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Some 3,811 people have been killed in anti-drug operations, based on government data. File photo by Luis Liwanag
Killings in anti-drug campaign a public health issue – rights group
Arianne Christian Tapao
The rising death toll from the war on illegal drugs is already grim enough, but a human rights group has called attention to an even more sinister outcome of the Duterte administration's centerpiece program.
Just as it is a peace and order issue, killings in anti-drugs operations are also a grave public health concern, affecting families in profound ways and causing dangerous psychological distress that could lead to a host of other problems, said Edeliza Hernandez, executive director of nonprofit Medical Action Group (MAG).
If 12,000 were killed in the war on drugs, for instance, multiply that by three, the minimum family member count, and one gets a total of 36,000 affected individuals, explained Hernandez during a forum Sept. 5 at the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) in Quezon City.
According to government data, some 3,811 people were killed in anti-drug operations from July 1, 2016 to Aug. 29, 2017. The figure includes teenagers Carl Arnaiz and Kian Delos Santos, whose deaths are being investigated by the government.
"What future are we waiting for, if there's only resentment in the end?" Hernandez said in Filipino, before an audience of rights defenders, medical professionals and survivors of human rights violations.
What is worse is that the Department of Health appears to silent about the problem, she added.
Sought for her response, Health Secretary Jean Ubial said in a text message, "(Extrajudicial killing) is a human rights issue! Why is it a public health issue? Contagious ba? Lifestyle related? In the first place disease ba iyon (Is that a disease)?"
When asked to clarify, Ubial agreed all affected families should undergo psychosocial debriefing. "We will remind local government units to do this because they are the first responders."
Hernandez explained that children who lose their parents in unthinkable ways often feel mistrust and anger toward society. Soon, they may become criminals themselves.
"It's not just poverty that's the cause of criminality," she said. "It's anger built inside you."
Edel Parducho, case coordinator at MAG, has examined six families since they began documenting victims of summary killings early this year. He said all found it hard to sleep, some had manic attacks, while others felt sad, irritable and experienced bouts of anxiety.
Those who lose family members often feel confused, shocked, angry or fearful, all symptoms of trauma, which, Parducho added, may develop into mental illnesses.
Anthony Abala, an adult psychiatrist, said there are criteria for one to say a person has a disorder. The experience may vary from one to another, its cause coming not only from a one-time encounter, but may also be through repetitive exposure to stress.
Sister Evelyn Jose has seen what being orphaned by killing does to a child. Music therapy did not work for a five-year-old girl, she said, who pounded a drum without letup until a hole tore through the instrument. She lost both her mother and father to summary killings.
Sister Evelyn Jose shares her experience with children orphaned by war on drugs killings.
"I saw the children suffering," said Jose, a nun at the Holy Spirit Congregation in Quezon City. "Where will their future head to? How?"
But the question may as well be for human rights defenders themselves, who are first in line to reach out to victims for help. "Vicarious traumatization" happens when people imbibe trauma from another person, Parducho explained.
Compassion fatigue is also common, he added, where rights defenders no longer want to help after being overwhelmed by appeals. It is a dangerous pitfall anyone must know, lest they give more trouble than help, the case handler said.
At the forum, a rape survivor from her father's abuse admitted experiencing all forms of trauma discussed in the session. "When I see someone who looks like my father, I want to shout, I want to punch him, kill him."
"How do I help other women when I still feel (angry)?" asked the woman, a leader of a rape survivors' group.
Because of her experience, Abala explained, she can better empathize with the people she tries to help. "You lived through something similar. It's a useful way of helping people," he said.
"We are helping because those we help are survivors, not victims," Parducho added.
Surviving is what drug users try hard to do, said Peggy Candare, a social worker at CHR, who often visits highly congested jails. She swears that not all substance users are criminals. Many, she said, only use it out of necessity.
This is a claim apparently supported by a study from the Ateneo de Manila University, which shows drugs are used by tricycle drivers and vendors who need to stay awake for their jobs. (See In Payatas, cops do house-to-house drug testing)
"I hope the President and PNP understand it, and not just kill," Candare said.
Hernandez said the drug war has been flawed from the start, but added: "We are concerned less for the dead, God forbid. What we should worry about is the future."
In the absence of rehabilitation centers for traumatized families, Parducho said places like the one being offered by the Holy Spirit Congregation that takes in children who lost their parents due to extra-judicial killings, serve as sanctuaries. It is where they can talk about their grief and anger without fear.
Jose said there are no plans to stop the congregation's efforts, referring to activities like the three-day youth camp where 25 boys and girls, who, while still reeling from the trauma of having their parents killed, share and connect with other children who went through the same.
"We are trying to listen to their stories," she said, so "they would feel they are not alone in that experience." Until there is proper way to address the problem, her efforts will continue.
"If all of us will think of helping these children and we try to put our resources, talents and time, we can do something for the future of these children," Jose said. "It's a small drop, but if you don't start doing something for them..."
The nun did not finish her thought.
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Republicans worry Donald Trump will hurt their Senate chances
by Ben Kamisar - 08/25/15 6:00 AM ET
Republicans are increasingly worried that Donald Trump's candidacy will hurt the party's quest to maintain the Senate majority in 2016.
The real estate mogul's controversial comments on immigration could cause a trickle-down effect and haunt Republican Senate candidates, party strategists say.
{mosads}"I think it's pretty clear that some of [Trump's] more dramatic proposals on immigration will certainly affect races like the Nevada Senate race in particular," said one Nevada GOP strategist.
The debate over Trump's immigration stance "will, by its very nature spill down to races," the strategist said.
"In a state like Nevada, the Hispanic element is absolutely essential."
Florida GOP strategist Rick Wilson, who is advising Florida Senatorial candidate, Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, thinks that "in the big picture, all of these candidates will stand or fall on their own strengths."
But, he added, "the worst case scenario is that Trump is running a campaign that is only about Trump, and [GOP Senate candidates] are constantly under the gun and trying to answer the latest policy announcement he makes."
Wilson said the landscape has the potential to resemble 2006, where Republican candidates were dogged by President George W. Bush's sinking popularity in the midterm elections. Democrats took back control of both the House and the Senate that year.
Indeed, GOP Senate candidates — including Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), John McCain (Ariz.) and Sen. Richard Burr (N.C.), as well as Rep. Joe Heck (Nev.) — have all been asked about Trump's stances on the trail.
Ayotte, Kirk and Heck have criticized Trump's controversial comments on immigration, while Burr said Thursday that he is "delighted" by Trump's passion.
Democrats have already capitalized on Trump's presence in the race.
They slammed Burr on his comments in a release to reporters, asking if Burr found three controversial Trump statements "delightful."
They are also aiming for other Republican candidates. With the Senate map already favoring Democrats, the party needs just four seats to take back the Senate if it retains control of the White House.
The GOP is defending 24 Senate seats, with as many as nine in play. Democrats are defending 10 seats, all but two in relatively safe states.
New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Raymond Buckley sought to tie Ayotte to Trump, calling her past support of ending birthright citizenship "another example of how perfect Donald Trump and Kelly Ayotte are for each other."
Sadie Weiner, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee's spokeswoman, told The Hill that the group is happy to sit back and see how the Trump effect plays out, but could seek to similarly conflate Trump and GOP Senate candidates.
"He is doing most of the work for us in terms of going out there and saying these racist, offensive to all people comments and candidates are getting asked about it on the trail. People are drawing their own dots," she said.
"I'm sure down the road, it would be something that we would look at, but at this point it is happening pretty organically without much pushing from us."
By far, immigration is the issue most likely to create problems for Senate candidates, especially in states with a large Hispanic population.
Hispanic voters made up 16 percent of eligible voters in Nevada in 2014, 17 percent in Florida and 10 percent in Illinois according to the Pew Research Center. The group also makes up about 14 percent in Colorado, but Republicans haven't coalesced around a major candidate for that seat.
While most of the other contentious states had a low single-digit share of eligible Hispanic voters in 2014, that constituency could still prove important in a race separated by a few percentage points.
Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto, an outreach coordinator at the Center for Mexican American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin, said that backlash against Trump's comments in which he referred to Mexican immigrants as "criminals, drug dealers, rapists" could mobilize the Hispanic electorate in many of those states.
"When you have such sharp, anti-immigrant rhetoric, you are going to have a boomerang effect," she said.
But there's disagreement among Republicans over whether Trump's immigration rhetoric will stick to the party for the long haul.
Before Trump's poll numbers shot up, a July Univision poll found that while 79 percent of Hispanics found his earlier comments on Mexican immigrants offensive, only 14 percent said that they felt the statements represent the GOP.
Many strategists fret that Trump's controversial comments could hurt the party's brand as a whole, but they are confident that individual candidates can weather that storm.
The Nevada GOP strategist said that Heck, the state's leading GOP Senate candidate, has made an effort to build a broad coalition to include Hispanics.
That, he believes, will insulate Heck from significant damage from Trump's comments. The strategist added that he would advise candidates looking to attract Hispanic voters to provide a stark contrast to Trump's immigration stance.
Pat Brady, an Illinois Republican strategist and former state GOP party chair, admits that Trump's message does "a lot of damage to Illinois Republicans" as far as the party's work to put the state back in play for the presidential race.
But he countered the assertion that Trump's rhetoric would sway voters against Kirk, who is fighting to keep his Senate seat.
"They are never going to equate anything Donald Trump says or does with a guy like Mark Kirk who has been a centrist Republican," he said.
Still, it's not likely that Kirk will stump with Trump, Brady said.
"I would guess that you don't see Donald Trump in the same county as Sen. Kirk."
Trump's campaign sees his candidacy as a positive for the Republican Party.
Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski framed Trump's bid as about engaging those who haven't ever been politically engaged. He told a story about a New Hampshire man in a wheelchair who asked a town clerk to come to his home so that he can register to vote for Trump.
"This election is about the silent majority, it is about all those people who felt that they haven't been able to participate in the process," Lewandowski said.
"That helps not just presidential race, it helps every race at every level of government from Senate to the local levels of government."
In the end, most Republicans dismissed the notion that Trump would become the GOP nominee, despite his lead in the polls. But if he can, experts say they'd have to throw the playbook about the down-ballot races out the window.
"The assumption has been that there's no way he can be the nominee. But I don't know if that's beginning to fray," said University of Florida Political Science Professor Stephen Craig.
"If he manages to win the nomination, all of our traditional assumptions will be upset and we will be on such new turf that anyone that says they can predict the future should be put out to pasture."
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We knew it was coming and while a ways off, it is a start.
Earlier today Mazda, Denso, and Toyota signed a contract today to jointly develop basic structural technologies for pure electric vehicles. The three companies have also decided to establish a new company consisting of selected engineers from the three to ensure the efficient implementation of the joint technological development projects.
As countries and regions around the world adopt increasingly stringent policies to help reduce greenhouse gases, new regulations that mandate a certain proportion of electric vehicle sales are beginning to emerge. Complying with these environmental regulations, while ensuring the sustainable growth of our companies, requires the development of a wide range of powertrains and technologies. We regard battery electric vehicles (BEVs) as a key technological field in this process alongside fuel cell vehicles.
With BEVs yet to find widespread market acceptance, the huge investments and time required to cover all markets and vehicle segments is a pressing issue for individual automakers when responding to the widely varying demand for vehicles around the world.
Mazda, Denso, and Toyota have decided to jointly develop basic structural technologies for BEVs capable of covering a wide variety of vehicle segments and types to ensure flexible and rapid response to market trends. This agreement covers a diverse range of models, from micro to passenger vehicles, SUVs, and light trucks, and aims to innovate the development process by combining the strengths of each company, including Mazda's bundled product planning and prowess in computer modeling-based development, Denso's electronics technologies, and the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) platform.
Through this joint project, by dedicating an equal amount of development resources, ensuring efficient development processes, and taking advantage of existing production facilities, Mazda and Toyota intend to focus their resources on fundamental vehicle values to enable the creation of appealing EVs that embody the unique identities of each brand and avoid the commoditization of BEVs.
Common architecture is the basic product design concept for realizing required product performance by distributing those requirements among structural components. Under the concept of a common architecture, the basic structure of each component can be commonized, thereby transcending differences in vehicle class and power. By organizing component characteristics, various products can be developed and produced through the same process.
New Company: EV C.A. Spirit Co., Ltd.
Seems they are actually looking to break out beyond compliance vehicles now, and actually try to make an actual per-car profit.
Fingers crossed that they will be doing just that! Welcome to CleanMPG as well!


