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Extra Life 2026 Game Day Starts Now
News by We're playing games and raising donations For The Kids I'm excited! Are you excited? You should be... Because today is the Extra Life 2026 Game Day, and we're going to be streaming for the next 12-ish hours. Stop by, hang out, and send a donation our way! We all know the kids could use it, and no amount is too small. All donations go directly to a Children's Miracle Network Hospital. We have a bunch of co-op games queued up and ready to go.
Join Us for Our 15th Year Supporting Extra Life
Extra Life Game Day is right around the corner! On November 7th, the Co-Optimus Team will join thousands of gamers across the US and Canada to celebrate our fundraising progress and make one final, united push to raise even more money for kids in need. Whether you're a longtime supporter or just discovering Extra Life, we'd love to have you join us! We welcome new team members, donations of any amount, and, of course, your company in Twitch chat while we spend the day playing co-op games.
News - Extra Life 2025 Game Day Begins!
News by We're playing games and raising donations for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals What could be a better way to spend a day than to spend it playing games and raising donations for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals? I can't think of anything. But what would make it even better would be your company in our Twitch chat, and, of course, DONATIONS! We're joining thousands of other gamers in our favorite annual tradition, Extra Life Game Day.
News - Extra Life 2025 Game Day is Nearly Here
This Saturday, November 8th, Co-Optimus will be joining thousands of other gamers during the Extra Life Game Day celebration. We'll be playing games and raising donations for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals all day. We welcome you to join our team, donate on our Extra Life page, or just hang out with us on Twitch! Extra Life is a charity, originally created by gamers, that benefits Children's Miracle Network Hospitals throughout the US and Canada.
Eric Alexander Murphy Releases Sleepless: A Love Story - An Urban Romance Rooted in the Heart of New York
Eric Alexander Murphy Releases Sleepless: A Love Story — An Urban Romance Rooted in the Heart of New York A vivid narrative of love, struggle, and resilience set against the backdrop of Brooklyn life. NEW YORK CITY, NY, UNITED STATES, September 2, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Author and musician Eric Alexander Murphy announces the release of Sleepless: A Love Story, a compelling work of urban romance fiction inspired by his life growing up in New York.
Vulnerability-Free Java Containers: A Practical Guide
Vulnerability-Free Java Containers: A Practical Guide contributed, Image by Krzysztof Dzwonek from Pixabay. In today’s cloud native landscape, securing Java applications isn’t just about the code we write but the entire container stack. While Java has maintained a strong security record, incidents like Log4Shell have shown us that vigilance is crucial.
News - Join Us for Our Thirteenth Extra Life Game Day This Saturday
News by Hashtag #relationshipgoals Can you believe this is our thirteenth year of me bugging you to join and donate to the Co-Optimus Extra Life team? It seems like just yesterday I Jerry-rigged a poor excuse for a streaming setup and streamed Xbox 360 games for 25 hours from my living room. While 25 hours is a pipe dream at our ages, our faithful Extra Life team will be streaming a good chunk of this Saturday morning and afternoon for your delight! What is Extra Life?
Viewpoint: Put down the phone and avoid distracted driving
In the Saturday, July 6, edition of the Grand Forks Herald, I read an article about the intersection of Airport Road (County Road 5) and U.S. Hwy 2. Early this summer, a young child lost their life at this intersection. A true tragedy, but sadly other children and adults have lost their lives in accidents at this intersection. Interestingly, what no one mentions in this article about accidents at this intersection is that distracted driving commonly leads to rear-end collisions.
GraphQL's New Superpower: Breaking Change Checks
As an API solution architect, the evolution from REST to GraphQL has been a pivotal shift in my approach to designing and managing APIs at scale. REST, with its OpenAPI specification, has long dominated the landscape. Yet it presents numerous challenges, especially in versioning and aligning real-world API consumer usage with your API specification. Fed up with REST and OpenAPI, my journey with GraphQL began as a search for agility and precision in API management.
