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Alphonse Elric
Ed/Roy
This is a short follow-up tale to "Painted Truths"...
sisyphean effort
Dangerous Angels
"Three of a kind!"
"Ha! Full house! Read 'em and weep!"
"Yes, way! Now, pay up!"
Waves of heat could be seen squiggling through the air, fueled by a bright, fiery sun that was as round and golden yellow as a simmering egg yolk in a frying pan. Fir trees and pine trees and other verdant plant life had long since given way to cacti and rocks and dusty, sandy plains. They were now on the very southern border of Amestris, close to the country of Aerugo, heading in the direction of a tiny village known as Medeira. A village far too small to be found on any map. In the distance, just barely visible over the wavering horizon, there could be seen a colorful collection of clay tiled roofs, their bright, candy-like hues of pink and blue and orange standing out starkly against a sky that had been completely sapped of its color, drained away by the smoldering heat. And as the wagon with its two wayward passengers drew closer, more and more of the town came into view: A church with a tall, vaulted bell tower that was surrounded by flat, low-crouching villas made of adobe bricks covered in white stucco and broader, taller, multi-level buildings with curved gables and pier arches that were painted in riotous shades of rainbow colors. So much vibrant color, its intensity was like an assault on the senses.
"It looks like a clown threw up."
"Ed! That's not nice!" chastised Alphonse. Then, lower: "You shouldn't insult the man's town when he's giving us a free ride."
"That still doesn't change the fact that it looks like someone detonated a paint store in here," observed Ed as the hay cart they were sitting in pulled up to stop before an orange painted stucco building with bright pink borders. "What's with the south and its love of ugly colored tiles anyway? This place looks like a cupcake topped with pink frosting." At this proclamation, Ed's stomach began to growl insistently.
"Mmm, cupcakes," said both Elric brothers as they climbed off the back of the wagon. As Ed hit the ground, a flutter of playing cards fell by his feet, revealing a monochrome of identical, black-outlined squares.
Black aces. At least a dozen of them. "Brother!" exclaimed Alphonse. "You cheated! Again! Geez—you haven't changed one bit since we were younger, have you, Ed?" Ed watched his brother puff up in parody of outrage in his white shirt sleeves and brown waistcoat. His younger brother who was, in fact, taller than himself. "Give me back the stuff you won from me, Ed. Now!" There was a stern expression on Alphonse's usually gentle face.
"Ha! You'll have to catch me first," grinned Ed, before taking off. Alphonse stood there, disbelief playing over his delicate, rounded features, before he began running after him.
"God! You're so childish, Ed! When are you going to grow up?"
"Hey! Cut the short talk, will ya!"
"What? I didn't say anything about you being short, brother. You're just sensitive!"
Ed ducked under the shaded awning of a small gabled building with a sign which read Sandstone Cafe swinging from its archway. The inside was shaded and cool, with a glittering star burst of mosaic tile covering its floor. Ed raced up to the counter and said to the lady with the apron standing behind it: "Please tell me you have cupcakes that look just like that orange and pink monstrosity next door."
Alphonse huffed to a stop behind his sibling. In a low voice, he whispered, "Ed, we can't. You know we don't have any money left. That's why Roy stayed behind in Xenotine, to try and settle the stupid bill for the room."
"You mean he stayed behind so he could shamelessly flirt with the innkeeper and charm her into giving us a significant discount."
"Brother, he's doing it for us."
"I know, Al. And I'm not mad."
Alphonse looked vaguely shocked at this pronouncement. If they had been faced with the same situation a few years earlier, his brother would have gone apoplectic at the very thought of Mustang flirting with someone else. Maybe Ed really had grown up. "So you're not mad about that?"
"Mad. Are you kidding me? What, you think Roy's going to suddenly dump me for some horse-faced innkeeper? C'mon Al, get real. I mean, did you see her ass? It was wider than the Eastern desert..."
Alphonse couldn't keep the snicker from escaping his lips, even though he made it his personal practice to always be nice and to chastise Ed for being mean to other people. "I guess you're right. Still, it's partly your own fault for losing your job at the book shop."
"Hey, that wasn't my fault!"
"Yes it was. I told you time and time again that Mr. Tattenborough was going to fire you for reading on the job all the time."
"So what?"
"And then the two of you got into that argument, and you called him a pompous ass and a xenophobe, and he finally told you to get out. Remember?"
"Well, he is a pompous ass and a xenophobe. Saying alchemy from Xing is the 'devil's work.' What an idiot."
"It is a prejudiced viewpoint," Al conceded.
"Damn right it is," said Ed. He turned and regarded the lady with the apron and muttered under his breath. "Bet I can show you that Roy isn't the only one who can charm shit out of people. Hey, Al. Watch this." Then, in a loud voice:
"Hey sweetheart! Do you have a radio or refrigerator that needs fixin'? Cause I'm willing to do it for some grub, and there obviously hasn't been a man around this place in years..."
10 minutes later...
Ed and Al were sitting together on a hay bale just outside the village's general store, their tummy's cacophonous grumblings playing an impromptu duet of hunger. Their mirroring expressions were glum as Ed continued to rant and rave about the woman in the cafe.
"I can't believe she just kicked us out! Gah! I don't get it! How come Roy can get away with calling people 'sweetheart' and shit and I can't?"
"Because," said Al flatly, "Roy is dark and handsome and—most importantly of all—charming. And you're short and blond and obnoxious."
"Jerk!" Ed punched Al in the arm, causing him to topple off the hay bale. "How can you say such a thing about your own brother?"
"Because it's true," muttered Al, rubbing his arm. Then, from around the shop corner, a young man in a broad-brimmed hat came running, shouting:
"The bandits have taken all the Aerugoan nuns at the mission hostage! They're threatening the orphans! Someone summon the sheriff! Quick! Before they hurt someone!"
The young man whizzed by them, his white linen shirt and trousers flapping in a makeshift breeze. Ed and Al turned and looked at each other. An unspoken argument flew back and forth between them. Finally, Al said:
"What should we do? I mean," and Al dropped his eyes to the ground, and said, almost guiltily, "Roy said it was my job to keep you out of trouble while he was gone."
A devilish look crossed Ed's face; he knew then that he had his brother backed into a moral corner. "Well, we can't just sit here and do nothing. I think we should do what any good alchemist in this situation would do..." There was a mischievous look in Ed's eye, a hunger of a different kind. Then, in silent agreement, both brothers stood up and said as one:
"Be thou for the people..."
Ed and Al followed the boy in the wide-brimmed hat up a rocky dirt path, to the front of a large multi-level building behind the church, a white stucco affair with a salmon tiled roof. Through a large open archway one could see an expansive brick courtyard that was lined by an open gallery of shady piazzas, seemingly empty of all human life. Outside the building, the town sheriff stood with a bull horn, imploring the bandits to give up and come out with their hands up. Ed smirked at this. The sheriff only had three officers with him, and if the group of border marauders was as large as the boy had said, then the village police were vastly outnumbered and out-gunned. They didn't stand a chance.