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Cole David Aldrich (born October 31, 1988) is an American former professional basketball player. He previously played for the Oklahoma City Thunder, Houston Rockets, Sacramento Kings, New York Knicks, Los Angeles Clippers, and Minnesota Timberwolves. He played three seasons of college basketball for the University of Kansas before being drafted by the New Orleans Hornets (now Pelicans) with the 11th overall pick in the 2010 NBA draft.

Early life
Cole David Aldrich was born on October 31, 1988, in Burnsville, Minnesota. He attended Bloomington Jefferson High School in Bloomington, Minnesota. As a senior, he was named state player of the year by the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, Aldrich was listed as the No. 6 center and the No. 30 player in the nation in 2007.

College career

Freshman season

During the 2007–08 season at Kansas, Aldrich's freshman season, his playing time was limited due to playing behind future NBA draft picks Darrell Arthur, Sasha Kaun, and Darnell Jackson. He averaged three rebounds and 2.8 points a game in 8.3 minutes a game during the regular season. Statistically, Aldrich's best performance was an 11-point, 11-rebound outing in a win over Texas Tech on March 3, 2008. Probably the most crucial game for Aldrich was during the Final Four game between Kansas and North Carolina on April 5, 2008, when he played only 16 minutes but managed to grab 8 rebounds and score 7 points along with blocking 4 shots while also playing effective defense against National Player of the Year Tyler Hansbrough, helping lead Kansas into the NCAA national championship game. They then defeated the Memphis Tigers to win their first Championship since 1988.

Sophomore season
With the departure of the other Jayhawk big men to the NBA draft, Aldrich became the premier big man going into his sophomore season. Through the first 29 games, he averaged a double-double with 15.1 points and 10.8 rebounds in 29.7 minutes of play. He grabbed a career-high 20 rebounds in an 87–78 win over Oklahoma on February 23, 2009,.
On March 8, 2009, Aldrich was named to the 2008–09 Big 12 All-conference first team.

On March 22, 2009, Aldrich recorded the first official triple-double in the history of Kansas basketball against Dayton in the second round of the NCAA tournament. Aldrich accumulated 13 points, 20 rebounds, and 10 blocks in a 60–43 victory, which was the second triple-double in NCAA history to include blocks, former LSU center Shaquille O'Neal recorded the other. On Monday, April 13, Aldrich announced that he would return to KU for his junior season.

Junior season
He won the 2009–10 men's college basketball Academic All-American of the Year as selected by CoSIDA and presented by ESPN the Magazine.  He ended his college career a perfect 55–0 at Allen Fieldhouse.

Professional career

Oklahoma City Thunder (2010–2012)
On March 29, 2010, Aldrich announced that he would forgo his final season of collegiate eligibility and enter the 2010 NBA draft. He was the 11th pick, selected by the New Orleans Hornets, who traded his rights on draft day to the Oklahoma City Thunder. On August 6, 2010, Aldrich signed a two-year contract with the Thunder with a two-year option.

On November 24, 2010, the Thunder assigned Aldrich to the Tulsa 66ers of the NBA D-League. He was recalled on December 6, 2010, but sent back to Tulsa on December 30, 2010. He was again recalled on February 2, 2011, and assigned for a third time on March 30, 2011. Aldrich reached the 2012 NBA Finals with the Thunder, but the team lost to the Miami Heat.

Houston Rockets (2012–2013)
In October 2012, Aldrich, James Harden, Daequan Cook, and Lazar Hayward were traded to the Houston Rockets for Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lamb, and draft picks.

Sacramento Kings (2013)
On February 20, 2013, Aldrich was traded to the Sacramento Kings along with Toney Douglas and Patrick Patterson in exchange for Francisco García, Thomas Robinson and Tyler Honeycutt.

New York Knicks (2013–2015)
On September 24, 2013, Aldrich signed with the New York Knicks. On January 29, 2014, he was assigned to the Erie BayHawks. He was recalled the next day. He went on to record his first double-double (12 points, 10 rebounds) in his first NBA start on March 12, 2014.

