WHAT? Summer camp devoted strictly to improving all the physical areas of baseball performance.
5-tool player: The ideal player; an athlete who excels at hitting for average, hitting for power, base-running skills and speed, throwing ability, and fielding abilities. Each day of summer camp will have drills designed to improve each of these skill areas.
WHEN? Seven 1-Week Sessions Starting July 2nd. M-Th 2:00-3:00 PM (IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING PROSWING'S SUMMER BASEBALL CAMP @BH MEMORIAL PARK).
WHO? Baseball players ages 8 and up (age groups 8-11 & 12+).
WHY? During the Summer is when most overuse and non-contact injuries occur. This is mainly due to the lack of emphasis on physical training during the season. This Summer program is mainly designed to maintain all of the strength we built leading up to this point, so we can be sure we do not put our bodies at a disadvantage and greater risk of injury. Emphasis is placed on strength/muscle mass/force production maintenance, arm-care, injury prevention and recovery.
WHERE? Total Performance: 27 Radio Circle Dr., Mt. Kisco, NY 10549 (located inside of Proswing Baseball Training Center).
Please fill out the form below to reserve your athletes place in each week (no credit card required, this is just to ensure your place in our program).


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Voodoo Doughnut at Universal CityWalk Hollywood has an array of delicious doughnuts year-round, but for a limited time, they're rolling out a special Year of the Pig Doughnut to celebrate Lunar New Year.
Available from February 1 – 28, 2019, at Universal Studios Hollywood, this doughnut features strawberry frosting on plain cake with bubble gum for the ears and nose. Starting the Lunar New Year with a deliciously decadent treat sounds pretty perfect, so head over to Voodoo Doughnut before these disappear.
While you're visiting Universal Studios Hollywood, there are plenty of other Lunar New Year celebrations taking place from February 2 – 18, 2019. The special event is included with theme park admission and features characters from DreamWorks' "Kung Fu Panda." Take part in an interactive Dragon Warriors kung fu training show, visit Mr. Ping's Noodle Shop and meet Mr. Ping himself, and enjoy meet-and-greets with other characters like Hello Kitty and a Mandarin-speaking Megatron from "Transformers." You can also share New Year's wishes at stunning plum blossom Wishing Trees and catch other live entertainment and activities.
Voodoo Doughnut, a Portland-based shop, is well-known for their unique doughnut creations. Popular choices include the Grape Ape (a raised yeast doughnut with vanilla frosting, grape dust, and lavender sprinkles) and the Voodoo Doll (a raised yeast doughnut shaped like a voodoo doll, filled with raspberry jelly and topped with chocolate frosting and a pretzel stake). So, even if you don't make it to Voodoo Doughnut in time to try the Year of the Pig creation, there are plenty of other tempting varieties to satisfy a sweet tooth. There's also a Voodoo Doughnut at Universal CityWalk Orlando.
For more information on Lunar New Year festivities at Universal Studios Hollywood, head over to their official website.


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Be prepared for it to rain any day. Always a good idea to back a light jacket in case there are a few clouds.
Try the Swedish meatballs. Oh so good!
Swedish meatballs! I must try to recreate this at home.
Double check and triple check you have your passport when traveling across borders.
With the sun rising before 5 AM, my husband and I woke up early in Copenhagen. Eager to start the day, we got ready and headed to the train station to start our day exploring Malmö, Sweden. We headed to the airport where their train station is also located. By the time we got there, it was about 7:45 AM when we bought our tickets. We got on the train to head into Malmö. The train departed the station which is at the Copenhagen Airport and travels across the water to first stop at the Hyllie Station. About 30 minutes outside from the station. Over the intercom we hear and announcement to have our ID or Passport ready. I look in my purse, shoot, no Passports. We forgot them at the Copenhagen apartment. Trying to stay calm, we thought "It's going to be OK, we have our driver's license". The intercom did say IDs or passports. Border security comes onto the train and starts asking for identification. We hand over our Arizona state driver's licenses. The lady looked at us and asked if we had our passports. Embarrassed, I reply, no, we forgot them at our apartment in Copenhagen. So, what happens next? My husband and I are kindly escorted off the train. Standing outside we wait while they do the paperwork. Now, I am getting nervous thinking we might have issues getting back into Denmark. Trying to keep my cool and just stand there waiting. The two border control officers walk over, go over a piece of paper that says we were officially denied entry into Sweden. I ask, "if we get our passports, can we come back"? She replied "oh yes, that is fine". Then I ask the question I am afraid to hear the answer too, "will we have any issues getting back into Denmark?" thinking we are going to be stuck in limbo never being able to get back to get our passports. She said, "you won't have any issues". WHEW. Still feeling like idiots, we were escorted to the train back to Denmark.
Thank goodness the apartment was only a few stops on the Metro from the Copenhagen train station. We made it back to our apartment by 9:30 AM. Grabbing our passports, we turned right back around to go to Malmö… again.
This time we were prepared. Waiting at the Hyllie station, anticipating our border control officer lady to come into our car to show her we really are not as stupid as we seem and show her our passports. We wait… wait a little more… and a little more. Next thing you know, we are moving. "You have got to be kidding me!" no passport check. My husband and I have a good laugh and get off after two more stops for Malmö.
I really wish we saw the lady who escorted us off the train and back to one for Denmark to take a selfie with her. I also would like to thank the border control ladies for pulling us off the train and delaying our arrival to Malmö. Originally, we were planning on getting there by 9 AM. However, nothing opened until 11 AM. So we would have just been wandering around trying to figure out what to do until things opened.
Sweden is no longer allowing passport free travel between European Union countries. This was new as of January 2017. So, if you are going to be traveling to Sweden from an EU country. Double check you have your passports. Don't make the same mistake my husband and I did and forget to bring them.
Now that we made it into Malmö at about 10:30 AM, and I guess technically illegally since our passports and tickets were never checked the second time.
Malmö is pretty small so we only had a few things on our list to see. First we stopped at the Knotted Gun that represents non-violence which was created in the 1980s.
We then strolled around the old city center Lilla Torg Kristianstad until we made our way to Slottsträdgården Malmö and eventually to Malmö Castle.
The Slottsträdgården Malmö was a beautiful park with tulips in bloom. There were so many different kinds, it was so beautiful and made me smile. Being from Phoenix and living in the desert you don't get to enjoy those types of flowers so it was a real treat. Plus, there was even a cute little windmill! Such a bonus.
The Malmö Castle is right in the same area. Not the most pleasing to the eye but interesting history. The castle was built in 1434 by the king of Denmark, Erik av Pommern. The Danish King Christian III expanded the castle and made it into more of a military fortress in the 1530s. In the 1650s, Malmö was now under the Swedish crown and become one of the most important military points for Sweden.
We spent enough time at the park and caster and now places were finally open. First, lunch! We stopped at Victor's at Lilla Torg Kristianstad. I decided to have salmon in a butter sauce. Who doesn't like things prepared in butter?! My husband had Swedish Meatballs. So. Good. Both dishes were delicious. I am now trying to perfect the Swedish meatball.
We love to try local micro-breweries so we checked out Bulls n Barrels. They had some great IPAs. Next we stopped at the Malmö Brewing Co and Taproom. Also some great beers. We were a little hungry so decided to order the bacon cheese meatloaf. To our surprise we received a burger and not a traditional American style meatloaf we are accustomed to being from the states.
On our way back we had grand plans to make our way to Christiania… However, we were literally falling asleep at the table so made our way back to our flat in Malmö.
The train station, you can see a sign for Brio The company who makes the little wooden trains.


