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LCK Punishes SKT T1's 'Bang' For Months Old Stream Conduct: Creates Controversy
Updated: 12 Aug 2017 5:09 pm
Bang's signature pose makes sense
BY: Joshua Arrieta
The LCK has issued a 'Caution' to SKTT1 for behavior that happened months ago on a private stream. Why did the LCK wait so long to lay down the law? Mostly because they just found out about it.
Recently a viewer took it upon themselves to make the incident known to the LCK a few months after the fact, resulting in the caution being issued. Many people find Bang to be unprofessional and rejoice in the penalty, but others are supporting Bang on social media, and see this as an overreaction. The resulting controversy has created a lot of tension for Bang's team, and they are currently on their biggest losing streak since forming because of it.
What exactly did Bang do to light the fire of this controversy? A viewer made a comment comparing Bang to Faker, saying. "Hey Bang, Faker just got a $1,000 donation. Let's work hard", Bang promptly kicked the commenter off of his channel and said some harsh words that could be interpeted as an insult to lower class citizens.
"My salary would be higher than a hundred people like you put together. You should speak for yourself and work harder".
Bang apologized for his conduct soon afterwards, but since he banned the viewer from his channel, the LCK felt that it was necessary to punish him anyway.
Bang has also expressed on twitter and his streams that he has difficulty "Keeping things in" and that he doesn't want to hurt feelings, but speaking his mind is something he must do. He says he is trying to "Conduct himself with more respect" and is doing his best to work on his temper. When the player recognizes his fault and takes action to try and improve it, does that excuse his behavior?
Given how bright Faker shines it can't be easy being continually compared to someone like that. When the viewer brought it up, it was probably the straw that broke the camel's back. Hopefully in the future, bang has the confidence in himself so that the comparisons to faker won't make him lose his cool. Given his expanded response on twitter he seems to be more prepared for these emotions moving forward.
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There is no greater experience in the world than beating someone who is trying to beat you. Chasing that experience is what leads Josh to high level PvP environments. He writes about it too.
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Stop using antibacterial products. All of them.
You might be thinking that by using these products, you're keeping your family safe. Turns out, it's quite the opposite.
In 2016, the FDA announced bans on numerous antibacterial chemicals used in household cleaners and personal care products. The industry had been given a timeframe to prove that their products were safe back in 2013 — and in three years they were not able to do that.
Manufacturers of consumer soaps and hand cleaners have been given one year to remove 19 banned chemicals from their products. That means that harmful products are still being sold to you in grocery stores, drugstores and home supply stores (not to mention toy stores).
Other companies producing antibacterial products, including sanitizers, cleaners and toothpastes are still under investigation. Many have been asked to provide proof that their use of antibacterials provides more benefit than it does risk. There is no guarantee that they will be able to do that. Until they do, you should be very wary of any product making antibacterial claims.
Antibacterial soaps are no more effective for cleaning your skin than regular soap and water.
Plus, you can easily buy natural soaps that won't cause you harm.
Two of the nineteen chemicals on the banned list are triclosan and triclocarban. You'll find these chemicals in at least 40% of the soap products available on the market. The negative long-term effects of these chemicals are surprising, considering how available they are.
Using antibacterial chemicals to kill bacteria can actually make them stronger over time. It also makes them harder to kill.
Mutations are not the only worry. Often antibacterials wipe out all but the strongest bacteria. The remaining bacteria may become resistant to antibiotics. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (aka MRSA) is one such bacteria that is particularly worrisome. This is a deadly bacteria that cannot be killed by pharmaceutical antibiotics like Methicillin. It is the direct result of overuse of antibiotics and antibacterials. It's just one example.
So, when you think you're fighting off bad bacteria, you're actually making them stronger. These powerful bacteria can then cause infections that your body has a hard time fighting and that we don't have antibiotic drugs for. For people with compromised immune systems (think critically ill or elderly people) infection with these superbugs can be a death sentence.
A healthy body depends on certain bacteria to function. Your digestion and your gut health rely on friendly bacteria to keep you alive. Your body has about 3 pounds of bacteria in it that is as important or more so than any of your vital organs.
Antibacterial products don't differentiate between good and bad bacteria, they are designed to kill them all. Many common health problems today can be linked back to the destruction of huge quantities of healthy bacteria that your body needs but that have been wiped out by overuse of antibacterials (and possibly overuse of antibiotic drugs).
Even exposure to mildly harmful bacteria can be good for your overall health in the long-term.
By working so hard to wipe out the bacteria we perceive as a threat, we kill the bacteria we need. Plus, we need to expose ourselves to bad bacteria too so we can build up immunity to them.
Hormone imbalances can be responsible for problems like weight gain, infertility, trouble sleeping and disease.
Studies have proven that chemicals like triclosan can cause hormone imbalances. The trouble is, we expose ourselves to these chemicals daily.
Antibacterial chemicals don't just work their magic and disappear. Like many things, they have a lasting — and harmful —presence.
The last thing our oceans need is more pollution. Especially when these chemicals are hurting us in most of the contexts that we're using them in.
Go through your home and check labels on soaps, laundry detergent, toothpaste, deodorant, etc. You can often find healthy, natural replacements at your local health food store or online.
You can also make your own cleaners if you have the time and ambition. There are many online tutorials to show you how. Coconut oil, vinegar, baking soda and essential oils are just a few of the ingredients that can be used to replace antibacterial chemicals. Even making your own personal care products (like deodorant and soap) is not that hard.
If you aren't sure about a brand or product, use the EWG's Skin Deep Cosmetics Database to check the safety of your personal care products.
Look for these chemicals in places you might not have expected them. Baby toys and kitchen tools are both culprits for antibacterial chemicals. In a way, this would seem to make sense. But trust me, you'd be better off with toys and tools made of natural materials, like wood.
If you're buying antibacterial products, it's probably because you want to keep your family healthy and safe. Hopefully, this post will have helped to clarify why antibacterials are really just a big marketing lie designed to get you to buy harmful products you don't need.
Whether you're washing your hands or cleaning your home, remember that natural soap and water is as effective and many times safer than antibacterial soaps or cleaners.
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Google's secret effort to scan every book in the world, codenamed "Project Ocean," began in earnest in 2002 when Larry Page and Marissa Mayer sat down in the office together with a 300-page book and a metronome. Page wanted to know how long it would take to scan more than a hundred-million books, so he started with one that was lying around. Using the metronome to keep a steady pace, he and Mayer paged through the book cover-to-cover. It took them 40 minutes.
With that 40-minute number in mind, Page approached the University of Michigan, his alma mater and a world leader in book scanning, to find out what the state of the art in mass digitization looked like. Michigan told him that at the current pace, digitizing their entire collection—7 million volumes—was going to take about a thousand years. Page, who'd by now given the problem some thought, replied that he thought Google could do it in six.
An absolutely fascinating dive into the history of Project Ocean, covering how it started at Google, how Google scanned the books (camera arrays, clever algorithms and human page turners), and the years-long legal wrangle between Google, the Authors Guild and the DOJ.
It's there. The books are there. People have been trying to build a library like this for ages—to do so, they've said, would be to erect one of the great humanitarian artifacts of all time—and here we've done the work to make it real and we were about to give it to the world and now, instead, it's 50 or 60 petabytes on disk, and the only people who can see it are half a dozen engineers on the project who happen to have access because they're the ones responsible for locking it up.
Interestingly Page later opined during a Q&A that maybe it would be a good idea to "set aside a part of the world" to try out some "exciting things you could do that are illegal or not allowed by regulation." He was roundly criticised for being an annoying, out-of-touch billionaire at the time, but perhaps he was just being wistful.


