At one stage in your career you've begun to care about data. You decide that you want to know what your players are doing, so you start tracking gameplay events. You track everything. With a flurry of code your app is sending tracking events for every card combination, move, spell effect and battle stat!
Pat yourself on the back, you have created terabytes of garbage.
Data collected without reason, is just data. To be able to make informed decisions you need context and only by understanding your player's intentions will you start to be informed. There are a lot of similarities between mobile games and therefore there are some very standard metrics you might look at. We've created a simple tracking plan that you can use to get started.
The plan leans on three ideas and applies them to Mobile Gaming.
The GQM model lays out the right order to think about your events. You always need a goal in mind then to ask a question that can be represented as a metric. Pirate marketing gives you a way of easily thinking of 5 important high level goals that matter to marketing and growing all free to play mobile games. MVT provides a framework for focussing on creating the right events in the right order.
Together these methodologies can help you to plan the lowest number of valuable events. When an app or game is young, it's more important to understand what's driving your users to convert to payers. Conversion, or lack of conversion, kills more apps than low retention. If you can't make money from your game, you have not got a viable free to play product.
You can use the plan as a pure planning tool or you could use it to help track the implementation of the events in an app. The plan comes with the basic events most games would need to make simple marketing decisions. As every game is different, creating goals and questions that are specific for your game will be up to you.
A – Activation – getting people into your game.
A – Activity – getting people to use your game.
R – Retention – getting people to come back to your game.
R – Referral – getting people to talk about your game.
R – Revenue – getting people to spend money in your game.
Each category provides a clear goal for your app. You want to encourage more actions in each category and you want to know why some actions are better than others. Setting goals for your core gameplay should focus on what is driving players to play my core loop more?
After choosing a clear goal fro a category such as Activity, a common question might be "where do players spend most of their time?". Now, pause a second. WHY have you have settled at this question? Is it that you feel you already know the answer, "People spend most of their time fighting!" (feeding a bias) or is it "Fighting leads to higher conversions, people should fight more!" (improve a KPI). Try to always think of questions in a quantative mannor, where you're not setting any bias but let the data speak. Perhaps "What actions do people spend most of their time doing?" can reveal some useful information. You could then decide on a set of metrics that work well in your game.
What's driving your users to convert to payers?
Dave McClure's Pirate Marketing talk provides 5 good mental anchor categories for most apps and free to play games to focus on. The nature of mobile gaming, in a market which is highly competitive and effectively commoditized, the Retention category becomes a strong focus for teams to improve. You may want to defer the Referral category until you have built out and got an app that has a stable and monetizing user base. During soft launch you want to also focus on the FTUE / top of the funnel actions because this will be where most of your users will churn, there is a separate tab on the plan specifically to map out your FTUE. Remember conversion is king and even if you have a high churn rate of say 80% in day 1, if you have a high conversion rate of >5% then you still have a viable free to play product.
To further aid all tracking I suggest you always create an XP system and provide it as a dimension in core tracking events.
XP is one of the best and simplest ways of segmenting your users. XP is an ever increasing metric based only on actions in game. You should always try to include XP as a system in your game, even if you don't surface it to the player, as it's so useful for tracking. Using XP levels as a bucket to separate users who have performed a similar number of actions allows you to detect points in game time where your designs start to fail.
The goal of all tracking is never to tell you what to build, it can only tell you how badly you built it as no feature is 100% effective.
Firstly, we must establish that battling is the critical element in this question. For now we only need to know just enough about the battle from the point of view of the defender and attacker. In Clash of Clans people search many enemies before committing to an attack so the first metric should be a count "enemiesScanned". Next once an enemy is picked the battle is commences, to answer the question we don't need to know anything about the battle itself such as which troops, how much gold the base contained or what Town Hall level they are, we simply need to know the win or loss rate. Even though this extra information is interesting, stay focussed on your initial question for now.
There are 4 outcomes from an attack in Clash, either 1⭐, 2⭐ or 3⭐, or a loss 0⭐. Therefore we need to record these outcomes as "attackOutcome" we may want to go further than this and also send over the "totalDamage" as an integer 0-100. This might give us some useful information in qualifying what type of win it was.
A developer should now be able to create an event on any platform and you should be able to quickly check how many battles result in a win (1-3 ⭐) or loss (0⭐). To add some more information to the result the enemyScan/Battle ratio could be important as more scans might have a big effect on BattleWin rate. If you feel satisfied that this has answered your initial question, you can now repeat the process to add more depth. Create a new line and add a new question and try to use as many of the same variables as you have already created. You may want to know if battle win rate varies if the player is a Payer/Non-Payer or changes with XP Level? Don't go wild here or you will suffer from analysis paralysis and then the outcome won't be useful. It's always easier to add than to take away, start with the minimum.
To make life simple, games use common KPIs to measure themselves against other games. Many KPIs come as standard and are useful benchmarks, DAU, ARPU, ARPDAU etc. Standard KPIs are a great way of comparing games with each other. However, if your game does not fit within normal ranges, you don't always need to worry. Your game might excel at some KPIs but not others and you should capitalize on that. If all your KPIs are low, you will have a hard time building them back up and you might want to Kill your Project.
Creating a KPI target will allow you to aim for something with your tracking. Coming up with the target requires some research (Adjust Mobile Measurement Benchmark Report) for your games genre as each can vary wildly. We've also seen many benchmark metrics drop over the years as competition on the app store gets more fierce.
% Tutorial Complete – how many people get to tutorial complete event?
1st gem purchase – what did a user buy after their first IAP?
Playtime Tracking – count of total number of game minutes inside your app?
Sources/Sinks – Which actions are providing most currency and most spend in app?
Every game is different but usually when you playtest or watch other people play your game you will notice points where people "get it" or moments of joy where every tester got really excited and wanted to play more or play further. When coming up with a KPI talk with your team and be quite limiting initially. Work hard to establish which custom KPI will help with the project in the next 2 weeks, not one that you think you'll need in the distant future.
Displaying your data in a simple format is the next step. There are a number of different dashboards you can use or create and many services that provide them. It's a choice of preference which analytics provider or dashboard you use as they don't need to be from the same company. The best companies try to own their own data so that they have flexibility in how it can be presented. This is no small task and so only larger studios with strong revenue should consider building it themselves. Free services do provide good dashboards but are less flexible and you will loose or share direct control over your data.
There are many way to represent data but I like to try to keep the following in mind.
Display real numbers where possible to get a sense of the data.
Flexibility to flip charts to display data by major shared dimension, such as XP or Days since install.
Have separate dashboards that answer specific questions or topics in your app. Not one dashboard to rule them all.
Dashboards don't need to be pretty, they need to be informative and they need to be good at revealing trends. No matter what your data is telling you, the trend in your data is more important. If you are increasing your 1D retention by 0.5% per week for the last 4 weeks, that's much more valuable than a 1D retention being 32%. A dashboard should clearly reveal the trend and allow you to filter or view these trends against time or app version. Versioning is an important aspect of software development as it allows your to clearly know the code that people are viewing. Any dashboard software that makes it easy for you to filter your views by version help you to see trends as your software develops.
Be aware of your Dashboards audience. Some dashboards and KPIs are meant for marketing teams (top level, money orientated) some for your design team (progression, churn, feature usage) and some for your developers (errors, crashing, load times) if you're creating a dashboard be sure to check that it's the relevant information for the audience.
Everyone puts analytics in wrong the first time. We all believe we know how our players are going to play, but once real users use the system things change.
If you've not sat down and used the GQM approach before then give it a try. There's nothing worse that joining a project and realising that all of the data is garbage and that picking through and joining tables will be a tiring a painful process. Starting with the smallest but most useful data points will allow you to stay razor focussed as you develop your game. Using a tracking plan will also pay dividends in the long run as you can go back through and remember why you tried to track something in the first place.
Tracking needs to work for the project and to do that it needs to be easy and accessible for all. I'm a great believer in sharing your data openly and freely with everyone on the team as it allows everyone to see how their work affects the product. A great set of dashboard is the best way to do this. The whole process of using data effectively is not a simple task in game development, but the best companies use it every day, and the greatest companies create a competitive advantage through it. Start small, focus on events that matter and continue to make informed design decisions.


