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The popularity of Google's Product Listing Ads (PLAs) is growing. In fact, AdGooroo research found that the number of U.S. retailers selling via PLAs jumped more than 25% between March and July this year, from 18,514 to 23,171.
What's more, the number of PLA impressions generated during the period rose nearly 87%. For comparison, traditional text ads grew just 2.5% during the same time.
With such dramatic increases in usage, we grew curious about the types of products these retailers are advertising and found some surprising extremes in terms of pricing and products on both the high and low end.
To explore this phenomenon more formally, we examined Product Listing Ads with product prices greater than $100,000 and less than 10 cents that displayed on U.S. AdWords in August 2013, as well as those that displayed on U.K. AdWords in that month with product prices greater than 50,000 British pounds or less than 5 pence.
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There were 1,410 Product Listing Ads with prices greater than $100,000 that appeared on U.S. AdWords in August (0.005% of all PLAs displayed). Ads for Patek Philippe watches, ranging from $120,000 to $1.75 million, represented 24% of these high-priced offerings. Watches, in fact, were easily the most common high-priced product offered in the U.S., with ads for expensive watches across all brands accounting for 49% of the PLAs above $100,000.
The next most commonly listed items at $100,000 or more were jewels and jewelry, recreational vehicles, generators (including wind turbines), lap pools and industrial machinery. Among the most unusual expensive items listed in PLAs in the U.S. were an Eames chair, a 65.5-foot Christmas tree (with lights installed), a demolition robot, and a 24k gold-plated vacuum cleaner (at $999,999).
In the U.K., we found 633 PLAs on AdWords in August with price points greater than £50,000 (0.014% of the total number of PLAs displayed, which is 2.74 times the frequency of high-priced ads on U.S. AdWords).
Watches also dominated high-priced U.K. PLAs, with a variety of brands such as Hublot, Audemars Piguet and Tourbillon accounting for22% of the offerings. Other high-priced items found were 12.5 kilo gold bullion bars at £340,000), black diamond nail polish (267 carats in the bottle) at £160,000, a Burberry Mid-Length Alligator Leather Trench Coat (£75,000) and Steinway grand pianos.
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8,775 Product Listing Ads appeared on U.S. AdWords in August (0.032% of all PLAs displayed) with prices less than 10 cents, while only 17 U.K. PLAs displayed a price less than 5 pence in August.
The low-priced ads in the U.S. and U.K. were dominated by products with low per-unit prices:
However, there was also a fair amount of low-end PLA pricing on U.S. AdWords, in particular, being used to get the consumer "in the door" so they could be upsold. Examples include custom PCs and furnishings at a base price of 1 cent with discretely priced add-ons, and cell phone hardware and plans listed at 1 cent or free, but requiring long-term phone contracts.
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One very practical application of examining PLA pricing is to reveal errors in an advertiser's Merchant Center feed. And find them we did. For instance, the PLA with the highest price listed was for an Engraver Router Machine (see below) costing $12,973,896. A call to the company confirmed the decimal point was misplaced—it's actually a $12,973 product.
Other obvious errors included $423,220 hair extension loops, vacuum filter bags for $980,000 and a Casio Projector for 1 pence.
We recommend PLA advertisers closely examine their ads with the lowest and highest price points, especially before the holiday season gets going in earnest, since misplaced decimal points in the Merchant Center feed can produce costly errors and confused customers.
AdGooroo, a Kantar Media company, provides search marketing data and competitive intelligence.
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Minecraft: My Journey Through the Great War of Civcraft
A story of war, hope, betrayal, and love (not really).
by Damon Reece on 18th May, 2013
They say that Civcraft is like the Hotel California of Minecraft servers — that is, once you join, you can never, ever leave. It's a statement which holds surprisingly true. Civcraft is a grand experiment in societal construction, borne out of the now-defunct AnCapMinecraft, a server created and run by an enigmatic administrator known only as ttk2. This server does not run on the principles that most public servers do — there is but one rule (no hacking), and the moderation team generally only exercises their powers when users are caught breaking that one golden commandment.
One would expect, then, that Civcraft's overworld is nothing but a wasteland of lava and broken homes, of sacked cities and scarce resources. It's only the logical conclusion, after all — we've all seen the effects that griefers can have on our builds…
…Or not.
Civcraft is unique in that it runs a parcel of server modifications that allow its playerbase to mete justice on their own terms, and to protect their homes with often-expensive fortifications. The most important of these mods, PrisonPearl, allows players to imprison each other in Ender Pearls, a process colloquially known as "pearling". This sends pearled players to The End, a dimension which can normally only be accessed through specialized portals. Its presence on the server completely changes the power dynamic between players, and shrinks the power divide between "rich" and "poor" — powerful and wealthy players are able to indiscriminately imprison those who oppose them, but they themselves are vulnerable to being pearled if mobbed. However, in the world of Civcraft, pearling has consequences, and one of those consequences is that any pearled player can instantly access the coordinates of their particular pearl.
The second most significant modification, developed in-house specifically for Civcraft, is called Citadel. This mod enables players to protect blocks they place by "reinforcing" them with certain materials (that is, smoothstone, iron ingots, and diamonds, which each offer differing levels of reinforcement). When a block is reinforced, it can still be broken, but with the reinforcement in effect the block will instantly re-appear a set number of times before finally breaking for good. This mod works hand-in-hand with PrisonPearl — players can add a second layer of imprisonment by locking someone's pearl in a reinforced chest, which itself can be surrounded with reinforced obsidian for extra effectiveness.
Several other modifications run on the server, including one which limits chat range to 1000 blocks in any direction, but they're nowhere near as game-changing as PrisonPearl and Citadel — PrisonPearl in particular poses as a significant deterrent for would-be criminals and those who only join the server in the interests of griefing its denizens.
What these mods also do is allow societies to be built, and the many players of Civcraft have taken to that task with nothing short of a brisk alacrity. Hundreds of different players have formed countless different factions across the huge (100,000 block area) map, and the server's official subreddit (reddit.com/r/Civcraft) serves as a discussion board for anything and everything related to the server's players and their varied political ideologies (and arguments based thereon).
