Other Aetherborn you control get +1/+1.
Whenever Midnight Entourage or another Aetherborn you control dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.
2/9/2017 Midnight Entourage's triggered ability is mandatory. You draw a card and lose 1 life even if you don't want to.
2/9/2017 If Midnight Entourage and another Aetherborn you control die at the same time, its ability triggers once for each of them.
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Every weekday when I wake up, after falling off my bed and trying to master what seems like the eternal struggle of finding a matching pair of the same type of socks… Every weekday, rite before I start being productive, I will go on my computer, or phone, and read the new episode of my favorite web comic Questionable Content (if you've never heard of it, it's a wonderful slice of life comic by Jeph Jacques, you can find it at QuestionableContent.net … and no I'm not… Jeph has no idea i'm linking to him). Now this happens, without me thinking, basically every single day. Even on the days that I am so busy I cant even spare the moment in the morning, the thought of checking the latest edition will pop into my mind throughout the day until I have finally quenched my thirst for the new content.
Now normally I wouldn't even give this a bit of thought, until one exceptionally busy morning, I found myself waking up a good 20 minutes late. You see I normally set my alarm to go off on my phone, just in case i'm away on business somewhere I will always have a reliable alarm. But this morning, my alarm never went off. It turns out that I had spent so much time on my phone the previous night, that it ran out of battery before my usual wake up call. In a dizzying race to get myself going, I threw my phone on the charger and chose instead of going to my morning coffee shop, I would make some tea as to not have to wait in line. Once I raced to my car and made it out of my drive way I sighed a bit of relief as I was on my way only to find myself a few minutes later paying for my morning coffee. I didn't even notice what was going on until I went to put my newly purchased coffee in a cup holder that was already occupied by the tea I made earlier!
As I continued my trip to work (not torn between my coffee and my tea), I started thinking about what had just happened and after realizing how my morning habit had in this case cost me valuable time, unnecessary money, and the potential of spilling coffee on my pants (I only had one cup holder). With this revelation I decided to go about my day consciously taking notes every time I noticed myself doing something on autopilot. It turns out, at the end of the day when I looked at my list, there were a Lot of things I habitually do.
Humans are creatures of habit, and for good reason! With the ever increasing busyness of our days our minds would simply be overwhelmed if we had to consciously make decisions for every little thing we do. So to take a bit of the edge off, we developed the ability to create habits, and this ability is hard wired into our brains. When we are working out a problem or trying to have a conversation with a friend we are using a part of our brain called the prefrontal cortex, and it's the part of our brain that deals largely with decision making. The problem comes while we're having that conversation, while walking, and maybe chewing bubble gum, the decision making part of our brain ends up getting overwhelmed. It's the same as trying to rub our bellies while we pat our head, it's just too much for our mind to deal with at once. So what the brain does is start to automate the things that we do all the time. Things like walking and chewing bubble gum are things we do all the time, and because of that they can get stored as things we habitually do. To take the stress off the prefrontal cortex, where the decisions are being made, habitual and automatic actions get stored in another area of the brain called the basal ganglia, an area known for it's use in pattern recognition and the development of memories.
The way it works is by storing your daily habits such as brushing your teeth and buying your coffee in the habit part of our brain, it frees up the decision making part of the brain to work on other things, and while this is a really good thing, it also means that some not so good habits can creep their way in. So how do we get rid of these habits that are sabotaging our days?
Identify the habit that may be taking away from your productivity or happiness, try to be mindfully conscious about how and why you have this habit and why it started.
All habits have a trigger that set them in motion, it's a call and response game with your subconscious mind. So in order to break the habit you first have to find out what causes it to happen. Every morning do you wake up and check out your favorite comic? Every time you walk outside for your break do you grab a cigarette? How about every time you hang out with a certain friend you drink too much?When you find out what the trigger for an unwanted habit is, watch for it, and consciously notice when it happens, this will be a bit tricky at first but keep at it! Everything can be difficult at first but it's worth it.
Keep at this for a while and Congratulations! you will have successfully broken a bad habit! Now a few notes to go with this post. First off, habits can be pretty hard to break, especially ones that have a physiological or chemical dependency attached to it, such as smoking or drinking. If this start getting rough, find an accountability partner. This can be a friend or an organization that will be there to help you out when your trigger is hounding you and you're finding it hard not to sink back into your old habits.
Remember also, that not all habits are bad, in fact some are great! The web comic habit I have build up I find to be a good habit. It reminds me and almost forces me to start my day with a little bit of time for myself instead of just diving head first into the pile of work I have waiting for me. Morning rituals such as taking 10 min before heading to work to just sit and have a cup of tea without stress can do wonders for your productivity and happiness throughout the day. Every night before going to bed you can spend ten to fifteen minutes planning your next day can take a ton of stress off your day as well as make you less prone to forgetting important tasks.
What time of habits do you have in your life that are taking up your time, and what new habits could you develop to replace them and really help you crush it all day? let me know in the comments below, and don't forget to share and subscribe!


End of the Road: One Belt, One Road and the Cumulative Economic Marginalization of the Uyghurs, a new research report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), is an examination of China's One Belt, One Road (OBOR) economic initiative from a Uyghur human rights perspective. The report is an analytical appraisal of OBOR's potential impact on East Turkestan and sets the initiative within the context of previous economic campaigns in the region.
"Xi Jinping has made OBOR the signature policy of his presidency. The Silk Road Economic Belt arm of OBOR puts East Turkestan squarely within China's push for continental dominance of politics and trade. However, within all the grand policy statements we hear little about the Uyghurs, whose homeland is East Turkestan," said UHRP Acting Director, Omer Kanat.
Despite China's remarkable economic growth rates since the reform inception period and several economic campaigns targeting minority regions, extreme poverty rates in western China and among Uyghurs, Tibetans. Mongolians and other ethnicities lag far behind those of eastern China, where the majority Han Chinese reside.
The SREB and the Maritime Silk Road (MSR) form an ambitious Chinese goal to place China at the center of trade routes in the eastern hemisphere. Collectively known as One Belt, One Road (OBOR), the initiative projects external influence and upholds the internal economy that according to one observer set out to establish China as a bona fide super power.
The announcement of the SREB is the latest iteration of centrally driven development campaigns in East Turkestan since the fall of the Soviet Union. These initiatives have included Open up the Northwest (1992), Western Development (2000), the Xinjiang Work Forums of 2010 and 2014, the establishment of the Shanghai Five (1996) and later the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (2001). The build up of infrastructure, investment and migration encouraged by these initiatives have done little to significantly alter economic opportunities for Uyghur, as they remain outside the planning, implementation and monitoring processes while their region undergoes transformation. While China is often quick to claim it successes in raising large numbers of citizens out of poverty, it remains less vocal about how inequitable this change has become.
New economic initiatives in East Turkestan signify familiar exclusions for the Uyghurs. UHRP has previously reported on the effects of economic marginalization among Uyghurs throughout Beijing's interventions in East Turkestan. Compelling evidence on joblessness and lack of opportunity is recapped in this analysis to demonstrate the scant progress economic development campaigns have had on Uyghurs since the fall of the Soviet Union.
In prior research, restated in this work, UHRP has asserted how state led economic development merely represents a form of Uyghur displacement. A form that takes place in situ, rather than a process involving mass removal. In situ displacement has arisen due to the promulgation of economic development campaigns that do not contain any measures for control by the titular population of the autonomous region. Such an exclusionary approach has encouraged migration and greater state intrusions into Uyghur life. UHRP believes OBOR exhibits no change in approach from Beijing to stimulating economic development in East Turkestan. Familiar patterns in which Uyghur rights to participation in the development process remain violations under international standards.
However, it is not only Uyghur culture, language, traditions and ethnic identity that is under threat. If OBOR succeeds, there are minorities in neighboring countries, such as the Balochs in Pakistan, who will face similar challenges. Given such outcomes, UHRP concludes development campaigns serve national and party needs to consolidate territorial control of East Turkestan and assimilate Uyghurs into the dominant culture of China while projecting Chinese influence into the Eurasian continent.
UHRP calls on multilateral agencies, such as the United Nations, to recognize in human rights standards the problematic issue of demographic change engineered by state led development campaigns. Governments and private sector entities enticed by the opportunities presented by OBOR, particularly in East Turkestan and other minority regions, should demonstrate their engagement meets international human rights standards and benefits the Uyghur people in the region.


