iasi parte esse provengano, possa condurre a sviluppi difficilmente prevedibili e controllabili.
In quella parte d’Europa è posto in gioco il diritto alla vita di migliaia di nostri fratelli. Nessuno può decidere chi abbia diritto di vivere e chi debba scomparire. Lo può solo Dio, che “dà a tutti la vita ed il respiro ed ogni cosa” (At 17, 25). Egli ispiri a tutti sentimenti di pace e di umanità!Plastic pollution of the sea is something we can experience on hand here in the Azores. Unfortunately, on our shores we get from everything that is thrown or washed into the Atlantic Ocean, be it locally or somewhere a couple of thousand kilometres away. Luckily not only since the “Plastic Free July” movement there are numerous local initiatives to raise awareness of the problem, civil organisations as well as the government are acting. Like most of the environmental issues, best would be if there were global solutions, but knowing that the mills of God grind slowly, it does not harm to start now and here. The winter storms leave heaps of trash on our shores, one of the most beautiful beaches, Praia de Porto Pim in Horta is, due to its shape and location a huge funnel and visualizes the problem. Each spring it must be cleaned to re-establish its beauty. Meanwhile here on Faial there is a small movement organizing clean ups in most of the villages. Besides maintaining our beaches there are other side benefits, it raises awareness of the problem among the local communities, also here still a lot of education needs to be done to reverse the culture of thoughtless throwing away. But also, the beach clean ups are a good community building events bringing together all kind of people.Last weekend in our beautiful little port and beach of Feteira, equipped with big bags and gloves, a group of probably 30 people gathered to tackle the task. Honestly speaking, at first it was a little disappointing, I was expected collecting PET bottles, plastic bags and other big junks of garbage – those things you can see on dramatic TV reports. But reality is different, probably even more worrying, we mainly picked up small bits and pieces of plastic. The force of the ocean seems to have shredded everything to handy little pieces a couple of centimetres in size, “perfect” for getting swallowed by fish and getting into the food chain. But we also fished out of the sea a floating safety helmet made in the USA, probably from a bypassing freighter, but probably it made an almost 4000 km voyage from the East Coast. After having collected more than 150 kg of trash the pleasant side of community building started and immediately undermined my low carb diet, I could not resist to devour a more than reasonable helping of sweet rice – arroz doce prepared besides other snacks by the volunteers from SOS Feteira and No more plastics for the Azores. 
 vocal dominant artist always willing to learn instruments and new music.
- Screen name:
- nasafanacount
- Member since:
- Jan 07 2020
- Active over 1 month ago
- Level of commitment:
- Committed
- Years playing music:
- 5
- Gigs played:
- Under 10
- Tend to practice:
- 2-3 times per week
- Available to gig:
- 1 night a week
- Most available:
- Nights
Influences
Rex Orange County, Tyler, Mac Demarco, Spencer., Her’s, The Smiths, Childish Gambino, Cosmo Pyke, Cuco, Daniel Caesar, Gus Dapperton, etc...
Instrument experience:
- Vocalist - Baritone:
- Expert
- Keyboard:
- Intermediate
- Piano:
- Intermediate
- Bass Guitar:
- Beginner
EQUIPMENT
Amps for: Bass, Guitar, and Microphone
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Seems to be ending as I type this. Maybe a dozen shots were fired...more details to come. More shots being fired right now. Update: 11 hostage ran out; there are 4 people on stretchers being treated. Unknown if they're hostages, police or the perp. Update: at least 2 people are dead.
..oh, and while I'm at it, The Supreme Court has slapped down Arizona's abortion restrictions, agreeing with the lower court ruling.Brother & Sister Duo Team Up On Hitsfu To Give Game Devs The AI Advantage
Siblings Iman Khabazian & Ellie Vilendrer are the cofounders of Hitsfu
“I’ve been making games since about the age of twelve — my two lifelong passions are games and mathematics,” says Iman Khabazian. The lifelong technologist has been in the business for decades, operating in various IT and engineering roles that have since culminated into a new venture of his own.
It was during an engagement with Northern California game studio Playdom that Khabazian was tasked as the development lead where his primary objective was to come up a new game that would reach 500,000 active users in one months time, or “an unheard of deadline,” as he puts it.
As he nailed this key deliverable, Playdom was soon acquired by Disney for $563m+ in 2010.
He then went to work with Disney on a game called GnomeTown, which had a sole purpose of driving insights for other games the company was creating. It was with this goal in mind that Khabazian’s primary focus fell on A/B testing at the core, building a novel tech stack that could be used across the portfolio of Disney Social.
His invention would help Disney’s digital games generate tens of millions of additional revenue, although they eventually nixed their gaming division in favor of other priorities. The key creation here was content-driven A/B testing which enabled teams to A/B test much more aggressively. As Disney’s gaming initiative wound down, Khabazian left to take the mystery out of A/B testing and optimize mobile game development for smaller app developers.
Branded as Clairvoyance, this niche software automates predicting the most profitable product features and ad campaigns— a process that typically takes months of time from numerous PhD’s and still remains more of an art than science in the end. This niche software automates methodologies for choosing which tests to run, methodologies for choosing which tests to deploy, multivariate testing, and segmentation.
Hitsfu, as the parent company would come to be called, was thus founded in 2014 by Iman and his sister Ellie Vilendrer, a practicing attorney and Hitsfu’s COO.
The AI analytics platform enables outcome driven decision making for app developers, “the first technology that replaces a data science team and provides recommendations for features and marketing campaigns based on predicted outcomes.”
“Our goal is to help app developers breakout and get to the top of the charts,” he continues. “There are so many barriers to doing this, tons of time and data are involved. Many great games never see their true potential for this very reason.”
While Hitfu believes their product can benefit game developers of all shapes and sizes, he sees their sweet spot within those studios that have atleast $200k of budget as those that they seek to target. Pricing is segmented based on API calls, starting at about $700/month, with two months free during their current introductory period. He also sees a future whereby Hitsfu could become a publisher and participate in the upside for those instances where there are breakouts they assist with achieving ‘top 10’ status; in 2014, that cumulative figure was over a billion dollars of revenues.
Hitsfu’s first reference customer, VIEW, has seen total time spend in app by 6X so far using their software, “a figure that could realistically double over time.”
Two additional early votes of confidence for this fledgling startup include the addition of legendary CEO advisor David Bradford and a semifinalist placement in this years Minnesota Cup competition.
Can Hitfu’s approach be used to predict its own success? “For us, it’s 60% team, 30% product, and 10% luck,” he says in calculating their odds of winning.
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