On July 11, 2014, Aldrich re-signed with the Knicks. On April 11, 2015, he scored a career-high 19 points in an 80–79 win over the Orlando Magic.

Los Angeles Clippers (2015–2016)
On July 13, 2015, Aldrich signed with the Los Angeles Clippers. On January 13, 2016, with starting center DeAndre Jordan out, Aldrich had a then season-best game with 19 points and 7 rebounds in a 104–90 win over the Miami Heat. On April 8, 2016, he recorded 21 points and 18 rebounds (both season highs) and a career-high five steals in a 102–99 overtime win over the Utah Jazz.

Minnesota Timberwolves (2016–2018)
On July 13, 2016, Aldrich signed a three-year, $22 million deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

On June 30, 2018, Aldrich was waived by the Timberwolves.

On September 18, 2018, Aldrich signed with the Atlanta Hawks but was waived by the Hawks on October 2, 2018, as their first training camp cut.

Tianjin Golden Lions (2018)
On October 10, 2018, Aldrich signed with the Tianjin Golden Lions of the Chinese Basketball Association.

NBA career statistics

Regular season

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| style="text-align:left;"| L.A. Clippers
|60||5||13.3||.596||–||.714||4.8||.8||.8||1.1||5.5
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| style="text-align:left;"| Minnesota
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Playoffs

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| align="left" | 2016
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| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| Career
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See also

 2010 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
All-American college men's basketball players
American expatriate basketball people in China
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Minnesota
Centers (basketball)
Houston Rockets players
Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball players
Los Angeles Clippers players
McDonald's High School All-Americans
Minnesota Timberwolves players
New Orleans Hornets draft picks
New York Knicks players
Oklahoma City Thunder players
Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball)
People from Burnsville, Minnesota
Sacramento Kings players
Sportspeople from Bloomington, Minnesota
Sportspeople from the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area
Tianjin Pioneers players
Tulsa 66ers players

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Building Communities Kim Lachance Shandrow |&nbspDecember 20, 2017
The Cure for Cancer May Come from San Diego. Here's Why.
Attracting more than 34 million visitors a year, San Diego may be one of America's hottest tourist destinations, but it's also becoming known as a hotbed of next-wave healthtech startups. And a growing regional cluster of these disruptors is grabbing the spotlight in the oncology space.
Fueled by an established network of health-focused accelerators and incubators, a rising crop of young companies in the Coastal California city are busy pioneering new cancer diagnosis tools, improving existing cancer drugs and developing new ones. Janssen Labs (aka JLabs), part of Johnson & Johnson external research arm, is leading the charge by working with many cancer-focused tech startups to help refine their products and services within its 40,000-square foot high-tech facility.
Those are just a few reasons why Michael Krenn, a longtime local startup advocate and San Diego Venture Group president, thinks San Diego will continue to be a great place to launch a medtech company, and set the mold for a city poised to attack some of the most challenging health problems of today.
"San Diego has a long and respected history as a leading center for the life sciences," he told Free Enterprise. "We are right up there with Boston and San Francisco, with our multitude of world-class universities and research institutes."
Big and Small Working Together
Recent oncological startup graduates of JLabs include: Achelois, maker of nontoxic therapeutics to inhibit cancer tumors, and to eliminate the pain cancer can cause; Actavalon, developer of small molecule therapeutics that help to fight cancer cells; and CureMatch, Inc., which helps oncologists match cancer patients with the best medications for them through its analytic software platform.
Validating the city's growth into a healthcare innovation tech epicenter — and its ability break down the biggest barrier holding our country's startups back — San Diego was recently named the fourth best city in the U.S. for innovative startups to put down roots. That is according to the 2017 Innovation That Matters report, an extensive study of 25 leading American startup cities.
The annual analysis, conducted by 1776, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, the U.S. Chamber Technology Engagement Center (C__TEC) and FreeEnterprise.com, showed that San Diego is on the upswing when it comes to access to startup capital and network connectivity.
With a more affordable cost of living and better weather compared to Silicon Valley, and thanks to ongoing support from civic institutions — the office of outspokenly pro-local entrepreneurship San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer among them — the city's ability to compete with established innovation hubs is looking stronger and stronger.
Venture Capital: Just What the Doctor Ordered
Two of the most recent San Diego oncology-focused startups to benefit from regional increased access to venture capital are Amplyx Pharmaceuticals, a cancer and antiviral drug development company, and Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an endocrine cancer therapeutics firm. Amplyx is fresh off of $67 million-dollar Series C round, while Crinetics is flush with $40 million in Series A venture financing. These are but two of the recent standout success stories of many others to surface in the city's vibrant life sciences community, where healthcare technologies, biotechnology and medical devices and diagnostics companies in the region continue to garner acclaim.
Driving medtech innovation, particularly in the oncology arena, are several San Diego universities and colleges offering health technology programs, the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) at the top of the crop. UCSD's renowned Cancer Therapeutics Training Program, also known as CT2, addresses the shortage of professionals qualified to oversee the development of innovative, new cancer drugs through its two-year intensive post-doctoral student training at National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers.
UCSD's Moores Cancer Center is anchored in the midst of one of the country's largest enclaves of pharmaceutical and biotech enterprises across the globe. More than 470 new and established small and large companies dedicated to developing oncology diagnosis and treatment innovations now operate in the area.
CureMetrix is one of them, headed up by co-founder and CEO Kevin Harris. The known artificial intelligence (A.I.) expert graduated from UCSD with his bachelor of science degree in cognitive science. He's been a vocal tech startup advocate in the entrepreneurial ecosystem ever since, working closely with both the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation and The San Diego Foundation.
Harris's deep learning-driven medical imaging startup, which launched in 2014 in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla, Calif., uses A.I. image analysis software to help radiologists diagnose mammogram anomalies faster and more accurately.
"Finding tumors on mammogram images in dense breast tissue can be like finding a polar bear on an ice cap," Harris said. This is why his company is leveraging its futuristic A.I. to help yield the most accurate mammogram readings possible.
Working Together To Combat Breast Cancer
Demonstrating San Diego's noted connectivity across public and private sectors — and between startups and legacy educational institutions — many local entrepreneurs like Harris closely collaborate with UCSD's Moores Cancer Center faculty and healthcare providers. Together, they're shaping the future of cancer diagnosis and treatment from inside the center's state-of-the-art facilities.
CureMetrix recently penned a study partnership with UCSD with the aim of supporting the university's radiologists. In the analysis, the startup's physics-based machine learning algorithm is being used to detect and correctly identify cancers, learning as it goes from mammogram images along the way.
So far, CureMetrix's advances in computer-aided breast cancer diagnosis have not only drawn praise from across the country, but top-notch talent as well.
"We have attracted an impressive group of radiology and breast imaging professionals," Harris said. "We value their clinical insights as we investigate technology intended to help them and their industry peers diagnose with confidence, quickly and at a lower cost."
Starting Smart In San Diego
Much of the radiology tech talent CureMetrix has attracted was sourced from its own backyard in San Diego, but also from across the U.S.
"We have assembled the best of the best in radiology from our region and country to assist us in our mission at CureMetrix," said CureMetrix chief medical officers, Dr. William Bradley, former chair of the UCSD Department of Radiology. "We're confident that their insights will help CureMetrix improve clinical outcomes for breast cancer patients through earlier and more accurate cancer detection."
"As tech becomes more prevalent, and more and more of the life sciences industry drifts toward tech innovations to improve patient outcomes, our medtech companies are going to employ more and more software engineers," said Krenn, of San Diego Venture Group. "Local medtech leaders, like Thermo Fisher, Dexcom and Resmed, already employ hundreds of them here, and we only expect that to grow as we get recognized as a hub for personalized medicine."


