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Visit Dubrovnik – Old Walled City
The Old Walled City or Old Town Dubrovnik is the main tourist attraction for those who visit Dubrovnik. You can easily walk the entire Old Walled City by yourself, but you can also join a walking tour such as Dubrovnik Walks. The most popular way to enter the Old Town is by the draw bridge over the old moat at the Pile Gate. Immediately after passing through the Pile Gate, you arrive at Onofrio's Fountain. Touch the head of a figure on the fountain for good luck.
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Visit Dubrovnik – Walk the City Walls
Immediately on the left after passing through the Pile Gate is the access to the City Walls. Beside the City Wall entrance is the Church of the Holy Savior and the Franciscan Monastery with its Old Pharmacy Museum. The pharmacy has been open for 700 years. As with many places in Europe, the tickets to walk the Old City Walls are sold behind you instead of at the entrance.
You can walk more than a mile on the fortification walls and look down on the old town of Dubrovnik as you stroll. The walls were built in the 1200s and 1300s to protect the city. Stops include Fort Bokar, the Minceta Tower and St. John's Fortress. You can also see Fort Lovrijenac and Fort Revelin beside the walls.
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The Stradun or Placa Street
Next head east on the Stradun, which is also called Placa Street. The Stradun stretches in a straight line from the Pile Gate to Luza Square. Every tour group that visits Dubrovnik walks along the Stradun, so be prepared for lots of tourists. The Bell Tower at Luza Square helps you keep track of your direction. About midway down the Placa, on the north and just off the street, is the War Photo Museum.
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Visit Dubrovnik – Luza Square
At the east end of Placa Street is Luza Square, where you will find the 1600s statue of St. Blaise, St Blaise Church, the city Bell Tower and Sponza Palace. The Sponza Palace was started in 1272 and was the seat of the former Republic of Ragusa in the 1500s. The Memorial Room of the Defenders of Dubrovnik is in Sponza Palace and displays photos of those who died in the Croatian Civil War from 1991 to 1995.
The Dubrovnik Summer Festival uses many venues in the old walled city, such as the Sponza Palace. Timing your visit for the festival isn't too hard. The Dubrovnik Summer Festival lasts more than 5 weeks.
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Dubrovnik Old Harbor
From Luza Square you can head to the northeast corner of the Old Town and the Dominican Monastery. The Ploce Gate leads out of the Old Walled City here. Also from Luza Square, cut through the narrow passageways to the Old Harbor. Spend time at a cafe in the Old Harbor or walk along the water. The Maritime Museum and the small Dubrovnik Aquarium are found here at the base of St John's Fortress.
Old Town, Dubrovnik
Visit Dubrovnik – Gundulic Square
From Luza Square head south a few steps to the Rector's Palace and the Dubrovnik Cathedral, which was started in the 600s. You can then wander through the narrow walkways to the public market at Gundulic Square. A statue of Gundulic marks the center of the square. Continue straight south from Gundulic Square to reach the Church of St Ignatius.
Dubrovnik Cathedral, © Can Stock / anshar
Visit Dubrovnik – Hotels
Hotels are very reasonably priced in Dubrovnik. Consider a resort on the waterfront along the coast or an apartment inside the Old Walled City (Old Town).
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Hotel Dubrovnik Palace
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Half Day Trip to Cavtat
Take a half day trip to Cavtat, the Ljuta River and the Konavle region. Visit the Old Town of Cavtat and its churches. See an original working water wheel on the Ljuta River.
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Dubrovnik Cable Car
You can catch the Dubrovnik Cable Car just a couple of blocks outside the Old Walled City. Ride the Dubrovnik Cable Car to Mount Srd for views over the city. The Croats held off the Serbs at Mount Srd in the early 1990s and the Imperial Fort there was started by Napoleon. Visit the Museum of the Croatian War of Independence. Have a meal and enjoy the views at the Panorama restaurant.
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Other Sights Outside the Old Town
Take a short ferry ride from the Old Harbor to the island of Lokrum. Stroll the island, listen to the cicadas and spend time in a cafe.
Banje Beach is very popular. This beach a short distance outside the city walls east from the Ploce Gate. Rent a kayak at the beach.
Copacabana Beach is located in the new city. Catch views of the Dubrovnik Bridge from the beach.
Cavtat, Croatia
Dalmatian Islands Ferries
At Port Gruž, where cruise ships dock, you can catch one of the many Dalmatian Islands ferries to a more secluded spot off the coast from Dubrovnik:
Ferry to the island of Lopud and avoid the tourist crowds of Dubrovnik on this tranquil island.
Ferry for a couple of hours to the island of Mljet. Wander the parks or rent a bike. See the monastery.
Take a day trip ferry ride to the fortressed medieval town of Korcula, where Marco Polo was born.
Fort Lovrijena, © Can Stock / donyanedomam
Day Trips to Montenegro or Bosnia & Herzegovina
Take a day trip to Montenegro. See the Konavle Valley and Kotor. In Risan, visit the Church of Our Lady of the Rocks on a small island in the bay.
Take a day trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Visit sites such as the the Haji-Ali Mosque and Sahat-kula in Počitelj, the Old Bazaar and Turkish House in Mostar or the Bascarsija Bazaar and the Latin Bridge in Sarajevo.
St John's Fortress, Old Town, © Can Stock / rognar
Savor the Tastes of Dubrovnik
Have Croat wine & cheese, loza and travarica brandies or a Ožujsko lager in the Old Walled City. Try D'Vino Wine Bar.
Café Buza – look for a small hole in the old town wall near St Ignatius Church. Step out on to the waterfront cliff side cafe with views to Lokrum Island.
Nautika – Try lopud brodet or cream of scampi soup with black truffle. Nautika is on the water near the Pile Gate with views of Fort Bokar, Fort Lovrijenac and the Adriatic Sea.
Villa Dubrovnik – Try goose-liver terrine. This waterfront restaurant is a few minutes southeast of the Old Town and has lovely views back to it. The elevator entrance down from the street is quite unique.
Hotel Dubrovnik Palace – a 5 star hotel located on the waterfront a few minutes from the Old Town.
Franciscan Monastery Pharmacy
Get to Dubrovnik
You can get to Dubrovnik from the Dubrovnik International Airport, which is is about a half hour south of the Old Walled City. Buses run regularly from the airport to the downtown area. The cruise ship terminal is located at the north end of town and is about a 45 minute walk to the Old Walled City, so take a taxi or a bus instead.
Once you get to the Old Walled City, everyone walks to all the sights and attractions because vehicles are not allowed in the Old Town.
Dubrovnik, Dalmatian Coast, © Can Stock / jasonvosper
Dubrovnik Weather
The Dubrovnik weather in summer makes it a popular tourist destination. From June to September expect average highs around 27 C (80 F) and little rainfall. Average lows in the summer are about 20 C (68 F). Winter has slight rainfall with highs of around 13 C (55 F) and lows of 6 C (43 F). The great weather attracts so many tourists that it's difficult to get past the crowds to visit Dubrovnik in summer. Spring and fall are likely the best times to visit Dubrovnik, because there are fewer tourists at that time.
Visit Dubrovnik – Background
Dubrovnik is on the Dalmatian Coast of the Adriatic Sea. Only about 50,000 people live in the town on a full time basis. Dubrovnik is only a few miles from Bosnia & Herzegovina and from Montenegro. The town of Dubrovnik shows influences of the Byzantine Empire, Venice, Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. From the 1500s – 1700s, Dubrovnik flourished as the Republic of Ragusa. Napoleon took control in the early 1800s, followed by the Hapsburg Empire and then Yugoslavia. When Yugoslavia dissolved in the early 1990s, Dubrovnik came under attack by Serbian Slavic forces. Buildings in Dubrovnik show signs of mortar and gun fire today. The war ended in 1995 and Dubrovnik quickly became a booming tourist town with a steady flow of cruise ship passengers..
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The Lion King (1994) is an American film classified as an animated musical drama film. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and opened by Walt Disney Pictures. Under the Disney animated feature film, this one comes at number 32nd, also it the fifth animated film set during the Disney Renaissance period. Rob Minkoff and Roger Allers directed the film, while Don Hahn did the production. The film's screenplay was created by Irene Mecchi in collaboration with Linda Woolverton and Jonathan Roberts. The primary songs were composed by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, and Hans Zimmer created the score.
The film stars voices from Matthew Broderick, Jim Cummings, Cheech Marin, Whoopi Goldberg, Madge Sinclair, Robert Guillaume, Rowan Atkinson, Ernie Sabella, Nathan Lane, Moira Kelly, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jeremy Irons, along with James Earl Jone.
The story setting is a lions' kingdom and was inspired by Moses and Joseph's Biblical accounts and Harmlet by Shakespeare. The Lion King features Simba (meaning lion in Swahili), a baby lion the heir apparent to the throne of Mufasa, his father as the Pride Land's ruler. But, after Mufasa is killed by his brother, Scar, Simba is fronted as the suspect who makes him flee into another land.
Lion King was conceptualized in 1998 in a meeting that brought together Peter Schneider, Roy E. Disney, and Jeffrey Katzenberg. The film came out on 15 June 1994, receiving positive reviews from critics who applauded its story, music, animation, and themes. It grossed $763 million worldwide, becoming the highest earner of 1994.
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La 3. liga es la tercera división de la liga de fútbol de Eslovaquia. La competición se divide en cuatro divisiones: Bratislava, oeste, centro y este. Todos los grupos están formados por 12 equipos cada una, excepto el grupo west que está formado por 18 equipos. Los campeones de cada grupo ascienden a la 2. liga, la segunda división eslovaca.