However, until last month (I'll go into it later), there has been but one snag in the experiment, one unintended event which, turned the server's culture upside down, and caused many players to leave in disgust.
It was an invasion, of the worst kind imaginable.
When I originally joined the server, in September 2012, I did so with the aim of building a cool base in the middle of nowhere then blowing up a theatre in the server's largest city, Mount Augusta. I made a throwaway account on Reddit and posted a vague threat on Civcraft's subreddit, all the while not really intending to actually go through with my plan.
I didn't know much about the server then, though, and my friends and I never followed through with our grand plan to blow up Mount Augusta's theatre. However, in the days following my post on the subreddit, I noticed a curious trend in the comments — people believed that my threat was credible, and began to openly suspect each other of being the mystery poster (username of UnderpantsBomber). I was nothing if not intrigued by this trend, but schoolwork forced me away from the server for a few months.
Three months later, in December, I started to play again, this time with no concrete goals or affiliations. I'd been reading the subreddit for a week before I joined again, to get a feel for it - but all I really knew was that Mount Augusta was the safest, friendliest city in Civcraft, and that I wanted to live there.
After roaming about the map for a short period of time, I finally found myself in Mount Augusta, and set up a small house near the east wall. Over the week that followed, I got to know my neighbors, and even began to participate in the communal harvesting and replanting of the wheat fields adjacent to my home. My neighbours on the eastern side of Mount Augusta slowly came to trust me, and I felt like I'd found a proper nice home.
My idyllic existence was not to last long, however — one morning, I logged on to find that a particularly tall construction near my home had lava cascading down from it. Unfortunately, it made quite a mess of the wheat farm, and it was rather annoying to clean up, though I was thankful that it hadn't hit the public wheat chests. Interested in finding out what had happened, I went to Civcraft's subreddit and found out that the attack had been carried out by a couple of users, who broadcast their affiliation with but three letters:
Intrigued and more than a little bit wary, I investigated further. These HCF players, originating from the HardcoreFactions server (unaffiliated with Civcraft), had quite suddenly emerged from the shroud of obscurity to become feared opponents across the server — most Civcraft players are better versed in political manoeuvres than PvP combat. These HCF players seemed wholly malevolent, and, worse, they also appeared to have a vendetta against Mount Augusta, a city renowned for its political neutrality.
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I wasn't happy with how things were turning out, but how could I change the course of the raging river of the HCF? Every day I dreaded logging in, but couldn't stop myself anyway — one day I'd see the town's center portal covered in a huge cube of cobblestone (produced by HCF agents dropping water and lava buckets repeatedly), and the next day the cobblestone would be gone, cleared by the ever-industrious citizens of Augusta.
Events continued in that general manner until one morning, I logged in out of sight of my home — I'd logged out the previous night after retrieving a large amount of items for a player who had accidentally fallen off their roof and died (thereby scattering an inventory load of wood across the lawn in front of their house). Whether that was good luck or bad, I don't know, but when I walked towards my home (now a striking, well-designed tower), I saw nothing in its place but lava and cobblestone. Those bastards had targeted my home now, and I had lost everything (or so I thought).
Luckily, a few days before, I had placed a snitch (another serverside modification; a block which logs any actions which occur nearby) hidden inside a wall, and the lava had flowed in the wrong direction - it was safe. Still in shock, I climbed a tower of dirt to the snitch, and read the logs. To my horror, there were pages full of entries such as "Username: Placed - Lava Bucket", and even then, I knew that I wouldn't be rebuilding.
As I read the logs from the snitch, a player in a full set of enchanted diamond armor decided to stroll by, and quickly noticed me standing in the ruins of my own home. Without any warning, the diamond-armoured player quickly pearled me, and before I knew it, I was in the End for the very first time. Needless to say, I was pissed — and, as I later learned, I had been pearled by the very leader of the HCF himself, a nasty character known as Gordge, who just happened to be patrolling my part of town when I logged in.
Going to the End for the first time was an… interesting experience. At first bearings, it didn't look good to me - a dark dimension filled with roaming criminals and innocents alike, milling about with nothing much to do. There were trees, though, brought in via the two End Portals on the overworld, and there appeared to be a fairly inexhaustible source of lava, going from the rampant lava griefing.
I walked around for a bit, then, to my surprise, a player (who I didn't know) contacted me through the private messaging system. He offered a safe haven for me and anyone who might have been pearled with me, at a place called Fort Marienberg. I followed his instructions, and soon found myself on a very long bridge leading away from the floating mainland, and, after a short walk, I was confronted with the towering fortifications of Fort Marienberg, the home of the End's resistance forces.
There, I met with the player who had contacted me: apparently I'd been vouched for by another resident of Mount Augusta, and I'd been deemed trustworthy enough to enter the base. He showed me around, and I noted that they had set up something that almost felt like… home. The Fort was fully self-sustaining, with a large farm and cobblestone generator, and some of its citizens were bedecked from head to toe in shining iron armor. We all, at the very least, had rudimentary weapons to protect ourselves from the plebeian masses huddled only a couple of thousand of blocks away on the mainland, accessible via a dark bridge.
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Despite its obvious power advantage, the base was still vulnerable to griefing, and many times I'd log on to find our crops destroyed and random chunks taken out of the walls. We persevered, however, and one day we began to hear whispers of a huge raid being undertaken on one of the HCF vaults by a coalition of the most powerful factions on Civcraft — including the Ancaps, the most wealthy players on the server. I, personally, doubted them — there had been rumours of similar happenings before, and they had never come to fruition. Who was to say that they would succeed this time when every other attempt had failed?
To my happy surprise, I was completely wrong. The day after hearing about the vault raid, I logged on and, instead of being greeted with Fort Marienburg, I burned alive in lava. A good start, to be sure. When I respawned, I was inside the chest room of my destroyed house, which miraculously hadn't been touched at all (being made of cobblestone instead of wood). My biggest challenge was getting out of the room, and, eventually, I was able to block off the lava and make my way out.