Which was where Ed and Al came in...
Al regarded the mission building with a stony expression. "So, what's the plan?"
Ed's eyes were narrowed into golden, cat-like slits. "We go in through the courtyard. I'll climb the balcony and go up top, and you'll go in through the ground level. See, it'll be just like that time with Maes and the train. Remember that?"
"That was a lot of fun."
"Fun? Are you kidding? You were cursing Roy's name from Central to Resembool for that, don't you remember?"
"I did? I don't remember that. C'mon, let's go." Ed's black clad form took off in a sprint toward the open archway, with Alphonse calling a warning of "Ed! Hey, wait!" as a hail of bullets ricocheted off the bricks of the courtyard around him. That didn't stop Ed from leaping the first piazza, from going after the assailant with the rifle head on. There was a clap and a flash of hazy blue light, and there blossomed across Ed's arm an ornate steel shield. Bullets pinged! and clanged! off the metal as Ed inched forward on the balcony, toward the man with the rifle who was hidden behind a column on the second level. Ed's eyes were ablaze with gold fire as they peered over the top of the shield, lit with the internal flames of an avenging angel.
CLANG!
Ed watched in disbelief as the man with the rifle suddenly dropped his gun and fell, unconscious, over the piazza's railing. A blurry ball of red and blue landed with a heavy thud at Ed's feet. A garden gnome. Ed turned and peered over the balcony to see Al standing by a large sling-shot that had suddenly appeared from out of the ground. Ed grinned in triumph. "Go Alphonse with the assist!"
Al just shook his head, reprimanding him. "You acted too hastily, brother. As usual."
"Nonsense. That worked out great, what are you—"
CRASH!
Fragments of glass rained down in a shimmering cascade of diamonds as Ed was tackled through a window by yet another bandit. He just barely had time to register the flash of a knife as he reached up and clubbed the man off of him with his shield. A kick from his automail foot sent the man careening over the balcony, landing with an abbreviated shriek.
"Hey, watch it! You almost hit me!" Al's annoyed voice called from below.
Ed, who was still lying on the floor, poked his head over the balcony's edge and said, "Sorry."
"It's okay," said Al, who was standing by the second bandit's now prone body. Ed watched Al's eyes widen with sudden fear, saw a darkened shadow fall across the bright white stucco beneath him, and he rolled away just in time to avoid the fatal swing of a curved blade. The scimar whizzed by him, neatly slicing off a piece of his braid. Gold hair fluttered like sunflower petals tossed onto the summer breeze, down to the bricks below.
"Hey pal, I'm not due for a haircut." Another clap, another flash, and there appeared Ed's own shining blade from his arm, its weight as familiar to him as an old friend, as familiar as his own flesh arm. He parried another swing from the sun-burnt, mustachioed man with the scimar, turning to leap through the now conveniently open window with the speed and agility of a black cat.
"Sister, look! It's the angel!"
The man with the sword followed Ed into what appeared to be a large banquet hall, complete with long dining table, velvet tablecloth, chairs, and wooden sideboard. Ed barely had time to register the people who were huddled in the corner; they were nothing more than a chaotic flash of black and white in the periphery of his vision. The Aerugoan nuns! There was the clank! and clash! of steel-on-steel as the fight waged on, as Ed continued to back his way further into the room.
"Angel, look out!" cried a little girl's voice.
Ed jumped onto the table as a second blade whizzed past him. There were two of them now. Seeing the large silver serving platter in the center of the table, Ed raced toward it, clapped, and—
—electric blue light filled the room like light from heaven, as Ed transmuted the platter into a second sword. He grinned a devil's grin as he casually flipped the blade in his hand, his feet dancing with the urge to fight. The two men separated, circled around the sides of the table. They wanted to hem him in. Ed's grin widened further. "C'mon assholes, bring it!"
The sound of repelling steel echoed through the room as Ed parried both blades on two different fronts. His face was flushed with the exertion, his eyes glowing with the energy of the fight. He kicked a vase of flowers into the face of one man, who screamed as it broke against his nose. There was a manic blur of black and white, a cry of "Sister Mary Matisse! Don't!" and a second shattering crash as one of the nuns broke another vase from the sideboard over the man's head. Ed watched him topple to the floor, unconscious.
Ed laughed with vengeful delight. The other man, the one with the mustache, glowered. He stepped on one of the chairs, climbed up on the table to face Ed. "You're gonna pay for that," he hissed.
"Why are you harassing some nuns and a bunch of orphans? That's go to be the lowest of the low..."
"These Aerugoan bitches are hoarding gold. Bars and bars of it! I know it! And for what use?"
"I told you, we have no gold here!" yelled the nun that the others had called Sister Mary. "We spent it all, on improvements for the church and on things for the orphans!"
"Liar!" The man with the blade lunged forward, and Ed, who was backed all the way to the table's edge, wobbled and fell. The children in the corner gasped in unison. One of the little boys in a straw hat said, "Sister Mary! The angel! He hurt the angel!"
The mustachioed man grinned a black-toothed grin of triumph. There was no movement from underneath the table. Then suddenly—
—a metal hand reached up and wrenched the velvet tablecloth forward, causing the man to lose his balance and fall, hitting his head on the edge of the table's surface as he went. He was lying flat on his back when Edward finally pounced, his automail foot landing squarely in the middle of his chest and the tip of his sword resting at his throat.
"Give up."
The man began laughing a wheezing laugh of derision. At that moment, a door on the opposite side of the room flew open, and in came Alphonse, his face the very picture of distress. Ed's blond brows knitted together in a frown. "Al, what's wrong? Look, I dropped two more of them—"
"—two is hardly enough, brother. I'm afraid we got company." At this, at least a dozen men, all armed with a various assortment of weapons, came streaming in through the doorway, like a swarm of rats from a sinking ship. Eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. Eventually, Ed lost count. "Oh shit," he muttered under his breath. The Elric brothers stood back to back in the center of the room, poised to fight. Even though they were outnumbered. Even though they were probably going to lose.
Ed's eyes met the gaze of the first little girl who had, strangely, called him an angel. She smiled her own angelic smile and said, reassuringly, "Don't worry angel, I'm sure God will send a miracle."
"There is no God, sweetheart," insisted Ed through clenched teeth as he raised both blades, intent on the battle. The bandits began to slowly, ever so slowly, close in, and Ed whispered, "You ready, Al?"
"Ready, Ed."
All was dead silence, all was uneasy tension, until the quietude of the room was interrupted by a single, tiny, almost inaudible snap! At that sound, Ed grinned, the tenseness draining away from his body. There may not have been a God, but there certainly was—