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Existen cuatro divisiones de 16 equipos excepto west, que son 18 equipos, haciendo un total de 34 jornadas

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On this very exact date to the day. My parents got married at a little church. Right before Easter and there was snow too lol. Even though it's been 50years since that date. I bet if they were still alive they would've loved this moment very much.
For the longest time I never understood why this date was so important to them. It didn't make sense. Though I enjoyed their love for each other. I never got how much they love the idea of each other of the "US" of them. I think this is the first time in a long time that I looked forward to their anniversary. I will say I hated the day because I always felt they blew out of porportion. But I was also young and didn't understand why I had to be included on a day I never got to see or experience or have as fond of memories as they did.
Even as I got older and things started to change. All I remember is how excited they were to reach that 50years mark. Even still; I still didn't understand why this date was so important. When my father passed and my mom still kept hope alive and I would buy her cards to make her day and look at old pictures with her to make her happy. I didn't understand. I always assumed I never would.
When my mother passed, I ended up with all the knick knacks, souvenirs and keepsakes. That date was nothing more but a confirmation of my parents Union in holy matrimony. That was adorned in history with photographs and a certificate. And a inscribed wedding ring.
But it didn't hit me until recently. Like a few months ago. I had this really weird dream where I thought I loss the wedding band I had. Even though it was just a ring and nothing more and nothing less. That was the first time it was heartbreaking to think it was gone forever. That dream had me so messed up I had to get up and look for the ring the next morning before I went off to work. I couldn't help but look at the ring and read the inscribing: A.B.M to E.N.R. 4-9-66. And I sat there wondering why this ring was so important to me.
It wasn't until I start spending more and more time with Mr. G. It started making sense. Without all that commotion and whatnots. I wouldn't be here. I wouldn't been able to experience life with two of the most amazing (crazy) people in the world. I wouldn't have experienced a lot of the craziness and nonsense with them. I wouldn't be Me without them. I appreciate that. Without their love and wanting to invest into each other for more than a lifetime literally. I wouldn't have happened and nothing that I experienced wouldn't have happened. I wouldn't be in the place that I'm at now. And I probably wouldn't be with G or owning the house I grew up in. Even though now they make up a small part of my life; they were once a HUGE part of my life. They were the foundation to my pyramid and I'm glad about that.
Even if they're not here anymore or won't be able to watch me to continuously grow. They're always with me and always will be. Ring or not.
I wish my parents a very Happy 50th Anniversary.