When I stepped out, it was to the largest sack of Mount Augusta yet. The farms had been wiped out, and there were huge mountains of cobblestone covering the center of the city, effectively prohibiting access to the Nether portal and the player-run shops dotted around it. It was almost heartbreaking to behold the devastation which covered the city, the countless man-hours which had been nullified in one fell swoop, and from that moment forth, I knew that I wouldn't rest until I'd made a concrete contribution to the underground resistance.
As I stumbled around, not quite knowing what to do, I was hailed by one of my neighbours, a member of the Communist Party of Mount Augusta (the CPMA). He urged me to follow him, to build a base far, far away… and I agreed, because there was nothing left for me in Mount Augusta except ashes and memories. After a few hours' scouting and sailing, we discovered a small island a great distance from civilization, hidden deep in the map's northeast quadrant. We dug downwards, made a small home base, and returned to Mount Augusta to transport his (and my) valuables to the island, which we dubbed New Pyongyang for the communist principles which we'd operate our civilization on. Soon after, we were joined by some other members of the CPMA, and our little family was created, out in the middle of nowhere.
Fast forward a week, and my comrades and I had developed the grandest of plans: instead of living in a hovel in the dirt, we would dig out a mighty cavern beneath the island, to serve as a glorious enclave for the resistance. The idea was ambitious, and the execution took longer than we expected, but after digging out nearly 300,000 blocks' worth of space underground, and drafting a constitution, we adopted a juche policy (following in the footsteps of our city's namesake) and attempted to seclude ourselves from the outside world, with its ongoing conflicts and messy requirements of human/HCF interaction. In New Pyongyang, we were utterly safe — we followed a strong policy of security through obscurity, and it worked extremely well, until it didn't.
Here's the point where I say "it wasn't much, but it was home" — but I would be lying if I said it wasn't much. New Pyongyang was a grand and almost entirely self-sufficient city. The saddest thing is that our exclusionist policies precluded our grand constructions from being seen by the masses, especially those who would appreciate the beautiful architecture that was exhibited in both its towering buildings and displays of public art (including a statue of Geckolubber, our Dear Leader).
Note that I'm using "was" instead of "is". We worked diligently towards finishing construction for over a month, and even accrued quite a bit of wealth — hell, we could have even hired a hitman to take care of anyone who stumbled across us. Our paranoia had almost no limits at that stage, and I suppose it's ironic, after all our hard work, the weeks of planning and running and hiding and deception, that our secret society was taken down from the inside by one of the very people who founded it. In fact, it was the same player with whom I originally undertook the scouting mission which resulted in the founding of New Pyongyang. We didn't know that at the time, though — he attacked the city with an alt account, and managed to access our vault. With this in mind, we spent the next week or so running around like headless chickens, endlessly repeating the same theories to ourselves, wondering who the attacker was.
We uncovered the truth eventually, though, and by that time, New Pyongyang had been evacuated and then abandoned, with only a few signs left in front of Dear Leader's palace to explain the history of our first home for any who might wander upon it.
After that, my time on the server was effectively over. I didn't log on much to talk to my comrades, since I'd just flown to a time zone sixteen hours away, and I was discouraged by the fact that a couple of months' work had gone down the drain due to the actions of a filthy traitor.
Civcraft pulls you back, though, and I was about to log in again when I read a post on the subreddit that, quite literally, made my jaw drop. Something awful had happened to the server — a HCF-affiliated user had volunteered server space for backups (something ttk2 needed) and had breached his trust by leaking the entire backup of the server, including the Civcraft map and source code of the custom in-house plugins. It was a catastrophe of the highest order, and every other HCF player (indeed, even the management of the Hardcore Factions network) immediately denounced his actions — but it was too late. The damage had been done, and over a year's worth of work by hundreds of users had been undone in the space of minutes.
In spite of the huge damage that this breach wreaked on the server, some players are looking on the bright side — the breach has made a server map reset mandatory, which is something that many have called for in the past, and the map reset will necessitate the beginning of a whole new world of Civcraft: new players, new factions, new cities, new drama. The new map is scheduled to start on Sunday, May 19th, and I plan to be there to watch more stories unfold.
It's going to be awesome.
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It's become painfully obvious that I must take matters into my own hands and stop my friends from continuing to traditionally publish their books.
Yes, I need to have an author intervention. This letter (below) is for you, my well-respected friends and associates who have at least one traditionally published book out, and are continuing on with another one instead of going the self-publishing route.
I will not name names, but you know who you are.
Dear Author,
I've gathered you here among your friends, associates, and readers to express some concerns we all have about your future. It's become aware to us that you have decided to continue to work with a legacy publisher for your next book, as opposed to pursing a self-publishing option.
We feel that this is very destructive behavior and we wanted to get you here to tell you about it so that we might be able to help you change your path and not suffer the long-term consequences you will face down the road.
For instance, you do realize that by continuing to sign contracts with a traditional publishing house you are signing away the rights to your book for years and years, right? That means that you have no control over your content. You can't change the book content or cover without their approval. You can't adjust pricing. You can't play around with new forms of digital distribution. You can't do anything unless they say you can. This is truly destructive to your future as an author, we hope you can see that.
You have read your contract, right? How many years do they own it? Please think about the future. Do you really believe that the landscape will be the same in a three-years, or even one-year?
What about the commission structure for your book? The average traditionally published author is taking home 17.5% of their book sales. When the bookstores go out of business for good, and your book is being peddled digitally and the vast majority of sales are coming in that way, will you still be ok with only earning 17.5% on each book sold? Amazon offers 70% to you now. What will it be in a few years? Why will a publisher still need to make so much money on your blood, sweat and tears? For what? You could have easily put it online digitally without them. You could easily create a cover and get it edited and proofed yourself.
We know, we know, you choose to legacy publish because you use your books for speaking or training or consulting. Yes, that all makes sense for you, the .0000001% of authors in the non-fiction space who make money that way. But think about the future consequences of not owning your brand. Think about the future of your sales. Think about how those are bad business decisions. Take the emotion out of it. Take the vanity out of it. And really think about how your future will look if you continue down this destructive path to doom!