@sueric- I agree with JK- it is a very big thing to leave out. Perhaps you need to set a schedule for him to work. He shouldn't be showing up any time he wants. It's a job.
ok guys I gave him till Saturday the 12th to be done. If not I have someone to finish !!!


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The Tabor College volleyball team will be led this season by seniors Audrey Schellenberg, Heather Whitham and Clancey Kelley.
In senior Audrey Schellen?berg and junior Ashley Cohlmia, the Tabor College volleyball team has a pair of all-conference second-teamers returning as part of a group of eight who played on coach Amy Ratzlaff?s varsity squad a year ago.
Schellenberg is the team?s most experienced player, and perhaps the most important.
?When you talk about dynamic setters, you should mention whether they?re in a 6-2 system,? Ratzlaff said. ?In a 6-2 like the one we play, the setters get half the usual number of rotations. So for Audrey to set up seven assists per game is remarkable.
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Tabor has not returned to the playoffs since then, but for the first time since those years the Bluejays will be coached by the same man in consecutive seasons.
During his first full set of games at the college level in 2007, Mike Gottsch coached the Bluejays to a 1-9 record, the first and only win coming against Oklahoma Panhandle State during the third week of September.
During his first full off-season, Gottsch assembled his first full recruiting class. Having these milestones, Gottsch and the Bluejays take aim at one first that has proved elusive so far: winning a conference game.
?We were one turnover away from winning three different games last year,? Gottsch said. ?We?ve got more guys out this year, which will give us more depth and better practice squads, and that will go a long way for us.?
The Cougars finished second to Hope at the Eisenhower League volleyball tournament at Hope.
Centre, the fourth seed, defeated fifth seed Flint Hills (25-17, 25-14) and sixth seed St. Xavier (25-9, 25-12) before losing to top seed Hope (23-25, 9-25).
After a sixth consecutive conference championship season and the graduation of six top-flight seniors, the Tabor College volleyball program has much to do to stay at the top of the Kan?sas Collegiate Athletic Conference.
Three weeks ago, the Tabor College football team was rated fifth in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference by both media and coaches around the conference.
Those results came on the heels of a tumultuous season during which the Bluejays collected a 5-4 record in conference play and went 6-4 overall.
Tabor College cross country coach Karol Hunt enters the 2007 season with a deep and experienced group of runners on the women?s team. For the men, the top three runners return to a squad that is smaller in number but stronger in depth.
With a new head coach taking the helm, the Tabor College men?s soccer teams dropped to ninth place Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference preseason coaches polls after finishing sixth in 2006 with a conference record of 4-5.
Coach Grant Brubacher, former all-conference player for Tabor, said the slide does not reflect his team?s capabilities.
In the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference preseason coaches poll, the Tabor College women?s soccer team was picked to finish in last place.
For most small-town high school football coaches, having a talented quarterback move to town with a couple of years of eligibility left is a dream that rarely if ever comes true.
But for Hillsboro High coach Len Coryea, it?s happened two years in a row.
Last fall, Spencer Brown stepped in as a junior from Minneapolis High and led the Trojans to a 9-4 record and an unprecedented three victories in the state-playoffs.
Followers of Hillsboro High volleyball can be forgiven for dwelling on key players lost from last season?s 35-3 squad that finished third in Class 3A.
Graduating two NCAA Division I signees (JuliAnne Chisholm and Tina Frick) and a league honorable-mention setter (Jenny Whisen?hunt) would be a significant loss for any Class 3A program.


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"New standards are needed to plug security and privacy gaps in our cars and trucks, according to a report released today by Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.). The report, called Tracking & Hacking: Security & Privacy Gaps Put American Drivers at Risk and first reported on by CBS News' 60 Minutes, reveals how sixteen major automobile manufacturers responded to questions from Senator Markey in 2014 about how vehicles may be vulnerable to hackers, and how driver information is collected and protected. The responses from the automobile manufacturers show a vehicle fleet that has fully adopted wireless technologies like Bluetooth and even wireless Internet access, but has not addressed the real possibilities of hacker infiltration into vehicle systems. The report also details the widespread collection of driver and vehicle information, without privacy protections for how that information is shared and used. "Drivers have come to rely on these new technologies, but unfortunately the automakers haven't done their part to protect us from cyber-attacks or privacy invasions. Even as we are more connected than ever in our cars and trucks, our technology systems and data security remain largely unprotected," said Senator Markey, a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. "We need to work with the industry and cyber-security experts to establish clear rules of the road to ensure the safety and privacy of 21st-century American drivers." Senator Markey posed his questions after studies showed how hackers can get into the controls of some popular vehicles, causing them to suddenly accelerate, turn, kill the brakes, activate the horn, control the headlights, and modify the speedometer and gas gauge readings. Additional concerns came from the rise of navigation and other features that record and send location or driving history information. Senator Markey wanted to know what automobile manufacturers are doing to address these issues and protect drivers."
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\section{Introduction}

Solar granulation is one of the most studied phenomena in the
lower solar atmosphere and its properties are thought to be well
understood \citep{Bray1984}. Spectral and imaging observational
data have allowed solar granulation to be studied in detail.
Commonly considered parameters include sizes and lifetimes of
granules, velocity and intensity fluctuations together with their
correlations, proper motions of individual features, etc.
\citep[e.g.,][]{Title+others1989, Karpinsky1990, Nesis+etal1993,
Espagnet+Muller+Roudier+Mein+Mein1995,
Hirzberger+Vazquez+others1997, Hirzberger1999, Kostik+etal2009}.
At the same time, state of the art simulations of solar convection
and magneto-convection reproduce very satisfactorily many
observational granulation properties, which has made it possible
to explain self-consistently the mean shapes of spectral line
profiles \citep{Nordlund+etal2009}. Simulations have shown that
parameters as micro- and macroturbulent velocities (used widely in
the past to match the spectral lines shapes to observations) are
not necessary any more as the spectral lines are broadened by the
velocity field of the convection motions.

