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- When you use InstaVoice, you are entering into a legal agreement and you agree to all of these terms.
- You also agree to our Privacy Policy, which covers how we collect, use, share, and store your personal information.
- You are eligible to enter into this contract and you are at least our minimum age as governed by "Our Policy towards Children". The information you provide is truthful.
- You will keep your password a secret.
- You will not share an account with anyone else.
- You grant us a license to the information you provide us.
- You will pay us for any losses that you cause.
- When you share information, others can see, copy and use that information.
- You acknowledge, consent and agree that we may collect the Speech Data (as defined in the 'Speech Data and Data' section) as part of the Service and can use that to tune, enhance and improve the Service.
- You are solely responsible for the content that you create or post using the Service.
- We reserve the right to decide whether any content posted using the Services is appropriate and complies with these Terms.
- We may discontinue your access to the Services if you are a violator of the terms.
- We are providing you notice about our intellectual property rights.
- In the unlikely event we end up in a legal dispute, it will take place in New Jersey courts, applying New Jersey's law.
Terms of Use
Last modified on April 3, 2019.
Your use of the Kirusa Channels and InstaVoice services, including the websites channels.kirusa.com, instavoice.com and other related websites; access to Kirusa Channels and InstaVoice features using web, IVR, SMS, email, USSD, smartphone client or any other mode, hereinafter referred to as the ("Services"), will be governed by the following terms and conditions. The Services are currently being provided by Kirusa Inc. ("Kirusa"). The Services allows You to record any voice message and communicate with other InstaVoice users or post and receive voice messages on Your Kirusa Channels account or upload and share it through online social networking platforms or websites that focus on building and reflecting social networks or social relations among people ("Social Networks"). The Services also allow you to send and receive messages ("Messages"). The use of the term "You" shall mean any natural or legal persons who has agreed to become a user of the Services.
The Services may include advertisements, which may be targeted to the Content or information on the Services, queries made through the Services, or other information. The types and extent of advertising by InstaVoice/Kirusa Channels on the Services are subject to change. In consideration for Kirusa granting you access to and use of the Services, you agree that Kirsua and its third party providers and partners may place such advertising on the Services or in connection with the display of Content or information from the Services whether submitted by You or others.
1. Acceptance
1.1. Your access to and use of the Services signifies your acceptance and agreement with these Terms and the Privacy Policy as formulated by Kirusa. If you do not agree to any of these Terms or the Privacy Policy, please do not use these Services.
1.2. Any information that you provide to InstaVoice/Kirusa Channels is subject to our Privacy Policy, which governs our collection and use of your information. You understand that through your use of the Services, you consent to the collection and use (as set forth in the Privacy Policy) of this information, including the transfer of this information to the United States and/or other countries for storage, processing and use by Kirusa. As part of providing you the Services, we may need to provide you with certain communications, such as service announcements and administrative messages. These communications are considered part of the Services and your InstaVoice/Kirusa Channels account, which you may not be able to opt-out from receiving.
1.3. Although Kirusa may, without any obligation, attempt to notify you, when major changes are made to these Terms, You are responsible for periodically reviewing any changes which may be made to the Terms.. Kirusa may, in its sole discretion, modify or revise these Terms at any time, once the updated Terms are released on Kirusa's website at channels.kirusa.com or www.instavoice.com, the updated Terms will effectively replace all original and previous Terms and you shall be deemed to have been notified of the updated Terms and you agree to be bound by such modifications or revisions.
2. Use of the Services
2.1. In order to access some features related to the Services, such as allowing people to recognize your voice snippets, you may be required to provide/ share information about yourself. You agree that any information provided by You to Kirusa will always be accurate, correct and up to date.
2.2. Kirusa gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the InstaVoice/Kirusa Channels applications that is provided to you by Kirusa as part of the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling You to use and enjoy the benefit of the Services as provided by Kirusa, in the manner permitted by these Terms.
2.3. Unless specifically permitted, You may never use someone else's account as this will be considered as illegal and unauthorized.
2.4. You are responsible for safeguarding the password that You use to access the Services and for any activities or actions under Your password. Kirusa encourages You to use "strong" passwords (passwords that use a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols) with Your account. Kirusa cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from Your failure to comply with the above requirements. In case of any breach of security or unauthorized use of Your account You must notify Kirusa immediately.
2.5. You agree to use the Service only for purposes that are permitted by these Terms, Privacy Policy and any applicable law, regulation or generally accepted practices or guidelines prevailing in the relevant jurisdictions.
2.6. You may not do any of the following while accessing or using the Services:
(i) not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of Kirusa's systems or networks or any systems connected to Kirusa
(ii) You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Kirusa, InstaVoice or the Social Networks' website or any transaction being conducted on the Kirusa, InstaVoice or the Social Networks' website, or with any other person's use of the Kirusa or the Social Networks' website;
(iii) probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system or network or breach or circumvent any security or authentication measures;
(iv) access or search or attempt to access or search the Services by any means (automated or otherwise) other than through our currently available, published interfaces that are provided by Kirusa (and only pursuant to those terms and conditions), unless You have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Kirusa. Any unauthorized use is expressly prohibited;
(v) to use the Services to send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information;
(vi) to deploy any software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer resource; or contains any Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, easter eggs or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, diminish value of, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information;
(vii) forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or posting, or in any way use the Services to send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information; or
(viii) interfere with, or disrupt, (or attempt to do so), the access of any user, host or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, mail-bombing the Services, or by scripting the creation of Content in such a manner as to interfere with or create an undue burden on the Services.
2.7. Unless You have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with Kirusa, You agree that You will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Services for any purpose.
2.8. You agree that You are solely responsible for any breach of Your obligations under the Terms and Privacy Policy for the consequences of any such breach. Furthermore, although Kirusa will not be liable for Your losses caused by any unauthorized use of Your account, You may be liable for Kirusa's losses due to such unauthorized use by You.
2.9. All right, title, and interest in and to the Services (excluding Content provided by users) are and will remain the exclusive property of Kirusa and its licensors. The Services are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of both the United States of America and foreign countries. Nothing in the Terms gives You a right to use Kirusa's name or any of the Kirusa's trademarks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features. Any feedback, comments, or suggestions You may provide regarding Kirusa, or the Services is entirely voluntary and Kirusa will be free to use such feedback, comments or suggestions as Kirusa see fit and without any obligation to You.
3. Speech Data and Data
3.1. In accepting the terms hereunder, you acknowledge, consent and agree that Kirusa may collect the Speech Data (as defined below) as part of the Service and that such information shall only be used by Kirusa or third parties acting under the direction of Kirusa, pursuant to confidentiality agreements, to tune, enhance and improve the Service, and other Kirusa services and products including without limitation the use of Speech Data for manual or automatic transcription of voice messages for improving transcription services through Kirusa or a third party transcription technology. Kirusa will not use the information elements in any Speech Data for any purpose except as set forth above. "Speech Data" means the audio files, associated text and transcriptions and log files provided by you hereunder or generated in connection with the Service. Any and all Speech Data that you provide will remain confidential and may be disclosed by Kirusa, if so required, to meet legal or regulatory requirements, such as under a court order or to a government institution if required or authorised by law, or in the event of a sale, merger or acquisition to another entity by Kirusa.
3.2. You acknowledge, consent and agree that Kirusa may collect Device Usage Data, as defined below, as part of the Service. Device Usage Data is used to help Kirusa provide enhanced service to you. Data is considered non-personal information, as Data is in a form that does not permit direct association with any specific individual. "Data" means information, other than Speech Data, collected by Kirusa pertaining to your use of the Device with the Service.
3.3. You understand that through your use of the Service you consent to the collection and use as set forth herein of Speech Data, including the transfer of both to the United States and/or other countries for storage, processing and use by Kirusa and third party partners.
3.4. Speech Data and Device Usage Data are subject to Kirusa's applicable Privacy Policy.
4. Restrictions
4.1. You will not send or otherwise use the Services for unauthorized commercial communications.
4.2. You will not collect users' content or information, or otherwise access the Services, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without Kirusa's prior permission.
