security may need to take action in the form of a citizen's arrest. Personnel should be trained in the proper way to follow the procedures.
Many companies do not arm patrols with all of the latest technology. Recording equipment helps maintain accurate records of all that goes on during the patrols. Computer technology can also aid in checking notes on residencies, vehicles or other items that may have been recorded by the company or the community that employs the private security patrol.
Investing in private security can give you the added comfort you need to feel secure in your situation. There are some limitations to what private security personnel are allowed to do, but their presence can offer a deterrent to would-be criminals. The recording devices and radios make it easy to contact the local law enforcement.
Private security also makes a statement with their uniforms and vehicles. They may be easy to distinguish from law enforcement but they still make a strong statement that the area is being monitored. You may find some comfort for feeling safer when you invest in security vehicle patrol in San Ramon.
Getting the best security guards in Sacramento is important when it is the safety of you, your family or your company that may be on the line. Security guards provide a higher degree of prevention from incidents and problems with their presence, training and technology. Overton Security has been working with individuals and companies since the 1990's to meet all of their safety needs.
Start with an understanding of your security issues. Make a list of all the areas where there is a safety concern or a security need. Take a walk through the building to discover what security protocols you want to address.
Research the companies in the area. Talk to friends, family and colleagues to discover who they are using to meet their security needs. Find out all of the pros and cons of the different security guards they have employed. Contact the Better Business Bureau to see if there have been any reports against the company that you are considering. You will also want to ask and see if any of those reports were resolved. Sometimes the way a company handles a problem tells more than if there was never a problem.
Meet with the security companies to see which will best fit with your company and your needs. You will be able to find out what services they provide, what contracts are available and also what financial obligations will come from your side.
Ask for references – specifically from any company or individual that had a problem. You need to learn from someone's firsthand experience how the security guards in the company handle incidents and react in situations.
Visit a location that currently employs security guards in Sacramento. Watch the security guards in action. See if their behavior and attitudes would fit in with your own company's policies and environment.
Security is important in the business world, the corporate world and in life in general. You will need to invest some time and energy into finding the right security company to meet your entire security requirement. Overton Security wants to help you in the process. They have the staff that can provide you with information and guidance to create a solid security plan. Finding the best security guards in Sacramento will start with researching the different companies in the area to find the one that has all of the qualities that you seek.
Security has become a top issue and when it comes to security guards in Oakland you need to know what to expect. The number of companies that provide private and corporate security protection seems to be at an industry high. Unfortunately all security companies are not created equal. Overton Security has been serving the community since the late 1990's. Their staff will help you understand your needs and what you can expect when it comes to hiring security.
Understanding in the up-to-date policies and procedures of the companies and individuals receiving protection.
Continued training for all security guards that keeps them aware of technology, techniques and even paperwork.
Meeting of certification and licensing requirements for all employees.
The monitoring of activity in a company or around the company may be done with the use of cameras, through patrols or a combination of the two.
Exits and entries are also monitored either by a person check or through the use of scanners. This may also include searching through lunches, bags or simply reminding employees or guests to put their badges on in a place that is easily visible.
Security guards in Oakland may also act on any suspicious activities or behavior through recordings or other means necessary. They may also step in to prevent certain activities that are prohibited in or around the company (such as photography or even recording).
Performing of background checks has almost become standard practice for companies.
Security guards in San Jose are trained to observe and report on any incident or offense that occurs while they are on duty.
It is important to remember that security guards are NOT peace officers. Many receive the same, or similar, training and even hold similar jobs. Being a security guard comes with a great deal of responsibility. Overton Security is determined to maintain the top security guards in their employment.
There are certain jobs you can expect when it comes to employing private security. You will have someone that can help monitor situations and even report on any incidents that might occur. Security companies will be able to help with background checks of potential employees, current personnel and even visitors to the company. In the end, security guards in San Jose are brought into the situation to help be a preventative measure to ensure against any problems or incidents.
Discovering the right security company in San Jose starts with knowing what you need. There are a wide range of companies in the community. The protection that they provide starts with security guards and goes all the way up to sophisticated monitoring equipment. Overton Security has been serving San Jose for over a decade and this family-based company wants to help you discover and meet your security needs.
What is your budget? The sky is the limit when it comes to private security, but the cost rises as the protection tightens. You need to determine the amount of finances that can be dedicated to security issues.