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Emirates airline to launch new flights to Mexico City via Barcelona
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Fri 02 Mar 2018 10:38 AM
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First Abu Dhabi Bank launches rebrand
First Abu Dhabi Bank name gets shareholder approval
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UAE banking giant launches digital wallet payit
First Abu Dhabi Bank says launch is in support of the UAE's goal to become a cashless economy
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) has launched payit, the country's first fully-featured digital wallet, in support of the UAE's goal to become a cashless economy.
The safe and secure service is available to anyone with a valid Emirates ID, the bank said in a statement.
Using payit, Emiratis and residents can send and receive money instantly 24/7, make payments through merchant partner apps, websites or by scanning QR codes, which is a first for the UAE, and can split bills with friends and track their spending, the statement added.
Accounts can be topped up via UAE issued debit and prepaid cards, most FAB Cash Deposit Machines, and transfers from any UAE bank account. Payit customers can also easily access their money through cardless cash withdrawals at an ATM or by transferring it back to their bank account.
Hana Al Rostamani, group head of the Personal Banking Group, said: "In line with our objectives to become a leader in innovation and customer-centric banking experiences, payit is a new mobile wallet solution that allows UAE residents to send and receive payments whenever and wherever they are, instantaneously.
"It provides an easy and convenient alternative to physical cash, which benefits merchants and customers and is aligned with the UAE's ambition to become a cashless economy."
Current figures show that 75 percent of payments in the UAE are still made using cash, while at the same time, the UAE is number one in global smartphone penetration, which stands at 81 percent.
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BioHiTech Global, a technology and services company that provides waste management solutions, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire an additional 26.8 percent ownership stake in the nation's first HEBioT (high efficiency mechanical and biological treatment) renewable resource recovery facility located in Martinsburg, W.Va.
According to the company, the acquisition will make BioHiTech the largest owner of the Martinsburg facility and enable the company to consolidate an estimated $7 million in annual high margin revenue generated by the operations in its financial statements beginning in 2019.
The company is acquiring the additional ownership stake in the Martinsburg facility from Entsorga USA in exchange for the issuance of approximately $1.886 million in BioHiTech preferred stock, convertible into BioHiTech common stock at a fixed price of $2.64 per share. Entsorga USA, a company owned by the principals of the Italian engineering firm that developed the HEBioT technology, will remain as a minority owner of the facility.
The Martinsburg facility is expected to begin the commissioning process in December and to ramp production throughout the first quarter of 2019. The facility will utilize a HEBioT process for the disposal and recycling of mixed municipal solid waste (MSW) into an Environmental Protection Agency-approved solid recovered fuel (SRF).
The HEBioT process is expected to divert from landfills as much as 80 percent of the waste that enters the facility. The Martinsburg facility has secured 10-year agreements for both the supply of MSW from a regional hauler and the off-take of the SRF production by a multibillion dollar cement company with operations nearby.
The Martinsburg facility is the first of a series of facilities utilizing the patented HEBioT process that BioHiTech plans to build in the U.S. in the coming years. The company noted it controls the exclusive development rights to the HEBioT technology in 12 Northeastern states and the District of Columbia. A second site is currently under development in Rensselaer, N.Y., with other potential locations in early stage planning.
"Becoming the largest owner of the Martinsburg facility is a transformative event for our company, and we are excited to begin the full U.S. commercialization of this important environmentally friendly disposal technology," said Frank E. Celli, CEO of BioHiTech Global, in a statement. "Not only will these operations add significant high margin revenue to BioHiTech's financials in 2019, but it will also serve as a showplace for our future roll-out in the U.S. With plans to add additional facilities, including Rensselaer and potentially Philadelphia in the coming years, we now have a solid roadmap for progressive revenue and EBITDA growth from our HEBioT business. We are more confident than ever that this will enable us to change the waste management industry and build significant value for our stockholders."


This recent weekend was the weekend of the FRC kickoff, where the game for the new season is announced. This year, the kickoff was at 7:30 AM PST so everyone was here extra early so we can watch the livestream together and brainstorm together. Overall, we had a great time watching, reading the manual, and had lots of great ideas during our brainstorming which will accelerate the process of designing our robot. We hope to have a good 2018-2019 season and hope to see you again!