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It looks like people are loving 1) dresses, 2) ruffles, and 3) exposed shoulders. Out of the second group I don't know that any of those are particularly my style, they're cute though! What's your take on the April trends?


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see also: United Nations member states - Austria
Austria's independence was restored after the end of World War II. In 1955 it achieved total sovereignty through the Austrian State Treaty with the Allies, on the condition of its perpetual neutrality. This later helped Austria to maintain relations with both Western countries and the nations of the Eastern bloc. Since the end of the Cold War and Austria's entry into the European Union, the neutrality policy has again become a topic of discussion. Domestically, the republic was characterized over the decades by the major political parties that formed a coalition government for a stable balance of interests.
Independence and Neutrality
Following the end of the war, Austria once again became independent and obligated itself to strict neutrality. The Republic became the seat of many international organizations.
1 With the approval of a broad section of the populace, Austria annexed itself to the German Reich in 1938.
The restoration of an independent Austria after the war was envisioned in 1943 by the Allies, who agreed to divide the country following the same model used in Germany; Austria and its 6 capital Vienna was divided into four 3 occupation zones and a common control council was set up.
The Social Democratic Party, the Communist Party, and the mainstream Austrian People's Party were able in 1945 to settle on a declaration of independence and a provisional government headed by the Social Democrat Party leader, Karl Renner. A modified form of the constitution of 1929 came back into force, and all the National Socialist laws added during the period of annexation were annulled. The first election on November 25, 1945, resulted in a majority for the People's party, which formed a coalition government with the Social Democrats and Communists.
1 British soldiers before Schonbrunn Castle in Vienna, April 1945
6 Destroyed houses on the banks of the Danube, Vienna, 1945
3 The Allies shake hands; (from left)
American, British, French, and Soviet
military police show their support
and cooperation in Vienna
After prolonged negotiations between the Austrian government and the Allies, � 4 state treaty was concluded in 1955 and was signed on May 15 in Vienna, restoring the 2 sovereignty of the nation.
A condition insisted upon by the Allies was the assurance of "everlasting" neutrality, which was established in the Federal Constitutional Law on the Neutrality of Austria on October 26. This day has been celebrated as a national holiday since 1965.
In 1960, Austria, like all neutral European states, joined the European Free Trade Association. Austria developed close economic ties especially with its neighboring Eastern bloc states.
4 The signatories of the state treaty on the balcony of the Belvedere Castle, May 15, 1955
2 The Allies withdraw after the signing of
the state treaty, 1955
Austria has been a member of the United Nations since 1955, and Vienna became one of the four official 7 UN sites in 1979.
Furthermore, thanks to its neutral status, Austria has become home to numerous significant international organizations, among them the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and the 5 Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
7 UN complex in Vienna
5 OPEC headquarters in Vienna
Economic Development and the Neutrality Crisis
Austria became a service industry nation with a strong tourism sector. Since the 1990s, alongside the major parties, the right-wing populist Liberal Party has been gaining popularity.
The Marshall Plan provided Austria with the economic means with which to develop a new economy in the first postwar years. Heavy industry and banks were nationalized in 1946. Also facilitating recovery was the "social partnership," a close cooperation of the major economic interests with the government, which is still in practice today. The intervention by the Soviets in their occupation zone in Lower Austria led to an industrial flight to the traditionally purely agrarian west, which permanently altered the economic and social structure of the country. Since the 1970s, the service sector has surpassed all others.
To this day, Austria owes its supranational importance primarily to 8, 9, 10 tourism� particularly in the Alpine regions� and Vienna's status as center for headquarters and congresses.
The People's Party and the Social Democrat Party have been forming predominantly coalition governments since 1947, although occasionally the People's Party has governed alone. For a long time, only the Liberal Party stood in opposition to the major parties. Founded in 1949, the Liberal Party emerged out of the electoral alliance of independents, a sort of catch-all for less incriminated ex-National Socialists. Beginning in the 1990s, the party rapidly gained popularity under its right-wing populist chairman, Jorg Haider. In the National Council elections of October 3,1999, it became the second strongest party after the People's Party and with them formed the government in place since 2000. The Greens have established themselves since 1986 as a second opposition party.
8 View over Salzburg; the Fortress Hohensalzburg in Salzburg, (front right) Kollegien Church, 2002
9 Skiers in the Karwendel range, 2003
10 "Fiaker," an Austrian coach, Salzburg
Austria has used its neutrality as an active peace policy since Chancellor 12 Bruno Kreisky's term of office (1970-1983).
Among other things, the country has provided military contingents for the peacekeeping activities of the United Nations in the Golan Heights and Cyprus, as well as in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. In addition, Austria participates in the NATO Partnership for Peace program.
Austria's neutral status, however, has been an issue of discussion domestically since the 1980s, when membership in the European Community was proposed in order to be a part of the European Common Market.
In 1989, the government of 13 Franz Vranitzky made a formal application, resulting in EU 11 membership in 1995 and the Euro monetary system in 1999.
Austria, however, has never officially given up its neutrality.
12 Bruno Kreisky, 1973
13 The Austrian Chancellor and chairman of the SPO, Franz Vranitzky, 1992
11 Celebrations on the Heldenplatz in Vienna
following Austria's assumption of the European Union
presidency in 1998
The Waldheim Affair
The election of Kurt Waldheim as Austrian federal president in June 1986 provoked controversy at home and abroad because he had been an officer in the Nazi German army.
Waldheim had been UN general secretary from 1972 to 1981 and entered the elections as a People's Party candidate. He commented on his past in the following way: "I did nothing different in the war than hundreds of thousands of other Austrians, namely, fulfilled my duty as a soldier."
Although it could not be proven that he was guilty of any war crimes, Waldheim remained internationally isolated.
Kurt Waldheim
Future Austrian president Kurt Waldheim, with wartime colleagues
president of Austria
born Dec. 21, 1918, Sankt Andrä-Wördern, Austria
died June 14, 2007, Vienna
Austrian diplomat and statesman who served two terms as the fourth secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), from 1972 to 1981. He was the elected president of Austria from 1986 to 1992.
Waldheim�s father, a Czech by ethnic origin, changed his name from Waclawik to Waldheim. Kurt Waldheim served in the Austrian army as a volunteer (1936�37) before he began to study for a diplomatic career. He was soon conscripted into the German army, however, and served on the Russian front until 1941, when he was wounded. Waldheim�s later claims that he spent the rest of World War II studying law at the University of Vienna were contradicted by the rediscovery in 1986 of documents suggesting that he had been a German army staff officer stationed in the Balkans from 1942 to 1945.
Waldheim entered the diplomatic service in 1945. He served in Paris (1948�51) and was head of the personnel department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna from 1951 to 1955. He led Austria�s first delegation to the UN (1955) and subsequently represented the country in Canada (1956�60), first as minister plenipotentiary and then as ambassador. After a period as director general for political affairs in the Austrian Foreign Ministry, he became his country�s ambassador to the UN (1964�68, 1970�71). During 1968�70 he served as Austrian foreign minister. After the electoral defeat of the Austrian People�s Party, Waldheim was elected chairman of the Safeguards Committee of the International Atomic Energy Agency. In 1971 he ran for president on the People�s Party ticket but lost.
Waldheim�s UN secretaryship beginning in 1972 was characterized as efficient and ministerial. He oversaw effective and sometimes massive relief efforts in Bangladesh, Nicaragua, the Sudan-Sahel area of Africa, and Guatemala, as well as peacekeeping operations in Cyprus, the two Yemens, Angola, Guinea, and, especially, the Middle East. Waldheim also took a special interest in the future of Namibia and South Africa. He was reelected in 1976 despite some opposition from less-developed countries, but a third term was vetoed by the Chinese government in 1981.
In 1986 Waldheim ran once again as the People�s Party candidate for president of Austria. His candidacy became controversial, however, with the dissemination of wartime and postwar documents that pointed to his having been an interpreter and intelligence officer for a German army unit that engaged in brutal reprisals against Yugoslav Partisans and civilians and deported most of the Jewish population of Salonika (Thessaloníki), Greece, to Nazi death camps in 1943. Waldheim admitted that he had not been candid about his past but disclaimed all knowledge of or participation in wartime atrocities. He won election to the Austrian presidency in June 1986 for a six-year term. An international investigation by a committee of historians cleared Waldheim of complicity in war crimes, but as president he was a rather isolated figure on the international scene. Consequently, he chose not to run for a second term in 1992. The �Waldheim affair� triggered a fundamental debate in Austria about the country�s past during World War II.