What are your most pressing security issues? Make a list of all the security concerns you have about your situation. Rank the concerns in their order of importance. Having a focused idea of what you need will help you find the security company in San Jose that will best suit those needs.
What are the time parameters for your security needs? Write down days, times and length of security coverage that you expect in your future. You will want to choose a security company in San Jose that can meet your schedule and that will also be in a position to stay on the project until its completion.
What are your expectations when it comes to security coverage? Protection means different things to different people. You will help serve your interests and meet your needs if you make a list of those things that you expect a security company to do for you. The list will also help you talk to companies to see if those expectations are even possible.
Security can be a serious matter. It may be that you or your family needs to be protected. A company or product may require additional security for a specific period of time. You may just want to hire one-night security for an event. There are a wide number of reasons to hire security and just as many security options to match those reasons.
Knowing your needs will take you a long way toward choosing the right company. No matter what your situation, Overton Security can help you discover the right answers. Answering a few questions and taking the time to think through your security issues will help choose the security company in San Jose that will be best suited to match all the points on your list.


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21 octobre 2016 - Whichita Recordings / [PIAS] Coop
Ecouter un extrait de : American Football
On October 21st, Wichita Recordings will release American Football. The new self-titled sophomore album from the celebrated band comes seventeen years after their debut. The first single 'I've Been So Lost For So Long' is available to hear now on SoundCloud, and on all DSPs tomorrow, August 24th. The band will play a series ofalbum release shows in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and London over the coming months. Tickets go on sale Friday, August 26th, with pre-sale bundles available in the US and the UK on the 24th and 25th respectively- full show details below.American Football will be released in North America by Polyvinyl Records.
Not long after Polyvinyl Records released American Football's self-titled debut album in 1999, the band called it quits, having only played a smattering of Champaign-Urbana college house parties and sets at small clubs like Chicago's legendary Fireside Bowl before taking their own divergent post-undergrad paths. Such an inauspicious turn of events made what followed all the more incredible. Over time, the record went on to become one of Polyvinyl's best selling releases to date, and ended up serving as "one of the single most influential rock records of its time" according to Noisey and many others. "No other flash-in-the-pan band seems to have connected so strongly and with as many people as American Football did," wrote Stereogum. To most everyone that found them after the fact, the band was no more than an apparition. The record the only artefact left behind as a timeless snapshot of a group of individuals in transition, newly discovered each year by a fresh crop of music fans reaching a similar inflection point in their own lives.
When American Football announced in 2014 that they would play live for the first time in 15 years, the built up appreciation for that eponymous LP physically manifested itself as they sold out 3 nights at Webster Hall in New York City in a matter of hours, and then went on to do the same at venues around the world. A quarter of a lifetime removed, and at times thousands of miles away from the house on the sleepy street in the middle of Illinois depicted on their debut album's iconic cover, they found themselves playing to sold out crowds that numbered in the thousands in London, Tokyo, Barcelona and beyond.
The forthcoming album American Football finds the band with new material that takes them on a serendipitous detour down a familiar road. It is replete with the swelling emotions that might be spurred on by locked away memories unearthed by a familiar scent or crack in the concrete, or the rush of warm apprehension when coming face to face with a lover left before the fire was close to going out. "The past still present tense"sings Mike Kinsella on 'Home Is Where The Haunt Is', but while the house on the cover and the title of the album are the same, they are made strange by time and new found perspective. "We've been here before," he declares on album opener 'Where Are We Now?', "but I don't remember a lock on the door."
At a time when reunions have become rote, American Football is decidedly an anomaly. There is no past glory to relive or reignite, nor the burden to branch out and break from a well worn formula. Seventeen years later everything still feels brand new, because for them it is. They are a band that for one reason or another closed the lid on their creative output just as they were beginning an unforeseeable upswing, and are just now after a stasis returning to uncork it with the benefit of greater maturity and better musicianship. The sound is even more expansive, the lyrics less naive and more world weary, the songs with greater depths to explore and layers to peel back throughout. "You can't just forget all the other lives you've lived," Kinsella sings, and every single one of the nearly two decades worth of experiences since they last put pen to paper as American Football seem to bleed through on this record.