Welcome back to our series on The History Channel's VIKINGS. Sandi Layne, author of Éire's Captive Moon, is with me again to chat about last night's episode. Both of us are still thrilled with the show, so it still has the History Geek stamp of approval.
Lissa: Before we begin, I think we have to agree the previews of next week's episode DID NOT HAPPEN. It was a dream sequence ... or something ... and that's what I'm firmly sticking to.
Lissa: Twitter lit up with admiration for Ragnar's new head tattoos last night.
Lissa: Ragnar is having way too much fun with this leader thing, but he seems to be doing rather well with it. He's proceeding with caution, even when his men are urging him to charge in with both axes swinging.
Sandi: I see sometimes a strange light in his eyes that is troubling. I can't trust that face always...but, I believe he is acting for the best interest of his people, overall.
Lissa: I think Ragnar is taking many things as a leap of faith. He, too, has a belief in destiny, and perhaps he thinks the gods won't let any harm come to him until he fulfills it.
The dinner scene was fun. It seems the Vikings decided to ham it up a little and play "barbarians" to shock the English.
Sandi: They really did seem to have fun with the English.
Lissa: I also liked the scene in the midst of it when Ragnar smiled gently and said hello to Ælle's son. He really is a good guy.
Sandi: I was unsurprised at the ransom demand but quite surprised that Ælle went with it. The conversion stipulation puzzled me, however. One would think that the clergy and king would know that a conversion under those circumstances would not hold.
Lissa: I've read of some other "forced conversions" along these lines, in the chronicles of the Spanish conquistadors, the persecution of the Jewish people in Spain, and in the accounts of the Crusades. In the case of the Jewish converts, the Morranos, it gave the rulers more power over them because they could now be tried for heresy, even if they hadn't broken any civil law. They believed the baptism held mystical power that made the convert a Christian even if they didn't behave or worship as one, and God would judge them even more harshly than a heathen for turning his back on the faith.
wife, he'd answer to Lagertha.
Sandi: I liked that she saw to the proper care of the baby and that the woman wouldn't be condemned in that circumstance. In my readings, normally if a man slept with a married woman without the consent of her husband, he would pay the husband off. It was not a huge deal, apparently. That this didn't apparently happen would - as the husband indicated - be evidence that the husband did give his consent. So it was right that the baby be kept as the wife's child.
Lissa: A badass warrior she may be, but Lagertha has a deep well of compassion. I loved how she taght her son compassion when Siggy came as a supplicant. "And if your father had died, I woud be standing where she is now. What do you want me to say to her?" Unfortunately, I suspect you're right that Siggy is up to no good, despite her apparent gratitude and her comforting of Lagertha.
Sandi: I am thinking indeed that Siggy is "keeping her enemies closer" as the saying goes. She is keeping a close eye on the new earl's wife - and her children. She will have her sharp eyes everywhere. Indeed, I wonder even if she had something to do with the loss of Lagertha's child. I was suspicious immediately. But then....I have that tendency, don't I?
Lissa: Oh, lord, I didn't even think of that... Could Siggy really be that evil? I grieved for Lagertha when she lost the child.
Sandi: Me, too. And it was...such a gruesome view on the show, too.
Sandi: Indeed! Which makes me wonder what the writers might have in store!
Lissa: Floki's character continues to evolve. I'm starting to wonder if the mandness might just be an act on his part, something he does for fun to watch how people will react. He's just too darn canny. If Rollo does decide to do something to Ragnar, he'd better take out Floki, too, or his reign would be short, indeed.
Sandi: Floki is crazy-brilliant. I do think he's probably unbalanced, but that doesn't diminish his devotion to Ragnar or to his people. Or his gods.
Lissa: Judging from the number of #FLOKI Tweets, he's one of the most popular characters on the show.
Rollo's conversion-- or at least, the appearance thereof-- was a surprise. I fear it may be part of the plot brewing in his mind, hoping that king Ælla will support a fellow Christian if Rollo decides to rebel against his brother. Floki appears to smell a rat, proving how sharp his mind truly is.
Sandi: Rollo's determination to "kill Christians" was emotional. That struck me. Was he afraid of the anger of his gods or of Floki? How is that going to shape the future of the story?
Lissa: Deep down, it has to torment Rollo that he's at least considering rebelling against his brother, especially when Ragnar is openly loyal and devoted to him.
@LissaBryan I think how people prayed in private was different than in corporate worship.
@LissaBryan Well, they would have slept in their armor if they didn't have their squires with them. Stuff took forever to don.
@sandyquill That's what TL said. "They didn't hop up and pull it on like a pair of sweats!"
@LissaBryan LOL Very true. And you can bet everything stank to the moon after an extended campaign.
@LissaBryan @_rel8tivity_ Rust might ensue, else.


