Mortality rates for the five leading causes of potentially preventable deaths—heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease and stroke—are higher in rural areas, says a study by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Rates are particularly high in rural areas in the South and Southwest, led by Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, Lena Sun reports for The Washington Post.
The top five top causes of death "accounted for 62 percent of the total 1.6 million deaths in the U.S. in 2014," Sun writes. "Among rural Americans, more than 70,000 of the deaths were potentially preventable, the study found, including 25,000 from heart disease and 19,000 from cancer."
The study, which looked at deaths in the five areas from 1999-2014, blamed socio-demographic factors for higher death rates in rural areas. Residents of rural areas "tend to be older, poorer, and sicker than their urban counterparts," states the report. Rural residents also report higher rates of limited physical activity because of chronic conditions.
Republican senators who want to delay President-elect Donald Trump's plans to immediately repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, until a suitable replacement can be enacted, are mostly from states that expanded Medicaid under the law, Sy Mukherjee reports for Fortune. About 20 million Americans stand to lose coverage if the law is repealed and not replaced.
GOP senators from Alaska, Louisiana, Maine, Ohio and Maine"signed on to an amendment Monday that would essentially delay (although non-bindingly) the repeal process by about a month to give congressional committees more time to craft an alternative," Mukherjee writes, noting that Alaska, Louisiana and Ohio have expanded Medicaid. Other Republican senators from Arizona, Kentucky (expansion states) and Tennessee (where the legislature blocked the governor's expansion plan) "recently warned against a hasty Obamacare repeal sans a replacement."
Western ski towns that operate at least partly on federal lands are adding year-round attractions to make up for a decline in tourism dollars from lack of snow blamed on climate change, Allen Best reports for High Country News. "In the East, where most ski areas operate on private or state lands, the push to create non-snow activities began some years ago. The payoff came last winter: At Christmas, many resorts were barren of snow, but New Hampshire's Cranmore Mountain Resort drew visitors by reopening its bungee trampoline and ropes course. At Mount Sunapee, people zipped down a canopy tour line."
"But more than a hundred ski areas on Western national forests were governed by a 1986 law that authorized snow-related activities but provided no guidance for other uses," Best writes. "A 2011 bill sponsored by then-U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, a Colorado Democrat, greatly expanded what ski areas are authorized to do, as long as the new activities and facilities 'encourage outdoor recreation and enjoyment of nature' and 'harmonize with the natural environment'."
"As the Ski Area Recreational Opportunity Enhancement Act was being drafted, some environmental groups fretted that ski resorts would be turned into Disneylands, says Doug Young, then an aide to Udall," Best writes. "So the bill prohibits water parks, swimming pools, golf courses, tennis courts and amusement parks, even as it clears the way for mountain bike parks, ziplines and ropes courses." Vail Mountain in Colorado and Heavenly Mountain in Lake Tahoe were the test centers for summer activities.
The U.S. Forest Service, which charges ski areas for summer activities, has projected "about 600,000 summertime visits to ski areas and almost $32 million in additional direct spending in neighboring communities, with a ripple effect of 500 annual, temporary or full-time jobs," Best reports.
President Obama on Thursday created three new national monuments in the South. "The White House said the president was using his authority to mark the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday by creating two new sites in Alabama, the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument and the Freedom Riders National Monument in Anniston," where a bus was attacked and burned, and the Reconstruction Era National Monument in South Carolina, Jennifer Yachnin reports for Greenwire.
save the A.G. Gaston Motel where Martin Luther King Jr.
had a "war room" before the motel was bombed in 1963.
The hotel, vacant for 20 years, will be restored.
Obama said in a statement: "Today, I am designating new national monuments that preserve critical chapters of our country's history, from the Civil War to the civil rights movement. These monuments preserve the vibrant history of the Reconstruction Era and its role in redefining freedom. These stories are part of our shared history. ... I have sought to build a more inclusive national park system and ensure that our national parks, monuments and public lands are fully reflective of our nation's diverse history and culture."
The Anniston monument will encompass two sites, the bus station where an interracial group of civil-rights activists "rolled into town challenging segregation on interstate buses" and were attacked by a mob, and "the site on Alabama 202 west of town where [the] bus broke down and was firebombed by a white mob," Eddie Burkhalter reports for The Anniston Star. Obama said in his proclamation, "Media coverage of the Freedom Rides inspired many people to take action and join the effort to end racial inequality."
"The Reconstruction monument includes several sites near Beaufort, S.C., which fell under control of the Union Army in November 1861, and became one of the first places where emancipated slaves voted, bought property and created churches, schools and businesses," reports Jennifer Scheussler of The New York Times. "For some historians, the creation of the Reconstruction monument, by the nation's first African-American president, represents a particularly sweet symbolic victory" of a 15-year effort that was opposed by "the Sons of Confederate Veterans and others, and died in Congress. It was renewed in spring 2015." Stephen Fastenau of the Beaufort Gazette reports, "A National Park Service study concluded Beaufort County was the most logical place for a monument to the period during and after the Civil War because of the saturation of important sites."
Obama also expanded two national monuments. The California Coastal Monument, created by President Clinton in 2000 and expanded by Obama in 2014, will be expanded again by 6,230 acres. The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument will add 42,000 acres of public land in Oregon and 5,000 acres in California.
The same conflicts of interest playing out nationally with President-elect Donald Trump are occurring on a smaller scale in West Virginia, Jonathan Mattise and Michael Virtanen report for The Associated Press.
Jim Justice, the billionaire operator of Southern Coal Corp. and owner of The Greenbrier resort, was elected governor of West Virginia, and like Trump, "has refused to shed his holdings, giving assurances he can be trusted to act honorably," reports AP. "Like Trump, he has put his business empire in the hands of family members, though he said as recently as last month that he would put his holdings in a blind trust." Justice, who has around 100 businesses in his name, has real estate, farm and resort holdings. That has raised "questions about how state agencies that answer to him will regulate the safety of his coal mines, consider the tourism tax breaks at his resort, or pursue millions of dollars in past-due state taxes owed by some of his entities."
AP continues, "One difference in West Virginia, though, is that Justice, like some other governors around the country, is subject to more stringent conflict-of-interest rules than even the president of the U.S., who is exempt from the provisions that apply to Cabinet members and other government employees," reports AP. "West Virginia ethics law prohibits public officials, the governor included, from knowingly using their offices for their own private gain or that of someone else. State regulations also bar public officials from profiting from state contracts over which they may have control."
Justice told reporters, "I'm going to try to remove myself completely. In fact, I'm going to remove myself completely from the daily decisions, the decisions that they make. But I want you to realize just this: What is the alternative? I mean, is it best to just close the businesses that I have? They generate tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars to our state. It would be frivolous to do that. It'd be absolutely the stupidest thing in the world to do. I don't want a thing—and absolutely I want to underline that—you can't bring me anything to my business that's going to be beneficial to me in any way."
fake news story he read on the internet.
Facebook is joining the fight against fake news, Sarah Frier reports for Bloomberg Technology. The popular social media site, which has 1.79 billion users, is launching its Journalism Project, which "includes stronger partnerships with media companies, greater support for local news and better efforts to educate users to avoid hoaxes."
The project will follow "a year of debate over Facebook's role in the media—inside the company and externally—during which it faced questions over whether the social network is biased in the way it presents news to users and whether it propagates false information," Frier writes. "Members of the media will be updated on the efforts, which include training for journalists and ways to promote news literacy among users, on a new Facebook Journalism Project page."
Facebook officials said they want to educate users "on what news sources to trust—a potentially thorny issue after a controversy last year over its trending topics section, which prioritized news from certain mainstream organizations, but not some popular conservative sites," Frier writes. "The company will work with outside organizations like the News Literacy Project and run public service ads and is open to making financial grants where necessary, Facebook said."
If Congress repeals the health-reform law, struggling rural hospitals, many in regions that strongly supported Donald Trump, could be in danger of shuttering, Shefali Luthra reports for Kaiser Health News. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act "threw a number of life-savers to these vital but financially troubled centers. And its full repeal, without a comparable and viable replacement, could signal their death knell."
Luthra's example is Highlands Hospital in Connellsville, a poor rural town in Southwest Pennsylvania, which has struggled with the loss of coal mining and manufacturing jobs. Trump won Fayette County with 64 percent of the vote. Without Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid, the 64-bed hospital, the town's second largest single employer, could close, costing the town hundreds of local jobs.
"In Pennsylvania, 625,000 people enrolled in the expanded Medicaid program," Luthra writes. "Close to 300,000 came from rural areas, said Andy Carter, president of the Hospital and Health System Association of Pennsylvania. As of October, about 42,700 of Fayette's residents had Medicaid, according to state data, an increase of about 8 percent from 39,460 in June 2015. (Pennsylvania's Medicaid expansion took effect in January of that year.) That's close to one-third of the county's population."
"Rural hospitals have long operated on the edge," Luthra writes. "In the past six years, more than 70 such facilities have closed, citing financial duress. Almost 700 more have been deemed at risk of following the same path. Meanwhile, the need for reliable health care remains pressing. Conditions such as heart and lung disease are widespread in rural areas. Addiction to the prescription painkillers known as opioids is acute. Nationally, the Medicaid expansion offered a bit of stability for some rural hospitals at risk of closure. Researchers say it disproportionately benefited such facilities—particularly here and other states with large rural populations, such as Illinois, Kentucky and Michigan."
This is the third year federal government will apply penalties to hospitals that fall short of patient safety standards, leading one Consumers Union leader to wonder why hospitals aren't working harder to eliminate the infections and complications that are causing them to loose money, Trudy Liberman writes in her column for the Rural Health News Service.
"What I am most frustrated about is the lack of urgency in the country and at the agencies for eliminating these infections," Lisa McGiffert, head of the Consumers Union Safe Patient Project, told Liberman. "They are aware of them, but there's not a sense of urgency to stop them."
"The penalties, along with the entire program to eliminate hospital-acquired conditions, were authorized under the Affordable Care Act," Liberman writes. "They could be in jeopardy if the law is repealed. Some hospitals probably would be happy if they disappeared."
Penalties are levied against hospitals that have a high number of patients with avoidable infections and complications, including blood clots, urinary-tract and surgical-site infections, bed sores and falls. And this year, infections related to antibiotic-resistant infections, like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and C. difficile, have been added to the list.
Medicare will impose a 1 percent cut in payment to 769 U.S. hospitals who fell short of these patient safety standards in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. Since the inception of the penalty program, Lieberman reports, 241 hospitals have been punished in all three years, but 347 that were penalized last year are not on the "bad-guy list."
Critical-access hospitals (by definition, rural) and specialized hospitals that treat psychiatric patients, veterans and children are exempt from the penalties.