In this Letter, we report on spatially resolved observations of
the line broadening by the granular velocity field (or,
equivalently, the spatially resolved action of solar
microturbulence). The data used in the Letter were obtained with
the Imaging Magnetograph eXperiment \citep[IMaX;
see][]{MartinezPillet+etal2010} that flew on board the {\sc
Sunrise} balloon telescope in June, 2009 \citep{Barthol+etal2010,
Solanki+etal2010}. We study the spatial variations of the full
width at half maximum (FWHM) of the \FeI\ 5250.2 \AA\ line. We
found that the FWHM is larger in intergranular lanes and smaller
in granules. But the most interesting finding is that the FWHM is
particularly small in narrow lanes located at
granular/intergranular borders.
We found only few works that discuss the relation between the line
FWHM and granulation \citep[\eg ][]{Nesis+etal1992,
Hanslmeier+etal2008}, pointing out that the FWHM is
anti-correlated with brightness. The observations of
\citet{Nesis+etal1992} were interpreted in terms of supersonic
flows, which was questioned by
\citet{Solanki+Rueedi+Bianda+Steffen1996}. We did not find any
previous mention of the detection of the narrow regions with
extremely small FWHM adjacent to intergranular borders.
The aim of this Letter is to describe their properties and to
offer an explanation for their origin.

\begin{figure*}
\center
\includegraphics[width=16cm]{fig1a.eps}
\includegraphics[height=8cm]{fig1b.eps}
\caption{(a) Image of the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the
\FeI\ 5250.2 \AA\ line in the IMaX field of view; the grey scaling
ranges from 90 to 150 m\AA; the mean FWHM is equal to 115 m\AA;
(b) same image after application of the unsharp masking filter.
Panels (c) and (d) give an enlarged view of the area of 6 Mm
$\times$ 6 Mm marked by a white square in panels (a) and (b). Blue
contours in panel (d) correspond to normalized continuum intensity
$I_c /\bar{I_c}=1$. Red dashed contours mark locations with
zero line of sight velocity. }\label{fig:fwhm} \vspace{-0.5cm}
\end{figure*}

\begin{figure*}
\center
\includegraphics[width=8cm]{fig2a.eps}
\includegraphics[width=8cm]{fig2b.eps}
\caption{{\it Left panel:} temporal variations of the FWHM in the
IMaX data along a virtual slit placed at one selected horizontal
location; the grey scaling ranges from 90 to 150 m\AA; the
mean FWHM is equal to 115 m\AA.  {\it Middle panel} gives the
same image after application of the unsharp masking filter. {\it
Right panel:} histograms of the LOS velocity in the IMaX data at
the locations where the continuum intensity is above unity, i.e.
in granules (red solid line); at the locations where the continuum
intensity is below unity, i.e. in intergranular lanes (red dashed
line); at the locations with enhanced FWHM marked white in
Fig.~\ref{fig:fwhm}b (black dashed line); and at locations with
extremely small FWHM marked black in Fig.~\ref{fig:fwhm}b (black
solid line).}\label{fig:time} \vspace{-0.5cm}
\end{figure*}

\section{Observed line width}

The IMaX instrument and the details of the data acquisition and
reduction are described in \citet{MartinezPillet+etal2010}. Here
we use a time series of images of about 23 min duration taken near
the solar disc center (UT 00:37). The observational sequence
consists of five polarized filtergrams taken at $\pm40$, $\pm80$
and $+227$ m\AA\ from the \FeI\ 5250.2 \AA\ line center. We use
Level 2 data (reconstructed by deconvolution). The spatial
resolution of the reconstructed data is estimated to be 0\farcs15.
The field of view is about 33\arcsec $\times$ 33\arcsec\ (after
removing the apodized areas), with a pixel size of 0\farcs055. We
use the following parameters extracted from the Stokes $I$ data:
continuum intensity, line of sight velocity, and FWHM. The latter
two parameters were calculated from Gaussian fits to the five
intensity wavelength points. The statistical errors of the
fitting procedure were within the range of 20--40 \ms\ for the
velocities and a few m\AA\ to 10 m\AA\ (at most) for the FWHM.

Figure \ref{fig:fwhm} shows an image of the FWHM at one moment of
time. This image demonstrates clearly that the width of the \FeI\
5250.2 \AA~intensity profile follows the granulation structure.
The FWHM increases in intergranular lanes (appearing as bright
regions) and becomes smaller in granules. A more careful
inspection of the image reveals that adjacent to almost each
intergranular lane there are narrow black regions (that also have
elongated lane-like shapes) of smaller widths.
The average FWHM of the \FeI\ 5250.2 line in the granular
regions is of 120 m\AA, in intergranular regions is of 140 m\AA,
but only 100 m\AA\ at the borders between granules and
intergranular lanes.
The unsharp mask filter\footnote{The algorithm that works by
enhancing the contrast between neighboring pixels in an image}
applied to this image enhances the gradients and makes the
locations with extremely small FWHM more evident
(Fig.~\ref{fig:fwhm}b).
Panels c and d with enlarged view of the region of 6 Mm $\times$ 6
Mm size (marked by the white squares in Figs.~\ref{fig:fwhm}a and
b) give some very clear examples of the dark lanes surrounding
bright intergranular spaces. These dark features sometimes appear
only on one side of the bright intergranular lane, and sometimes
on both sides. In many cases they appear in regions where the
normalized continuum intensity $I/\bar{I_c} \approx 1$, i.e. just
at the borders between granules and intergranular lanes. The width
of these dark features is about $3-4$ IMaX pixels, i.e.
$\sim$0\farcs2. Their lifetime is the same as the lifetime of the
intergranular lane they are attached to, see Fig.~\ref{fig:time}
(left and middle panels).
These dark lanes in the FWHM image appear also in the
non-reconstructed data (with less contrast), proving that they are
not artifacts of the phase diversity reconstruction procedure.