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On November 18, 2016 No. 44375
ORDER OF THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
of June 20, 2016 No. 88n
About approval of procedure for destruction in the territory of the free port of Vladivostok on which customs procedure of free customs zone, and export from the territory of the free port of Vladivostok in which customs procedure of free customs zone, for the purpose of destruction of the become useless goods placed under customs procedure of free customs zone, and (or) the goods made (received) of the goods placed under customs procedure of free customs zone, and also imported together with goods on the territory of the free port of Vladivostok in which customs procedure of free customs zone, the packaging and packaging materials which fully or partially lost the initial purpose and the consumer properties is applied is applied is applied
Based on part 38 of article 23 of the Federal Law of July 13, 2015 No. 212-FZ "About the free port of Vladivostok" (The Russian Federation Code, 2015, 29, of the Art. 4338) I order to No.:
1. Approve the enclosed procedure for destruction in the territory of the free port of Vladivostok on which customs procedure of free customs zone, and export from the territory of the free port of Vladivostok in which customs procedure of free customs zone, for the purpose of destruction of the become useless goods placed under customs procedure of free customs zone, and (or) the goods made (received) of the goods placed under customs procedure of free customs zone, and also imported together with goods on the territory of the free port of Vladivostok in which customs procedure of free customs zone, the packaging and packaging materials which fully or partially lost the initial purpose and the consumer properties is applied is applied is applied.
2. This order becomes effective after 30 days after day of its official publication.
A. G. Siluanov
to the Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation of June 20, 2016 No. 88n
Procedure for destruction in the territory of the free port of Vladivostok on which customs procedure of free customs zone, and export from the territory of the free port of Vladivostok in which customs procedure of free customs zone, for the purpose of destruction of the become useless goods placed under customs procedure of free customs zone, and (or) the goods made (received) of the goods placed under customs procedure of free customs zone, and also imported together with goods on the territory of the free port of Vladivostok in which customs procedure of free customs zone, the packaging and packaging materials which fully or partially lost the initial purpose and the consumer properties is applied is applied is applied
I. General provisions
1. This procedure for destruction in the territory of the free port of Vladivostok on which customs procedure of free customs zone is applied and export from the territory of the free port of Vladivostok in which customs procedure of free customs zone is applied, for the purpose of destruction of the become useless goods placed under customs procedure of free customs zone, and (or) the goods made (received) of the goods placed under customs procedure of free customs zone, and also imported together with goods on the territory of the free port of Vladivostok in which customs procedure of free customs zone, packaging and the packaging materials which fully or partially lost the initial purpose and the consumer properties is applied (further - the Procedure) determines procedure for destruction in the territory of the free port of Vladivostok, No. 212-FZ created according to the Federal Law of July 13, 2015 "About the free port of Vladivostok" (The Russian Federation Code, 2015, No. 29, the Art. 4338) (further - the Federal Law No. 212-FZ) on which customs procedure of free customs zone (further - SPV), the become useless goods placed under customs procedure of free customs zone is applied (further - STZ), and (or) the goods made (received) of the goods placed under customs procedure of STZ, and also imported together with goods on the territory of SPV, packaging and packaging materials, which fully or partially lost the initial purpose and the consumer properties, and also procedure for export from SPV territory for the purpose of destruction of the specified goods, packaging and packaging materials without room under customs procedure of destruction.
2. In the territory of SPV the following goods can be destroyed or exported from SPV territory for the purpose of destruction:
STZ placed under customs procedure in the territory of SPV which fully or partially lost the initial purpose the consumer properties and became unsuitable in that quality for which they are intended (further - the goods placed under customs procedure of STZ and which became useless);
made (received) of the goods placed under customs procedure of STZ in the territory of SPV which fully or partially lost the initial purpose and the consumer properties (further - the goods made (received) of the goods placed under customs procedure of STZ and which became useless);
being packaging (any products and materials serving or intended for packaging, protection, placement and fixture or separation of goods) and the packaging materials (straw, paper, fiber glass, shaving, etc.) imported together with goods on the territory of SPV and which fully or partially lost the initial purpose and the consumer properties (further - packaging).
3. Destruction in the territory of SPV of the goods placed under customs procedure of STZ and which became useless, and (or) the goods made (received) of the goods placed under customs procedure of STZ and which became useless and (or) packagings, and also export from SPV territory for the purpose of destruction of such goods and packaging are performed with the permission of the customs authority located in the territory of SPV or in close proximity to it and having competences and competence to making of customs transactions concerning the goods imported (exported) on (c) SPV territory(territories), including according to customs procedure of STZ (further - authorized customs authority) and under its supervision taking into account provisions of this Procedure.
4. Destruction of the goods placed under customs procedure of STZ and which became useless and (or) the goods made (received) of the goods placed under customs procedure of STZ and which became useless and (or) packaging can be performed:
resident of the free port of Vladivostok in the territory of SPV, if such goods according to the Federal Law of June 24, 1998 No. 89-FZ "About production wastes and consumption" (The Russian Federation Code, 1998, No. 26, Art. 3009; 2001, No. 1, Art. 21; 2003, No. 2, Art. 167; 2004, No. 35, Art. 3607; 2005, No. 19, Art. 1752; 2006, No. 1, Art. 10; No. 52, Art. 5498; 2007, No. 46, Art. 5554; 2008, No. 30, Art. 3616; No. 45, Art. 5142; 2009, No. 1, Art. 17; 2011, No. 30, Art. 4590, 4596; No. 45, Art. 6333; No. 48, Art. 6732; 2012, No. 26, Art. 3446; No. 27, Art. 3587; No. 31, Art. 4317; 2013, No. 30, Art. 4059; No. 43, Art. 5448; No. 48, Art. 6165; 2014, No. 30, Art. 4220, 4262; 2015, No. 1, Art. 11, 38; No. 27, Art. 3994; No. 29, Art. 4350; 2016, 1, Art. 12, of 24) (further - the Federal Law No. 89-FZ) are not carried No. to waste of the I-IV class of danger;
the organization performing activities for neutralization and placement of waste of the I-V class of danger (further - authorized organization) with which at resident of the free port of Vladivostok the contract for destruction of such goods is signed if such goods according to the Federal Law No. 89-FZ are carried to waste of the I-V class of danger.
5. The goods placed under customs procedure of STZ and which became useless and (or) the goods made (received) of the goods placed under customs procedure of STZ and which became useless and also packaging shall be destroyed by the method which is not assuming formation of the secondary resources suitable for reuse for the purpose of production of new goods (products), performance of works, rendering services or receipt of energy.
II. Permission to destruction of the goods placed under customs procedure of STZ and which became useless and (or) the goods made (received) of the goods placed under customs procedure of STZ and which became useless and (or) packaging
6. Permission to destruction of the goods placed under customs procedure of STZ and which became useless and (or) the goods made (received) of the goods placed under customs procedure of STZ and which became useless and (or) packaging in the territory of SPV or beyond its limits (further - permission to destruction) is issued to resident of the free port of Vladivostok by authorized customs authority on condition of fulfillment of requirements in the field of the address with waste, established by the Federal Law No. 89-FZ, requirements of Item 5 of this Procedure and submission to authorized customs authority of the documents and data established by Items 7 and 8 of this Procedure, except for documents and data which can be received with use of single system of interdepartmental electronic interaction.
7. For the purpose of receipt of permission to destruction the resident of the free port of Vladivostok or person acting according to its order and from his name (further - the Applicant), submits to authorized customs authority the application for destruction of the goods placed under customs procedure of STZ and which became useless and (or) the goods made (received) of the goods placed under customs procedure of STZ and which became useless, and (or) packaging in the territory of SPV or beyond its limits (further - the Statement) containing data on the goods placed under customs procedure of STZ and which became useless and (or) the goods made (received) of goods, placed under customs procedure of STZ and become useless, and (or) about packaging, which are liable to destruction (their name, quantity, commodity code according to the single Commodity nomenclature of foreign economic activity of the Eurasian Economic Union), the place, date and method of their destruction, and also the reason of conclusion of such goods from turnover.
The application is submitted in authorized customs authority on paper or electronically.
The recommended application form and recommendations about its filling are given in appendix No. 1 to this Procedure.
In case of execution of the Statement on paper and its submissions to authorized customs authority by mail or personally the Applicant, in authorized customs authority its electronic copy in the XML format is also submitted (by means of use of e-mail, the electronic medium).