—the woosh! of fiery flames as they blasted through the room, engulfing the border bandits where they stood. Inhuman shrieks and the scent of charred flesh filled the air as the well-aimed flames did their work. The nuns in the corner covered the eyes of the children as the blackened, scorched men flailed on the ground, as they threw themselves out the open window, over the balcony. Smoke and noise and chaos reigned, until the fires wooshed away into sudden nothingness, ceasing to exist almost as quickly as they had come into being.
"Hi honey, I'm home."
"Hi, Roy."
"Alphonse, I thought I told you to keep Ed out of trouble while I was gone." The deep, smoldering voice of Roy Mustang echoed through the dining hall, as he stepped through the doorway, over the burned bodies of still twitching men.
There was a loud gasp from the corner where the nuns stood. A child shot up and pointed. "Look! Look! It's the second angel!"
"The second angel!"
"We're saved!"
"It's a miracle!"
"Blessed by God!"
Roy's dark brows knitted in confusion at the orphans proclamations. Without stopping, he went directly to Ed and ran his hands possessively, almost covetously over his leather clad arms, surreptitiously checking for injuries. "Having a spot of bother, are we?"
"What? What are you talking about? Al and I coulda took 'em." Al looked incredulous, his mouth hanging open in disbelief.
"Oh, really?" There was a single raised eyebrow, the beginnings of the infamous Mustang smirk.
"Look, the angel really is made out of metal!" said the little boy in the straw hat, who had boldly come forward and was now examining Ed's automail arm. His expression was one of rapturous wonder as his eyes met Ed's. "Are you really from heaven?"
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
Sister Mary Matisse came forward and clasped Roy's arm. "You are truly our saviors, sir. A real miracle, as the children say! If it hadn't been for you, God knows what would have happened!" The nun bent to kiss Roy's hand in gratitude. As if that were a signal, the rest of the group began to crowd around both Roy and Ed, kissing their hands and touching them with reverence. Over and over, the children chanted:
"Angels! They're angels! Our own angels!"
"Whuff do you s'pose dat wah all 'bout?" Ed asked around a mouthful of the coveted cupcake, its pink icing as bright as the mission's rooftop.
"What do you mean?" asked Roy, walking along beside him. In the distance, Ed could see Al chatting with the young sister Mary Matisse, his gestures animated, enthusiastic even. A smirk formed on Ed's face at the sight. Then:
"Those kids. They kept calling me an angel."
"Because you look like an angel. Ow!"
Roy rubbed his arm where Ed had punched him. "Ha do nut," Ed exclaimed around another mouthful of cupcake. Despite the punch, Roy affectionately reached out to swipe some icing from the tip of his nose. "You're right. You're the devil in disguise." Ed smiled wickedly, an effect that was marred by pink-tinted teeth. "You know, I just thought of something fun we could do with this icing—"
"—Hey brother! Roy! Come here!" Ed turned to see Al running towards them, an excited expression on his face.
"Wow, Al. That sister Mary put quite a look on your face. You know, she is kind of cute beneath that wimple. I bet you could talk her out of her 'marriage' to God, if you really wanted—"
Al's face shifted into one of disgust. "Oh, gross. God, Ed. You're so vulgar. Yuck."
Ed shrugged. "I'm just saying," he mumbled. "I think she likes you."
Al just shook his head at his brother's misguided observation. "Anyway, I came over here to show you something. Something I think you'll find interesting. Follow me." Then he turned and made a dash for the church. He stopped when Ed and Roy failed to follow and turned and said: "Well? C'mon..."
"Why do I have to look at a stupid church? I don't even like churches," Ed complained loudly as they rounded the side of the building, heading for its front entrance. Stained glass windows glinted in rainbow hues in the late afternoon light, shining like bejeweled puzzle pieces made of liquid color. Ed, Al, and Roy turned the corner, walking the rocky pathway to the church's steep front staircase. At the top of this staircase, there stood a pair of massive double doors, twelve feet high and vaulted, the left side pulled closed against the glaring light of the unforgiving sun.
"Oh. My. God." said Al. "It's true. What the sister said is true!"
Silence. For once, Ed was struck speechless. Words that were miraculously swept away by the incredible sight in front of them.
The wooden panels of the door had been painted over with a stunning mural of dazzling color. Rich reds and glittering golds dominated, shimmering underneath the rays of the late afternoon sun. Colors so bold, you could almost hear the swish! of the painted fabric, could almost feel its velvety smoothness. It was the portrait of an angel. An angel with long golden hair and bright silvery wings, wrapped in the folds of a scarlet robe, its texture so real-looking, its rendering so true, that the ends of the cloth seemed to veritably swirl and sway with movement. The expression on the angel's face was stern, fierce: his intense, amber-colored eyes stared boldly over the gleam of a metal arm, an arm that was raised and carrying a bright, shining sword, lifted heavenward. Ed's face. There was no doubt. Edward had been turned into an avenging angel, rendered immortal in paint. The likeness was so true, so beautifully realized, that it could not be denied.
"Ed! It's really you!" cried Al.
The real Ed began to edge towards the mural, his eyes narrowing with a growing suspicion. He knelt down by the door to see the curling signature in the corner. There was only one man, one artist, who was capable of this:
Chiaro Scuro...
"That bastard!" cursed Ed, rising from his squat. "I can't believe he did this!" Ed turned to find Roy snickering with barely contained laughter on the lower steps. Fuming, Ed whirled and grabbed the other door, pulled it shut and said:
"Laugh it up, pal! You're on the other door!"
The laughter suddenly died as Roy regarded his own image, rendered in vivid, icy shades of blue and black and white. Then he said:
"That bastard!"
Somewhere in a little town in the far east...
Glass jars filled with color crowded the sill before a large picture window. Yellow ochre, red madder, bone black, viridian, and ultramarine winked merrily beneath the sun, their shades as bright as wildflowers beneath its golden rays. The noxious sent of linseed oil wafted through the air, as two figures sat at a long wooden table before the window, seamlessly passing a beaker filled with the binder back and forth between them. Finally, one of the figures, a tall woman in a blue kimono, spoke:
"That wasn't right, what you did with that mural."
"Huh? What are you talking about? It was a gorgeous piece of work, probably one of my best—"
"—it's probably blasphemous, too."
The short man with the dark ponytail next to her grinned with satisfaction. "Probably. But it was a fine joke, was it not, putting Ed and Roy into that painting? Ed makes a particularly beautiful angel."
"You know Ed wouldn't approve," said the woman with a stern expression on her face. The two of them continued to pulverize various bits of rock into paint, their hands moving in identical, grinding movements. Then the man with the ponytail said:
"What does it matter? We needed the money, now that we're not employed at court. And those nuns paid in gold. Gold! I love gold, in my pocket, and on the canvas. It is the highest, finest of colors. And besides," the man paused, his hand stilling over a tantalizingly blue smattering of lapis lazuli, "those nuns obviously know fine art when they see it."
"Ed would kick your ass if he knew."
There was a sharp bark of laughter. "Ha! Ed'll never find out. He hates churches; won't go near them." The hand started back working the colors, the rock giving way to a fine blue powder. Then:
"There's no chance in hell he'll ever see it."