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The Globalized, Corporate-Led Food System Is Failing Us: Boycott Grows of U.N. Food Summit
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Million Belay
general coordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, or AFSA.
Shalmali Guttal
executive director of Focus on the Global South.
research professor at the University of Texas at Austin who also serves on the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems.
Million Belay on Twitter
Shalmali Guttal on Twitter
Raj Patel on Twitter
"Agroecology Is the Solution to World Hunger"
"Africa is not a monoculture, we reject the plan to make it one"
"Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World's Food System"
International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems
More than 500 civil society groups boycotted the United Nations Food Systems Summit in New York for giving corporations an outsized role in framing the agenda. We speak with leading food advocates in Ethiopia, India and the United States, who lay out their concerns: Million Belay, general coordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa; Raj Patel, journalist and research professor at the University of Texas at Austin; and Shalmali Guttal, executive director of Focus on the Global South. "There is growing hunger in the world, and there is growing inequality and growing poverty and unemployment," Guttal says. "This industrialized, globalized, corporate-led food system is failing us."
Part 1: Raj Patel: Climate, Conflict and Capitalism Drive Global Hunger. COVID Made It Worse
Part 2: The Globalized, Corporate-Led Food System Is Failing Us: Boycott Grows of U.N. Food Summit
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh.
With world hunger on the rise amidst the devastating social and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis, we continue to look at concerns that the United Nations' first Food Systems Summit, underway today, is giving corporations an outsized role framing its agenda. The summit is led by the former Rwandan agricultural minister, Agnes Kalibata, now president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, or AGRA, which critics say promotes industrial agriculture over more sustainable farming.
For more, we bring into this conversation Million Belay in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the general coordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa. Also with us in Goa, India, is Shalmali Guttal, executive director of Focus on the Global South. Still with us in Austin, Texas, professor Raj Patel, who serves on the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World's Food System. Nermeen?
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Million Belay, could you begin by talking about — give us more background on Dr. Agnes Kalibata and her record, the record of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, of which she's the head, and why you think she was appointed the U.N. special envoy for this food summit?
MILLION BELAY: Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity. Thanks for the lovely music. And I love Gigi quite a lot.
I think I would love to focus on the institution rather than on the individual. Maybe they have selected her because she's a woman, she's a Black woman, she's an African woman, as a form of representing this as a global agenda. Maybe, you know, in terms of image, she fits that bill.
But the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa has 13 board members — one-three. And eight of them are from outside Africa. And it's registered in the U.S. And the Rockefeller Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, some companies are in the board of AGRA. So this is an outside-controlled institution. And this shows that, you know, the corporate world wanted to control this event.
It's very sad, because a discussion around the food system is very much critical, because there is a health crisis, there is a nutrition crisis, hunger crisis, environmental crisis, cultural crisis and human rights crisis. We're in a crisis. And the majority of these crises is because of the food system that we have. So, we need transition, the right kind of transition.
Therefore, the institution that she represents, even if its name says the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa — you know, we know what the Green Revolution has done in India. And Shalmali can tell us about that, you know? It has destroyed people's life, people's culture, seed, environment, and has created a huge burden of disease, and malnutrition is still there. And, as Raj said, it has failed in Africa. It has been tried for 13 years, and it has failed. Now we have seen the recommendation from Africa for the UNFSS for transition. It's all about green ecology, Green Revolution. So, yeah, this is very sad, you know? It's a wasted chance, I would like to say.
AMY GOODMAN: So, Shalmali Guttal, you're in Goa, India. As you look at the Food Systems Summit from there, this segment is larger than the Food Systems Summit. It's about the growing hunger in the world. But can you talk about that approach — you've been a fierce critic; you've been tweeting a lot about what's happening — and how it's determining what's happening in the world, and what you see needs to happen?
SHALMALI GUTTAL: Thank you, Amy. Can you hear me all right?
AMY GOODMAN: We hear you perfectly.
SHALMALI GUTTAL: OK, OK. Well, yes, there is growing hunger in the world, and there is growing inequality and growing poverty and unemployment. And all this is not because there isn't enough food being produced in the world. A majority of the world's food is produced by, you know, small-scale food producers, who are producing this food on just about a quarter of the world's territories. Eighty percent of the world's territories and resources are actually captured by larger businesses and corporations. And there's a lot of food procurement, production, provision that goes undocumented.
But when we talk about the crises in the food systems, it's really interesting that the mainstream discourse isn't looking at the crisis of the global food system, which is the industrialized, corporate-controlled food system, which has been responsible for many of the multiple crises that we are facing now, with, you know, the hunger, the unemployment, the malnutrition, the climate change crisis, the industrial contamination and so on. So, you know, in the last 10 to 15 years, with crisis after crisis coming out, and the food price crisis more than 10 years ago and the financial crisis, which was also there in 2009, 2010, since then, it's become really increasingly clear to the world's people that this industrialized, globalized, corporate-led food system is failing us. It has failed. It's not going to do anything better. And to keep pouring money into it and resources into it is dangerous. But how, unfortunately — or, rather, maybe this has been the design, so it's not a question of luck or fortune. More and more privatization has been happening across the South. It was already happening in the North countries. It's been happening more and more in the South, including key aspects of food provision.
Now, food has a tremendous public purpose. The right to food is dependent on the right — realization of numerous other rights. Similarly, the violation of other rights also affects the right to food. And food, as a holistic — how we say — it's not a thing; you know, it's a whole dimension in and of itself. Control over the different aspects of food are extremely important for those who want to continue to make profits. And this has been one of the big tragedies of privatization and liberalization and deregulation and then reregulation for corporations that we have seen over the last 15 or 20 years.
And, you know, the COVID-19 pandemic showed who feeds the world, who looked after the world. It wasn't the industrialized, globalized food system. It were local producers. It was food sovereignty movements. It was unions. It was mutual help groups, community kitchens, community-shared agriculture and fisheries. This is what helped. This is what fed the world during COVID.
And, you know, the way we see it, my own organization and the group that I'm very closely aligned with in the Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples' Mechanism — and we have a larger group of social movements called the Liaison Group of the Autonomous People's Response to the U.N. Food Systems Summit — you know, for us, it's very clear that this Food Systems Summit has been deliberately designed and pushed forward the way it is to allow corporations to secure control, not only over food and food systems but, equally important, over the governance of food systems. And that's a very important issue which I hope I'll be able to speak further on in this program. Why don't I stop here for the moment?
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, Shalmali, as Million mentioned, one of the examples that's touted most in favor of industrial agriculture is, of course, the experience of the Green Revolution in India.
SHALMALI GUTTAL: Right.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: This was first introduced in 1965 and, its advocates say, led substantially to a reduction in hunger, as well as malnutrition. Could you explain why you're critical of this approach? And what's happened in recent decades, following its initial purported success?
SHALMALI GUTTAL: Well, yes, initially, the Green Revolution did boost production. And there was — yes, there were overflowing granaries, and, yes, it did indeed address the hunger or lack-of-food problem at that time.
But what it also did was introduce and convert Indian agriculture into chemically intensive monocultures. And these chemically intensive monocultures, initially, they may have come through public subsidies and supports — I mean, the inputs for those production. But over the decades, as those supports and subsidies started to dry out, small-scale farmers, family farmers, even middle-scale — you know, a middle farmer, middle-scale farmer, in India would be like — I can't — I think in hectares, not in acres. So, it would be — you know, three to four hectares would be a small-scale farmer. A middle-scale farmer would be, say, a maximum 10 to 15 hectares. They started finding themselves in increased debt traps, because one of the things that happened with intensive use of chemicals is your soil gets contaminated, and it will not keep producing. And in order to make your soil produce and make your farms produce, you're going to pump more and more chemicals into it. And it's a vicious cycle of destruction of the very territory from which you would grow your food.
And so, what we saw, that that destruction triggered the environmental and a crisis of production, but, attendant to that, a tremendous social crisis. So, farmers who were not able to meet their debt payments for the inputs that they had bought, purchased — when their seeds failed, they had to buy more seeds, so they got more into debt. They put their land into mortgage. And we saw a distressed migration of people away from the rural areas into the urban areas. And so, more and more hands that were producing the food left the land, and they left that kind of production and started moving into other types of production. Now, many of them stayed in the food world. I mean, as Raj said earlier, the hands that touch our food, most of the hands that touch our food do come from food-producing families, but they're doing different jobs now. You know, they're working in construction labor or delivery or food vending, you know, local vending. But a lot — and this is not a case only in India; this is a case throughout Asia. We're going through a very severe agrarian crisis across Asia, where industrialized, monoculture-oriented, chemically intensive agriculture has created economic and social crises.
So, in India, for example, I think the — I mean, the world is very familiar with the farmer suicides that have happened in India. These suicides are the highest where farmer debt is the highest. And farmer debt is the highest, of course, where farmers have been forced to borrow, for seeds, for equipment, for chemicals. And we must also see this side by side with the other crisis that India was going through, and which is the inability and the failure of the Indian state to ensure strong social protection systems, because one may be in debt, a family may be in debt and be using all its — you know, using whatever income that it has to pay off its debt, but if you don't have good public health systems, if you don't have good social security and social protection system, you don't have a decent education system, you don't have transportation, clean water, if all these are either being disinvested by the public exchequer and are being privatized. Most rural communities in India, and in many parts of Asia, are one major illness away from complete ruin, because they will have to pay huge healthcare bills if they want to get any decent healthcare. So, you know, these are processes that are going together — Green Revolution, at one hand, and the social and economic crisis, and which were closely related to the environmental contamination and crisis it created, accompanied by an absence of sufficient public investment going to social — important, key social and even financial sectors.
AMY GOODMAN: We only have a few more minutes to go at this moment.
SHALMALI GUTTAL: Sorry.
AMY GOODMAN: But we are going to continue this discussion, of course, on Democracy Now! But I wanted to go back to Million Belay, who is in the capital of Ethiopia, in Addis. If you could talk about why you see it's critical to frame the hunger issue in a human rights framework, and what that would mean? What has to happen now? Use the example of your own country, Ethiopia, Million.
MILLION BELAY: Yeah. I think the responsibility of feeding the people is from government. Government are responsible to feed the people. For that, they have to have the right policy, right kind of agricultural policy. If you follow the Green Revolution agenda and put farmers in debt and contaminate the soil, and also, you know, in terms of productivity and also the diversity of the seeds — you know, there's an increased diversity — through time, you are putting your population, the farmer population, which is over 80% in Ethiopia, into unsustainability. You know, you are trapping them into the future, which is not sustainable at all. So, they have to have the right to choose what kind of agriculture they want. They have the right to choose what kind of seeds that they want to plant.
And the kind of, you know — that's broken the social fabric of the society somehow, the kind of agriculture that's happening. It has even damaged the relationship between the government and the people, because the government has to force their people to accept high-yielding varieties and artificial fertilizers and pesticides and certain ways of farming and reorienting the whole agriculture into market, you know? All that puts people into a situation where they will be much more poorer than before. So they are not getting better.
And it's a responsibility of the government to keep the country and the people in the paths of sustainability, not in the paths of dependence. And when their people have a problem because of the environment, in social, in political, in whatever, it's the government's responsibility to provide food, to make food accessible, to ensure that that food is healthy and nutritious, and to ensure that that food is culturally appropriate, and to protect them from the vagaries of threat.
So, that's what we mean by the right to food and the human right at the center of food production. And we feel that agroecology takes all that. It produces more food, healthy food, nutritious food — without impacting the environment, even improving the environment — and culturally appropriate food. And the right to food is at the center of agroecology. That's what we want to promote.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, Raj Patel, we'd like to end with you. One of the striking things that you point out in your Scientific American article, "Agroecology Is the Solution to World Hunger," which is what Million was saying, as well, is that, over the past decade, food production has outstripped demand. There is more food per person than there ever was. And the problem with food distribution is not so much its quantity but the fact that it's distributed in an unequal way. Could you explain how the practice of agroecology, which you've witnessed yourself in Malawi and elsewhere — how this practice could also ensure more equitable access and distribution?
RAJ PATEL: So, thank you so much. And very briefly, agroecology is a science, it's a set of practices, and it is a social movement to be able to transform the way that we not just grow food but regulate it and share it and make sure that everyone has it and that it exists within the broader economy that Shalmali and Million were talking about just now. So, agroecology is a way not only of identifying that there are amazing synergies between different kinds of crops that don't rely on the industrial, chemical-intensive agriculture that Shalmali was talking about, but also that we need social synergies. We need ways of recognizing and supporting our food production around the world in ways that redirect subsidies away from chemically intensive agriculture and the health subsidies and the environmental costs of industrial agriculture, and instead aims big.
And that means, really, I mean, at the heart of agroecology is a leveling of inequalities in power. I mean, hunger today is gendered. Ten percent more women around the world are hungry than men. We see, obviously, inequalities in hunger in terms of race, globally, in terms of colonialism and its histories. But if we are to be serious about taking agroecology to scale, we have to tackle inequalities in power. And I think that that's one of the worries about this Food Systems Summit, is that it is concentrating power in governance mechanisms that are entirely unaccountable. And what agroecology offers is a circular and solidarity economy that is absolutely about sort of leveling inequalities in power, so that we not only are able to coax more from the soil but also return more to it and make sure that everyone gets to eat healthily.
AMY GOODMAN: We want to thank you all for being with us. And again, this is a conversation, of course, we're going to continue to have. I want to thank Raj Patel, who's speaking to us from the University of Texas–Austin. Among his books, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World's Food System. His latest book is called, simply, Inflamed. We also want to thank Million Belay — Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa is his group — speaking to us from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Shalmali Guttal, who is with Focus on the Global South, executive director. She is in Goa, India.
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This is my favorite so far for Scoring Chances series. As oppose to the previous two books that center around the Sea Storm hockey players, Power Play is about two coaches for the Spitfires, the worst team in the league. This works well as a standalone as both the main characters are not featured previously. While the previous two books are more comical and funny, this one had a more seriously vibe, thanks to Misha.
Misha is the new head coach for Spitfire and being a Russian, he is tall, dark and brooding. As he told Max, he like to angst and be miserable.
Max is the assistant coach who is an optimist and a ball of sunshine. They had a history 5 years ago on the ice that lead to Max ended his short professional career. Instead of hating Misha, Max is so forgiving and looking forward to coach the worst team on the ECHL together with him. But Misha being the brooding sod, loves to torture himself and he didn't make it easy for Max to love him.
Misha is one of those tortured soul with a dark past and he provided some much needed angst for the story. But fear not, Max is always there to balance things out and his jovial nature is the perfect antidote to Misha's darkness. I don't know what is it about Russian, but I noticed that they often intrigued me. Misha had a very distinct voice and personality in the story and I just love his poker face and Max always attempt to break his facade. They are so different, yet a perfect match for each other.
Although this story centered around two coaches, there are still plenty of players and on ice drama that was exciting. I really feel the sense of family among the Spitfire team and even get to appreciate their sleazy general manager. I can't wait to read the next one and see how the team grow.