4.3. You will not engage in unlawful multi-level marketing, such as a pyramid scheme through the Services.
4.4. You will not upload viruses or other malicious code.
4.5. You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else.
4.6. You will not intimidate, harass or otherwise bother any user.
4.7. You will not impersonate another person or entity.
4.8. You will not harm minors in any way and violate any law for the time being in force.
4.9. You shall not host, display, upload, modify, publish, transmit, update or share any information which is grossly harmful, harassing, blasphemous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, pedophilic, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically objectionable, disparaging, relating or encouraging money laundering, or otherwise unlawful in any manner whatever; or unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing including but not limited to "indecent representation of women".
4.10. You will not promote an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files.
4.11. You will not provide material that exploits people in a sexual, violent or otherwise inappropriate manner or solicits personal information from anyone.
4.12. You will not provide instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses.
4.13. You will not solicit gambling or engages in any gambling activity which is or could be construed as being illegal.
4.14. You will not infringe any patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights or third party's trade secrets or rights of publicity or privacy or shall not be fraudulent or involve the sale of counterfeit or stolen items.
4.15. You will not violate any law for the time being in force.
4.16. You will not threaten the unity, integrity, defense, security or sovereignty of United States of America, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, India, and other countries in which Services are provided and friendly relations with foreign states, or public order or causes incitement to the commission of any cognizable offense or prevents investigation of any offense or is insulting any other nation.
4.17. You will not develop or operate a third party application containing, or advertise or otherwise market alcohol-related or other mature content without appropriate age-based restrictions.
4.18. You will not offer any contest, giveaway, or sweepstakes or other such promotional activities through the Services without Kirusa's prior written consent. If Kirusa consents, You take full responsibility for the promotion, and will follow our directions and all applicable laws.
4.19. You will not use the Services to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or discriminatory.
4.20. You may use the Services only if You can form a binding contract with Kirusa and are not a person barred from receiving Services under the laws of the United States of America or any other applicable jurisdiction. You may use the Services only in compliance with these Terms and all applicable local, state, national, and international laws, rules and regulations.
5. Content on the Services
5.1. The content of all Services and comments, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the person who created such snippets or comment using the Services (hereinafter referred as the "Content"). Kirusa is, in no manner whatsoever, responsible for monitoring or controlling the same and is in no way liable for such Content.
5.2. Kirusa reserves the right at all times (but will not have an obligation) to remove or refuse to distribute any Content on the Services and to terminate users without prior notice or assigning any reasons whatsoever and is under no obligation to obtain prior consent from You for such acts. Kirusa also reserves the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as Kirusa reasonably believes is necessary to
(i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request,
(ii) enforce the Terms, including investigation of potential violations hereof,
(iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues,
(iv) respond to user support requests, or
(v) protect the rights, property or safety of the Services, its users and the public.
5.3. You are solely responsible for any use of or reliance on any materials created using the Services or obtained by You through the Services. You understand that by using the Services, You may be exposed to Content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or in some cases, postings that have been mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive.
5.4. Kirusa does not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any Content or communications posted through the Services.
5.5. Under no circumstances will Kirusa be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any Content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available using the Services.
5.6. You retain Your rights to any Content You submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, You grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed). You agree that this license includes the right for Kirusa to provide, promote, and improve the Services and to make Content submitted to or through the Services available to other companies, organizations or individuals who partner with Kirusa for the syndication, broadcast, distribution or publication of such Content on other media and services, subject to our terms and conditions for such Content use.
5.7 Such additional uses by Kirusa, or other companies, organizations or individuals who partner with Kirusa, may be made with no compensation paid to You with respect to the Content that You submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Services.
5.8. We may modify or adapt Your Content in order to transmit, display or distribute it over computer networks and in various media and/or make changes to Your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to any requirements or limitations of any networks, devices, services or media.
5.9. You are responsible for Your use of the Services, for any Content You provide, and for any consequences thereof, including the use of Your Content by other users and our third party partners. You understand that your Content may be syndicated, broadcast, distributed, or published by our partners and if You do not have the right to submit Content for such use, it may subject you to liability. Kirusa will not be responsible or liable for any use of Your Content by Kirusa in accordance with these Terms. You represent and warrant that You have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein to any Content that you submit.
6. Intellectual Property Rights
6.1. Kirusa respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users of the Services to do the same. The following link provides a list of the patents used in the Services and is intended to serve as notice under 35 U.S.C. § 287(a). Patents: https://www.kirusa.com/resources-and-more/patents.
6.2. Kirusa will respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable law and are promptly and properly provided to Kirusa. If You have a reason to believe that Your Content has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide us with the following information:
(i) a physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf;
(ii) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
(iii) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
(iv) Your contact information, including Your address, telephone number and an email address;
(v) a statement by You that You have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (vi) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and that You are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
We have the right to remove the Content alleged to be infringing without prior notice, at our sole discretion, and without liability to you.
6.3. Our designated copyright agent for notice of alleged copyright infringement appearing on the Services is:
Kirusa Inc.
Attn: CEO
139 South Street, Suite 205, New Providence, NJ 07974
Fax # +1 908 464 5557
Tel. # +1908 464 5566
With a copy to:Wilson Sonsini Goodich and Rosati
650 page Mill Road,
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Attn.: Herb Fockler
Fax # +1 650 496 4006
Tel. # +1 650 493 9300
7. Termination
The Terms will continue to apply until terminated by either you or Kirusa as follows:
7.1. You may end your legal agreement with Kirusa at any time for any reason by just discontinuing Your use of the Services. You do not need to specifically inform Kirusa when You stop using the Services. However Your accounts may be deactivated due to prolonged inactivity as per Kirusa's policies on such inactive accounts.
7.2. Kirusa reserves the right to decide whether any Content posted using the Services is appropriate and complies with these Terms. Kirusa may, in its sole discretion, remove such data/content and/or terminate Your access for uploading material in violation of these Terms and Privacy Policy at any time, without prior notice.
7.3. Kirusa will terminate Your access to its website at its sole discretion, in case You are determined to be a repeat infringer, without giving any prior notice.
7.4 Articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11 and 14 of these Terms of Use shall survive termination.
8. Digital Millennium Copyright Act
8.1. If You are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any Content infringes upon Your copyrights, You may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by providing our Copyright Agent with the information required under 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3) in writing.
9. Limitation of Liability
(i) YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES;
(ii) ANY CONDUCT OR CONTENT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF OTHER USERS OR THIRD PARTIES;
(iii) ANY CONTENT OBTAINED FROM THE SERVICES; AND
(iv) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, USE OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR CONTENT, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, WHETHER OR NOT KIRUSA HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, AND EVEN IF A REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
9.3. The Services are controlled and offered by Kirusa from its facilities in the United States of America. Kirusa makes no representations that the Services are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who access or use the Services from other jurisdictions do so at their own volition and are responsible for compliance with local law.
10. Indemnity
10.1. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Kirusa, its officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees) arising from:
a) Your use of and access to the Services;
b) Your violation of any term of these Terms and Privacy Policy;
c) Your violation of any third party right, including without limitation any copyright, property, or privacy right; or d) Any claim that any content posted by you using the Services caused damage to a third party. This defense and indemnification obligation will survive these Terms and Your use of the Services.
11. Warranty Disclaimer
11.1. Your access to and use of the Services or any Content is at Your own risk. You understand and agree that the Services is provided to You on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis. Without limiting the foregoing, KIRUSA AND ITS PARTNERS DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Kirusa makes no warranty and disclaim all responsibility and liability for the completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Services or any content thereon. Kirusa will not be responsible or liable for any harm to Your computer system, loss of data, or other harm that results from Your access to or use of the Services, or any Content. You also agree that Kirusa has no responsibility or liability for the deletion of, or the failure to store or to transmit, any Content and other communications maintained by the Services. Kirusa makes no warranty that the Services will meet Your requirements or be available on an uninterrupted, secure, or error-free basis. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained from Kirusa or through the Services, will create any warranty not expressly made herein.
12. Ability to Accept Terms of Service
12.1. You affirm that You are either more than 13 years of age (14 years of age if you are located in Spain or South Korea), or possess legal parental or guardian consent, and are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in these Terms of Use, and to abide by and comply with these Terms of Use. You further represent and warrant that You are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a" terrorist-supporting" country, and that You are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
13. Assignment
13.1. These Terms and any rights and licenses granted hereunder and under the Privacy Policy may not be transferred or assigned by You, but may be assigned by Kirusa at its sole discretion.