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Bradley was one of the few schools chosen for the first year of the program in early 2018, and now students have the opportunity to work with NASA headquarters once again.
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In her decade-long career, Sophie has worked with A-list celebrities, top models, and influencers. She has also fostered partnerships between herself and her clients with the Gordon Ramsay Group, Adidas and more. She formerly worked for Ralph Lauren as Head of Styling. As their first-ever Stylist, she played a key role in how the department evolved, developed the styling app on their website and played a major part in company-sponsored events such as Brooklyn Beckham's book launch, Tatler's White Party, and Wimbledon. Sophie now has her own styling business and has organically grown its Instagram followers to 15k in her first year. Sophie is also involved in the launch and creation of an exciting new online styling platform due to launch in September 2018.
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import org.onosproject.mapping.DefaultMappingTreatment;
import org.onosproject.mapping.MappingTreatment;
import org.onosproject.mapping.addresses.MappingAddress;
import org.onosproject.mapping.instructions.MappingInstruction;

import java.util.stream.IntStream;

import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;

/**
 * Mapping treatment codec.
 */
public final class MappingTreatmentCodec extends JsonCodec<MappingTreatment> {

    private static final String INSTRUCTIONS = "instructions";
    private static final String ADDRESS = "address";

    @Override
    public ObjectNode encode(MappingTreatment treatment, CodecContext context) {
        checkNotNull(treatment, "Mapping treatment cannot be null");

        final ObjectNode result = context.mapper().createObjectNode();
        final ArrayNode jsonInstructions = result.putArray(INSTRUCTIONS);

        final JsonCodec<MappingInstruction> instructionCodec =
                context.codec(MappingInstruction.class);

        final JsonCodec<MappingAddress> addressCodec =
                context.codec(MappingAddress.class);

        for (final MappingInstruction instruction : treatment.instructions()) {
            jsonInstructions.add(instructionCodec.encode(instruction, context));
        }

        result.set(ADDRESS, addressCodec.encode(treatment.address(), context));

        return result;
    }

    @Override
    public MappingTreatment decode(ObjectNode json, CodecContext context) {
        if (json == null || !json.isObject()) {
            return null;
        }

        final JsonCodec<MappingInstruction> instructionCodec =
                context.codec(MappingInstruction.class);