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This undated image provided by the Brooklyn Cyclones shows a statue of Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson at MCU Park in the Coney Island section of the Brooklyn borough of New York. New York City police are investigating swastikas and hate speech scrawled on the statue outside Brooklyn's minor league baseball stadium. A manager at MCU Park noticed the defacement Wednesday morning, Aug. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Brooklyn Cyclones)
NEW YORK (AP) — The reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction of those responsible for defacing a statue of Jackie Robinson in New York with swastikas and hate speech is now $50,000.
The Jackie Robinson Foundation says Friday it has received two donations totaling $40,000. The Daily News has offered $10,000 for information in the case.
On Wednesday, the words "Heil Hitler," an expletive and racist epithets were discovered scrawled on the statue in black marker. The statute of Jackie Robinson and a teammate stands outside Brooklyn's minor league baseball stadium.
On Thursday the Simon Wiesenthal (VEEZ'-ehn-thahl ) Center said the racial epithets scrawled on a statue were an attack "on all the values of social progress and equality" that Robinson stood for.
The organization condemned the vandalism and urged authorities to catch the perpetrators.
The New York City Parks Department removed the hate speech Thursday.
The Daily News reports (https://nydn.us/11SAUVx ) $20,000 of the reward money was donated by foundation board member Joe Plumeri. The other $20,000 was donated anonymously.
Police are still investigating.
MCU Park in Coney Island is the stadium for the Brooklyn Cyclones, a minor league affiliate of the New York Mets. The team marked the return of professional baseball to Brooklyn, which lost the Dodgers to Los Angeles in the late 1950s.
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100 vintage '80s prom dresses: See the hottest retro styles teen girls wore
From pretty in pink to bold in black, teen girls put a lot of time and money into finding just the perfect now-vintage '80s prom dress. Here's a look back!
San Diego school shooting in 1979: Shooter, a teenage girl, explained by saying she didn't like Mondays
After shooting several people at a school in San Diego in 1979, teen Brenda Ann Spencer told a reporter, 'I just did it for the fun of it. I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day.'
How to flirt and chase men 'til they catch you: Seventeen magazine's top tips for teen girls in the 1950s
How to chase men till they catch us is something every teen girl should know, said the 1950s editor of Seventeen magazine. Here are her tips on how to flirt & behave!
Meet music legend Stevie Wonder, who started his music career at age 13
Here's a look back at the career of Stevie Wonder, the talented singer and musician who, despite being blind, has earned dozens of hit songs that millions know and love.
The Lindy Hop & Jitterbug: See the hep swing dances from 1938-1945
What were jitterbugs jiving to in the late '30s & early '40s? For one, the Lindy Hop dance, with hundreds of individual steps, breaks and mutations inspired by American music.
Square Pegs: The '80s TV series that starred Sarah Jessica Parker, from its much-buzzed beginning to its surprise demise
On this 1982 sitcom, the square pegs were Patty Greene (a young Sarah Jessica Parker) and Lauren Hutchinson (Amy Linker). Patty's the smart, skinny, nearsighted one; Lauren's the one with baby fat and braces. The round hole is Weemawee High, which they've just entered.
A vintage pot talk booklet: New facts about marijuana (1970)
Back in the '70s, this pamphlet alarmed parents nationwide, telling them 'the use of MARIJUANA is soaring, skyrocketing!' and 'Never have so many turned on with drugs and dropped out of society.'
When 14-year-old 'Woo Woo Kid' Sonny Wisecarver got married in 1944, the scandal made national headlines
Find out about the teen marriages of Sonny Wisecarver – aka "The Woo Woo Kid" – who went on to inspire the 1987 movie 'In the Mood,' starring Patrick Dempsey.
Talking behind her back: 12 really mean vintage ads that could give anyone a complex
The judgments are harsh, and nobody is worried about subtlety in these ridiculously mean vintage ads that ran in popular magazines years ago.
Tommy Howell – aka C Thomas Howell – the '80s teen heartthrob, was a veteran of five films at age 17 – E.T., Tank, The Outsiders, Grandview USA & Red Dawn.
What's Happening!! Go behind the scenes on the popular '70s TV sitcom & see opening credits
Get a blast from the past with this 1978 article about the popular TV sitcom, "What's Happening!!", which soared past expectations and entertained millions.
Matt Dillon: An insider's talk with teen actor & 'The Outsiders' star (1983)
Sometimes life is like a movie, like actor Matt Dillon's life. Nothing much happened to him until age 14, when he was discovered at a New York junior high.
Glam 1940s interior design: 5 before & after bedroom makeovers, plus 5 more retro room renovations
Some vintage 1940s interior design decor trends veered into the overdone, like the 'glam' Hollywood-inspired look here – filled with satin, ruffles & bows.
Love's Baby Soft: Because innocence is sexier than you think? Eww. ('70s & '80s)
Love's Baby Soft hit the market in the mid-'70s with a creepy ad campaign with lines like 'that irresistible, clean-baby smell, grown-up enough to be sexy' and 'innocence is sexier than you think.' So how did America respond?
See the top stars on these vintage Tiger Beat magazine covers from the 1970s, and relive all the breathless hype
Check out these vintage Tiger Beat magazines to see who teens were screaming about and obsessing over back in the seventies – decades before there were Kardashians and BTS.
Remember tasty vintage Maybelline Kissing Potion, Kissing Glosses & Kissing Slicks from the '80s?
Vintage Maybelline Kissing Potion, Kissing Slicks & Mini Kissing Stick – different '80s lip glosses in mouthwatering flavors like strawberry and cherry.
Vintage 1950s San Francisco junior high & high school report cards from one of Jerry Garcia's old classmates
See some vintage report cards from San Francisco's Outer Mission district schools during the '50s. One of his classmates? Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead.
Top '60s supermodel Twiggy known for her big eyes and tiny frame
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Lip Smackers from Bonne Bell: The super trendy vintage lip balm from the '70s & '80s
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'70s juniors clothes for teens from the 1973 JC Penney catalog
Who was buying '70s juniors clothes? In 1973, for back-to-school, teen girls spent a total of more than $3 billion in 60 days on the latest fashions. Here's a look at what was available back then!
Hello Halloween! Party food & fun for teens (1963)
Teen guests will swing at a party of food, fun and favors that a young hostess can make herself. Greet your invited ghosts and goblins with a Halloween party!
The measure of romance: Marriage rates on the rise (1950)
Marriage rates rose each year between 1945 and 1949 – more than ever before during a 5-year period – as almost 3,000,000 women swapped the single life for married life.
Take the day off to see Ferris Bueller (1986)
There's a lot of magic and humor practiced in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Written and directed by John Hughes, this energetic and offbeat comedy captures the best feelings about being young.
Totally awesome vintage '80s clothes for girls
What was big in terms of fashion for girls in the 1983 JC Penney catalog? Some styles featured grown-up fashion translated into youthful looks – oversized shirt-dresses, dirndl skirts and drop-waist minidresses. See inside the catalog here!
How Outsiders & Rumble Fish author S E Hinton got her start (1975)
How does an author become an author? For S E Hinton, the choice was easy — she wrote her first book, 'The Outsiders,' as a teenager, when she couldn't find anything that she wanted to read.
Looking inside 'The Outsiders' movie (1983)
If "The Outsiders" looks polished, there's good reason. The movie was made by the practiced hand of Francis Ford Coppola, responding to a petition sent to him by seventh and eighth graders in Fresno, California.
Super-groovy makeovers to organize your dorm or bedroom (1971)
Are you short on space for storing stereo and records, seating friends? Too-square room, too-full closet? Change your dorm or bedroom into a happy habitat by following these collective tips (ideal for busy students, into-everything activists)!
How to stop your kids from becoming juvenile delinquents (1958)
When I was a kid, we had the same desire to loot and pillage and rape as these kids today, we were as savage as kids always are, but at the same time, we knew that our parents and all other grownups were unalterably opposed to it, and we didn't do it.
Vintage dating life: Should women court men? (1960)
How DOES a girl win a husband? By tradition, she waits until the right man comes along, then he woos her, pursues her, and leads her to the altar.
A retro summer party menu plan for Juliets in search of Romeos (1970)
Midsummer night's dream: A party menu plan for Juliets in search of Romeos This strategy works like charm. Invite lots of boys and wear your ruffly-est ruffles. Great food. Great fun. And no more lonely Saturday nights.
Fun with vintage fondue & other recipes for a really 'with it' dinner party! (1968)
'60s dinner party with fondue — the fun party dish! Everyone will have a ball the moment the dunking begins. These exciting party foods show you're really with it. Plenty — and then some — to feed a crowd. Here's how!
Quickie, kicky authentic '70s-style clothes you can make yourself (1973)
Looking for some DIY '70s clothes? Here are some quickie, kicky, catalytic young wearables to make out of this and that for next to nothing!
Young Elvis: Elvis Presley as a child & teenager
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Why doesn't he call & other advice about dating for teen girls (1950)
Should girls call boys – especially if he hasn't called her after a date? Some problems never change, as these dating tips from the '50s show!
Gunne Sax prom dresses of the eighties
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Who were the top TV stars of 1979? Here's what teens said
Who were the top TV stars of 1979? America's teens had favorite television programs and favorite stars, but those two categories had surprisingly little to do with each other, according to a national survey.
Rock 'n' roll music: The new teenage dance craze (1955)
This story by Hal Boyle, a nationally-syndicated columnist (and Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist) was one of the first that attempted to describe the latest fad that gripped the land — some crazy thing the kids called rock 'n' roll.
Plaid, fur & velveteen: Clothes teenagers were sewing in the fall of 1960
6 million teenagers love to sew – this is what they will make this fall Full of enthusiasm, teenagers all over the country will welcome
No, Mr Hitler! Smart teens say Hitler doesn't speak their language (1941)
The mass of German youth is taught not to think but to obey. Special schools train a few in the use of ruthless violence, deliberate dishonesty, and quack racial dogma so that they shall constitute an 'elite' Fuehrer class – masters of the many in the Nazi plan of things to come.
From the 1950s: How to laugh, just for girls (because what teen didn't need someone else telling her how to behave?)
Laughter is a serious thing. Hoot if you must, but strict attention should be paid to how you laugh and when. It is the barometer of your emotional state. Precisely put, laughter is a form of behavior.
John Stamos' teen idol transformation (1989)
The kids may still scream — they make up the bulk of the "Full House" audience — but Stamos, 25, believes his teen idol days are behind him as he works on carving out an acting career with longevity.
Kids on drugs: They're children you know. Maybe your own. (1970)
At least 5 million youngsters in this country have tried marijuana. They're not delinquents or from urban slums. They're kids you know. Maybe your own.
Bad breath making you a pariah? (1956)
"I'd give anything to belong…" Ann sighed as she looked enviously through the window at a happy group of boys and girls heading for the
Who were the hottest teen stars of 1984?
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Start early to raise your daughters well (1905)
When raising children, the principle of obedience to proper authority is the foundation of all good citizenship and good government — the very cornerstone of liberty itself.
Customizable & fashionable belts teens love (1951)
Fashions for fun – with teen jive! America's feminine teenagers, who have acquired a reputation as inventors of their own fashion fads — plus their own colorful
Young furniture that grows up with its owner (1965)
No matter how independent teenagers may sound when they're talking about furniture, they still need guidance… Here are pieces that easily please all concerned – without a family scene. They're in good taste and all have growth potential.
Dad takes dare: Attends Beatles concert (1965)
The Beatles proved again Saturday night that their singing, if it can be called that, provokes mass hysteria in the young
Change the scene: Renovating kids' bedrooms (1972)
Change the scene In a child's room, periodic remodelings are a must, just to keep up with the child's growth and to cover the wear
Clothes that fit the shape you're in (1982)
Your body: Clothes that fit the shape you're in Do you have the know-how to put together a wardrobe that makes the most of what
Recycled crafts: Turn your junk into jewels (1983)
24-carat ideas to make your room sparkle and shine It's a sad, sad story, and we hear it every day. You've cut down on video
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Table of contents Who wants yesterday's papers? You do, because they're the beginning of the end — the new end table for your room, that