We love you, and we're here for you. We just want you to get better.
P.S. Quit signing contracts that give the first right of refusal for your next book to the publisher. Just "don't do it. Have it removed.
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Forward Max Talbot will play tonight in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference final against the Philadelphia Flyers at Mellon Arena.
Talbot has not played since Game 3 of a second-round series against the New York Rangers. His right foot was broken on a blocked shot in that contest. He practiced with the Penguins on Saturday for the first time since he was injured, and coach Michel Therrien said Talbot would be in the lineup tonight.
Prior to his injury, Talbot skated on a line with forwards Adam Hall and Georges Laraque. Veteran left wing Gary Roberts replaced Talbot for the past three playoff games, but Therrien did not say if Hall or Roberts would be scratched for Game 2.
The Penguins lead the best-of-seven series, 1-0. They are 6-0 at home in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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By Evan Berland
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HARTFORD -- Gubernatorial hopeful Barbara Kennelly, vowing to fight for
families, urged state Democrats to spread her message in an effort to light a
spark under her struggling campaign.
"Connecticut cannot keep drifting toward the future. We need new leadership to
plot a course into the next century -- and I will provide that leadership,"
Kennelly told delegates to the party's nominating convention in Hartford July
Both Kennelly, an eight-term congresswoman from Hartford, and running mate
Joseph Courtney, a former state representative from Vernon, were nominated by
voice vote during the supportive, but far-from-exuberant gathering.
Kennelly faces an uphill battle against popular first-term Republican Gov.
John G. Rowland. She lags more than 20 points behind Rowland in recent polls
and has raised a shade more than $2 million, half that of the incumbent
Kennelly, taking the spotlight the day after US Sen. Christopher Dodd was
nominated to seek reelection, used her acceptance speech to make some of her
strongest attacks on Rowland to date.
"We have a governor who knows certain things, but he does not know about the
seriousness of governance. He has the style and the rhetoric but, guess what,
that's it," Kennelly told the 1,472 delegates gathered in The Bushnell
Kennelly's appearance began with a slide show of her life set to tunes "Get
Ready" and "The Way You Do The Things You Do" by the Temptations as supporters
waved the traditional placards bearing the candidate's name.
During her speech, she stuck to familiar issues: slamming the Rowland
administration for backing off on punishing some environmental polluters,
criticizing his one-time call for budget cuts to the University of Connecticut
and poking at the governor's appearance in state-funded ads that show him
boating with his wife.
"There are those who say, `Oh, things aren't so bad -- better not rock the
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She reiterated her plans to cut property taxes by 10 percent and offer college
scholarships to above-average high school students. She also continued a theme
of the Democrats' convention, where speakers have sought to diminish the GOP
role in the improving economy.
"On this Democratic road to recovery the Republicans have been hitchhikers. Of
course, that was when they weren't throwing up roadblocks," she said.
Dean Pagani, spokesman for the Rowland campaign, reversed the argument,
contending that "Democrats are working off the agenda that Gov. Rowland set."
"The reason Governor Rowland is doing so well at this point in the campaign is
because the job he's done for the last four years has changed Connecticut.
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PHILADELPHIA -– The University of Pennsylvania has received a $225 million gift –- the largest single gift in its history -– from philanthropist Raymond G. Perelman and his wife, Ruth, to benefit Penn's world-renowned School of Medicine. The gift represents the largest single gift to name a school of medicine in the United States. It will create a permanent endowment for the school, which will be renamed the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
The gift brings the Perelmans' total contributions to Penn's Making History capital campaign to more than $250 million.
"Raymond and Ruth Perelman's historic investment in the future of Penn's esteemed School of Medicine is both transformational and inspiring," Penn President Amy Gutmann said. "It is transformational because this magnificent gift will enable us to increase financial aid for our exceptional students, recruit more of the most outstanding medical faculty and clinician educators and invest more precious resources in innovative research programs that yield life-saving and life-enhancing breakthroughs in medicine and medical care.
"It is inspiring because Raymond and Ruth's gift propels us to redouble our efforts to make Penn a global model of a comprehensive academic medical center that integrates path-breaking research and education across specialties with the very highest quality of patient care."
The unrestricted gift will establish a permanent endowment that will be used to provide significantly more financial aid to medical school students, recruit the most talented physicians and scientists and support innovative research. The School of Medicine will increase its financial aid budget by at least 20 percent for the medical school class entering in 2012.
"Ray and Ruth Perelman's incredible gift to the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine will enable us to become an even greater global force for the improvement of human health in the 21st century and beyond," Arthur H. Rubenstein, executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania for the health system and dean of the School of Medicine, said. "They have placed their trust in us to use the gift to do good in the world. We are grateful for that trust and gladly accept the responsibility it brings."
"Ruth and I believe the future of medicine depends on the ability to produce world-class clinicians and researchers, the hallmarks of Penn and a Penn education," Raymond Perelman said. "We are confident that Penn's outstanding faculty and students will continue to make significant contributions to medicine in the years ahead. We are proud and extremely grateful to have this eminent School of Medicine carry our names."
"Raymond and Ruth Perelman's deep and abiding engagement with Penn Medicine has dramatically improved our ability to plan for a future that will greatly enhance all aspects of a Perelman School of Medicine education and make it second to none," Penn Medicine Board Chair James S. Riepe said. "Their peerless generosity will further cement Penn's standing as the preeminent model for integrating education, research and patient care."
The Perelmans' gift brings Penn's Making History campaign total to $3.31 billion -– 94.6 percent of the campaign's $3.5 billion goal -– with more than 19 months to go.
"The future of medical education is here," David L. Cohen, chairman of Penn's Board of Trustees, said. "It is not surprising that Ray and Ruth Perelman are the ones to set a new standard for the best in teaching, research and clinical practice."
In 2005, the Perelmans pledged $25 million to create the Ruth and Raymond Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, which opened in 2008. The state-of-the-art facility, part of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, houses 12 clinical specialties whose staff work together in multi-disciplinary teams aided by the latest medical technology.