Recent controversies surrounding President-elect Donald Trump have done little to quell his popularity in rural eastern Iowa, "the epicenter of the political quake that made Trump president," Trip Gabriel reports for The New York Times. Gabriel, who spent a year living in Iowa leading up to the caucuses in early 2016, recently returned to see if public opinion about Trump had changed in a state that President Obama won in 2012, but that Trump won handily in 2016. More than 30 Iowa counties swung from Obama to Trump.
"Al Ameling, 58, a technical analyst who lives in Marble Rock, near the Minnesota border, is representative of the profound demographic shift among white rural voters in the northern Midwest that helped produce Trump's stunning upset," Gabriel writes. "Ameling voted for Obama in 2008, sat out in 2012 and enthusiastically backed Trump. Nothing he has heard since Election Day has shaken his support, including reports this week that American intelligence agencies are investigating unverified accounts of meetings between Trump aides and Russian officials, as well as salacious activity by Trump in Moscow. On Wednesday, Trump called the allegations completely false."
Gabriel writes, "The Iowans I interviewed largely went about their lives outside the political hothouse social media. They did not follow hour-by-hour developments of the presidential transition. Indeed, on Wednesday, several were unfamiliar with the reports that Russia was holding compromising information on the president-elect, which Trump addressed in a news conference. Many were hazy on specific policy details about how, say, House Republicans were seeking to replace Medicare with a voucher system. These voters feared an outbreak of European-style terrorist attacks by Muslims in the U.S., maybe in their own communities. And overwhelmingly, Trump supporters did not want their hard-earned money redistributed to people they regarded as undeserving."
Farmers clear snow in Harrah, Wash.
Leave it to farmers to save local residents from being snowed under. Snow has piled up so high in the town of Harrah, Wash., on the Yakima reservation, that the snow budget of $500—usually spent entirely on sand—isn't enough, Phil Ferolito reports for the Yakima Herald. So farmers on Wednesday "brought out tractors, front-end loaders and a backhoe to clear snow from roads and parking spaces in the center of town."
The court date for the Obama administration's proposed regulations on horizontal hydraulic fracturing on public and tribal lands has been pushed back until after Donald Trump's inauguration, meaning "the Obama administration will no longer have the opportunity to defend its signature fracking regulation," Ellen Gilmer reports for Energywire. The court date, originally scheduled for Jan. 17, was moved to March 22 to allow extra argument time.
"The Bureau of Land Management rule sets new requirements for well construction, wastewater management and chemical disclosure for fracked wells on public and tribal lands, and was the administration's most high-profile attempt to increase oversight as fracking and horizontal drilling took hold across the country," Gilmer writes. "The rule was finalized in March 2015 and immediately challenged in court by states, industry and tribes."
A district court in Wyoming ruled in 2015 that the Obama administration does not have the authority to regulate hydraulic fracturing on public lands, but the administration said the court made a legal error.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) released a letter he sent to President-elect Donald Trump, dated Jan. 4, proposing ways the incoming administration can revitalize the region's coal industry. McConnell, who has blamed President Obama for coal's downfall, said environmental regulations are largely to blame for the downturn in the industry and that natural gas is not the solution to the nation's energy needs.
"I have concerns about recent shifts away from coal infrastructure in favor of natural gas," McConnell wrote. "Historically, natural-gas prices have fluctuated over time, and continuing to shift our infrastructure away from coal could have harmful lasting economic effects if gas prices shift back to the high levels experienced not long ago." Gas prices have become lower and more stable because of the huge increase in supply caused by horizontal hydraulic fracturing.
McConnell recommended repealing regulations, starting with the Stream Protection Rule, the Obama administration's new regulation aimed at reducing water pollution from surface mining, Dylan Brown reports for Greenwire. "McConnell asked Trump to bar enforcement of the rule by the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. He also asked Trump to support a resolution of disapproval. The Congressional Review Act allows Congress to strike any regulation within 60 days. Republicans have already started the process in the House."
McConnell "urged Trump to stop the federal defense of the Clean Power Plan—carbon-emission limits for power plants—and the Waters of the U.S. regulation defining the federal regulatory reach over wetlands and waterways" under the Clean Water Act, Brown writes. "Trump has said he disapproves of both rules, and U.S. EPA regulations generally."
"McConnell also asked Trump to maintain spending to help Kentucky and neighboring Appalachian states and to help keep the $90 million abandoned mine land pilot project for cleaning up old mines to spur economic development," Brown writes. "He also asked for a long-term solution to the health care crisis facing thousands of retired union coal miners. McConnell, long an obstacle to the effort, recently declared he will push for reform."
UPDATE, Jan. 16: The Times has published several letters responding to Leonard's essay.
The difference between Republicans and Democrats, and the reason Donald Trump was elected president, is the contrasting ways each party views the world, Robert Leonard, news director for Knoxville, Iowa, radio stations KNIA/KRLS, opines in The New York Times:"Political analysts have talked about how ignorance, racism, sexism, nationalism, Islamophobia, economic disenfranchisement and the decline of the middle class contributed to the popularity of Trump in rural America. But this misses the deeper cultural factors that shape the thinking of the conservatives who live here."
Leonard, a self-described liberal, said he had long struggled to understand how his conservative friends and neighbors in Marion County, Iowa, "could think so differently from me, not to mention how over 60 percent of voters in my county could have chosen Trump." Then he met J. C. Watts, a Baptist minister and former Republican congressman from rural Oklahoma.
Leonard writes, "Hearing Watts was an epiphany for me. For the first time I had a glimpse of where many of my conservative friends and neighbors were coming from. I thought, no wonder Republicans and Democrats can't agree on things like gun control, regulations or the value of social programs. We live in different philosophical worlds, with different foundational principles."
And it's not just an older-generation type of thing, Leonard writes. He sees an increasing number of young conservatives in rural areas: "They are part of a growing movement in rural America that immerses many young people in a culture—not just conservative news outlets but also home and church environments—that emphasizes contemporary conservative values. It views liberals as loathsome, misinformed and weak, even dangerous."
Study author John Wright said that in 93 of those counties—all won by Trump—"the share of manufacturing jobs is three times higher than the national average," Paquette writes. Wright "said areas with dense manufacturing sectors particularly pulled for Trump, perhaps because he came to represent hope for a struggling industry. Traditional manufacturing jobs in the U.S. have sharply declined since 2001, dropping, by his calculations, from 12 percent of the workforce to today's 8.2 percent."
"Trump promised throughout the campaign to bring back American jobs, the kind vanishing across the Rust Belt," Paquette writes. "Exit polls and interviews suggest voters believed him."
Large-market insurers negotiate lower prices for doctor-office visits than small-market insurers, says a study by researchers at Harvard Medical School published in Health Affairs. For example, "Insurers with market shares of 15 percent or more negotiated prices for office visits that were 21 percent lower than prices negotiated by insurers with shares of less than 5 percent." Small-market insurers are more likely to be in rural areas.
Researchers suggest mergers as a way to give providers the wiggle room to negotiate lower prices, Max Ehrenfreund reports for The Washington Post. "Since doctor's offices often agree to calculate all their prices using a single formula, these figures suggest that a group of doctors working in an independent office could increase their revenue by nearly 20 percent if they sold out to a larger partnership."
One problem with the study is that the data from 2014 could be outdated, Ehrenfreund writes. "The numbers reveal little about how recent mergers might have affected the strategic situation for participants in this market or about how future mergers might affect premiums for ordinary people." Diana Moss, an economist and the president of the American Antitrust Institute, said "one possibility is that mergers among insurers will induce doctors and hospitals to conglomerate as well, which in turn will encourage greater consolidation in the insurance sector."
Sign at the library in Clearwater, Kan.
In an attempt to combat internet dead zones, some rural libraries have begun "circulating cellular-based hotspot devices, similar to a cell phone," that provide internet anywhere cellular service is available, reports the Daily Yonder.
What began as an urban project has been spreading to rural areas, the Yonder reports. In 2015, the New York Public Library (NYPL), the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Public Library system piloted a hotspot lending program for New York residents without broadband at home." NYPL has since "partnered with 24 rural libraries in Kansas and Maine to see how the program might be different in more remote areas. Some libraries in Kansas chose to continue their programs by coming up with their own funding source."
At the Goodland Public Library in northwestern Kansas, the program has been so popular that after funding ended the library "continued the hotspot lending program on its own, funding the $40-a-month cost for each device with help from the library board," reports the Yonder. "Goodland Library negotiated with Verizon and obtained unlimited, unthrottled data services; regular cellular wireless plans often have a monthly cap on data usage. Currently, Goodland has one device it loans out for short term uses and the remaining devices have a loan period of seven days."
Peabody Memorial Library in Jonesport, Maine, has enjoyed success through the program, reports the Yonder. "With 13 devices total and occasional wait lists, the director estimates that 40 to 50 families have taken advantage of the hotspot devices, with at least 20 families consistently relying on one." In Jonesport, where more than 20 percent of the population lives in poverty and 60 percent of students receive free or reduced price lunches, students with school-issued laptops get first choice on the devices.
Black and Hispanic drivers in Vermont are stopped and searched at higher rates than other drivers, even though white and Asian drivers are more likely to be found with contraband, says a study by researchers at the University of Vermont and Cornell University. The study, which used 2015 data from 29 law-enforcement agencies—covering 78 percent of the state's population—found that black drivers are four times more likely than white drivers to be searched, and Hispanics three times more likely than whites. Asian drivers are less likely to be searched than other drivers.
Warnings were given to black drivers 58.9 percent of the time, Hispanics 56.4 percent, whites 62 percent and Asians 60.6 percent. When it comes to tickets, black drivers receive one 40.6 percent of the time, Hispanics 42.1 percent, whites 37.4 percent and Asians 38.7 percent.
"The study is the first examining traffic policing and race following a 2014 state law mandating the data collection," Elizabeth Murray reports for the Burlington Free Press. While no state agency has been tasked with analyzing the data, law enforcement officials who attended a press conference Monday where the study was released, "said the data will be useful in examining current practices and informing training and supervision going forward."
Vermont is one the nation's most rural and least diverse states, with 94.8 percent of the population white, according to a 2015 report from the U.S. Census Bureau. Hispanics make up 1.8 percent of the population, blacks 1.3 percent and Asians 1.6 percent.
Region where rusty patched bumble bees have been found.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has named the rusty patched bumble bee an endangered species. Much of the natural habitat of the bees, grasslands and tallgrass prairies in the Upper Midwest and Northeast, "have been lost, degraded, or fragmented by conversion to other uses," states the agency. Increased use of pesticides, parasites and disease also suggest why the species has lost 87 percent of its population in the past 20 years and is now found in 13 states and Ontario, Canada, after having been found in 28 states.
Agri-Pulse reports, "FWS said that while it is 'difficult to pinpoint exactly when the species' decline began, data show that the bee's 'precipitous declines' became apparent around 1995 and continued into the early 2000s, a period that 'coincides with increased neonicotinoid use.'"
Bayer CropScience and CropLife America said "the decline began before neonics began to be widely used and that bees are, in fact, able to coexist with corn and soybeans," reports Agri-Pulse. "Bayer, for example, said that FWS did not consider field studies that 'have found no adverse effects when bees are placed near treated crops and allowed to forage naturally.' FWS acknowledged 'that there are studies that did not find adverse effects, but that 'the totality of data … suggests some insecticides kill bumble bees and others cause sublethal effects.'" Agri-Pulse is subscription only, but can be viewed by clicking here.