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Women Driving Political Change
Remembering Srebrenica
The anniversary is a moment to remember the many thousands who lost their lives, and to remember their families and the missing. It was also an opportunity to reaffirm our determination to act to prevent genocide in the future. We must never, ever forget what happened at Srebrenica, in Europe, five decades after the end of World War II.
CWH attended to learn more from the survivors and their families, at Lancaster House, London to mark the annual commemoration. Parveen Hassan also pledged to remember those who were brutally murdered in the genocide of Srebrenica in 1995. It's important to remember those who were left behind to grieve their loss, and who rebuilt their lives with courage and dignity and how the women and girls who were brutally raped as a weapon of ethnic cleansing.
The pledges continued; how to speak out against the language of hate, which if allowed to go unchecked, can lead to the dehumanisation of others and make sure my voice will always stand for justice, and will speak out against injustice wherever I find it. Call upon and support my government in establishing justice and reconciliation as part of our responsibility within the international community. Work with others to establish a community that works for the common good of all, and is free from hatred and
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Ancient Churchyard cross. C19 steps support medieval socket and lower part of tapering octagonal shaft (upper part restored). Shaft supports weathered Medieval crucifixion and Saints.
Medieval cross. Group value with St John's Church.
I Church of St John The Baptist.
On site bounded by St John Street, Working Street, Trinity Street, and St John's Churchyard.
To N of entrance to Central Market.
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Q: css background for div not working I'm trying to use an image as background for a div element.

I've changed the background-position and background-size properties as well. But it's still not working.
Below is the code:

.large-circle {
    border-radius: 50%;
    display: inline-block;
    width: 150px;
    height: 150px;
    position:absolute;
   top:50%;
   left:50%;
   margin-left:-5em;
   margin-top:-5em;
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#center {
 background: url("img/newHex.png") no-repeat;
 background-size: cover;
}

Anyone find the error please.
I've checked other related questions already. They are not working in this case as well (I've tested).

A: Where's the image located relative to the css file?
I tried your snippet and change the path of the image to an absolute URL and it worked.
Try changing your image URL to an absolute one or make sure it uses the correct path relative to the css file.
If your structure is something like this:
img/
    newHex.png
css/
    style.css

Then your correct path is
url('../img/newHex.png')

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Scott Wittman (born November 16, 1954) is an American director, lyricist, and writer for Broadway, concerts, and television.
Wittman was raised in Nanuet, New York, graduated from Nanuet Senior High School in 1972 and attended Emerson College in Boston for two years before leaving to pursue a career in musical theatre in New York City. While directing a show for a Greenwich Village club he met Marc Shaiman, and the two became collaborators and professional partners. While Shaiman wrote for television shows, including Saturday Night Live, Wittman directed concerts for such artists as Bette Midler, Christine Ebersole, Raquel Welch, Dame Edna Everage, and Lypsinka, among others.
In 2002, Shaiman and Wittman wrote the music and lyrics for the musical Hairspray, which won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, the Tony Award for Best Original Score, and a Grammy Award. In addition to Hairspray, Wittman conceived, wrote lyrics for, and directed Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me and conceived and directed Matters of the Heart, a solo concert by Patti LuPone in 2000.
Shaiman and Wittman worked on Catch Me If You Can, a musical adaptation of the 2002 Steven Spielberg film, together with Terrence McNally. The musical opened on Broadway in April 2011. They again worked together on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Musical.
In 2011, Hairspray was performed at Nanuet Senior High School, where Wittman attended high school.
In 2013, Wittman and Marc Shaiman co-wrote the score for Bombshell, a musical about Marilyn Monroe within the context of the NBC television show Smash. A soundtrack was released later that same year.
Wittman and Shaiman collaborated in 2018 on Mary Poppins Returns where Wittman wrote the lyrics for nine of the tracks listed. He and Shaiman were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "The Place Where Lost Things Go".
^ Shaiman, Marc (b. 1959), and Scott Wittman (b. 1955) Archived 2007-02-12 at the Wayback Machine. GLBTQ.com.
^ "2003". Tony Awards. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
^ "Girls, Girls, Girls!". New York. 3 April 2011. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
^ "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to open in West End". BBC. 18 June 2012. Retrieved 18 July 2012.
^ Roberts, Maddy Shaw. "Who composed the 'Mary Poppins Returns' soundtrack – and what are the songs?" Cassicfm.com. 27 December 2018.