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Contemporary Art in Vienna
Vienna has been the capital city of Europe's intellectual life for centuries : place of birth of the Art Nouveau movement at the beginning of 1900, it is the reference city for big names of modern art like Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Because of its long and rich history, Vienna is quite THE cultural destination, and it is a challenge to make a top 10 of what to see, given the abundance of options.
However, Artsper has made a humble attempt at giving you a panorama of the spots not to miss in this town for modern and contemporary art lovers!
{1.VIENNA BIENNALE}
Vienna is inaugurating this year the first edition of its Biennale (from June 11th to October 4th). The event is multidisciplinary, and aims at opening a dialogue between art, design and architecture. Its philosophy? "Ideas for change". The event focuses on our changing society and on the way that arts can bring answers to the world's current issues. On an artistic level, it means that digital artworks are the center of attention.
Four major institutions of Vienna will stage this unprecedented event: the MAK (Austrian Museum of Applied Arts), the Kunsthalle Wien, the « Angewandte Innovation Laboratory » at the University of Applied Arts Of Vienna, and the Architecture Center of Vienna. Additionnaly – there will also be performances and events in many public places.
The programming is rich and varied: from exhibitions tackling the world's current issues (such as overpopulation with « Uneven Growth: Tactical Ubranisms for Expanding Megacities » at the MAK), to lectures, performances, roundtables and workshops of all kinds.
{2. THE BELVEDERE MUSEUM}
You know it already, the Belvedere Museum is simply a must-see in Vienna. Former summer house of the prince Eugene of Savoy, this museum holds the most comprehensive body of work by world-known artist Gustav Klimt – the highlights of the collection being "The Kiss" and "Judith"- as well as major works by Schiele and Kokoschka.
But you will also be able to admire masterpieces of French impressionism and the Biedermeier period of Vienna, along with a collection of works from the flamboyant gothic and the baroque period for those who appreciate ancient art.
This summer, the Belvedere Museum is hosting an exhibition entitled « Klimt and the Ringstrasse- A showcase of Grandeur », which will showcase the production of artists from the prosperous period of the building of Vienna's Ring such as Hans Makart, Gustav Klimt and his collective of painters, the "Kunstler-Compagnie". The exhibition will also give a glimpse of the lifestyle of the era.
{3. SECESSION BUILDING}
As for the Belvedere Museum, one cannot claim to love art and pass by the Secession Building in Vienna. Built in 1897 by Joseph Maria Olbrish, it is the architecture manifesto of the Secession, which led to the Art Nouveau movement conducted by Gustav Klimt.
The characteristics of the Art Nouveau movement was the desire to combine art, architecture and applied arts into a "total art style". The motto of the movement was: ""To every age its art, to art its freedom" (Ludwig Hevesi)" and its main representatives were Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann, Otto Eckmann, Josef Maria Olbrich, Koloman Moser, Oskar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele.
Pieces of the famous 34 meter-long Beethoven frieze are kept there: a visual interpretation of Beethoven's 9th symphony made in 1902 by Klimt and considered one of his ultimate masterpieces.
The Secession Building also hosts temporary exhibitions: until October 11th, you will be able to visit an exhibit dedicated to architecture within the Secession movement and entitled « Too modern for the first row : the architectural history of the Vienna secession ».
{4. MUMOK}
The MUMOK is located in the museum and historic district of Vienna ; it is the largest museum of modern and contemporary art in Central Europe with collections spanning from Austria avant-garde to the main trends of 20th century's art : Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism as well as Pop art, Fluxus and New Realism. The museum holds works by artists such as Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Kokoschka, Fernand Léger, René Magritte, Roy Lichtenstein and Francis Bacon
The MUMOK owes a part of its collection to the long term loan of the Ludwig Foundation, which provided an additional 10,000 pieces to its collection.
On view this summer, an exhibition entitled "Ludwig Goes Pop" (until September 13th) will present the impressive pop art collection of the German industrialist and his wife Peter and Irène Ludwig. About 100 works from the most famous pop artists (Robert Indiana, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Jasper Johns etc.) will be on display from six major institutions related to the collecting couple.
{5. BANK AUSTRIA KUNSTFORUM}
The Bank Austria Kunstforum holds a collection of about 10,000 artworks from the early 20th century Art Nouveau to post-WWII avant-garde and contemporary art. Highlights of the place include a collection of historic photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz and Diane Arbus.
The Bank Austria Kunstforum is famous for its successful exhibitions attracting several thousands of visitors every year: currently on show, an exhibit dedicated to Martin Kippenberger, one of the most controversial artists of the 20th century. The focus of the show is to shed light on the impact of Kippenberger's influence on the generations of artists that followed.
{6. KUNSTHALLE WIEN}
Open since 1992 and relocated in the museum district in 2001, the Kunsthalle Wien is one of the must-see places dedicated to contemporary art in Vienna.
With time, it acquired a solid reputation of being the most experimental place for contemporary art in town and its exhibition program distinguishes itself with innovative scenographies and is often centered on the main issues of our time
Currently, the Kunsthalle Wien is having a show entitled « Future Light: Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz. LOVING, REPEATING » for the Vienna Biennale: it is an immersive installation consisting of three videos and a series of sculptures where the past is recreated for a future use and for new desires to take shape.
{7. THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA ART CONTEMPORARY}
Founded in 2002 by Francesca von Habsburg, the TBA21 is laboratory dedicated to art, design and creation in general. The foundation's ambition is to spread knowledge about experimental practices and artists with ambitious artistic projects that blur the lines between traditional artistic fields, whether it is in architecture, performance art or in site installations. The foundation is encouraging multidisciplinary artworks tackling social and environment issues.
The foundation is involved in many projects and commissioned artworks travelling to some of the most prominent art institutions in the world.
Up until September 27th, the foundation is presenting an exhibit about a project conceived by Olafur Eliasson in collaboration with architect David Adjaye for the 51th Venice Biennale and entitled "Your Black horizon Art Pavilion".
{8. GALERIE ERNST HILGER}
One of Artsper's partners, the Ernst Hilger gallery was founded in 1971 and exhibits works by international artists like Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet, Keith Haring and Mel Ramos as well as Austrian artists from the 60's and after.
The 800 meter square space of the Ernsy Hilger gallery are a real laboratory for projects held by cutting edge artists from all over the world.
{9. 21ER HAUS}
The 21ER HAUS museum is held inside a beautifully designed building by Karl Schwanzer, which received the Grand Prix d'Architecture in 1958. Remodeled in 2011 by Adolf Krischanitz, the 21ER HAUS specializes in Austrian art from the 20th and 21st century. Conceived for the World's Fair of 1958, it became a museum of modern art in 1962. Today it is an international platform for Austrian art from 1945 up until today.
The 21ER HAUS collection's highlights include the archives of the Austrian sculptor Fritz Wotruba and the Artothek des Bundes (the Federation of Austria).
Temporary exhibitions are organized all year long: currently on view, a show dedicated to Fritz Wotruba, considered one of the leading figures of Austrian sculpture of the 20th century.
{10. THE LEOPOLD MUSEUM}
The Leopold Museum opened in 2001 and holds the private collection of Rudolf and Elisabeth Leopold, a collecting couple passionate about Egon Schiele. Their collection is home to the most comprehensive body of work by the Austrian artist Egon Schiele in the world, along with lithographs and decorative objects from the 19th and 20th century by famous artists from the Art Nouveau period and the Wiener Werkstätte movement.
This summer, an exhibition entitled "Where I want to go" (until September 14th) presents a dialogue between 80 works by British artist Tracey Emin and a selection of Egon Schiele's drawings.
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Sergeant Jeanette Bautista, a military policewoman at Fort Carson, Colorado, filmed her last day on duty with her long-time friend, who is also a sergeant.
During the interview, the two admitted that they've never deployed in the five years they've been MPs, and have known each other since they first processed to go to basic training.
After a while, the camera panned over to show base operations at the front gate, revealing camera locations and gate security procedures.
During the interview, Bautista and her buddy expressed their desire to get out, doing a little dance while they talked about being done with the service.
The video has been removed from SGT Bautista's YouTube Channel, but can still be viewed on Popular Military.
Consider OPSEC before posting to social media. Anything posted on social media can be copied and cross-posted to other sites.
Peterson resigned from his job at the Broward County Sheriff's Office shortly after the shooting in February after being the target of backlash for not intervening during the mass shooting.
This ruling should come as no surprise. The courts have repeatedly ruled that the police have no duty to protect individuals in their communities from harm. Certainly there are men and women in law enforcement that do put themselves at great risk in the defense of others, but the law does not require them to do so, and they may legally choose to standby and do nothing - as we saw in Parkland.
Combine this with "gun free school zones" ensuring the teachers, parents, and other law abiding visitors to schools will be unarmed, and we create an environment where children can be attacked with impunity by any violent criminal.
Military personnel deployed to a combat area, their supporting contractors overseas, government civilian employees overseas, non-government organizations (NGOs), journalists working on international stories, businesses attempting to establish a foothold in developing countries, and individual travelers to remote areas of the world can all find themselves in hostile and non-permissive environments. This guide covers a broad range of subjects that are intended to aid individuals, living and working in dangerous areas, in being safer in their daily lives and in being better able to protect themselves and survive in case of an emergency, disaster, or hostile action.
Facebook said Friday that an attack on its computer systems that was announced two weeks ago had affected 30 million users, and the personal information that was exposed was far more intimate than originally thought, adding to Facebook's challenges as it investigates what was probably the most substantial breach of its network in the company's 14-year history.
Regardless of your privacy settings, consider anything that you post to social media to be PUBLIC!. Remember that whatever you post may one day be read by your grandmother, your priest, your local Sheriff, or published on the front page of the New York Times.
If you have a concern with something being seen (and perhaps republished) in a public venue, don't post it to social media.
President Donald Trump said Sunday's that he will be "reviewing" the case of a former U.S. Army Green Beret being charged with murder, raising questions about the possibility he could jeopardize the ongoing military legal proceedings. Trump tweeted that "at the request of many" he will examine allegations that Mathew Golsteyn hunted down and killed a suspected bomb-maker in Afghanistan. The president tweeted that Golsteyn is a "U.S. Military hero" who could face the death penalty "from our own government."
In a statement Sunday, Army Col. Rob Manning, a Pentagon spokesman, said that "the allegations against Major Matt Golsteyn are a law enforcement matter. The Department of Defense will respect the integrity of this process and provide updates when appropriate."
Ryan Joseph Beisley, wounded by Portland police at the Starbucks at the Hollywood [OR] Fred Meyer on Friday (Decmber 7, 2018) night, was carrying a fake black handgun that he appears to have pointed at officers, according to a preliminary police investigation.
The replica firearm was found near where Beisley was lying before he was placed on a gurney and into an ambulance, police spokesman Sgt. Chris Burley said.
Beisley, 34, escaped Dec. 1 from a Seattle residential re-entry center and was wanted on a federal fugitive warrant, according to federal prison records.
On Jan. 20, 2015, Beisley was sentenced to five years and 10 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to three bank robberies and two attempted bank robberies that occurred between Nov. 16 and Nov. 26, 2013. He also was ordered to pay more than $10,000 in restitution.
There is little chance that responding police officers can tell the difference between a real gun and a toy when responding to this type of a scene. This YouTube video shows why police sometimes shoot even unarmed citizens when responding to calls.
Imagine living in a society where every action you make in your day-to-day life is monitored, quantified and scored by the government using a massive surveillance network.
Now, imagine that score is used to determine everything from your career choices to whether or not you're allowed to travel outside the country. This kind of dystopian fantasy is common in science fiction, but in China, the Chinese Communist Party is working to make it a reality.
Many would consider the surveillance system of the Chinese Communist Party to be oppressive, an abuse of human rights. And while China may be a few steps ahead of other countries in the constant surveillance of its citizens, China is not alone in this surveillance state mentality.
The finding, announced in a news conference on Monday, was seen by the man's family and lawyers as evidence he was running away and posed no threat to the officer who shot him. The forensic examination indicated Mr. Bradford was shot in his back, the back of his head and the back of his neck.
"All of these shots were potentially kill shots," said Ben Crump, the Bradford family's lawyer.
Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., 21, was fatally shot in the middle of a panicked crowd at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Ala., on Nov. 22, as officers responded to reports of gunshots on Thanksgiving night.