Last year was the second warmest year on record, says a report released Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA found that the average annual temperature was 54.9 degrees Fahrenheit, 2.9 degrees above average. The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service had called 2016 the warmest on record, finding its average to be 58.64 degrees, 0.36 degree higher than the record high set in 2015. Records have been kept for 122 years.
Another clean-coal plant, operated by Mississippi Power, a subsidiary of Southern Co., was supposed to be the first commercial clean-coal facility, but delays have put the project several years and billions of dollars behind schedule. It is now set to be operational on Jan. 31, Mooney reports. The "plant has been designed to turn lignite, a type of coal, into a gas called syngas, stripping out some carbon dioxide in the process. The syngas is burned for electricity and the CO2 is ... shipped to an oil field to aid in additional oil recovery."
Christa Marshall and Edward Klump report for Energywire, "Analysts say the plants are starkly different, considering that one involves a retrofit of a plant that captures CO2 after burning coal and the other involves gasifying coal and pre-combustion capture. Along with building a gasification plant from scratch, Kemper is testing its new Transport Integrated Gasification technology to turn coal into synthetic gas for the first time."
President-elect Donald Trump "hasn't specified in detail whether he supports CCS incentives," reports Energywire. "The leading proposal in Congress to boost CCS is expanding an existing tax credit for carbon storage called Section 45Q. It remains unclear, though, how much an expansion would help prompt new projects by itself, particularly on power plants."
In 2010 Kentucky had 39 "dry" counties (where all alcohol sales are banned), 32 "wet" counties (sales are allowed), 20 "moist" counties (contain some wet jurisdictions) and 29 "limited" counties (sale by the drink in restaurants meeting certain criteria). All the dry counties were rural; several have since gone wet or moist.
For the study period the mean lab-seizure rate was 2.17 per 100,000 residents in wet counties, 2.26 in moist counties and 3.92 in dry counties. The highest rates of lab seizures were along the border of Tennessee, a state in which beer is generally available but stronger drink is less so.
Christopher Ingraham of The Washington Post reports, "After running some statistical tests, the researchers found that this is more than just a simple correlation." They said, "Our results add support to the idea that prohibiting the sale of alcohol flattens the punishment gradient, lowering the relative cost of participating in the market for illegal drugs."
The UofL research "fits in with other findings showing harmful effects of localized alcohol prohibitions," Ingraham writes. "A 2005 paper in the Journal of Law and Economics found that when Texas counties changed from dry to wet, their incidences of drug-related mortality decreased by 14 percent as people substituted alcohol for other drugs. Records from the Kentucky State Police show that dry counties tend to have higher rates of DUI-related car crashes than wet ones, presumably because when you live in a dry county, you have to drive farther to get your booze. A 2010 report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that binge drinking rates were often higher in Alabama's dry counties than its wet ones."
The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, a Native American tribe in Wisconsin, "has voted against renewing agreements allowing Enbridge Inc. to use their land for a major crude oil pipeline," Nia Williams reports for Reuters. "The Bad River Band decided not to renew easements on Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline last week because of concerns about the risk of oil spills, and called for the 64-year-old pipeline to be decommissioned and removed." Bad River Tribal Chairman Robert Blanchard said in a statement: "As many other communities have experienced, even a minor spill could prove to be disastrous for our people."
Calgary-based Enbridge, Canada's largest pipeline company, "said it had been discussing the easement renewals since before the agreements expired in 2013 and the pipeline had operated safely through the reservation since 1953, Williams writes. The company said in a statement on Monday: "We are surprised to learn of the Bad River Band's decision not to renew individual easements within the reservation for Line 5 after negotiating in good faith for the past several years."
The Obama administration said Monday it will act quickly on plans by North Carolina's recently elected Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper to expand Medicaid in the state, William Douglas and Lesley Clark report for McClatchy Newspapers. President-elect Donald Trump has said repealing federal health reform, of which Medicaid expansion is the most expensive part, is one of his first priorities after taking office at noon Jan. 20.
Cooper last week sent a letter to federal officials "alerting them of his intention to expand Medicaid, which currently covers 1.9 million North Carolinians and costs $14 billion a year," reports McClatchy Newspapers. "Two-thirds of the expense is paid for by the federal government."
North Carolina Republicans in the House and state legislature responded with "a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Acting Administrator Andrew Slavitt, urging him to reject Cooper's expansion plan," McClatchy reports. They "said Cooper's move was illegal because a 2013 state law prevented the governor from seeking expanded Medicaid coverage without the state legislature's support." They wrote: "Any governor of North Carolina does not have the legal authority to submit a Medicaid expansion plan to CMS. Such actions would commit the state to approximately $600 million in new spending each year."
Farmers are growing more pessimistic about their current condition, but have become more optimistic since the presidential election, though their views vary with income, according to the DTN/The Progressive Farmer's Agricultural Confidence Index.
Surveys of 500 farmers in December produced an index of 98, on a scale where 100 or above indicates optimism. The figure was way up from 72 in August.
Farmers are surveyed three times per year, "before spring planting, just prior to harvest, and at year's end, to determine their opinions about their current economic situation and about that situation in the year to come," Greg Horstmeier reports for DTN. "Those answers create a score for farmer's 'current condition,' how they feel about their businesses at the time of the survey, and a score for their 'future expectations' for the coming year."
The current conditions are not good. "Commodity prices show little sign of more than minor price blips to cash in on," land and input costs show only minor relief, and "acreage estimates for 2017, along with weather predictions, give little chance of a short U.S. crop," Horstmeier writes.
So, why are future expectations so optimistic? "The only thing you can tie that positivity to is the election. Farmers have a lot of hope for the new president," said Robert Hill, principal of Caledonia Solutions and the creator of the index,.
The future-expectations score varied with income. Farmers earning $100,000 to $249,999 a year were at 112.6, those making $250,000 to $499,999 had a score of 129.9, and those with incomes of $1 million or more scored 79. Hill said the results suggest "that farmers in the lower income levels were more concerned with regulatory and other non-profit-related issues that a Trump presidency has promised to remove. Larger farmers, faced with a higher level of concern over land costs, employee needs, and commodity prices in general may put those worries ahead of the more emotional regulatory issues."
Last year was the hottest on record, says a report by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service. Researchers found that global surface temperatures in 2016 averaged 58.64 degrees Fahrenheit, 2.3 degrees "higher than estimated before the Industrial Revolution ushered in wide use of fossil fuels," Alister Doyle reports for Reuters. Temperatures last year were .36 degrees higher than the record high temperatures in 2015.
President-elect Donald Trump got 81 percent of the votes of white evangelicals—a group often consisting of older Americans who long for the good old days of the 1950s when minorities had fewer rights, Sarah Pulliam Bailey writes for The Washington Post. A 2016 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 74 percent of white evangelicals believe American culture has mostly changed for the worse since the 1950s, compared to 62 percent of African Americans and 57 percent of Hispanic Americans who think the culture has changed for the better.
Take Mount Airy, N.C. (Best Places map), birthplace of Andy Griffith and the town many believe to be the inspiration for Mayberry on The Andy Grffith Show. The town is in Surry County, North Carolina, which Trump easily won, 23,210 to 7,280 for Hillary Clinton. The county of 73,170 is 92.3 percent white, and Mount Airy is 84 percent white, 8.2 percent black and 6.7 percent Hispanic.
Thresa Tucker, whose husband is a Baptist pastor in Mount Airy, said "African Americans who have voiced concerns over what Trump will do for the poor would have a different perspective if they tried harder to help themselves," Bailey writes. Tucker told her, "I think black people think they're owed something. I think if they acted differently, people would be apt to help them." Tucker "later added that some white people expect handouts, too."
Outgoing Environmental Protection Agency head Gina McCarthy says one of her biggest regrets was a failure to connect to rural America, Valerie Volcovici reports for Reuters. McCarthy told Reuters, "We tried to change the outreach and messaging in rural America in a number of ways, but . . . has it changed the rhetoric that people hear? It hasn't. We couldn't get it, but I wish we had."
The EPA chief sometimes rubbed rural folks the wrong way and inadvertently offended people. That was evident during her failed attempts to explain EPA's expanded definition of "waters of the U.S." under the Clean Water Act to farmers, in which she called their concerns about the rules "silly" and "ludicrous," words she said were taken out of context.
"McCarthy said her struggle to convince rural Americans that a clean energy economy can also provide jobs was a major disappointment in a four-year tenure that she felt was mostly positive," Volcovici writes. "She said crafting the country's first carbon regulations for power plants and taking strong enforcement actions against companies like Volkswagen—accused of cheating on emissions tests—were high points that proved the agency's serious approach."
She said she "tried to build more visibility and stronger partnerships in rural communities to emphasize the value of the EPA's role, particularly in protecting local air and water," Volcovici writes. "But she said political baggage around the term 'climate change' had hampered those efforts. She told Reuters, "Just because climate continues to be bandied about as a partisan issue instead of just a science issue, it's made EPA's job more difficult." McCarthy also said coal-mining communities "unfairly blamed the EPA for a downturn in the industry that began decades before the regulatory shift against carbon, and which has accelerated because of competition from natural gas."
The opioid epidemic, which is disproportionately rural, shows no sign of letting up any time soon, says a New York Times investigation that looks at the impact of painkillers on communities in Arizona, California, Iowa, Massachusetts, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin.
"Public health officials have called the current opioid epidemic the worst drug crisis in American history, killing more than 33,000 people in 2015," reports the Times. "Overdose deaths were nearly equal to the number of deaths from car crashes. In 2015, for the first time, deaths from heroin alone surpassed gun homicides."
"This epidemic is different from those of the past in significant ways. One is that it has spawned a growing demand for medications that can help modify addiction's impact," Abby Goodnough writes in a story that looks at rural Marshalltown, Iowa. "For people in this rural community of 28,000, getting medication to help overcome opioid addiction used to require long drives to treatment centers."
In Nogales, Ariz., on the Mexican border, Customs and Border Protection agents last year "seized more than 930 pounds of heroin in Arizona, which is almost one-third of all heroin seized along the entire southern border," Fernanda Santos writes. "Agents acknowledge that they catch only a small fraction of what goes through. Much of the heroin that enters this country comes hidden in cars, concealed in suitcases, squeezed inside hollowed fire extinguishers, or strapped to the thighs, crotches and chests of Mexicans and Americans who cross between the two countries."
In Huntington, Utah, "There are few options for drug treatment in the high desert of central Utah, a remote expanse of struggling coal mines, white-steepled Mormon towns and some of the country's highest opiate death rates," Jack Healy writes. "The lone doctor licensed to prescribe one addiction-treating drug has a waiting list. The main detox center is the county jail. The rate of prescription overdose deaths among the 32,000 people sprinkled across two neighboring counties in this corner of Utah is nearly four times the state average. Addiction has rippled through ranks of miners who relied on pain pills after years of digging coal and working in the power plants."