Raymond Perelman is president and chairman of the board of RGP Holdings Inc., a privately held holding company comprised of a vast array of manufacturing, mining and financial interests. He serves as a Penn Medicine trustee.
The Perelmans are two of Philadelphia's most prominent philanthropists. Prior to their landmark gift supporting the Ruth and Raymond Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine at Penn, the Perelmans endowed a professorship in internal medicine at the University, the first of its kind devoted to an active, full-time clinician. In addition to their on-going interest in health care, the Perelmans have made path-breaking gifts to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Kimmel Center, the Perelman Jewish Day School and many other Jewish cultural and welfare organizations.
The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school, is currently ranked No. 2 in U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools and is among the top 10 schools for primary care. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $507.6 million awarded in the 2010 fiscal year.
The School of Medicine comprises 28 basic and clinical departments and more than 1,800 faculty members and 2,200 students and trainees. Penn's physicians and biomedical scientists engage in integrated research programs that employ an interdisciplinary approach to understand the fundamental mechanisms of disease and investigate new strategies for treatment.
Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research and excellence in patient care. In addition to the School of Medicine, Penn Medicine consists of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which includes The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, recognized as one of the nation's top 10 hospitals by U.S. News & World Report; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; and Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Penn Medicine also includes additional patient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region. Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities.


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(Sporting Alert) — The following are the fixtures for the NCAAF College Football games taking place second night of the 2013 football season on Friday, with a number of teams hoping to get off on the right foot.
The action begins at 7:00pm with Morgan State traveling to face Army at Michie Stadium, a game that can be seen live on CBS Sports Network. Also going off at 7pm is the clash between Samford and Georgia State at the Georgia Dome and this is live on ESPN3.com.
Michigan State will host Western Michigan at 8pm, with North Dakota State going to Bill Snyder Stadium to take on Kansas State.
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Tenn. officer fired over online video
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LENOIR CITY, Tenn. — One Lenoir City police officer resigned and another was fired after an internal investigation of a video an on-duty officer posted on YouTube.
Part-time officer Kevin Walker resigned Tuesday, said Lenoir City Police Chief Don White.
White fired part-time officer Marc Grossbard today, citing violation of several city policies.
White first viewed Grossbard's video, "Memoirs of a Lonely Policeman," Monday morning on the Internet. He placed Grossbard on administrative leave without pay while he investigated the origin and contents of the film.
The film was removed from YouTube, preventing White from viewing it again, he said.
WATE Channel 6 reported that the video contained sexual captions in a scene of the on-duty Grossbard talking with a clerk in a gas station.
White met with Lenoir City's police supervisors Tuesday to discuss online activities of officers.
"There are a lot of people who have MySpace and other Internet sites, and as police officers we must conduct ourselves on and off the job," White said. "They (officers) have to be very careful and cautious even when they are doing things off duty."
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Born To Be A Dancer - Kaiser Chiefs This is one of the b-sides on the Oh My God single. It's a great song and has a great riff. Intro ------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------| --4-4-----4-4-6-7-6-4-2-0-0-----0-0-------| ------4-4-------------------0-0-----0-----| x2 Repeat it through the verse aswell. I'm still trying to work out the chorus and stuff. And with the ratings, be gentle, it's my first tab! WhiteStripes333.
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|A multivariate "time based" analysis of SIDS risk factors.
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|PMID: 14977707 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|AIMS: To investigate the influence of analytical design on the variability of published results in studies of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). METHODS: The results of a prospective case-control study, of 203 cases of SIDS, and 622 control infants are presented. All variables significant on univariate analysis were included in a multivariate model analysed in nine stages, starting with sociodemographic variables, then sequentially and cumulatively adding variables relating to pregnancy history, current pregnancy, birth, the interval from birth to the week prior to death, the last week, the last 48 hours, and the last sleep period. A ninth stage was created by adding placed to sleep prone for the last sleep period. RESULTS: As additional variables are added, previously published SIDS risk factors emerged such as social deprivation, young maternal age, > or =3 previous live births, maternal smoking and drinking, urinary tract infection in pregnancy, reduced birth weight, and the infant having an illness, regurgitation, being sweaty, or a history of crying/colic in the interval from birth to the week before death, with co-sleeping and the lack of regular soother use important in the last sleep period. As the model progressed through stages 1-9, many significant variables became non-significant (social deprivation, young maternal age, maternal smoking and drinking) and in stage 9 the addition of placed to sleep prone for the last sleep period caused > or =3 previous live births and a reduced birth weight to become significant. CONCLUSION: The variables found to be significant in a case-control study, depend on what is included in a multivariate model.
|T Matthews; M McDonnell; C McGarvey; G Loftus; M O'Regan
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|Title: Archives of disease in childhood Volume: 89 ISSN: 1468-2044 ISO Abbreviation: Arch. Dis. Child. Publication Date: 2004 Mar
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|Created Date: 2004-02-23 Completed Date: 2004-03-16 Revised Date: 2009-11-18
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- Episode 3 Recap: Haruka caught a cold due to being a dummy and jumping into a freezing pool in the middle of April; Kou proved to us that she does nothing outside of school except obsess over the swim team. Nagisa spent most of the episode begging Rei to join so they would have enough members to take part in a joint swim team practice with Samezuka Academy – the same team that Rin happens to be on; Rei asks to join the swim club and everyone celebrates.
- Summary of Episode 4: Alright, we are finally in the water! Things are looking good. Kou (or Gou) has a pretty rocking workout for the first official day of practice and everything is going along swimmingly until Rei….poor Rei. He thinks he's figured it out and then he sinks. He blames his swim briefs, goes to the trouble of going out to the store to buy some new ones – along with a swim cap and prescription goggles – and he still sinks like a rock. The team brainstorms on the reasons why someone so intelligent can't figure out how the mechanics of swimming work and even try to get the advice of their old coach, who declines to help for some reason. During Rei's swimwear buying spree, the boys have fun modeling some swimwear for Kou (why else would they try so many on?) and Haruka has a surprise run-in with Rin at the store! Rin requests they have a meeting outside where he then proceeds to demand that Haruka "swim for him" so they can "settle things once in for all." Haruka tells Rin not to whine or cry if he loses. The team heads back to the swimming pool and after a few hours of staring at butterflies with Haruka, Rei realizes that he should swim butterfly stroke and he nails it. Everyone jumps for joy and we move one step closer to the show down between Rin and Haruka.