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What a Year! Help Us Make 2016 Even Better!
By Bruno Skvorc
At last, the futuristic-sounding year of 2016 is upon us, and we've been very, very busy.
It's been a wild ride here at the PHP channel. The peer review program took full swing and produced results so good they resonated across other channels. Our average traffic has continued to gradually rise, and reader engagement is up, too – no doubt owing to our transition back to a more user friendly commenting system.
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María Antonia Martínez García (born 18 May 1953) is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from the Region of Murcia who served as the third President of the Region of Murcia from April 1993 to June 1995.

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Dragons Under My Bed – A Kids Music CD
Dragons Under My Bed is New Zealand singer and songwriter Kath Bee's first cd. Kids will love her friendly style of singing.
Kath's New Zealand accent is charming. Her rhythms are upbeat and the lyrics clear and understandable (a must for kids).
The lyrics and themes are fun too… dragons (of course!), animals at the zoo, making music with spoons, individuality, friends and even a song about where missing socks go.
You can listen to the title song Dragons Under My Bed right here!
Dragons Under My Bed is available for download on Amazon by individual song or full CD. You can also check out Kath Bee's site where you can listen to more songs and buy cd's.
Dragons Under My Bed song recording and cover art copyright Kath Bee 2006.
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(108 Poems & Songs, 199 Pages, with Links To Recordings)
This book is all about bugs! Bug rhymes, bug poems and even a couple of bug songs. Some are short to enjoy with young kids. Some are longer and tell a whole story.
Most of the songs and poems include links to web pages where you can listen to recordings - and sometimes even watch video performances!
You'll find 108 poems and songs, including:
• The Spider and The Fly
• There Was a Bee Sat on a Wall
• 1, 2, 3, Me Mother Caught a Flea
• Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me
• The Hearse Song
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"Bitcoin Turmoil, Power Supply Composition Ratio Review, Revised Banking Law"
As mentioned in the 6th May, 2021 issue of this Weekly Report, there is a phase in Bitcoin price trends that affect the stock market. On 19/5, the price of Bitcoin in terms of USD temporarily dropped 28.5% to $30,681 from the previous day's close following the announcement of new regulations in China, and on the same day, the US Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 500 points from the previous day's close. Although the closing price of Bitcoin recovered to $37,000 at the end of the day, and the closing price of the NY Dow recovered to 164 points lower than the previous day, headwinds continued the following day on the 20th, as it was reported that the US administration's tax reform is scheduled to include a reporting requirement to tax authorities for remittances of crypto assets of $10,000 or more. It is therefore important to continue to pay attention to the cyclical ups and downs associated with the coming half-life of mining rewards every four years.
As for investing in Japanese stocks, it is important to note that Tesla's stock price and the price of Bitcoin have become increasingly correlated since the purchase of Bitcoin by US electric vehicle (EV) maker Tesla (TSLA), and that sales of Tesla's EVs in the Chinese market, which had been a driving force behind Tesla's growth, had fallen sharply in April from the previous month. Panasonic (6752), which supplies Tesla with lithium-ion batteries for EVs, Sumitomo Metal Mining (5713), which supplies Panasonic with cathode materials for batteries, and Nippon Denko (5563), which is contracted by Sumitomo Metal Mining to manufacture some of its cathode materials, could be affected if the "Tesla risk" materializes.
On 18/5, the IEA (International Energy Agency) released a report aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to virtually zero by 2050. While the report is said to be used as a reference document for "COP26", which is scheduled to be held in Scotland this coming November, the IEA had stated that, in order to achieve real zero emissions, nearly 90% of electricity must be produced from renewable energy sources and most of the rest from nuclear power by 2050. It further states that annual global energy investment needs to be raised from the current $2 trillion to $5 trillion by 2030. In the run-up to COP26, discussions on the revision of the power supply composition ratio for 2030 are becoming more and more active in Japan. The share of nuclear power generation in Japan's power source mix fell to 4% last year, and the debate over nuclear power generation is likely to have a major impact not only on the Japanese stock market but also on the political situation.
In addition, on 19/5, the revised Banking Act was enacted, which will allow banks to engage in temporary staffing, system sales, data analysis, and advertising, and is expected to come into effect in November. Restrictions on the maximum amount of investment in business companies will also be relaxed, and this is expected to open up a whole new world of profit opportunities for banks. A full-fledged correction in the level of regional bank stocks, which have been routinely left undervalued as low PBR (price-to-book ratio) stocks, can therefore be expected.
In the 24/5 issue, we will be covering Taisei Corp (1801), MRT Inc (6034), Komatsu Ltd (6301), and Kawasaki Heavy Industries (7012).
Taisei Corp (1801) 3,980 yen (21/5 closing price)
・After Kihachiro Okura founded the Okura Gumi Shokai in 1873, the company's predecessor, the Nippon Doboku Co., Ltd, was spun off and established in 1887. One of the largest general contractors, engaging in civil engineering, building works, development, and other businesses.
・For FY2021/3 results announced on 14/5, net sales decreased by 15.5% to 1.4801 trillion yen compared to the previous year, and operating income decreased by 22.2% to 130.516 billion yen. Amid sluggish private-sector capital investment and construction investment, the postponement of construction starts and the suspension of construction work due to Covid-19 had impacted revenue negatively, and the deterioration of profit margins in the civil engineering and development businesses had led to a decline in profit.
・For FY2022/3 plan, net sales is expected to increase by 10.8% to 1.64 trillion yen compared to the previous year, and operating income to decrease by 31.0% to 90.0 billion yen. Reason for the forecasted decrease in profit is that the busy season related to the Olympic Games has passed, and the number of large-scale construction projects before completion will decrease as a result. In addition to the development of concrete technology that uses calcium carbonate to trap CO2, subsidiary Taisei Rotec is also planning to test and install a self-healing asphalt coating, which is being jointly researched with Aizawa Concrete in Hokkaido, in the current fiscal year.
MRT Inc (6034) 1,311 yen (21/5 closing price)
・Established in 2000 as a mutual aid organization of doctors at the University of Tokyo Hospital. Company develops a medical information platform business for physicians focusing on the introduction of part-time and full-time physicians via the Internet.
・For 1Q (Jan-Mar) results of FY2020/12 announced on 14/5, net sales decreased by 8.3% to 531 million yen compared to the same period the previous year, and operating income turned into a loss of 63 million yen from a profit of 23 million yen in the same period of the previous year. The operating loss was affected by a 10.6% YoY increase in SG&A expenses due to an increase in human resources to secure medical personnel for the Covid-19 vaccine.
・For FY2021/12 plan, net sales is expected to increase by 9.3-17.1% to 2.8-3.0 billion yen compared to the previous year, and operating income to range from minus 35.7% – plus 2.1% to 170-270 million yen. Vaccination of the elderly with the Covid-19 vaccine is now in full swing in many areas, and the opening of large-scale vaccination centers for the Covid-19 vaccine is scheduled for 24/5 in Tokyo and Osaka. Company is responding to an increase in job offers from medical institutions and local governments by dispatching potential nurses, preparing activity manuals, and providing vaccination training.
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Video: Venezuelans Beg Americans Not To Adopt Socialism that Destroyed Their Country
By C. Douglas Golden
Published February 8, 2019 at 12:14pm
If a president, during a State of the Union address 50 years ago, uttered the words "America will never be a socialist country," the threat he was talking about would have been the Soviet Union. After all, socialism and communism got little traction in the United States, even during the Great Depression. The idea that anyone would consent to have it imposed upon them democratically would have been patently absurd.
Not so much in 2019. As President Donald Trump said that line during his speech before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, in the chamber was a self-described socialist who currently sits second in the polls for the Democratic nomination for president. Another self-described socialist has become a media darling and is known, after just one month in office, by her initials alone.
That was surprising enough. What was even more surprising is the fact that the rest of the Democratic side of the chamber didn't applaud, as well.
But that's the thing about socialism: It's hot right now. It was hot down in Venezuela once upon a time. Now, a loaf of bread will probably cost you as much as a car, except it's hard to tell since most Venezuelans would be hard pressed to own either.
In a video posted by Campus Reform earlier this week, Cabot Phillips went out to talk to Venezuelan expatriates in Washington, D.C. to talk about the impact socialism has had on their home country, a country where socialist President Nicolás Maduro is desperately holding onto power as protests rage and international governments begin to recognize the opposition figure, Juan Guaido, as the country's legitimate leader.
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Phillips began with one simple question for the Venezuelans: "What would be your message to people who think socialism would be a good idea here?"
"Look yourself in the mirror of Venezuela and Cuba. You do not want anyone even close to socialism to come to this country," one man said, almost putting a period after each word.
"People are eating from trash bags in the street," another woman said. "So, how has socialism actually helped the country?"
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"From the perspective of people who've lived through failed socialism, it's very hard to accomplish," another interviewee said.
"It doesn't work the way the book says it works because we're human and we have imperfections and socialism is too perfect to be true," said another.
But this was perhaps the best warning: "I don't think any Venezuelan can really like socialism because we've seen it put in place very well," one woman said.
Later, she added ominously: "We also thought that this could never happen in our country. We had a balance of powers. We had democracy and we elected our leaders."
And look what happened.
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This is what happens when you elect socialists. Keep in mind, Hugo Chávez was insanely popular in Venezuela, particularly when oil prices were high and the spigot was flowing.
Now, even if oil prices rise, Venezuela won't be able to profit because the Chávez government refused to invest in oil infrastructure, preferring to redistribute that money; hence, production is way down. Then there's hyperinflation, the fact that Máduro's own people are revolting and the fact that a growing number of countries don't even think he's the rightful president.
And that's where we come back to the United States.
"Bernie Sanders is your enemy," one of the men said. "Do not ever get involved with this individual or any of the other socialists."
Sanders swears that his socialism isn't the socialism of Venezuela. Let's pray we never find out.
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C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal for four years.
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Kleinveld, D.J.B., Sloos, P.H., Noorman, F., Maas, M.A.W., Kers, J., Rijnhout, T.W.H., Zoodsma, M., Hoencamp, R., M.W. Hollmann (Markus) and N.P. Juffermans (Nicole)
The use of cryopreserved platelets in a trauma-induced hemorrhage model
Transfusion , Volume 60 - Issue 9 p. 2079- 2089
Background: Cryopreserved platelet products can be stored for years and are mainly used in military settings. Following thawing, cryopreserved platelets are activated, resulting in faster clot formation but reduced aggregation in vitro, rendering their efficacy in bleeding unknown. Also, concerns remain on the safety of these products. The aim was to investigate the efficacy and safety of cryopreserved platelets in a rat model of traumatic hemorrhage. Study Design and Methods: After 1 hour of shock, rats (n = 13/group) were randomized to receive a balanced transfusion pack (1:1:1 red blood cell:plasma: platelet) made from syngeneic rat blood, containing either liquid stored platelets or cryopreserved platelets. Primary outcome was the transfusion volume required to obtain a mean arterial pressure (MAP) of 60 mmHg. Secondary outcomes were coagulation as assessed by thromboelastometry (ROTEM®) and organ failure as assessed by biochemistry and histopathology. Results: The transfusion volume to obtain a MAP of 60 mmHg was lower in animals receiving cryopreserved platelets (5.4 [4.1-7.1] mL/kg) compared to those receiving liquid stored platelets (7.5 [6.4-8.5] mL/kg, p < 0.05). ROTEM® clotting times were shorter (45 [41-48] vs. 49 [45-53]sec, p < 0.05), while maximum clot firmness was slightly lower (68 [67-68] vs. 69 [69-71]mm, p < 0.01). Organ failure was similar in both groups. Conclusions: Use of cryopreserved platelets required less transfusion volume to reach a targeted MAP compared to liquid stored platelets, while organ injury was similar. These results provide a rationale for clinical trials with cryopreserved platelets in (traumatic) bleeding.
Persistent URL dx.doi.org/10.1111/trf.15937, hdl.handle.net/1765/130795
Journal Transfusion
Kleinveld, D.J.B., Sloos, P.H., Noorman, F., Maas, M.A.W., Kers, J., Rijnhout, T.W.H., … Juffermans, N.P. (2020). The use of cryopreserved platelets in a trauma-induced hemorrhage model. Transfusion, 60(9), 2079–2089. doi:10.1111/trf.15937