Sorry for disappearing the last couple of weeks. I had my first wholesale order and it has kind of buried me. Wholesaling seems like such a great idea but I never realized the amount of time it would take to supply such a large order in such a short amount of time. Especially over the summer with all the kiddos at home. I realize that balancing your day is the key to success in any endeavor, but these last few weeks I have totally thrown that idea out the window. Usually I set aside a few hours a day dedicated to my work so the rest of the day I can spend playing, but these days I find myself multitasking. Inviting friends over to visit, sitting by the pool, even watching a movie with my hubby is all spent crocheting in order to finish this order. Don't get me wrong I am grateful for this opportunity, but at least I have learned what I am really capable of and what my terms will be for the next one.


Over the years, Nobu has grown exponentially. What was initially a small Japanese restaurant in the United States (the inimitable Matsuhisa) started by celebrity chef Nobu Matsuhisa has become over 40 high-end restaurants scattered across the globe, in places as far-ranging as Miami, Manila, Dubai, Beijing, Moscow, Cape Town and our very own Kuala Lumpur.
What has given Nobu a gilt edge over other restaurants of its calibre is the celebrity fairy dust that has shaped its success – Nobu's major partner is Academy Award winning actor Robert De Niro, and the high-end chain counts customers like the Kardashians, Madonna, Cindy Crawford and Tom Cruise as regulars.
Nobu Matsuhisa recently released the cookbook, World of Nobu, a mammoth tome – rumoured to be his last cookbook – that recounts his personal journey and the signature dishes that made him famous (like black cod miso and new style sashimi).
What makes this cookbook a lot richer (and significantly heavier) is the recipes contributed by over 70 Nobu chefs from all over the world, including KL's own chef Philip Leong.
To celebrate the launch of the book, Nobu KL has launched a seven-course 'World of Nobu' omakase experience (priced at RM600++) for the whole of March, featuring signature dishes from selected Nobu chefs across the globe.
The kin medai bagna cauda with wasabi aioli soy cream offers incredibly fresh fish against a rich aioli.
The sushi selection is courtesy of Nobu KL's new sushi chef Chico Datar.
Highlights from the menu include the kin medai bagna cauda with wasabi aioli soy cream, created by chef Toshiyuki Shiramizu from Nobu Malibu. This is a light offering of petal-soft red fish, complemented by pops of richness and a slightly potent kick from the wasabi aioli soy cream.
Then there is the sushi cup selection from Nobu KL's newly-minted sushi chef Chico Datar. For this course, diners are presented with four different types of sushi presented in receptacles that resemble traditional Japanese tea cups.
Each sushi offers a different flavour experience – the premium tuna belly presents mouthfuls of velvety opulence offset by a citrus-kissed yuzu miso sauce, while the ikura globes offer bursts of umami, which explode in the mouth upon contact.
The Hokkaido scallops are perfectly cooked and incredibly tender and supple.
Then there is the prawn and wasabi salsa combo, which showcases prawns that are plump and supple with an almost collagen-like mouthfeel, juxtaposed against a dexterously well-balanced salsa that has undulating potent notes.
Perhaps the only letdown in this sushi platter is the white fish with crispy shiitake mushrooms. Having sampled the other sushis, this one pales by comparison, lacking that distinct je ne sais quoi that makes the rest of its brethren so memorable.
An euphoric high awaits once you savour the melt-in-the-mouth wagyu.
The aquatic adventure continues with the lobster and kale quinoa salsa, courtesy of chef Andrew Bozoki of Nobu Doha. Here, the kale is a hair's breath away from being crispy, which was probably planned as the texture is just right – crunchy but not shard-like, while the thin slivers of fried bean curd skin add texture and dimension.
The lobster complements all of this beautifully with silken, perfectly cooked flesh that is fat and fluffy to the touch. It's a light, understated meal where all the components come together in melodious harmony.
From chef Taku Sato of Nobu Fifty Seven comes the Hokkaido scallop with pickled fennel and beet sauce. This is a meal that is almost too-pretty-to-eat, with the beetroot sauce forming a flaming red river upon which the scallops rest gently upon. The stars of this meal are the scallops – each one perfectly seared, so the outer bits have a slight crust while the insides offer satin softness. The pickled fennel adds a vinegary touch to the meal while the beetroot sauce delivers an earthy, almost mineral underbelly to the meal.
The highlight of the omakase meal is definitely Nobu Marbella's chef Eleni Manousou's meal of wagyu beef with con hierbas. The wagyu here is exquisite – so tender and buttery, it literally melts upon contact with the mouth. Rest assured, your senses will submit so willingly to the pleasure this meal provides that total silence will prevail for as long as it takes you to finish this dish.
The menu also includes chef Philip Leong of Nobu KL's cold inaniwa chuka with caviar and watercress soup, (a noodle dish) and chef Kei Hasegawa of Matsuhisa Bevery Hills' dessert of sakura-saku. Unfortunately, we didn't have time to try either, but given the reputation of both chefs, it's safe to say a promising ending awaits.