14. Jurisdiction
14.1. This Agreement shall be construed and enforced according to the laws of the State of New Jersey, United States of America, without respect to its conflict of law principles. All litigation arising under or related to these Terms shall be brought in the Superior Court of the State of New Jersey in Union County or the Federal District Court for New Jersey as permitted by law.
15. Entire Agreement
15.1. These Terms and our Privacy Policy are the entire and exclusive agreement between Kirusa and You regarding the Services (excluding any services for which You have a separate agreement with us that is explicitly in addition or in place of these Terms), and these Terms supersede and replace any prior agreements between Kirusa and You regarding the Services.
16. Waiver and Severability
16.1. Any failure on our part to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be deemed a waiver of such right or provision. In the event that any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect. These Services are operated and provided by Kirusa Inc., 139 South Street, Suite 205, New Providence, NJ 07974. If You have any questions about these Terms, please contact us. The above Terms of Use may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the "effective date" below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. Your continued use of Services constitutes Your agreement to these Terms of Use and any amendments thereof. These Terms of Use were last modified on April 3, 2019.
17. Open Source
17.1. The Software may contain or be provided together with open source software. Each item of open source software is subject to its own applicable license terms, which can be found at www.instavoice.com/opensource and/or in the Software documentation or the applicable help, notices, about or source files. Copyrights to the open source software are held by the respective copyright holders indicated therein.


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Legends of Signum: Dragon Hunters Kickstarter
Ein neues Spiel im Legends of Signum Universum wird auf Kickstarter finanziert.
"Dragon Hunters" is a two-player tabletop wargame in the "Legends of Signum" world. The game includes additional single player and four-player game modes.
"Dragon Hunters" is a game where three reckless heroes – an avenging amazon, a warlike half-orc, and an intrepid mage explorer face a deadly and terrifying dragon with treasure hidden within its lair. The Dragon is not the only opponent, as the hunters' greed and thirst for glory can ruin a well-executed plan. You will decide who will be the lucky hunter to receive the treasure, and who will fall while facing the dragon – and don't forget about the dragon itself, who will do everything in its power to destroy the intruders and derail your strategy.
Hunters have a great many skills and weapons at their disposal, such as numerous poisons and traps, tactics, tricks, and legendary armor, mighty swords, and ancient powerful artifacts! As they confront a dangerous and armored beast from ancient myth – Paraxis the Ruthless, also known as Scarlet Death, whose power and fury have no bounds! This dragon will not stop until it destroys everyone who dared to invade its lair! Fangs, claws, and wings are the dragon's usual weapons of choice, but Paraxis is also an ancient and terrible beast – creating illusions, burning its enemies, and summoning faithful dragon whelps to aid it in battle.
Das sind die Pledges:
Der Maßstab der Modelle:
Und natürlich Stretch Goals!
"Dragon Hunters" is an independent game based on the "Legends of Signum" skirmish-game mechanics. Alternate character cards as well as miniatures of the Dragon and all the hunters can be used as mercenaries in "Legends of Signum".
If you still haven't purchased your army – this is your best chance to collect a squad with a hero and characters from "Legends of Signum: Battle for Vallor" set. Just choose your faction, one of two available heroes and one of the three orders or guilds. Depending on the faction, you will receive a squad of 7 Vallor or Imperial soldiers in addition to your hero.
Legends of Signum is a skirmish wargame where fight the squads led by the heroes. As the events unfold on the Battlefield, the players build their own Cities which help them recruit characters, use spells and relics and employ cunning tactics. With the numerous factions and diverse strategies, each game is really unique.
"Dragon Hunters" has been in development since 2018. It is based on the well-known skirmish wargame "Legends of Signum" game mechanics, but unlike "Legends of Signum", we have focused our efforts on game balance related to a new game format and creating new mechanics. The game rules will be familiar to everyone who has played "Legends of Signum", but we made them even more intuitive for new players.
To date, we have held plenty of test games with all possible game combinations in every game mode in order to be sure that we release a balanced and re-playable game that will be enjoyable whether you're playing together with your friends or alone against the dragon itself! All miniatures featured in the game have been created by our experienced professionals, whose works are in demand among miniature collectors around the globe.
Our miniatures are cast from a high-quality resin that allows us to achieve the highest level of detail. This approach makes the miniatures a great choice both for tabletop players and demanding collectors. Every miniature in "Dragon Hunters" will be created by our own production staff allowing us to guarantee the quality of the finished product.
Single Player Mode
"Dragon Hunters" has a solo-mode for one player. In this mode the player will always be playing on the Hunters side, trying to confront the Dragon itself.
The player draws cards, searches for Gold and performs any other actions as per the standard 2 player mode. The Dragon performs actions according to the text on the Event Cards, which are drawn in a random order. To achieve victory, the Hunters have to eliminate the Dragon.
We have developed a mobile app for Android (iOS version is currently under development) in order to make the solo mode game more intuitive and enjoyable.
Four Player Game Mode
A cooperative four-player game mode which turns the game into an epic battle where each Hunter fights not only against a an impossibly large and terrifying beast but also their own interests as they might not be ready to sacrifice themselves to save an ally.
In this mode, the three players each control a Hunter and compete against the fourth player who controls the Dragon.
Materials: We use certified grey resin from the US company "Smooth-On". This material enables an accurate transmission of fine details to any miniature. It is absolutely safe for people. Thus, even if you fill all the free space in your living rooms with our miniatures – it still will not cause any problems as it is not toxic and completely safe.
This polyurethane resin has several advantages:
1) Minimal shrinkage: Shrinkage is 0.0065 mm per each 1mm. This is especially significant in the manufacture of large/complex miniatures and shapes as it avoids skewing, and prevents cracks appearing during assembly.
2) Ease of processing: Finished material can be easily cut, sawed, drilled and filed. It does not crumble, it does not stretch, and it does not separate. Parts can be easily glued, achieving high adhesion. It should be also noted that priming and painting will not give you any troubles.
3) Strict control: Our products undergo strict quality control before they go to the customer. Modern technologies allow us to achieve a maximum correspondence of the copy to the original. We do everything with a great sense of responsibility to our customers.
4) Consistent high quality: Our high-quality miniatures are a well-deserved pride of our company, therefore we do not intend to reduce our standards. We do not allow the sale of miniatures even with «minor» defects and never will. No external factors will ever affect this.
5) Staff: First of all, our team is full of enthusiasts. They are specialists with many years of experience in casting and modelling. Furthermore, they are fans of military-tactical and collectible card games – that's why they put their whole soul into their work, being interested in creating and involving themselves in a high-quality finished game.
Das Porto liegt mit 30 – 45 Dollar ziemlich hoch.
Die Kampagne läuft noch 20 Tage und ist finanziert.
Quelle: Dragon Hunters


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Working my way through college, I waited tables and tended bar. Though I have several degrees with an emphasis on human behavior and psychology, I swear I learned more about people from slinging hash and pouring drinks. I can remember accidentally spilling a few drops of an ice cream drink on a lady�s skirt and being totally humiliated as she screamed at me in the restaurant. I also recall a very kind man who didn�t get upset even though there were repeated problems with his order.
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Sam Mitchell got some looks as a potential head coach this offseason, but will ultimately settle as an assistant on Flip Saunders' staff in Minnesota. He was last an assistant with the Nets, and was the Raptors' coach for four seasons before his time in New Jersey.
Sam Mitchell is finalizing an agreement today to join Flip Saunders coaching staff in Minnesota, league source tells Yahoo.
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The Literacy Organizational Capacity Initiative (LOCI) sponsored a webinar on Social Emotional Learning: the Foundations Every Teacher Needs to Know.
Today's literacy classrooms are expected to be more interactive, collaborative, and rigorous than ever before. Research has shown that when educators attend to the social emotional needs of students and offer instruction in the skills necessary to successfully engage with intrapersonal and interpersonal interactions, academic achievement is enhanced. What are these social-emotional competencies, how are they developed, and how can they be integrated in instruction throughout the school day? This free webinar will share information that we at LOCI believes undergirds any effective literacy curriculum and is especially critical in constructing a school culture that supports successful, engaged, and fully present learning for students and teachers alike.