News - Extra Life Game Day 2023
News by Let the games begin! Today is the official Extra Life Game Day, so obviously, we'll be playing way too many co-op video games, and hopefully raising more donations for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! Come hang out with us on our Twitch channel, and more importantly, please shoot us a donation! We'll be playing Trine 5, Conan Exiles, Monaco, The Ascent, and maybe some others. We'd love to have some company while we game all day!
News - Join Our Extra Life 2023 Team; Win Trine 5
Co-Optimus and Extra Life are both celebrating their 15th anniversaries this year, and what better way to celebrate than with prizes! All you have to do is join our team and start raking in donations for the Children's Miracle Network Hospital of your choice. Extra Life is a fundraising event for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals across North America.
Isthmus welcomes Tommy Washbush as art director and Eric Murphy as staff writer - Isthmus
Skip to main content Isthmus welcomes Tommy Washbush as art director and Eric Murphy as staff writer 9:00 AM Twitter YouTuibe Soundcloud Instagram ISTHMUS is © 2021 Isthmus Community Media, Inc.| Madison, Wisconsin | USA Built with Metro Publisher™| All rights reserved.
News - Extra Life 2022 Game Day Starts Now
Extra Life 2022 Game Day Starts Now Playing games and raising donations For The Kids! Today is the annual Extra Life Game Day celebration, so we'll be spending all day raising donations and playing games. We're streaming on our Twitch channel, so stop by and chat with us. More importantly, shoot us a donation! Sixty-two children enter a Children's Miracle Network Hospital every minute seeking quality medical care for all sorts of illnesses, injuries and birth defects.
News - Join us for Extra Life 2022 on Nov 5th
On November 5th, Co-Optimus will be joining thousands of other gamers for a day full of gaming and fundraising for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Donations through Extra Life go straight to the participant’s chosen CMN hospital to help kids in need.
Content Promotion vs. Content Distribution
Content promotion and distribution have been hot topics in growth marketing, and for good reason. Brands that have struggled to find success through content marketing initiatives are beginning to understand why they need more than a favorite social media channel. A struggling content distribution strategy is usually less of a quality content or platform issue and more of an audience issue.
Co-Optimus - News Archive
Co-Op Monthly Round-Up for January 2022 For many the most important piece of news in January was the long-awaited announcement that Elden Ring has gone gold. It will hit store shelves on February 25 as planned (with a day one patch) and many will rejoice. There is of course a world beyond From Software games. Shocking, I know but it saw for example the Early Access release of The Anacrusis this month as well as the release of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction.
Run a Google Kubernetes Engine Cluster for Under $25/Month
Eric Murphy Eric is a field engineer for Solo.io. He loves to think big picture about software design and how technology can solve business problems. In the past, Eric has led workshops on topics such as Kubernetes, Java and domain-driven design. Additionally, Eric is a published author through O’Reilly and has presented globally at technical conferences.
News - Donate to Extra Life on Giving Tuesday
As I'm sure your inboxes have informed you, today is Giving Tuesday, an unofficial holiday for non-profit organizations to ask for the pocket change you didn't spend during Black Friday month and Cyber Monday week. I kid, but I've honestly given up on trying to keep track of sales. It's gotten a little crazy. So instead of spending your hard earned cash on stuff you don't need, why not donate it to a charity?
News - Extra Life 2021 Game Day Starts Now
Extra Life Game Day is upon us, so grab your controller and your wallet, it's about to get crazy. Our Extra Life team has been busy seeking out donations and today is always our biggest day. While we play and stream co-op games on our Twitch channel for everyone to enjoy, we hope you'll join us and send a donation our way! When you make a donation on one of our team members' pages, that donation goes to the hospital that the team member chose to support.
News - Join the Co-Optimus Team for Extra Life 2021!
Can you believe it's been ten years? The Co-Optimus team has raised $19,586.75 since we joined Extra Life back in 2012, and we couldn't have done it without our community. Thank you to everyone who has donated, participated, cheered us on, or spread the word! The generosity of the Co-Optimus community and their network of friends and family is astounding. In case you're wondering what Extra Life is all about, let me explain.