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An immersion hand-held blender (a stick-shaped mixer) It's important to use an electric mixer rather than stirring by hand.
1. Using a emersion blender, mix the cottage cheese and the flax oil until the two are completely combined and you no longer see any oil. It will resemble a smooth cream dip.
2. Add honey, cinnamon, and coconut palm sugar, blend.
3. Grind flax seeds, sprinkle on top or fold into the mixture.
4. Serve with organic apple slices, eat within 15 minutes while the flax oil is still fresh!
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You will not believe how delicious this is!!! Its tastes like a bowl of cold chocolate pudding!
1. Process all ingredients in a blender or by using a hand-emersion mixer, until smooth. Add more milk and/or other ingredients if needed. Chill.


DiversiTech Corp., a leading aftermarket manufacturer and supplier of highly-engineered components for residential and light commercial heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC/R), announced it has acquired Stride Tool LLC.
Based in Glenwillow, Ohio, Stride Tool is a global OEM manufacturer of quality American-made specialty hand tools. The company's flagship brand, Imperial, was established in 1905 and enjoys a market-leading presence among HVAC/R technicians. The company's other notable brands include Milbar (wire twister tools and kits), Lakeland Products (tube fabricating equipment) and Bright Solutions International (supplier of leak detection products and specialty hand tools). Stride Tool maintains a manufacturing facility in Solon, Ohio, and manufactures a variety of other products for tube working, automotive, electrical and industrial applications. The company also holds a strong patent history, with more than 60 total patents.
The acquisition enables DiversiTech to expand its HVAC/R tool product offering and increases the company's US manufacturing capabilities from five locations to six. The company already offers a broad portfolio of complementary tool products through its hilmor line, which was acquired in 2018. New products gained through the acquisition including tube working tools, HVAC/R manifolds and hoses, wire strippers and other related products.


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Interview with Film director Isaki Lacuesta winner of ¨Gaudí¨ Catalan Film Award 2018
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Isaki Lacuesta has just been awarded with the Catalan film Gaudí award for directing the best feature film "Entre dos Aguas (Between Two Waters)" in spanish Language, which was already the winner of the ¨Concha de Oro (golden shell) Award¨ at San Sebastián International Film Festival 2018.
"Entre dos Aguas (Between Two Waters)" was shot twelve years after the documentary ¨La leyenda del tiempo (The legend of time) ¨, premiered in 2006 – Lacuesta´s first film about flamenco singer Camarón de la Isla, with Isra (his main character) on the film.
In "Entre dos Aguas (Between Two Waters)", Isra returns to the Island of San Fernando some years later, to try to find his wife and daughters.
I had the opportunity to interview Isaki Lacuesta personally, and congratulate him for his success.
While inside the Gaudí award ceremony venue,
Hello Isaki, please tell us a little about how did you decide to make this movie?
Well, I got the idea running in my head since I made a trip to the island of San Fernando in the year 2000. We went on vacation there, and fell totally in love with the place, and its people.
Filming over there was a very intimate project, since the main characters grow from being children to becoming teenagers. It could be said that I was inspired by Truffaut's trilogy with Apu. And when the film ¨Boyhood¨ appeared in theaters, it helped me more to tell our story a little better.
2. What has been the most difficult part of filming "Entre dos Aguas (Between Two Waters)"? Can you tell us any anecdote?
The hardest thing was to look for crabs with Isra in the mud, and we realized how cheap it is to eat seafood, because of the difficulty of picking it up.
The mud totally covered us to the knees, and even sucked our shoes.
We had to shoot with the cameras sunk to the waist, and it was really complicated. Just the thought that they do it every day to be able to survive with their family, it blows my mind!
3. How is your relationship with the actors of the film, and with Isra in particular?
Friendship, affection, respect, and admiration.
I have no better words to define it. I have seen Isra grow up since he was 12 years old, and I have been able to share his own experience of falling in love. We spend a lot of time living together while we shoot, and love is very important in human relationships.
I think I've been very lucky with the actors and actresses I work with, because we get along very well, and I'm very happy to work with them, as many times as needed.
4. Your previous film that was already awarded with the Gaudí statue ¨La próxima piel (The next skin)¨ had the Catalan actor Alex Monner as the main character, and the Spanish actress Emma Suarez as his mother -who was awarded with the ¨Goya¨ film award for her role. What was it like to work with them?
Well, this has been my fifth nomination to the Gaudí awards, and I am delighted to have won it again.
There are actors with whom I have a special relationship and with whom I could do many other films, among which are not only Emma and Alex, but also Sergi Lopez, and Barbara Levi – who is already preparing her role in my new project.
5. Now that you have won the Gaudí award again, how does It feel?
You have to go to any festival without expecting much. You have to take them and value them in their true meaning. They are a lottery, and if you are lucky, you win. Like in any game.
Being a winner does not mean that you do not have to work afterwards, because you often work even more, and in reality it is your work that is at stake.
And not winning does not mean that your movie is not good, but this is just a competition: sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. It depends on many factors: the jury, the audience, how good the other films are, etc.
But winning really does provide you with a lot of media attention, which sometimes helps audiences discover works that would not have gone to watch, otherwise. But as far as I know, only the Forqué prizes have an economic endowment in Spain, so the money does not come from the awards- at least, not directly.
6. You already won a ¨Concha de Oro (golden shell)¨ award in San Sebastian film fest for "Los Pasos Dobles (double steps)" in 2011, what did it mean to you to win the shell again in 2018 for "Entre dos Aguas (Between Two Waters)"?
Winning the ¨Concha¨ award back in 2011 made me very happy because the jury that selected my film were people that I admired. I really loved them, and I was even able to talk to them right on the spot! It was a dream come true.
In the Catalan ¨Gaudí¨ awards, as well as in the Spanish ¨Goya¨ awards, it is a more relaxed atmosphere full of colleagues, where we meet and value each other´s work.
9. Would you like to win an Oscar and get to the top? Or you're not that ambitious and you're already happy with your work?
Yes, I would love to win an Oscar.
It's something I had not thought about until this year, but I think I would really like to win it, and now it's almost become a challenge - so I've started my new project with that goal in mind. I hope to win the Oscar, yes. Hopefully! (smiles).
10.What would you say to a film student who wants to become a director? Any advice?
Do what you like best, with full passion, and above all, with a lot of determination.
You do not have to make movies as a form of investment, because there is a lot of good cinema that does not return too much economically.
I believe that you have to make your dreams come true, not those of other people. Because any project tends to have its issues, and if you are the one who must solve them, it is better that you solve your own.
Thank you very much Isaki, and congratulations for all your awards.
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Fairly positive I'm the only person sharing a hot soup recipe smack dab in the middle of August. Let's roll with it, ok?
I first made this simple carrot soup (very loosely inspired by this garam masala carrot soup) a few weeks ago when I was visiting my oldest sister in California. With a four month old baby keeping her and my brother-in-law busy, I figured it would be the perfect thing for them to heat up for quick lunches (or an even easier dinner) the following week.
I can't quite explain it, but it's always a treat for me to cook in someone else's kitchen. The restriction in using whatever I have on hand in that moment actually makes me more creative. Recipe testing is part and parcel of this job, but I love the freedom of improvisational cooking. Throwing together an assortment of ingredients, tasting, adjusting, and tasting some more.
It took me nearly two decades to gain that type of confidence in the kitchen and honestly, regardless of my cooking experience, it always amazes me a little bit when I get it right.
First and foremost, improvisational cooking allows me to focus on the task at hand: creating balanced food that simply tastes good.
As luck would have it, that on-a-whim carrot soup turned out so tasty that I mentally noted the ingredient quantities to remake and share it with you later. Unlike this vegan garam masala carrot soup, today's simple carrot soup has a very classic flavor profile made up primarily of carrots, leeks, and thyme.
I was originally going to hold off on sharing this recipe until the fall, but after eyeing all varieties of carrots at the farmer's market in the past week or two, I decided I couldn't wait any longer. Plus, if you're anything like me, soup is appropriate any day of the year!
Whenever I have soup in the fridge, I've found that eating healthier throughout the day is a little bit easier. Not only are homemade soups filling, but they allow me to get in lots of vegetables servings throughout the day. While this one does contain a splash of heavy cream, this soup is no different.
As I've mentioned in the past, simple soups are all about tasting and adjusting. This is especially important if you're using just a handful of ingredients as this recipe does.
If a soup tastes flat, it most likely needs one of two things: salt or a splash of acid. Most likely both.
For this recipe, acid comes in the form of red wine vinegar, which enhances the natural, sweet flavor of the carrots. You won't even taste it. Leeks offer a more subtle allium flavor than traditional yellow onions and are my preferred base for traditional soups. Thyme adds a lovely, delicate herbal note. Lastly, the splash of cream helps balance all of the flavors and makes this soup even more delicious. Don't skip it!
Heat the olive oil and butter in a large pot over medium-low heat. Add the sliced leeks, sprinkle with kosher salt, and sauté (without allowing them to gain color) for 8 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the leeks are soft and beginning to turn translucent. Add the dried thyme and garlic and sauté for 1 to 2 additional minutes, stirring frequently, until fragrant.
Add the carrots, a pinch or two of salt, and stir the mixture together. Pour in the chicken broth and water, and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer for 20 to 30 minutes, or until the carrots are very soft and tender.
Transfer the soup to a blender (or alternatively, you can use an immersion blender), and puree until mostly smooth. I prefer to keep this soup slightly more textured, but feel free to blend it as smoothly as you wish.
Pour the soup back into the pot, heat over low, stir in the heavy cream until incorporated. Add the red wine vinegar. Season to taste with salt and pepper. If the soup is too thick, add a touch of hot water and season again as needed. Serve hot and garnish with a drizzle of plain yogurt, drizzle with extra virgin olive oil, and herbs as desired.
I can't wait to try this. I am not a huge fan of fresh carrots, but this really sounds yummy!
We have a saying in our house – It's never too cold for ice-cream and never too hot for soup!
Oh my gosh, I LOVE that! Thanks Susan!
Sounds great, I can't wait to try! Thank you.
I love improvising in the kitchen! I find it fun and easy way to create something new and delicious. This soups looks amazing and I really like the addition of thyme there.
I love improvising my meals… start with something and just see where the process takes you. The biggest problem with it is when you find that sweet spot of a recipe, you don't know until it is done and I don't have anything written down.
This is an absolutely great recipe. The combination of dried thyme with carrots and leeks and the addition of vinegar is very tasty. I had a small roasted beet in the fridge which I puréed into the soup, and it adds some more taste and nutrition. I left some of the carrots chunky for texture. This will be a new go-to soup for me!