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Chair: Sir John Thomson GCMG
In approaching this conference, I decided, in consultation with the conference's chairman, to try the experiment, at least in my time here, of having only two groups, each addressing the same subject but approaching it from different ends. Thus Group A was asked to approach the topic with the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951 as a starting point, and Group B from the other end of the spectrum, the economic migrants. Both groups necessarily had to grapple with definitions and to consider what was called the grey area, those others who, while not "Convention refugees", were nevertheless displaced from their homes under some form of compulsion.
Debate on all three days was marked by realism but also by some clear differences of opinion and attitude. Some points were nevertheless agreed. First, all agreed that both in principle and for practical reasons the Convention should not be tampered with: the definition in it was satisfactory (a person who "... owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country or... is unable or owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it"). Although judgement of what amounted to persecution was subjective and liable to restrictive interpretation, it was generally felt that any attempt to broaden the definition risked reducing the rights of those who qualified: the wider the category, the less willing would governments be to grant rights over-riding their immigration policies. Nevertheless unreasonably restrictive interpretation had to be combatted - an example was given of an argument that persecution on grounds of colour did not fall within the literal terms of the Convention. Indeed it was argued, but not I think agreed by all, that persecution should cover acts not only of commission but of omission (e.g. failure by a government to protect a person from violence at the hands of others): it was agreed, however, that persecution must involve some infringement of human rights, but that such rights needed to be narrowly drawn. A difficult case could arise when a refugee from country A, applying in country B for asylum in country C, sought to exercise a right of choice of destination not granted by the Convention.
The question arose of where decisions under the Convention were taken and by whom: the visa officer, or even the airline clerk, might be used to prevent the would-be refugee from reaching first base under the Convention, since that requires him to be outside his country.
Compliance with the Convention was discussed. Non-compliance would take the form of anything from restrictive interpretation to "humane deterrence", to forcible repatriation. It was agreed that the only effective weapon against non-compliance was pressure of public opinion, of other governments and to a limited extent of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees: it was not practicable to make the Convention justiciable (though advisory opinions of the International Court of Justice, for example, might be helpful). Nor could the UNHCR play a strong role as watch-dog (though his mandate permits him to supervise the working of the Convention), since he was dependent for most of his funding on voluntary contributions from the very governments he would have to monitor. Some independent body to monitor compliance and the records of both generating and receiving countries was needed. Amnesty International already conducted such an exercise in the field of human rights. That might be an appropriate base for the creation of "a strategy of shame".
At the other end of the scale from the Convention refugees, there were the economic migrants. There was little discussion of these: the conclusion must be that, if properly identified, they fall to be dealt with by each country under normal immigration rules.
In between there was the grey area, - people, sometimes in great numbers, who had fled their homes for a variety of reasons, war, generalised violence, famine, flood, earthquake, etc, not amounting to persecution but often involving some degree of infringement of human rights. The conference did not attempt a precise definition and various designations - temporary refugees, social-economic refugees, displaced persons category I and so on - were suggested and rejected. All agreed, however, that such persons deserved protection as indeed is recognised in the mandate of the UNHCR. As to rights beyond that, there was no clear consensus. Some argued that they could often be regarded and treated as temporary: as soon as the conditions which caused their flight reverted to normal, they would return home, though there are obvious limitations to that hope, especially where the conditions continue for a number of years. Similarly, on how to handle this very human problem, there was no general agreement, beyond the need to strengthen the UNHCR, both by the active support and interest of governments, and by more, and more reliable, funding, with an accent on developmental aid designed not only to sustain the refugees themselves but also to encourage host governments to continue to accommodate them.
Other points made included the following: (a) the problem was likely to grow rather than recede; (b) there was a need for some independent, credible, source of information about, and assessment of, the situation in areas not only where refugees already existed, but where there was a potential problem; (c) nations, acting together or through the UN, needed to take into account the refugee problem when considering situations of instability. The body proposed in (b) could play a part here. The probable explosion of refugees from Cambodia, for example, ought to be a factor in the major powers' approach and since direct pressure, e.g. on China, was ineffective, might lead them to look at indirect pressure on the Khmer Rouge e.g. through Thailand; (d) the level of public consciousness had to be raised, both by appealing to humanitarian instincts and by bringing out the contribution that refugees make to the economy and culture of receiving states; (e) decisions on refugee status should be taken on the basis of law and precedent, without discrimination on grounds of politics, race, colour or religion, and without regard to immigration or foreign policy considerations (though there might be special and rare cases). Thus there was a case for some form of independent adjudication - some argued strongly that the establishment in Canada of the Immigration and Refugee Board had, by taking the decision from the Minister, removed the issue from political controversy; (f) an independent body to monitor compliance was required, a role perhaps for Amnesty International; (g) a proposal that some new international instrument, whether on a global or perhaps preferably on a regional basis, was needed to define and establish norms for the treatment of the "grey area'' persons, was canvassed but on balance, I think, rejected. Much of the contents of such an instrument was already in UN resolutions: it might be better to build on that, e.g. by codifying them, and to use existing bodies, e.g. the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC); (h) the UNHCR's organisation needed to be strengthened and given more, and more reliable, funding. On present figures, the UNHCR faced a crisis.
The areas of the developing world where the greatest number of refugees existed were not represented, but participants were well aware of the humanitarian aspects, of the pressures of population and environmental conditions (ecological refugees) and of the potential drive for a more equal distribution of resources, all of which could lead to growing movements of peoples. They were also conscious, however, of the political limitations on the receiving governments, mostly in the developed world.
This Note reflects the Director's personal impressions of the conference. No participant is in any way committed to its content or expression.
Conference Chairman: Sir John Thomson GCMG
Retired as UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1982-87); Director, Grindlay's Bank (1987-); Director, 21st Century Trust
CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS
Mr A R Brenton
Head, United Nations Department, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London
Mr Alf Dubs
Director, British Refugee Council; member, Broadcasting Standards Council
The Rt Hon the Baroness Ewart-Biggs
Life Peer (Labour); spokesman on overseas development; an opposition whip; President, British Committee, UNICEF
Mr D H Gillmore CMG
Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Dr Barbara E Harrell-Bond
Director, Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford
Mr Robert Mauthner
Deputy Foreign Editor/Diplomatic Correspondent, The Financial Times
Sir Hal Miller MP
Member of Parliament (Conservative) for Bromsgrove
Mrs Nuala Mole
Executive Director, Interights, London
Mr R M Morris
Deputy Director, Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford
Dr Brenda Mullan
Mr Alan Phillips
Director, The Minority Rights Group
Professor John Vincent
Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics
Mr Ben Whitaker
Director, The Gulbenkian Foundation (UK); UK Member, UN Human Rights Sub-Commission
Professor Howard Adelman
Director, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Ontario; member, Social Welfare Committee, York University; Founder and Adviser of Operation Lifeline, the Campaign to Help the Boat People; Editor, Refugee
Mr Gordon Fairweather
Chairman, Immigration and Refugee Board
Professor James Hathaway
Associate Dean, and Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Ontario
Herr Arnulf Mattes
Minister, Head of Immigration Division, Legal Department, Foreign Office, Bonn
Ms Amrita Rangasami
Director, Centre of Administration of Relief, India; Currently Visiting Research Fellow, Refugee Studies Programme. Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford
Mr A E Dewey
Deputy to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva
Ambassador Diego C Asencio
Chairman, Commission for the Study of International Migration and Co-operative Economic Development, Washington
Mr Peter D Bell
President, The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, New York; Vice Chairman, Inter-American Dialogue; Vice Chairman, Americas Watch; Director, CARE; Trustee, World Peace Foundation
Rev Fr Harold Bradley SJ
Director, Center for Immigration Policy and Refugee Assistance, Georgetown University
Mr Muzaffar Chishti
Lawyer and Director, Immigration Project, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union; Secretary, National Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Forum; member, Executive Committee, National Coalition for Haitian Refugees; member, Advisory Committee, New York State Interagency Task Force on Immigration, New York City Mayor's Advisory Committee on Immigration and the 1990 Census Complete Count Committee
Dr Richard W Day
Minority Chief Counsel, Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs, Committee on the Judiciary, US Senate
Mr Dennis Gallagher
Founder and Executive Director, the Refugee Policy Group
Mr Dale de Haan
Commissioner, Commission on International Migration & Co-operative Economic Development, US Congress; Director, Church World Service Immigration & Refugee Program, New York; Trustee, Refugee Policy Group, Washington; Editorial Board, International Migration Review; Member, International Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo; Board member, International Council of Voluntary Agencies, Geneva
Mr Arthur C Helton
Director, Refugee Project, Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights; Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, New York University School of Law; Chairman, Advisory Committee, New York State Inter- Agency Task Force on Immigration Affairs; Member, Civil Rights Committee
Mr Luke Lee
Director of Plans and Programs, Office of the US Co-ordinator for Refugee Affairs
Professor David A Martin
School of Law, University of Virginia
Ms Sylvia J Rosales-Fike
Executive Director, Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN); President, Washington Center for Central American Studies; Board member and Secretary, Sane/Freeze Educational Fund; Board member, National Agenda for Peace in El Salvador; Co-Chair, "No Human Being is Illegal" Campaign with Mr Elie Wiesel; Board member, Shelter for the Homeless; Steering Committee member, Housing NOW, National March for the Homeless; Advisory Board member, Catholic Charities Immigration Services Project
Mrs William Taft IV
Recently Director, Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance, Agency for International Development (1986-June 1989)
Mr Jerry M Tinker
Staff Director, Subcommittee on Immigration & Refugee Affairs, US Senate, Washington
Mr Roger Winter
Director, US Committee for Refugees (USCR)
Dr Aristide R Zolberg
University-in-Exile Professor, Department of Political Science, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York City


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The Walking Dead saw some serious shake-ups to its cast in season 9, with two major leading stars bowing out of the show. Andrew Lincoln and Lauren Cohan both left the regular line-up, though the former is set to star in a movie trilogy as Rick Grimes while the latter is open to a return as Maggie Rhee. Still, the series itself lost two of its protagonists and it'll lose another in season 10, as Danai Gurira is moving on as Michonne, too.
As proof, Kang revealed that there will be another Michonne-centric episode in the upcoming season which will be comparable to this year's "Scars," a traumatic hour that really showed how good Gurira is in the role.
Before The Walking Dead season 10 drops at some point in the fall, you can catch Danai Gurira in Avengers: Endgame, hitting theaters later this month, on April 26th.


Voting was close in the race for this week's Art of Agile Development excerpt, with a three-way tie that included Real Customer Involvement and Coding Standards, but Ubiquitous Language won out in the end.
Next week's excerpt is from the Releasing chapter and the poll is still open at the time of this writing. The following week brings us to the Planning chapter. Which practice should I put online first?