\begin{figure*}
\center
\includegraphics[width=17cm]{fig3.eps}
\caption{(a) Image of the FWHM of the \FeI\ 5250.2 \AA\ line
obtained from simulations degraded to IMaX resolution, the grey
scaling ranges from 90 to 150 m\AA; the mean FWHM is equal to 112
m\AA; (b) same image after application of the unsharp masking
filter; blue contours correspond to $I_c /\bar{I_c}=1$; red
dashed contours correspond to zero line of sight velocity; green
lines indicate locations considered in Fig. 5; (c) image of the
FWHM of the \FeI\ 6301.5 \AA\ line obtained from simulations
degraded to Hinode resolution; the grey scaling ranges from
123 to 160 m\AA; the mean FWHM is equal to 132 m\AA.
}\label{fig:fwhm_sims} \vspace{-0.5cm}
\end{figure*}

\begin{figure}
\center
\includegraphics[width=11cm]{fig4.eps}
\caption{Left panel: image of the FWHM obtained from simulations
when the spectral synthesis is done after setting horizontal
variations of thermodynamics variables to zero; the grey scaling
ranges from 90 to 150 m\AA; the average value is 112 m\AA. Right
panel: the same for the case that the synthesis is performed after
setting velocities to zero in the simulation snapshot; the grey
scaling ranges from 98 to 105 m\AA, the average value is 100 m\AA.
}\label{fig:std} \vspace{-0.9cm}
\end{figure}

\section{Origin of the dark lanes}

To find the origin of these dark lanes in FWHM images, we have
performed spectral line synthesis of the \FeI\ 5250.2 \AA\ line in
a snapshot of magneto-convection simulations \citep{Vogler2005}.
We considered a simulation run with a bi-polar magnetic field
structure and an average unsigned magnetic field in the box of 30
G, corresponding to a quiet solar region \citep[for more details
on this simulation snapshot see][]{Khomenko+etal2005}. The grid
size of the simulations is about 20 km. The synthesis was done in
LTE using the SIR code \citep{RuizCobo+delToroIniesta1992}. No
additional line broadening mechanisms, such as macro- or
microturbulence were introduced.

We found that the areas with extremely narrow intensity profiles
adjacent to intergranular lanes also appear in the simulations.
For an adequate comparison with the observations we have degraded
the simulation spectra in the following way. Firstly, we performed
a convolution of each monochromatic image with an Airy function
imitating the action of a 100 cm telescope. Secondly, we convolved
the spectra in wavelength with the transmission profiles of the
IMaX etalon. Finally, we fit a Gaussian function to the five
wavelength points and calculated the width of the Gaussian
profiles as a proxy to the intensity profile width, as well
as velocity, similar to the observations. The resulting image of
the simulated FWHM is shown in Figure \ref{fig:fwhm_sims}a.

The FWHM image shows structures similar to the observed ones, i.e.
larger FWHM in intergranular lanes and very low FWHM in the narrow
regions adjacent to lanes. Note that the average value and the
range of variations agree very well in the simulations and
observations.
Similar to the observations, the dark lanes in the FWHM image
correspond to the normalized continuum intensity around unity,
i.e. they mark the transition between granules and intergranular
lanes (Fig.~\ref{fig:fwhm_sims}b). Their width is a few pixels
($\sim$0\farcs2).

\begin{figure*}
\center
\includegraphics[width=17cm]{fig5.eps}
\caption{Examples of the velocity field in the simulations at
locations marked (A), (B) and (C) in Fig.~\ref{fig:fwhm_sims}b.
The color coding indicates vertical velocity, with red being a
downflow and blue being an upflow, both saturated at 3 \kms.
The white and black dotted lines indicate the effective formation
height of the continuum and line core of the \FeI\ 5250.2 \AA,
respectively, estimated from the calculation of the Response
Functions. The white solid line shows horizontal variations of
FWHM in arbitrary units. }\label{fig:flows}
\end{figure*}

Due to the small width of these dark lanes, about 0\farcs2, high
resolution and image stability are required for their detection.
Figure \ref{fig:fwhm_sims}c shows the FWHM after the simulated
spectra were degraded to Hinode resolution and pixel size (note
that the \FeI\ 6301.5 \AA\ is used in this case). This image
preserves brightenings in intergranular lanes corresponding to
large FWHM, but the adjacent dark lanes do not show up at this
resolution. On the one hand, this comparison demonstrates that
IMaX/{\sc Sunrise} data quality is necessary to detect these
features. On the other hand, it proves that the instrument reached
indeed very high spatial resolution \citep{Berkefeld+etal2010}.

The IMaX spectral line of  \FeI\ 5250.2 at \AA\ is sensitive to
the velocity broadening, but also to magnetic fields via the
Zeeman effect, and to temperature. To find out which effect is
primarily responsible for the spatial variations of the FWHM, we
performed additional calculations. We repeated the spectral
synthesis for three cases: (1) magnetic field was set to zero,
preserving the variations in the rest of the variables; (2)
horizontal variations of the temperature and gas pressure were set
to zero using for all the points the mean stratification, but
preserving variations of the velocity and magnetic field;
(3) velocity was set to zero at all points, while preserving
variations in the rest of the variables.

We found that the magnetic field's influence on the horizontal
variations of the FWHM is negligible except for a few isolated
locations in intergranular lanes where the field reaches kG
values. There the FWHM is additionally enhanced by the Zeeman
broadening. Figure \ref{fig:std} gives the variations of the FWHM
in the cases (2) and (3). Case (2), where only velocity variations
are preserved, looks almost identical to the original case in
Fig.~\ref{fig:fwhm_sims}a. While case (3), where only variations
of the thermodynamic variables are preserved, looks very
different, showing almost an opposite behaviour to the case (2).
Note that, curiously, in the case (3) the broadening due to
magnetic field becomes evident in some intergranular lanes where
the field is strongest (locations at $X =1-2$ Mm; $Y=1-2$ Mm and
$X =4$ Mm; $Y=3$ Mm in the right panel of Fig.\ref{fig:std}). The
broadening due to magnetic field is much weaker compared to the
velocity broadening, but is comparable in magnitude to the thermal
broadening.
The average value of the FWHM and its standard deviation is much
lower for the case (3) as compared to the case (2) and to the
observations. Thus, we conclude that velocity broadening is the
prime responsible for the horizontal variations of the FWHM.