- My Take: So when this show was announced, I figured there would have to be an "ULTIMATE FAN SERVICE" episode. I mean they have done it with so many anime featuring mostly women, it only makes sense they would do it for a show featuring mostly men. If anything, it's only fair. The old prude in me couldn't or wouldn't believe that they would devote so much time to blatant gratuitous crotch shots but then the seasoned otaku part of my brain asked if I was on drugs because OF COURSE THEY WOULD. So I'm not surprised, just amused that it actually happened.
- The hardest stroke to learn? I am a little annoyed at how they displayed the mechanics of swimming (I swam in junior high and high school competitively) and it's starting to really bug me. Did anyone else throw things at the TV when Rei became a genius at swimming the butterfly stroke? I know that a lot of the technical artistic decisions that were made for this series were probably based on how pretty they looked or how easy it would be to illustrate. And I get that this is anime, it's not a documentary and things don't have to be 100% realistic but it seemed a little strange that Rei, a guy who couldn't understand the idea of propelling yourself physically through the water and then moving your body in a way so you can intake oxygen, would be the one who would become a genius at the butterfly stroke. It's just a huge stretch for me and it kinda left a bad taste in my mouth at the end of the episode. I don't know. Maybe I'm jealous? I could be over thinking it, like Rei, and should just look at the pretty pictures. Right? I'm going to go swimming now. Stupid Rei and his stupid abilities to learn a stroke I still suck at. **grumble grumble**
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Been staggering Lavender, Cucumber, and Almond Mint over the past 4 months for my fine curly with a frizz locks and could not be happier with the outcome. I've replaced numerous other products with just this rinse. Oily frizz-free products are GONE. Volumizers are OUTTA HERE. Sticky curl definers are HISTORY. I finally have totally soft and volumed frizz free (or frizz reduced depending on the weather) curls with just this product. I've got I think what they call 3B hair in the curly hair websites. Fine Hebrew hair curl with a layer of frizz floating on top. And after it's slept on and needs to be afro picked due to the knots it turns into solid wavy frizz (a la Roseanna Havanadanna on the old Saturday Night Live.). I've never seen a model with my type hair on the infomercials. The closest is African American hair...which isn't really close at all other than I do have medium to large corkscrews going on with my cowlicks. The most important thing is to add one half to one full pump of the cleanser AFTER you've washed and rinsed. Wet your head thoroughly at the end of your shower and add the last pump. Comb through and LEAVE IT IN. That way you will have volumed, defined curls. Then scrunch semi dry with numerous paper towels and let air dry. I have some straight areas on top of my head, so I scrunch up a few of those areas and add some one inch butterfly clips around the crown to volumize and define the curl there even further while drying. I don't like what the diffuser does..and would rather air dry. You can wash with one scent and leave in a pump of another. So far I prefer that the Cucumber be the final leave in pump. The Almond Mint tends to be a bit more drying..but it is important to clean a bit more every few washes, anyway. But definitely don't use Almond Mint as the final leave in. Also, I recently tried my husband's Tea Tee. It is also drying with my type of hair, but I added the Cucumber as final leave in and I really did love the Gloria Stivic (All In The Family) head of bouncy curls I got from that combo. Will also start working that scent in every three or four times. One thing to note. I wash every two days. After the third wash-or about every eight days-I do need to use a regular sudsing product (I use Aveda's "Brilliant") as my scalp tends to get too oily. But I'm really happy going from suds every other day to every eight days. I used to lose quite a lot of hair when using sudsing products. Hair loss has reduced greatly with WEN. With the final pump left in your wet hair, you should not need to use any other WEN after products.
My scalp loved this and my hair grew nicely. It did not seem to weigh down my curls and my their definition was nice. It did leave my ends dry so I tried their hydrating mask which didn't help much. A little too expensive for the results given.
This weighed down my waves and curls so they were flat against my head. I have a lot of volume, so this is not normally a concern for me. I had zero definition and lots of frizz too. The ends felt dry, and the rest felt coated more than soft. When using in the shower, my eyes stung too, which was unusual.
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My grandparents' house in Maryborough is empty and on the market for the first time ever. It was the house my Dad and my Aunty were raised in, a house my grandparents built themselves. I was up there a couple of weekends ago, doing my share of the organising and cleaning — I was on clothes and kitch-stuff duty. We came home with plastic tumblers, knitting patterns, lots of cardigans and polyester dresses, and some cameras.
My grandfather, Pa, was a keen photographer — an amateur photographer you might say. Johnny brought it up the other day when I showed he, Kasia and Jane the cameras, that "everyone has a digital camera these days and it's cheap, so you don't think about it. Back then, cameras and photographs really were an investment of time and money, so if you weren't professional, you were a card-carrying ameteur photographer." Altogether there were three cameras, a Baby Brownie Special, a Voigtlander VF 101 and a Minolta XG-M. You can see how Pa's knowledge of photography grew, from the inexpensive "point-and-shoot" Brownie, to the Minolta SLR, a camera that lets you have complete control over every aspect of your shot.
It's weird to own these cameras. Not because my photography skills consist entirely of holding my breath while I release the shutter, but because… they're Pa's. There's a part of me that feels utterly terrible for removing them from the house, as if putting them back on top of the wardrobe will mean that Pa will be the next person to reach them down and the house in Maryborough will go back to just the way it was, complete with grandparents. It's not going to happen and if there was one thing that both Gran and Pa weren't into, it was letting things go to waste. These cameras work, the flashes they were stored with work, all the parts are there and they take beautiful pictures that I just didn't appreciate enough during Slide Night as a kid.