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La Società Educazione Fisica (SEF) Virtus è una società polisportiva di Bologna, tra le più antiche d'Italia.  Nata nel 1871, soltanto dieci anni dopo l'Unità d'Italia, è stata ed è tuttora un punto di riferimento dello sport bolognese. Nella sua lunga storia ha avuto sezioni dedicate alla maggior parte delle discipline sportive.

Il 13 dicembre 1967 a Roma, è stata premiata dal C.O.N.I. con la Stella d'Oro al merito sportivo. Nel 1974 ha ottenuto dal Presidente della Repubblica Giovanni Leone lo status di "ente morale".

Le sezioni attive della polisportiva sono: atletica leggera, baseball, calcio, ginnastica, pallacanestro, scherma e tennis.

Origini

La SEF Virtus nasce come Società Sezionale di Ginnastica in Bologna (il termine "ginnastica" allora indicava il gesto sportivo in genere ed aveva un significato più ampio di oggi) il 17 gennaio 1871, "sul far della sera", per iniziativa di una manciata di persone tra cui figurava il medico e ginnasiarca Emilio Baumann.

Il primo simbolo scelto, che appare ancora nello stemma della società, accanto alla più celebre Vu nera, rappresentò le quattro effe disposte a croce romana, iniziali di Forte, Franco, Fermo e Fiero, che erano le quattro virtù che il buon ginnasta doveva possedere, un simbolo ispirato dalle teorie di Friedrich Ludwig Jahn.

Nel 1889 la compagine sociale inserì, per la prima volta, nella propria denominazione il termine Virtus, diventando Società Ginnastica Educativa Virtus. Il nome cambiò ancora in Virtus Gruppo Sportivo Bolognese nel 1920, in Società di Educazione Fisica Virtus nel 1922 ed in Virtus Bologna Sportiva nel 1935, fino al definitivo nome adottato dal 1945.

Negli anni le sezioni sportive della società si moltiplicarono, andando a coprire quasi tutte le discipline più popolari. Molte di queste non sono oggi più attive.

Discipline

Atletica leggera

La nascita della sezione di atletica è segnata ufficialmente nel 1899 sulle ali dell'entusiasmo provocato dai Giochi della I Olimpiade. In verità l'atletica è stato fin dall'inizio lo sport principe fondatore dell'anima virtussina. Bisogna ricordare che a quei tempi non esistevano le Federazioni e la Federazione Ginnastica Nazionale Italiana si occupava di molte discipline, tra cui quelle che oggi appartengono all'atletica leggera. Basti pensare che la prima manifestazione sportiva pubblica organizzata dalla Virtus di cui si ha nota (riportata sul giornale del tempo La Ginnastica) era essenzialmente una esibizione di atletica: una "marcia forzata lungo i viali di circonvallazione della città" svolta il 4 aprile 1871.

Palmarès

In oltre 140 anni di storia la Virtus è stata una delle principali società italiane di atletica, almeno fino agli anni '60. Nonostante le difficoltà economiche attraversate nel recente passato, la società è ancora presente nel panorama dell'atletica italiana, e non ha mai smesso di fornire atleti alle rappresentative azzurre. Nel suo palmarès sono presenti cinque medaglie olimpiche, due conquistate ai Campionati europei, tre alle Universiadi e due ai Giochi del Mediterraneo, oltre a 10 atleti olimpionici, 1 oro, 1 argento e 3 bronzi ai Mondiali Universitari, 120 titoli individuali ai Campionati italiani Assoluti, 6 titoli tricolori a squadre, 47 atleti azzurri in Nazionale A e un'ottantina di record italiani. La storia dell'atletica virtussina è legata soprattutto a tre nomi: Ondina Valla, Claudia Testoni, Pino Dordoni, tutti e tre membri della Hall of Fame della FIDAL, senza dimenticare Gabriele Salviati, Tullio Gonnelli e Giorgio Oberweger, anch'essi medaglie olimpiche.