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Q: Who provides client id and client secret with Identity Server 4? I'm learning oAuth2.0 and how to use Identity Server 4 in apps and I have one doubt here.
When we are creating our app with Identity Server 4 and running it locally (it's not yet deployed anywhere), we define our Client ID and Client Secret.
What happens when we deploy app somewhere?
Do we get client ID and client secret from that service we deployed to, and we put it somewhere in our configuration?
Or we put our client ID and client secret that we defined to that service we deployed our app on?
I'm not sure how does this work

A: The primary job of IdentityServer(IS4) is to manage the identity of the users. It is responsible for authentication and authorization (if claims are configured in it). The this thread is a very detailed explanation of it.
To be honest, I myself found IS4 very confusing when I came across it. I was new to C# and suddenly my employer asked me to deal with it. However over time, I realized its beauty and its universal flexibility. You should check out this series to know more about it (and identity management in C# in general).
To answer your question, you will not only deploy IS4, you will also deploy your Client (API or MVC app). Your client will rely on idenityserver for authentication. This client will be configured by you into the IS4. If you are developing both, you will have to configure the client who will consume the tokens and the IS4. If you are going to work only on client then you just have to give the client id and secret to the IS4 developer and that person will configure. And if you are doing both, then you have to establish your client as a permissible client inside IS4. These configurations are generally stored in a C# class for dev purposes and moved to a table (migrations of which come with the IS4) where they can be added or removed very easily.
One last tip, please remember that you cannot learn it as fast as you learn other stacks. It's something that's extremely flexible and hence has too many configuration requirements. It's ok if you take time to understand it. Give it a honest try.

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Q: Misalignment of multi-line questions with 3-digit question numbers (exam class) I'm creating a large question paper using the exam package, with over 100 questions. The problem is that for question numbers over 100, the extra digit causes multi-line questions to misalign, with the lines after the first coming slightly under the last digit of the question number.
An example of what I mean:

Is there some way to edit the margin space in which the question number appears to fix this misalignment?

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BankrollMob Forum » Poker Forum » Finally a winning session for Ilari Sahamies
Finally a winning session for Ilari Sahamies 0
"It would be fair to say that it hasn't been the greatest year so far for Ilari "Ziigmund/Ilari FIN" Sahamies at the online PLO tables having lost over $600k at Full Tilt and in excess of $850k at PokerStars. One can imagine that yesterdays solid $178k win must have come as a welcome relief for the highstakes regular.
In five hours of play and after a little over 100 hands of play in a busy morning of $50/$100 PLO action the outspoken Finn was able to leave the tables a comfortable victor, his healthy profit coming largely from one player - French poker pro Romain "moirhums" Arnaud. Moirhums has only been playing regularly on Stars since April this year and yesterday's session more than wiped out the $138k profit he had accrued thus far in 2011.
Ilari FIN put the pressure on from the word go and didn't let up until the final hand was played, taking all the major pots along the way. If he can continue in this vein and rebuild his roll on Stars then we could see some more interesting match-ups on the heads up tables as the likes of Phil "MrSweets28" Galfond, Gavin "gavz101" Cochrane, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, Sauce123 and Skjervoy are now regular inhabitants of the PokerStars PLO tables."
I think he still needs to improve his game but i think Ilari is on the right track now
one winning session doesnt mean hes back on track. but atleast he won some of the money he has lost this year. lets see if can continue this in the next session.
Agreed, it sounds like the guy may actually be a losing player and just hit a sick heater.
Even donks win hands some times, it's the nature of poker. Variance can be a complete bitch.
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Wow! That is an insane amount of loss, even if it is over an entire year. Is that within the realm of normal statistical deviation. I imagine he must be feeling pretty good after that huge haul, although it's still a long way away from recouping all those losses! Yikes.
bottom line is.....is he sober?
Yeah, but playing to "recoup losses" is a recipe for tilt. Never, ever, EVER should a player be playing to chase losses.
I think the guy should give up and try something else, losing that much over the span of a year isn't tilt, it isn't a downsing. It's a solid sign that he's not a winning player, or is playing way over his head.
1.5 mil in losses. Thats an amount that would make the majority of people happy for the rest of their lives. Including me
And of course there are players that have lost more than that and they even got it back and more.
So it might be one of them or one of those who fade
Yes, a winning session doesn't men to much but i personally think it's on the right track when it comes to his style of play, he always was a maniac really
I watched him for a bit and it was very similar to the times when he used to win a lot on full tilt poker, but we'll see whats going to happen.
Still, it's good that we have good PLO action on pokerstars
One session with only 100 hands says nothing. But it is interessting that most of the high stakes heads up play is in PLO these days.
Nice dude. The way is that and winner always will be winners in general mode.
Of coarse that win one time do not means win in second time but was great to get the prize.
What is so funny is the way to win or beat the opponent.
You are right, Ilari is not a constant winner like Phil Ivey for example and it will never be since he plays way too aggressive and tries to bluff so much...
If you look on a graph of his poker evolution on full tilt poker we he actually managed to make some profits you'll see a lot of ups and downs...
Still, i like him because it's nice to see a bit of madness in the world of high stakes poker
This just shows that his bankroll suffers of great volatility, like some titles in the stock exchange market. Usualy, one could easily say this happens because his game is still not totaly secure, and thats why he can win so much one day and loose more the day after. A consistent pro can have good and bad times, but he should be able not to ruin the stack almost till the end. I will not talk in values but in percentages, so it can be easily explained: A pro has a value that his defined has his bankroll, and that is 100%, the begining, the Social Capital, just like any other enterprise. During his year of activity he has profits and he has costs, but the sum of profits and costs, if negative, can never be higher than his Social Capital, which would provoke his bankrupcy. The pro must be able to get to the end of the year with enough profit to pay for all his costs, to pay for him as a worker, and all his team if he has one, and to have some advantage in order to do investments in his carreer through out the next year!