Figure~\ref{fig:flows} shows several examples of the velocity
field at the locations marked by letters in
Fig.~\ref{fig:fwhm_sims}b. At these locations the red line crosses
an intergranular lane with enhanced FWHM as well as the transition
between granule and intergranule with very low FWHM. As follows
from Fig.~\ref{fig:flows}, all these locations have features in
common. At the center of an intergranular lane, in the deep
photospheric layers, the vertical velocity is mainly a downflow
with a magnitude reaching about $3-4$ \kms. The intergranular
lanes are also characterized by a strong vertical velocity
gradient. In a few hundred kilometers, the velocity decreases from
$3-4$ \kms\ to zero, following the change of its sign at the top
of the atmosphere. These strong velocity gradients have immediate
implications on the width of the \FeI\ 5250.2 \AA\ line profiles,
whose core forms around 400 km \citep{Gurtovenko+Kostik1989}. The
action of these vertical velocity gradients over the height range
of formation of the line is similar to the action of
microturbulence velocity, producing additional broadening of the
profiles. We conclude that the large FWHM in intergranular lanes
is produced by a microturbulence-like effect due to strong
vertical velocity gradients, unlike the mechanism based on
super-sonic flows proposed by \citet{Nesis+etal1992}. Similar
conclusion, as for the enhancement of the FWHM in intergranular
lanes, was previously reached in the work of
\citet{Gadun+etal1997} from studying the line-parameter variations
in the two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations.

Figure~\ref{fig:flows} shows that the regions with extremely low
FWHM correspond to the locations where the granular flow bends.
These locations are the transitions from granules with upflowing
velocities to intergranular lanes with downflows. As the velocity
vector bends there, the vertical velocity component is close to
zero and the vertical velocity gradient is very small as well. It
makes the velocity broadening at these transition locations
extremely low, thus producing narrow profiles, as detected in the
IMaX observations. In Fig.~\ref{fig:fwhm_sims}b the red
dashed contours mark the location with zero vertical velocity in
simulations. It shows that almost always these locations coincide
with dark lanes in FWHM image.

The IMaX data only have five points in wavelength, making it
impossible to check the conclusions about the velocity gradients,
obtained from simulations. However, the absolute values of the LOS
velocities are reliably obtained from these data. According to
simulations, the regions with extremely low FWHM correspond to
locations with almost zero vertical velocities. In
Fig.~\ref{fig:time} (right panel), we plot the LOS velocity
histograms obtained from the IMaX data over the whole time series.
This figure shows the existence of the three distinct families of
features. Granules, selected as locations with $I_c /\bar{I_c}>1$,
have the velocity histogram peak at $-0.6$ \kms. Intergranular
lanes, selected as locations with $I_c /\bar{I_c}<1$, show
downflowing velocities with the histogram peak at 0.4 \kms. This
histogram almost coincides with the one obtained by selecting
locations with enhanced FWHM given by white regions in
Fig.~\ref{fig:fwhm}b. Finally, there is a third distribution
corresponding to the borders between granules and intergranular
lanes. It is obtained by selecting locations with low FWHM given
by the black regions in Fig.~\ref{fig:fwhm}b. Its maximum appears
at zero LOS velocity. This observational confirmation supports the
conclusion based on simulations that the regions with extremely
small FWHM correspond to locations where the velocity vector
bends, producing a zero LOS velocity component.

\section{Conclusions}

In this Letter we have investigated the spatial distribution of
the full width at half maximum of the \FeI\ 5250.2 \AA\ intensity
profiles in the IMaX/{\sc Sunrise} data. We have shown that the
FWHM becomes large in intergranular lanes and is very small in
narrow 0\farcs2 wide strips adjacent to the lanes. The lifetime of
these narrow regions is the same as the intergranular lanes they
are attached to and they evolve in parallel. Based on the
similarity between IMaX observations and simulations of
magneto-convection, we have offered an explanation for the
formation of these profiles with small FWHM. We suggest that these
profiles appear in regions where the granular flow bends. There,
the velocity broadening is extremely small, as the LOS velocity
component is close to zero and has very small gradients. This
conclusion is supported by the analysis of the LOS velocity
histograms in the IMaX data. We claim that the {\sc Sunrise}/IMaX
resolution and image stability is the necessary condition to
detect these narrow transition zones between granules and
intergranular lanes.

\acknowledgments The German contribution to {\sc Sunrise} is
funded by the Bundesministerium f\"{u}r Wirtschaft und Technologie
through Deutsches Zentrum f\"{u}r Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR),
Grant No. 50~OU~0401, and by the Innovationsfond of the President
of the Max Planck Society (MPG). The Spanish contribution has been
funded by the Spanish MICINN under projects ESP2006-13030-C06 and
AYA2009-14105-C06 (including European FEDER funds). The HAO
contribution was partly funded through NASA grant number
NNX08AH38G. This work has been partially supported by WCU grant
No. R31-10016 funded by the Korean Ministry of Education, Science,
and Technology.

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Imagine Nolan directing Bond?!?! That will be Awesome!!
During a interview Tom Hardy let it slip that he wouldn't mind one day playing 007, provided that his Inception and The Dark Knight Rises director helms it.
"I'd love to play Bond with Chris Nolan (as a) director or something, it would be awesome," the Bane actor told Verity Geere on the Magic 105.4 Breakfast Show according to the UK site Metro (via Movieweb).
However, as much as we love Tom Hardy, we kinda think that Michael Fassbender will make one hell of a James Bond!!
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I just wanted to share that during our family's songfest, the following songs were sung.
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Visualization exercises serve as a powerful way to tap into inner resources for healing and inspiration. Anyone can do them; just use these eight easy steps.
Access your inner wisdom with visualization exercises. Visualization, also called guided imagery, helps you tap into valuable information outside of your everyday awareness.
Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Using your imagination through visualization opens up greater possibilities and provides more information than usual linear, logical thinking does.
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Martin L. Rossman, MD, a noted expert in using visualization exercises for mind body healing, shares the story of one of his patients, Jason, who suffered from debilitating asthma attacks.
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Find a quiet place where you can be undisturbed for 15 minutes.
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Visualize images to improve a symptom or condition as Jason did.
Problem solve by asking for inner guidance as I did in wanting to help my son.
Ask for inner guidance to plan for your future or gain clarity for your true purpose in life.
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For chronic symptoms such as pain, practice 15 to 20 minutes twice a day. You should see improvement within three weeks. If working on a serious health concern it's best to work with an experienced therapist for 2 or 3 sessions.
It's also helpful to keep a journal of your experience with visualization and dreams so you can identify themes and see your progress over time.
The most important step is to begin. Use visualization exercises to access your inner wisdom and help healing!
Martin L. Rossman, "Imagery: Learning To Use The Mind's Eye," in Daniel Goleman and Joel Gurin eds., Mind Body Medicine: How to Use Your Mind for Better Health (New York: Consumer Reports Books, 1993).