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Former DOI Solicitor General Discusses The Complexities Of Tribal Gambling
Hilary Tompkins, formerly with the US Department of Interior, walks OPR though the complexities of tribal sports betting and gambling.
Online Poker Faces Little Opposition During Marathon Connecticut Hearing
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Appetite For Legal Online Gambling Modest Amid Sports Betting Expansion
This year will be the busiest one yet for sports betting legislation,...
Reading The Signs: Will Connecticut Legalize Online Gambling, Sports Betting In 2019?
Connecticut is a candidate to legalize sports betting and online gambling in...
Foxwoods Goes Live With Online Roulette, But Not In Connecticut
By Steve Ruddock on June 27, 2018
Foxwoods is now offering online roulette, but the games are not available in the state of Connecticut. At least not yet.
Connecticut Sports Betting, Online Gambling May Be Target Of Special Session
Connecticut's legislative session ended earlier this month, but Gov. Dan Malloy hasn't ruled out a special session to address sports betting and online gambling.
Connecticut Punts On Online Gambling, Sports Betting As Legislature Adjourns
With the legislative coming to an end, sports betting, online lottery and online gambling aren't in the cards for Connecticut in 2018. But there is...
Connecticut Tackles Online Lottery In Hearing; CEO Eyes 'Modernizing Our Distribution Channels'
By Eric Ramsey on April 3, 2018
The Committee on Finance, Revenue and Bonding held its first public hearing on S 540, a new bill that would allow the lottery to expand...
Mohegan Sun Joins Foxwoods In Publicly Supporting Legal Online Gambling
By Steve Ruddock on March 23, 2018
With Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods both on board, is Connecticut going to be the fifth state to legalize online casino and online poker?
Foxwoods To Connecticut Legislature: Legalizing Online Gambling Is State's 'Strongest Opportunity'
Foxwoods Resort Casino came out in full support of online gambling and sports betting In written testimony submitted ahead of a public hearing.
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Connecticut lawmakers held a 20-minute press conference to brief the media on the possibility of bringing legal sports betting to the Constitution State. But that...
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A partnership between Foxwoods and PariPlay will bring real-money, on-premises online gambling to the casino. But could it also pave the way for statewide online...
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AIB2B is proud to partner with the Source OC to present an Indonesian cultural celebration featuring the movie "Bali: Beats of Paradise", an award winning documentary produced by Livi Zheng. Zheng will be joined by executive producer Julia Guow and they will speak about this great piece of art.
"Bali" is a Music documentary, featuring Grammy Award Winning Artist Judith Hill (20 Feet From Stardom) and Indonesian composer Nyoman Wenten, who pull back the curtain on Gamelan music.
Gamelan, Indonesian traditional music, has been used in the film Avatar, the TV show Star Trek as well as the Nintendo game Mario Bros. Nyoman Wenten is one of Bali's most accomplished and versatile dancers and musicians. For the past 40 years he has devoted his life to teaching others. He is also known for his creative East-West fusions. Wenten has composed musical works that include a unique fusion of gamelan music and Western elements, collaborating with artists such as David Rosenboom, Morton Subotnick, Sardono Kusumo, Vinny Golia, William Miranda and Larry Reed, among others.
Wenten currently teaches in the department of Ethnomusicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and CalArts School of Music. Gamelan music has spread to 49 out of 50 states in the US, but is sadly shrinking in its homeland. Wenten wanted to leave something special behind before retiring to Bali so he set out to pay homage to the sacred yet fading tradition of Balinese music and dance.
Coincidentally, Grammy Award-winning singer Judith Hill was looking for a distinctive sound for a new piece of music she was composing. She was intrigued by Gamelan music and approached Wenten to discuss the blending of musical styles.
As Hill and Wenten worked in the studio on "Queen of the Hill," a song blending funk and Gamelan music, they decided to take their collaboration one step further - a music video. With the fusion of two musical styles, Hill and Wenten wanted the stark contrast of the desert with the beautifully colored traditional Balinese costumes. Shot in Southern California's Joshua Tree Desert, the music video is a kaleidoscope of funk and traditional Balinese dance and costumes showcasing Hill's ethereal vocals.


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(1547) Nele est un astéroïde de la ceinture principale. Il fut découvert le  à Uccle par Paul Bourgeois. Il présente une orbite caractérisée par un demi-grand axe de 2,64 UA, une excentricité de 0,25 et une inclinaison de 11,7° par rapport à l'écliptique.

Il fut nommé d'après Nele, la femme du personnage de fiction Till l'Espiègle. Nele est un nom frison, diminutif de Cornelia.

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is there anyone lucky to have got the Masks expansion already and also eager to share any card breakdown/pics with us unlucky lot?
Hey there I just bought it last night, but it's back at home so I'm going by memory.
- Conditions: basically 2 of each of the many of the existing ones, then 6-8 of the new one (Corruption, I think).
- Only 4-6 OW encounters from what I remember, the two I read were The Future and The Past. Interestingly, there are 3 new gate tokens for R'yleh (space 3), space 9 and one more.
- Mystic Ruins: these are all new locations. Mu (apace 2), Atlantis (space 8) , something I forget (space 9) and space 19, if I remember correctly. So that's 2 water ruin locations and 2 wilderness ruin locations, Nice to add to the Strange Remnants Ruins deck which was getting stale.
There's also another Mystic Ruins Token, and I haven't read through all the Preludes yet, but I hope there's one where you can use 2 Mystic Ruins Tokens like the Prelude that has you use two Expedition Tokens.
- 16 Unique Assets, 4 new versions of Stone Chest. 2-4 new character Assets if you're familiar with the MoN Call of Cthulhu module, their inclusion makes sense. 4 new Tasks that give you a penalty if you DON'T flip it over as soon as you can.
- also 4 new Artifacts, I like the Black Fan a lot.
- 4 Preludes are reprints for specific AOs, and indicated with the logo of their original expansion on the bottom left. So for those of us who have everything, these are duplicates that won't get used.
- Similarly, there's a duplicate Cthulhu epic monster and a few other monsters in the punch out section, but no more Cultists! I think 1-2 totally new monsters.
- punch out section also has a boatload of Focus tokens, Resource tokens, the Mystic Ruins token and no Health or Sanity. Reinforces to me that this is the last planned expansion.
- rather than another set of "cheat sheet" cards with ACTIONS on one side and MYTHOS PHASE on reverse, there's a new type of card which outlines ACTIONS on one side, ENCOUNTERS on the other and a couple of words on the Mythos Phase. I think these will be less useful to many because the originals had a nice breakdown of what order Reckonings are done in; you don't have that here.
There's also a new boon condition isn't there?
Oh there is a new spell with 4 versions of it.
Living Link. +1 to all skills, flip on reckoning for a good effect that repeats each reckoning.
2-4 new character Assets if you're familiar with the MoN Call of Cthulhu module, their inclusion makes sense.
Or if you're familiar with Arkham Horror where they also appeared.
• It's a replacement. But in this case the rulebook should mention "Hey, we included this new revised Cthulhu token, please throw out the old one."
Actually you know what I would have liked? One double-sided card for all AOs with some flowery text for VICTORY and DEFEAT.
No, not all of them. Jake Williams and the module's superstar Jack Brady are here and neither are in AH.
Just checked and both the Cthulhu epic monster and Haunter of the Dark epic monster are exactly the same as the originals. Haven't rifled through the mythos cards or whatnot with a fine tooth comb yet though.
Jake Williams and the module's superstar Jack Brady are here and neither are in AH.
That's great to know, thank you. I have stupidly assumed which allies you are referring to even thought I barely know anything about the module.
THIS. i still can't believe this has never been done as it's the biggest missing piece in otherwise story-driven game. Shame as i think MoN is last expansion for EH.
If they even released it as a POD, Mythos-card sized pack (like they do for certain Arkham Horror: The Card Game scenarios) I'd buy it, and you'd think it would be cheap to produce.
But you're right, this certainly feels like the last expansion and we only have 16 Ancient Ones, so that would be a very small POD Pack. You'd think they would have thought about that and put it in the MoN expansion.
Maybe they'll get their act together, make some and give them away for Arkham Nights 2018.
They should make AO pods.
I can see why they'd include another Haunter of the Dark. It's associated with Nyarly and probably used by that AO, so you'd want to make sure players had one if they don't own the Pyramids expansion.
On one of the Antideluvium Research encounter cards the Cthulu Epic Monster Ambushes you! This can lead to the need for 2 Cthulu Epic Monsters temporarily in play if the AO is Antideluvium and Cthulu has spawned.
Ambushes don't need physical tokens. They only need reference. It's a relatively common occurence for an ambush to use a monster token spawned elsewhere on the board as a reference.