        JsonNode instructionJson = json.get(INSTRUCTIONS);
        MappingTreatment.Builder builder = DefaultMappingTreatment.builder();

        if (instructionJson != null) {
            IntStream.range(0, instructionJson.size())
                    .forEach(i -> builder.add(
                            instructionCodec.decode(get(instructionJson, i),
                                    context)));
        }

        ObjectNode addressJson = get(json, ADDRESS);
        if (addressJson != null) {
            final JsonCodec<MappingAddress> addressCodec =
                    context.codec(MappingAddress.class);
            builder.withAddress(addressCodec.decode(addressJson, context));
        }

        return builder.build();
    }
}

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Sahara Forest Project proudly announcing Jordan project at COP22 in Marrakech
-It is a great pleasure to be back at the UN Climate Summit to announce that we have started to build our new Jordan facility that will be ready in May 2017, CEO Joakim Hauge said during a high-level COP22 event inside the accredited Blue Zone, hosted by the Sahara Forest Project on Monday November 14.
The Sahara Forest Project travelled to the high-level week of the UN Climate Summit COP22 in Marrakech. The company was present with 5 employees in the accredited Blue Zone, as SFP hosted and attended various climate change events and used the opportunity to meet present and new international stakeholders.
During the spring of 2016, The Sahara Forest Project initiated together with the Bellona Foundation the collaboration project "Towards 2050 – Enabling Carbon Negative Solutions and Restorative Growth". The idea was to build a unique collaboration platform between business, NGOs, government and research for solution-oriented communication and showcasing concrete carbon negative solutions, initiating a lot of exciting activities and boost knowledge sharing. The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs entered into the partnership in August. Other partners included Gassnova, The Norwegian Climate and Environmental Ministry, Nordic Energy Research, Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture, Climate and Clean Air Coalition and the Norwegian Ferrolegeringsindustriens forskningsforening (FFF).
Climate Summit history of Sahara Forest Project
Taking an active role advocating and doing awareness-raising and deliver a carbon negative business case to movers and shakers and influence UN Climate Summits is an important part of the Sahara Forest Project history. The Sahara Forest Project was launched internationally for the very first time at COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009. At COP18 in Doha in 2012, SFP opened the successful pilot model receiving visits from several hundred climate summit delegates.
At COP22 in Marrakech in 2016, our goal was to inform key stakeholders and decision makers from public and private sector, as well as international organization and non-governmental organizations about out work.
The Sahara Forest Project facilitated events at COP22 in Marrakech
Event 1 – Monday November 14. november
"Sahara Forest Project in Jordan – Restorative Growth in Practice".
On the first day of the high-level weeek at the UN Climate Summit the Sahara Forest Project (SFP) invited to a side event on the organization's initiatives in Jordan. The event was held for a filled conference room in the Nordic pavilion with more than 50 people present.
SFP CEO Joakim Hauge presented short Sahara Forest Project's concept, history and details of the new facility that opened in May 2017. Climate and Environment Minister Vidar Helgesen announced during the event that the Norwegian authorities will increase their support for the Sahara Forest Project's efforts in Jordan with an additional 600.000 euros.
Read more about the event where also the EU and Jordanian government took part.
On Wednesday November 16, The Sahara Forest Project organized a breakfast workshop together with the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA) looking at climate-smart solutions in regards to global water-energy-food security.
More than 20 senior representatives from government, private sector, international and non-governmental organizations and research attended the roundtable discussion to discuss opportunities and challenges around an integrated approach to food, energy and water. GACSA attended at the very highest level with both its two co-chairs, Mr. Martin Bwalya and Ms. Mi Nguyen. The CEO of the SFP Mr. Joakim Hauge introduced the work of SFP as a practical example of such an approach. There was great interest in the concept, and the discussion afterwards included discussion of investment costs of such projects and the importance of good public-private partnership to stimulate investment.
In the agricultural context, it is important to have solutions that serve the entire value chain and ensures the local farmers' values. Empirically, this is also good business for project developers, as sustainable technology innovation in agriculture also need to serve local communities with valuable knowledge transfer and new green jobs. The link with health and nutrition agenda were also cited as important dimension of sustainable projects in food, water and energy, and they discussed the potential for carbon negative production systems that also ties up CO2.
Represented organizations include SFP, GACSA, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Global Open Data Initiative, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bellona Foundation, EAT Foundation, University of Florida, EY Norway, Caritas Norway, the Climate Coalition, et al. Around 10 different nationalities participated at the workshop.
Other relevant COP 22 events included:
Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) Nexus event.
SFP was briefly presented as a case study of a concrete solution to meet the water, food and energy challenges in the MENA region. SFP had active participation in an event organized by the EU, Germany's development and environmental authorities (GIZ and BMUB) and Stockholm Environmental Institute (SEI) of "A Nexus Approach to Integrated Climate Adaptatation and Mitigation in the MENA Region". SFP was included as a 'practical solution' as the background flyer for the event, and were referred to during the meeting by SEI. SFP gave an update on the status around Jordan facility.
EDAMA event
SFP received compliments for start of construction of the Jordan facility and was welcomed as a member of Edama. EDAMA, an Arabic word meaning "sustainability", is a Jordanian business association that seeks innovative solutions for energy and water independence."Investment in Clean Energy as a Driver for Climate Action in the Eastern Mediterranean Region". This was in many ways a showcasing event for renewable industry in Jordan. Edama showed a new promo video where HE the Minister of Environment Dr. Khayyat spoke warmly of the country's renewable potential and activities. The video included actually a brief reference to SFP as one of several promising projects in the pipeline. SFP actively participated in the Q & A -sesjonen and received several congratulations for our initiation in Aqaba.
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: COP22, EU, GACSA, Helgesen, Jordan, Klima- og Skog, Marrakech, Mi Nguyen, NICFI, Norway
SFP launched a new facility in the Jordanian desert
The Sahara Forest Project launched a Norwegian and EU funded facility to produce vegetables and 10.000 liters of freshwater daily in the Aqaba desert.
On Thursday October 27th, The Sahara Forest Project started the construction of an innovative Norwegian and EU funded facility the size of four football fields in Aqaba.
"This is the beginning of a business adventure that will produce freshwater, food and clean energy in the dry areas of Aqaba" Joakim Hauge, Chief Executive Officer of the Sahara Forest Project, said.
The kick-off for the building process in Aqaba, Jordan.
Once completed, The Sahara Forest Project Launch Station will contain saltwater-cooled greenhouses that will utilize saltwater to provide excellent conditions for production of several tons high-quality vegetables.Photovoltaic solar panels will provide power for the electrical installations in the facility. Outdoor growing zones will not only contribute yields from various crops but also store CO2 from the atmosphere into vegetation of barren land. A desalination unit with capacity of 10 000 liters freshwater per day will provide the necessary water for the greenhouse and outdoor vegetation.
Please see Fact Sheet for the Jordan Launch Station here.
The project brings an innovative climate-smart solution that is needed in a country where challenges related to water scarcity and high imports of energy are high on the public agenda.
Joakim Hauge is describing the day as an important milestone in the history of the Norwegian-registered company and foundation. "This is the kick-off for a 6-month construction period. More than 30 Jordanian workers will be contracted to work at the site next to the airport in Aqaba", Hauge announced.
The event on October 27th was hosted by HE Chief Commissioner Mr. Nasser Shraideh at the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) headquarters.
A visit to the site close to the airport in Aqaba was arranged after the event at ASEZA.
Norwegian Ambassador to Jordan, Ms. Sissel Breie, and the EU Ambassador to Jordan, Mr. Andrea Matteo Fontana, cooperated on planting the very first plant at the new facility.
Norway and the European Union are the two key funders of the new industrial scheme in Aqaba, supported by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. Other partners include Yara International, The Grieg Foundation and USAID. This comes in addition to the financial resources invested by The Sahara Forest Project.