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Football Leaks revelations: UEFA helped PSG, Man City to cover
UEFA helped Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City get around their own Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules, according to a Football Leaks investigation published on Friday.
According to the investigation of "more than 70 million documents" analysed "over eight months by 80 journalists" from members of European Investigative Collaborations (EIC), UEFA "knowingly helped the clubs to cover up their own irregularities for 'political reasons'" under the leadership of Michel Platini and Gianni Infantino.
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Mbappe is no bighead says Deschamps
Reputedly included in copy in emails sent by Infantino to City's chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak was former French president and PSG fan Nicolas Sarkozy, who also reputedly helped City's Abu Dhabi owners in their attempts to get around FFP rules.
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– 'No secret agreement' –
Late Friday, FIFA blasted the claims as an attempt to "undermine the leadership" of the global body.
"It seems obvious from the 'reporting' carried out in some media outlets that there is only one particular aim — an attempt to undermine the new leadership of FIFA and, in particular, the President, Gianni Infantino, and the Secretary General, Fatma Samoura."
Infantino added in a statement: "It is always a challenge to change things, to move forward, and to bring people together in order to do things better.
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PSG said in a statement that they have "always strictly complied with all applicable laws and regulations and firmly denies the allegations published today by Mediapart".
The club's delegate director general Jean-Claude Blanc later told AFP that "there was no secret agreement with UEFA, everything was done with the most complete transparency."
PSG have been the subject of another UEFA investigation since they signed Neymar from Barcelona for a world-record 222 million euros ($264 million) in August 2017.
In late September UEFA said it had referred the accusations against the Paris club to its financial unit "for further investigation". PSG's case, though, is complicated by their sponsorship deals with the Qatar National Bank as well as the QTA.
UEFA indicated that the aim of FFP rules was "to help clubs become viable financially…and to punish them only as a last resort."
Infantino meanwhile defended himself by saying it was possible for the independent body in charge of investigating FFP breaches to be helped by "the administration of UEFA, which of course includes the secretary general".
Infantino is now at the head of FIFA, and Football Leaks also shone a light on his relationship with a Swiss prosecutor called Rinaldo Arnold.
The investigation said "invitations" were given to Arnold for World Cup and Champions League matches and a FIFA Congress in 2016, while Infantino was provided with details of ongoing investigations.
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Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/11/football-leaks-revelations-uefa-helped-psg-man-city-to-cover/
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The NeXT Dimension cube is up and running and I am currently applying the Y2K patches. Just had a kernel panic - hope its not a hardware problem.
Due to some changes that were afoot over the past few years, it became necessary to pare my personal development setup down to a few laptops. I ended up with a Dell C800 with a number of hot-swap drives, a Powerbook G4, and an older Powerbook 3500 for running classic applications.
But now that time is over, and today is BLACK HARDWARE day at Digigami. Yessiree I am dusting off my NeXT dimension color cube and getting it up and running here at the labs. This is phase two of project grok NeXTSTEP, phase one was completed when I successfully got NeXTSTEP 3.3 running on VirtualPC 5.x on a dual G4 tower machine.
I've dusted off some older writings in the form of Word for Windows 2.0 documents which I will convert and place in a new section devoted to vintage writings: a view from the object-oriented world of the early 90's. I've got opinion pieces and yes, product reviews of some tools from the mesozoic era.
元:WWW authoring via FTP in AOL, um, NOT!
After a year of hosting with 2mhost.com, which worked well, I'm exploring other options for hosting the blog. I spent two hours trying to get AOL ftp access working right. They must be cutting costs at AOL and hiring monkeys for sysadmin tasks, because the AOL FTP access has an extremely high bogosity factor. One can only use a FTP client to put files in a folder called incoming, but that folder is only accessible from the AOL provided FTP client, which is, as well, brain-dead. What's more, you must have a bona-fide AOL client logged in under the screenname at the time of FTP access. Wait-?maybe if I stand on a chair?
After exploring the various hosting options I have available, I'm going to run with using GoDaddy.com's forwarding service to forward www.eurekagram.com to a sub-directory on www.digigami.com. We'll see how that goes. Full speed ahead, and never surrender!


In the devoted loving care of the Doctors, Nurses and Staff of Clontarf Hospital. Deeply regretted by her loving sisters Angela, Brigid and Georgina, nieces, nephews, cousins and many friends.
Reposing at Masseys Brothers Funeral Home, New Cabra Road tomorrow, Wednesday, from 3pm to 5 p.m. Removal to St. Peter's Church, Phibsboro for Funeral Mass Thursday at 10.30 am followed by burial in Glasnevin Cemetery.


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Q: creating tickboxes to show/hide series in flot I am trying to show/hide each line in graph using checkbox. The check box appears but nothing happens when i click it
https://jsfiddle.net/shorif2000/2pb3yu5t/
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  },
  data_rows: 64,
  days: "3",
  days_per_period: 1,
  days_per_period_unavailability: 1,
  filter: "",
  filtersql: "",
  filtersql2: " AND crqcoos is null AND crqinflight is null",
  hours: 1,
  hours_unavailability: 1,
  max_days: 30,
  min: 98,
  period: "hh24",
  tick: 6,
tick_type: "hour",
timeformat: "%a
%H:%M %p
%d %b"
};
var datasets = {};
choices_CAGraph(arrayFromPHP);

function choices_CAGraph(arrayFromPHP) { //initial load

  //var datasets = [];
  $.each(arrayFromPHP.chartdata, function(i, elem) {
    var jsonObj = $.parseJSON('[' + elem + ']');
    var iLabel = i;

    datasets[i.toLowerCase()] = {
      label: iLabel,
      data: jsonObj[0]
    };
  });
  var i = 0;
  $.each(datasets, function(key, val) {
    val.color = i;
    ++i;
  });
  var choiceContainer_CAGraph = $("#choices_CAGraph");
  $.each(datasets, function(key, val) {
    choiceContainer_CAGraph.append("<input class='cc' type='checkbox' name='" + key + "' checked='checked' id='id" + key + "' value='" + key + "'></input>" + "" + val.label + "");
  });
  //choiceContainer_CAGraph.find("input").click(plotAccordingToChoices());
  var showpoints = false;
  if ((arrayFromPHP.data_rows == 1) && (arrayFromPHP.period == "hh24") && (arrayFromPHP.days == 1))
    showpoints = true;
  else if ((arrayFromPHP.period == "dd" || arrayFromPHP.period == "day" || arrayFromPHP.period == "mon") && arrayFromPHP.days == 1)
    showpoints = true;

  var options = {
    legend: {
      position: "sw",
      noColumns: 5
    },
    yaxis: {
      min: arrayFromPHP.min,
      max: 100
    },
    xaxis: {
      mode: "time",
      timeformat: arrayFromPHP.timeformat,
      tickSize: [arrayFromPHP.tick, arrayFromPHP.tick_type]
    },
    grid: {
      clickable: true,
      hoverable: true
    },
    series: {
      points: {
        show: showpoints
      }
    }

  };

  plotAccordingToChoices(options);

}

function plotAccordingToChoices(options) {
    var choiceContainer_CAGraph = $("#choices_CAGraph");
    var data = [];
    choiceContainer_CAGraph.find("input:checked").each(function() {
        var key = $(this).attr("name");
        if (key && datasets[key])
            data.push(datasets[key]);
    });

    $.plot("#CAGraph", data, options);

}

arrayFromPHP is json output from ajax request. I have 5 graphs on this page and I am trying to reuse this function so they all have show/hide feature. currently the tick boxes appear but nothing happens.