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describe Ducktrap::Mapper do

  let(:object) { described_class }

  subject { described_class.build(&block) }

  let(:block)   { proc {}                            }
  let(:builder) { double('Builder', :object => mapper) }
  let(:mapper)  { double('Mapper')                     }

  it 'should call Ducktrap::Mapper::Builder' do
    Ducktrap::Mapper::Builder.should_receive(:new).with(described_class) do |&block|
      block.should be(self.block)
      builder
    end
    subject.should be(mapper)
  end
end


Aberdeen Multicultural Centre is committed to promoting equality and diversity. In accordance with the Equality Act (2010), we aim to eliminate discrimination of protected characteristics and seek to represent all sections of society in both our workforce and service user population. Any form of unlawful or unfair discrimination will be dealt with sensitively and seriously by senior management.
The policy lays out the commitments made by AMC, and informs staff and associated personnel of their responsibilities in relation to safeguarding.
AMC has adopted Aberdeen City Council equality/diversity policy. Under the equality act 2010 all nine protective characteristics should be dealt equally, no individual will be excluded or discriminated. AMC believe & committed to adhering equal opportunity to all the diverse communities live & work in Aberdeen.


Week 1 assignment based on Ghost train (homage to bpNichol) example. It displays bouncing palindromes that are starting and ending with letter "w", and changes its color and sentence after completing one round. It would be nice to figure out how to make two of them cross each other, just like the original Ghost train example.


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Vera Sola – Paranormal poetry and saloon tunes from a true American history
"Being a strong woman, especially a small strong woman, is weird to people"
Words by Mike Vinti Photos by Matilda Hill-Jenkins
There's a deliberate timelessness to Vera Sola' songwriting. Full of gothic imagery, Morricone-esque guitar and lingering vocals, there's a sense that the songs on the singer and multi-instrumentalist's debut album, 'Shades', could have been written anytime between the first wagon arriving in the west and Trump's election.
Half American, half-Canadian, Sola – known to her friends as Danielle Aykroyd – grew up in a world not dissimilar to that of her songs. As a child she attended rodeos, read tomes of great American literature and played the piano, refusing to learn anything but the hardest pieces. Her family home in Canada – a building that's been passed down through her father's family for generations – has a history of spiritualism, thanks in a large part to the work of her paternal great-great-grandfather. "[He] was a full trance medium. He would hold seances in our family home in Canada," Aykroyd, explains, sat on a bench in London's Old Truman Brewery, ahead of a show at Rough Trade East this evening. "He was a forebearer of the spiritualist movement in Canada, he studied Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and all these folks over here who were doing that, but he was also a theologian and a researcher."
That sense of spirituality "went down through the generations" she continues, where it merged with a love of writing, theatre and later film (Aykroyd's father is Dan Aykroyd, the actor and writer best known for Ghost Busters and The Blues Brothers, who is also a renown spiritualist himself), creating a legacy of actors, performers and writers whose work balances the spiritual and ruminations on modern society. "My grandfather is a theologian and historian and an engineer, but he's a writer really. He's 97 and finishing his tenth book. He's completely blind but dictating it from his bed."
Her mother's side is just as unique. While Aykroyd describes her lineage as mostly "cowboys and Indians" (her ancestors are equal parts Cherokee and buffalo hunter), she also reveals over the course of our conversation that she's a direct descendant of Bat Masterson, the sheriff of Dodge City and Wyatt Earp's co-deputy. A renown gun-slinger, buffalo hunter and, as she puts it, frankly, "a killer", Masterson was an associate of Buffalo Bill and the basis for the main character, Sky Masterson, in the short story collection and musical Guys and Dolls. As if that wasn't cowboy enough, a few minutes later she reveals, "Dolly Parton's my third cousin."
Suffice to say then that Aykroyd's work as Vera Sola is as authentic as an album of near-paranormal poetry and saloon tunes can be in 2018. While many musicians have flirted with cowboy imagery and dark spirituality, few could lay as valid a claim to the cultures of both worlds than Aykroyd. "I felt a lot of things coming through me and a lot of energies coming through me recording the album," she tells me later. "It makes me sound totally crazy, but I felt like I just opened myself up and let be." The themes and atmosphere of the record are so tied to her life that Aykroyd decided to record and produce every note of 'Shades' herself. "I just wanted to funnel the energy of this time in my life without any outside influences," she says of the decision.
The result is a record that's equal parts terrifying and beautiful. Recorded in St Louis, a city vital to the westward expansion of the United States, 'Shades' reimagines the Southern Gothic literary tradition through a spiritual and feminist lens, weaving tales of neglected women and hateful men while leaving enough space for the ghosts of both Aykroyd's and North America's past to coalesce. In places, such as the opening funeral march of 'Circles', it is utterly chilling. "I've always been a scary woman," smiles Aykroyd, who is anything but scary in conversation. "Being a strong woman, especially a small strong woman, is weird to people," she laughs, explaining how her unconventional background and general demeanour have conspired to leave her somewhat outcast in the modern world. "A small woman with a deep voice is confusing, and people don't know what to do with things they're confused by.
"I know that it's scary, but I like that," she says. "I've always liked things that are scary, things that are on the edge and that provoke."
'Shades', it should be noted, is not a concept album. While many of the songs centre on fictional characters, the record is very much born out of Aykroyd's personal experiences. Aged twenty-seven, for most of her life she says she was too shy, too restrained by other people's expectations of her, to embrace the voice that comes through so clearly on her album. "Engrained misogyny over the years brought me to the point where I was 27 years old before I made my first record," she says, looking back to 2016 when the idea of even showing her music to other people filled her with fear. "I thought I couldn't do it." It wasn't until January 2017, after an "insane cataclysmic shift" in her life that she decided to record some of the songs she'd been writing during time spent in New York. "Everything broke down, I lost my job, my mom got sick, I wasn't touring anymore, my whole life fell apart," she says.
In the studio she found a way to exorcise her demons, and as we talk, she's keen to point out that while 'Shades' is an undeniably gothic album in places, not every track is as dark as it first appears. "This record is scary, but there are jokes in there," she insists. "The whole last song is the saddest song I've ever written, and it's entirely made up of inside jokes." Similarly, she's aware that there are elements of the album that might come across as pretentious, especially once people find out about her parents. "There's a complete self-awareness to the melodrama of the album," she laughs as I gently broach the subject. "If there's a moment where it's like, 'oh my god, really?' I promise you I'm doing it with self-awareness and a smile. I'm aware how pretentious it sounds when I talk about it, I'm doing it with laughter. I'm also just being myself," she says. "I'm a pretentious person, I love big books."
Listen carefully to her music, and between the twangs of southern guitar and haunted cabaret vibrato, the provenance of Aykroyd's music will emerge. Whether it's the Bauhaus-esque opening riff of 'The Cage' or the almost post-rock crescendo of closing track 'New Nights', on closer inspection her album is as indebted to the modern world as it is to the old west. "The engineer who worked with me on the record said, 'I would have told you this at the start, but did you notice that the harmonies on 'The Colony' are similar to the harmonies on Coolio's 'Gangsta's Paradise'?'" she laughs. "I was like, 'that makes so much sense!' that was my favourite song when I was like nine!"
Rather than dilute the impact of her music, this mix of sincerity and self-awareness only furthers the uncanny feeling that lingers over it all. That evening at Rough Trade, Aykroyd inhabits the stage like a Westworld android gone rogue; a living anachronism, capable of both run-of-the-mill stage banter and of occupying the characters of her songs with full force, moving as if possessed by them as she performs. Staring straight ahead, her gaze wide and distant, she sings songs of ghosts and grim tales, cantering drums and dusky double bass plodding dutifully beneath her voice. Every now and again her top lip curls like Elvis and her voice commands the attention of the room before folding back in the rhythm of her southern gothic blues.
"Whether you take it as a psychic thing, a personal energetic thing or a performative thing, I consider myself a channel," she tells me. "When I'm on stage I let go of this person you're talking to and let in whatever comes in, I take on different characters and slip into different feelings and spirits." Witnessing her perform in London, thousands of miles from the roots of her music, even the most sceptical audience member could feel some of the spirits of the old west fill the room.
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Lea Salonga – Livermore, CA
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Lea Salonga is renown across the world for her powerful voice and perfect pitch. She is best known for her Tony Award winning role in Miss Saigon. In addition to the Tony, she has won the Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards. She was also the first Asian to play Eponine in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway and returned to the beloved show as Fantine in the 2006 revival. Many fans of all ages recognize Lea as the singing voice of Princess Jasmine from Aladdin and Fa Mulan for Mulan and Mulan II. For her portrayal of the beloved princesses, the Walt Disney Company bestowed her with the honor of "Disney Legend".
By the time we are back on the road with the Dream Again Tour it will be a full two years since my last concert engagement. I am counting down the days to the first show. I miss the audiences. I miss my band and our tour crew. This is going to be a very special tour: we've had lots of time to brainstorm new, and sometimes unexpected, songs for the set list, and I'm very excited to share them with fans around North America.
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Supplies between members of a VAT group are disregarded for VAT purposes, which can be a great advantage on many levels.
Under current UK rules, only corporates are eligible to join a VAT group.
In addition, the current UK rules are currently unwieldy where there are overseas branches of a company within a UK VAT group.
We are inching closer to a resolution of some of the issues which cause difficulties for VAT groups. Finance Bill 2018-19 will introduce legislation to extend the eligibility to join a VAT group to certain non-corporate entities.
In addition, revised VAT grouping guidance will be issued to amend the definition of 'bought in services' to ensure that such services are subject to UK VAT and to clarify HMRC's treatment of UK fixed establishments.
Clarity is also promised on HMRC's powers for the protection of the revenue and it will be interesting to see the detail when it is published.