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The second album from the Juliana Theory features 13 new songs that keep the exceptional qualities of the debut -- mystery, intelligence, and emotional fire -- while becoming more sophisticated in sound and composition. The Big Takeover wrote: "With its smashing guitars, pulsating rhythms, and impassioned vocals, this is an extremely hopeful quintet that might even surpass its contemporaries in time."
The world was introduced to The Juliana Theory last year-and the response was immediate. "A breath of fresh air..." said CCM Magazine. The band's stirring, emotional approach to pop music made music fans and critics alike stand up and take notice. But The Juliana boys were just getting started. Now with a year of constant touring under their belts, the band is ready to deliver their second album "Emotion is Dead".
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Some sports fans may have been surprised by the recent racially "Lin-sensistive" media coverage of suddenly-famous NBA point guard Jeremy Lin. Me? Not so much.
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Q: How can I install the drivers for Ralink RT5592 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS? I am trying to install the drivers for a wireless PCIe card on my brother's Ubuntu 14.04 LTS partition (the other partition runs Windows Vista, where the card already works). We bought him this card since it advertised Linux compatibility right on the box, but so far we haven't been able to make it work.
The wireless connection does not show up in the upper-right corner, and from reading this Ubuntu Forums post it appears that we need to compile the driver ourselves. I shared my laptop's wireless connection via Ethernet with his desktop in order to download the driver source and install build-essential.
Unfortunately, the post seems to indicate that this works for 12.04 LTS, but it's not working for us on 14.04 LTS. When we run make, we seem to get errors, which I redirected to a text file and posted here. If anybody has any ideas on what we need to do to get wireless Internet working on my brother's desktop without having to boot Vista instead, it would be much appreciated.

A: Ok, to fix this go to /include/os/ and open rt_linux.h
Replace line 281:
int             fsuid;

To:
kuid_t              fsuid;

Replace line 282:
int             fsgid;

To:
kgid_t              fsgid;

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Have an inclination to redefine winter sun? This trip was legendary. Jet lag aside, the surf was amazing and we managed to spend almost the entire 2.5 weeks in the sea. Additional standouts were a quick trip to Uluru, chartering a boat for the Sydney fireworks and diving at the Great Barrier Reef. Believe it or not we are already planning to go again next year!


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Is the $2 trick only good for bank cards?
By ClaimJumper,
December 30, 2018 in Credit Forum
ClaimJumper
I paid off all my wife's credit cards down to zero except for her Amazon Prime card (left a few bucks on it).
When I checked her FICO score it said one factor affecting her score was that she had no revolving balances on "bank/national" accounts.
If you do the $2 trick, does it have to be with a major bank credit card?
Very interesting report. I tried the $2 trick with a Target store card and it worked, but that might be because it shows up as TD Bank.
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I think the bigger question is why you are playing the AZEO game with a FICO 8 score of 801 but I wouldn't do it with a store card like the Synchrony-issued Amazon.
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5 hours ago, ivymike said:
He's doing it for science. Without that there would be no gaming FICO and no $2 trick. We'd still be relying on superstition like Ramsey & MyFico.
Are you absolutely sure the Synchrony card showed a balance on 12/25/18? Try to confirm her score & report from a different source. I've occasionally seen re-used & re-dated scores (although not from Synchrony). Maybe take a look at EX?
Lack of an open, paid down installment is probably costing her ~30pts or so, but certainly not 49.
So ~20pts are missing somewhere. It's hard to imagine what else could add up to ~20pts and not show as reasons.
Occam's Razor says you've probably found something new. Can you test next month with a different card?
If not I'll try it in the spring. Right now I'm running amok with SUBs so my scores will fluctuate for a few months.
1 hour ago, Occam said:
Yes, the Amazon card had a balance. I've been paying off her cards before the statement date, but for the last two months Amazon shipped an item on the statement date and charged the card. She wasn't trying to do the $2 trick, it just worked out that way.
I subscribe to CCT, but she doesn't so the only FICO scores I can get for her are from credit cards that offer the service. I did use the free Discover scorecard and it showed 799 for EX.
I would wait a month and test it with a bank card, but she was waiting until her scores hit 800 to app some new cards. So she may have some hits by the time her Amazon card shows a zero balance.
As for the no installment loans, our house and cars are paid off, so there's no need. We're looking at a vacation cabin, so a mortgage may be in our future.
3 hours ago, ClaimJumper said:
Yes, the Amazon card had a balance.
But you don't know if that account balance was reporting unless you pulled a TU report (or maybe CreditKarma) ON THE 25th. Here's why:
Synchrony reports don't show up on TU until about a week after the closing date. After they do, the CRA shows the closing date as the (fictitious) "reporting date".
So, for example, if that card closed with a new $2 balance on 12/20, it would still report a $0 balance on 12/25. Then, if you checked again a week later, it would show a balance of $2 "reported as of 12/20". But FICO would have seen it as $0 on 12/25. This may be what happened.
I did use the free Discover scorecard and it showed 799 for EX.
You can get a free report and FICO08 directly from EX
As for the no installment loans, our house and cars are paid off, so there's no need.
I wasn't saying she needs an installment. What I meant was, that is a known factor and it can only account for ~30pts. So her score should be around 820 or so unless there is another factor. No balances would do it, so I think either that balance was not reporting yet, or you've found something new and Synchrony balances no longer work.
One last thought, does she have at least 5 open revolvers?
Edited December 31, 2018 by Occam
OK, I see what you are saying.
Yes, she does have a Credit Karma login. A $24 balance was showing for Amazon before and after the 25th.
She also has a EX login, but she's lost her password. She doesn't keep up with her scores like I do, but then I apply for a lot more cards than she does.
She has 7 revolving accounts. All with fairly low limits ($1,300 to $4,600). She likes to wait for her statements to arrive then pay her cards off, so she always has very high utilization, which I'm guessing is the reason why she never gets automatic CLIs. That and the fact that she doesn't keep her income updated on her accounts.
I've taken over her payments and now pay them all off before her cards cut. I had her hit the LUV button for Amazon and ask for $10K. It was an immediate approval (should have asked for more). Now I'm going to get her to get CLI's for all accounts that don't use a HP and apply for some better cards with larger limits once her older cards report the higher limits.
In a few months, once her scores stabilize I'll start playing around to see the difference between leaving a small balance on her Amazon card vs. a real bank card and report back.
The Amazon luv button may still max out at $10k anyway. Some Synchrony luv buttons go to $35k but a few are still stuck at $10k.
She can call the SrUnderwriters and ask for $35k though; they may only cough up $25k but it's better to shoot high. There's no HP.