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package net.dubboclub.cricuitbreaker.filter;

import com.alibaba.dubbo.common.Constants;
import com.alibaba.dubbo.common.extension.Activate;
import com.alibaba.dubbo.common.extension.ExtensionLoader;
import com.alibaba.dubbo.common.logger.Logger;
import com.alibaba.dubbo.common.logger.LoggerFactory;
import com.alibaba.dubbo.common.utils.ConfigUtils;
import com.alibaba.dubbo.rpc.*;
import net.dubboclub.cricuitbreaker.exception.CircuitBreakerException;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;

/**
 * Created by bieber on 2015/4/30.
 * Dubbo服务降级Filter
 * 通过拦截每个方法的请求,并且读取每个方法对服务降级条件的配置
 * 从而自动进行服务降级,以及服务恢复
 */
@Activate(group = {Constants.CONSUMER})
public class RemoteFacadeCircuitBreaker implements Filter {

    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(RemoteFacadeCircuitBreaker.class);

    //用于存储某个方法出现异常的计数器key:interfaceName.methodName,value:对应的异常计数器
    private volatile ConcurrentHashMap<String,BreakCounter> breakCounterMap = new ConcurrentHashMap<String,BreakCounter>();
    //对某个方法异常计数器处理器,用于分析记录的异常到当前实现是否失效了(为了满足在某个时间内出现异常次数),如果失效将从BreakCounter中移除
    private BreakCounterLoop[] breakCounterLoops = new BreakCounterLoop[Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors()];
    //获取dubbo的代理工程扩展
    private final static ProxyFactory proxyFactory = ExtensionLoader.getExtensionLoader(ProxyFactory.class).getAdaptiveExtension();
    //缓存服务降级代理类的Invoker,避免重复创建
    private final static ConcurrentHashMap<String,Invoker> CIRCUIT_BREAKER_INVOKER_CACHE = new ConcurrentHashMap<String, Invoker>();

    private volatile AtomicLong loopCount = new AtomicLong(0);

    public RemoteFacadeCircuitBreaker(){
        String intervalConf = ConfigUtils.getProperty("dubbo.reference.check.break.marker.interval", "60000");
        logger.debug("has already been initialized circuit breaker,check break marker interval ["+intervalConf+"]");
        long interval = Long.parseLong(intervalConf);
        for(int i=0;i<breakCounterLoops.length;i++){
            BreakCounterLoop loop = new BreakCounterLoop(interval);
            breakCounterLoops[i]=loop;
        }
    }

    //获取下一个遍历器
    private BreakCounterLoop nextLoop(){
        return breakCounterLoops[((int) (loopCount.incrementAndGet() % breakCounterLoops.length))];
    }

    public Result invoke(Invoker<?> invoker, Invocation invocation) throws RpcException {
        if(Config.checkFunctionSwitch(invoker, invocation)){
            return wrapBreakerInvoke(invoker,invocation);
        }
        Result result =  invoker.invoke(invocation);
        toBeNormal(invoker,invocation);
        return result;
    }

    private Result wrapBreakerInvoke(Invoker<?> invoker, Invocation invocation) throws RpcException {
        //首先检查是否需要进入服务降级流程
        if(checkNeedCircuitBreak(invoker, invocation)){
            if(logger.isDebugEnabled()){
                logger.debug("activate the circuit break for url ["+invoker.getUrl()+"],invoke method ["+invocation.getMethodName()+"]");
            }
            //进入服务降级
            return doCircuitBreak(invoker, invocation);
        }
        try{
            Result result = invoker.invoke(invocation);
            //将该服务从服务降级中恢复出来
            toBeNormal(invoker, invocation);
            return result;
        }catch (RpcException e){
            //如果是业务异常,则直接返回异常
            if(e.isBiz()){
                throw e;
            }
            caughtException(invoker,invocation,e);
            throw e;
        }
    }

    /**
     * 将服务恢复正常
     * @param invoker
     * @param invocation
     */
    private void toBeNormal(Invoker<?> invoker, Invocation invocation){
        String interfaceName = invoker.getUrl().getParameter(Constants.INTERFACE_KEY);
        String method = invocation.getMethodName();
        StringBuffer methodConfig = new StringBuffer(Config.DUBBO_REFERENCE_PREFIX);
        methodConfig.append(interfaceName).append(".").append(method);
        String methodKey = methodConfig.toString();
        //从其中删除对应的异常计数器
        BreakCounter counter = breakCounterMap.remove(methodKey);
        if(counter!=null){
            //将这个counter设置为失效
            counter.disable();
        }
    }