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Yagiri no Watashi – Crossing the Edogawa river to Chiba old-style
Before there were bridges, people were using ferry boats to cross the rivers in Tokyo, as they were doing anywhere else. The only place where this is still in use in Tokyo is in Shibamata, albeit just for tourists. This crossing is called the Yagiri no Watashi.
A ferry, without motor, connects Shibamata with Matsudo city in Chiba prefecture as it has been done for the past 400 years. Maximum 30 people can take place in the boat and it takes 10 minutes to cross the Edogawa river.
This crossing, together with the Taishakuten temple, is part of the 100 Landscapes of Japan that represent Japan during the Heisei era (the current time period started in 1989 when Emperor Akihito acceded to the throne, time periods in Japan coincide with the reign of an emperor). Only 7 places in Tokyo made it on this list, which means this is really a place dear to many Japanese. It is also part of the 100 Soundscapes of Japan, a list of 100 places in Japan where natural and traditional sounds prevail. It was made in 1996 by the Japanese Ministry of Environment in an effort to combat noise pollution and protect the environment.
The entrance is a bit difficult to find, this is how it looks like on the Shibamata side.
The crossing has its origin in connecting the two farm communities at either side of the river. It has sort of an idyllic atmosphere around it thanks to the novel from Sachio Itō titled Nogiku no Haka ("The Wild Daisy" from 1906, literal translation: Grave of Wild Chrysanthemum) and a song about the crossing written by Miyuki Ishimoto. The novel was made into movies in 1955, 1966 and in 1981.
I have been wondering what the actual appeal is of this Yagiri no Watashi crossing. The boat seemed rather new and the scenery is rather modern, so where is this "Edo-style" crossing? I read on one blog you should close your eyes and just feel the wind, hear the water. The ferry is manpowered, so no motor sounds to disrupt your experience (even though a motor is available on the boat). My guess is that the strongest appeal comes from the song "Yagiri no Watashi" by Takashi Hosokawa. This song was a number one hit in Japan in 1983, and is subconsciously embedded into the mind of many Japanese. The contents are rather bland, a love story in which the couple tries to elope by way of the Yagiri no Watashi ferry because their parents object to their relationship. A less popular version of the song was released in 1976 by Naomi Chiaki.
Takashi Hosokawa – Yagiri no Watashi (1983)
Please note that on the other side of the river, in Chiba, there is nothing really there except fields. Walking to the nearest train station takes over 20 minutes. Also take into account all information is in Japanese, it does not seem to be made for foreign tourists.
Practical information in Japanese regarding the service, e.g. that you can take small dogs on board as long as you carry them.
7-18 Shibamata, Katsushika-ku, Tokyo
Shibamata Station – 10 minutes walk (Keisei Line)
summer: all days 10:00-16:30 (It was closed about once a week during summer 2017, mainly Mondays, some Tuesdays. This information is not on the website)
winter: only during weekends, national holidays and temple festival days 10:00-16:30
Fee: (one way)
Adults: JPY 200
Children: JPY 100
At the start of the Tora-san movie series, this Yagiri no Watashi crossing is shown with a clear shot of the prices: 30 yen for adults, 20 yen for kids. Prices have inflated indeed since the late 1960s.
Web: http://www.katsushika-kanko.com/guide/scene/spot_1247.php (in Japanese)
Name in Japanese: 矢切の渡し
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CAN CAPITAL OIL AND GAS BOSS, IFEANYI PATRICK UBAH BRINGS ''LIGHT & DIGNITY'' TO LABOUR PARTY?..
CAPITAL OIL'S IFEANYI UBAH
- From the street of Congo yesterday; to member, Billionaire club today
Says 'Young men must sleep less'
BY CHIEF CERUTTI OSAGIE
Dignity- the seven letter word is what today's men on the rise must learn as one of the country's frontline business tycoon, Ifeanyi Patrick Ubah takes the centre stage in his landmark 40 years celebration on earth.
Dignity is what set this self made man apart from the rest. And today, while many men lack it, many have used it to climb to the top of the highest ladder in life.
The great icon of the century, the ULTIMATE man, Nelson Mandela, whom I have never hidden my love and admiration for, once said in prison 'Even though I am in jail, that will not stop me from having my self respect and dignity, because to have dignity in life is to have grace'
· Today, dignity is now globally regarded as a term used in moral, ethics, and political discussions to signify that a being has an innate right to respect and give regards to ethical treatment. It is an extension of enlightenment-era beliefs that individual's inherent self respect and it is thus closely related to concepts like virtue, respect, self-respect, autonomy, human rights, and enlightened reason. Dignity is a precondition of freedom. Dignity is generally proscriptive and cautionary: in politics it is usually synonymous to 'human dignity', and is used to critique the treatment of oppressed and vulnerable groups and peoples, though in some case has been extended to apply to cultures and sub-cultures, religious beliefs and ideals, animals used for food or research, and even plants. In more colloquial settings it is used to suggest that someone is not receiving a proper degree of respect, or even that they are failing to treat themselves with proper self-respect.
The word "dignity" was first used in the Latin world as dignities, dignity, before the Renaissance then later by the French, and finally the English language. While dignity is a term with a long philosophical history, it is rarely defined outright in political, legal, and scientific discussions.
Today it simply means total self respect and how one carries himself/herself. Many have used their self respect and how they carry themselves to the top, they are classes of pe6ple that never sold themselves cheap despite being born in penury and one of such name is that name called Ifeanyi Patrick Ubah, the amiable Chief Executive Officer Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Industries Limited, . The man who entered the downstream sub-sector of the petroleum Industry like a hurricane deferring ball weather obstacle to make an important landing.
Ubah's profile has been on the rise in recent times. And when Capital Oil and Gas today sneezes, other major oil marketers catch cold, given the proactive, aggressive, innovative and strategic steps he took diligently in driving his businesses previously thought are exclusively for the Majors with foreign control. And that is why at the peak of long queues for fuel by Motorists as a result of poor distribution arrangement, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC) in appreciation of the company's Investment in jetty, storage and truck park facilities worth over $30 Billion took a wise decision by signing a partnership agreement with Capital Oil and Gas.
Perhaps like a typical Igbo trader, he is a spoiler for petroleum Marketers making cut throat profit from sales of diesel and throughout Fee for storing products at his depots. In just under five years, Ifeanyi Ubah has built one of Nigeria's biggest oil marketing firms from the scratch. Ubah, an accomplished businessman who has been involved in top flight international businesses, has made a huge impact in the oil and gas sector and along the line carting home several awards/accolades .Apart from being an astute and accomplished businessman, Ubah is also a man of soaring style, and unknown too many, a part of his secret to the top is the style he diligently created for himself from his early days in business, especially during his struggling days in Congo. Ubah told us exclusively that what has helped him to the top is the manner he had carried himself from the word go. According to the business mogul, 'In life. (he way you carry yourself will often determine how you are treated on the long run; appearing vulgar or common will make people disrespect you, because a king respects himself and inspires the same sentiment in others' The lesson, we can say is that Ubah is trying to tell us that you can appear regally and confident of yourself thereby making yourself destined for greatness. Ubah can be said to be a genius sort of, for he knows how to sell himself; a fact he did so well in the CONGO, and ended up becoming friends and associates to the people in high places: he is man who knows how to sell himself, or how else can a man of humble Nigerian background manage to integrate himself to the highest royal aristocratic Congo families. We had better understand this that it is within a man's power to set his own price, but how you carry yourself determines what you think of yourself. In other words, Ifeanyi is telling us' at if you ask for little and present your self as nothing, people will take you as nothing. Thus he says without any fear of contradiction that you can easily present yourself with the Ubah front, buoyancy, confidence and the feeling that you are born to wear the
crown " Speaking further of his secret, Ubah says he has never sold himself small, but rather cocooned in big thoughts, even when he had not much to eat or spend. He still carried my self with dignity, and spent little to look good, because the world abhors those that look hungry and cheap. In Congo, I never sold myself cheap, I acted like a royal Nigerian son, and from my early days I have exhibited self confidence and class, and added that to my determination to succeed. I invariably found it easy climbing to the very top, blurted the confident Ubah who holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc Hons.) degree in International Relations, hails from Nnewi, Anambra State of Nigeria, the origin of the Ikemba of Nnewi, Odumegwu Ojukwu,
And started engaging in business activities in the Democratic Republic 0 Congo and from there, in 2001, he came back to Nigeria to commence active and rewarding investment in the Nigerian oil and gas industry. According To him, he spent four years to study the market and prepared for a bold move that resulted in the creation of Capital Oil and Gas and Inauguration 0 the first depot in March 2007.
Beyond several other achievements, Ubah is being hailed for his feat in the construction of strategic regional petroleum products reserves nationwide recently. The ongoing projects are located a Suleja in Niger State, Funtua in Katsina State, Kano, Emene in Enugu State and Onitsha in Anambra State. These projects will enhance accessibility to local market, relief from recurring fuel shortages and boosting employment opportunities. His refinery project in the medium term is also another ambitious project that will add value to the image 0f Nigerians abroad and in other African countries such that Nigeria as the Giant 0f Africa is also producing giant firms in the continent's oil Industry.
On a final note, he described himself as an introvert who enjoys the art of meditating and planning ahead while others are sleeping; I made most of my contacts in middle of the night. My philosophy is that all great/would be great men must s maximize the power of the night, especially that ungodly hours; that lonely of the night when the world is at peace, is what separate the boys from the men. According to him, "Men work all night, boys sleep all night".
Asked to say a final word on that fateful day in his office,, he was humble to stress that; "I am nothing before the sight of the lord, beyond all things, I must say it is only the almighty that gives power and ability to make wealth, that is why I implore all youths to put God first as their priority, with God, the passage to the top is not just easy, but very fulfilling'
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That's the gravamen of several letter writers and comment authors (see here) about my column this week, "Stupid Terrorists": that I am helping terrorists by pointing out their mistakes.
I worried about this possibility, both before writing this analysis and other ones that might give the Islamists clues as to how to better make war on us (such as the article, "How Terrorism Obstructs Radical Islam").
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For my services, they gave me a $75 gift certificate!
I already knew what I wanted to get - been eyeing the Frye Carson boots for a while and was just waiting for the right moment.
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I was lucky enough to score tickets to the Third Annual Burning Beast in Arlington, WA - just a quick drive from Seattle.
I'm a little disappointed in myself because I only heard about this magical food fest this year.. Not to worry though, I redeemed myself by eating 3 years worth of deliciousness, so all is forgiven.
For those of you not in-the-know, 10 Seattle chefs come together and get their grill on with local, sustainably raised animals during this event.
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In 1995, at the age of 71, Ken Molony, Sr. founded D.A.W.N. – Disabled Adults With Needs; an organization designed to enhance the quality of life for mentally challenged adults. As the father of a disabled son, Ken recognized that life can be much more enjoyable when it is experienced as a participant – and not just an observer. And after nearly 50 years of ensuring an active, quality life for his son, he has become especially sensitive to the needs of disabled adults.
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It is that time of the year again. The holidays are here. Or are they the "hellidays"? Too often separated or divorced parents let their conflicts spoil the holiday season for their children.
Every year I see too many people fighting over holiday visitation. Most of it is not about the kids enjoying the holiday season. Most of it is petty territorial pissings, control issues or just someone trying to settle a score from earlier in the year or from last Christmas.
As separated or divorced parents you must keep in mind that Christmas is not for you; it is for your kids.
So my advice to all separated and divorce parents for this holiday season is to give your children the best gift that you can. Give them gift of a holiday season without arguing or conflict. Put aside any animosity that you may have for the other party and do what you can to make this Christmas the best for your kids.
This is easier said than done. But so is most everything about being a parent.