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Eric Langan
Chairman of the Board / Director / Chief Executive Officer / President
Officer since 1998
Director since 1998
Eric S. Langan, age 52, has been a director since 1998, and our President, CEO and Chairman since 1999. He began his career in the hospitality industry in 1989 and has developed significant expertise in sports bar/restaurants and adult entertainment nightclubs, including related areas of real estate development and finance. Mr. Langan built the XTC Cabaret nightclub brand and merged it into RCI in 1998, expanding the scope of the company. He has been instrumental in bringing professional marketing, management, finance, and technology practices and systems to the gentlemen's club industry. As one of the original founders of the National Association of Club Executives (ACE), Mr. Langan has been an active member of its Board of Directors since 1999. Through these activities, Mr. Langan has acquired the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully operate adult entertainment businesses.
Travis Reese
Director / Executive Vice President
Travis Reese, age 50, became a director and our Executive Vice President in 1999. From 1997 through 1999, Mr. Reese had been a senior network administrator at St. Vincent's Hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico. During 1997, Mr. Reese was a computer systems engineer with Deloitte & Touche. From 1995 until 1997, Mr. Reese was Vice President with Digital Publishing Resources, Inc., an Internet service provider. From 1994 until 1995, Mr. Reese was a pilot with Continental Airlines. From 1992 until 1994, Mr. Reese was a pilot with Hang On, Inc., an airline company. Mr. Reese has an Associate's Degree in Aeronautical Science from Texas State Technical College. Mr. Reese has been involved in the adult entertainment industry since 1992. His experience and knowledge in this industry is essential to the Board's oversight of our businesses.
Bradley Chhay
since September 2020
Bradley Chhay is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He joined us in November 2015 as Controller in charge of migrating the company to an upgraded ERP system and enhancing internal and external audit and SEC reporting functions. From 2007-2009, he was an auditor for Deloitte & Touche LLP. From 2009-2013, he served as Internal Audit Senior, IT Auditor, and Senior Fraud Auditor for Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. of Beverly Hills, a publicly-traded company that markets tickets for live entertainment worldwide, owns and operates entertainment venues, and manages music artists. From 2013-2015, Mr. Chhay was an Audit Supervisor and Global ERP Project Lead for RigNet, Inc. of Houston, a publicly-traded digital technology company serving the oil and gas, maritime and government markets. After RigNet, he briefly served as CFO for a smaller, privately-held, multi-unit restaurant chain.


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Home|Business|Record Rs 1.10 lakh cr for Railways in Budget
Record Rs 1.10 lakh cr for Railways in Budget
nawalFebruary 1, 2021
F inance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on Monday a record sum of Rs 1.10 lakh crore for the Railways, out of which Rs 1.07 lakh crore is for capital expenditure, and said the national transporter would monetise the dedicated freight corridors after its commissioning.
Presenting the Union Budget 2021-22, Sitharaman also applauded the services provided by the Railways to transport essential goods across the country during the coronavirus lockdown.
"I am announcing a record sum of Rs 1,10,055 crore for railways of which Rs 1,07,100 crore is for capital expenditure only," she said.
"The plan is to create a future ready railway system by 2030 bringing down the logistic cost for industry is at the core of the strategy to enable Make In India," Sitharaman said.
She said it was expected that the eastern and western dedicated freight corridors (EDFC and WDFC) would be commissioned by June 2022. "The following additional initiatives are also proposed. The Sonenagar-Gomoh section of 263 km on EDFC will be taken up in PPP mode this year itself.
"Gomoh-Dankuni section of 274.3 km will also be taken up shortly in short succession," she said.
The finance minister said the Railways would take up the future dedicated freight corridor projects — East Coast Corridor from Kharagpur to Vijaywada, East-West Corridor from Bhusawal to Kharagpur to Dankuni and North-South Corridor from Itarsi to Vijaywada. Sitharaman said the detailed project report would be undertaken in the first phase. She said broad gauge route electrification was expected to reach 46,000 route kilometres, which is 72 per cent by the end of 2021 from 41,548 km from October 1, 2020, adding that 100 per cent electrification of such routes would be completed by December 2023. Stressing on the passenger convenience and safety, she said the Railways would introduce the aesthetically-designed vistadome LHB coaches on tourist routes for better travel experience to passengers. "The safety measures taken in last few years have have borne results. To further strengthen this effort high density network and highly utilised network routes will be provided with indigenously designed automatic train collision system that eliminates train collusion due to human error," she said.