A: Change
//choiceContainer_CAGraph.find("input").click(plotAccordingToChoices());

to
choiceContainer_CAGraph.find("input").click(function() { plotAccordingToChoices(options); });

Updated fiddle

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Q: Java arrays to insert values during runtime and size of the array is not constant How do I insert values in array whose size may change and I should get the values dynamically and I should do the same with another array.
The size of the array may range From 1 to 100. I should compare the values in both the arrays and display the odd man out.
Example
With lists x = [13, 5, 6, 2, 5] and y = [5, 2, 5, 13], the function answer(x, y) would return 6 because the list x contains the integer 6 and the list y doesn't.
Given the lists x = [14, 27, 1, 4, 2, 50, 3, 1] and y = [2, 4, -4, 3, 1, 1, 14, 27, 50], the function answer(x, y) would return -4 because the list y contains the integer -4 and the list x doesn't
class ArrayLi
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
                    throws IOException
    {
        int n=99,ins,i,j;
        ArrayList<Integer> x = new ArrayList<Integer>(n);
        ArrayList<Integer> y = new ArrayList<Integer>(n)
        // Appending the new element at the end of the list
        //for(int var : arrli)
        for (i=1;i<n; i++)
            x.add(i);

        // Printing elements
        System.out.println(x);

        // Remove element at index 3
        for (j=1;j<n; j++)
        y.add(j);

        // Displaying ArrayList after deletion
        System.out.println(y);

        // Printing elements one by one
        for (int i=0; i<x.size(); i++)
            System.out.print(x.get(i)+" ");
         for(int i=1;i<x.length;i++){
            for(int j=1;j<y.length;j++){
                if(x[i]==y[j]){
                    System.out.println(x[i]);
    }
}

A: Unless you really need to use arrays and/or do everything manually there is an easy way using Java 8's new API:
private static List<Integer> answer(List<Integer> x, List<Integer> y) {
    return Stream.concat(x.stream(), y.stream())
            .filter(i -> !x.contains(i) || !y.contains(i))
            .collect(Collectors.toList());
}

Sample usage:
public static void main(String[] args) {
    List<Integer> x1 = Arrays.asList(13, 5, 6, 2, 5);
    List<Integer> y1 = Arrays.asList(5, 2, 5, 13);

    List<Integer> x2 = Arrays.asList(14, 27, 1, 4, 2, 50, 3, 1);
    List<Integer> y2 = Arrays.asList(2, 4, -4, 3, 1, 1, 14, 27, 50);

    System.out.println(answer(x1, y1));
    System.out.println(answer(x2, y2));
}

Prints:
[6]
[-4]

A: A pretty easy way would be to turn your arrays into Lists.
You could do the following:
List<Integer> xList = Arrays.asList(x);
List<Integer> yList = Arrays.asList(y);

Then, if the original x array is larger, do xSet.removeAll(ySet), or vice versa ySet.removeAll(xSet).


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Here are some more pictures of our time in the hospital and Lael's homecoming. Enjoy!
We tried putting one of her little bows in her hair, but there's not really enough hair on top to keep it in. I'm sure in no time we'll be able to!
There is nothing like waking up in the hospital to a brand new baby. Nothing.
Our good friends Will and Kennerly introduced little Sam into the world on Monday evening! Little did we know we would be joining them in the hospital in just a few hours!
Our rooms were even right next to each other! We always laughed about us possibly ending up in the hospital at the same time, but didn't really think it would happen! Here I am with Sam and Kennerly with Lael.
Brooke came to visit us in the hospital!
Here we are putting on our going home gown. This child does not like to get dressed and undressed or have her diaper changed!
Me with my precious little angel.
Folks, this is a PROUD Daddy.
We're home! Momma and Megan made our homecoming so special with all of the decorations.
Our sweet neighbor, Rhem, put pink balloons on our street sign, too!
Can you tell we are in love with this little baby?
She makes some funny little faces!
Ryan and Sarah were in town, and got to stop by!
All in all our hospital experience was great. I thought I would be so ready to come home after two nights, but I must admit that it's really nice to be served food, given meds, and given childcare by experienced nurses. Everyone at the hospital was so nice, and my nurses were wonderful. Our labor and delivery experience was so great, too. We had the nicest nurses and doctor cheering us on as Lael entered the world.
As we prepare for Thanksgiving tomorrow I can't help but think about our birth experience and how thankful I am that it ended up being so much better than I ever imagined. Most of all we are thankful for our little girl, and recognize that all good things come from the Lord. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family from the Ingram's!
#3- The one of Trey kissing her in the nursery-- Her face-- Hilarious! Like, "DAD!!!"
#4- Rod holding Lael and your comment "Rod's a natural"-- I'll never forget his response to seeing you eight months preg-- " I Mean-- there's a PERSON in there!!? That's just weird."
Love the post! Miss yall! Hope to see you again soon! Have a happy thanksgiving! There's SO MUCH to be thankful for!!!! PRAISE THE LORD!!
Oh Kelly! What a beautiful gift from God! Little Lael is absolutely adorable and so very blessed to have such a precious family!
So happy that your labor and delivery were uneventful!
Would love to see your little bundle!
Thought my last name was included.
In case you're wopndering, this is from Tricia Thain!
So exciting Kelli! I absolutely love your face in the picture with her screaming! Haha. Oh the joys and experiences to come! :) She's beautiful. Hope you are adjusting well.