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Thank you also for accommodating with our last minute request in delivering the flowers at the alternative time - it was a big help!
I've also attached a couple of photos of the flowers from the day. It was great to meet you and I wish you all the best in the future.


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The beautiful shell is wire wrapped in a combination of oxidized solid sterling with accents in 14/20 yellow gold fill. It is crowned with complimentary faceted champagne and dark brown tourmaline. It hangs from a sterling silver, long short chain accented with complimentary tourmaline accents.
The overall length of the necklace a nice long 25 inches. It is finished with a sturdy lobster clasp, and there are no open jump rings on the necklace anywhere.
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Luke is een personage uit de Pokémon-anime. Hij is een rivaal van Ash Ketchum. Zijn eerste verschijning was in de veertigste aflevering van de Pokémon: Black & White series in Aflevering 699: Movie Time! Zorua in "The Legend of the Pokemon Knight"!.

Biografie en verhaal
Luke is al een vrij ervaren trainer. Tijdens Pokémon: Black & White, begint hij te reizen door Unova, waar hij kennismaakt met Ash Ketchum en er ontwikkelt zich een rivaliteit tussen hen. Luke spaart geen Unova regio badges.

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De Pokémon van Luke in volgorde van vangst.

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Opinion: Governments must lead the charge in agroecology
News that hundreds of financial institutions have pledged support for sustainable development and efforts around climate change and biodiversity is very welcome. In reality, however, only a tiny proportion of their agridevelopment investment is currently targeted at sustainable food systems such as agroecology.
Article by Hans Herren, published on Devex, 10 December 2020
An organic tea farmer in Kakamega, Kenya. Photo by: Patrick Rohr / Biovision
This promises a real contribution to almost all 17 Sustainable Development Goals through harnessing the power of ecological processes to tackle problems related to biodiversity, emissions, climate change, and health, while promoting the transition to a fair, just, and sovereign food system. In contrast, current farming practices take us further away from reaching those targets.
This was flagged as far back as 2009, when the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development published its seminal "Agriculture at a Crossroads" reports. Calling for a paradigm shift in agriculture toward agroecology, these provided detailed warnings about the negative environmental and socioeconomic impacts of industrialized agriculture, such as land degradation, greenhouse gas emissions, water contamination, vulnerability to price shocks, or lower nutrient content of crops.
Money flows
We sought to explore these funding bottlenecks in our "Money Flows" report under the belief that only by examining investment flows, understanding which actors are influencing them and why, and handing back power to public policy makers will we arrive at a food system that serves everyone. This then inspired a string of location-specific studies focusing on agroecological investments in Belgium, Denmark, France, and the European Union.
Together, these revealed that for most European donors, less than 15% of the agricultural budget goes toward integrated agroecological approaches.
Only a handful of bilateral donors and international organizations — notably France, Switzerland, Germany, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and International Fund For Agricultural Development — specifically identify agroecology as a sustainable approach for achieving food security. The majority of donors endorse some principles of agroecology but take a piecemeal approach, seeking to patch individual practices onto otherwise conventional farming systems that do not benefit smallholders.
Myth-busting
Donors provide various reasons for failing to put agroecology at the center of their strategy. These include funding constraints, concerns about profitability and scalability, and perceptions that agroecology is too complex and work-intensive to be implemented within development projects' relatively short time frames.
There is, however, no evidence that agroecology cannot be scaled up profitably, with only the size of fields, rather than farms, needing to be controlled. Recent research demonstrates that agricultural diversification does not negatively impact yield and often improves it, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where the starting point is subsistence agriculture. And while agroecology is complex, increased investment in research and implementation will combat this.
The billions of dollars mobilized to combat COVID-19 also belie arguments around limited financial resources, suggesting rather that the threats of climate change and its catastrophic impact on agriculture and food security are either misunderstood or underprioritized.
We believe this is due to the influence of big agribusinesses, which profit less from an agroecological system that frees farmers from dependence on their seeds, fertilizers, and data and instead rewards farmers with higher produce prices and better standards of living
Proportions of investment benefiting an agroecological transition, compared with broader funding flows for agriculture, from major European donors. Source: CIDSE and CAWR, 2020; Coalition contre la faim, 2020; DanChurchAid, 2020; Action contre la Faim, CCFD and OXFAM France, 2020; Biovision and IPES-Food, 2020; Pimbert & Moeller, 2018
Power plays
Powerful groups with strong self-interest are also responsible for the fragmented nature of agridevelopment, with agricultural and food system transformation research too often funded by agribusiness lobbyists or large foundations and multilateral organizations that have embraced their so-called productivist ideology and seek to undermine any transition toward agroecology.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for example, has significant sway over the global agricultural agenda through its dominance of funding flows and influence over other actors. It predominantly supports the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, which in turn has funded external consultancy companies to write Kenya's recent agriculture strategy.
At the same time, the president of AGRA will play a leading role in the upcoming "Food Systems Summit" in 2021. World Bank and African Development Bank loans and grants are also the most important source of funds for national research systems in most sub-Saharan African countries.
Given that food security is recognized as a human right, we believe power to design and implement sustainable food system policies should be restored to democratically elected governments that represent their citizens' interests. Investments in agroecology would then undoubtedly accelerate.
To increase the efficiency of financing flows, Biovision believes it is vital to improve transparency and accountability around the decision-making, funding, monitoring, and impact measurement of agrifood projects. We recommend an extended common reporting system with impact studies — examining, for example, the social or environmental consequences of funding granted — attached to all funding.
In tandem with this, we must support the development of holistic performance measurements and metrics for capturing project alignment with the SDGs. Public funding criteria should be expanded to include the delivery of public goods, as well as the integration of different sectors, perspectives, and forms of knowledge.
Finally, transforming an agridevelopment system is a multidecade process that requires stable, long-term funding commitments. Governments can do this if they want to. We suggest promoting institutional rules for donors that provide enhanced flexibility in program planning and funding, including the removal of obstacles to funding subsequent phases. To support long-term research programs, donor alliances with overlapping funding periods should also be facilitated.
Signs of progress
Despite the headwinds outlined above, agroecology is gaining ground, mostly driven by civil society and NGOs.
As noted in "Transformation of Our Food Systems" — a book I co-authored in 2020 to assess progress over the decade since the IAASTD report — numerous transdisciplinary studies, as well as United Nations and intergovernmental processes, have recognized the transformative potential of agroecology for food resilience, climate resilience, and social equity.
Restoring biodiversity is now a key goal in the European Green Deal action plan, and all major U.N. agencies now promote agroecology to some extent. And while a shared focus on "other innovations" by last year's FAO report on agroecological approaches was disappointing — not least because agroecology, by definition, encompasses the whole food system in all three sustainable development dimensions — such a report would have been unimaginable five years ago.
Switzerland, too, demonstrates a strong political commitment to agroecology that could provide a model for other high-income nations. Although many of its investments target individual components of biodiversity rather than aiming at holistic transformation, it is encouraging that all its foreign aid now has some agroecological element.
These developments, alongside growing support for agroecological principles among civil society, provide hope that we are heading in the right direction. It is not too late to transform our food systems — but the time for complacency has passed.
For more information and recommendations on effective investments in food system transformation and agroecology, click here.