    /**
     * 这里会判断当前调用服务的状态,分析判断是否需要进入降级状态
     * 如果服务在指定的时间区间内累积的错误,达到了配置的次数,则进入服务降级
     * 如果满足上面条件,并且满足重试机制,则也不会进入降级流程,而是触发远程服务调用
     * @param invoker
     * @param invocation
     * @return
     */
    private boolean checkNeedCircuitBreak(Invoker<?> invoker, Invocation invocation) {
        String interfaceName = invoker.getUrl().getParameter(Constants.INTERFACE_KEY);
        String method = invocation.getMethodName();
        String methodKey = Config.getMethodPropertyName(invoker, invocation).toString();
        int limit = Config.getBreakLimit(invoker, invocation);
        BreakCounter breakCounter = breakCounterMap.get(methodKey);
        if(breakCounter!=null&&breakCounter.enable()){
            long currentExceptionCount = breakCounter.getCurrentExceptionCount();
            long currentBreakCount = breakCounter.getCurrentBreakCount();
            if(logger.isDebugEnabled()){
                logger.debug("check invoke "+interfaceName+"."+method+"() circuit break,current break count ["+currentBreakCount+"],the limit is ["+limit+"]");
            }
            if(limit<=currentExceptionCount){
                if(currentBreakCount>0&&needRetry(invoker, invocation, currentBreakCount)){
                    breakCounter.incrementBreakCount();
                    return false;
                }
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

    private boolean needRetry(Invoker<?> invoker, Invocation invocation, long currentBreakCount){
        String interfaceName = invoker.getUrl().getParameter(Constants.INTERFACE_KEY);
        String method = invocation.getMethodName();
        int frequency = Config.getRetryFrequency(invoker, invocation);
        if(logger.isDebugEnabled()){
            logger.debug("check invoke "+interfaceName+"."+method+"() need retry,current break count ["+currentBreakCount+"],retry frequency ["+frequency+"]");
        }
        if(currentBreakCount%frequency==0){
            if(logger.isInfoEnabled()){
                logger.info("retry invoke "+interfaceName+"."+method+"()");
            }
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    private <T extends Object> Result doCircuitBreak(Invoker<?> invoker, Invocation invocation) throws RpcException {
        String interfaceName = invoker.getUrl().getParameter(Constants.INTERFACE_KEY);
        String circuitBreaker = interfaceName+"CircuitBreak";
        incrementBreakCount(invoker, invocation);
        try {
            if(logger.isDebugEnabled()){
                logger.debug("check has class "+circuitBreaker+" to handle circuit break");
            }
            Invoker<?> breakerInvoker =null;
            if(CIRCUIT_BREAKER_INVOKER_CACHE.containsKey(circuitBreaker)){
                breakerInvoker = CIRCUIT_BREAKER_INVOKER_CACHE.get(circuitBreaker);
            }else{
                Class<T> breakerType = (Class<T>) Class.forName(circuitBreaker);
                Class<T> interfaceType = (Class<T>) Class.forName(interfaceName);
                if(interfaceType.isAssignableFrom(breakerType)){
                    if(logger.isDebugEnabled()){
                        logger.debug("handle circuit break by class "+circuitBreaker);
                    }

                    T breaker =  breakerType.newInstance();
                    breakerInvoker = proxyFactory.getInvoker(breaker, interfaceType, invoker.getUrl());
                    Invoker<?> oldInvoker = CIRCUIT_BREAKER_INVOKER_CACHE.putIfAbsent(circuitBreaker, breakerInvoker);
                    if(oldInvoker!=null){
                        breakerInvoker=oldInvoker;
                    }
                }
            }
            if(breakerInvoker!=null){
                return breakerInvoker.invoke(invocation);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            logger.error("failed to invoke circuit breaker",e);
        }
        if(logger.isDebugEnabled()){
            logger.debug("handle circuit break by exception");
        }
        CircuitBreakerException baseBusinessException = new CircuitBreakerException(Config.DEFAULT_CIRCUIT_BREAKER_ERROR_CODE,"哎哟,系统异常,请稍后再试");
        RpcException rpcException = new RpcException(RpcException.BIZ_EXCEPTION,baseBusinessException);
        throw rpcException;
    }

    private void incrementBreakCount(Invoker<?> invoker,Invocation invocation){
        String interfaceName = invoker.getUrl().getParameter(Constants.INTERFACE_KEY);
        String method = invocation.getMethodName();
        StringBuffer interfaceConfig = new StringBuffer(Config.DUBBO_REFERENCE_PREFIX);
        interfaceConfig.append(interfaceName);
        StringBuffer methodConfig = new StringBuffer(interfaceConfig.toString());
        methodConfig.append(".").append(method);
        String methodKey = methodConfig.toString();
        BreakCounter counter =  breakCounterMap.get(methodKey);
        counter.incrementBreakCount();
    }

    private void caughtException(Invoker<?> invoker,Invocation invocation,Exception e){
        String interfaceName = invoker.getUrl().getParameter(Constants.INTERFACE_KEY);
        String method = invocation.getMethodName();
        StringBuffer interfaceConfig = new StringBuffer(Config.DUBBO_REFERENCE_PREFIX);
        interfaceConfig.append(interfaceName);
        StringBuffer methodConfig = new StringBuffer(interfaceConfig.toString());
        methodConfig.append(".").append(method);
        String methodKey = methodConfig.toString();
        int timeout = invoker.getUrl().getMethodParameter(invocation.getMethodName(),Constants.TIMEOUT_KEY,Constants.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT);
        int limit = Config.getBreakLimit(invoker,invocation);
        //一个异常的有效期,是通过连续出现异常数量乘以每个调用的超时时间,比如你配置连续出现10次异常之后进行服务降级,并且每次服务调用的超时事件是2000ms的话,同时
        //每个服务重试次数是为2次,那么就是在(2+1)*2000*10
        ExceptionMarker breakMarker = new ExceptionMarker(System.currentTimeMillis(), limit*timeout,e);
        if(!breakCounterMap.containsKey(methodKey)){
            BreakCounter oldValue = breakCounterMap.putIfAbsent(methodKey, new BreakCounter(methodKey));
            //返回的oldValue为空,表示之前没有创建了赌赢的异常计数器,则需要对它分配一个loop
            if(oldValue==null){
                nextLoop().register(breakCounterMap.get(methodKey));
            }
        }
        BreakCounter counter=breakCounterMap.get(methodKey);
        counter.addExceptionMarker(breakMarker);
        if(logger.isDebugEnabled()){
            logger.debug("caught exception for rpc invoke "+interfaceName+"."+method+"(),current break count ["+counter.getCurrentExceptionCount()+"]");
        }
    }
}

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According to Korean film industry associates, rising actor Ryu Jun-yeol has confirmed his role in the upcoming film "Taxi Driver" (working title), alongside veteran actor Song Kang-ho.
The film will mark renowned director Jang Hoon's comeback after a five-year hiatus. Jang's noteworthy past works include the films "The Front Line" and "Secret Reunion," in which Song had also starred as the main lead.
The plot of "Taxi Driver" will revolve around the tragic, yet revolutionary May 18 Gwangju Uprising in 1980. The pro-democracy movement has spawned several films in the past such as the 2007 box office hit "May 18" featuring actor Lee Joon-gi.
Song will take on the role of a taxi driver who unwittingly escorts a German reporter into the heart of the revolution. Ryu will also play a significant role within the plot as a university student in the city of Gwangju.
According to an industry insider, there were concerns on whether Ryu would accept the role due to his hectic schedule involving the new drama, "Lucky Romance," which airs its pilot episode on MBC network on May 25.
Filming for "Taxi Driver" will begin soon.
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What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they'll start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. Whoa.
The One Laptop Per Child project started as a way of delivering technology and resources to schools in countries with little or no education infrastructure, using inexpensive computers to improve traditional curricula. What the OLPC Project has realized over the last five or six years, though, is that teaching kids stuff is really not that valuable. Yes, knowing all your state capitols how to spell "neighborhood" properly and whatnot isn't a bad thing, but memorizing facts and procedures isn't going to inspire kids to go out and learn by teaching themselves, which is the key to a good education. Instead, OLPC is trying to figure out a way to teach kids to learn, which is what this experiment is all about.
Rather than give out laptops (they're actually Motorola Zoom tablets plus solar chargers running custom software) to kids in schools with teachers, the OLPC Project decided to try something completely different: it delivered some boxes of tablets to two villages in Ethiopia, taped shut, with no instructions whatsoever. Just like, "hey kids, here's this box, you can open it if you want, see ya!"
Just to give you a sense of what these villages in Ethiopia are like, the kids (and most of the adults) there have never seen a word. No books, no newspapers, no street signs, no labels on packaged foods or goods. Nothing. And these villages aren't unique in that respect; there are many of them in Africa where the literacy rate is close to zero. So you might think that if you're going to give out fancy tablet computers, it would be helpful to have someone along to show these people how to use them, right?
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Q: MYSQL leaking memory on "INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE" queries? EDIT: Looks like the problem is in my C code, since when I print all the SQL to a file, and then feed that in via the command line, the mysqld memory consumption is stable. It must be something that is being missed during the code segment I posted, but according to MYSQL documentation, mysql_store_result should pull the entire result from the server.
Original question for context, C code segment below:
I have 100 MYSQL tables, with 1017 columns each, with 630,000 rows each. I know that normally having this many columns would absolutely be the wrong approach, but for a personal project, it is the simplest solution for what I need to track.
I am doing an INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE statement to set about 5 columns in each row, on every run of my C program, and using the primary key to address them. I do these UPDATEs in batches of 1k to 350k.
No inserts are ever done by this, since all the rows that I address already exist.
After about 20 minutes, the MYSQL process memory growth is pretty clear, since my swap starts being used more and more, and performance slows to a crawl. You can observe the mysqld process memory usage slowly climbing via top, even after only a few minutes. My calling program doesn't grow in memory usage during this process, by MYSQL ends up in the 90%+ range, with the rest in swap.
Additionally, even when I terminate my calling C program and let all the queries finish executing, mysqld is still holding on to a ton of memory, none appears to be getting released, not even that in the swap.
After each query has finished, I run this code in order to clear out the results (I don't use them for anything):
while (mysql_next_result(mysql) == 0)
{
    MYSQL_RES *res;
    res = mysql_store_result(mysql);
    mysql_free_result(res);
}