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Professional/Artist Oil Colors
Utrecht Artists' Oil Colors and Sets
Utrecht Oil Colors
« See more Utrecht Artists' Oil Colors and Sets
02122-4545 — Cadmium Orange Hue
Utrecht Artists' Oil Colors are prized by professional artists around the world for their brilliant color, buttery texture, outstanding lightfastness, and excellent long-term performance.
Cadmium Orange Hue
PY1—Hansa Yellow G
PO43—Perinone Orange
PW4—Zinc White
organic, monoazo
This Hansa yellow is a transparent yellow. It has great brightness and tinting strength and its drying time ranges from average to slow.
Hansa Yellow makes more intense tints and cleaner secondaries than Cadmium Yellows, especially when mixed with other organic or modern colors like Phthalo Blue and Green. Because they are more transparent, they have great value as glazing colors.
Hansa Yellow G has good permanence and lightfastness, particularly in the lighter shades.
Hansa Yellow pigments have no significant acute hazards, though chronic hazards have not been well studied.
Hansa Yellows were first made in Germany just before World War I from a series of synthetic dyestuffs called Pigment Yellow. Hansa Yellow G, introduced in 1910, was the first of these products to be commercialized. Hansa Yellow G was the standard yellow for printing inks until late in the 20th century, when stronger diarylide yellows began to replace it. It is still used a great deal in packaging, and for air drying paints.
Light Fast Yellow G, Pigment Yellow G, Arylide, Arylide Yellow, Azo Yellow, Brilliant Yellow, Monoazo Yellow, Monolite Yellow, Permanent Yellow.
vat, anthraquinone
Perinone Orange is a strong, clean, reddish orange pigment classified as a vat pigment. It has an average drying time.
Perinone Orange has excellent lightfastness and weatherfastness.
Perinone Orange is not considered toxic.
Perinone orange is often used in plastics and vinyls, automotive finishes, and printing inks. Its high cost limits its application to products for which superior lightfastness and weather resistance is essential. In textiles, it is used in synthetic fabrics that must survive in harsh conditions, such as tents and awnings.
Perionone Orange.
zinc(II)-oxide
ZnO
Zinc White is the coolest white, and it has a cold, clean masstone and a slightly bluish tint. It has less hiding power and is more transparent than other whites. It dries slowly and is good for painting wet into wet and for glazing and scumbling. Zinc White is neither as opaque nor as heavy as Lead White, its covering power is not as good, and it takes much longer to dry. However, it does not blacken when exposed to sulfur in the air as Lead White does. It is very valuable for making tints with other colors. Unmixed Zinc White dries to a brittle and dry paint film that may crack over the years, so it is not good for frescoing. It is more transparent in acrylic form than Titanium White and is the most commonly used white with gouache. Chinese White is a version of Zinc White appropriate for opaque watercolor techniques.
Zinc White has great permanence and lightfastness.
Zinc White is moderately toxic if ingested and slightly toxic if inhaled.
Though historians are divided on who first isolated the element zinc, they agree that it was first suggested as a white pigment in 1782. Zinc White was accepted as a watercolor in 1834 and was called Chinese White due to the popularity of oriental porcelain in Europe at the time. Ten years later, a suitable oil form was produced. By the early 20th century, it had improved to the point where it was an acceptable alternative to Flake White.
Chinese White, French White, Permanent White, Silver White, Snow White, Zinc Oxide.