Neil and I have done lots of research about these cameras and how to bring them into the 21st century, where film teeters seemingly on extinction and parts are impossible to find. Mum and Dad are quite excited by our enthusiasm as well, so they gave us their Minolta 110 SLR (I learned that it's a pretty crazy camera. 110 is cartridge film often found in spy cameras and it has an SLR lens) and informed us of a Box Brownie hiding up in Gymbowen somewhere. Our vintage/retro camera collection went two cameras (an easy and cheap point-and-shoot Kodak, plus our $2 Polaroid) to six.
We plan on exploring these cameras and there's been a lot of things we've had to learn, so I want to share them as well. I'm taking the Voigtlander out this weekend so I'll let you know about my mods to the camera and the results.
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6 Days of SprayGraffiti // Monday, 16 May 2011
6 days painting, 300 cans of spray paint, and over 2,200 photos were used to make this stop animation video for Bliss N Eso. Famed graffiti artists Askew One and Deus of New Zealand painted all this art in the video.
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Just throwing in a little inspiration this blog-time around.
It's February. In Curaçao, that means one thing and one thing only.
First there is the issue of costumes that need to be sewed, fitted, decorated; then there is the Tumba to be determined so as to put it on repeat – to have something to sashay all those feathers and sequins to; then there are jump-up's, jump-in's, teener parade, children's parade, grown up parade, horse show, the burning of the momo.
It's all a bit excessive and sometimes I wonder where a struggling economy musters up the time and money needed for such indulgence. But it's fun and it's important to those who participate – and I might just be of the mindset that a good party is always a good thing.
It's also cute kids, dressed up and ready to show off. I feel sorry for them sometimes – mile long walks in sweltering heat dressed as dehydrated strawberries or sweaty domino stones. But then, last year, I snapped this little girl. She's just so proud to take part in all the shenanigans – in a chicken costume. The outfits, colors, creativity, pride and the hard work that goes into Carnaval preparations – these are a few of my favorite things. (Sorry. I just got back from Salzburg)


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The Steroid Era -- and Alex Rodriguez's involvement in it -- just won't go away, but Joe Lemire says it's time to acknowledge Major League Baseball's efforts to clean up the game.Share Tweet
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Pujols hopes to play in WBC after 2nd roundESPN.com Jan 29, 2013Los Angeles Angels slugger Albert Pujols says he hopes to play for the Dominican Republic after the second round of the World Baseball Classic.Share Tweet
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Josh Reddick, Coco Crisp have hair-A's-ing timeyahoo.com Jan 29, 2013Are either of these Oakland Athletics outfielders is using hair-enhancers? Nobody is saying for now. On the right, the Afro of Coco Crisp (or "Co-Fro") appears to be in mid-season form. Angela Davis is jealous, it's so kinky. Further, the San …Share Tweet
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Impact Fitness Wear, a private label athletic apparel brand for women, is releasing six new eye-catching prints for their fall line of workout tops this week. Using some of the most popular styles of tank tops from 2010, Impact Fitness will offer their new printed designs on The Dimension Tank, The Essence Tank, and The Basic Training V Neck Tank.
Impact Fitness focuses on fun and unique styles of workout wear for women and is the industry leader in printed workout tank & tops. "We know many women are looking for options other that basic solid colored athletic tops. We are excited to offer an exclusive selection of stylish printed tops in our line each season, and this fall brings some of our best yet." The styles offered will have a variety of features including full support inner bras, longer torso lengths, and light weight moisture management fabrics. Impact Fitness will feature these tanks for the fall season in sizes Small, Medium, Large, & X-Large.
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If eating out and you know someone else is going to be picking up the check, I'd advise you to eat healthily and normally like you usually would. Save the dessert for the end and pay for it yourself. This delay will make you think twice as to whether its worth the money and additional calories. You may find you can get along without it. :)
Love dried tomatoes so when they become cheap buy & dry them & make my own sun dried tomatoes. That way I know what's in them
Buy a battery operated Milk Frother (Ikea has them for about $3) to make your own inexpensive, healthy lattes.
I buy plain Greek Yogurt and add my own Splenda and berries to control what goes into my yogurt.470


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In the first year of the drive, the community chipped in food, clothes, and toys. Some of it went to the food pantry, and the gifts packed into this van are going to families in town for Christmas.
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Daedelus puts 'em up in the Marquis of Queensbury way, travels the high seas and sorts out some history with a fabulous collage of sound; this is Daedelus at his best!
Flying Lotus' up-and-coming label Brainfeeder has already showcased some of the most adventurous beat merchants like The Gaslamp Killer (he of All Killer: Finders Keepers Records 1-20 Mixed By The Gaslamp Killer, Ras G (as in Ras G And The Afrikan Space Program) and Samiyam (aka Sam Baker and 50% of the FLYamSAM with Flying Lotus himself). Now such a line-up wouldn't be complete with out the genius of early 19th century decadence; yep, it's our favourite electro-alchemist, Daedelus.
And for the first proper release, Daedelus (also known as Alfred Darling) has concocted what he imagines as a soundtrack to the Boxer Rebellion. The Boxer Rebellion! Yeah it was the time of the Boxer Uprising in China between 1898 and 1901. The locals had had enough of British/Japanese imperialism and fought under the flag of the "Righteous Fists of Harmony".
On first listen (and unsurprisingly) Righteous Fists Of Harmony suite is somewhat a sombre affair. None of the usual Daedelus musical quips are present here as the opening track, 'An Armada Approaches' sets up the tension for the forthcoming killing fields of slaughter. As an aside for a moment, reviewing a masterpiece on a packed train, sitting in the lotus position between the lavvy and the dirty back wheel of a mountain bike you might not think is ideal; but the discomfort is apt -like early Human League without the fun; 'An Armada Approaches' is the most Daedelus of soup where strings meet basslines from Youth and subtle clarinet interludes; this is nu-IDM and builds to ideal train-spotter music. It's only 6 minutes long but could be, with a bit of software magic, extended to an 'Autobahn' length mix I'm sure.