"I am honoured to join you today to witness the launch of an innovative EU funded facility to introduce Renewable energy and Energy efficiency applications to achieve the NEXUS approach that supports energy, water and food security" Mr. Andrea Matteo Fontana, European Union Ambassador to Jordan said, adding "The EU is contributing with 709.000 Euros to this project".
The Ambassador emphasized "Opportunities for Jordan, to reduce its independence on imported energy and enhance its water supply as well as meet its increased food needs are clear priorities for the EU-Jordan partnership. The EU is today the main partner to Jordan in Green Energy development with more than 145 M Euro bilateral support".
Norwegian Ambassador Ms. Sissel Breie noted "It is enjoyable to stand here today to celebrate the start of the building process. The feasibility studies demonstrated a clear potential for a large-scale production of food and energy in the Aqaba desert. We have been encouraged to see that the scope and ambitions of the Sahara Forest Project have increased".
The facility in Jordan will be three times the size of the successful Sahara Forest Project pilot facility in Qatar, where the technologies and the exciting synergies were tested and demonstrated under rough conditions.
Norway and EU assisting in combating global warming through storing CO2 in the ground
"We are very grateful for the important financial support from the Norwegian government and the European Union here in Jordan", Hauge said.
Sequestration of CO2 through revegetation of desert land is by the United Nations as well as climate researchers mentioned as crucial to combat global warming. Last year in Paris, the world demanded action in order to meet the new ambitious political agreement. "Together with the Ambassadors, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the Chief Commissioner of ASEZA, we are doing our part in responding to the Paris agreement", Hauge said.
Jordan, a hotspot
Hauge is very pleased with the warm and kind reception The Sahara Forest Project has received ever since His Majesty King Abdullah II invited the Sahara Forest Project to Jordan.
Jordan is seen as an ideal country for such project: It's a regional hotspot for investments into the rapidly growing solar industry; the country has ideal natural resources for the project and the Jordanian government, represented by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, is facilitating and supporting the project management.
The Launch Station will demonstrate the commercial potential for a large scale operation in Jordan. The 3 hectare facility will be the first step towards the realization of a 20 hectare Jordan Centre in Aqaba, combining large-scale production of freshwater, food and clean energy with an innovation hub for green technologies.
"All staff members of the Sahara Forest Project are supporters of big and bold innovative ideas. Today, we took a giant step in turning our ideas into reality. We truly believe that The Sahara Forest Project will be good for people, good for the environment and good for business", Hauge concluded.
Mr. Magnus Borgen, Head of Communications at The Sahara Forest Project
magnus@saharaforestproject.com / Tel: +47 977 28 476.
Ms. Reem Al-Jazi, Press Officer at the European Union Delegation to Jordan
Reem.AL-JAZI@eeas.europa.eu / Tel: +962-6-460-7000 (ext 108).
About Sahara Forest Project
The Sahara Forest Project is a Norwegian-registered private limited company and a foundation.
SFP offers attractive restorative growth opportunities for arid areas. The Sahara Forest Project has accomplished excellent results at the pilot phase in Qatar. These are highlighted in various international publications, such as a special report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), as well as global media outlets. The Sahara Forest Project has now reached an important milestone in the journey to enable a restorative growth for Jordan. Over the next few months the project will go from idea to reality, with crucial financial support from the Norwegian government and the EU. There will be revegetation of desert areas and creation of green jobs through profitable production of food, freshwater, biofuels and electricity.
Filed Under: Featured, Featured homepage, News stories Tagged With: Ambassador, Aseza, Chief Commissioner, EU, Jordan, Norway
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Williamson Draft Review: Buddy Johnson
Matt Williamson
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The Draft Pick: Buddy Johnson, LB, Texas A&M
The Draft Spot: Fourth Round, 140th Overall
With the 140th overall selection in the 2021 NFL Draft, the Steelers selected Buddy Johnson out of Texas A&M after taking Johnson's college teammate, Dan Moore Jr., just a dozen picks earlier. As was the case with Moore, Pittsburgh took advantage of the strength at a deep position in this class-in this case: off-the-ball linebacker.
The Cowboys took Penn State's Micah Parsons a dozen picks into the draft. Zaven Collins went four picks later to Arizona and Jamin Davis was then the 19th selection overall by Washington. There was a bit of a lull at this position before Cleveland traded up to grab Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah in the middle of the second round. Nick Bolton and Pete Werner also were second round picks as true linebackers. Four more linebackers were taken in Round 3 and two more were selected in the fourth frame before the Steelers plucked Johnson off the board. A dozen second level defenders going in the first 115 picks speaks to the depth at this position this year and that depth again worked to Pittsburgh's advantage with Johnson falling to them in the late fourth round.
What is Johnson as a player? Johnson stands 6' 1 1/2" and weighs just under 230 pounds. He was a four-year starter in college and obviously has a lot of experience in the very challenging SEC. A team captain, he is considered a very high character player and leader. He is tough, reliable, and durable. He did play a lot of quarterback in high school and that experience should help him better understand route combinations and what NFL offenses are looking to accomplish. What really stands out about Johnson is how he flies around the football field, an approach that might need some fine tuning at the NFL level. He plays with great energy nonetheless and impressed at Texas A&M's pro day by running the 40-yard dash in 4.57 seconds with excellent jump numbers. Johnson has a flare for making big plays and is a true striker.
After losing Ryan Shazier to a tragic on-the-field injury, the Steelers were sent scurrying at the linebacker position. So, in the 2019 draft, Pittsburgh uncharacteristically traded up in the first round-moving from 20 to the 10th spot to draft Devin Bush as a true every down linebacker. Of course, the Steelers will be getting Bush back to form as a foundational every down player at just 22 years old. But Bush was only able to appear in five games, playing just 278 snaps, last year before tearing his ACL.
As a result, three other Steelers linebackers ended up out-snapping Bush in 2020 with Vince Williams leading the team in linebacker snaps. Williams was on the field 671 snaps last year, but that was only 65% of the Steelers total defensive snaps for the season. Robert Spillane played 371 snaps and Avery Williamson was on the field for 309 after being acquired from the Jets on November 1st. Marcus Allen, who is more linebacker than safety nowadays, also contributed with 206. Williams, Spillane, and Allen are currently on the roster alongside the rookie Johnson.
What does this tell us? The Steelers have been searching for depth at this critical position. In terms of personnel usage, Pittsburgh's defense was in their base 3-4 for 31.3% of their snaps last year. That is a high percentage of base defense for today's NFL. League average is just 24%. As for the Steelers nickel package, they utilized this grouping just under 40% of the time. That sounds like a lot, but the league average in 2020 was 59%. The Steelers played dime on 17.3% of their snaps, which is about 4% more than league average. But what stands out more than those numbers is that Pittsburgh was in "Other" (not base, nickel or dime) 11.7% of the time-only the Patriots at 19.3% were higher.
What that means, is like everyone, Pittsburgh played some snaps of goal line defense with very heavy personnel. But what it really tells us is that the Steelers defense played a very high percentage of defensive snaps with more than six defensive backs on the field. That might have been a result of, first the Bush injury, and then not having depth at the position required in a specific game or moment. Who is to say how quickly Johnson, who should play a ton of preseason snaps, acclimates, but he has a chance to really help that situation by giving the Steelers another young talented option as well as being a foundational special teams player in 2021.
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Pickens brings finesse and physicality
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The Steelers added talent on both sides of the ball in the 2022 NFL Draft
Archer was a RB who caught passes; Austin is a WR who can contribute as a runner
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Labriola on Day 3 of the 2022 NFL Draft
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Q: How to do unit test for Exceptions? As you know, exception is thrown at the condition of abnormal scenarios. So how to analog these exceptions? I feel it is challenge. For such code snippets:
public String getServerName() {
    try {