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Back to former Vermont governors
Gov. Paul Dillingham
Terms October 13, 1865 - October 13, 1867
Born August 10, 1799
Passed July 26, 1891
Birth State Massachusetts
Family Married Sarah P. Carpenter, Julia Carpenter; seven children
National Office(s) Served Representative
PAUL DILLINGHAM JR. was born in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. After studying law, he began the practice of his profession in Waterbury, Vermont. He was a Justice of the Peace from 1826 to 1844; a member of the state House of Representatives from 1833 to 1834 and again from 1837 to 1839; State's Attorney of Washington County from 1835 to 1837; and a member of the state Senate in 1841-1842 and again in 1861. He was elected to Congress in 1843 and again in 1845. After the start of the Civil War, Dillingham switched allegiance from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party, and served as Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1862 to 1865 as a Republican. Elected governor in 1865, he created Vermont's first reform school and established a state normal school for teacher training. After serving two terms as governor, he declined renomination and returned to his law practice, retiring in 1875. He died at his home in Waterbury.
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 8. New York: James T. White & Company.
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
List of Vermont Governors
Vermont Primary and General Election Results
Gubernatorial Inaugural and Farewell Addresses
Gubernatorial Vetoes
Current Vermont Governor
Phil Scott
Recent Vermont Governors
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Gov. Jim Douglas
Gov. Howard Dean
August 14, 1991 - January 8, 2003
Gov. Richard A. Snelling
January 10, 1991 - August 14, 1991
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Out of the Silence - A Journey Through Pacific Northwest Villages of British Columbia and Alaska
Patty Inglish MS
Ms. Inglish has 30 years experience in medicine, psychology, STEM instruction, history; and aerospace education for USAF Civil Air Patrol.
Tanaktak House, Harbeldown Island BC
Harbeldown Island is part of Mainland British Columbia.
By Edward S. Curtis, 1914; public domain.
Works of Art Trace Indigenous Settlements
As indigenous residents, the Haida, Kwakiutl, and Alaskan Natives are all Native North American Nations.
These groups have carved cedar poles for their homes and communities since before 1700. They are only three of many Indigenous Peoples' cultures or clusters of communities with histories in the coastal region between Vancouver BC and Southeast Alaska.
First Nations, the earliest North American Natives in Canada, migrated onto the British Columbia mainland from north of that province, from Vancouver Island, and from the Queen Charlotte Islands. With them, they brought languages, cultures, and arts.
Not surprisingly, the migration is the reason that we see carved cedar poles on the BC mainland. The pole carving tradition began in the Eastern Hemisphere and came to the Western Hemisphere with our early immigrants thousands of years ago. "Totem poles" did not begin in the Pacific Northwest.
Approximate Range Of Pacific Northwest Native Peoples
Out Of the Silence
Forgotten Historical Projects
Over 40 years ago at this writing, Adelaide de Menil, a professional photographer accompanied master carver Bill Reid on a trip up the Pacific Northwest Coast from the Strait of Georgia between Vancouver Island and Vancouver BC on to the Southeastern tail of Alaska, likely Ketchikan.
That Alaskan end point is likely, because this is the site of a large number of cedar poles carved by indigenous master carvers, some of whom were related to Bill Reid in the past (Chief Wakius/Charlie James, a famous Kwakiutl, among others).
The photographer and the artist examined the wealth of indigenous art pieces found along their route and recorded them for history. Bill Reid had studied his full heritage and toured this area to explore his legacy.
The Pacific Coastal First Nations built village on many sites photographed by the well known photographer. Mr. Reid added text to offer the emotions brought out by these ancient works of an admirable group of peoples. All of this combined to from the book called Out of the Silence published n 1971. My university at the time had just began classes on the Pacific Northwest natives, with emphasis on the Haida.
Unfortunately, only 62 of over eight hundred photos taken could be included in the wonderful book. Luckily for the world, a full 500 have stood on display at the Bill Reid Gallery. The video to the right captures several of them.
Journey's Beginning and Ending
Out of the Silence, 150 Pages
Points In Southeastern Alaska
Cape Fox Corporation: Tlingit "People of the Southeast Wind", have lived in Cape Fox many years, 53 miles southeast of Ketchikan AK. www.capefoxcorp.com
Master Carver David Boxley:Tsimshian artist David Boxley is from Metlakatla, Alaska.
Hydaburg Totem Park and National American Indian Heritage Month: Started in 1911 by Haida People and in the 1930s, served by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) under US Forest Service. One of several "totem" cultural parks in Southeast Alaska.
Sitka National Historical Park: Totem Poles (US National Park Service at www.nps.gov/sitk)
Wrangell, Alaska: Alaska Arts, Wrangell Harbor in Alaska; the Chief Shakes House.
Southeastern Alaska - Selected Points
British Columbia Meets Alaska In Cities With the Same Name
The peoples of Metlakatla, British Columbia and Metlakatla, Alaska -- Postcard of Two Kwakiutl Gentlemen. Displayed at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.
Produced by Henry S. Wellcome; Public Domain
Metlakatla, British Columbia and Alaska
Tlingit First Nation AK/BC Poles and Explanations
Perks of being Fully Vaccinated: 7 Safe and Secluded Getaway Hotels & Resorts
ASTERVEDA HEALTHCARE: BEST NATURAL HEALTH SUPPLEMENTS AND VITAMINS IN INDIA
© 2011 Patty Inglish MS
Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on December 28, 2011:
I have that book, indeed, and have used it as reference for other related Hubs!
Verlie Burroughs from Canada on December 21, 2011:
Hi Patty, quite a few people have been doing that. Aldona Jonaitis 'Chiefly Feasts' is a good resource book.
Interesting that the research was done so long ago - I wonder if anyone will retrace that are and find out all the newer master carvers and artisans? I'd love that.
Kiela Starcatcher from Chicago, IL on December 21, 2011:
Fascinating stuff, Patty. Glad I stumbled onto it. I can see I have a lot of catching up to do, since all of your anthropological hubs look just as interesting!
Rated up / interesting, and happy to start following!
Pleased to do it; it is so hard to get these photos anywhere, we might as well make them big enough. Cheers!
There you go - all bigger now.
Hi Patty Inglish, your 'Out of the Silence' slide show is amazing, but it is so tiny in the quarter page format I can hardly see it. Is there some way to publish it in a larger format? I don't think you can go full screen on hub videos, at least I haven't been able to, but I would love to see these images larger. Thanks! I see you have a long list of hubs on first nations history and art, I'm looking forward to visiting one by one. Regards, snakeslane
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Sasquatch Books has been acquired by Penguin Random House.
For more than 30 years, Sasquatch has supported local authors like Moorea Seal.
Long before Kindle-toting techies filled our coffee shops, Seattle has had a strong lit scene. And a big-time publisher has taken notice of one of the independent publishing houses that helped shape it.
On Wednesday, Sasquatch Books announced that it has been acquired by Penguin Random House, a major player in the book world that publishes 15,000 print books (plus another 70,000 digital titles) a year, according to the Seattle Times. The good news: Sasquatch will keep its Seattle office intact and will maintain its editorial independence.
Despite an increasingly tough environment for traditional print media companies, Sasquatch purports to have undergone double-digit growth in recent years. The bump at least in part may have been aided by a distribution deal it inked with Penguin Random House in 2012.
Sasquatch was launched in 1986 by David Brewster, a veteran local journalist who also founded the Seattle Weekly and Crosscut, publishing local guidebooks before moving on to other regional topics. Over the years, the publisher has released books from Seattle's most famous librarian Nancy Pearl, Moorea Seal (whose adorable Mountlake Terrace house we recently raided) and other local lit stars.


