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KLIK x HAFF Combo Event Kaboom Bursts onto the Animation Calendar
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After months of preparation, KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival and Holland Animation Film Festival in Utrecht are ready to reveal the new name of their collaborative efforts: Kaboom Animation Festival. The first edition will take place November 9-17 in Utrecht and Amsterdam. The program in Utrecht will focus exclusively on animation for kids and families, while the program in Amsterdam will showcase a wide variety of the latest and greatest animation for adults and a special focus on industry events.
Kaboom will explode onto the scene November 9 with five days of colourful, family oriented programming in various locations in Utrecht. Visitors young and old can come eye to eye with their favorite animated characters — like Shaun the Sheep, Wallace & Gromit and Ella, Oscar & Hoo — and watch exclusive films. Visitors can dive into the world of Korean feature Satellite Girl and Milk Cow (Hyeong-yoon Chang, 2014), build an animated world in three days, go on an expedition with the whole family to record the sounds of Utrecht, or delve into the Exploration Station and workshops for different age groups. Additionally, KLIK x HAFF are organizing the Netherlands' first ever Young Industry Day in Utrecht to introduce new talent fresh from national art schools.
On November 13, the show moves to the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. The best animated shorts from around the world will screen in competition for awards, alongside a spotlight on new Amazon series Undone (Hisko Hulsing, 2019), an airing of tales of disastrous animation projects during the Night of Shame, a celebration of 100 years of Dutch animation and an exhilarating dive into Korean animation past and present. Plus plenty of premieres, industry events, international speakers, award shows, exhibitions, parties and much more.
The first confirmed features include Funan (Denis Do, 2018, 88′), a moving story of bravery and sacrifice in the face of unspeakable times, and Away (Gints Zilbalodis, 2019, 74′), which was made by a 25-year-old Latvian animator all by himself. This Annecy winner is a hypnotic story about a young man traveling through an unknown world. Kaboom has also confirmed a first speaker: Mike Hollingsworth, supervising director of BoJack Horseman.
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SMTMD presents acclaimed multi-instrumentalist performer and educator Aaron Jonah Lewis in concert at the Christ Church Parish Hall, 37497 Zach Fowler Road, Chaptico, MD. Mr. Lewis won awards at the Clifftop Appalachian String Band Festival, including First Place Neo-traditional Band in 2008 and 2015; and at the Galax Old Fiddler's Convention, including First Place Bluegrass Fiddle in 2007 and 2018. He has appeared on dozens of recordings from bluegrass and old-time to traditional jazz, contemporary, experimental and Turkish classical music projects. He plays and teaches banjo, mandolin ad guitar. Admission is $10 for SMTMD members, $15 for non-members. Go to www.smtmd.org for more information.


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A scene from the half acre Pequot Village exhibit BY: The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center
The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Connecticut
By Mark B. Oliver | June 22, 2012
ONE learns about the history and culture of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation at this extraordinary museum.
Exterior view from the terrace of the Pequot-Museum
The image appears courtesy of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center
The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, is a simply astonishing state-of-the-art, tribally owned-and-operated complex, which brings to life the history and culture of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, a native Algonquin people in Southeastern Connecticut.
Approximately 250,000 people visit the museum each year and in addition to the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, discover the histories and cultures of other tribes using interactive exhibits, which range from the ice age to woodland life.
The museum is vast (over 300,000 square-foot) and sensible walking shoes are a must if the visitor is hoping to enjoy all that is on offer during a day visit. It is located in one the oldest of America's Indian reservations which was established in 1666. The reservation is undoubtedly best known for the nearby Foxwood Casino, but those that simply venture there, miss out on an exhilarating experience of a different kind.
The collection emphasizes the eastern region of North America from the 16th to the 20th centuries, and the artifacts on display include children's toys, prayer books, cooking utensils, blankets, and Southern New England baskets.
There are numerous permanent exhibits that trace the Native and natural history of southern New England from the time of the Ice Age to the present, telling the truly dramatic story of the Pequot people and other Eastern Woodland tribal nations.
The Ice Age exhibit greets you as you enter the exhibition area and the glacier you walk through is accompanied by a cooling of the air, and almost immediately the immersive nature of the exhibit has taken hold.
Visitors explore the life size Caribou Hunt exhibit
Another highlight is an indoor recreation of a 16th century Pequot Village. The sounds of native birds and other animals surround you, as you walk through the half an acre that comprises the village. There are dozens of life-size figures depicting daily life from over 400 years ago and numerous wigwams and a longhouse, the traditional home of the tribal chief. It is an amazing achievement. Throughout the museum interactive computer programs complement the exhibits, allowing visitors to navigate the dioramas and access more information, images and video by touching the computer screens.
In addition to the permanent exhibits, each year the museum houses a number of special exhibits which showcase both contemporary and historical Native arts and cultures from across North America. The museum is a 'must-see' and draws visitors from throughout New England and beyond. Visitors should allow themselves several hours if they are to leave without feeling they missed an important exhibit. There is an excellent restaurant in which you can refuel and recharge during your day, before embarking on further discovery and education.
Suitable for all ages, The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center is highly recommended.
110 Pequot Trail, Mashantucket CT 06338
The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center website


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Blitz: Deceptive Cadence (Cadence #1) by Katie Hamstead
Katie Hamstead
Deceptive Cadence (Cadence #1)
by Katie Hamstead
Release Date: June 2015
REUTS Publications
Cadence Anderson has the perfect definition of happily ever after . . .
Until she doesn't. A freak earthquake shatters her life as surely as her home, taking away everything she holds dear. She wakes in a hospital to find that her beloved husband and infant daughter have been killed, crushed by the earthquake's wrath. Disoriented, injured, and alone, Cadence refuses to accept the loss. So when a man claiming to be her guardian angel appears and offers her a chance to go back in time to save her family, she doesn't need to give it a second thought. She accepts.
Thrust back eleven years, she now faces the ordeal of high school all over again. But this time, she's armed with all the knowledge of her adult life and the determination to do everything better, from preventing the loss of her best friend to avoiding her original, drama-inducing boyfriends. She's focused solely on Austin, her future husband, and is content to bide her time until she meets him again.
But then James Gordon crosses her path. Cadence wants to remain single, but James has his sights set. He is determined to win her over, and he's very hard to resist. As Cadence starts to develop unwanted feelings for him, she realizes he threatens to disrupt everything, changing the future and distracting her from her original goal. Now, Cadence must choose: deny the unpredictable and exciting path James offers her, or stay true to the life she had and is trying desperately to resurrect. Second chances are more complicated than they seem.
Deceptive Cadence combines the soaring emotion of a heartfelt romance with the innovative storytelling of magical realism, crafting a uniquely moving, intricate tale about love and loss that asks: what would you do if given the chance to right all your wrongs?
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Diverging Cadence (Cadence #2)
Release Date: August 25th 2015
When Cadence Anderson woke to find her husband and infant daughter had been killed, she thought her life was over. Instead, she was offered a second chance and sent back in time to do it all again.
She's made the most of this opportunity, repairing her relationship with the best friend she lost the first time, avoiding the romantic mistakes she made originally, and even bringing her family closer together. But she's also done something she wasn't planning on—she's fallen in love with someone other than her future husband.
Stepping onto a plane and flying across country to attend university is the hardest decision she's had to make. But unless she follows through with it, her future with Austin might never happen. And what becomes of her beautiful baby if she stays with James, the man she was never supposed to love?
The only thing she knows for certain is that she has to see Austin again, and she's intent on reliving that part of her previous life exactly like she did the first time. Even if that means she has to lie to James to do it. Because, deep down, she can't quite bring herself to let him go.
Now, past and future are about to collide, and Cadence has to make her final choice—follow the uncertain path of a life with James, or the one she came back to save . . . with Austin.
In this emotional conclusion to the story that began in Deceptive Cadence, relationships will be tested, identities revealed, and the past will overshadow the future, putting the finishing touches on an unforgettable tale of courage, sacrifice, and, above all, love.
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Born and raised in Australia, Katie's early years of day dreaming in the "bush", and having her father tell her wild bedtime stories, inspired her passion for writing.
After graduating High School, she became a foreign exchange student where she met a young man who several years later she married. Now she lives in Arizona with her husband, daughter and their dog.
She has a diploma in travel and tourism which helps inspire her writing.
When her debut novel, Kiya: Hope of the Pharaoh, climbed into bestselling status, she believed she was onto something, and now has a slew of novels now available, and is published through Curiosity Quills Press, Soul Mate Publishing, and REUTS Publishing.
Katie loves to out sing her friends and family, play sports, and be a good wife and mother. She now works as an Acquisitions Editor to help support her family. She loves to write, and takes the few spare moments in her day to work on her novels.