How Service Mesh Enables a DevOps Revolution
Eric Murphy | October 5, 2021 Emily Freeman, the highly respected author of “DevOps for Dummies” and head of DevOps product marketing at AWS, recently introduced a revolutionary model for DevOps to replace the traditional software development lifecycle (SDLC). Her argument is that, in the era of cloud-native applications, there is additional chaos introduced across the software lifecycle, and therefore the SDLC, and DevOps as we know it, are no longer relevant. Figure 1.
Figuring Out Your Perfect Career Match
Do you feel like your career doesn’t align with the things that matter to you? Do you want to find work that fits? Sure you do. Well, good news! We’re taking you behind the scenes to share how we help people figure out what they want from their career and turn that into a reality. Eric Murphy defined his values and priorities, then came up with a plan for changing career.
Figuring Out What REALLY Fits with Eric Murphy
Mon, 21 August 2017 Figuring Out What REALLY Fits with Eric Murphy What do you do when you decide your current job no longer fits your values? You fill your iPhone with numbers from all of the CEOs you’ve just made friends with by interviewing them for your blog. (Obviously) Wait… What? That’s just one of the many ways that our client and HTYC Podcast listener Eric Murphy used to make a career change to his dream job.
Figuring Out What REALLY Fits with Eric Murphy
What do you do when you decide your current job no longer fits your values? You fill your iPhone with numbers from all of the CEOs you’ve just made friends with by interviewing them for your blog. (Obviously) Wait… What? That’s just one of the many ways that our client and HTYC Podcast listener Eric Murphy used to make a career change to his dream job. (take a listen below!) Eric Murphy was working 10-14 hour days in his engineering role for the gas company in Las Vegas Nevada.
Accelerate Kubernetes Adoption with a Service Mesh
Eric Murphy | June 3, 2021 [This piece was originally published on The New Stack.] I have worked for years guiding large organizations on their adoption of Kubernetes and microservices, and during that time I’ve seen many common patterns. Often, organizations want to move conservatively, but this can extend the time to adopt Kubernetes from months to years. In the end, the full value of Kubernetes still might not be realized and those containers might as well be virtual machines (VMs).
Accelerate Kubernetes Adoption with a Service Mesh
Eric Murphy Eric is a field engineer for Solo.io. He loves to think big picture about software design and how technology can solve business problems. In the past, Eric has led workshops on topics such as Kubernetes, Java and domain-driven design. Additionally, Eric is a published author through O’Reilly and has presented globally at technical conferences.
Moov to Digital Banking on OpenShift
This is a guest post written in collaboration with the folks at moov.io. Moov is a portable, extensible, open source platform for embedding banking services within any application. Moov offers a secure, compliant, cloud-native architecture built for Kubernetes with lightweight microservices written in Go. This article documents our journey for supporting Moov on OpenShift. We built on our existing Kubernetes support with Helm charts to get going.
Spring Boot on Quarkus: Magic or Madness?
Quarkus is a Java stack tailored for OpenJDK HotSpot (or OpenJ9 on zSeries) and GraalVM, crafted from optimized Java libraries and standards. It is a good choice for building highly-scalable applications while using lower amounts of CPU and memory resources than other Java frameworks. These applications can be traditional web applications, serverless applications, or even functions as a service. There are many documented instances of organizations migrating their applications to Quarkus.
Minister commissions two Police stations at Nkoranza North District
The Director in charge of Technical at the Ghana Police Service, Mr. Samuel Monney, has admonished personnel of the Ghana Police Service to remain impartial, truthful, and professional in protecting lives and property while discharging their duties as personnel. According to him, the police must ensure there's total coordination between them and the citizens as a collective responsibility for sustained peace and economic growth.
Hello, Impermanence: A Response to Rolling Stone’s New List
By John Amen on November 18, 2020 in Focus, Music Rolling Stone’s recently updated greatest-albums-of-all-time list is intriguing for the cultural, demographic, and stylistic changes it reflects, but more so for the way it illustrates the broader reality of impermanence — which includes and transcends culture, demography, and expressive modes — how all things, even the most admired aesthetic templates, over time lose their prominence, drifting toward obsolescence.