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Bangalore Dive Club
We recently celebrated the 1st anniversary of the Bangalore Dive Club. It was a fun outing with all members coming together to create a party atmosphere. The Bangalore Dive Club has also decided to take up the cause to stop shark finning in our Indian waters. Let's hope to see a bigger turn out for the next meeting and hopefully we can bring more attention to the cause as well. SAVE THE SHARKS! STOP FINNING
Posted in adventure, diving, ecosystem, environment, fun, holiday, scuba diving, sport, training
Tags: bangalore, bangalore scuba diving, environment, launch party, planet scuba, planet scuba bangalore, water sports bangalore
SIPADAN UPDATE
We're back from Paradise and the city just doesn't seem worth it!
Life as I knew it has now ended!
Posted in adventure, diving, fun, holiday, scuba diving, sport, training
SHARK FINNING STATISTICS
According to to the environmentalists, about 100-150 million sharks are killed annually through finning. As of now, there are no international monitoring and/or regulation on shark finning. Recent data indicates that up to 73 million sharks are killed each year to satisfy the shark fin industry. This number includes sharks taken by illegal shark fin traders, data that does not show up on official statistics. The shark finning industry has skyrocketed in recent years, due in large part to the expansion of the Chinese economy. The Chinese have always prized shark fin, and now they are able to pay top dollar for shark fins from all over the world, leading to a potential global collapse in shark numbers. Be aware that many of these photos are graphic and disturbing.
Shark finning is practiced in many countries, mainly in Europe, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Malysia and other Asian countries. According to a survey conducted, it is found that the demand for shark fins is dropped in Hong Kong, whereas it is increased in Mainland China. In the Chinese culture, shark fin soup represents wealth and prestige since the Ming dynasty. It is served in weddings and other special occasions. Though the exact statistics regarding the population decline of shark cannot be determined, it is estimated that several species have reduced to about 90 percent since the 1970s. According
Fins obtained from hammerhead shark are costlier than other species
Shark fin contains significant amounts of mercury that may cause various health problems. Speaking about the health problem caused due to the shark fins, it is revealed that frequent consumption of shark fin soup may lead to sterility disorder in men.
CORAL BLEACHING IN SRI LANKA
SRI LANKA — Have you taken a shower in the middle of the day these past few months and winced at the heat of the water gushing through in the first few minutes? The intense heat is not just affecting us, it is affecting corals – the delicate organisms in the sea that are exposed to the sun all day long.
"We have seen early signs of coral bleaching in the East Coast recently," says Prasanna Weerakkodi, a marine environmentalist and regular diver who showed us a series of photos taken during a dive two weeks ago near Coral Island and Pigeon Island. The corals are pale in colour or have turned completely white. Some corals are deep purple and that too is an early sign of bleaching, he says, warning that about 50% – 60% of the corals in Pigeon Island and nearby Coral Island are partially bleached while about 5% are completely dead.
Coral reefs are known as rainforests of the ocean considering their rich biodiversity and are the breeding grounds of many fish. Corals in Trincomalee, Batticaloa, Galle, Unawatuna and Hikkaduwa are reportedly being affected according to other divers.
Coral bleaching occurs when coral polyps, the organisms that build corals, shed the algae (zooxanthellae) that gives them their colour. These tiny algae live in harmony with the corals and provide food for the host through the process of photosynthesis. Without this algae, the coral looks pale white and the coral polyps can be exposed to ultraviolet radiation. Without food, oxygen or cover from dangerous rays, the coral polyps in the reef will die a few weeks after they start getting paler. Our corals show signs of entering into the first stage of such a bleaching explains Mr. Weerakkodi.
Coral scientists believe warming waters are the most likely cause of these bleaching events. The Indian Ocean experienced its worst coral bleaching in 1998 due to a warm oceanic current. The Sea Surface Temperature (SST) of some parts of the Indian Ocean had gone up due to the La Nina climatic phenomenon at that time and resulted in warm oceanic currents killing pristine coral reefs in many parts of Sri Lanka, including the Hikkaduwa coral reef that is still to recover. However, the corals in the East Coast escaped the 1998 coral bleaching.
According to recent Sea Surface Temperature data, it is now around 32 C where the normal average temperature should be around 28 C. This increase could have triggered the bleaching. A regional warning of a possible coral bleaching has been issued. Sri Lankan marine biologists are also in touch with their Maldivian colleagues.
If the sea's temperature goes down, or cool upswells come to the rescue, healthy corals also have the ability to recover. "It is too early to say whether this will develop into a full-scale coral bleaching event as happened in 1998. But it is important to monitor the phenomenon," Mr. Weerakkodi pointed out.
Marine biologist for the National Aquatic Resources Research & Development Agency (NARA) Arjan Rajasuriya, recently reported some dying corals in reefs near Galle. After the severe bleaching of 1998, corals in many areas in Sri Lanka showed temporary bleaching during the months of April/May/June when temperatures are high. Some corals die, but others recover after the conditions return to normalcy. However, if the warm conditions prevail for long, it could be deadly. Arjan recalls the coral bleaching in 1998 had occurred during April/May and within a few weeks it sealed the fate of many coral reefs like those in Hikkaduwa.
Nishan Perera, another marine specialist, who was diving at Trincomalee a few weeks ago, verified the bleaching of corals and reported severe bleaching in the Dutch Bay area. This year the early part of the monsoon was a bit slack which might have contributed to this situation, he feels. "If conditions become normal soon it should not be a problem, but otherwise there can be some coral mortality," he says.
Can anything be done? "Keeping the corals healthy is the only way to fight this global phenomenon," says the NARA officer. Corals that are not healthy lose the ability to adapt to changes in their environment. Frequent fishing, pollution from land-based sources, dynamiting reefs, and sedimentation are other threats to the reef ecosystem which reduce their ability to withstand a catastrophe like bleaching.
Ocean Acidification is the latest threat added to this list. Acidification is a phenomenon linked to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide dissolved in the ocean reacts with the water to form carbonic acid. Many oceanic ecosystems such as coral reefs are adapted to a narrow range of pH levels and increases in these levels can be catastrophic.
Marine experts also say it is important to pay more attention to the corals in the East coast. "The West coast is experiencing the monsoon these days which will cool the seas a little, while regular cloud cover will also reduce the heat," Arjan says. But the East coast is not so fortunate and is also experiencing new threats. Pollution and over-fishing were not problems earlier as the Eastern and Northern seas were restricted due to security reasons, but this is changing after the war and over-visitation is already causing problems to fragile marine national parks like Pigeon Island.
Save the wrecks
On May 2, the Sunday Times reported a racket involving the removal of scrap from ship wrecks off the Eastern seas. NARA's Arjan Rajasuriya points out the wrecks are now jungles of coral and have become a spawning ground for fish.
Destroying them will destroy budding corals as well as harm the fisheries industry. "This is like killing the hen that lays the golden eggs," said Arjan highlighting the value of these wrecks. They could even be a tourist attraction, so keep them intact, appeals the marine biologist.
Corals heading towards rapid extinction
The Global Biodiversity Outlook report backed by IUCN's (International Union for Conservation of Nature) data shows coral species are heading most rapidly towards extinction, while Amphibians are on average the group most threatened.
According to the Red List Index shown in the graph, a value of 1.0 indicates that all species in a group would be considered as being of Least Concern (not expected to become extinct in the near future) and a value of 0 would indicate that all species in a group have become extinct.
by Malaka Rodrigo
Posted in ecosystem, environment, scuba diving, Uncategorized
A BOWL OF SOUP
Posted in adventure, diving, ecosystem, environment, scuba diving, Uncategorized


MAKING HAND CALLING GREAT AGAIN!
So I got in my head recently that I was going to have a couple new toneboards made. I had some plans drawn up for machining and 3D printing, and had both done. The 3D printing was fun. I had them done in low res and a high res version for kicks. I had several configurations made, and although they are all good, I decided just to do it myself with my metal lathe and mini-mill. I have made hundreds of toneboards by hand, and take some pride in that, so I did my thing.
I wanted a little wider board for the Deathpunch, so I did a full 3/4" board. After molding, I will usually dovetail those a bit to make them a little more narrow toward the tip. I milled a 5/32" air channel in it, then cut the ramp/curve on a rotary table. In the end though, I ended up doing that part by hand...and it came out great. I like my calls to have some power,..as in being able to get good volume and rasp in the middle and at the base of the reed without having the call cut out or collapsing a lung..as well a some finesse at the tip. I like an easy blowing call that you can control...which imo makes a call enjoyable to use. I ended up with a great board that does a lot of thing well. Next Ill build some molds so I can make lots of boards. Although my original plan was to have these CNC machined...for now, I think Ill continue to mold them in my shop by hand right now. I have no idea why I torture myself tinkering with and making these damn things.
The Sweetpea and Deuce will have updated boards as well, still sticking with the 1/2" size. I also have a little howler in the works.
Anways, thats whats up with the open reeds at this point.
A couple pics of the Deathpunch board in progress, in no particular order and obviously not finished.
Couple more old style enclosed reeds. Arizona mesquite and cherry.
Fun to make...simple cottontail screamer...Circe style.
This is the first one of this style. Ive always liked the scalloped lip rest of those old calls, along with the simple shape. Ive added a coaxer to the barrel of mine, and the internals are the same as my other wood enclosed reeds. This one aint perfect...the coaxer reed is not perfectly inline with the lip rest, its a tiny bit off center. I built a couple of jigs to line things up but looks like Ill have to tweak em a little. All in all though, it turned out perty good. Might post it for sale?
Built myself a new howler today. Its turned out of Ash and Jet-Phen micarta. Mouthpiece is machined out of polymer with a standard .010 thick reed.
Turning up some custom howlers. These are Thompson style, but most everything on them is different. I always liked the deeper barks and howls you can get out this style if toneboard. Super easy to get high pitched puppy whines etc. as well.
Camaru and blackwood...getting ready to get sleeves and reeds istalled.
This is a new, 2 reed lightweight howler. Its made with super thin latex that makes it easy to blow and control. Great for higher pitched howls, puppy whines and ki-yi's.
This newest call to the lineup is the Deuce. It is a small open reed with a dual air channel toneboard. It is high pitched and can get raspy on the low end too. Great call for fox and cats. Great bird sounds with that two tone birdy squeal when you get out on the tip.
This call is the same size as the Sweetpea. 1/2" toneboard and bore.
Super call to have in your arsenal.
Released these two open reed calls recently. Always trying to improve my calls, and they all may evolve in the future.
I described the Sweetpea a bit in a post below. The Deathpunch is a bigger call. It has a 5/8 toneboard with a bigger air channel The reed is standard .010 with a tapered cut.. The exhaust/bore is 5/8 as well. It is brassy and loud for a call this size.
These calls are designed with a short exhaust that makes the call responsive and the sounds crisp and clear. To many open reed calls out there are made with long, deep exhaust/bores that deepen and restrict the sound so much that you cant get a good range of sounds out of them. They just sound flat and muddy. They may look good, but they are really hampered by that design in my opinion. There are just to many predator call makers out there that are using the duck call shape and size for thier open reed calls, and Ill add, enclosed reed calls as well. Weve all done it, Its a sharp look, but I just believe in designing a call around the intended purpose...chase the sound and performance first, not the look. JMO.