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Venture Capital Trusts
Cost barriers are preventing VC launches
By Joe McGrath
Increasing costs are proving a barrier to new managers launching funds in the UK venture capital sector, a report has found.
Looking at activity throughout 2018 in its Small Business Equity Tracker report, the British Business Bank said the "high and increasing cost of personal commitment for new general partners may be preventing talented fund managers from launching new funds".
A survey included within the report stated that 60 per cent of established managers had invested more than £100,000 into their first fund from their own money. The average commitment was even higher for those who started their first fund in the past decade.
"It is clearly a challenge," said Patrick Connolly, a chartered financial planner at Chase de Vere.
"You need the finance behind you and the expertise as well. There are a very limited number of people that have access to that.
"Perhaps, there is a reluctance with the uncertainty in the UK economy as well. If investors are looking to put money with these companies, they will be seeking experienced investors, and companies that they know and trust."
Data from the Association of Investment Companies showed investors ploughed £731m into Venture Capital Trusts in the 2018/19 tax year, the highest level since 2006.
But about a third of the total cash raised came from just one VCT, Octopus Titan, which raised £228m of the total, having twice increased the amount of capital it was seeking from investors.
Meanwhile, a record number of small and medium sized UK businesses offered up shares in their business for cash during 2018, amid sustained interest from investors, according to the British Business Bank.
The report found that £6.7bn of equity finance was invested in UK SMEs last year, as the allure of SME companies continued to attract UK investors for a fifth successive year.
Technology firms were the most popular with equity investors, according to the report, with 44 per cent of the total amount being invested in such assets. In fact, the technology sector saw investment totals increase by more than a quarter on the previous year, with the total amount invested topping £3bn.
But while the value invested has grown, the number of deals actually declined in 2018, falling 6 per cent. The decline in deals was reflected by all investor groups, with the number of deals by private equity and venture capital funds falling 9 per cent in 2018, compared with 2017 and the number of deals involving so-called business angels down 19 per cent.
Despite the number of deals being down across the UK as a whole, there were some regions where there were increases in deal numbers.
The north east saw a large increase in the number of deals, up 65 per cent, while the Yorkshire and Humber region saw a rise of 15 per cent. Wales saw growth of 11 per cent.
Mr Connolly added there had been "continued interest" in the domestic economy by some investors.
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SOOTH Corporation (headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo; Yasutoshi Nukada, President and CEO; hereinafter SOOTH) is pleased to announce that its "Heat Stroke Countermeasures Project" has been awarded in the Human Impact Award category of the OutSystems Innovation Awards 2018. This is the second year in a row that the project has won this award, following last year's award*.
The OutSystems Innovation Awards, organized by Portugal-based OutSystems, have been recognizing the achievements of organizations and associations that have dramatically innovated in IT by creating advanced, productive and significant business value using OutSystems, the world's leading ultra-fast development platform, since 2014.
The aim of the Heat Stroke Countermeasures Project is to reduce the number of occupational injuries caused by heat stroke in Japan's construction and other industries, and the project was recognized for its efforts to rapidly develop a prototype of a solution that includes a smart helmet equipped with a variety of biometric sensors, a smartphone app to link various devices, and a heat stroke countermeasures and management system in three months, and to reorganize the work site with a focus on the workers.
Yasutoshi Nukada, President and CEO of SOOTH, Yukio Kitano, Director and CTO of the company, and Yusuke Imaoka, President of Altitude, took the stage at the award ceremony held on October 9th in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
*Last year, the Experience Design Department of AOI Pro. Inc. (now SOOTH), was the first Japanese company to receive the award. on February 1, 2018, he established SOOTH, a joint venture between AOI Pro. and Altitude Incubation (now AQTIA), a company specializing in the experience design business. OutSystems Innovation Awards 2017 AOI Pro. Award Announcement, dated September 21, 2017
http://www.aoi-pro.com/news/award/20170921
About SOOTH's "Heat Stroke Countermeasures Project"
This project aims to predict and reduce the occurrence of heat stroke by tracking the health status of workers, and has realized the link between the smart helmet equipped with various biometric sensors and the workers' and managers' applications. When heat stroke is predicted, alerts are sent immediately to the manager's PC, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch and to the worker's iPhone.
Until the solution provided by this project, it was difficult to predict the occurrence of heat stroke in advance; however, this solution is expected to reduce the number of occupational injuries caused by heat stroke and the associated costs.
In this project a smart helmet was developed as the core of the solution, based on SOOTH's SOOTH Platform, and a heat stroke countermeasures management system and applications for smartphones and tablets were also developed using the ultra-fast development platform "OutSystems".
Altitude Incubation also led the project, incorporating the lean startup methodology and Agile development, and was responsible for defining the service content and requirements, designing the entire solution, and project control of the Agile development. OutSystems' elite partner, BlueMeme Inc. provided development services. The development cycle from development to review was rotated at high speed, realizing the speed of development that OutSystems is capable of and the resulting increase in productivity.
SOOTH Platform, the foundation of the solution, was developed as an evolution of AOI Pro.'s VR Insight™, which won the Most Innovative App Award at last year's OutSystems Innovation Awards 2017.
< Image of the overall structure of the heat stroke countermeasure management system >
Comment by Yasutoshi Nukada, President and CEO of SOOTH
SOOTH is a creative company that captures biological responses as data, aggregates them into SOOTH Platform, an experience design platform centered on vital sensing, and uses the results of that analysis to design experiences for life, industry and society. We will continue to evolve and deepen our solution services so that the work we have done in this project can be used in many industries and businesses.
Comment from Yukio Kitano, Director and CTO of SOOTH
I am very pleased that our efforts have received this award. With Japan's hot and humid climate, heat stroke occurs frequently and is a serious problem. Occupational accidents are occurring in many different industries, in particular the construction, manufacturing, and transportation industries, and there is an increasing need for countermeasures. In this initiative, we analyzed the current operations with a focus on people (workers and managers) and redesigned the experience, taking into account how to reduce the burden of introduction and lower the psychological burden on the workers. By integrating the "SOOTH Platform" and the innovative development platform "OutSystems Platform" to implement the experience we designed, we were able to complete the heat stroke countermeasures system in a short period of three months. The system was developed using agile development, and the strong driving and development capabilities of Altitude and BlueMeme allowed for feedback from the field to be immediately reflected in the system, so we were able to design a more human-centered experience. In the future, we will continue to expand this solution, while taking advantage of the features of OutSystems to create a growth-oriented system that can immediately reflect feedback from the field. In addition, as the number of visitors to Japan is expected to increase in the future, heat stroke can be a major risk, so we would like to promote awareness and risk reduction. Going forward, SOOTH will design human-centered experiences in a variety of scenes and use cases in addition to heat strokes and will continue to deliver new experiences in the future through the combination of the SOOTH Platform and the OutSystems Platform.
Mark Weaser, Vice President, Asia Pacific, OutSystems
The OutSystems Innovation Awards are given to companies that have used OutSystems to build innovative and cutting-edge applications. The Human Impact Award was given to SOOTH's "Heat Stroke Countermeasures Project" with the expectation that the combination of biometric data analysis and multi-device utilization will have an impact on the improvement of human-centered workplaces.
[SOOTH Corporation]
Representative Yasutoshi Nukuda CEO
Location ARK Hills South Tower 16F WeWork, 1-4-5 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Establishment December 14, 2017
Capital 10 million yen
Business content Planning/Development/Operation for launching new business
Joint venture Forming/Management for launching new business
Planning/Development/Operation for technology innovation and technology market creation, expansion and optimization
Provide business management strategy proposals, productivity improvement as well as the information of other relevant firms, and make planning, development and operation.
URL https://www.sooth.co.jp
【Altitude incubation Co., Ltd. (currently AQTIA Inc.)】
Trade name AQTIA Inc.
Representative Yukio Kitano CEO
Location Head office: 3-1-1 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Inquiries regarding the above
SOOTH Corporation
E-Mail: info@sooth.co.jp