The Police Are The Out-Of-Towners Provoking Violence
Since protests of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis began on May 26, authorities at every level have blamed “outsiders” for provoking violence. On May 30, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter claimed that the large majority of protesters who had been arrested the previous night were from outside the state, a claim which turned out to be false.
Cultivating a Tolerance for Adversity in Our Teams and Our Communities
Eric Murphy, senior mountain guide, Alpine Ascents International. Photo from Kilimanjaro 2019 expedition. As a long time Mt. Everest guide, this is the time of the year I’d normally be working in Nepal. Not this year. Now, I’m looking at the coronavirus dashboards and models like everyone else, wondering when people might get comfortable again with the kind of international travel that my livelihood depends on. At times it feels like a storm that I cannot see through. The unknown.
Covid-19: Kwabre East MP Donates To District To Fight Spread
The Member of Parliament for Kwabre East Hon Francisca Oteng Mensah has donated food items worth thousands of Ghana cedis to her constituents to help mitigate the impact of the covid-19 partial lockdown. The items include rice, oil, tomatoes and PPEs such as hand sanitizers, nose masks and hand gloves. The items were presented to the assembly members from each electoral area within her jurisdiction for onward distribution to the entire communities.
Azteca Sports reporter Carlos Hernández tested positive for coronavirus
The coronavirus continues to grow worldwide, despite the efforts of the different health authorities. Given this, communicators and reporters have continued their work, taking the information of the advance of the virus to the population. However, some of them have tested positive for COVID-19, such as Carlos Hernández, sports reporter for Azteca Sports, confirmed this Friday. Through his Twitter account, the Mexican reported: "Twitter friends, unfortunately I have # COVID19".
Impact Factor vs Integrity Factor: Which Siren Should Be Our Guide?
Editorial Eric J. Murphy Corresponding Author E-mail address: eric.murphy@ndus.edu Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, 58202‐9037 USA Eric J. Murphy E-mail address: eric.murphy@ndus.edu Search for more papers by this author PDF PDF ShareShare No abstract is available for this article.
Social Media as Force Multiplier
Recently, James Carafano wrote a thought-provoking article based on the premise that American leadership has lost the ability to think deeply and well. This is not an uncommon refrain, nor is the solution he proposes — improved education — but, in elucidating his point, he makes the following argument: Next, the quality of the education matters. Here both form and content have to be addressed.
Jolted by surprise, unpermitted home demolition, Florida Street neighbors searching for answers
Early on a Saturday morning last summer, residents on Florida Street between 22nd and 23rd Streets woke up to the sound of a construction crew unexpectedly destroying a house on their block. Neighbors said the demolition appeared chaotic. Workers had no safety gear on and dust and other materials from the site was drifting into their windows.
Sheltered from the superheated real estate market, Valencia Gardens residents view the changing Mission from a different vantage point
In the Mission, gentrification and displacement loom over daily life. Stories abound of wealthy newcomers pushing out longtime community members, skyrocketing rents, and local businesses changing to fit the tastes of a new class of neighborhood residents. But for the people of Valencia Gardens, a 250-unit publicly subsidized housing complex on Valencia between 14th and 15th streets, the issue barely registers.
Extra avocado on your sandwich? Think again, say some Mission businesses
Usually, San Francisco’s young people, artists, and hipsters start new food fads in the city. But now, restaurant owners in the Mission are the ones establishing a new trend: avocado-free dining. A weather-shortened California avocado crop, a diminished supply, and increased global demand have put local restaurateurs and grocers in a pinch. This is currently the nadir of the Mexican growing cycle, so your “local” avocados may actually hail from as far off as Chile or Peru.
How Restaurants Can Respond to the Rise in App Fraud
In April, a Canadian reporter brought attention to a recent rash ofapp hacking that was costing McDonald’s customers thousands in fraudulent purchases. It’s not an isolated incident. McDonalds along withDomino’s Pizza,Chipotle and other restaurants over the years have had issues with fraudulent online or mobile orders. While these problems most often arise from poor user security hygiene, the overall security of restaurants’ apps could also be improved.