The Consortium for Educational Change Consultant Mary Tavegia will host the webinar. Mary has 37 years of educational experience in schools in Iowa and Illinois. During her nearly 20 years of teaching, she worked as both a special education teacher and a general education teacher and she also served as president of the education association for the district. She spent more than 15 years as an elementary principal where she led her school's implementation of inclusionary special education practices, Response to Intervention, data driven instruction and social emotional learning (SEL).
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Paper No. 6372 Dated 27-Apr-2018
Colonel R Hariharan
[This is an up-dated version of the paper presented by the author at an international seminar on "Borders in South Asia: States, Communities and People" organized by Pondicherry University School of Social Sciences & International Studies UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute of South Asia Regional Cooperation & Centre for South Asian Studies at Pondicherry on February 1 and 2, 2018]
Paper No. 6360 Dated 27-Mar-2018
By Dr. S. Chandrasekharan
In our paper 6350 dated 19 Feb 2018 we have mentioned that fighting between the Myanmar Army (Tatmadaw) and the Kachins had intensified and that the offensive instead of bringing around the KIA to signing the agreement would only result in throwing them in the lap of the Chinese through the newly formed FNPCC (Federal Political Negotiation and Consultation Committee) led by the Chinese supported UWSA (United Wa State Army).
Paper No. 6354 Dated 08-Mar-2018
The Rohingya problem which was a local bilateral issue between Myanmar and Bangladesh and had then become a regional issue with the Rohingya refugees spreading out of Bangladesh.
It is now getting into international dimensions and one cannot but agree with the statement of A.M.A Muhith, the Finance Minister of Bangladesh that the Rohingya repatriation back to Myanmar will never succeed!
Paper No. 6350 Dated 19-Feb-2018
Renewed and intensive fighting between the Armed Forces and the KIA, Marginalisation of the UNFC, rigid and inflexible stand of both Tatmadaw and China supported FPNCC and increasingly open intervention by China in the cease fire process- these sum up the state of the peace process in Myanmar.
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And I changed the date on the post from May 5th to May 3rd. Don't ask. LOL
Even with the selling of the past few days, all the breadth indicators that I follow are just giving neutral readings as of today. In other news, everything either sitting on or perched within striking distance of the important 50MA. That will need to give way if the decline is really going to get underway, which I expect will happen soon enough.
Did get out of my UPRO Wednesday so I avoided today's droppage.
$SPX closed at 1395.96 on March 13th, the first time $SPX closed above 1390 this year. Really nothing but churn since then.
I know that some of you who are visiting the site these past couple of weeks are new to the site. In order to understand how I've marked up the chart below, please refer to the "60 Minute Trading Strategy" tab at the top of the page.
Chart says it all. A bearish X of the 13EMA down through the 34EMA followed by a break of the lower rising trend line is a bona fide 'sell' signal. Been getting lots of those lately. The fact that the RSI just about tagged 30 near the end of the day suggests a bounce for tomorrow, though, unless you're day trading, could be a high risk trade. I mean, who really wants to hold over the weekend these days?
Cash is king in times of uncertainty.
Stealth Distribution? I'm not really convinced yet, but I am warming to the concept.


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Sunday I ran 13.1 miles.
It's the best race I've had.
It was my fastest time ever. I spent an amazing 1:58:40 alone in contemplation about my life, it's direction and where I see myself going in the near future. There should be an amazing recap flying out from my fingers at lightening speed. I should be replaying all the awesome things I saw and did (I ran some of the race with a 71 year old man who had just completed the Boston Marathon two weeks prior). I should be reliving all the thumbs ups and pats on the back I received (seriously if you don't wear some kind of sign proclaiming your accomplishments during your long races – you're nuts). I should be contemplating how I ran in areas of my home town where I used to buy and use my drug of choice and here I was running through them again successful to have come out alive and in the best shape of my life. I should be telling you about when I woke up Sunday and dressed for the race I was happy to just be showing up and anything that happened would be okay with me. I should be throwing down words of emotions that pull at your heart strings when during mile 5 I passed the 2:00:00 pacer and decided right then and there I was going to pull of my first sub two hour half marathon despite all that has happened to me in the previous weeks leading up to Sunday morning. I should be telling you about seeing my friend Jessi waving her sign as I came around the last corner and in that instant I loved her more than I thought possible.
But I'm not.
I'm keeping this one for me.
There are just some events in your life that you don't want to share. You don't want to let it go for fear that the momentum of what happened will be lost. This is one of those events. I just want to keep this close to my heart and find the ability to be proud of what I've done and to find the validation of what I accomplished from inside myself. Not everything on this journey is meant to be shared here…
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Summer weather is great for relaxing with family and friends. Being outside for pool parties, barbecues, and beach trips are what make summertime so much fun.
We've all heard that protecting skin from the sun will help prevent it from aging. But if you're already older, is there any point to worrying about sun damage? Since the skin becomes more delicate and vulnerable as we age, that means that it's more important than ever for older adults to protect their skin from damage caused by the sun. Older adults need to take special precautions to limit their sun exposure as much as possible.
Poor planning during outdoor time, however, can lead to problems like sunburn and dehydration in elderly populations who are especially at risk for these hot-weather woes. But by taking a few precautions, problems like sunburn and dehydration in the elderly can be avoided and seniors will be able to get the most out of long summer days.
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Ports 1961 recently changed hands from Tia Cibani to her sister, Fiona. For spring 2011, the label's latest collection is inspired by the desert.
The five initial looks adhere to a neutral, sandy-toned palette in both structured and flowing silhouettes. Tailored separates are vaguely accented with adventurer details, like jodpur stitching on skinny pants and a khaki safari one-piece shorts suit whose fabric we cannot wait to see.
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During my time studying in Melbourne, Australia, I rented a house with a few friends. It was almost love at first sight with the house. It was spacious, the layout was nice, an awesome kitchen and there was enough room for all four of us boys. It also had a enough space in the back for a garden. That's the problem. Non of us were the gardening type and no one really liked weeding. So we did all smart pragmatic university students did, we left it to thrive in its full glory driven by the force of nature.


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As we've been saying here at IAOFM since February and a couple times more recently, Charles Woodson as a matchup safety for the Broncos is an excellent idea (If you're not sure what we mean by a matchup safety, here is a fine refresher course).
The Broncos' struggles at covering tight ends in recent years, and especially last season, have been well documented.
To that end, Vic Lombardi is reporting that the team is finally going to take a closer look at Woodson:
Got a great scoop today. Broncos continue to make aggressive moves toward a Super Bowl, kicking the tires on Charles Woodson tomorrow.
Woodson expected to visit the Broncos soon, possibly this week.I'm thinking they see Woodson in a dual role safety/corner.
Woodson's agent, Carl Poston, tells ESPN's Josina Anderson that his client is flying into Denver today for a visit that will run through Wednesday. Meanwhile, Ian Rapoport says their meeting is to take place tomorrow, which Adam Schefter confirms.
Poston also says Woodson has one preliminary offer in hand, from the Raiders.
None of this is to suggest the Broncos should have visited with Chuck Wood earlier.
His public wonderment about a lack of NFL interest and recent admission that he's willing to go to a rebuilding team would seem to indicate that the former Heisman winner, seven-time All-Pro, eight-time Pro Bowler, and 2009 DPOY had a price tag far higher than his value as perceived around the league.
Woodson, who will turn 37 in October, has 15 years under his NFL belt - eight with Oakland, and seven with Green Bay, where he drew $11M in compensation last season. He had been due to earn around $10M in each of the 2013 and 2014 seasons prior to his February release by the Packers.
A broken right collarbone limited Woodson to seven regular-season and two playoff games, during which he earned an overall grade of -1.5 from PFF (+3.1 run defense, -2.4 pass rush,+0.6 pass coverage, -2.8 penalty). PFF had him down for two sacks, five QB hurries, 41 tackles, 10 assists, five missed tackles, and 16 stops in those nine games.
