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The Catastrophic Bowls Of Wrath (Revelation 15)
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Peace Prize Winner Talks Catastrophic Effects of Nuclear War
By Lauren Kelly
Dr. Ira Helfand, recipient of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, discussed the impacts of nuclear conflicts and ways to prevent nuclear escalation on Monday.
The physician is also the co-president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Many young people are "profoundly" uneducated about nuclear weapons, according to Helfand. The physician showed a video, that won first prize in the student category for the Nukebusters 2015 Short Film Contest, which demonstrated how disturbed students are when they hear about nuclear weapon capacity for damage.
Helfand argued that this lack of education is dangerous because it translates to complacency among the next generation of potential anti-nuclear proliferation advocates.
Helfand urged the young people in the audience to take stock of the staet of nuclear weapons today, saying that although they had not been involved in "creating the problem," that this could not be complete because "this problem is not going to go away."
Helfand also described the social impacts of a nuclear conflict — including radioactive contamination, a disruption the global climate with smoke and soot — all of which he said could contaminate in human extinction.
This mass destruction could also result from the degradation of food production throughout the world, according to Helfand. Large drops in temperature, due to a nuclear fallout, could wreck havoc on food staples like corn in the United States and rice i China.
The consequences of nuclear conflict would be global, Helfand said. If a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan occurred, China's Guangdong province, thousands of miles away, would see its rice crops fail completely within a year, and its 37 million residents would starve, according to Helfand.
"We are not in the position on this planet today to absorb this kind of decline in food production," he said. "Grain reserves, as of last month, amount to only about 80 days of consumption worldwide if production stops. This reserve will not provide an adequate buffer in the event of a significant decline of food production."
The scarcity of food could also lead to global hoarding by countries who export food, placing other countries, who already struggle feeding their people at greater risk of famine, according to Helfand. He said these inflated food prices could last for decades. By recent estimates, there are almost 795 million malnourished people in the world, he said.
"All of these people would be at terrible risk if there were a 10 to 30 percent decline in the food available to them," Helfand said.
Shocks would also harm the 300 million people who live in countries that import food as well as many others who are not rich enough to pay inflated food prices. Additionally, nuclear radiation would cause dire health problems and there would be little available treatment, according to Helfand.
"This has lead us to conclude that 2 billion people worldwide could face death by starvation in the event of a limited nuclear war confined to one section of the globe," he said. "This is an event unprecedented in human history, we have never seen anything like the death of a third of the human population in a single decade."
With impacts this great, Helfand stressed that stopping the escalation of nuclear weapon must be made a political priority.
"While this is the future that will be if we do not act, it is not the future it needs to be," he said. "Nuclear weapons are not a force of nature. They are implements which we have built with our own hands and we know how to take them apart. What has been lacking is the political will."
Several steps, such as taking U.S. nuclear weapons off high alert, eliminating tactical nuclear weapons and ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty would have immense significance in creating a nuclear weapon free world, accoring to Helfand.
Helfand ended the discussion by urging public engagement in ending the reliance on nuclear weapons.
"I challenge everyone who is not already involved in this issue to figure out how on this campus you build a movement that helps to educate the general public and our decision makers about the dangers we face, the possibility we have for eliminating that danger, and the urgency in doing so to avoid this catastrophe," he said.
Helfand's lecture was co-sponsored by the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflicts Studies, the Center for Transformative Action and the Episcopal Peace Fellowship and organized by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.
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Berlin will host a new version of the Love Parade in 2022
Rave The Planet aims to replace beloved techno carnival Love Parade in 2022 and has already raised €400,000
Seb Wheeler
A techno carnival similar to the famous Love Parade will take place in Berlin in 2022.
Rave The Planet aims to bring the spirit of the Love Parade back to the streets of the German capital on July 9 2022 and has already raised €400,000 to fund its cause.
The public event was due to take place this year but has obviously been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Organisers say they've "secured and registered" the 2022 date with the relevant authorities in Berlin.
The new parade counts the likes of Oliver Huntemann, Felix Kröcher, Christian Smith, Bebetta, Gabriel Ananda and Mathew Jonson among its supporters and is co-lead by German techno legend and original Love Parade co-founder Dr. Motte.
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Organisers say the parade is based on their "we are one family" ethos and this new movement aims to "protect, promote and develop the culture of electronic dance music in all its forms. And to develop it further."
Other missions of the Rave The Planet movement include the classification of "the culture of electronic dance music as an Immaterial Cultural Heritage under the UNESCO" and to "establish an official celebration of electronic dance music culture, with an annual event: A new parade, in the spirit of the Berlin Love Parade, based on its original values, progressively designed for the 21st century."
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1.6 million people attended the Love Parade at its peak and it was widely regarded as a cultural revolution powered by techno throughout the 90s and, after a short break, the latter half of the 00s. It began in July 1989, mere months before the Berlin Wall fell, and embodied the city's reputation as the heartland of European dance music.