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Tuan Lam (Bao Trinh, Vietnam, 1 januari 1966) is een Vietnamees-Canadees professionele pokerspeler uit Mississauga, Ontario. Voordat hij professioneel poker speelde, werkte hij als arbeider bij een metaalbedrijf. Hij is getrouwd en hij heeft twee kinderen.

Lam behaalde de finaletafel van het Main Event van de World Series of Poker 2007 waar hij als tweede eindigde. Hij verloor alleen van Jerry Yang. Hij won hiermee 4.840.981 dollar. Voor het Main Event had hij twee keer eerder geld gewonnen in de World Series, namelijk in 2006 en in 2005.

Lam is ook een gerespecteerd speler van cash games bij online $200/$400 Limit Hold 'em-spellen.

Hij heeft ook enige tijd deel uitgemaakt van een door PokerStars gesponsorde groep pokerprofessionals genaamd Team PokerStars.

Hij speelt online onder de naam TuanLam.

Externe links
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Through Both Lenses: #42, Minnie, and Afro Latinos in Baseball
Posted: April 12, 2012 by Mauricio Rubio Jr. in Baseball, Columns, MLB, Through Both Lenses
Tags: #42, a drinking town with a sports problem, African American, Afro Latinos, Alabama, Alex Rios, Alexei Ramirez, alfonso soriano, April 15, baseball, Billy Williams, carlos marmol, Chicago, Chicago A Drinking Town With Sports Problem, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Color Barrier, colored, Cuban, Cuban Comet, Dan Bernstein, Dayan Viciedo, Don Newcombe, Ernie Banks, Fidel Castro, Geo Soto, George Zimmerman, Hank Aaron, Hector Santiago, Hispanics, Jackie Robinson, Jackie Robinson Day, Latin, Latinos, Marlon Byrd, MExican, Minnie MInoso, MLB, Negro Leagues, New York Cubans, Ozzie Guillen, Puerto Rican, Race, racial bias, Roy Campanella, Spanish roots, starlin castro, Torii Hunter, Trayvon Martin, Willie Mays
"People see dark faces out there, and the perception is that they're African American. They're not us. They're impostors"
-Torii Hunter
by: Mauricio Rubio Jr.
email: mr@99sportsproblems.com
twitter: @MRubio52
Note: This article is the start of something, the history of the Afro-Latino in baseball cannot be summed up in one blog post or even a series of blog posts. It began as a simple email response and it has grown into an ongoing project whose end date I'm not sure of. This is a snippet.
It's pretty clear that people just don't know what to do with Latinos. In the Trayvon Martin case Zimmerman was labeled a minority by some because he has Spanish roots, thus making him Mexican or something. The Ozzie Guillen story provided an interesting chance for Latinos to have a serious conversation about race and hate within the community, instead we got an overreaction to the suspension with no real discussion on why what he said stung so much. One of the more surprising aspects of this controversy was the lack of cultural awareness when it comes to Hispanics. People genuinely did not know that Castro is seen as a tyrannical despot on the level of Hitler with the Cuban community. The caricature was the only impression people had of him and were shocked that Ozzie's comments cut so deep.
The inspiration from this commentary, however, came from a nugget of information that Dan Bernstein gave us 2 weeks ago. The Chicago Cubs are currently shopping most of their big league roster, and it's been speculated for months that Marlon Byrd will be traded. Should he find a new home between now and April 15, Jackie Robinson day, Chicago will have no African-American representative on #42's day. That is a rather interesting piece of information, and I don't have much issue with it. A caller brought up the name Alex Rios, who was born in Alabama and is considered Puerto-Rican-American.
And that's what really got me thinking about what Jackie Robinson day means. For the purposes of his point, I can somewhat see where Mr. Bernstein was coming from, he dismissed Rios as a Latin born player and not African American in the typical sense of the term. However, I think this is a classic example of the media, and the world in general, having no idea what to do with Afro-Latinos. Torii Hunter's quote above illustrates that point as well. Afro-Latinos are not properly represented nor are they accounted for in America.
The implication that Mr. Bernstein was making is that Afro-Latinos shouldn't count as proper representatives for Jackie Robinson Day. That's a dangerous implication to make and I think it's one that a lot of people make. The inverse of this is also dangerous however, to consider Alex Rios as simply black without considering what his heritage and his lineage is. The point of Jackie Robinson day is to celebrate the tearing down of the color barrier. That's a broad term, color, and it's one that's classically been assigned to African-Americans throughout history, with a good reason. It was the label that an oppressive white society put on blacks to strip away their sense of worth. But color is a defined differently today as it applies to a broader population.
The truth is that the gentleman's agreement about "colored" players extended beyond just the African-American players. If you sent Alfonso Soriano, Starlin Castro, Marlon Byrd, Alex Rios, Carlos Marmol, Dayan Viciedo, Alexei Ramirez, Hector Santiago, and even Geo Soto back into a time machine set for the 30's, not a one is playing in the Majors. They would all be New York Cubans.
The history of the New York Cubans is muddled, which is common for a Negro League team. For the purposes of this column, understand that they were a Negro League team comprised of mostly Afro-Latinos, but occasionally they took on lighter skinned Latinos because MLB didn't want anything to do with people of color. They began in 1899 as the All Cubans, became the Cuban Stars in 1907, folded in the late 20's and were recreated by a former member of the Cuban Stars, Alex Pompez, in 1930. If that name rings a bell White Sox fans, it's because he scouted Minnie Minoso and brought him over from Cuba to play ball in the US.
The New York Cubans employed players of color that were not allowed to play in the Majors. These were not strictly African American players that fit neatly into a small category. The NY Cubans took on all that were of color and shunned by MLB, until Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and opened the door to all people of color, not just American born Blacks. The Negro Leagues were where Minnie Minoso got his start in professional baseball.
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson was 0/3 with a RS, but on that day he began the process that cemented himself as arguably the most important player in baseball history. In the wake of integration we had Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Don Newcombe, and Minnie Minoso. That's a lot of talent that MLB was ignoring before Jackie. A date that should be similarly remembered is May 1, 1951.
The "Cuban Comet" paved the way for Latino players, but is remembered by the White Sox as being their first black player in the post Jackie Robinson era. On May 1, Minnie paved the way for Latino players to enter the Majors, which of course came at the price of discrimination, racism, and untold stress and heartache. Reporters rather famously phonetically spelled his quotes in print, he was called all sorts of names everywhere he went, and he had to use the "Coloreds Only" stalls as well.
It's irresponsible to dismiss Afro Latinos because they aren't the "right kind of black." I think it's about time to have a serious discussion about race in America, one that centers around Hispanics. The race issue is alive and well in America, it's disguised as other things and somewhat hidden, but we Hispanics have a lot of issues to resolve with ourselves. There's an alarming trend of self hate and lost identity within our community. Ozzie's insensitive comments confront us with an uncomfortable reality that we aren't as unified as we'd like to think sometimes. I'm guilty of talking shit to Puerto Ricans, and I'm sure most Hispanics have similar stories. We've come a long way since Minnie, but we still have a long way to go. Our story is frequently misunderstood in America, let's work on that.
Through Both Lenses: Centralized Questions
Posted: March 29, 2012 by Mauricio Rubio Jr. in Baseball, Columns, MLB, Sports, Through Both Lenses
Tags: a drinking town with a sports problem, Adam Dunn, AJ Pierzynski, Alex Gordon, Alex Rios, baseball, Boston red Sox, Brent Morel, Bruce Chen, Carl Pavano, Carlos Santana, Chicago, Chicago A Drinking Town With Sports Problem, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Chris Sale, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Cy Young, Daniel Duffy, Dayan Viciedo, Detroit Tigers, Doug Fister, Epstoyer, Eric Hosmer, Gavin Floyd, Jake Peavy, Jed Hoyer, Joakim Soria, Joe Mauer, Jonathan Sanchez, Josh Tomlin, Josh Willingham, Justin Masterson, KC Royals, Ken Griffey Jr., Kenny Williams, Manny Ramirez, Mark Buerhle, Max Scherzer, Miami Marlins, Miguel Cabrera, Mike Moustakas, Milwaukee Brewers, MLB, Ozzie Guillen, Prince Fielder, Ron Gardenhire, Ryan Raburn, Shin-Soo Choo, St. Louis Cardinals, Theo Epstein, Ubaldo Jimenez, Verlander, Victor Martinez
"Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously."
I think it's important for baseball fans on both sides of Chicago to understand that neither the Sox nor the Cubs will be seriously competing this year. The Sox have a better shot at catching lightning in a bottle this year if they get great years from their roster, but it's a big if at this point and oddly enough it can all hinge on Jake Peavy's health, which is a scary proposition. The Cubs have virtually no hope, the rosters of the teams in front of the Cubs are all better. The Reds, Brewers and Cardinals will fight for the Central lead leaving the Cubs in a slap fight with the Astros and the Pirates to avoid the cellar.
So a lot of people are going to tune out without properly understanding what you're watching. For the Sox this is Kenny's last stand. His acquisitions all have a strange propensity to blow up in his face. Manny Ramirez, Ken Griffey Jr., Jake Peavy, Alex Rios and Adam Dunn were all massive faceplants to this point. He let fan favorites Ozzie Guillen and Mark Buerhle take their talents to Miami. He hired a manager that no one knew was a serious candidate and took full control of this team moving forward. Any success the team enjoys will be his, but so will the failure. Not many GM's get to fire 2 managers, so Kenny's on the clock
Epstoyer is enjoying a honeymoon currently, but they'll have to work efficiently to rebuild a decimated Cubs organization. The Cubs have almost no pitching help in the minors. There are a few Cub fans that will want the Cubs to win now . When Cubs start getting traded most of these will get restless and wonder what the aim of the organization is. There are even a few that believe Theo and company only won because they spent Yankee money. This is true to an extent, but the Red Sox also drafted wisely and had good talent come up from their farm system. The make over the Cubs are going to get will be impressive, but the clock will start once the Cubs trade a marquee name.
Which brings me to the purpose of these two pieces. AL/NL Central "Predictions." I'm placing the teams in order of believed finish, but I'm not going to place a W-L value on it. We'll start with the AL Central. NL Central will go live tomorrow.
1. Detroit Tigers – They are the favorite to win the division and they are a candidate tot make some noise in the playoffs. They added Prince to Miggy and have a potent offense. The lose of Victor Martinez will hurt as Ryan Raburn will get more burn in the lineup, but Prince more than makes up for that. We all know what Prince can do with the bat, ditto with Miggy. The real question is how awful that IF defense will be. Prince-Raburn-Peralta-Cabrera has a serious chance at being the worst IF defense of all time.
Especially considering that this dude played third 60 lbs ago.
It would be pretty astounding to see what Verlander would do with a good defense, but as it stands the defense shouldn't affect him too much. He probably won't be as great as his 2011 season, but he'll still be a Cy Young candidate in 2012. The rotation guy that might suffer is Doug Fister. Verlander and Scherzer both strikeout batters at an above average clip, but Fister's career SO/9 is 5.5. He upped it to 7.3 in 70 ip with the Tigers, but I would expect that rate to fall. The 'pen is solid and a name to look for is Daniel Schlereth. If he can gain some semblance of control he can become a high leverage pitcher.
2. KC Royals – It's hard to predict a 2nd place finish for a team that boasts Bruce Chen in it's rotation, but here they are, on the back of what should be a rather impressive offense. The kids can play, Hosmer is legit and should emerge as KC's best player overall this year. Alex Gordon is going to be a great leadoff hitter this year, and Moustakas should make some positive gains at the big league level this year. The question with this team is when will the pitching help get here? All of their starters are projected to be below average this year, the only pitcher that may be worth his salt will be Jonathan Sanchez. Daniel Duffy is a few years away and like I said, Bruce Chen is an important part of this rotation. A lot of what this team does moving forward will depend on what they can do to solidify the starters. The bullpen has some names to keep an eye on, but losing Joakim Soria hurts. I think the Royals take a major step forward but the rotation will hold them back from competing for a wild card spot.
3. Cleveland Indians – Carlos Santana is the damn truth. He will emerge as the best catcher in baseball this year. He's great with the stick and he's a good defender. The Indians should surprise people this year, but a bad offense will keep them from really making noise in the central. Shin-Soo Choo is key for the Tribe. If he can get back on his star track this year the Indians can scare the Tigers for a few months. If not, the Indians will be relegated to fending off the Sox and the Twins in third place. Ubaldo Jimenez won't be competing for Cy Young's anymore, but he is a solid top of the rotation pitcher. He should emerge as the ace over Justin Masterson this year. Josh Tomlin needs to increase his K rate to his minor league levels to have a breakout year, but he should still remain as a decent mid-rotation option. The Bullpen will keep this team from being a complete cellar dweller.
4. Chicago White Sox – It's not an awful rotation. Danks should have a rebound year, Gavin is a candidate to have a great year, Chris Sale will make some noise in the rotation, but their success or failure all depends on the offense. Adam Dunn was historically bad and that saved Alex Rios from more criticism. Gordon Beckham lost his swing and will have a difficult time getting it back. AJ Pierzynski is hitting second in the lineup. Brent Morel will get significant playing time. It's just a bad offense. Dunn should rebound somewhat, he's currently crushing fastballs which is a good sign considering how slow his bat looked last year. Dayan Viciedo has light tower power but we have to wait and see how his game translates in the MLB. Rios is likely to hit 3rd for most of the season. The Sox have too many questions regarding the offense to be a serious contender, you have to hit HR's in the Cell to compete, because everyone else will.
5. Minnesota Twins – This team is awful. Joe Mauer and Josh Willingham will carry the load on offense, and their pitching rotation will be flat out awful. Carl Pavano's K-rate might dip below 4 this year. They have no frontline starter in their rotation. The bullpen will be using gasoline to put out the fires this year, there's little help down on the farm, Justin Morneau is probably done playing baseball, they will be in the cellar this year. They have a long rebuild ahead of them and Gardy should probably get fired this year.
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In this episode, we forget football ever happened, we review Soxfest, interview Alexei Ramirez and Dayan Viciedo, review a great Chicago brew (not Ronnie Brewer), discuss a lot of baseball, and reveal our favorite sports books of all time.