Ted has suggested Woodson would make sense on a one-year, $4M deal, and as we all know, Denver has and will have plenty of cap room to cover such an expenditure.
As for where Woodson would fit on the roster, he would likely join Rahim Moore and David Bruton as locks to make the 53-man roster. Cutting Mike Adams would save the team $2M in cash and against the cap; Quinton Carter is more likely than Adams to contribute on special teams, while Duke Ihenacho's chances of sticking would be all but gone as a result.
Recent comments by John Elway and Matt Russell had suggested that they see third-rounder Kayvon Webster as a potential matchup safety, but the taller Woodson is a known quantity and perfect for the role.
Five corners are roster locks - Champ Bailey, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, Chris Harris, Omar Bolden, and Webster. Tony Carter would be something of a surprise cut, especially given his $715K bargain price tag, but the already crowded secondary would get all that much tighter with Woodson aboard.
Ultimately, I'm not sure where the Broncos would find a roster spot, if they were to carry ten defensive backs, so I'll leave that up to Ted to discuss, if/when Denver signs Woodson.
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An award winning International Market will be returning to Carlisle city centre over the Easter Weekend.
Over 35 traders will be bringing a real flavour of Europe and beyond with wonderful foods and a great range of crafts and gifts from around the Globe. Between Thursday 13 April and Easter Monday 17 April, Carlisle's city centre pedestrianised area will be bursting with flavour and a fantastic family friendly atmosphere, offering visitors the opportunity to visit a number of countries and try something different.
Just some of the tasty flavours which will be drawing in visitors to the International event include Catalan tapas, Greek gyros, a Traditional German Schwenkgrill selling Bratwurst and Currywurst Sausage, French crepes, a Thai noodle bar and even Ostrich and Kanagroo burgers so Hop It.
And whilst you meander around the stalls sampling some of the great Fresh Food products you can relax and browse some of the great Craft and Gift stalls including South American Jewellery and Knitwear, Italian Silk Scarves, Handmade Amber, crystal and gemstone jewellery and of course the famous Dutch Plant Garden selling a huge array of shrubs, bulbs, beautiful plants and trees with some great garden ornaments!
And if that's not enough take the weight off and sit in our traditional Bavarian Street Bar and enjoy a great German Beer or glass of wine.
Market Place will also be celebrating Easter by hosting a free Easter Egg hunt on Easter Sunday for all visiting families. Our traditional Easter Bunny will be joining in all the fun and helping the children find hidden eggs amongst the trader's stalls for their chance to win a free chocolate Easter egg!
Opening hours of the International Market are:
Thursday to Saturday: 9am to 5.30pm
Easter Sunday: 10am to 5pm
Bank Holiday Monday: 10am to 5pm
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Growing up, there are so many similar foods to distinguish between, it can drive youngsters, and even adults, insane! You've got the sweet cookie and the salty cracker; the green broccoli and its white counterpart, the cauliflower; the Coke and Pepsi twins; the celebrity cucumber and its zucchini lookalike; the cabbage and its leafy lettuce impostor; and of course, the classic sweet potato and yam doppelgangers.
Thankfully, as time goes on, most of us can differentiate between cucumbers and zucchinis. And for others like Coke and Pepsi, sweet potatoes and yams, you just nod and pretend you know the difference when asked, and everyone believes you.
There's still one final mystery that has pestered me since the age of six at Molly Greenberg's birthday party, and hopefully, for the sake of my post's relevance, it's been bothering you, too (even if you weren't invited to Molly's birthday party, which by the way, wasn't all that great).
The muffin and the cupcake. What really is the difference?
As it turns out, nowadays, there isn't much.
Cupcakes, called fairy cakes in some parts of the world, were first made by bakers because they required less time in the oven than a standard cake. They were originally called cupcakes because of the way bakers measured the ingredients for their preparation. Whereas the ingredients for "pound" cakes were weighed, "cup" cakes were made of ingredients measured out in cups. These tiny delicacies were also once called number cakes, 1234 cakes, or quarter cakes, because their recipe originally called for one cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, and four eggs.
Muffins, on the other hand, are a very different species. These baked goodies are typically much larger than cupcakes and are meant to be less sweet. In fact, muffins were once the pioneer healthy snack choice, laden with various vegetables and grains. However, for these healthy choices to withstand their shelf life, muffins were soon baked with lots of sugar. This, of course, was pretty counterintuitive, and contributed to today's muffins tasting a lot like cupcakes.
But wait! The convergent evolution is even stronger than that! With the growing market for baked goods, cupcakes have increased in size dramatically, resembling their muffin cousins more and more. Today, it seems that there's really only one deciding factor: frosting. If your mushroom-shaped goodie's got it, it's a cupcake; if not, you've got yourself a muffin.
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There'll be no macro-brews being poured at Saturday's Locals Only Beer Festival in downtown Jacksonville. As its name implies, the festival will feature all local breweries and only local breweries.
The festival, hosted by JAX Chamber, will run from 2 to 6 p.m. in the chamber parking lot at 3 Independent Drive.
Bold City Brewery, Intuition Ale Works, Engine 15 Brewing Co., Green Room Brewing, Aardwolf Brewing and Pinglehead Brewing Co. will be serving beer, along with Veterans United Craft Brewing, which plans to open in May off Southside Boulevard.
Admission is free, but you'll have to pay for the beer. Food trucks will be there, along with activities provided by The Players and Sunshine Soccer.
There's a new craft beer spot in the King Street beer district. The Silver Cow is open at 1506 King St. with 26 beers on tap - many of them locally brewed - as well as bottles and cans, boutique wines and a small kitchen producing beer-friendly bites.
Owner Regina Heffington, who blogs as Jax Brew Bitch, plans to expand her beer selection. The bar is open Tuesdays through Sundays. For more info, see silvercowjax.com.
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The sailing vessel SV Northabout is visiting Mayo after successfully completing its ambitious journey circumnavigating the North Pole via the Northwest Passage.
The sailing boat was anchored in Blacksod yesterday evening and will visit Westport today before returning home to Bristol after their four-month journey. The boat was designed and built specifically for Polar Exploration in Mayo back in 2000.
The crew of the Northabout left Bristol on the 19th of June setting off on a 13,500 mile journey to circumnavigate the North Pole anticlockwise.
The aim of their polar ocean challenge was to highlight the drastic shrinkage in Arctic sea ice. They navigated their way through the receding ice of the Northwest Passage that only a few years ago would have been impassable.
Historically the Northwest Passage has been notoriously perilous for mariners. For centuries explorers including many Irishmen such as Francis Crozier on Franklin's doomed expedition attempted to find a route through. Now however due to the receding sea ice, the cause of which has been largely attributed to human influenced climate change, the Passage has become routinely navigable in the late summer months since 2007.
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4 Ingredient Vegan Chocolate Fudgsicles
On scale from zero to Robb Stark, how hot is your laptop?
Oh no. Won't she ever stop with all these bad Game of Thrones jokes? You're not funny, gal,stop it – I hear you mutter as you roll your eyes once again.
Soon, my dear friends, soon.
In the meantime, let me tell you that my laptop broke that scale and it's now leaving second-degree burns in my tight. Which will soon become third-degree ones unless I'm done with this post soon and turn this thing off so let's keep this post short and sweet today for the sake of my legs.
And what's a girl to do when she has to spend most of her day sitting in a dark room because it's way too hot to go outside?
a) Cry
b) Attempt to go running outside just to discover that humans can actually melt.
c) Fudgesicles and all things ice-cream
I wish I could say that c) is the right answer, but we all know that I'm guilty of doing them three – oooops.
Anyway. When temperatures reach 381749823 degrees, the first thought which crosses my mind is "EAT ALL THE ICE CREAM!!!!". But you guys know me and my hatred toward doing the dishes and waiting.
Making ice-cream = wait a day until the ice-cream maker bowl freezes + dirty bowls and spoons (LOTS OF SPOONS! A girl's gotta try the mixture before it's churned, right? For the sake of the recipe, you know) + wait wait wait for it to churn + clean all the spoons.
And that, my friends, is the reason why you all need these fudgsicles in your life.
4 ingredients + a blender + 5 minutes of hands on time = bliss and happiness everywhere.