American Football is Steve Holmes (guitar), Mike Kinsella (vocals, guitar), Nate Kinsella (bass), and Steve Lamos (drums, trumpet). American Football was recorded this spring at ARC Studios in Omaha, NE and SIRK Studios in Chicago, IL, and was produced by the band and Jason Cupp.


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Commemorating World AIDS Day and the Work of the Drop-In Center
December 2, 2021 amandah@councilofcommunityservices.org News
By the year 2000, 36 million individuals had been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, and 22 million of these individuals had died. We knew at that time that access to HIV testing, education, and condoms were our main weapons in the fight against HIV. We knew then, as we know now, that early detection and science-based education saved lives.
With the growing epidemic and its effects in the Roanoke Valley and throughout Southwest Virginia, Pam Meador was determined to do something. After two years of fighting for funding, Pam began working with jails, barbershops, bars, and operating out of the back of her car in parking lots to offer free HIV testing, linkage to care, free condoms, and risk reduction education to the Valleys high-risk populations. By 2003, Pam had secured the funding to open the Council of Community Services' first Drop-In Center.
Fast-forward to today, and we have grown to serve all of Southwest Virginia with offices in Roanoke, Danville, and Marion. Our Centers provide free HIV and Hepatitis C testing, linkage to care, Ryan White support services for those living with HIV, Comprehensive Harm Reduction Services for those living with a substance use disorder, Status-Neutral services to those at high-risk for HIV, and CHARLI services for those who are HIV-positive coming out of incarceration.
Thanks to the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion in Virginia, lifesaving treatment has never been more accessible to those living with HIV. Still, our work has always been more than testing and linkage to care.
When you talk to Pam about the early days of the Drop-In Center, the conversation always turns to the stigma those living with HIV face. Pam has been a mother to those whose mothers had turned them away, a friend to those who were left feeling alone and isolated, a hug when all a person needed was to feel loved, and a shoulder to cry on when they needed someone to sit with them in a space of mourning or fear.
This compassion is at the heart of what Pam created 21 years ago. An HIV diagnosis has gone from what was for many a death sentence to what is now (for many) a one-day pill regiment or even a once-a-month shot. Prevention has gone from condom use and crossed fingers to preventatives like PrEP.
The Drop-In Center is the face of the fight against the HIV epidemic in Southwest Virginia, but we are also the face of the fight against the stigma of HIV.
We will never stop fighting against the HIV epidemic and the stigma of HIV, and we will always remind every person they are valued and are loved.
Adapted from Todd Rothrock's speech at the World AIDS Day Prayer & Candlelight Service. Todd is the Drop-In Center Roanoke Manager, and Program Coordinator.
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Thanks for all the info! Keep up the amazing work in the next Xpac please and thank you!
I tried again to watch Wowhead Weekly. I still cannot get through but a few minutes of it before I have to shut it down. I miss Panser she gave it so much energy.
There are lots of shows out there in different styles and Panser streams every weekday at fb.gg\/tradechat if you want to catch her playing WoW and other things. We are also partnering with several other shows, for example The Weekly Reset, that have a different style that Panser or Wowhead Weekly.
I look forward to Wowhead weekly every week, keep up the good work and thank you.


... but what are these skills and what do we call them?
Food for thought - Today's labor market claims more and more job candidates lack soft skills. Do we know how to describe much less measure these skills not traditionally assessed by standardized tests?
Recommended reading: NPR-ED article - Non-Academic Skills are Key to Success - But What Do We Call Them?
The U.S. Department of Commerce reports that only 14% of engineers are women and that 5% of STEM workers overall are from underrepresented groups.
At the college level, women account for only 18% of those earning a bachelor's degree in engineering. In Louisiana, this percent is even lower.
These facts stated by Techbridge put it all into perspective. The current representation of women in STEM is alarming low, indicating a serious need for role models that help increase STEM identity in girls. How do we increase female student exposure to inspirational role models and the information they need?
Great article (linked below) featured in the Guardian reflects on the value of role models in closing the gender gap in STEM. The article refers to several sites that feature STEM role models for girls, such as Your Daughter's Future and Science Grrl. These sites offer information on different careers and contain tips on gaining beyond school day experience, managing exam stress and boosting confidence, with tailored information for different ages. Made With Code is another site that does a great job of featuring inspirational video shorts by both role models as well as young female students who have already started making a difference in IT fields. Finally, Role Models Matter, a toolkit designed by Techbridge, offer a range of tools to help professional women in every community serve as a role model.