We love the Chelsea Flower Show. For SO MANY reasons!
For one, how fantastic is it to see joyous floral displays and an huge emphasis on gardening and nature in the mainstream press day after day?! It's brilliant that so many public figures, including the Royal Family, get involved and show off their own interests and skills in the gardening world. London is always a great place to be in the sunshine – especially when adorned with flowers, so we love that everyone gets out and visits the displays of the Chelsea Flower Show.
The theme of this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show was Greening Grey Britain, an initiative to encourage people to grow plants wherever possible in cities to improve environmental factors such as air quality and flood control, and to bring health and happiness to communities.
The official RHS garden of the 2016 show was designed by Ann-Marie Powell and focused on this theme of Health, Happiness and Healing. The mission of her design was to provide inspiration for others to show that green spaces and spending time in the garden can be therapeutic. And we think she did a great job of achieving that.
Juliet Sargeant, the first female black designer in 103 years of Chelsea Flower Show won gold in the "RHS People's Choice Award: Fresh Garden" category for her design "Modern Slavery", an arrangement of florals and painted doors to represent people being held captive and forced to work in Britain. Congratulations to Juliet!
And they called it poppy loooove…. An international project brought over 50,000 people together to hand-crochet over 300,000 crimson flowers to create a lush carpet in front of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea in honour of all who fought for Britain.
According to small space gardener and blogger Jack Wallington, some of the trends in the 2016 show were the colour orange, bronze, wild inspired gardens and freedom to experiment, which sounds fantastic to us.
One final fact for you: To date, over 15,000 photos have been shared on Instagram for #RHSChelsea, so that's our evenings gone this week!
What was the highlight of the Chelsea Flower Show for you this year?