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Home » World » 20 more militants killed as clashes continue in Waziristan
20 more militants killed as clashes continue in Waziristan
Apr 12, 2014 295 Viewed	Alka Anand Singh Comments Off on 20 more militants killed as clashes continue in Waziristan
PESHAWAR: Twenty militants were killed in three different incidents of violence as clashes between the fighters of two rival groups of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in South Waziristan and North Waziristan tribal regions continued on Friday.
The clashes began last Monday after unknown people killed two militant commanders, Kasheed Mahsud and Matiur Rahman, in the Shaktoi area of South Waziristan along with three other fighters.
It seems the leadership of two militant groups has decided not to forgive each other though members of the Haqqani network and the TTP Shura intervened and tried to persuade the combatants to stop the fighting.
The Taliban and tribal sources said the fighters of the two groups had spread out to different places in South Waziristan, North Waziristan and settled districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to search and kill their opponents.
The fresh clashes started early in the day when a pickup truck carrying 10 fighters of commander Said Khan alias Sajna came under a rocket attack in the remote and mountainous Shawal Valley of South Waziristan.Taliban sources said all 10 militants onboard died on the spot. Beside others, two commanders of Sajna group identified as Nek Badshah and Nizam were also killed in the attack.
According to Taliban sources, the militants of Sajna group had decided not to bury their slain colleagues before avenging their killing.By Friday evening, the militants of Sajna group reportedly hit a double-cabin pickup truck, carrying the fighters of rival group headed by Commander Sheharyar, with a rocket and killed five people.
Some people said the death toll was higher but the Taliban sources confirmed the loss of five militants in the latest attack.According to source, fighting between the two major and powerful factions of the TTP had become a major cause of worry for the Taliban leadership and almost all its Shura members had suspended their activities to focus on securing a ceasefire.
"Some members of the Shura had gone two days ago and they convinced the rival factions to stop fighting but they have again started killing each other. Now almost all members of the Shura are in the conflict area to bring fighting to an end," a senior member of the Taliban said.
Pleading anonymity, he said fighting between the two factions had damaged the ongoing peace talks with the government."Members of the Taliban negotiations committee made several attempts to approach someone in the Shura and talk with them for an extension in the ceasefire but they couldn't find anyone, as all of them are engaged in reconciliation efforts in Shawal and Shaktoi areas," the Taliban commander said.
Commander Sajna belongs to the late Maulana Waliur Rahman group, who served as deputy to Hakimullah Mehsud. Both Waliur Rahman and Hakimullah Mehsud were candidates to become the TTP ameer when Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a US drone strike in August 2009 and their differences increased following Hakimullah Mehsud's elevation to the position.
Taliban sources said Sajna as successor to Waliur Rahman and Sheharyar Mehsud as Hakimullah Mehsud's successor continued to be rivals. There are reports that Sajna is in favour of peace talks with the Pakistan government while Shehryar Mehsud wanted the government to first remove his reservations before he could join the peace process.
In the third incident that took place on Friday near the Afghan border in Dattakhel area of North Waziristan, five members of the Afghan Taliban movement were killed when an improvised explosive device (IED), planted by unknown people, hit their car.Three militants were initially killed and two others injured in the blast succumbed to their injuries before receiving medical help.
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(NewsTarget) Chia seeds are one of these foods that, if you talk about them with other people, you'll inevitably get a blank stare back at you. That's fine because that gives you the chance to tell people about what is thought to be one of the healthiest foods you can eat. The name chia comes from the Aztec word for 'oily', which is 'chian', and this explains well what one of the main benefits of chia is; it is very high in omega-3 acids, which are a type of unsaturated fats.
It's easy to get mixed up between omega-3 and omega-6; basically, omega-3 acids are the fats which are not so easy to come by. They're in fish oils, flax seeds, kiwi seeds, and chia seeds, amongst other things. Omega-6, on the other hand, is found almost everywhere you look: nuts, vegetable oils, avocadoes, etc. As important as omega-6 oils are to our health, the balance of omega-3 to omega-6 is equally important. As it is so easy to consume plenty of omega-6, it is very easy to end up with an unbalanced consumption of the two types of oils, which are also known as essential oils. When it comes to the amount of omega-3 oil in various seed oils, the chia seed has the highest content, just above kiwi seeds, perilla and flax.
Most health conscious people will be more familiar with linseeds than they will be with chia seeds. So, if you've ever put a spoon of linseed into some water and left it for thirty minutes, you would have returned to find a kind of glutinous solution, kind of like a gel. Well, the same thing happens with chia seeds, which is another reason that they are so good for you; they act the same way in your gut. This means that they are really good for your digestive system, providing both a high amount of fiber, and also this action of forming a gel like solution moves through your body and cleans up as it goes. It's also thought that this gel physically prevents the fast breaking down of carbohydrates in the body, by slowing down the action of the enzymes on the carbs.
So, how do you consume it? Well, you can grind it up into a meal called 'pinole' and add it to just about anything. In Mexico, they mix the whole chia seeds with water or fruit juice to make something they call 'chia fresca' which translates as 'fresh chia'. You can also sprout them in much the same way as you sprout alfalfa seeds and use them in salads.
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Now that Halloween has passed, Thanksgiving is just around the corner! What are you thankful this Thanksgiving? There's a lot to be grateful for, much of which many of us often take for granted. Having enough food to eat, having a safe place to live, having enough clothes to wear, having access to clean, safe water for bathing, washing, and drinking… Even just listing the practical items will fill up your gratitude list! How about the less tangible things to be grateful for? A loving family, friendly neighbors, sweet companions for your kids, and even strangers who open the door for you when your hands are full… the world is full of goodness that's just waiting to be noticed!
What's on your work gratitude list?
How about the professional side of your life? What are you grateful for at work? How about having employees or coworkers you can count on to work hard every day, always doing their best. Even having the ability to commute to work—whether you drive or take public transportation—is something to be grateful for. Another item you could add to your gratitude list this Thanksgiving is having the proper equipment and supplies to accomplish what you need to each day at work.
That's where Bernell Hydraulics comes in!
Bernell Hydraulics is Southern California's premiere source of high quality hydraulic systems and parts. We have locations in Anaheim, Riverside, Colton, and Rancho Cucamonga to serve all our customers better. We also have an online store here, where you can purchase hydraulic system parts. We ship nationwide, so you can have parts sent anywhere you'd like, even outside the Southern California area!
We offer high quality standard hydraulic systems, and we can also customize your hydraulic system any way you'd like. Stop by one of our convenient locations or call 800-326-7252 to discuss your hydraulic system needs with our specialists, who will be happy to help you decide which hydraulic system will work perfectly for your intended use.
You'll be grateful when you purchase a high quality hydraulic system or some parts from Bernell Hydraulics, and you'll feel even happier when you save valuable $$ by taking advantage of our currently-running special: Save 10% off total order when you purchase 2 or more hydraulic system parts with the coupon code 2ORMORE.
The start of a lifetime relationship!
Not only can you count on Bernell Hydraulics to provide you with complete high quality hydraulic systems and parts, you can rely on us to service and repair your hydraulic system at any time 24/7. We can schedule regular maintenance appointments with you, and be there to help you out if you discover an emergency situation anytime—even on Thanksgiving!
Call 800-326-7252 or to start your lifetime relationship with Bernell Hydraulics today. We look forward to fulfilling all your hydraulic system needs in Southern California this Thanksgiving season and always.