Ike Walker

A powerful shot of an osprey snatching its prey from a lake has won the 2020 National Parks Photography Competition, a contest designed to celebrate the natural beauty of the United Kingdom’s 15 National Parks. The contest this year garnered around 1,700 entries under the simple theme, "Inspired by Nature". The winning shot was taken by photographer Pete Stevens, in Scotland’s Cairngorms National Park.

A small protest that was advertised as a "peaceful demonstration" by a local Somali activist group turned into a confrontation outside the Valley News Live studios on Sunday. Protestors confronted a Valley News Live photographer as she attempted to shoot video of the event. Fargo Police removed the protestors from the KVLY property. Moorhead Mayor Del Rae Williams and Fargo's Deputy Mayor Mike Williams also showed up for the event. Both support refugee resettlement in the area.

A wise man once said that the safest way to store date and time values in MySQL is to store Unix timestamps in an unsigned INT column. I agree with Baron, but most of us have to deal with DATE, DATETIME, and/or TIMESTAMP values sometimes, and it’s often useful to know how to convert values from one time zone to another. You can convert a temporal value in MySQL from one time zone to another using the CONVERT_TZ() function.