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Drew Dudley – Accidental Teachers
by Drew Dudley
Drew Dudley introduced the "accidental teachers" in his life who have passed on some of the most transformative lessons.
The education they've given me has been invaluable. Not just in terms of the leadership lessons they've taught but in the realization that much of our leadership comes when we ourselves play the role of accidental teachers. Since we never know when that might be, it's wise to live as we'd like to be seen.
There's a letter that hangs on my wall from an accidental teacher named Alana. It has hung on the wall of every office I've had for the past 13 years. It always takes me back to one of my first loves.
You see, when I was 21 years old, I was head-over-heels, heartbreakingly, cannot-live-without-her in love with a girl. I think her name was Stephanie.
Needless to say, Stephanie and I didn't really work out, but she's still responsible for some of the most important things in my life.
Both Stephanie and I went to school at a small university on the east coast of Canada called Mount Allison University. It has held steady at around 2,000 students in the sleepy town of Sackville, New Brunswick, for decades.
Sackville boasts a population of perhaps 5,000 people when the students are there. In the summer, however, life slows to a snail's pace as perhaps only a couple of hundred students stick around to take care of various on-campus jobs and research positions.
In the spring of 1998, I learned that Stephanie was going to be one of those 200 people. She would be spending her summer working in one of the campus labs. I quickly did the math and determined that having only one-tenth the number of men around increased my chances of being noticed significantly.
Drew Dudley's Summer Job Became His Mission
The most promising position looked to be being a graphic designer for the student union. Having spent plenty of time in high school working on the campus paper and the yearbook, I breezed through the technical requirements in the interview. It was then they threw me a curveball.
"What kind of experience do you have in fundraising?" They asked unexpectedly.
It turns out they had added the coordination of a fundraising campaign to the job description – a development I wasn't particularly thrilled about. To me, fundraising had always meant chocolate-covered almonds hawked by Cub Scouts outside of the liquor store. I had never been good at fundraising and never had a whole lot of interest in doing it.
I did, however, have a whole lot of interest in Stephanie, so despite my misgivings about having to run a fundraiser, I accepted the job when they decided to offer it to me.
It was a decision that completely changed my life.
Life-Changing Decision
On the May long weekend of 1998, I arrived in London, Ontario, for the national conference of Canada's largest student fundraiser: "Shinerama: Students' Fighting Cystic Fibrosis" www.shinerama.ca. Nothing has been the same for me since.
That weekend introduced me to a passion for fundraising I didn't know I had and a new realization about leadership: credibility as a leader doesn't come from power, money, influence, or fear. It comes from the ability to make those around you feel like they are better because you are a part of their life.
If you can make people feel as if they are capable of more when you are around, they will follow you to the ends of the earth. The amazing people I met that weekend and for the 14 years that have followed opened my eyes to the extraordinary things that can happen when you put youth, energy, and friendship together.
I returned to Mount Allison dedicated to reinvigorating a Shinerama Campaign that had been the worst in the country the year before. Somehow, working with people who are still a part of my life, we smashed the campus' previous fundraising record and raised more than $15,000. We became the number one per-capita fundraising school in the country.
Looking back, I realize now how little money $15,000 is in the world of big-time fundraising, but at the age of 21, it made us believe anything was possible.
That record-breaking campaign was followed by another in 1999, which earned me an invitation to return to the National Conference as a Campaign Advisor. I was helping six other schools learn how to plan, fund, and market their own campaigns.
A couple of years later, I was selected to head up the Ontario and Quebec Region of the campaign, an area responsible for over half a million dollars in donations each year.
In 2004, I was given a chance to serve as the National Chair of the campaign and was lucky enough to oversee the two most successful campaigns in history up to that point. Since my term as National Chair ended in 2006, I have continued to support the campaign by speaking each year at the National Conference and donating as much time and money as I can afford. It has been a 14-year voyage of friendship, passion, and success fighting the number-one inherited killer of children in Canada.
This brings us back to the letter hanging on my wall from Alana, who was the Vice-President of Operations of the Mount Allison Students' Union. It's dated March 13th, 1998, and reads in part:
Dear Drew Dudley,
Thank you for your application for the position of Publications Editor and Shinerama Director for the upcoming summer. While we were impressed with what you have to offer, we do not feel that you are the proper fit for the role at this time…
I Was Initially Turned Down
I was told that I wasn't good enough to run the worst Shinerama campaign in the country.
The man to whom they offered the position decided to accept another job on campus, and when he did so, they settled for their second choice. Me.
Since being their "second choice," I've spent 14 years with the campaign and have helped them raise millions of dollars. At one point, I was in charge of coordinating all 65 campaigns and 35,000 volunteers.
And almost every day of that journey, I've looked at a letter saying someone thought I wasn't good enough to run the worst campaign in the country.
That letter is there to remind me that anyone else who tells me I'm not good enough is probably just as wrong as that hiring committee 14 years ago.
You Have Two Choices
You are going to be told you're not good enough a lot in your life. You're going to be told that you're not good enough for jobs you want, for awards you think you deserve, for relationships you want to have. You're going to be told your ideas aren't good enough, that they're too naive, that they've been tried before.
Every time someone tells you you're not good enough, you have two choices: believe them and lower your expectations, or simply tell yourself that they're wrong. Don't disrespect them or hate them or decide they aren't worth your time. Simply choose to believe that they're wrong.
You may not always get the chance I did with Shinerama: to actually perform the task from which you're turned away, but that doesn't mean that they're right.
Why should you listen to anyone who tells you what you can or cannot do? Because they're experts? Leaders respect experts, but they don't revere them. I think a key part of leadership is remembering that human history is the story of experts being proven wrong.
Experts Can Be Wrong
I think leadership has the ability to respect experts while never forgetting that perhaps their experts, like Charlie Chaplin when he said, "The cinema is only a fad. It's canned drama. What people really want is flesh and blood on the stage."
Perhaps they're experts like Albert Einstein when he observed, "There is absolutely no evidence that atomic energy could ever exist. It would mean the atom would have to be smashed at will."
You are the world's biggest expert on you. The foremost authority and the final word on what you are capable of, and the validity of your dreams, are you.
When they say you're not good enough…they're wrong.
Hey…nobody's perfect.
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If you have ideas you feel like sharing that might be helpful to readers, share them in the comments section below. Thanks!
Drew Dudley
Drew is the Founder and Chief Catalyst of Nuance Leadership, Inc., and the former Coordinator of one of Canada's largest leadership development programs at the University of Toronto.