Super fudgy, chocolaty (no, they do not taste like avocado at all!), melt-in-your-mouth delicious pops. Which happen to be vegan & paleo too (that's a translation for my sumer motto, "EAT ALL THE POPSICLES!", duh).
Get yourself a nice ripe avocado and a (big) handful of ripe dates now and go make these babies. You know you want one. And by one I mean seven, but you get the idea. I shall leave now before this thing in my tight evolves to one of those fourth-degree burns.
(Hint: do not look that up in Google to check how it's spelled or you might cry. Not that it happened here or something……..)
- 1 small avocado
- 1/4 cup raw cacao powder
- 25 soft medjool dates
- 3/4 cup milk of choice (almond, cashew, hazelnut, oat, soy, dairy... all work)
- Blend together avocado and dates until smooth.
- Add in cacao powder and blend until combined.
- Add in milk and blend until creamy.
- Pour mixture on popsicle molds and freeze until solid.
- These popsicles turn out delicious with just 4 ingredients, but you may add the following to make them even better if you want!
- -Vanilla extract
- -Cinnamon
- -Extra stevia (if you like things on the sweeter side!)
- -Instant coffee granules (to enhance the chocolate flavor!)
Have a wonderful day! Hope it's not too hot where you live!


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May 15, 1991, Section A, Page 4Buy Reprints
Graying now and less firm of step with the passing years, the veterans marched recently through this Amazon city. The front ranks held banners reading, "Rubber Soldiers Demand Pensions."
Someone in the back recalled the rubber soldiers' marching song, and soon, as if it were 1943 again, the marchers were singing: "Long live the Brazilian soldier! Your product will be useful all over the world."
After the march, Clovis Barreto, an organizer, urged an American visitor here, "Ask the American Government to pressure our Government to pay our pensions."
In 1942, Japanese troops swept through Indonesia and Malaya, occupying vast rubber plantations and cutting off the allies from 95 percent of the world's rubber supply. In the United States, rubber stocks were low and a synthetic rubber industry was in its infancy.
From airplane tires to surgical gloves, rubber was crucial to the war effort. In desperation, the United States turned to Brazil. With as many as 200 million wild rubber trees in the Amazon, American experts calculated, Brazil could quickly increase its rubber production. With an injection of manpower, the Americans reasoned, Brazil could raise output eightfold, hitting 100,000 tons a year. 'Fighting in the Trenches'
Soon recruiting posters for rubber tappers were appearing in Brazil's drought-stricken northeast, a traditional source of migrants to the Amazon. Referring to Brazil's expeditionary force in Italy, one poster made the patriotic appeal, "While our soldiers are fighting in Italy, you are fighting in the trenches for rubber."
Marinho El Rey de Alencar was a 20-year-old road worker in Iguatu, in Ceara State, when he became a "soldado da borracha."
"I enlisted as a rubber soldier because my mother cried a lot and didn't want me to join the army," Mr. Alancar, now 68 years old, recalled recently as he relaxed in a worn armchair on the front porch of his wooden shanty here.
In addition to learning the marching song, Brazil's rubber soldiers received a uniform -- white shirt, blue pants and hat -- as well as a pair of rubber sandals, a backpack, a hammock, a plate, a cup and a knife.
Germany took the rubber campaign seriously enough to send submarines to prowl Brazil's northern coastline, searching for troopships entering the mouth of the Amazon.
"It was midnight when the captain sighted a submarine," Mr. Alencar said of his trip to the Amazon in 1943. "We doused all the lights and put on life jackets."
The submarine scare passed uneventfully for Mr. Alencar. Indeed, more debilitating than Nazi submarines was the United States War Department's underestimation of the Amazon. Snake bites, tropical diseases and Indian attacks ravaged "forest battalions" soon after they arrived in the unfamiliar jungle.
"If it wasn't malaria, it was the snakes, the jaguars or the Indians," said Mr. Barreto, the 66-year-old president of the Association of Rubber Soldiers of Amazonas State. A native of the semi-arid northeast, Mr. Barreto estimated that half of the rubber soldiers never made it out of the jungle alive.
Of a projected fighting force of 100,000 rubber soldiers, only an estimated 25,000 actually completed the four-month voyage from Brazil's northeast to distant Amazon areas where latex was harvested from wild rubber trees.
Downstream, American officials based in this Amazon River port nervously waited for a rubber boom to materialize.
"From the U.S. point of view, the thing was a colossal failure," said Warren Dean, a New York University professor who has researched the history of rubber in Brazil. 'A Great Fiasco'
"The American investment must have been $30 million, but at the high point, in 1944, only 13,684 tons of rubber were exported to the allies," he said. "It was a very, very tiny amount, when you consider that we needed hundreds of thousands of tons."
From the Brazilian side, it was "a great fiasco," said Samuel Benchimol, speaking the American English he learned almost 50 years ago as a shipping agent for Catalina airplanes flying rubber from here to Miami.
"After World War II ended, nothing changed; rubber production declined again," Mr. Benchimol, now 68, said of this equatorial city whose graceful turn-of-the-century opera house dates back to Brazil's first rubber boom. Because South American leaf blight precludes growing rubber in plantations in most of Brazil, the nation imports almost two-thirds of its rubber.
But the militant legacy of the rubber soldiers has endured across the Amazon.
In the 1980's, in the western Amazon state of Acre, a new generation of rubber tappers started to fight back against ranchers who burned down rubber groves for cattle pasture. The conflict gained world attention in December 1988 when two ranchers killed the rubber tappers' leader, Francisco (Chico) Mendes.
In belated national recognition, Brazil's 1988 Constitution stipulated payment of a monthly pension of two minimum salaries (about $130) to "rubber tappers who, responding to the appeal of the Brazilian Government, contributed to the war effort, working in rubber production in the Amazon region during World War II."
But three years later, down at Mr. Alencar's zinc-roofed shanty on Ajuricaba Street here, the veteran has yet to see a cruzeiro of his pension. He lost his rubber soldier commission papers when his canoe capsized decades ago.
The Social Security Administration "only pays men who have old documents," Mr. Barreto, the union leader, said. "After 48 years, a lot of men don't have their papers."
Of 5,000 eligible veterans of the rubber war in Amazonas State, he estimated, only 300 receive their pensions.


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It has been some wild ride this month – no doubt. Companies have begun/continued to release their ever so exciting dividend increases and I'm here smiling to receive them, that's for sure. Some have increased them at a not so high level, some right on where you'd expect and others have had surprisingly nice dividend increases. I'm sadly going to be very conceited and focus on the dividend stocks in my portfolio that have made announcements mid-way through November. I primarily will be focused on the companies, years they have increased, the impact to the portfolio and essentially, bringing it all together to show why we are dividend investors. Okay, enough of this Italian typing away, let's get to the article.
Notable companies whom have increased their dividend
1. Emerson Electric (EMR): The dividend aristocrat themselves. Bert has purchased them multiple times and, well, I have purchased them not once, not twice, but three times as well. Heck, Bert even considers it one of his 5 Always Buy Stocks…. well, I like the company, but after this increase they gave us, I may question it a bit. They have announced their traditional November dividend increase and for their 58th+ year in a row doing so, they announced what I thought was the weakest dividend increase I have ever seen. They increased their dividend a whopping 0.50 of a cent per quarter. This was a 1.06% dividend increase from $0.47/quarter to $0.475 per quarter… I am tossing this company into my article of – Large Companies who are Increasing their dividends by Small amounts. The impact here was only $1.80 to my forward dividend income… well, I hope they have a better run next year; this keeps their payout ratio around the mid point. I will still take it, but a COLA adjustment would be nice!
2. Kraft – Heinz (KHC): The newly formed company by 3G capital…. yes, yes we all know and love Kraft (Huge special dividend earlier this year after the merger closed, thank you guys!). They kept right on with their consistency, that's for sure. This will technically be their first year of a dividend increase and it is fairly straight from last year. They increased their dividend 4.54% from $0.55 to $0.575 per share per quarter. This is fairly similar to 2014's increase from Kraft, when they were public. I am sure right now they are still trimming fat and seeing how the earnings and cash flow will truly be. Heck, they even just announced closing down a few plants and laying off a few thousand workers… tough to see, but I know why they are doing it. Tough, tough to see, I hope they will find new places of employment/time. The increase held only a $2.69 addition to my forward dividend income, I like it and will gladly accept. Thanks KHC! Looking forward to a full year of you guys.