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Supersonic 2012: Nic Bullen Interviewed
Toby Cook , October 17th, 2012 07:11
From grindcore to field recording, Nic Bullen's sound art exists on a continuum. Toby Cook talks to the Napalm Death pioneer ahead of this weekend's Supersonic festival in Birmingham
"More should be made of Napalm Death... there should be a 40ft tall brass statue of Napalm Death, perhaps leaning against the wall of the Bullring, smoking massive brass cigarettes... if you add up the influence of not just Napalm Death but of Godflesh, Jesu, Techno Animal, Cathedral, Rise Above Records, Head Of David, Painkiller, Teeth Of Lions Rule The Divine and Scorn, then you are left with arguably the most 'important' leftfield or extreme band of the last 25 years."
Although we said this in relation to Mick Harris' performance as Scorn at last year's Supersonic, it is undoubtedly true of all of the significant protagonists in Napalm Death's formative years – arguably none more so than founder member Nicholas Bullen.
Although less audibly noticeable, perhaps, than Justin Broadrick, Lee Dorrian or Mick Harris, Bullen – who left Napalm Death before the recording of the B-side of their debut album, Scum, in 1986 to pursue more abstract musical ventures and concentrate on his philosophy degree – has, via art installations, films and explorations in sound and field recordings, continued to explore the extreme and the avant garde to an inspiring degree.
Ahead of his performance at this month's upcoming Supersonic festival we caught up with him to get his thoughts on the festival, find out what we can expect from his set and discover what sort of music Napalm Death might have been producing had he remained with the group.
So Nic, what exactly is it that you're presenting at Supersonic this year; what can people expect from it?
Nic Bullen: Well it's predominately geared towards sound – the development of my electronic composition, which is what I focus on in the main – so I'll be playing a 35 minute composition which has a loose base structure, but for the most part is live improvisation and processing. And that ties into the film which I'm going to show which is an excerpt of a much longer film called The Inverse Heliograph, which is predominately constructed from super 8 film, which is re-photographed, processed, overlaid and altered in terms of duration. Really it's an audio-visual set I suppose.
A lot of the sounds you use and manipulate are from field recordings – how do you go about sourcing those? Are they all collected first hand?
NB: At present, for probably the last five years, I've focused almost exclusively on environmental recordings made within the immediate environ of my home; so that's inside the house and the limits of the garden. That was partly in order to limit myself in terms of sound material and also to focus on extending my technique in terms of gaining more from very finite cells of material but it's also because, in comparison to electronically generated music, field recordings have wide ranges of sound which you can't predict; they have a lot of what you could call 'imperfections' and I'm interested in exploring those imperfections, it allows me to move one step away from the original source material, whereas if I write an electronic patch and generate it I do have some sort of sense of what it will be.
I tend to do a lot of recording whilst I'm out of the house too – I leave recorders running and then come back and take stock of the material. I think that one of the key things, for me, in using environmental material is that I'm very interested in using the sound around me – I haven't worn headphones and listened to music when I'm outside and moving around for at least 20 to 25 years, I'm more interested in the sounds around me and I find that they're most effective in teasing out different strands. So it ties in to that in terms of base material, sound material, but also a theme that I've developed through some of my other work is that I am very interested in the English pastoral tradition in general and what it says about how we live and the ways in which you can engage with that and possibly alter its meaning and the field recordings of my particular environment are particularly useful for that.
Do you find yourself sometimes, being in that mindset of having both ears open so to speak, that you'll head out to get a pint of milk and you'll hear a particular sound and think, "Shit! I wish I had my recorder with me!"? Is it sort of an occupational hazard?
NB: [laughs] I suppose that it is in a way; the world's full of sounds and I would say that all of them are interesting and so it often happens when you're moving, when you're in different locations, you hear something and it would be nice to record it. I mean, I do tend to take a recorder with me in general – perhaps not so much if I'm just going to get a pint of milk as I might be more focussed on a cup of tea! But I do record a lot outside of the environ of my home, but I don't particularly at this time use it as source material, I store it and I sometimes return to it to listen to. But at present I'm interested in taking very finite amounts of material and seeing what the possibilities are for extending that as widely as possible – for example what some of my set will include is a section that sounds like sine waves but is just field recordings that I've electronically processed and extended into sine tones – or something approximating sine tones.
You mentioned that your set was also going to include a portion of your film The Inverse Heliograph, can you tell us a little bit about that?
NB: The film itself is, again, predominately focussed on landscape and the pastoral, and on memory, so It's all composed of Super 8 film that I've made because I had a super 8 camera in the 1970s. I've made Super 8 films all my life, for well over 30 years, but in general I don't show them. I made them with some regularity and they're for my own exploration really. But I was quite interested in, and I'd been talking to a lot of people about perhaps utilising them in some respect and I thought that this might be appropriate. So the source material is essentially my Super 8 films, and then what I tried to do through layering; through durational shifts, in terms of speed; through altering the image through re-focusing and cropping the frame; through the use of external filters and blockages to the projection beam, is to try, again, to shift and transform the content. Most of my work in terms of the visual arts and sound, and writing, is about using systems of communication and then attempting to use those systems against themselves to look for other avenues – to explore other possibilities for change through that.
All this is a very long way from anarcho-punk fanzines and Napalm Death; are you still influenced by, for want of a better word, 'conventional' bands or musicians? And does that early love of bands like Crass etc. still come through?
NB: I see all the sound I listen to as part of a continuum that comes through that. In terms of abrasive sound it seems logical to move beyond the format of the traditional 'song' – which essentially anarchist punk and trash and hardcore still deal with – into the realm of pure sound; to me they sit on a continuum and in the same way I feel that anarchist punk is a form of folk music, of folk expression, so too is Super 8 film because it was the home gauge that anybody could potentially have access to and make and I also find that links into the DIY aesthetics of tape culture and fanzine production – they seem to be part of one large continuum that doesn't really have a stopping point. So in terms of the music I make, in the broadest sense, and perhaps in some slightly different areas, it still follows back to that and informs it, whilst on a personal level I still listen to a lot of that music along with everything else I'm interested in, whether it's dub or post punk or modern classical or acousmatic or hard soul – whatever form of music really.
It's interesting that you spoke there about music being a continuum; with Supersonic one of the greatest things about it, for me, is that although you may not have heard of half of the artists on the bill you'll invariably – usually by accident or word or mouth – come across someone doing something amazing. It's so important that festivals like that exist isn't it.
NB: It definitely is – as you say, one of the pleasures is that you can, by chance, find something really interesting and exciting that really inspires you. Often festivals, in general, will tend to have leaders in their field – quite rightly so – but sometimes it can make for slightly dull programming, in terms of you think: 'Well, I'm going to this festival do I need to go to that one in two months' time because there are very similar artists playing and there isn't much of a shift?' But what I really like about Supersonic – and there are other festivals like Tusk and Colour Out Of Space in Britain that do a similar thing – is that they have a really wide range of artists to select from, because their tastes are much more eclectic, and as a result you do get those fascinating, unexpected moments; which I think is great. I mean, at Supersonic you can go from Drunk In Hell, for some heavy hitting guitars, to some more gentle explorations of acoustic instruments to acousmatic, modern electronic music in the space of an hour.
If we could just talk now about Napalm Death a little, one of the things I find really interesting about Napalm is that if you look at some of the former members – for example yourself, Justin Broadrick, Mick Harris, Lee Dorian – the array and the depth of forward thinking music that has been produced by or involved you four is actually pretty staggering. Why do you think that is? Were there any early of it indications back in your Napalm days?
NB: Well I think that, certainly if we take Mick, Justin and myself, we weren't particularly bound by any genre as you often are when you're a young person, a teenager; we'd already been exposed to a lot of different music because we all began listening to music at a very young age and in a sense we're the children of John Peel – we were exposed to everything across the spectrum, from rock & roll to punk to experimental music to more pop orientated stuff to rockabilly to dub to electronics, and we were interested in all of those things. So I think what's happened is, as you'll see with all of those people, is that different areas get explored and the perhaps returned to and re-envisioned. And, y'know, I was always sure at the time that the rest of the people in the group would go on to do a lot of music, a lot of different kind of music, because we weren't genre fans as such, trapped in one genre, we were interested in every genre we could find something interesting in.
Although perhaps not via grindcore are you ever tempted to revisit the more extreme end of the spectrum?
NB: There's part of me that's interested, I'm sometimes tempted to do a more traditional band, I mean, I do play in a few bands – because my key focus is live performances, rather than recordings – and, yeah, there's part of me that's interested in that. But, if we're talking about pushing towards the extremities of sound, the electronic music I make is far more extreme – both in terms of sonics, the content and the structure. I sometimes feel that I'd like to see grindcore become even more mutated and move away from song structures, which is suppose other types of music do.
It's funny that you say that – I remember interviewing Lee Dorian a few years ago and talking about the Napalm days and he said that in the end one of the reasons that he left was due to the musical direction – he had this idea of keeping the raw acerbity of it but doing away with a lot of the structure and adding this almost Swans-esque dirge; I think that would have sounded fucking great! Well, it would have sounded awful, but by design, if you know what I mean?
NB: Yeah, I think it would have. I mean, we kind of flirted with approaching the kind of atonal, post punk of early Swans on some of our earlier demos and obviously people have explored it since – and I think it would have been fascinating. When I left I felt there was a danger of adhering to a format, which on the one hand gives an artist a very defined sound but on the other is very limiting in terms of creativity. I actually wanted to add in dub, I really wanted to really dub everything out and that's why it seemed logical to say yes when Mick Harris asked me to do Scorn because I was interested in that kind of exploration of duration of space in sound.
Does it still surprise you that subsequently Napalm and grindcore became so popular? I mean, Napalm once made the cover of NME, which in a certain way seems to go against the original ethos of the band doesn't it?
NB: I can't speak for the people who've been involved in the band since I left, obviously, but for me having a career and success wasn't ever really something I had considered – I just wanted to express myself and explore being creative. I knew when I was leaving Napalm that they were going to be very popular, I'd seen it shift in terms of the underground, how it had gone from being pretty much universally disliked to being very lauded and praised, and I knew that was inevitably going to extend further. For me personally I felt it could slightly be a trap – but I can't really speak for the other members of the group at the time or since, because everybody has different reasons for being creative.
Nic Bullen plays this year's Supersonic festival in Birmingham between the 19th and the 21st of October. Nic also has a yet-to-be-titled album due for release in the New Year via Type Records
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Badalkot (nepalski: बदालकोट) – gaun wikas samiti w zachodniej części Nepalu w strefie Karnali w dystrykcie Kalikot. Według nepalskiego spisu powszechnego z 2011 roku liczył on 589 gospodarstw domowych i 3254 mieszkańców (1602 kobiety i 1652 mężczyzn).