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Another Crimean Tatar Detained in Occupied Crimea
Donbas Reality Check: Frontline Medicine
Inside The Frontline Village Declared Ukrainian Twice
EXCLUSIVE: The True Cost Of Remaining Ukrainian in Crimea
Russian security forces have detained another Crimean Tatar this week on charges of 'public calls for extremist activity', civic initiative Crimean Solidarity reported.
Rustem Abilev was detained by Russian authorities on April 15 after they searched a mosque, of which he is the Imam of, and later his home near Sevastopol on the occupied Crimean peninsula.
According to Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group's Halya Coynash, the authorities referred to Abilev as Uzbekistan-born "probably to avoid admitting to the arrest of yet another Crimean Tatar."
The arrest follows mass raids of dozens of homes on the peninsula last month and the detention of 23 Crimean Tatar activists, a number of whom are involved in the Crimean Solidarity movement. The civic initiative was launched in 2016 to provide support to families of detained and missing Crimean Tatars.
READ MORE: Russia Detains 20 Crimean Tatars for Alleged Ties to Islamist Group
Twenty of the men were detained on the peninsula and another three in a Russian city, with one man charged in absentia as part of the operation, according to Human Rights Watch.
The men were detained on suspicion of participating in a "terrorist organization".
On March 27, Russia's Security Service released a statement, saying they had detained 20 people, including leaders and participants of pan-Islamist movement Hizb ut-Tahrir, an organization which has been banned and deemed as a terrorist group by Moscow. The organization is legal in Ukraine and a large number of European countries.
Human rights groups say the arrests are part of a wider crackdown on Crimean Tatars, who are critical of Russia's occupation of the peninsula.
FIND OUT MORE: The Cost of Crimean Annexation is Life: Special Project
"The sweeping arrests in Crimea aim to portray politically active Crimean Tatars as terrorists as a way to silence them," Human Rights Watch Europe and Central Asia deputy director Rachel Denber said in a statement on their website this month. "This has been their approach for several years, and it should stop. These men should be released at once."
The 23 arrested Crimean Tatars were transported to Russia's Rostov-on-Don region.
According to Coynash, three of them were beaten by Russia's security service officers.
All 23 men are expected to remain in pre-trial detention until hearings on May 15.
Meanwhile, according to Crimean media agency QHA, a Sevastopol court has ruled that Abilev will remain in custody until June 10.
Russia Political Prisoners Crimean Tatars
Eastern Ukraine: Avdiivka Recovering After Shelling Of Residential Area
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Largest storm ever recorded hits Philippines
Super typhoon Haiyan - reported to be largest ever recorded, topping hurricane Camille in the U.S. in 1969 - has hit the Philippines with winds of 195mph, leaving three people dead and a trail of destruction in its wake.
Thousands of people were evacuated and fled their homes as the category five storm sent waves as high as five metres ashore on the islands of Leyte and Samar.
The typhoon, dubbed Yolanda in the Philippines, is the country's 25th this year and is on a collision course with its second-largest city Cebu, home to some 2.5 million people.
Haiyan is expected to miss Manila although the capital may get heavy rain and winds and has been put on low-level alert.
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From our Team
Thesis Blog Post or.. The field work → computer work transition
By Jamiee Remond on 2020-04-03 01:00
I'm a former Recreation, Fish and Wildlife (RFW) student turned computer worker all because of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). It was an odd transition to be out doing field work while pursuing a GIS education through Selkirk College and eventually a GIS job.
A Remedy for the Unaligned Multispectral Imagery Blues
By Chad Belisle on 2020-04-03 01:00
The following contains two tutorials on how to register (align) multispectral imagery bands into a single composite raster image.
In Search of the Big Picture – a Green Map for more effective conservation efforts in the Creston Valley
By Yann Troutet on 2020-01-20 00:00
Saving Wilderness! It has long been a motto of the conservation movement. But how? And where? Sure: anywhere and by any means is better than just talking about it. But what if you could find a way to conserve those areas that matter the most?
Object Classification using Spectral Signatures
By Colin Jaeck on 2019-08-12 07:00
When I began working for the SGRC, I was given the task of analyzing multi-spectral drone imagery from cutblocks. The objective was to provide Government and industry partners with an accurate means of assessing biomass quantities left behind from logging operations.
The Hunt for Innovation
By Stantiago Botero on 2019-07-30 18:20
Our world today is rapidly changing. From climate fluctuations to the rapid expansion of technology, we are faced with questions on what to do next.
Using GIS to Assist Stewardship Groups in the Columbia Basin
By Katie Ericson on 2019-07-09 17:50
For many, the most loved feature of this area is the abundance of water, whether it be for sustaining life, the beautiful forests and wildlife or the recreational activities that bring us joy. If you live in a rural area, you likely get your water from the creek nearby. With this valuable resource comes many threats, like pollution or degradation from forestry being too close to the water source.
Musings of a Rural Resident
By Mark Trueman on 2019-07-02 15:21
I entered the ADGIS program in the fall of 2018 wide eyed after a 25 year hiatus from formal academic learning. As an expedition river guide for most of my working life, I spent much of my time in the absence of technology (sometimes intentionally). As such, the world of GIS and data analysis has been a significant change in pace and in many ways an entirely new world for me to explore.
So, you think you need an app for that?
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Everybody Does Data Differently
By Jessica Fulcher on 2018-09-24 22:11
I was hired with the SGRC to work on their Open Data for Open Government Project. This is a three year project exploring open data best practices, policy and delivery option in a rural setting (please visit this website for more information https://www.ruralopendata.ca/). I was excited about this opportunity. One of the main themes I pulled out of my coursework during the ADGIS program was the importance of the availability and usability of data.
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How do we as GIS professionals start to bridge the gap of knowledge that exist between our technology and processes and our clients and their perception of our work and abilities? It is a question that I found myself wondering quite a few times throughout the process of my co-op with the SGRC.
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I always thought growing up in a place as wild and adventuresome as British Columbia that there was a significant backing of wild lands management and wildlife conservation. Oddly enough as I got older things just kept getting worse. British Columbia is allegedly infamous for having one of the worst most underfunded wildlife management organizations in all of North America, fortunately with a recent change in provincial government things are slowly getting better but the province is still very far behind.
A Successful GIS Day 2017
By Justin Robinson on 2017-11-17 19:03
Another successful GIS Day at the college has passed. This year our theme was "Data for Good" and we had some excellent student posters come out of it.
GIS Day & OSM Week Event!
We're celebrating GIS Day and OSM Geography Awareness Week 2017 at Selkirk College!
Open Data Webinar
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Drone Surveying: The Devil in the Details
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Trail Asset Management: What do we have and where is it?
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From a management standpoint, it makes good planning sense to know what you have. Increasingly more pressing, however, is the question of where? Where are the things we have?
IODC 2016
By Ian Parfitt on 2016-12-13 18:58
The 4th International Open Data Conference, also known as IODC 16, was held in Madrid, Spain on the 6th and 7th of October 2016. Besides the two days of the official conference, 28 pre-events were held from the 3rd to the 5th, creating a weeklong open data celebration in Madrid.
Open Data for Open Government in Rural BC
In April of this year Canada's Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) announced the results of the second competition for grants from the Community and College Social Innovation Fund (CCSIF). It was a day I had long been waiting for and when I got a text message from my Dean saying that there was some good news I could feel my heartbeat accelerate.
Drones and Kids
By Eric Hoodicoff on 2016-07-22 21:49
Students from various schools in the West Kootenays visited the Selkirk College Castlegar campus in the spring of 2016. Selkirk hosted "Experience Selkirk Day" on May 19th which brought in around one hundred 10th graders looking into the possibility of continuing their education there after high school graduation. Another younger group of around 50 students (grades 4-8) also toured the college for "Mini U Day" on June 15th.
SGRC Drone Project Takes Off
By Ian Dennis on 2016-04-20 22:07
The SGRC Drone program lifted off with its first project this week. Integrated Environmental Planning students were restoring habitat around a pond close to the Hugh Keenleyside Dam in Castlegar, BC. The plan was to use the drone to produce imagery of the site before and after restoration, and the pre restoration mission was flown last week.
Infrastructure Management for Small Communities Workshop
The SGRC is hosting an Asset and Infrastructure Managment Workshop and you're invited!
Mapping Population Changes and Health Services in the West Kootenay Boundary Region
By Kailee Woodbeck on 2015-09-25 15:04
Total Populations by local health areas in the West Kootenay- Boundary Regional Hospital District
Mapping Potential Agricultural Areas with Remote Sensing
Supervised classification results of orchards and farmland.
New Web Presence
The Selkirk Geospatial Research Centre is proud to release its new web presence and branding