3. Rockwell Automation (ROK): I know I've been quiet on these guys and it's been a while since I have purchased them back earlier this year. However – they stayed true to their strong dividend growth rate, which now will have 5+ years of dividend growth. They increased their dividend 11.53% this year, talk about a jolt to the dividend growth rate for my portfolio! Loving this and was surprisingly given the dismal increases we have seen throughout the year mostly. Still have a great payout ratio in the low 40% range and still have ample room to continue the increases. The 11.53% had an impact of $6.93 added to my portfolio, very awesome! Thank you ROK, keep it coming, no sighs over here, just smiles and getting closer to the goal.
4. McDonalds (MCD): I'm Loving It. Well, well… McDonalds, FINALLY made their announcement, after the long waited debate. I was just browsing their investor news website in the morning and boom there it was. had to show Bert and we were both shocked. Management decided no REIT to be in the plan for them, as they contemplated spinning off their properties into a REIT company. With that decision now made, the increase came next at 4.74% and the aristocrat stands! As you all know, this is one of our foundation stocks for any dividend portfolio. What's funny, is even with all of the bad press, McDonalds (MCD) is up 20% year to date… how about those apples… err I mean big macs… still making it happen. I think with the changes they have had, they are back on track. Excited for them, that's for sure. This increase added $6.99 forward to my overall income going forward for the year, again, "I'm Lovin' It".
Why do these dividend increases matteR?
Why am I discussing these now and not as I normally do as part of my normal dividend income for the month summary that I post? I wanted to highlight a few things… dividend increases are incredible. They are adding more income to your portfolio and to living, so that you either can reinvest the dividends into more shares or simply to use to purchase food, transportation, shelter, whatever it may be. What did I really do? Nothing, nothing outside of being frugal, saving money and investing when/where I can. Very lucky to say that I have the ability and means to do that. Thank you. However, it's powerful, it's powerful as all hell. It's awesome, $18.41 was just added to my forward income on my portfolio… this just means more reinvestment and more income to break off from that. The clockwork and the hamster wheel for a dividend portfolio is a remarkable thing.
Dividend increases also provide the support or the event of why you invest into dividend companies, and the true benefit of a dividend investor. You have an ever increasing income for very little maintenance at a tax bracket that is currently in your favor (Qualified dividends maxed at 15%/LT capital Gains rates). Further, a dividend increase in a downturn market, as Mr. Market has been sliding down the hill as of late, means more dividend income to reinvest to pick up more than normal share amounts which produce more income that will have increases down the line etc. and etc.. I think it's one word maybe – magic?
dividend Increase Summary
With the combined dividend increases thus far, this has increased, as stated, my forward income by $18.41. Thank you, thank you strong blue-chip companies. Thank you to those that use their products, work and provide your term/service to them and all of us bloggers for keeping the motivation high. To me, that $18.41 invested at a 4% dividend rate, would have taken a capital contribution of $460… and wow, what a burden to be lifted. Instead, the companies that I own are making it easier to not invest as much, as long as they continue to increase that dividend for me/us.
What is everyone else thinking during this end of the year stretch? Did you benefit from dividend increases this month? Any surprises? What are you expecting now and going forward? Would love to hear, thank you for stopping by and all of the best! Let's go get em!


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Serenity Sunday (10th November 2013)3:21 PM
Ephesians 6:18 (NIV)
And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord's people.
Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
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hi there! thanks you for taking time to visit and read my blog =) following your blog =)ReplyDeleteReplies
don't mention it. :) whenever i have extra time, i search for new (mostly pinoy blogs) to follow. i hope we could keep in touch. <3Delete
hi sis! i love this post! touches what is MOST important after all. sunday for me is rest day, family and church. tnx for the add back .. added u on instagram too. do u like animals? i posted pix of my pets -pisceanratReplyDeleteReplies
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i followed you back on instagram! yep, i like animals. i enjoy looking at their pics or even watching vids of them on youtube. i just can't have pets at the moment coz it's not allowed in our unit. sad. :(
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How To Be Broke After A Music Festival
Ask anyone if they like music festivals, most likely their response will be, "Duh!" It seems only a small number of people in the world that don't like and enjoy festivals. Music festivals have a lot of things going on:
- They are entertaining full of good music and good times.
- You can meet new people and reunite with old friends.
- A chance to enjoy good music from some of your favorite artists. Even better, you can hear new music from artists you've never heard of.
- Try new and exciting cuisines from vendors
- Pay a ton of money to get a ticket to the festival
- Pay money for partking
- Pay money for drinks and food
- Pay money for that new festival outfit
- Pay money for travel expenses.
- Pay money for assorted party supplies.
Okay, so maybe those last few things aren't part of the fun that makes up a music festival. I know in my case, I'm scrambling to pay for Electric Daisy Carnival 2015 in Vegas. Beyond paying for tickets, are all the other expenses. Before you realize it, they can add up to being more than the price of the festival itself.
I thought other people might be having the same problem, so I wrote this article.
How To Be Broke After Attending A Music Festival
Being a baller, is a guaranteed way to break your piggy bank wide open.
To start with, you will have to make some changes in the way you see certain things. Many people spend lots of money preparing for a festival. Showing off how much you spent for this or that is not the point of a music festival. Your status or how much money you spent on this or that is the least of everyone's concerns. So spending that money is pointless. It's just a guaranteed way to go broke after attending the music festival. Remember, a festival is all about having a good time with your friends and family.
Are You The Type To Buy Lots Of Items From The Festival Souvenir Shop? You Might Be Broke After the Music Festival.
I also have lots of friends who want to go to EDC but can't because of other obligations. Those same friends want me to "bring them something back". There are many people who want to buy gifts for their close friends from the festival. Yet, buying them a gift doesn't mean you have to pay the most expensive items. It's better to buy several cheap, but beautiful souvenirs than buying one expensive.
Another factor to consider is the time spent looking for the perfect gift. If you spend too much time looking for the perfect gift it will cost you valuable time. That time that you could use watching the show. So remember that there are two prices to every gift that you buy, the time and the price. Take some time and choose the gift you find attractive, but watch for the price.
Buying Stuff at the Festival Will Break Your Pocketbook
This is something that I could talk about for hours, so I'll try to keep it short. EDC Vegas is tons of fun, and an awesome experience. Holy Hell! Watch out for prices on the Vegas strip. I've been to EDC Vegas twice now. The first year was my first time in Vegas and I didn't know what to expect. I just knew that the prices would be expensive. And I was right, the prices were crazy.
Last year EDC Vegas I was much smarter. I didn't want to be broke after the festival, so I figured out what I needed to have there. Alcohol, cigarettes, food, and party supplies were the consumables that I would need there.
But since I was flying into Vegas, I had a limited storage space. I planned with one of my buddies who were driving to take a box of stuff for me to EDC with him. What was the end result? I spent over $500 on alcohol that if I had bought it in Vegas I would have spent more than $1500. That's over a thousand dollars that I saved.
Do you like to smoke? Buy a carton of your cigarettes and take that carton with you. You might not need that many, but the price of a pack of cigarettes were more than $8 in the casinos. Plus you can make money by selling off any extra packs to others.
Why pay a ton of money for food from the casinos/hotels or at the festival? Instead buy food from a grocery store and make meals in your room. Simple sandwiches, fruit, and other school lunch items will be great. Eat those when you get hungry outside of the festival, you'll save a ton. Don't forget protein bars or shakes, they'll replenish you and give you energy.
You should never buy assorted party supplies at a festival. You have no idea what the person is selling is actually what they say it is. It's most likely that the molly they are trying to sell you isn't real molly. That's not to say that there are not sales people that you can trust. There are trustworthy sales people, but that guy isn't. Beyond the safety factor, party supplies are usually cheaper outside the festival.
Buying $5.00 Bottles of Water is Another Good Way to Go Broke after a Music Festival.