Raw text data is often not properly formatted and contains a lot of redundant whitespaces at the beginning and end of strings as well as double blank characters within the text.
As you can see in the graphic, we can remove spaces at the beginning and end (see Example 1); only at the end (see Example 2); only at the beginning (see Example 3); duplicate spaces (see Example 4); and all spaces (see Example 5).
my_string = "  This   sentence    contains many redundant    whitespaces    !!!  "
my_string = " This sentence contains many redundant whitespaces !!! "
Our example string contains a sentence with whitespaces at the beginning and at the end (as well as double spaces within the string, but more on that later).
# "This   sentence    contains many redundant    whitespaces    !!!"
my_string_1 = my_string.strip() # Apply strip function print(my_string_1) # Print updated string # "This sentence contains many redundant whitespaces !!!"
Easy breezy! So what if we want to remove only the spaces at the right or left side of our string? That's what I'm going to show you in Example 2 and 3!
With the Python strip function, we were able to delete all left and right spaces (as shown in Example 1). However, sometimes you might want to keep the whitespace at the beginning and remove only the space at the end.
# "  This   sentence    contains many redundant    whitespaces    !!!"
my_string_2 = my_string.rstrip() # Apply rstrip function print(my_string_2) # Print updated string # " This sentence contains many redundant whitespaces !!!"
Have a look at the quotes at the end of our sentence: We removed all trailing spaces, but kept the spaces at the beginning.
# "This   sentence    contains many redundant    whitespaces    !!!  "
my_string_3 = my_string.lstrip() # Apply lstrip function print(my_string_3) # Print updated string # "This sentence contains many redundant whitespaces !!! "
# " This sentence contains many redundant whitespaces !!! "
import re # Import regular expressions my_string_4 = re.sub(" +", " ",my_string) # Apply sub function print(my_string_4) # Print updated string # " This sentence contains many redundant whitespaces !!! "
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New York Times reporter Carr bluntly reveals his former life in hell, when he juggled two talents: smoking crack and filing news. It started out with innocent teenage pot smoking, typical stuff for a suburban Minneapolis kid in the 1980s. By the end of the decade, having cultivated a colossal cocaine habit, the author had deteriorated into a ghost of himself. He was in and out of jail cells and rehab; his legend grew in the streets; his reputation sank to no-hire status in local newsrooms. He got involved with "Anna," a cute blonde drug dealer: "Six months after we had gotten together, her business was in disarray, I had lost my job, and then, oh yeah, she was pregnant." Their twin daughters were born on April 15, 1988, two-and-a-half months premature, each weighing less than three pounds. "When Anna's water broke," Carr writes, "I had just handed her a crack pipe." Soon he was using cocaine intravenously and fell into paranoia and depravity that made even his dealers shake their heads. With the help of family and friends, he did an about-face, putting the seven-month-old twins in foster care and throwing himself into recovery. When Anna continued using, he sued for and got permanent custody. He worked his way to the top of the masthead of the local alt-weekly newspaper, winning awards and providing a stable home for his daughters.
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She had a stack three inches high of unpaid advertising bills. She is a great agent. At the time she had been doing real estate for 10 years.
She contacted me and she wanted me to write a clever real estate script or a brilliant ad. I responded to her by saying it does not have to be clever or brilliant it needs to be simple. I said hold on a second.
I asked her how many referrals she got. She said she got referrals. After a brief interview, I learned that she had no formalized referral program.
She had a list of 500 people that she had worked with before either through a real estate loan, a real estate buys or listing a property.
A referral is the easiest to work with, you already have a connection with them, there is already trust built in with a referred client. A referred client is a lot more profitable.
The cost of getting a referral is practically zero. The cost of getting a new client is very expensive. She had a stack of unpaid advertisement bills.
The master real estate calling strategy was to educate and to keep informed her past client list of 500 people. To keep them informed about the real estate market. The best time to buy real estate. The best sell real estate. The best real estate loans available. The market trend and be an advocate and advisor to any real estate needs or questions that they might have.
1. Hire a college student that speaks the language of your clients. Hire a bilingual person if necessary.
2. Train them to deliver the scripts with ease and flawless.
3. Every call must be documented on an excel sheet.
4. Track and test real estate success.
The first week the calls started to go out the real estate agent started to get referrals from her past clients. She doubled here real estate business overnight. And she reduced her expense to zero.
The cost of acquiring new clients went from over $10,000.00 per month to ZERO.
Real Estate cold calling scripts could make you a lot of money.
Listing Generation System is the outcome of 30 years in real estate. My first job in real estate was a real estate records office. My boss Mary and I would practice real estate cold call scripts to obtain more real estate listing agents as clients. The second job I worked at a real estate lending company. At the real estate lending company, my boss would make me hearse a real estate cold calling script until we knew it by heart. The third job I worked for a real estate bankruptcy attorney. The bankruptcyhttps://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/lastpaycheck attorney and I would write scripts for real estate agent cold calling scripts. The fourth job I worked for a real estate investment company. My boss would craft the best scripts for real estate cold calling. The purpose of drafting cold calling scripts real estate was to obtain property owners to use the services of the bankruptcy attorney. There are not many cold calling scripts for an attorney. There are a lot cold calling real estate scripts for real estate agents. Any cold calling scripts for real estate agents can easily be changed for attorneys. I then started my own real estate listing career. I used real estate agent cold calling scripts for the purpose of obtaining listings in real estate.
when you mast real estate cold calling scripts. Do not try and write the perfect real estate calling script on the first attempt. Write a basic script to acquire real estate listings. Present your real estate cold calling scripts a few times, get some feedback from real estate listing prospects. Optimize the best real estate cold calling script.
Attempt different structures of real estate cold calling scripts for property listings. Study the structure of real estate prospecting scripts. The same real estate cold call script with a slightly different structure can make a flop into a winner. The only real way to know which interchange will work best you will just have to sample cold calling scripts for real estate agents and discover which one works best with the goal to get more real estate listings.
Improve real estate phone scripts by one percent per day over the course of a year you will generate real estate seller leads at will. The perfect cold calling scripts real estate will come to you as are generating real estate seller leads.
You are a few sheets of paper away from being real estate sales script home seller leads superstar. Real Estate calling scripts are at your fingertips. Put passion into your real estate cold calling scripts and you will become a listing lead generating machine.
As you create and draft different real estate cold calling scripts you will become aware of the sociology of listing leads for realtors.
Are you familiar with Mr. and Mrs.________? I just sold their property for over twenty percent of the asking price. May I show you my proven method of consistently getting over asking price for homes in the area.
I recently listed and sold 123 main street. The property sold for over one hundred thousand dollars of market value. I would like to congratulate on your wise investment of purchasing this property when you did. Would you like to know what the current value is?
Thank you for taking the time to sit down with me and discuss the possibility of the listing and selling your property. In order to be able to help you with the sale of the property, I'd like to ask you a few questions. Is that ok with you?
When you are speaking to a real estate seller. Refer to the property as property or real estate or listing. Do not refer to the property as a home. It is ok to refer to the new property as a home but not the current residence. Home means family, worth, comfort, attachment. These are not good feelings when referring to a seller lead.
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Roger & Vicki Uthmann (Owners)
Roger & Vicki grew up in agriculture and owned/operated a dairy farm for 20 years. Their experience in the dairy industry and their cow-calf ranch guide the feedlot operation which the family bought in 2015. Their attention to detail, involvement, and passion for cattle, give a high-quality touch to our business. They live on the ranch in Virginia Dale that was homesteaded by Vicki's family in 1903. Adding Mountain View Meats was a great way to serve the community that the Uthmanns have lived in for many, many decades.
Chad & Nicole Uthmann, Tyler & Jace (Owners & Owners-In-Training)
Raising boys and being self-employed has turned out to be a crazy, but a rewarding lifestyle. In addition to the cattle operations, Chad also does local hauling and forestry work with their other businesses. Nicole is in charge of accounting and the meat sales and marketing.
Tyler and Jace are involved in the ranch and feedlot, feeding cattle, scraping pens, and owning cattle that are part of MVM. After high school graduation in 2022, Tyler has stepped into more managing of the operation. They are also involved in 4-H and FFA, and enjoy operating equipment and woodworking or welding projects. Faith and family are important components to creating a business that has integrity and character.
Jake Stutz (Facilities Manager)
A native of LaPorte, CO, Jake starting working with us while he was in high school.
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Posted By Jessica Northey on Mar 4, 2013
by Jessica Northey
Looking forward to having Entertainer/Athelete Mickie James as guest on Country Music Chat aka #CMchat on Twitter, Monday March 4, 8-9pCT
You can participate in #CMchat by clicking on the hashtag from your Twitter stream, and using #CMchat in your tweets so they will show up in the stream for other chat participants to view.
Another way to view the chat is to use this link: http://www.cmchatlive.com/chat/ and it will let you see the conversation in real-time at your own speed (its adjustable) and #CMchat hashtag will automatically appear on your tweets.
**If you are on Tweetdeck, Hootsuite or on the Twitter.com platform just click on the #CMchat hashtag and a window should open for you that will segregate the #CMchat tweets.
ABOUT MICKIE JAMES
With Somebody's Gonna Pay, her debut project for eOne Music Nashville, Mickie James has set out to carve a new path for herself. An entertainer and athlete since childhood, the TNA Impact professional wrestling star – a multi-time world champion – has spent the last decade as part of some of the biggest pro wrestling organizations in the world. But now she's using a microphone to rev up concert crowds rather than run down wrestling opponents, taking on the music world full-force.
"I recognized the fact that I'm starting from square one, all over again," Mickie says. "And I kinda want to keep those two worlds separate because I want my music career to be taken seriously, and not just 'Hey, it's that girl that wrestles!'
"This is something I'd always wanted to do, and I've never held back on anything I'd been dead set on doing in my life," she continues. "I feel like that passion and that drive is what really molds you as a person of character, and people connect with that. It's not necessarily something you can teach, you either have it or you're scared of it."
Listeners can connect with that passion and drive from the very first notes of Somebody's Gonna Pay's title track. Produced by hitmaker R.S. Field (Alison Moorer, Todd Snider, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and many more), the Jamie Hartford-penned tune showcases Mickie's high-energy style, something she's honed not only in the ring, but also via recent performances opening for the likes of Gretchen Wilson, Randy Houser and Montgomery Gentry.
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ABOUT #CMCHAT
Country Music Chat aka #CMchat has generated over 1.5 Billion impressions since it's beginning in May 2011 on Twitter and reached over 50 million according to Hashtracking.com.
#CMchat "Where Country Music Meets You" is the first and largest LIVE "Country Music Chat" on Twitter, hosted by Jessica Northey. Every Monday, #CMchat has different topics from getting your music played on the radio, to Social Media strategy and of course the inside scoop from Country Music Artists, Broadcasting Personalities, Radio & Label Executives and Fans alike!
The #CMchat community is an open-forum and you are always invited to use the hashtag to share Country Music information, news and new music.
Past guests have included National charting and recording artists The Oak Ridge Boys, Charlie Daniels, Ronnie Milsap, Jamie O'Neal, Barbara Mandrell, Edens Edge, Sunny Sweeney, The Farm, The Bellamy Brothers, David Nail, Jaida Dreyer, Gwen Sebastian, Steve Azar, Danny Gokey, Rhonda Vincent, Darryl Worley, Shy Blakeman, Bigg Vinny Mack from Trailer Choir, David Bradley, Whitney Duncan, Dailey and Vincent, The Moonshine Bandits, Aaron Watson, Rachele Lynae, Craig Wayne Boyd, Cowboy Troy, Shooter Jennings, Colt Ford, Jason Crabb, Deborah Allen, Bridgette Tatum, Danny Myrick, Stealing Angels, Rick Monroe, Ray Scott, Charlotte Autry, Trent Tomlinson, DJ Miller, Darren Warren; Nine North Record's Larry Pareigis; On-Air Personalities Big D and Bubba Morning Show, Andie Lynne, Radio Lia, Tony Thomas, Heather Froglear, Kaptian Jack and Buck Stevens; Online blogs/music industry communities Billboard, All Access, Country Music Is Love, Roughstock and The Country Site; TV Stars, Melissa Peterman from CMT's Singing Bee, Curtis Grimes from NBC's The Voice, Paige Duke from CMT's Sweet Home Alabama, Susan Hartman & Ali Dee from CMT's Texas Women, Country Comedian Tom Mabe (Mabe in America on CMT), Tom McMillan from Toms Wild Life on GAC; Internet sensations Payton Rae, CJaye LeRose, Josh Charles and Mary Sarah.
You are welcome to come and watch, or jump in and ask guests and attendees questions.
#CMchat goes live every Monday at 6pm PST/9pm EST. The chat runs for one hour.
Many people including artists, industry professionals and fans post valuable information throughout the week using the #CMchat hashtag in the Twitter stream.
The easiest way to participate is to go to our homepage and log in from your Twitter account.
Make sure you are following @CMchatLive and @JessicaNorthey on Twitter.
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Everyone asks "what exactly do you do Jessica?" What some of my family members say, "she tweets for a living" is my favorite, but really the title that puts food on the table is "Social Media Influencer," the definition sounds simple, someone who influences others through social media, but I consider myself a Citizen Journalist broadcasting and entertaining with news, thoughts, opinions, delivering information in my own unique way. Famous for my 'sass wit and straight from the hip' style I've always been called a "Social Media Pioneer" in the music industry. I'm also an On-Air/Online Broadcasting Host and Personality, Digital Media Strategist, Country and Music Blogger/Journalist as well as a Nationally recognized Speaker and Founder of Country Music Chat, News and Views Entertainment Website CMChatLIVE.com. My favorite accomplishment is starting the largest Country Music Hashtag community in the world Country Music's #CMChat. It all started with a hunch...back in the early 2000's I would dial up the internet via AOL and join chat rooms whilst watching my favorite programs on TV. Loved watching Reality Shows with my Mom in Tucson, and blowing her mind with how I always knew who was going home on the Bachelor or Big Brother. Don't think she ever caught on that I was talking to people via computer on the East Coast, where it had already aired. (We didn't have the uber-spoiler Twitter or Facebook to ruin results and awards shows for us yet.) I've been taking over the internet, one tweet at a time and have accumulated over 3 Million followers/friends/fans across all my Social Media networks. Over the years I've been consistently ranked as an influential online personality and even named as a Forbes Top 50 Social Media Power Influencer. I was the first person Merle Haggard followed when he got on Twitter and spent the day with Garth Brooks at Twitter and Facebook when joined the social media world.
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Anyway, it turned out that it's not as simple as that: there are a variety of official Star Wars lego X-wings on the market at the moment, and a whole swathe of others that have been sold in the past but are now discontinued - most of which are still to be had on eBay if you're prepared to pay a scarcity-value premium.
This page summarises my findings.
This is a small kit in the Star Wars MINI-Models range, with tiny pieces making up the two ships. It's still available from Lego's own on-line store for $3.99.
I picked up one of these kits for £2 in Woolworths, which I think is a good deal. For that, you get two models: they're small (eight studs long), but they really capture the spirit of the ships.
This is the current largish-scale model, which comes with mini-figures of Luke, Yoda and R2D2 as well as some irrelevant gubbins like Yoda's house and Dagobah swamp-weeds to dangle from the X-wing. It's available from Lego's own on-line store for $49.99.
I've not seen this in the flesh, but detailed photos suggest it's about 36 studs long and about the same width. That's the best part of a foot long, which is not bad.
This appears to be the predecessor to 4502. It is no longer available from official sources. Pictures suggest it's a little smaller, maybe 26 studs long and 32 across. It comes with a ground-crew and their tractor instead of all the Yoda stuff.
Expert opinion seems to be that, while this is nice, the newer replacement set is better. ``Far more accurate shape, profile and colours''.
This appears to be identical to 7140.
This is from the Ultimate Collector series. It's much bigger than the others. 60 studs long, if I am reading the instructions correctly, and 52 wide.