Invitations for training in the UWinsite Student system have gone out to the affected faculty and staff.
The Take the Stairs Challenge provided UWindsor employees with extra incentive to make a healthy choice.
Human Resources has announced a series of professional development sessions for UWindsor employees.
Nominations are now open for the 2015 Employee Recognition Awards.


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Salido Wants Rematch Against Lomachenko
Although controversial, Orlando Salido, former two time world champion is the only fighter to beat Lomachenko professionally. Salido missed the 126 pound limited by 2 1/2 pounds and then came into the fight weighing 11 pounds more than Lomachenko after rehydration. Poor contract management allowed for the fight to take place even though Salido grossly out weighed Vasyl. Lomachencko has stated he wants revenge on Salido and it appears Orlando is willing to give him a second shot at it.
"I feel that there is some unfinished business between us and that's why I,m hoping for a Lomachenko victory. I'm very happy with my win over him, but as a warrior you always want to prove yourself against the best and as he seems to think that he can win a second fight against me, I would like to give him the opportunity to prove it," said Salido.
Salido felt he was robbed of that opportunity of a Lomachenko fight when he was given a draw last summer in his championship fight against Francisco Vargas, and while the fight could be the fight of the year, the result was a disappointment.
"I felt – like many people – that I won my last two fights, and that I should be getting the big fights as a world champion. I wish the best to Lomachenko tonight, and if he wants to avenge his loss to me I will be very happy to give him the rematch," said Salido.
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Uniformed gunmen in South Sudan went on a rampage in a key hospital, destroying drug supplies and ransacking wards, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Friday, warning the attack leaves some 100,000 people without lifesaving healthcare.
As well as looting drugs, beds and equipment, the attackers' "extraordinary...systematic and purposeful damage to the infrastructure" has left the hospital unusable without major repairs, MSF said Friday, after visiting the wreckage for the first time since the attack.
Gunmen last week rampaged through the remote town of Pibor -- epicenter of the conflict in the eastern Jonglei region between South Sudan's army and a rebellion by an ethnic militia -- targeting aid agencies.
The U.N. peacekeeping mission -- which has bolstered its force in Pibor, although most civilians have already fled -- complained to army commanders saying the attack included government troops as well as other forces.
"A special effort was made to destroy drug supplies, strewing them on the ground, to cut and slash the warehouse tents, to ransack the hospital wards, and even to cut electricity cables and rip them from the walls," said Richard Veerman, MSF's operations coordinator for South Sudan.
It is the only hospital for some 150 kilometers (90 miles), treating over a thousand patients a month, including many receiving surgery for war wounds.
MSF clinics in the region have been attacked six times in the last two years, but not with such apparent deliberate intention to destroy as in the most recent raid.
The men also looted premises of the Italian aid agency Intersos and raided U.N. stores.
Rebels led by David Yau Yau, a former theology scholar, have been fighting the government since April 2011, accusing the government of marginalizing the Murle people they come from.
The volatile Jonglei region has been the scene of widespread conflict since South Sudan became independent in July 2011, with bloody battles between rival tribes, including the Dinka, Lou Nuer and Murle people.
The region was one of the worst hit areas by the 1983-2005 civil war that left communities awash with guns and riven by ethnic hatred.


Anyone smoke these? What were your thoughts? Seeing that this was a great smoke and I missed the first run. I think some more are supposed to be released again soon. Read a lot of reviews and saw nothing but outstanding reviews for it.
I loved the black label petit lancero and this one is supposed to be way better!
Help me spend some money. And if you want a jar, shoot me a PM, i have a good source at a good price.
Any sense when the release will be? I might be interested depending on funds at the time.
I was told about 4 weeks.
Any news on when these might get released??
Just got an email this morning. They are out. Sort of. Pm me for details.