        InetAddress addr = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
        String hostname = addr.getHostName();
        return hostname;
    }
    catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return "";
    }
}

Does anybody have good ideas?

A: Since this question is in community wiki I'll add a new one for completeness:
You can use ExpectedException in JUnit 4
@Rule
public ExpectedException thrown= ExpectedException.none();

@Test
public void TestForException(){
    thrown.expect(SomeException.class);
    DoSomething();
}

The ExpectedException makes the thrown exception available to all test methods.
Is is also possible to test for a specific error message:
thrown.expectMessage("Error string");

or use matchers
thrown.expectMessage(startsWith("Specific start"));

This is shorter and more convenient than
public void TestForException(){
    try{
        DoSomething();
        Fail();
    }catch(Exception e) {
      Assert.That(e.msg, Is("Bad thing happened"))
    }
}

because if you forget the fail, the test can result in a false negative.

A: You can tell junit that the correct behavior is to get an exception.
In JUnit 4, it goes something like:
@Test(expected = MyExceptionClass.class)
public void functionUnderTest() {
    …
}

A: Many unit testing frameworks allow your tests to expect exceptions as part of the test. JUnit, for example, allows for this.
@Test (expected=IndexOutOfBoundsException.class) public void elementAt() {
    int[] intArray = new int[10];

    int i = intArray[20]; // Should throw IndexOutOfBoundsException
}

A: Other answers have addressed the general problem of how to write a unit test that checks that an exception is thrown.  But I think your question is really asking about how to get the code to throw the exception in the first place.
Take your code as an example.  It would be very hard to cause your getServerName() to internally throw an exception in the context of a simple unit test.  The problem is that in order for the exception to happen, the code (typically) needs to be run on a machine whose networking is broken.  Arranging for that to happen in a unit test is probably impossible ... you'd need to deliberately misconfigure the machine before running the test.
So what is the answer?