I am of the nature to have ill-health. There is no way to escape having ill-health.
All that is dear to me, and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them.
My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions.
following up on last week's fantastic wall snaps from five pointz, today I'd like to f eature two more from this far-out focal point for street art.
Obviously NYC has some mural artists right up there with Diego Rivera. That's some awesome work!
those photos are awesome kimy. I love the saying from Thich Nhat Hanh very much. It's so true!
Fabulous graffiti, NY style! I need to watch Gangs of New York again soon.
Great pictures! And thanks for posting hte Thich Nhat Hanh list, a great reminder.
I agree with Roy...that is awesome art!
Amazing art. How strange it is that this form of art was perhaps the very first (think of cave painting) and then seemed to vanish for centuries before returning as a form of popular protest.


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Millennial Media Shares Pop 100 Percent On First Day Of Trading; Valued At Nearly $2B
Leena Rao @LeenaRao / 11 years
Mobile ad network Millennial Media just debuted on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "MM," and saw shares pop 97 percent in the first trade of $25. The company initially priced its IPO at $13 per share last night, after increasing the range on Tuesday. At $25 per share, Millennial's valuation jumps to nearly $2 billion. Trading reached as high as $27.90 in early trading. UPDATE: Millennial closed at $25 per share.
Millennial which filed its original S-1 in early January, raised over $130 million in the offering, which is up from $75 million originally stated in earlier filings.
Millennial, which is one of the largest remaining independent mobile ad networks, currently serves ads to 200 million unique users worldwide, including approximately 100 million unique users in the United States alone. More than 30,000 apps are enabled by developers to receive ads delivered by Millennial.
From 2009 to 2010, Millennial's revenue increased 195% from $16.2 million to $47.8 million, and the company took a net loss of $7.6 million, and $7.1 million, in those years, respectively. From 2010 to 2011, revenue increased 117% from $47.8 million to $103.7 million. In 2011, the company saw a net loss of just $287,000.
Founded by Paul Palmieri, the Baltimore-based company has raised $65 million in venture funding from Charles River Ventures, NEA, Bessemer Venture Partners, Columbia Capital and others. Palmieri issued this statement today: "Today is an exciting day for our company, and also a significant milestone in the maturation of the mobile advertising industry. We have spent the last six plus years helping create what's now a multi-billion dollar mobile application advertising market and we look forward to continuing to drive growth and innovation in the space."
In 2010, Palmieri jokingly called Millennial the quiet giant as competitors like Quattro (acquired by Apple) and AdMob (acquired by Google) stole the spotlight. Clearly that's no longer the case.
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Franklin Ramón Chang Díaz (San Jose, Costa Rica, 1950. április 5.–) Costa Rica-i/amerikai fizikus, űrhajós. Másodikként lett rekorder, az első Jerry Lynn Ross űrhajós szolgált hét alkalommal a világűrben.

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1973-ban az University of Connecticut keretében gépészmérnöki vizsgát tett. Az egyetem keretében nagy energiájú atomi részecskéket ütköztetett. Kutatói tevékenységével egyre nagyobb szakmai elismerést kapott. 1977-ben a  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) keretében plazmafizikából doktorált (Ph.D.). 1979-ben kidolgozott egy új vizsgálati módszert, a fúziós kamrába lefotózta a műveleteket. 1983-1993 között a MIT keretében, meghívott tudományos munkatársként vezette a plazma kutatási programot. 1993-tól a Lyndon B. Johnson Űrközpontban, az Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory igazgatója, a plazma rakéták fejlesztésének tudósa. Amatőr repülőként több mint  órát repült (repülő/űrrepülőgép).

1980. május 19-től a Lyndon B. Johnson Űrközpontban részesült űrhajóskiképzésben. Hét űrszolgálata alatt összesen 66 napot, 48 órát és 16 percet (1632 óra) töltött a világűrben. Kiképzett űrhajósként segítséget nyújtott a korai Űrállomás tervezési tanulmányaiban. Tagja volt az STS–1 és  STS–2 támogató (tanácsadó, problémamegoldó) csapatának. Űrhajós pályafutását 2005. július 8-án fejezte be. Három űrséta (kutatás, szerelés) alatt  0,82 napot töltött a világűrben. Az Ad Astra Rocket Company elnök-vezérigazgatója.

Űrrepülések
 STS–61–C, a Columbia űrrepülőgép 7. repülésének küldetés specialistája. Egy műholdat állítottak pályairányba. Egy űrszolgálata alatt összesen  napot,  órát,  percet és  másodpercet töltött a világűrben.  kilométert ( mérföldet) repült,  alkalommal kerülte meg a Földet.
 STS–34, az Atlantis űrrepülőgép 5. repülésének küldetés specialistája. Sikeresen útnak indították a Galileo űrszondát. Egy űrszolgálata alatt összesen 4 napot, 23 órát, 39 percet és 21 másodpercet (120 óra) töltött a világűrben.  kilométert ( mérföldet) repült, 79  alkalommal kerülte meg a Földet.
 STS–46, az Atlantis űrrepülőgép 12. repülésének küldetés specialistája. Egy műholdat pályairányba, egy laboratóriumot vizsgálati helyzetbe hoztak (visszanyerték). Egy űrszolgálata alatt összesen 7 napot, 23 órát, 15 percet és 2 másodpercet (191 óra) töltött a világűrben.  kilométert ( mérföldet) repült, 127  alkalommal kerülte meg a Földet.
 STS–60, a Discovery űrrepülőgép 18. repülésének küldetés specialistája. Az első közös amerikai/orosz küldetés orosz képviselője Szergej Konsztantyinovics Krikaljov. A Spacelab mikrogravitációs laboratóriumban orvosi és anyagtudományi kísérleteket végeztek. Egy űrszolgálata alatt összesen 8 napot, 7 órát és 9 percet (199 óra) töltött a világűrben.  kilométert ( mérföldet) repült, 130  alkalommal kerülte meg a Földet.
 STS–75, a Columbia űrrepülőgép 19. repülésének küldetés specialistája. A Spacehab mikrogravitációs laboratóriumban folytatták a kereskedelmi jellegű szolgáltatások végzését. A TSS laboratóriumot kihelyezték a világűrbe, visszatérés előtt elfogták és a raktérbe helyezték. Egy űrszolgálata alatt összesen 15 napot, 17 órát és 41 percet (378 óra) töltött a világűrben.  kilométert ( mérföldet) repült, 252  alkalommal kerülte meg a Földet.
 STS–91, a Discovery űrrepülőgép 24. repülésének küldetés specialistája. Egy űrszolgálata alatt összesen 9 napot, 19 órát és 41 percet (236 óra) töltött a világűrben.  kilométert repült.
 STS–111, a Endeavour űrrepülőgép 18. repülésének küldetés specialistája. Egy űrszolgálata alatt összesen 13 napot, 20 órát és 35 percet (332 óra) töltött a világűrben. A Nemzetközi Űrállomás építésekor három űrsétát végzett.  kilométert ( mérföldet) repült.