The Love Parade ended in tragedy when a stampede killed 21 people at the 2010 edition of the festival. A trial to hold organisers to account over the deaths began in 2017 but recently ended with no convictions.
Da Hool's tribute to the event, 'Meet Her At The Love Parade', is included as one of Mixmag's best mid 90s trance tracks.
Visit the Rave The Planet website here.
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"REIT brings India's real estate market into the big league and will see new capital coming in. It's important for new money to enter the system and a new financial product coming into the market for retail investors. That the REIT is led by Blackstonebrings a lot of credibility and opens up a big opportunity for foreign investors," said Shobhit Agarwal, managing director and chief executive of Anarock Capital, a property advisory.
"…Blackstone is playing the role of being the fiduciary to the investors and has an eclectic list of investors including large sovereign and pension funds across the globe," he said.
"The REIT promises more transparency into the real estate sector and provides a benchmark. If this goes through successfully, there are a slew of developers waiting to go down this path. Retail investors, who so far have bought office space directly can now invest through this route, which is somewhere in between pure equity and debt," Maheshwari said.
"REIT is one of the most credible ways for monetising assets. So it's a great way for foreign investors like Blackstone to realise their investments. Secondly, it opens up a good financing opportunity from retail investors for developers to build good assets. This (REIT) will also take away a lot of pressure on the banking system. What REIT is going to do is replace LRDs (lease rental discounting) and increases liquidity for the banks but it also provides liquidity for office owners or builders who are developing the office buildings by putting those assets into REIT," said a senior executive with a global investment firm, who requested not to be named.


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I couldn't say enough about how much fun and good food we enjoyed in Destin. We had some wonderful meals and made great memories. I can't wait to go back, but for now, I'll just settle for trying to recreate what we ate. I'll share my hits and misses here.
There was no way we could leave our fabulous time in Destin with a terrible last meal. Luckily, close to our vacation home was Camille's.
Camille's is a tiny place above a scooter/bicycle rental store. I walked to it, and I found it to be quaint and comfy. I waited in the bar for my order to go, and the staff was very nice. The food?
We had the Amazon Roll and Scallop Roll. It couldn't have been better. Fantastic food enjoyed as a family on the balcony at sunset watching the waves.
Now this is the way to end a great trip.
Well, the final meal of our journey was upon us. With only minor glitches, we had a successful trip to Destin both fun- and culinarily-wise. We made it to some places we really wanted to visit. We found some we weren't sure about but that turned out great. We skipped a few once we saw them. We had a big time.
For our last dinner in Destin, we were unsure of what to do. Repeat a restaurant we loved to be sure our last meal was a great one or try something new with our one last chance? We still had plenty of places to go-Staff's, Bayou Bill's, and AJ's just to name a few. We wanted to end with another wonderful meal. The pressure! We didn't want to choose a bad place thus scarring our food memories. We deliberated, and then we decided to try The Crab Trap for our precious last Destin seafood meal.
We started with what was called by our waitress "the most popular appetizer." It was the hot crab dip. Let me save you a trip to Destin here. Just go to your local grocery store. In the deli, there will be a plastic tub of crab dip. Buy it along with a bag of pita chips. There you go. Whatever you can buy wherever you are is just as good as what The Crab Trap serves. It wasn't even warm. The crab in said crab dip? I think they meant crab in a figurative way, cause there wasn't much literal crab there.
My husband wanted one last grouper sandwich. It is his favorite sandwich in all of the Gulf Coast. He has fond memories of some grouper sandwiches that were great. This was not one of them.
I ordered the soft shell crab platter. I hadn't had soft shell crab all week. This was my last chance to have some.
I love soft shell crab. Once, I had a delightful soft shell crab at a restaurant in Memphis. It was my first encounter with soft shell crab outside of watching the Food Network. I have had many soft shell crabs since. Ah, the memories.
Another time, at a local Chinese restaurant where we were eating off the buffet, I found some sort of crab concoction unfamiliar to me. At this restaurant and for the first time ever, I took a bite of the crab whatever-it-was, and I ended up spitting it out in my napkin. Understandable-I should have never tried unfamiliar seafood in Tennessee.
The soft shell crabs at The Crab Trap? The second time I spit something into my napkin. Not understandable at a restaurant on the beach.
First, I ate the legs off one of the crabs. So far, so good. Then, I bit in to the body of the crab. Out went that bite as fast as possible. It was gross. It tasted like sick fish. I mean gross.
The corn on my plate? I got it instead of fries. Not an even swap. It was mushy and flavorless.
I left The Crab Trap in the worst possible way-tired, $75 poorer, and hungry.
It was not the way to end a great trip.