Music festivals are not easy to throw, they cost time and money. So the festival organizers try to make as much money as possible. This means that sometimes prices are steeper than outside the festival. The $5.00 bottle of water is a perfect example. If I visit my local grocery store, a case of bottled water cost $3.29. That's about $0.138 each. That's roughly 3000% profit. And doesn't even take into account the bulk discount they most likely get.
So instead of paying all that money for bottles of water, get a hydration pack. They've gotten much lower in price and here's several hydration packs for cheap. Then you just have to visit the hydration stations that they should have. Staying hydrated during a festival is important. You should always have a bottle of water with you.
Don't Want To Be Broke After A Music Festival?
My final good way that I have to not be broke after a music festival is to just be smart. Think about what you are spending your money on. Decide do you need that item, or do you just want it. Will you get any value from that item after the festival?


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Continuing my series on High Southern Culture.
Much of the force of my argument will not be in downplaying "racism," whatever that term means (curse thee, Karl Marx, for thy invention). It will assume it and then redirect it.
Many Southern apologists try to downplay the role of slavery in the War. They will say, echoing Abraham Lincoln ("Letter 1858"), that slavery was not the cause of the war. Historically, that is true. Nobody cares. The Yankee Elite have already determined the truth and you best abide by it or end up in a FEMA camp.
Granting that Southrons did some bad things, and I will focus on Forrest in a bit, I would like to open the floor for some equal-opportunity confessions:
Stonewall Jackson pissed on Virginia Law and taught slaves how to read the Bible in his Sunday School class (Letter to John Lyle Campbell, June 2, 1858).
Let's contrast this with a local contemporary of Jackson, none other than the abolitionist John Brown. If I merely said that Brown killed white, Southern men, women, and children, some sick pervert would likely respond, "Yeah, well, their Southern and they deserved it." Unfortunately, Brown also killed Northern, Yankee women and children (Otto Scott, The Secret Six). Praise God his raid failed (who knows how many more women and children would have been slaughtered?) and he was captured by Stonewall Jackson! History is exciting, isn't it?
Now we get to the proverbial fly in the ointment, Nathan Bedford Forrest. Did not Forrest start the KKK and slaughter surrendering blacks and Fort Pillow? The first objection is more easily dealt with. True, he was an honorary leader for a brief moment, but we must realize that the KKK in the 1860s was not the same as in the 20th century. It was a vigilante police force simply because the Reconstructionists refused to protect Southern women. To his credit Forrest disbanded the organization and when he appeared before a Yankee congress to testify, they accepted his presentation of the facts.
But what about Fort Pillow? That Forrest was involved is certainly true. But given that Forrest took over 30,000 men prisoner in war, it seems really odd that he would not do that here. I am only going to summarize the scholarship. There are several outstanding analyses that do a much better job. Long story short, and consistent with Biblical Warfare Terms of Surrender, Major Bradford had numerous opportunities to surrender and only when Forrest's men stormed the fort did they decide to surrender. It doesn't take a genius to see how this is going to end. Was Forrest at least somewhat guilty? Probably. But how come Major Bradford isn't held to account?
But what is most interesting is that Forrest's men stormed using hand-to-hand combat and revolvers, which when fired at point-blank range it would have left burn marks which are consistent with execution-style marks. But perhaps most damning to the case against Forrest,
Moreover, as the Union defenders fled to the beach, the U.S. flag still flew from Fort Pillow's flagpole – this is significant since in 19th century warfare "Striking (lowering) the Colors" was the universally accepted signal that a garrison had surrendered and an unmistakable signal to the victorious attackers to stop firing. Had Bradford sensibly lowered the U.S. flag, this would have been a clear indication to all attacking Confederates that the garrison had surrendered.
Unfortunate, but not surprising.
But that's not the real offense. The real offense is that Forrest found Jesus after the war.
Let's contrast that with General Sherman's words. Most people are aware of how his men burned and raped slaves across Georgia. Sherman's own rationale is just as jarring.
"Gentlemen, Niggers and cotton caused this war, and I wish them both in Hell." Let's end with a contrast. After Nathan Bedford Forrest's speech to the Independent Pole Bearers Whereupon N. B. Forrest again thanked Miss Lewis for the bouquet and then gave her a kiss on the cheek. Such a kiss was unheard of in the society of those days, in 1875, but it showed a token of respect and friendship between the general and the black community and did much to promote harmony among the citizens of Memphis.


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NISE Net Partners Learn-by-Doing the MOS "Sharing Science Workshop & Practicum" with Grad Students in Boston
They flew in from southern Mississippi, Montana, California, North Carolina, Ohio, and New York. They brought slides and shared their career stories, organizational profiles, and professional agendas. They ate Afghani food in an east Cambridge bistro, and showed up early the next morning along with 14 Harvard and MIT graduates students for a day-long immersion in the "Sharing Science Workshop & Practicum (SSW&P)," the Museum's one-day professional development program in nanoscale informal science and education for early career researchers. They pitched in alongside the students with small group work practice on "sharing science with words" and "sharing science with hands-on demos," and then they all moved out onto the exhibit floor for a two-hour NanoDays-style-hands-on-palooza.
"I got to do hands-on interpretation on the exhibit floor of the Museum of Science!" said Tracy Englert, reference librarian and associate professor from the University of Southern Mississippi - the only non-museum member of the NISE-sponsored team, but no stranger to informal science education and outreach. Tracy, plus Anna Barr from the California Academy of Sciences, Sarah Fisk from the CNSE Children's Museum of Science and Technology, Alex Laube from the Marbles Kids Museum, Brian Pollock from the Museum of Natural History and Science/Cincinnati Museum Center, and Nick Wethington from the spectrUM Discovery Area, then joined the students in an hour of debrief on the joys and surprises of face-to-face engagement with Boston-area youngsters and their parents.
The following morning, Sunday, the NISE partners got to work analyzing how they might adapt, implement and fund the SSW&P to benefit their own institutions, partners, and communities. All went home with a copy of the latest SSW&P Planning and Implementation Guide (new guide 3.0 soon to be posted on nisenet.org), inspirations, and plans. They created a Google Group and promised to report back to one another on their back-home implementations in February and the follow-up involvement of their participating researchers in their NanoDays events. A good time was had by all.
Hosting the event: Carol Lynn Alpert, Karine Thate, and Kayla Berry, with a cameo appearance by NISE Net head-honcho, Larry Bell.
Workshop materials, videos, and more resources are available for free online at http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/tools_guides/sharing_science_workshop_practicum.


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SealSkinz Ultra-light waterproof socks
Price: £20
Website: SealSkinz.com
It's a tough life, but since the new, considerably less bulky, SealSkinz waterproof socks landed on our desk in May we just haven't been rained on on the bike. At least, not unless we'd forgotten to put on the SealSkinz and then got caught out… With the upturn in weather in our parts we were just beginning to despair of some proper rain to test the sock in. Then, a brainwave. As colleague Mark Dangerfield headed off to do a 24-hour mountain bike race last weekend we thrust a large pair in his hands and implored him to try them if the opportunity presented itself. And sure enough it did.
Faced with soggy late-night feet and riding through a river crossing and claggy, horrible mud, Mark traded in his regular, now sodden, cycling socks for the SealSkinz. And these are his initial impressions:
"Hot feet has always been an issue for me so I'd been a little apprehensive about wearing SealSkins. Waterproof usually means not breathable and that usually means discomfort. But after having my feet thoroughly soaked over a waterlogged course I decided to give the socks a go.
"Straight out of the packet the SealSkinz are more than a little stiffer and thicker than normal cycling socks, but once they were on and in my shoes I forgot about them. From that point on my feet remained dry and comfortable. I didn't overheat as expected and I guess the best testament to them was that I didn't think of my feet at all: They just got on with their job.
"I wouldn't consider wearing these socks on a sweltering hot day, but then again, that's not what they are there for. I have now been converted and if I am going to step out in the rain in the future, I am taking my SealSkins with me. Dry feet are comfortable feet. Comfortable feet usually means comfortable me."
At £20 though, they're not cheap socks, so we want to look at them longer-term to see how they bear up.
|So far, so good.
We'll be looking at a longer-term test of the socks as soon as the weather co-operates, in fact looking out of the window that might well start this afternoon…