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An Evening with Julian Barnes
JUSTICE "Law and Literature" event – 28 October 2014, Inner Temple Hall, London
Last Wednesday the London-based human rights organisation, JUSTICE, held the first event in its "Law and Literature" series: 'An Evening with Julian Barnes'. It began with a presentation by Lord Justice Laws, followed by Julian Barnes reading from his novel, Arthur & George, and then a conversation between the author and Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws QC. Unsurprisingly perhaps, but unbeknownst to me at the time, the novel was chosen because it revolves around an early twentieth century miscarriage of justice known as the Edalji case. The case concerned the prosecution and conviction of an Anglo-Indian solicitor, George Edalji, for numerous incidents of 'horse-ripping' (the apparently random mutilation of horses), known as the Great Wyrley Outrages, that occurred in Staffordshire in 1903. The proceedings were drawn to national attention when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, already a major celebrity writer, took it upon himself to campaign on Edalji's behalf, having become convinced that no man as short-sighted as Mr Edalji could possibly have committed the crimes himself. The campaign was ultimately successful in turning public opinion in favour of the convicted man, and a commission of inquiry into the case was ordered by the government, which granted Edalji a pardon in 1907. The case was also an important driver for reform of the criminal justice system in England, including the creation of the Court of Criminal Appeal. Interestingly, the Edalji case was almost exactly contemporaneous with the Dreyfus affair, a sort of more celebrated older brother, which sharply divided public opinion in France at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Barnes explained that he had first stumbled across the Edalji case completely by chance, and had investigated it with a writer's "predatory" instinct, that is, in the hope of being able to turn the source material into some sort of fictionalised account of the episode. He quickly became aware, upon researching the case, that his biggest challenge would be successfully balancing the lives of his two protagonists, Arthur Conan Doyle and George Edalji, so that the latter would not be totally eclipsed in the novel by the adventures, success and renown of the former. This balancing involved drawing out the character of George so that it could become more interesting and nuanced than first impressions might indicate. To this extent, Barnes actually read Edalji's one book as a solicitor, Railway Law for the "Man in the train", published in 1901, which he found surprisingly funny.
The use of real figures from the past as the basis for fictional characters was also discussed later on in the evening, with Mr Barnes declaring that he treated real people with as much seriousness in his work as he treated fictional individuals. He did, however, concede that it was sometimes necessary to embellish a character in fiction, often for want of sufficient information on the original person – he remembered once being challenged at a book festival by a descendant of one of the characters in Arthur & George, who complained that the physical appearance of his relative as described in the novel did not match reality, before noting bitterly that "I suppose he's your character now." To which Mr Barnes was tempted to reply: "yes, he is."
This exchange, and in fact the evening as a whole, led me to reconsider two slightly hackneyed but nevertheless important and related issues in literature. Firstly, the issue of artistic licence when it comes to exhuming and attempting to resuscitate incidents from history. There is a well-founded concern, on the one hand, that figures from the past should not be posthumously slandered in any way. On the other hand, there is a belief that significant episodes from our collective history should not be confined to non-fiction accounts and sterile textbooks. In certain situations the two positions cannot be reconciled; opinions about what happened in the past frequently differ, and we therefore inevitably find ourselves entering a slippery debate about objectivity and the nature of 'truth'. However, the fact that writers of fiction cannot avoid causing some offence when adopting positions vis-à-vis history should never preclude them from embarking on artistic reinterpretations of the past. I would argue that an author has some responsibility to be sensitive to what he believes to be true (perhaps an obligation to take characters "seriously" at all times), particularly when dealing with lesser known figures, but that is all.
This leads directly into the second issue referred to above, which is the responsibility of writers generally. It is often claimed that literature and politics or social responsibility do not sit well together: the necessary ambiguity of the former clashing horribly with the black-and-white dogma of the latter. This is true insofar as literature as art should endeavour to convey an experience of reality that is self-aware and not bound to rigid ideological structures, which is perhaps why Milan Kundera once remarked that "what Orwell tells us could have been said as well (or even much better) in an essay or pamphlet." Even accepting this, it is still nevertheless the case that writers wield significant influence outside their fictional output: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used his celebrity clout at the dawn of the twentieth century to secure the pardon of an innocent man, whilst only last week Julian Barnes put his name to JUSTICE's most recent fundraising campaign.
But returning to the fiction itself, there is also a responsibility inherent in the act of writing, albeit one that is not immediately obvious. I think Mr Barnes put it best in the preface to his book of essays Through the Window:
"Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, how it goes wrong, and how we lose it […] Fiction makes characters who have never existed as real as your friends, and makes dead writers as alive as a television newsreader."
As applied to the fiction of Julian Barnes, I can safely say that without Arthur & George it is extremely unlikely that I would ever have heard of the Edalji case, let alone have become interested in it. More importantly, I would never have put myself in George Edalji's shoes as he faced the injustice of a world intent on punishing him for being different.
22. Why Read?
I was a sickly child. But I was fortunate in having a mother who was ambitious for me and who had a long shelf for my books built above my bed. I could reach my entire library without having to get up. Nearest to the pillow end were the ten volumes of my Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopaedia. I don't know who Arthur was, but he did a cracking encyclopaedia. It was not arranged alphabetically but quite arbitrarily, so it was perfect for browsing, rather like the London Library. It moved seamlessly from Mme. Roland ascending the scaffold ('Oh Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!'), a line I have never forgotten, through a cutaway drawing of the engine room of RMS Queen Mary to 'Dusky Beauties', pictures of women of the British Empire, always naked to the waist and frequently with discs the size of soup plates set into their lower lips, or long sharp pegs through their noses, parallel to the ground, as if they had been ambushed by someone with a bow and arrow.
Solid reading came next with the complete Sherlock Holmes long and short stories and then Conan Doyle's Historical Romances. I particularly liked The White Company. Next on the shelf came my Arthur Ransome's packaged by Jonathan Cape in handsome green covers. People call them the Swallows and Amazons books but that title is one of the dullest. Pigeon Post and We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea were my favourites. That reminds me of Enemy Coast Ahead, another great favourite; a shabby little Pan book about Guy Gibson. 'It takes strength to fly a Lancaster' it told me. Well, I could imagine corkscrewing the plane in an emergency and spiralling out of those dazzling searchlights. Next would be my Observers Book of Aircraft, small enough to fit in my blazer pocket, but actually I didn't need it if I was out with my binoculars because I knew every aeroplane in the skies of England at the time. No, its well-executed three-views of the Hawker Hunter, the Avro 504 and the Bristol Brabazon (for example) were a kind of roughage for the imagination; I saw myself in them, or making models of them, or improving on them – another jet here, more sweepback there.
Herbert Ponting's book about being the photographer on Scott's expedition to the South Pole didn't make me want to be an explorer, but may have led to my training as a photographer. There were books that one got out of the library but didn't own. W. E. Johns' Biggles books passed the time but didn't win shelf room. I found books in other peoples' houses that I would have liked to own. Emil and the Detectives (Kästner) was a joy to me and lives on in my mind 60 years later, and so does an American children's book called Little Britches. I liked Hornblower and would have adored Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey novels; if only they had been available then! On the bedroom shelf was a curious little Penguin that I liked very much called I Was Graf Spee's Prisoner, the true story of a merchant seaman whose ship had been sunk by the German pocket battleship. The war had only been over for seven years when I was ten and cast a long, strong shadow. I had two volumes of the government's propagandist Britain at War series, one RAF, one Royal Navy. I pored over the pictures, but the text was unreadable. H. E. Marshall's Our Island Story taught me some history and was useful if one had history prep. Also useful for prep was Pear's Cyclopaedia which I was given every Christmas by an uncle. But this was a dangerous book, for its medical dictionary convinced me that I had a terminal pulmonary tuberculosis and ruined one Christmas as I waited for the blow to fall. If there were other books on my shelf, I have forgotten them. They failed, then, to be memorable and that is the first thing that a good read should be. Why read? Well, why live? Why think? Why dream?
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