Anni recenti
Dopo che la FIDAL ha deciso di limitare lo strapotere dei corpi sportivi nel 2008, la Virtus è sempre stata presente nelle prime cinquanta posizioni della graduatoria dei Campionati italiani di società di atletica leggera. Nel 2016, per la prima volta nella sua storia, ha partecipato alla Finale Argento (prime ventiquattro squadre italiane) di tali campionati disputatasi ad Orvieto, mentre nel 2017, in ragione del posizionamento dell'anno precedente, ha disputato la Finale Oro (prime dodici squadre italiane) valida per l'assegnazione dello scudetto, presso Modena, per la prima volta nella sua storia.

Baseball

La Sezione Baseball della SEF Virtus è regolarmente affiliata alla Federazione Italiana Baseball Softball.
Dopo aver disputato nella sua storia anche alcuni campionati di Serie A2 (baseball) e di Serie B nella seconda parte degli anni novanta, attualmente, oltre a partecipare nelle categorie giovanili con diverse proprie squadre, è presente con la squadra seniores nella Serie C del Campionato italiano di baseball.

Calcio
Dopo aver dato vita alla sezione calcio nel 1910, partecipando nello stesso anno alla Coppa Emilia e al girone regionale di Terza Categoria, nel primo dopoguerra la Virtus si trovò all'improvviso tra le protagoniste del calcio italiano. Nel 1920, infatti, una delle numerose rappresentative del calcio bolognese di allora, il Gruppo Sportivo Bolognese, ammesso l'anno precedente in Prima Categoria, per sopravvivere nel calcio di alto livello chiese l'affiliazione alla gloriosa polisportiva, entrando a far parte della sezione calcio. La nuova squadra adottò la maglia a scacchi bianchi e neri del G.S. Bolognese. Nel 1922, all'interno della sezione calcio, la Virtus assorbì un'altra squadra cittadina, il "Nazionale Emilia Foot-Ball Club", che giocava in bianco-blu.

La Virtus partecipò a quattro campionati di massima serie, con risultati decorosi, ma al termine della stagione 1923-1924 venne squalificata e, in seguito, definitivamente radiata per un illecito sportivo.

Attualmente esiste una sezione della SEF Virtus che disputa il campionato Provinciale di Seconda Categoria, giocando le partite casalinghe all'impianto del Pilastro.
Anticamente, giocava le sue partite interne sul suo campo sito a Bologna in via Luigi Valeriani 50 (ancora esistente).

Cronologia

 1920 – La Virtus assorbe la società Gruppo Sportivo Bolognese diventando Virtus Gruppo Sportivo Bolognese.
 1920-21 – 4ª nel girone B emiliano di Prima Categoria.
 1921-22 – 2ª nel girone finale emiliano di Prima Categoria (campionato FIGC).
 1922 – La Virtus assorbe il Nazionale Emilia Foot-Ball Club diventando Società Educazione Fisica Virtus Bologna – Sezione Calcio.
 1922-23 – 7ª nel girone A di Prima Divisione Nord.
 1923-24 – 12ª nel girone A di Prima Divisione Nord: retrocessa in Seconda Divisione.
 1924 – Squalificata e successivamente radiata.

 Colori
 1910:  S.G.E. Virtus
 1920-1922:  Virtus G.S. Bolognese
 1922-1924:  Virtus Bologna

 Calciatori in nazionale
  Giuseppe Giustacchini (1 presenza)

Football americano
Nel 1995 nasce la Virtus American Football Team, affiliata alla polisportiva SEF Virtus Bologna, dallo scioglimento dei Warriors Bologna. La compagine disputa per alcune stagioni il campionato di arena football, e la serie A per una sola stagione, nel 2000. Nel 2003 la Virtus AFT riprende il nome di Warriors.

Ginnastica
La sezione ginnastica della SEF Virtus, è la più anziana delle sezioni della S.E.F., fondata il 17 gennaio del 1871.

Nelle sue file hanno militato le medaglie olimpiche Giuseppe Domenichelli e Adolfo Tunesi.

Con la chiusura, ad ottobre 2013, del Centro Sportivo Sterlino "Giulio Onesti", l'attività della ginnastica è stata sospesa per mancanza di impianti. L'attività stessa riprende però nel corso del 2015 nella cosiddetta "palestrina" in attesa che vada a bando la palestra principale

Pallacanestro

La disciplina per cui la SEF Virtus è più celebre è sicuramente la pallacanestro. La sezione di questo sport fu fondata tra il 1927 e il 1929 da cinque giovani provenienti dall'atletica leggera. La Virtus pallacanestro diventerà una delle principali società cestistiche italiane, vincendo 16 titoli nazionali e numerosi trofei internazionali.

Dal 2019 la Virtus Pallacanestro schiera anche una squadra femminile, la Virtus femminile, che milita in Serie A1.

Pallavolo

Assorbendo la squadra delle fonderie Calzoni, dal 1962 la Virtus militò in massima serie anche nella pallavolo. Allenata da Odone Federzoni, vinse due scudetti nel 1965-66 e nel 1966-67; in quest'ultima stagione offrì la miglior prestazione di una squadra nel campionato nazionale, vincendo tutte le ventidue partite e perdendo solamente sei set nell'arco dell'intero torneo.

La Virtus Pallavolo militò in Serie A fino al 1974 quando, per carenza di sponsor, si ritirò dal campionato e abbandonò l'attività.

Scherma
La sezione di scherma è una delle più antiche della polisportiva, essendo stata fondata nel 1873. Uno degli schermidori bianconeri più celebri fu Giampaolo Calanchini, vincitore di due medaglie olimpiche nella sciabola a squadre negli anni '60.

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Tennis
La sezione tennis della SEF Virtus, inaugurata nel 1925, ha notevolmente contribuito alla popolarità di questo sport nel capoluogo emiliano. Nelle sue file hanno militato campioni del tennis italiano del calibro di Omar Camporese, Raffaella Reggi e Tathiana Garbin. Nel suo palmarès figurano 6 Trofei FIT.

Note

Bibliografia
 "I cavalieri della V nera : i 125 anni della SEF Virtus attraverso i suoi campioni". Gianfranco Civolani, Alberto Bortolotti ; con interventi di Emilio Marrese, Lorenzo Sani, Valeria Vacchetti. Nuova Tempi Stretti, Bologna, 1996.
 "Il mito della V nera". A cura di: Achille Baratti, Renato Lemmi Gigli. Poligrafici L. Parma, Bologna, 1972.
 "Il mito della V nera 150". A cura di Alberto Bortolotti, Marcello Maccaferri, Giuliano Musi, Nicola Raule, Marco Tarozzi. Edizioni Minerva, 2021.

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Today on June 7th a day after the end of Swarm community AMA their associated token SWM trades 29.18% higher against the US dollar. SWM is happy to register an increase against the BTC and ETH as well. Respectively with 27.98% and 29.36%. With this marker value and circulating supply of 51,113,355 the market capitalization of Swarm (SWM) reached a value of $31,482,658.
Apparently, after the organized Swarm community AMA that was issued for yesterday June 6th, new investors took the decision to buy some SWM and see whether it will bring them some returns on investments. The increased interest in the token eventually led to an increase of the market value of single SWM token. All the events contributed for 24h volume of $43,957.
It's true that the numbers of its uptrend today are notable but as seen in the chart generated by CoinMarketCap the level of SWM price almost stays still since February 2018.
Swarm is a capital marketplace platform built on blockchain technology that tokenizes funds and other assets. The platform provides access and tradability to anyone who wants to make his crypto funds work for him. Users could buy tokens to participate in the development of different projects and see the opportunity growth. All trades are made through the use of blockchain technology which grants for their speed, transparency and security.
"Our vision for Swarm is to have a wide variety of investment applications built on the same platform technology and liquidity pool."
In order to use Swarm platform one should obtain the token launched by the company known as SWM. It is a standard ERC20 token based on Ethereum that is currently offered on IDEX and Bancor Network crypto exchanges.
There is one issue that Swarm team needs to resolve and it is the poor speed optimization of their website. It takes quite a long time to load all the heavy elements placed on the homepage which could provoke many users to close the website especially when their interest is not strong.
And as long as one of their core objectives is to build a strong community it is good idea to list the project on at least one of the well-known forums devoted to cryptocurrency market.