"People consider themselves civilized because they live in societies where relationships are governed by laws, and where various institutions enforce these laws. Well, this is not enough, because despite their laws, these societies still resemble jungles! Human beings will be truly civilized when love becomes the currency of exchange. Brotherly love must increasingly become the true currency. Not love instead of money – I am not so naïve as to believe that we can do away with money, which is a very handy means of exchange – but love over and above money. I realize that many will call this 'utopian'; I know this, because I have already been told so. Well, let them call it what they will. I am saying that for our salvation we must head toward this ideal. Is it utopian? If so, we can call Jesus the greatest utopian. As for me, not only do I wish to be a utopian like he was, but I invite you to help make this utopia a reality!"


Commander of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Victory in Calabar, Commodore Julius Nwagu, has handed over an 8, 000 metric tonne petroleum vessel, MT AYSU with IMO number 9014511, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly diverting petroleum products.
Also handed over to the anti-graft agency were five suspects, who were arrested with the vessel.
Nwagu, who addressed reporters on board the vessel along the Calabar Channel Monday said the vessel was to lift sludge from Warri refinery to a company in Port Harcourt, but it did not do so thereby contravening in the approval issued by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and the Naval headquarters.
Nwagu said the vessel also had approval to load low power fuel oil (LFPO) off-shore Bonny and was supposed to discharge to a tank farm in Calabar but on arrival it was discovered after test by the DPR that the product off specification and therefore unacceptable as LPFO.
The Commander said it was based on these that the Naval Headquarters directed that the Command should hand over the vessel to the EFCC.
He also disclosed that there was 1, 500 MT of products in the vessel when it was arrested.
Acting Zonal Head of EFCC, Uyo Zonal Office, Mr Alex Eba, said they would investigate and prosecute offenders appropriately.
Nwagu, who will be handing over Command of NNS Victory on Wednesday, also said in the past one year they have completed 32 projects under their area of responsibility.
Speaking at the commissioning of one of the projects, a sick bay at the NNS Victory Headquarters in Calabar, he said all these were achieved has solely from resources sent from the headquarters and also from internally generated revenue and there were no special funds for any of the projects.
Nwagu said a year ago, he had started off with two operational boats, but would leaving 12 operational boats and four undergoing repairs in the Command.
He said the successes were made possible through the cooperation of military and civilian staff if the command as well as a healthy synergy with sister security agencies.
The Commander also handed over 190 bags of contraband foreign rice worth over 3 million naira and three suspects to the Nigeria Customs Service at the NNS Victory jetty.
Flag Officer Commander (FOC) of the Eastern Naval Command (ENC), Rear Admiral David Adeniran, who commissioned the sick bay, lauded NNS Victory for the achievements, expressing delight that such were happening under his watch.
He said the Navy would always ensure that the welfare of its personnel are adequately taken care of so they will be able to discharge their duties effectively.


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I first installed Red Hat Linux on one of my home computers in the late 1990's. It wasn't until Fedora Core 3 a few years later that I started permanently using Linux with no interruption. Since that time I've learned the intricacies of the operating system, and strengthened my system administration abilities. While my focus has been on the Red Hat family of distributions, I've also installed and used Ubuntu, Mint, openSUSE and others.
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Full steam ahead for Queensland's number one project
Posted by Design & Construct on 06-Jul-2016 19:19:07
In Construction, Labour Hire
The Infrastructure Pipeline Report released on the 1st July has put forward sixteen priority proposals at various stages of development, with twelve of the proposals being considered for further development and four with investment consideration.
The infrastructure report by the independent organisation Building Queensland provides strategic advice on where the Queensland Government should prioritise and invest its infrastructure funds. Building Queensland's core functions are to: provide strategic advice on infrastructure matters, develop and publish infrastructure priority proposals, and play a role in the procurement and delivery of infrastructure projects.
The report declared Cross River Rail ready for state investment and the state government has responded, by agreeing to deliver the huge financial commitment of $800 million, towards building Queensland's number one infrastructure project.
The other three projects ready for government investment consideration are:
Cunningham Highway - Yamanto Interchange to Ebenezer Creek
European Train Control System (ETCS) - Inner City
Pacific Motorway - Mudgeeraba to Varsity Lakes
Deputy Premier Jackie Trad said the delivery of the pipeline report was a major milestone in the government's commitment to remove politics from infrastructure planning, following the establishment of Building Queensland in December 2015. Premier Palaszczuk also commented that the investment was the biggest funding commitment to Cross River Rail by any government in its history.
"This builds on our recent commitment of $50 million in the 2016-17 state budget to establish the Cross River Rail Delivery Authority and commence early work, and $634 million funding to deliver the critical European Train Control System which will pave the way for the project," said Ms Palaszczuk.
The Cross River Rail project is hoped to transform from a single piece of transport infrastructure into one of Australia's largest innovation and economic development initiatives; which in turn will encourage new development to enable the expanding population better access to jobs and schools.
Treasurer Curtis Pitt said the commitment of $800 million fits in with the priorities of the 2016 - 17 budget of growing innovation, attracting investment and building infrastructure. The Cross River Rail project is expected to support more than 1,540 construction jobs during the anticipated construction timeframe of five years, with the possibility of creating more than 7,700 jobs for Queenslanders.
Cross River Rail key points:
support an additional 65,000 jobs
support an additional 12,000 residents and more than 40,000 jobs in the CBD
increase the proportion of the population in metropolitan Brisbane living within 30 minutes of employment from 15.2 per cent in 2015 to 20 per cent in 2026
increase peak period rail capacity into the CBD by 56 percent, from 86 to 134 trains per hour
reduces the number of people travelling to the CBD by car by 18,500 per day in 2036
reduce the total wait time for train passengers by 11,000 hours per day in 2036
increases the percentage of passengers in the region from 6.8 per cent currently to 10.4 per cent in 2036
save the economy of $240 million annually in 2036 from road congestion
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He reportedly will not be a guest of Queen Elizabeth.
Donald Trump's upcoming visit to the U.K. has allegedly been downgraded.
The London Evening Standard is reporting that the upcoming trip has been "stripped down" and will now be a working trip as opposed to a formal state visit.
That means none of the pomp and circumstance Trump is known to love, and he won't be staying in London as a guest of the Queen. Rather, the visit "is likely to form part of a tour of several countries by Mr Trump," reports the paper, and he would likely stay with U.S. ambassador Woody Johnson.
The news comes after months of controversy regarding the visit. It was initially announced back in January during Prime Minister Theresa may's visit to the White House, when she extended an invitation to President Donald Trump and the First Lady from Queen Elizabeth II.
The controversy was compounded by deeply unpopular statements Trump made on Twitter, following the terrorist attack at London Bridge, about the city's mayor Sadiq Khan. "The U.S. president said he did not want to come if there were large-scale protests and his remarks in effect put the visit on hold for some time," wrote the British publication The Guardian at the time.
Regarding the story that the trip has been "downgraded," a spokesperson for Prime Minister Theresa May's office told People the invitation has not changed, "Our position on the State Visit has not changed—an offer has been extended and President Trump has accepted. Exact dates for President Trump to visit have not yet been arranged."
Is Donald Trump Planning a Surprise Visit to the UK?