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A Havelock North woman says many people have lost hundreds of dollars during the gastroenteritis outbreak, and they should receive more compensation.
More than 5000 people became sick during the outbreak - more than a third of the 14,000 town's population - and at least 500 of those cases were confirmed as due to campylobacter.
The Hastings District Council has offered to cut residents' $57 water rates charge for three months.
Jessica Maxwell said she asked Tukituki MP Craig Foss about further compensation at last night's public meeting, but he did not answer.
"People are suffering, I was speaking to a part-time cook, she worked casual, and she was out $400 that week because she wasn't called in. I've spoken to a couple of school principals in Hastings, they had to employ relief teachers because the Havelock North staff were off sick. Now how are those people going to get reimbursed?"
She said $200 in compensation for each household affected by the bug would be a fair solution.
The Hastings District Council said today it would not lift its boil water notice until at least the end of the week.
It said water was not yet flushing completely through the Havelock North reticulation network, and it must wait at least another three days for further testing.
Earlier today, the Hawke's Bay District Health Board met for the first time since people started getting sick earlier this month.
Chief executive Kevin Snee said he believed the government's inquiry would probably show that there were small problems in the systems and processes used by the DHB, and by the district and regional councils.
He expected this to show that, when aligned, the problems allowed the water supply to become contaminated and people to get sick.
DHB chair Kevin Atkinson said the government's inquiry needed to be expedited, so the rest of the country could learn from the district's handling of the crisis.
A second public meeting was held in Havelock North tonight.
The Commerce Commission has confirmed it has launched a preliminary investigation into the marketing and sale of water filters by the company HRV.
It's impossible to make all New Zealand lakes and lagoons swimmable without a massive bird cull, Environment Minister Nick Smith says.


The Study Hacks on Campus Project is an offshoot of the Study Hacks student advice blog. The goal of the project is to help students take control of their lives. It asks them to form local groups and meet regularly to support each other in their attempts at self-improvement. Each group maintains a blog that describes the strategies they experimented with and their results. This transparency allows the groups to learn from each other, and it helps the best ideas rapidly disseminate through the community.
Browse the list below and to the right to see if a group already exists at your school. If you're interested in starting a new group, or have any other questions about the project, contact Cal Newport.
Group Leader's Guide Everything you need to know to run a Study Hacks on Campus group.
Discussion #1: Capture This first suggested discussion tackles organization. The goal is full capture of everything you're responsible for, coupled with regular review.
Discussion #2: Control Now that you've wrangled the responsibilities in your life, it's time to decide what to do with them. This suggested discussion overviews strategies for controlling your work hours.
Discussion #3: Plan, Pt. 1 This suggest discussion is the first part of a two part series focusing on how you tackle academic tasks once you've put aide time for their completion. In part 1, the discussion covers notetaking and problem sets.
Discussion #4: Plan, Pt. 2 Part 2 of the plan discussion picks up where part 1 left off, covering tests and paper assignments.
Discussion #5: The Big Picture Now that you've gained control of the technical details of student life, it's time to take a step back and consider the big picture. This suggested discussion introduces the Zen Valedictorian Philosophy -- the idea that living a less cluttered, more relaxing, and more meaningful student life can provide better post-grad options than trying to survive the most difficult possible load of classes and activities.


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Q: Wordpress Docker: Error establishing DB connection (MYSQL) I have been watching this before.
Moving Wordpress site to Docker: Error establishing DB connection
My Linux is centos VM, I try to create WordPress and MySQL(5.6~8).
It will be created but I can not connect DB.
This is my command (using swarm).
docker swarm init --advertise-addr=192.168.50.31
docker swarm join --token -secret token- 192.168.50.31:2377

docker network create -d overlay demo

docker service create --name wordpress
-p 80:80 --env WORDPRESS_DB_PASSWORD=root
--env WORDPRESS_DB_HOST=mysql
--network demo  wordpress

docker service create --name mysql
--env MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root --env
MYSQL_DATABASE=wordpress --network demo
--mount
type=volume,source=mysql-data,destination=/var/lib/mysql mysql:5.6

I try to search it why. But did not find the answer.

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Columbus REALTORS® -- Renames Million Dollar Awards
By Kathy Elliott, Columbus REALTORS® Director of Executive Services
Categories: In Contract - Featured Articles, Latest News, Association News, MLS News, Homepage News, YPN News
The Columbus REALTORS® Board of Directors recently approved the Recognition & Sales Awards Committee recommendation to rename the sales award levels. This recommendation came as a result of a survey sent to current recipients of the Association's sales awards and the ongoing concern of the consumer's misinterpretation of the dollar amounts referenced in the award names.
Under the rules and with the new name changes, there are two ways to apply for the awards, Method A and Method B.
Under Method A, the name changes and criteria are as follows:
PRESIDENT'S MERIT AWARD (formerly known as the $1 Million Dollar Award): This award requires a minimum sales volume of $1,000,000 in the year of application, coupled with participation in a minimum of five (5) closings for the current year.
PRESIDENT'S COMMITMENT AWARD (formerly known as the $5 Million Dollar Award and obtainable only after achieving the President's Merit Award): Requires a minimum sales volume of $4,000,000 cumulative after gaining admission to the President's Merit Award (including any excess volume from previous sales), which shall include at least $1,000,000 in verified sales for the current year. Additionally, the applicant must show participation in a minimum of five (5) closings for the current year.
PRESIDENT'S EXCELLENCE AWARD (formerly known as the $10 Million Dollar Award and obtainable only after achieving the President's Commitment Award: A minimum sales volume of $5,000,000 cumulative after gaining admission to the President's Commitment Award (including any excess volume from previous sales), which shall include at least $1,000,000 in verified sales for the current year. Additionally, the applicant must show participation in a minimum of five (5) closings for the current year.
PRESIDENT'S PRESTIGE AWARD (formerly known as the $25 Million Dollar Award and obtainable only after achieving the President's Excellence Award): A minimum sales volume of $15,000,000 cumulative after gaining admission to the President's Excellence Award, (including any excess volume from previous sales), which shall include at least $1,000,000 in verified sales for the current year. Additionally, the applicant must show participation in a minimum of five (5) closings for the current year.
METHOD B is for individuals who have obtained a minimum of ten (10) years of Columbus REALTOR® membership and who hold primary or secondary membership with the Columbus REALTORS® at the time of application. Method B levels include:
• PRESIDENT'S COMMITMENT AWARD: A minimum sales volume of $5,000,000
• PRESIDENT'S EXCELLENCE AWARD: A minimum sales volume of $10,000,000
• PRESIDENT'S PRESTIGE AWARD: A minimum sales volume of $25,000,000
Criteria will be considered met if applicant presents evidence that they have satisfied equal criteria with a REALTOR® association that has merged with Columbus REALTORS®.
For the member applying under Method B who has never applied for and received a Columbus REALTORS® sales award, calculation of sales production will begin with the first year the applicant could have qualified for the President's Merit Award.
For those members applying under Method B who have applied for and received a Columbus REALTORS® sales award, regardless of level, calculation of sales volume produced prior to these award years will begin with the first year the applicant could have qualified for that award.
If planning to apply for one of the sales award levels this year, please note that the deadline for submitting your paperwork is Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, 5p (no exceptions) and that the sales award year runs from Nov. 1, 2018 through Oct. 31, 2019.
Columbus Dispatch Offers Prize Package for Sales Awards Recipients
The Columbus Dispatch is generously serving as sponsor of this year's sales award program and will offer two free Spotlight ads to all sales award and Lifetime Achievement Award recipients.