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The Tarangire-Manyara Ecosystem of northern Tanzania supports the second-highest density of Masai giraffes in Tanzania after the Serengeti. Unlike the Serengeti, however, most of the Tarangire Ecosystem is not within the boundaries of protected national parks and game reserves. As a consequence, savanna habitat is rapidly being lost to farms and permanent housing, especially surrounding Tarangire and Lake Manyara national parks where fresh water is most available. This loss of habitat is squeezing the population of giraffes and other wildlife species into smaller areas and threatening their persistence in the Ecosystem.
Our research aims to identify places inside and outside the national parks and reserves where giraffes are doing well (where they are surviving and reproducing better). Our ultimate goal is to increase conservation of important areas for these magnificent icons of Africa - before it is too late.
We are looking forward to conducting our seventh photographic mark-recapture survey for Masai giraffe in the Tarangire Ecosystem, beginning May 15. This upcoming survey coincides with the end of the long rainy season.
What is photographic mark-recapture? It is a non-invasive survey technique that allows scientists to easily identify individual giraffes by differences in their coat patterns—which can be as unique as human fingerprints. After each survey, we feed our thousands of photographs of giraffes into a pattern-recognition software program developed at Dartmouth College. The computer then matches coat patterns from previous photographic surveys, and tells us which animals are the same. We are creating a database of when and where we have seen each individual giraffe, and can determine where they move, how long they live, how quickly calves are growing (by measuring height), and whether or not females have a calf. We can also determine the health of the individual (particularly whether the animal has Giraffe Skin Disease). Finally we can correlate survival, reproduction, growth, and movements with environmental variables such as climate, vegetation, distance to water, lion predation, human pressures, and density of other giraffes.
The coat pattern of every giraffe is unique, like a human fingerprint.
The photographic mark-recapture method is much less expensive than physical captures of large mammals, so it allows much bigger sample sizes across a much larger area. In fact, we are currently tracking over 1,500 known giraffes in the Tarangire Ecosystem! All we need is a car, a camera, and a computer for us to conduct our critical research. However, we always need funding for fuel, vehicle maintenance, paying our Masai field assistant, and obtaining our research permits from the Tanzanian government. We thank all of our supporters, including the Sacramento Zoo, Safari West, Explorers Club, Fulbright Commission, and many caring private donors, for supporting our work, and we welcome any additional donations, which are tax-deductible. Our research is conducted in collaboration with Dartmouth College.
Note the relatively short neck of this young giraffe calf.
A mother giraffe and her calf in Lake Manyara National Park.


Around the time I first started the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio, I did a series of articles ranking radio detectives by network, listing the top five detectives from ABC, CBS, NBC, Mutual, Multi-network shows, and Syndicated shows.
After the first half of 1950, it was hard to get a radio detective show off the ground. NBC tried several and all but one were cancelled after less than a year. That one was Barrie Craig. Barrie Craig lasted four years and it's all chalked up to Gargan's performance. Gargan had been a real-life private operative and had been born in New York City (where the series was set) and that authenticity helped as well as his natural charisma. Craig was easy going with a wry sense of humor that often poked fun at genre tropes. However, he was not a man you wanted to cross, though violence was not his usual means of resolving conflict. Craig was driven by a strong moral code and was one of the best and noblest characters we've ever featured on the show.
For nearly half a century, Rathbone's portrayal of Holmes was the definitive one until Jeremy Brett's performance in the 1980s and early 1990s Grenada television version emerged as a challenger. Even then, Rathbone's performance influences Sherlock Holmes producers to this day. There are a number of reasons for this and it makes Holmes a treat whether on film or on radio.
Rathbone had a superb range and was not only able to play Holmes as the genius detective, but also was able to play some moving and emotional moments like in "The Guileless Gypsy," as well as for comedy such as he did in, "The Second Generation." Rathbone had great chemistry with his Watson (Nigel Bruce) which made the duo a delight to listen to despite Dr. Watson being occasionally written as a bit daft. Rathbone succeeded in making Holmes a truly likable character and handling all challenges with unmatched professionalism even as he began to tire of being typecast as Holmes.
The series was broadcast from San Francisco and only heard on the West Coast, which was a shame. The series focused on Candy, who was a former model and a hard-boiled private detective. This was a very unusual series and an unusual role for a woman at a time. Masters plays it to perfection, creating a characterization of Candy that's competent, smart, and tough, while still being very likable and compassionate. The series didn't take itself too seriously, but it never turned Candy into a joke. Masters' performance was both slightly ahead of its time, and also immensely entertaining.
Bob Bailey is best remembered for playing Johnny Dollar for five years. That's so well-remembered, his work on this series is often forgotten, and it shouldn't be. While Let George Do It began as a somewhat weak detective sitcom, it quickly took off to become one of the smartest and best written detective/mystery shows of the Golden Age of Radio, with Bailey's detective at the center of the action. As the show changed co-stars and styles, Bailey continued to turn in solid performances whether they required kindness and profundity, action, or humor, Bailey's performance as George Valentine could always be relied upon to get the job done.
Great read. So far so good.


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The town hall of the City Valenciennes.
In the Nord Départment of the northern French region Pas de Paris where the rivers Schelde and Rhonelle meet.
"We want to start with the youth and want to remember that they are the key for a united Europe."
The picture shows sculptures in front of the museum in Valenciennes.
In the more than 45 years of the partnership, many various schools, clubs, occupational groups (e.g. firefighters since 1960), senior citizens groups, organizations (e.g. hospital, City Bank) and other groups of Düren have established contacts with their corresponding partners in Valenciennes. These contacts were strengthened by regular visits and letters and many times also continued on a personal level. In 2005, there had been 25 official meetings. The path from international understanding and reconciliation to friendship was successfully achieved. Learning the language was a welcomed side effect of it.
The distance is not too far: in 2 ½ hours you can reach Valenciennes by car from Düren on the Autobahn Aachen-Paris. It is situated right behind the Belgian-French border after only 250 km distance.
Valenciennes, a city with approximately 41,000 citizens, offers visitors a significant Art Museum, a theater, university, and a library where you can find the oldest handwritten literary document in French, around 880 AD, and many other texts.
Supported by funds of the European Union, the city is going through a lot of changes, including structural and civil engineering measures as well as the construction of a tram.


Hardwick press conference, August 27th Damien Hardwick speaks to the media ahead of the Round 22 match against Essendon.
Richmond captain Trent Cotchin has been ruled out of Saturday night's match against Essendon at the MCG due to back soreness.
It will be the first game Cotchin has missed since Round 7, 2013, when the Tigers defeated Port Adelaide in Adelaide.
Hard-nosed midfielder Matt Thomas has been recalled to the line-up as a replacement for Cotchin.
Reliable defender Dylan Grimes also returns to the side after being sidelined for two games with a minor hamstring injury.
Grimes replaced Steve Morris, who has been omitted.
The Tigers' three emergencies for the Round 22 clash are Morris, Chris Knights and Shaun Hampson.