*

*In some cases, the simple answer is just to take the pragmatic decision and not go for total test coverage.  Your method is a good example.  It should be clear from code inspection what the method actually does.  Testing it is not going to prove anything (except see below **).  All you are doing is improve your test counts and test coverage numbers, neither of which should be project goals.

*In other cases, it may be sensible to separate out the low-level code where the exception is being generated and make it a separate class.  Then, to test the higher level code's handling of the exception, you can replace the class with a mock class that will throw the desired exceptions.
Here is your example given this "treatment".  (This is a bit contrived ... )
public interface ILocalDetails {
    InetAddress getLocalHost() throws UnknownHostException;
    ...
}

public class LocalDetails implements ILocalDetails {
    public InetAddress getLocalHost() throws UnknownHostException {
        return InetAddress.getLocalHost();
    }
}

public class SomeClass {
    private ILocalDetails local = new LocalDetails();  // or something ...
    ...
    public String getServerName() {
        try {
            InetAddress addr = local.getLocalHost();
            return addr.getHostName();
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return "";
        }
    }
}

Now to unit test this, you create a "mock" implementation of the ILocalDetails interface whose getLocalHost() method throws the exception you want under the appropriate conditions.  Then you create a unit text for SomeClass.getServerName(), arranging that the instance of SomeClass uses an instance of your "mock" class instead of the normal one.  (The last bit could be done using a mocking framework, by exposing a setter for the local attribute or by using the reflection APIs.)
Obviously, you would need to modify your code to make it testable like this.  And there are limits to what you can do ... for example, you now cannot create a unit test to make the real LocalDetails.getLocalHost() method to throw an exception.  You need to make a case-by-case judgement as to whether it is worth the effort of doing this; i.e. does the benefit of the unit test outweigh the work (and extra code complexity) of making the class testable in this way.  (The fact that there is a static method at the bottom of this is a large part of the problem.)

** There is a hypothetical point to this kind of testing.  In your example, the fact that the original code catches an exception and returns an empty string could be a bug ... depending on how the method's API is specified ... and a hypothetical unit test would pick it up.  However, in this case, the bug is so blatant that you would spot it while writing the unit test!  And assuming that you fix bugs as you find them, the unit test becomes somewhat redundant.  (You wouldn't expect someone to re-instate this particular bug ...)

A: Okay there are a few possible answers here.
Testing for an exception itself is easy
import static org.hamcrest.core.Is.is;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;

@Test
public void TestForException() {
    try {
        doSomething();
        fail();
    } catch (Exception e) {
        assertThat(e.getMessage(), is("Something bad happened"));
    }
}

Alternately, you can use the Exception Annotation to note that you expect an exception to come out.
Now, as to you specific example, Testing that something you are creating inside your method, either via new or statically as you did, when you have no way to interact with the object is tricky. You normally need to encapsulate that particular generator and then use some mocking to be able to override the behavior to generate the exception you expect.

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text:
Lecture explores role of Irish Literature in world
Author: Clare Kossler
Ph.D. candidate Kara Donnelly discussed the role of Irish literature relative to other literary genres in the lecture "Contemporary Irish Novels and World Literature in English: The Case of the Irish Booker" at Flanner Hall on Friday.
Donnelly said she wanted to examine specifically the influence of Irish literature on the world stage.
"Today I'd like to ask the following question: 'What is the relationship between Irish literature and world literature in English?'" she said. "This question isn't simply, 'Can I get a job in one of those fields?'… Rather, my question is when an Irish author is active in international literary culture, how is she perceived and classified?"
Donnelly said addressing this question requires an awareness of the role of Irish literature in commonwealth and post-colonial literature, both of which were intrinsic to the development of world literary studies.
Irish literature was an antecedent and "role model" to commonwealth literature, which in turn was a "precursor to post-colonial studies and then to global Anglophone literary studies," Donnelly said.
Many of the anti-imperial and anti-establishment themes of modern Irish literature were embodied in commonwealth and post-colonial literary studies, and Irish literature contributed to the development of world literature as a whole, she said.
"Indeed, the Irish authors were part of the internationalizing trend," she said.
Donnelly said part of the international success of Irish literature can be attributed to the Man Booker Prize, an award which "aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland," according to the prize's website.
The significant number of Irish novelists who have won the award have enhanced the presence of Irish literature in international circles, a demonstration of "the globalization of the publishing industry," Donnelly said.
Irish literature is fundamentally distinct from commonwealth and post-colonial literature, as well as the broader category of world literature in English, however, Donnelly said.
"In the discourses about world literature, Irish literature appears both too early and too late," she said. "It's too early in the sense that the oppositional models of world literature look to Irish modernism as antecedents for their anti-imperial politics and aesthetics. It's too late in the sense that, on the international stage, it loses its national specificity in such a way that it comes across as unmarked."
Originally published in The Observer, November 10, 2014


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After finished taking photograph the 1:1 Gundam in front of the DiverCity Tokyo Plaza. We went to the GUNDAM FRONT TOKYO on the 7th floor.
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Last week DEX who owns the Gundam license in Thailand held the Gundam Expo Thailand 2009 event. They made the very large bust of RX-78 Gundam and put it on the outside of Siam Paragon where the event was held.
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Here's the photos of Gundam Expo Thailand 2008 on the first day. There aren't many activities today. All highlight will be on the last two days because there is the cosplay contest on those days. In Thailand, where has the cosplayer, there are a very large amount of people here.
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Today I visited Gundam Expo Thailand 2008 and I got this catalog. (not from the expo.) I thought it very interested. So I put them here. All of them will be released on next month.
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Although Thailand is the 7th most dangerous in the world, we still has the event like this in my country. If my memory is still OK, this is the longest manga/anime event in my country.
The world first 4 meters Exia Gundam.
The army of Master Grade Gundam.
Cosplay, Karaoke and other activities.


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