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August Gallery Hop featuring the art of
Mark Flake and Rogelio Calvo
Mark Flake
Born in August 5, 1960 in Memphis TN, Mark Flake is painter, sculptor, composer, author, actor, and
filmmaker. He has a Master's Degree in Fine Art Painting from East Tennessee State University in
Johnson City and a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art from the University of Memphis. He has lived and worked in Tennessee, Rhode Island, Georgia, Mississippi, Wyoming, Kansas, and North and South Carolina. His sculpture, "Venus Fly Traps" was recently chosen as one of 11 works to represent NC at the Hanes Organization's Inner Self location in Charlotte, and his film, "Rancho Mysterio" will play the Skidorama Grindhouse Festival in Kansas City this September. He has a dog called Charlie and duck named Pierre.
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Rogelio Calvo
I find myself returning to the path of art after a break of over a decade. Traveling to the Amazonian jungle of Peru, and later overnight sailing off the east coast of Florida were my reawakening moments. I thought turning to art full-time might be the end of security, but it turned out to be the beginning of hope. Through the chaos of seeking to find my path, the muse showed me the beauty of humanity in the jungle. I realized I needed the positive outlook I saw on the faces of the Peruvians I met. They are optimistic and grateful to be alive. I wanted my art to do the same. It became a sort-of pseudo tribal affair with images and patterns. I am still in the constant search for positivity, simplicity, and authenticity.
Islands & Icons
The archipelago of San Blas off the coast of my native Panama, is the inspiration for my surreal land and seascapes, where infinite islands are home to iconic imagery from history, the arts, and popular culture. I hope the viewer can transport him or herself to attempt to resolve these images into some kind of transcendental memory of journeys perhaps never taken.