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The Cato Street Conspiracy
The Cato Street Conspiracy of 1820 saw police foil a terrorist plot to overthrow the government by assassinating the Prime Minister Lord Liverpool and his Cabinet ministers.
The conspirators met in a stable block in Cato Street, a discreet mews, just off Edgware Road. But what brought them to such drastic measures?
The Cato Street Conspiracy discovered 1820
George IV had been on the throne for just a few weeks. England was undergoing vast social, political and cultural change. Rural living was giving way to urbanisation. Rapid industrialisation saw workers flock to the towns and cities. The Napoleonic Wars had come to an end but returning soldiers and sailors saw unemployment rise. The population boomed but poverty, food shortages and poor living and working conditions bred a climate of discontent. Social unrest and radicalism proliferated. A series of riots occurred. The government responded with repressive measures to prevent working men gathering under a common purpose.
London radical Arthur Thistlewood started a small extremist group to protest against these measures. The group of around 40 malcontents met in pubs around London, including the Horse & Groom in Marylebone, to discuss and plot how they would create a more equal society. They had violent ideas.
Their plot was to assassinate the entire Cabinet during a dinner at Lord Harrowby's home in Mayfair's Grosvenor Square and proclaim a republic.
However, the group of conspirators was too large to keep the audacious plan secret. An informant alerted the police of the plot and on 23 February 1820 at around 7.30 in the evening stormed the hayloft in Cato Street where the group was meeting and arming itself. A fracas ensued. Thistlewood killed a policeman.
The National Archives report that after his arrest, "one of the conspirators, James Ings, described how the plan was that he would be the first to enter the room at Lord Harrowby's house, armed with a pair of pistols, a cutlass and a knife. He intended to behead every member of the Cabinet, then take away the heads of Lords Castlereagh and Sidmouth in bags to display them on spikes on Westminster Bridge."
Five of the conspirators, including Thistlewood, were charged with high treason and were hanged at Newgate in May 1820. Four of the conspirators were transported.
Today Cato Street is a quiet residential mews, just off Edgware Road. The tiny two-storey Georgian house (formerly a stable block) where the plotters were discovered survives and is marked by an English Heritage blue plaque.
For more on the background to the Cato Street Conspiracy see this excellent History Today's article. A detailed account is given in a pamphlet, Narrative of the Cato Street Conspiracy available on the British Library website.
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Coal backlash creates energy dilemma in Southeast Asia
Environmental protests come as Thailand and Myanmar face challenge to meet power needs
HIROSHI KOTANI, Nikkei staff writer January 19, 2018 07:00 JST | Japan
BANGKOK -- Southeast Asian governments are finding themselves caught between pressure to meet regional power demands and backlash from citizens fearing the environmental effects of coal-fired electrical plants.
How these growing economies will resolve the conflicting interests could have major implications for construction orders for these plants awarded to multinationals, as well as regional energy prices.
When Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha traveled to Songkhla Province in the south last November, demonstrators protesting the construction of a local coal-fired plant clashed with police. At least 15 people were arrested in the incident.
But the protesters seemed to have achieved a victory of sorts: Coal-powered plant projects in both Songkhla and Krabi provinces have come to a virtual standstill.
The Krabi and Songkhla plants, originally set to begin operation in 2019 and 2021, respectively, would have helped solve the energy shortage plaguing Thailand's south. Together, they would have generated 2.8 million kilowatts of electricity, enough to cover nearly 10% of Thailand's net output increase goals for 2036.
But the local resistance to coal plants has set back those plans. The power stations have become a touchy issue even for Thailand's powerful military junta.
In neighboring Myanmar, the lack of electricity has been the biggest millstone holding back the country's industrialization. Even in that context, coal plants have faced resistance.
TTCL, a joint venture between Toyo Engineering of Japan and Thailand's Italian-Thai Development, won an order to build a $2.8 billion plant in Mon State in 2015. After two years, a storm of protests has stalled the project.
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The facility, of a type the Japanese government calls "advanced-ultra super critical," is said to employ the latest technology to minimize the environmental impact. But that is not enough to placate opponents, who say the plant will still produce smoke and soot.
TTCL plans to build another $2.8 billion coal plant in the neighboring state of Kayin. The state government supports the project, contending that it is essential for economic growth. Opposition has erupted among local residents over that power station as well.
Toward a post-coal future?
The International Energy Agency says Southeast Asia produced 918 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2016, which is roughly in line with Japan. That output is 2.5 times the figure in 2000. But coal's share of power generation also jumped from 21% to 35%.
Natural gas accounted for 40% of the electricity output in 2016 while renewable energy claimed slightly less than 20%, unchanged from 2000.
While diesel-based generation has declined, coal is increasingly used as an energy source. Thailand in particular is staring at empty natural gas reserves, which drove the pivot toward coal.
A common thread tying Southeast Asian countries is the desire to rein in the balance of international payments. The deeper penetration of automobiles will inevitably result in greater petroleum imports, so powering part of the grid with cheaper coal looked like the clear solution.
The IEA estimates that Southeast Asia will generate 2.2 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2040, more than double the 2016 figure. Coal is expected to produce 40% of that power, outstripping natural gas.
But concerns about climate change are turning global opinion against coal, which is sending Southeast Asian governments in a different direction. The World Bank and other international bodies are trimming financial support for coal-fired power plants.
Vietnam has no such qualms over coal, the one-party state looking to double the number plants to 40 by 2030. But 90% of the projects have been won by Chinese enterprises, and construction is lagging mainly due to lax schedule controls and concerns over safety mechanisms.
Although Southeast Asia is a net energy exporter, internal natural gas demands are projected to outstrip supplies in the mid-2020s, prompting the region to become a net importer. Coal had been forecast to meet the same fate by 2040.
If Southeast Asian nations begin to wean themselves off coal, they could speed up the net imports of gas, with ripple effects on the economies of the region and international energy prices.


So you want a tattoo. Or you have a tattoo. Or you have many tattoos. Or you just don't understand why anyone would ever want a tattoo. Or you love tattoos, but your parents just don't understand why anyone would ever want a tattoo. Or you hate tattoos and you just don't know why your parents love them so much.
Whatever your relationship is to the art of ink, Anna Felicity Friedman's The World Atlas of Tattoo, available from Yale University Press, provides a poetic, informative and vibrant written and visual history of the ancient tradition and its contemporary explosion into mainstream culture. From a tattooed sculpture of a warrior mummy dating back to 500 B.C.E. to a contemporary homage to Rene Magritte by artist Henrique Mattos, the compendium captures the extraordinary complexity of the tattoo tradition.
Beyond the images worth of endless tattoo inspiration, World Atlas is jam-packed with historical tidbits and deep thoughts that could almost convince any prudish critic of a tattoo's more profound ramifications. On that note, here are 15 deep thoughts from writer James Elkins on tattoos, as excerpted from the book, combined with some of our favorite tattoos of all time.
"Your skin tells people if you're healthy, how old you are, whether you're embarrassed, nervous or sick. That's the language of skin."
"When a tattoo artist makes marks on skin, he or she joins a conversation in progress. When you choose a tattoo, you reveal something about yourself that is already there, even if it's only a hope."
"Like tattoos, sky charts respond to faint clues on a silent surface, finding figures and patterns where nature has not spelled things out."
"Writing on a sheet of paper is different than writing on the skin because the skin is also writing its own story."
"Another difference between writing and tattoing is that the tattoo speaks in two different directions: it speaks to the people who see it, as well as to the person who wears it."
"A tattoo signals to people who see it, telling them about you, but it also writes back, telling you about yourself."
"A full tattoo is like a deep conversation: your tattoo tells me about you and it tells you about yourself."
"Most importantly, tattoos connect you to your family, town and culture."
"Even the most personal tattoo, which seems only to be about your own dreams and ideals, is also about your place in the world. "
"Nothing we do is wholly private. Even with an art as personal as tattooing, we live, always, in the public world, in culture and in history."
"Tattooing is intimate, heartfelt, and all the things people say, but it is also astonishingly complex: a tattoo is one of the most eloquent and intricate ways to speak without words."
"The word 'tattoo' itself -- which has come to globally represent the art form and cultural practice that inserts pigment under the skin to leave a permanent image -- has a global history."
"Its roots can be traced to mid-18th century interactions between Polynesians who used the term tatau and explorers, such as Louis Antoine de Bougainbille and James Cook. 'Tattoo' and its equivalents in other languages, such as tatouage, tatuaggi and tätowierung have largely replaced myriad turns, such as the 17-century French piquage, the early modern English 'pricking,' the Kurdish deq, the Baka tele, the Thai sak yant, and the Japanese horimono."
"One can browse these pages as one would a book of maps -- imagining the places behind the images and planning voyages to go and see them. Channel the narrator in Ray Bradbury's 'Illustrated Man' and use these tattoos as windows to global experience."
"Sit back and (armchair) travel through the astonishingly varied designs inscribed by talented and dedicated tattoo artists on the skins of a colossal range of the world's citizens."