Extra avocado on your sandwich? Think again, say some Mission businesses
By Mission Loc@l on July 23, 2019 at 11:16 AM By Eric Murphy and Joe Eskenazi Usually, San Francisco’s young people, artists, and hipsters start new food fads in the city. But now, restaurant owners in the Mission are the ones establishing a new trend: avocado-free dining. A weather-shortened California avocado crop, a diminished supply, and increased global demand have put local restaurateurs and grocers in a pinch.
Trump's Mission District fund-raising haul in the second quarter of 2019: $0
Here in the Mission, he’s Alcalde Pedro Source: FEC When the Mission puts its presidential money where its mouth is, the dollars flow to Mayor Pete Buttigieg. The 37-year-old two-term mayor of South Bend, Ind. raised the most Mission money in the second quarter of 2019, according to recently released data from the Federal Election Commission.
Eviction trial of single mother of five scheduled to wrap today — and now the waiting begins - Mission Local
The eviction trial for Shantel McClendon, a mother of five and resident of Valencia Gardens, is slated to conclude on Wednesday. But McClendon’s housing status will still be in limbo for months as attorneys prepare briefs and the judge, Richard Ulmer, comes to a decision. He will either decide himself whether McClendon has the right to stay in her home or he will send the proceedings to a jury trial. That decision won’t come until September at the earliest.
Mother of five facing eviction: Property manager may be threatening home to get at my children's father
In court testimony Monday, Shantel McClendon, a mother of five facing expulsion from Valencia Gardens by the John Stewart Company, claimed that repeated eviction notices and lawsuits sent her way may be a hardball tactic to keep the father of three of her kids, Rasheed Loveless, away from the premises. “You said, ‘Maybe if he goes away, this all goes away,’” McClendon testified, referring to Valencia Gardens’ property management.
Valencia Gardens tenants say property manager trying to evict mother and children from public housing is overly aggressive
As a trial opened Thursday to evict a woman and her five children from their apartment at Valencia Gardens, a public housing complex in the Mission, residents there said that the complex’s management company harasses and surveils its tenants, fails to communicate with them, and can be aggressive and unfair in its enforcement of the rules. The John Stewart Company has been trying to evict Shantel McClendon, the mother of five children ranging from 18 months to 19 years old, for years.
Fears of AI-powered hacking are misplaced as criminals are doing fine without it
Artificial intelligence is captivating tech news audiences. Unfortunately, growing expectations for AI’s impact on legitimate business have spawned a distracting narrative about potential AI-powered cyberattacks. Is this really a threat that needs to be on our radar? Based on my work examining dark web markets and the techniques cybercriminals use to collect, resell or commit fraud with stolen data, I question the usefulness of AI to run-of-the-mill cybercrime.
What percentage of San Francisco's firefighters actually live in San Francisco?
San Francisco’s crushingly expensive rental and housing markets have been pushing people out of the city for years. Few workaday employees can lay out, say, $3,500 for a typical one-bedroom apartment in the city. And in San Francisco, that includes many of its most important workers: firefighters. According to public records requested by Mission Local, 71 percent of San Francisco firefighters live outside of San Francisco.
Third-floor apartment at Curtis Hotel catches fire
A room on the third floor of the Curtis Hotel on 16th and Valencia caught on fire Friday afternoon. San Francisco Fire Department Rescue Captain Scott Eberhart said two people required medical transport and two others were evaluated. Eberhart said they refused further care. Valencia Street between 16th and 17th Street were closed off to vehicle traffic.
SF veterinary workers walk off the job
At 8 a.m. this morning, employees at VCA San Francisco Veterinary Specialists took themselves for a walk. Several dozen aspirational union workers walked out of work for an hour to call attention to what they say are the company’s unfair labor practices. The roughly 100 workers at the animal hospital formed a union last year and have been in contract negotiations that they say have dragged on longer than necessary.
Ali Baba's Cave closing after 36 years on Valencia
“The newcomers to the neighborhood, they’re young, high-tech, making a lot of money. They need something to fit what they like.” After nearly four decades running Ali Baba’s Cave on 19th and Valencia, owner Husein Dawah says it’s time to retire. “When you stay in a certain area for a long period of time, it’s not easy for you to say goodbye,” he said.
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