An with that in mind, at the other end of the CD, 'Fin De Si?®cle' is the cinematic outro of 50s film a la some of Exquisite Corpse (think Rebecca or more "Cecila, you're not leaving me" stuff).
There's a brief touch of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence in 'The Open Hand Avows' (isn't that a Tai Chi move?) but the sub plot of the Long Lost (the quasi samba project with Mrs Darling – see review HERE) turns up as 'Order Of The Garden Dawn'. This is by far the most accessible of the set as Laura's excellent voice matches the mood set by Alfred.
'Succumbing To' features Kid A is that bit more experimental whilst 'Stampede Me' seems most haunting like the smell of death with the representation of gunfire al a WW1 from the trenches (could have worked so well on the last episode of Blackadder – different war but same idiot waste of flesh and blood.
What this has to do with Boxers? Well don't be lulled into a state of tranquillity as the march across the battlefield is 'Finishing Of A Thing' that ends in a military climax.
As Alfred Weisberg-Roberts is of (very) distant Welsh decent, you won't be surprised that the Royal Welch Fusiliers distinguished themselves in battle in Peking (Beijing) and Daedelus has distinguished himself on Righteous Fists Of Harmony. Daedelus fans will love this of course as this his most complete concept piece yet and well worth the wait since the split Daedelus/Jogger Friends of Friends Vol. 1 last year. And the next Daedelus album on Ninja Tune is entitled Bespoke that's due out in late 2010 or 2011.
Well done to the Brainfeeder crew for releasing the EP and it was only a couple of weeks ago they dragged their entourage to London for the Red Bull Music Academy bash (or should that be Basho) at Fabric, see HERE). Flying Lotus will be back in the country at Bestival at the end of the summer and after Daedelus appeared at SXSW last week, it's back to Europe after the LA launch party (see tour dates below).
Back to the history, the red jackets of Queen Victoria troops found the Boxers terrifying with their martial artist training but with the advantage of the most advanced firepower of the day, 100,000 Boxers paid the ultimate sacrifice in battle and lost. The "victory" was short lived though as the next uprising was soon to come, aka the Chinese Revolution. Funny how things change as only this very morning I was part of a group that entertained 20 odd swimmers visiting the UK from the China Winter Swimming Association. Once the hand of sporting friendship was shook, there was a BBQ and at the same time the first surf competition was being held on the new artificial reef. Anglo-Chinese relations in harmony and is the South Coast the new West Coast? All a bit surreal really; tidal waves uprising or an armada approaches? Fin de siecle.
Reviewed: Daedelus – Righteous Fists Of Harmony EP (Brainfeeder) Cat. No. BFCD006 Release date: 22nd March 2010
All compositions and performances by Daedelus except: 'Tidal Waves' (Drums by Pete Curry), 'The Open Hand Avows' (additional Drums by Pete Curry), 'Order Of The Golden Dawn' (flute and vocals by Laura Darlington, guitar and violin by Amir Yaghmai, drums by Pete Curry), 'Succumbing To' (vocals by Kid A), 'Stampede Me' (additional Vocals by Amir Yaghmai), mixed and mastered by Steve Kaye, artwork by Frohawk Two-Feathers.
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2. Tidal Waves Uprising (1:30)
3. The Open Hand Avows (2:41)
4. Order Of The Golden Dawn (featuring Laura Darling) (4:17)
5. The Finishing of a Thing (1:40)
6. Succumbing To (featuring Kid A) (2:53)
7. Stampede Me (with Amir Yaghmai) (4:19)
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There are more than 100 different types of permissions, and many apps ask for more permissions than they actually need. Even worse, most people don't know what they mean. Here's a list of just a few of the most common:
- Storage: modify/delete USB storage contents -- apps that store anything (like pictures and video) will require this.
- Device calls: read device state/identity -- some apps require this to be able to do something like "pause" when you get a phone call.
- Network communication: full Internet access -- this often related to ads too; the app needs to access the Internet to download the ads.
- Your location: coarse (network-based) location -- many games with ads require this so it can deliver targeted ads.
- System tools: prevent device from sleeping -- usually means that when you're using the app, it will keep your phone from going to sleep or in a power save mode.
- Your personal information: read contact data -- any social media or messaging app needs to access your contact information so you can use them with your friends.
Steps to Safe Apps
The first step to making sure that your apps are safe is to download security software. You have it on your computer, right? Your phone needs it too. The most basic ones will scan your apps for anything that looks suspicious, but you can also find ones that enable you to locate your phone or even wipe its data remotely if it gets lost or stolen, or perform data backups. You might not be able to find one that does everything you want for free, but most of them aren't more than $40 per year -- a small price to pay when you think of the damage that someone could cause with, say, the credit card number stored in your Amazon account.
OK, so how do you know that the security app itself is safe? Do some research. I chose my security app by going online and reading reviews and articles about the best ones for my Android phone. All of the download platforms also have customer reviews, so that's a good place to go when you've narrowed down your choices. Just take the reviews with a grain of salt -- if every single one of them is glowing and uses similar language, they might be fake. Some unscrupulous developers employ people to leave fake positive reviews to boost their sales.
Also look specifically at the app's developer. Many of them will have websites. You can also see which other apps they've developed. Major publishers of the most popular games, for example, aren't going to put out malicious apps. It's also safest to stick with the most well-known platforms, like the ones associated with your phone's operating system. They have systems in place to evaluate apps before they go up for sale, as well as quickly identify and remove malicious ones.
When you have chosen an app -- no matter what kind it is -- look at the permissions that it requires before you download. Some apps will request permission to see your location, information about the phone calls you make, or the ability to read and write to your SD card. Carefully consider whether the app actually needs to do whatever it's asking. An app that helps you locate restaurants nearby would need to know your location, but should an app that helps you create lists? I say "request" but in reality, the app is telling you what it will do and it's up to you to either take it or leave it. Check the sidebar for some of the most common permissions. If you follow these basic steps, you should be able to avoid the most malicious apps and make sure the ones you already have are safe.