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/**
    @file   FixedPointNumber.cpp
    @author Alessio Leoncini
    @brief  Code file with definitions for FixedPointNumber, a class that
            embeds number and associated operations in a fixed point
            representation
*/
/****************************************************************************/

#include "FixedPointNumber.h"

/************************** CONSTRUCTORS/DESTRUCTOR *************************/
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
FixedPointNumber::FixedPointNumber()
{
    /// First, all pointers to NULL
    _value = NULL;
    /// Initialization
    Init();
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
FixedPointNumber::FixedPointNumber(int totalBits, int fractionBits, bool withSign)
{
    /// First, all pointers to NULL
    _value = NULL;
    /// Initialization with parameters
    Init(totalBits,fractionBits,withSign);
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
FixedPointNumber::FixedPointNumber(int totalBits, int fractionBits, bool withSign, Word * value)
{
    /// First, all pointers to NULL
    _value = NULL;
    /// Initialization with parameters
    Init(totalBits,fractionBits,withSign,value);
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
FixedPointNumber::FixedPointNumber(FixedPointNumber & X)
{
    /// First, all pointers to NULL
    _value = NULL;
    /// Initialization with parameters
    Init(X._totalBits, X._fractionBits, X._withSign, X._value);
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
FixedPointNumber::~FixedPointNumber()
{
    Reset();
}

/********************************* OPERATORS ********************************/
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
ostream & operator << ( ostream & o, FixedPointNumber & X)
{
    int i;
    char buffer1[FPNBUFL];
    char buffer2[FPNBUFL];

    o << "FixedPointNumber object start"<<endl;
    /// Total bits print
    o << " Total bits: "<<X._totalBits<<endl;
    /// Fractionary bits print
    o << " Fractionary bits: "<<X._fractionBits<<endl;
    /// Printing if current representation consider sign
    if(X._withSign)
        o << " MSB is the sign bit, number is in two's complement"<<endl;
    else
        o << " Unsigned representation"<<endl;
    /// Printing if the last operation caused overflow
    if(X._overflow)
        o << " Last operation CAUSED overflow"<<endl;
    else
        o << " Last operation DID NOT CAUSE overflow"<<endl;
    /// Words count
    o << " Number is "<<X._words<<" words long, a single word is "<<FPNWORL<<" bits"<<endl;
    /// Represented value print
    o << " Hex value (from MSB to LSB):\n ";
    strcpy_s(buffer1,FPNBUFL,"");
    strcpy_s(buffer2,FPNBUFL,"");
    /// For every word of value:
    for(i=(X._words-1); i>=0; i--)
    {
        /// - Concatenate strings in inverse order
        itoa(X._value[i],buffer1,16);
        strcat_s(buffer1,FPNBUFL," ");
        strcat_s(buffer2,FPNBUFL,buffer1);
    }
    /// Print entire string
    o << buffer2 << endl;
    o << " Binary value (from MSB to LSB):\n ";
    /// For every word of value:
    for(i=X._totalBits-1; i>=0; i--)
    {
        o<<X.GetBit(i);
    }
    /// Print entire string
    o << endl;
    o << "FixedPointNumber object end"<<endl;
    return o;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
const FixedPointNumber operator + (const FixedPointNumber & lX, const FixedPointNumber & rX)
{
    Word carry;
    FixedPointNumber n;
    int i;

    /// WARNING due to speed choices, check on sign, total number of bits and
    /// fractional bits are skipped!!!!

    /// Check if addends have the same words number
    if(lX._words != rX._words)
    {
        cout<<"Addiction members must have same _words"<<endl;
        return FixedPointNumber();
    }
    /// Init result class
     n.Init(lX._totalBits,lX._fractionBits,lX._withSign);
    /// Evaluating sum value
    carry = 0;
    for(i=0; i<lX._words; i++)
    {
        /// - Simple sum of words
        n._value[i] = lX._value[i] + rX._value[i] + carry;
        /// - Carry evaluation
        carry = 0;
        if(n._value[i] < lX._value[i])
            carry = 1;
        else if(n._value[i] < rX._value[i])
            carry = 1;
    }
    /// Setting overflow flag according to sum results
    n._overflow = (carry == 1);
    /// Return class with same representation and just calculated value
    return n;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
const FixedPointNumber operator - (const FixedPointNumber & lX, const FixedPointNumber & rX)
{
    FixedPointNumber n;
    FixedPointNumber lsb;
    int i;

    /// WARNING due to speed choices, check on sign, total number of bits and
    /// fractional bits are skipped!!!!

    /// Check if members have the same words number
    if(lX._words != rX._words)
    {
        cout<<"Subtraction members must have same _words"<<endl;
        return FixedPointNumber();
    }
    /// Creating negative of rX:
    n.Init(rX._totalBits,rX._fractionBits,rX._withSign,rX._value);
    for(i=0; i<n._words; i++)
    {
        n._value[i] = ~(n._value[i]);
    }
    /// Sum lX with not(rX)
    n = lX + n;
    /// If signed representation, two's complement requires an addictional +1 operation
    if(rX._withSign)
    {
        /// Init of lsb object
        lsb.Init(rX._totalBits,rX._fractionBits,rX._withSign);
        lsb._value[0] = 1;
        /// - Adding lsb to previous value
        n = n + lsb;
    }
    /// Return of the subtraction number
    return n;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
FixedPointNumber & FixedPointNumber::operator = (const FixedPointNumber & X)
{
    Init(X._totalBits, X._fractionBits, X._withSign, X._value);
    return *this;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
bool operator == (const FixedPointNumber & lX, const FixedPointNumber & rX)
{
    int i;

    /// Check all the members
    if((lX._totalBits == rX._totalBits) &&
        (lX._fractionBits == rX._fractionBits) &&
        (lX._withSign == rX._withSign) &&
        (lX._words == rX._words))
    {
        /// And all the bits
        for(i=0; i<lX._words; i++)
        {
            if(lX._value[i]!=rX._value[i])
            {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }
    else
    {
        return false;
    }
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
const FixedPointNumber operator << (const FixedPointNumber & X, const int & number)
{
    int i,j;
    bool oldSign;
    Word exceeds;
    FixedPointNumber n;
    int positions;

    /// Check number
    if(number <=0)
    {
        cout<<"Invalid number of left shifts"<<endl;
        return FixedPointNumber();
    }

    /// Reset overflow state
    n._overflow = false;
    /// Init with values specified in X
    n.Init(X._totalBits, X._fractionBits, X._withSign, X._value);
    /// Saving sign
    oldSign = false;
    if(n._withSign)
        oldSign = n.GetBit(n._totalBits-1);
    /// Shift cycle: i is the destination word, j is the source word
    i = n._words-1;
    j = i - (number / FPNWORL);
    if(j<0)
    {
        cout<<"Too high number of left shifts"<<endl;
        return FixedPointNumber();
    }
    positions = number % FPNWORL;
    /// - If positions to shift is multiple of word length, no shift required!
    /// Only register replacing is necessary
    if(positions == 0)
    {
        /// -- Registers replacing
        for(; j>=0; i--,j--)
            n._value[i] = n._value[j];
        /// -- Filling least significant bits with zeros
        for(; i>=0; i--)
            n._value[i] = 0;
    }
    /// - Else, necessary to take into account of bits that move between words
    else
    {
        /// -- First iteration, with possible overflow check
        /// --- Saving exceeding bits from source register
        exceeds = n._value[j] >> (FPNWORL-positions);
        /// --- If exceeds different from zero, overflow
        if(exceeds > 0)
        {
            n._overflow = true;
        }
        /// --- Shift source register and save in dest. register
        n._value[i] = n._value[j] << positions;
        i--;
        j--;
        /// -- Loop for every source register
        for(; j>=0; i--,j--)
        {
            /// --- Saving exceeding bits from source register
            exceeds = n._value[j] >> (FPNWORL-positions);
            /// --- Xoring previous destination register with exceeds bits
            n._value[i+1] ^= exceeds;
            /// --- Shift source register and save in dest. register
            n._value[i] = n._value[j] << positions;
        }
        /// -- Filling least significant words with zeros
        for(; i>=0; i--)
            n._value[i] = 0;
    }
    /// If negative sign was saved, restore it
    if(oldSign)
        n.SetBit(n._totalBits-1,true);
    /// Return object
    return n;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
const FixedPointNumber operator >> (const FixedPointNumber & X, const int & number)
{
    int i,j;
    bool oldSign;
    Word exceeds;
    FixedPointNumber n;
    int positions;

    /// Check number
    if(number <=0)
    {
        cout<<"Invalid number of rigth shifts"<<endl;
        return FixedPointNumber();
    }

    /// Reset overflow state
    n._overflow = false;
    /// Init with values specified in X
    n.Init(X._totalBits, X._fractionBits, X._withSign, X._value);
    /// Saving sign
    oldSign = false;
    if(n._withSign)
        oldSign = n.GetBit(n._totalBits-1);
    /// Shift cycle: i is the destination word, j is the source word
    i = 0;
    j = i + (number / FPNWORL);
    if(j>n._words)
    {
        cout<<"Too high number of rigth shifts"<<endl;
        return FixedPointNumber();
    }
    positions = number % FPNWORL;
    /// - If positions to shift is multiple of word length, no shift required!
    /// Only register replacing is necessary
    if(positions == 0)
    {
        /// -- Registers replacing
        for(; j<n._words; i++,j++)
            n._value[i] = n._value[j];
        /// -- Filling most significant bits with zeros or ones, according to
        /// original number sign
        if(oldSign)
            exceeds = ~((Word)0);
        else
            exceeds = (Word)0;
        for(; i<n._words; i++)
            n._value[i] = exceeds;
    }
    /// - Else, necessary to take into account of bits that move between words
    else
    {
        /// -- First iteration, with possible overflow check
        /// --- Shift source register and save in dest. register
        n._value[i] = n._value[j] >> positions;
        i++;
        j++;
        /// -- Loop for every source register
        for(; j<n._words; i++,j++)
        {
            /// --- Saving exceeding bits from source register
            exceeds = n._value[j] << (FPNWORL-positions);
            /// --- Xoring destination register with exceeds bits
            n._value[i-1] ^= exceeds;
            /// --- Shift source register and save in dest. register
            n._value[i] = n._value[j] >> positions;
        }
        /// -- Filling most significant bits with zeros or ones, according to
        /// original number sign
        if(oldSign)
        {
            exceeds = ~((Word)0);
            n._value[i-1] |= (exceeds << (FPNWORL-positions));
        }
        else
            exceeds = (Word)0;
        for(; i<n._words; i++)
            n._value[i] = exceeds;
    }
    /// Return object
    return n;
}