Last week, over sixty-five female middle school students attended LA-WIT's (Louisiana Women in Technology) 2nd annual IT-GIRL Day for EBR Middle School Girls at Lee Magnet High. The goal of the annual event is to provide middle school girls the opportunity to learn about careers in technology, connect with high tech professionals, and participate in hands-on, design-based creative computing projects. In additional to the computing activities, girls participated in various leadership and team building activities.
Focusing on "creative computing," the IT-GIRL's programming activity placed emphasis on building knowledge and practices that girls need to create the types of dynamic and interactive media that they enjoy in their daily lives, such as videos, animations, games and apps. Engaging in the creation of these types of media not only prepares the students for careers in STEM, particularly in IT fields, but builds confidence, interest and identity in STEM.
At the end of the day, the girls had created a story and a game using MIT's scratch programming tool and original apps using Mozilla AppMaker.
However, this could not have been possible without the twenty-five role models in IT throughout the community that volunteered their time and expertise. A special thanks also goes out to LA-WIT's valued sponsors: Louisiana Tech Park, Geocent, Envoc, IBM, and Sparkhound!


Worksheet on Profit and Loss In worksheet on profit and loss, we can see below there are 15 different types of questions which we can practice in our homework. 1. Find the profit or loss: 2. Fill in the blanks: From question 3 onwards we can see word problems on profit and loss. Word Problems on Profit and Loss. 3. A TV was bought for $ 18,950 and old at a loss of $ 4780. Find the selling... Amount % C. Calculate his percentage profit. He sells it for $3300. Find the percentage decrease in the cost. Work out $175 as a percentage of $1400 3. Ravi buys a car for $2500. On 1 January 2000. . In a sale a coat costing $250 is reduced to $200.P P/L S. 2.P Questions from Exam Papers 1. the population of Norway was 4480 000.
If you've not seen Storage Hunters on Dave (or the equivalent channel in your country) then you are missing out, but this activity uses the concept of someone buying something and selling it on, hopefully for a profit on their part. The students must read carefully then calculate the percentage profit or loss.
Every time you click the New Worksheet button, you will get a brand new printable PDF worksheet on Profit-Loss and Discounts. You can choose to include answers and step-by-step solutions. You can choose to include answers and step-by-step solutions.


SOUTH FULTON, Ga. (FOX 5 Atlanta) - New developments Thursday in the effort to put out a fire that's burned at an unpermitted landfill in the City of South Fulton for months.
Elected officials have now secured a half million dollars in emergency funds from Georgia's Board of Natural Resources to help smother the fire.
It has burned since September at the landfill on Bishop Road.
The smoke has spread into the surrounding community.
The EPD said efforts to get the landfill's owner to put out the fire haven't been successful, so it will use state funds and resources to put the fire out.
State representatives said they are working with the police department and the fire department to address the issue.


These are the top questions we receive from our fans.
Do you sell Cream Honey?
Yes, we do! Our Texas Cream Honey is 100 percent pure honey with no additives. It is "whipped" honey, with a light, clean look, which spreads like butter. Fowler's Cream Honey has a deliciously unique taste that is family-produced and specially made only at the Fowler Honey Farm. Our famous cream honey is sold in the 10 oz jar and tastes great on just about anything. Thinking of sending someone a Texas themed gift? Our cream honey is perfect!
No, honey does not age. In fact, it is recognized as the only food that doesn't spoil.
It will, however, crystallize over time. If this happens, just remove the lid from the jar; place it in a pan of warm water; and heat it over low heat until the honey returns to its original consistency.
Does honey vary in color?
Honey in its natural state is always a shade of rich amber. The shade of amber is determined by the flowers the honeybees feed from.
Honey weighs half again as much as an equal volume of water, according to Convert-To.com. For example, 1 pint of water weighs 16 ounces, but 1 pint of honey weighs 24 ounces.
This is an average metric, but the true weight of honey by volume may vary depending on how much water is present in the honey being used. Store honey in tightly sealed containers in a cool, dry place.