An example of one of my UPDATE statements, for only 3 rows:
INSERT INTO data.test1_t1 (pkey,v1,v2,v3,v4,v5) VALUES
  (100000,1,1,1,1,1),
  (100001,2,2,2,2,2),
  (100002,3,3,3,3,3)
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE v1=VALUES(v1),v2=VALUES(v2),v3=VALUES(v3),v4=VALUES(v4),v5=VALUES(v5)

My machine is a dedicated Ubuntu 16.04 install, with 32GB RAM and 32GB swap, with MYSQL version 5.7.17, with these modified options in the configuration file:
innodb_buffer_pool_size = 6G
innodb_log_file_size = 1G
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 0

I am using the C API, issuing the queries with mysql_real_query. This program is the only thing accessing the database, and the problem isn't hard to reproduce, so is easy to test. Any suggestions would be extremely welcome.

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Nathan Kane Samara – Career, Age, Relationship, Wife, Net Worth – Bio
Andrew — April 10, 2020 add comment
Life can be draining when you have a famous sibling or two and are forced to live in their shadows. This is what life has been like for Eminem's younger brother, Nathan Kane Samara.
Who is Nathan Kane Samara?
Not many people know this, but Nathan Kane Samara is in fact the younger brother of famous rapper Eminem. Yes, THE Eminem that we have grown to love and admire today.
Nathan was born on 3rd February, 1986 to parents Debbie Mathers-Briggs and Fred J. Samara. Eminem is Nathan's half brother as they share the same mother.
Nathan is an American citizen as he was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He has a mixed ethnicity of being English, German, Swiss-German and Scottish.
In terms of Education, the only thing that is known to the public is where Nathan attended high school. Nathan attended Roseville Elementary School.
Why did the media never know who Nathan is?
Most people would think that having a famous celebrity as a sibling would mean instant fame for the family, however this was not the case with Nathan Kane Samara.
Not much was known about Nathan prior to Eminem giving Nathan the opportunity to receive an award on his behalf at a Detroit Music Event. This could primarily be as a result of the shame and resentment Eminem has felt towards his mother after enduring a traumatic childhood.
Although Eminem has had custody of his brother since Nathan was 16 years old, Eminem probably did not want Nathan to face the same level of criticism and scrutiny that he has faced from the media.
A sorry tale about Nathan's Childhood
Debbie Mathers-Briggs, famously known for being Eminem's mother, is no stranger to controversy as can be depicted in several of Eminem's songs and interviews.
Nathan had a troublesome childhood as a result of having Debbie as a mother. Debbie is known to have a personality disorder which caused her to repeatedly physically and emotionally abuse Nathan.
As a result of being constantly abused by his mother, Nathan has come forward and said that he has no real relationship with his mother and thinks that she is crazy. Nathan was brought up in Detroit by Eminem.
The resentment that both brothers have towards their mother can be seen in their music. Nathan's feelings regarding his mother very clearly depicted in Eminem's rap titled my mom in which Eminem references Nathan. It is a clear indication that both brothers still hold the burden of years of constant physical and emotional abuse and use their music as an outlet.
A shocking twist is that although Nathan has always resented his mother, and has referred to his mother as Mad in 2018 Nathan legally changed his surname from Samara to his mother's surname of Mathers.
This change could be due to the fact that Nathan wanted more recognition and wanted the industry/the world to know that he is in fact Eminem's brother even though they only share a mother. Another cause for change could be because Nathan Kane Samara has always looked up to Eminem his whole life. Eminem has taken up his mother's surname, and Nathan must have wanted to follow in his brother's footsteps for everything.
The relationship Nathan has with Eminem
Eminem is known to be Nathan's half brother and is older to Nathan Kane Samara by a shocking margin. They share an age difference of fourteen years.
Nathan Kane Samara spent his childhood and most of his life till today with his older half-brother Eminem. Nathan has felt that he owes Eminem everything as Eminem is the one who raised Nathan in Detroit.
His relationship with his brother is something that is admirable and often acknowledged by both brothers in the press. Nathan has stated several times that he looks up to Eminem, and hopes to one day follow in his footsteps as a renown rapper.
Not only does Nathan Kane Samara have a super relationship with his Half-Brother, Nathan is also an amazing uncle to Eminem's three kids: Hailee, Alaine and Whitney.
Career: Nathan an aspiring rapper like his brother
Having grown up with Eminem, it is no surprise that Nathan Kane Samara would follow in the footsteps of his famous brother. Although Nathan has not achieved fame the way Eminem has, he is still recognized as being an aspiring rapper as he has written some songs and a few raps.
Nathan's most prominent songs in which his skills as a songwriter and rapper are fully displayed are "Shadow of a Celebrity" and "Slide on Over".
Other than following in Eminem's footsteps for rapping, Nathan Kane Samara has also had a career starring in his brother's music videos. Nathan appeared in Eminem's music video without me.
Even if Nathan's career might be slow, and not as progressive as his brothers, Nathan is still recognizable in the industry all thanks to his brother. On several occasions, Nathan has been given the opportunity to receive awards on his brothers behalf.
One such instance was in 2001 at a Detroit Music Function where Nathan got a chance to receive an award and give a thank you speech on behalf of his brother.
How Nathan is an exceptional husband and a loving father
Nathan Kane Samara is a married man. He shares a life with Ash Mae, with whom he shares 3 kids.
Nathan Kane Samara met his wife Ash Mae in 2001 and instantly sparks flew. The couple did not hesitate and started dating immediately. They dated for 17 years and tied the knot on May 7th, 2018 in Miami, Florida.
There have been no rumors circulating their message concerning infidelity or rumors of a split. The couple seem to be very much in love. Nathan is a dedicated family man and vows to provide his wife and children with the best life he possibly can.
Nathan is not like his mother Debbie
Although Nathan Kane Samara was born to a mother who has been known to be controversial on several occasions, the same can't be said for her son.
Nathan may have grown up in the spotlight with having a famous half-brother, however Nathan has managed to live a low-key life and has never been associated with any controversial rumors.
Aside from a drunk driving incident in 2009 in which Nathan did not allow an ambulance to pass him, there have been no other rumors circulating the aspiring rapper.
Nathan's life in the present day
Nathan's attempt at making it big and following in his brother's footsteps in the rap industry might have been short lived however he is falling in his brother's footsteps when it comes to appearing in movies.
Like his brother who starred in the film 8 Mile, Nathan will be starring in a horror film titled Devil's Night: Dawn of the Nain Rouge. It is a film based on a folklorish legend called "Nain Rouge". Legend states that there is a creature (a red dwarf) who often dwells and hunts in the area around and in Detroit.
The film will be directed and co-written by Sam Logan Khaleghi who was nominated for an Emmy for the 2010 film titled Prison Boat. The screenplayer will be helmed by Aaron Herman Russman. Nathan will be joined by Legends & Lie's Actor Jesi Jensen, D12's Swifty Mcvay, and Bollywood's Napoleon Duraisamy. Shooting will take place in and around Detroit, as well as in Chennai, India.
Nathan may not have achieved success as a billionaire rapper, however we do hope that his career as an actor will kick off after the release of this film.
How much is Nathan worth?
He may not be worth anywhere near to what his brother Eminem is worth, Nathan Kane Samara can still live comfortably considering his net worth and earning's over the years.
It is estimated that Nathan's net worth is priced at $12 million with most of this money coming from his work as a DJ. According to some sources, he earns up to $72,500 annually working as a DJ and also earns a bit extra cash working as a personal trainer. It is said that he has earned around $73,160 annually as a personal trainer.
Aside from normal working gigs, Nathan's net worth can also be contributed to his passive income earnings as a result of his Instagram account. Sources claim that Nathan earns an estimate of $154.5 to $257.5 per post.
Get to know more about Nathan through Social Media
By now, Nathan Kane Samara surely must have acquired a decent fan base following the release of his movie.
Nathan is very active on social media sites such as Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. His followers on each site are as follows:
– Instagram: 40.7K Followers
– Twitter: 18.8K Followers – Facebook: 1.1K Followers
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