/****************************** BASIC HANDLING ******************************/
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
void FixedPointNumber::Init()
{
    /// Reset
    Reset();
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
void FixedPointNumber::Init(int totalBits, int fractionBits, bool withSign)
{
    int i;

    /// Parameters check
    if(totalBits <= 0)
    {
        cout<<"Param totalBits not valid in FixedPointNumber::Init"<<endl;
        return;
    }
    if((fractionBits <= 0) ||
         (fractionBits > totalBits))
    {
        cout<<"Param fractionBits not valid in FixedPointNumber::Init"<<endl;
        return;
    }
    /// Architecture check
    if(sizeof(Word)*8 != FPNWORL)
    {
        cout<<"Architecture does not match with defined word length; ";
        cout<<"sizeof(Word) is "<<sizeof(Word)<<"bytes";
        cout<<" where FPNWORL is "<<FPNWORL<<"bits in FixedPointNumber::Init"<<endl;
        return;
    }

    /// Reset
    Reset();
    /// Parameters assignment
    _totalBits = totalBits;
    _fractionBits = fractionBits;
    _withSign = withSign;
    /// Evaluating necessary word number
    _words = (int)ceil((double)_totalBits/FPNWORL);
    if(_words <= 0)
    {
        cout<<"Error during evaluating words number in FixedPointNumber::Init"<<endl;
        return;
    }
    /// Allocation of bits array space
    _value = new Word [_words];
    /// All bits to zero
    for(i=0; i<_words; i++)
        _value[i] = 0;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
void FixedPointNumber::Init(int totalBits, int fractionBits, bool withSign, Word * value)
{
    int i;

    /// Check only value parameter
    if(value == NULL)
    {
        cout<<"Param value not valid in FixedPointNumber::Init"<<endl;
        return;
    }
    /// Call Init with representation parameters
    Init(totalBits,fractionBits,withSign);
    /// Value assignment
    for(i=0; i<_words; i++)
        _value[i] = value[i];
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
void FixedPointNumber::Reset()
{
    /// Deallocation of bits array
    if(_value != NULL)
    {
        delete _value;
        _value = NULL;
    }
    _words = 0;
    _totalBits = 0;
    _fractionBits = 0;
    _withSign = false;
    _overflow = false;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
void FixedPointNumber::Dump()
{
    cout<<*this;
}

/***************************** ACCESS METHODS *******************************/
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
inline bool FixedPointNumber::GetBit(int position)
{
    int word;
    int regpos;

    /// Check if position is valid
    if((position < 0) || (position >= _totalBits))
    {
        cout<<"Param position not valid in FixedPointNumber::GetBit"<<endl;
        return false;
    }
    /// Selection of correct word
    word = position / FPNWORL;
    /// Selection of position in register
    regpos = position % FPNWORL;
    /// Return selected word AND mask
    if(_value[word] & (1<<regpos))
        return true;
    return false;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
inline void FixedPointNumber::SetBit(int position, bool value)
{
    int word;
    int regpos;

    /// Check if position is valid
    if((position < 0) || (position >= _totalBits))
    {
        cout<<"Param position not valid in FixedPointNumber::SetBit"<<endl;
        return;
    }
    /// Selection of correct word
    word = position / FPNWORL;
    /// Selection of position in register
    regpos = position % FPNWORL;
    /// If positive bit, OR with all zeros and 1 in desired position
    if(value)
    {
        _value[word] |= (1<<regpos);
    }
    /// Else, AND with all ones and 0 in desired position
    else
    {
        _value[word] &= ~(1<<regpos);
    }
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/// \par PROCEDURE:
inline bool FixedPointNumber::IsOverflow()
{
    return _overflow;
}

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The Justice Department filed a statement of interest today arguing that the Fair Housing Act (FHA) requires that landlords who consider criminal records in evaluating prospective tenants do not use overly broad generalizations that disproportionately disqualify people based on a legally protected characteristic, such as race or national origin.
The statement of interest was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Fortune Society Inc. v. Sandcastle Towers Housing Development Fund Corp. et al. The case was brought by an organization that helps formerly incarcerated individuals find housing challenging the practices of an affordable rental apartment complex with 917 units in Far Rockaway, Queens.
The brief explains that when a housing provider has a criminal record check policy with a disparate impact, the housing provider must "prove with evidence – and not just by invoking generalized concerns about safety – that the ban is necessary." Even then, the policy will still violate the FHA if there is a less discriminatory alternative.
In this case, the plaintiff argues that the Sandcastle complex had a policy of refusing to rent to individuals with prior convictions for felonies or misdemeanors other than traffic offenses. The plaintiff argues that this policy has an unjustified disparate impact against prospective African-American and Hispanic tenants, in violation of the FHA. In the statement of interest, the department does not take a position on the factual accuracy of the plaintiff's arguments, but instead addresses the appropriate legal framework for analyzing its claim. The legal framework set forth in the filing is consistent with the guidance released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in April 2016 concerning how the FHA applies to the use of criminal records by providers or operators of housing and real-estate related transactions.
Fortune Society Inc. v. Sandcastle Towers Housing Development Fund Corp. et al. was filed in the Eastern District of New York in 2014. After the completion of pre-trial discovery, both parties have asked the court to enter judgment in their favor before trial. Those requests, filed in September 2016, are now pending with the court.
Read the full Sandcastle Statement of Information here.


Keetham lake is a picturesque beauty of nature in the form of silent flows. This lake is situated in the vicinity of Agra at national highway 2, which is Agra - Delhi highway. It is also known as Sur Sarovar and has a serene environment, which provides peace and relaxing effects on visiting this lake site. This lake holds a vast array of aquatic creatures and fishes along with different types of water birds as well. These living species appends additional charm and beauty to this place. In a way to initiate and preserve these water birds, Uttar Pradesh forest department has crafted shallows and woodlands to provide a natural habitat and nesting area. This lake is embanked in the area of 7.3 square kilometers. This lake also consists of artificial islands, as a breeding and shelter ground for migratory birds.
due to being a residing place for migratory birds and having an ideal natural climatic condition for them as well, this lake has been announced as a national bird sanctuary in the year of 1991, March 07. Keetham Lake is surrounded by riverside belt of river Yamuna and is also linked with rail tracks of keetham. This lake has been taken good care in last couple of decades and especially after declaring it a national bird sanctuary. It has been developed by forest department of Uttar Pradesh in means to make it more useful for migratory birds and visitors as well, so that everyone can come to know about these birds.
mostly this place remains full of crowd due to the scene tic beauty of entire surrounding. Secondly, it calls a huge attraction of tourists and visitors of local entity to come and enjoy the natural climate along with the exquisiteness of migratory birds as an additional feature of this place. Visitors of keetham lake experience visual charms of rare species migratory birds like, cormorants, grey heron, paddy birds, purple heron, gerbs, black neck stork, spon bill, bar headed goose and many more. This national bird sanctuary enfolds more than one hundred six species with its vicinity with suitable climatic conditions to them.
People can also enjoy boating experiences in this beautiful lake of keetham in between the rare migratory species of birds and due to this many of the tourists come to reside here for long duration of time. However, some of the other tourist and other spots are also present at its nearby areas, which also fascinate more and more people to come and experience them collectively in a single trip. Mariyam's tomb is a place of interest, situated at nearby distance from keetham lake, which is famous for its architecture, made up of red sandstone. This tomb is made by Emperor Akbar in the memory of his beloved wife – Mariyam Zamani. Sikandra is another reason to get this place; it is a burial chamber of sovereign Akbar. This is a unique structure which enfolds the blend of two architectural cultures – Hindu and Muslims. Most of the visitors, who came to see world's most famous creation and architecture Taj Mahal, use to come and see this lake of keetham and bird sanctuary and do not found themselves to resist from visiting this place.
Keetham Lake is situated at the distance of twenty kilometer from agara city and near about twelve kilometers from sikandra. One can choose the option of local transportation as they use to move on continuous basis. If anyone wants to have a personal transportation it can also be attained with various travel agencies available there with very fair prices and under tour packages as well.