One pint is equal to sixteen (16) ounces. I cup is equal to eight (8) ounces. Therefore two cups would be equal to one pint and one cup would be equal to one half (1/2) of a pint.
What kind of honeys are there?
Pure Honey or Raw Honey is honey as it exists in the beehive. Raw honey can be minimally processed by extraction, settling or straining, but does not destroy the nutritional value of the honey.
Non-Pasteurized Honey comes straight from the hive. It consists of all natural nutrients.
Pasteurized Honey has gone through a process of heating, temperatures of 161 °F (72 °C) or higher, a high enough temperature to kill potentially harmful bacteria and germs. This heating process breaks down and destroys some of the nutritional value and components of the honey.
Crystallized Honey is natural honey which part of the glucose content has spontaneously crystallized. Natural honey will always crystalize in time. If natural honey does crystallize, it can be returned to a liquid state by gently warming.
Filtered Honey is any type of honey that has been filtered to the extent that all or most of the fine particles, pollen grains, air bubbles, or other materials normally found in suspension have been removed thus making the honey an easier process to flow through the filter. Filtered honey does not destroy the nutritional value of the honey.
Cream Honey, also called whipped honey, spun honey, churned honey, or candied honey, has been processed to control crystallization. The crystallization is controlled so that, at room temperature, the honey can be spread like butter or jelly.
Combed Honey is honey still in the honeybees' wax comb. The beeswax is edible.
As a side note, most of the honey you find on store shelves is from overseas or is gathered from hives all over the US. It's heated to a high temperature to prevent crystallization. It's usually diluted with corn syrup as well. That is certainly NOT the case when you buy Fowler's Honey.
Crystalized honey (also sometimes called "granulated honey") is simply honey which has spontaneously crystallized. You may open a jar of honey, and find cloudiness, or that part of it has turned into crystals.
Because our honey is pure, non-pasteurized honey, it will crystalize over time.
Should the honey crystalize, simply remove the lid, place honey jar or bottle in warm water until the honey returns to its original state. Crystalized honey will still have all of its nutritional value and is still safe to eat.
I have a restaurant or small business and would like to sell your honey. Who do I contact?
You can reach a customer service representative at 830-303-5763 or send an email to customerservice@fowlerhoney.com.
If you're interested in selling Fowler's Honey wholesale, please contact our customer service office at (830) 303-5763. (retail accounts, minimum order).
Where does Fowler's Honey come from?
Our honeybee hives are located in the honey producing brush areas of South Texas.
Our honey bees produce nectar flow from the many types of flowers they feed upon. This results in the type of honey that is produced. The main flowers the honeybees produce nectar from are a mixture of mesquite and huajilla.
Is Fowler's Honey pasteurized and filtered?
Our honey is Non-pasteurized. Fowler's Honey is pure, raw honey, no additives, all natural nutrients, straight from the hive. We strain our honey so that bits of wax and wing are removed, but we don't filter it.
Will Fowler's Honey crystallize over time? If so, how do I turn it back to liquid form?
Yes. Because our honey is pure, non-pasteurized honey, it will crystallize over time.
Should the honey crystallize, simply remove the lid, place honey jar or bottle in warm water until the honey returns to its original state. Crystalized honey will still have all of its nutritional value and is still safe to eat.
Do you remove bee hives?
No. We do not remove honey bee hives. The National Honey Board provides information about honey from all states including bee products, local businesses, and local honey services. Please go to www.honey.com for more information.
Can I buy honey directly from Fowler's Honey Farm?
Due to liability reasons, we do not sell our honey directly from the farm.
Do you ship Fowler's Honey overseas?
At this time, we ship only in the US and sell our honey at restaurants and retail stores in Texas.
Where can people find Fowler's Honey?
You can purchase our honey in our online shop, right here or you can buy it in stores across South Texas including HEB. Visit our Buy Locally page to see the retailers closest to you. Some don't carry our entire product line, so you may want to call them ahead of time.
Do you sell honey sticks or honeycomb?
Fowler's Honey is only sold in liquid and cream form in our honey bear containers, the large gallon container and glass jars.
Do you sell molasses, sorghum cane syrup, horsemint honey or sage honey?
Fowler's Honey is only sold in liquid and cream form.
Do you sell beeswax or bee pollen?
Is Fowler's Honey Farm open to the public?
At this time, due to liability reasons, we are not open the public.
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