The Old Bay Steamer is not a place to go for a great ocean view. You have to park in the back of stinkin' nowhere and walk a while. The water is no where in view the whole time. As a matter of fact, the sign at the hostess's stands says, "We don't need no stinkin' view." So why go there when you are in the area to see the water? One reason.
The place is dark, dark, dark, and the windows are closed. No sea breeze here. No one in there was wearing a bathing suit. If I had to guess, I would say most were locals. The walls are covered with fine (and not so fine) art without a mermaid or seashell in sight. The music? The Blues, baby. If you didn't know better, you could easily be in Memphis. But I don't think you'll find food like this in Memphis.
We started with the grilled scallops which were served with a spicy sauce and a mango chutney. De-vine. The chutney alone was delish, and the scallops were top notch.
Next was the house salad served in a big bowl with only one choice of salad dressing, a wonderful house vinaigrette that settled finely at the bottom of the bowl. I had three helpings. Don't judge me, please.
One of my kids had a hot dog. The other had the ribs. This ought to be good, I thought.
My husband and I ordered the Big Steamer. It turned out to be a big metal bowl of heads-on royal reds, oysters, clams, corn, potatoes, and crab legs. Everything in the whole bowl was so fresh that it snapped when we tore into it. Snapped, I tell you. I had never seen shrimp or crab legs snap. Usually, they are just mush and squishy shells. We ate every bit.
It was some of the best seafood we'd had all week.
She too ate it all.
In my opinion, restaurants like Applebee's, Red Lobster, McDonald's, and such are fine. I eat at places like these all the time. They will do.
However, I do believe that they have no place at all anywhere around vacation spots. Congress should regulate it. No Pizza Hut within one mile of any condo in the US. The idea of eating at O'Charley's on vacation? Good grief.
People have to be protected from themselves, I believe. Friends don't let friends eat at Olive Garden while on vacation. It's like kissing your sister on the mouth. You just don't do it.
Instead, you go off the beaten path. You go out of your comfort zone. You make memories in special places. You spend a little more to eat than usual. You save for a year to get out of dodge. Make it worth it.
Go to a place like the Acme Oyster House. It is legendary. Famous for its fresh oysters and best known as a spot in New Orleans, it is where you go on vacation.
We did. We found an Acme Oyster House in Sandestin, Florida. It was loud. It was crowded. It was busy. It was awesome.
We started with the charbroiled oysters since my husband didn't feel brave enough for the raw type. This is how oysters are done, my friends. I mean, it was the definition of fresh. I could see the guy shucking the oysters from where I was sitting. They were perfection, and you could see the oysters (unlike another Destin restaurant reviewed here). The only problem was that we only ordered a half dozen. I could have eaten another dozen by myself.
My husband's main course was a pound of steamed crawfish. It couldn't have been better, but again, he could have eaten another pound or two.
I had the Peacemaker, a sandwich with fried shrimp, oysters, and a tabasco mayo. I ate every drop. My mouth was on fire, but I ate it all.
My only regret? We didn't order enough of the oysters and the crawfish. However, I can live with that since we all left full and happy.
We got to eat at a place that otherwise is way off our radar. I hope it's not, but it could have been a once in a lifetime chance. It was a wonderful eating experience. And that is what vacation is supposed to be.
Just as there are two sides to every sunny side up egg, there are two opinions here about Another Broken Egg Cafe. You have my husband's, who is totally entitled to his own opinion even if he is wrong. Then, you have mine.
I'll start with his. In a minute.
Another Broken Egg Cafe is a chain of restaurants specializing in breakfast food in several states primarily in the South. Until I started preparing for this trip, I had never even heard of it. I found it through Fodor's, whom I follow blindly much like the GPS on my car- Stear me to great food, Fodor's! They said to try it, and so we did.
We entered Another Broken Egg Cafe relatively early-but not too early; we are on vacation-and we had to wait. To me, for a breakfast joint, that is a good sign. I can understand waiting at dinner, but breakfast is not a waitable meal to most folks. So the fact that there was a line meant good things to come in my book.
When we went in, the cafe was quaint. The references to the chicken and the egg were there but subtle. It wasn't a cheesy chicken place. I was expecting a hole in the wall, but this restaurant was very nice-almost fancy for that early in the morning.
Awesome. She was in chocolate milk heaven surrounded by non-cheesy looking chickens.
Of course, she wanted whipped cream. She got it in a fancy pink glass with chocolate chips on top. Score one for this place.
Now, my husband's side of the egg. When the waitress came to take our order, my husband ordered French toast. Fine. We were in a very nice restaurant so close to the Gulf that you can see it, and he ordered French toast. I wanted to yell, "We aren't in France, man. Order something off the menu with seafood in it, for Pete's sake. Listen to Fodor's!" Ugh.
His response later was that seafood should not be for breakfast. He went on to say that eggs and seafood do not mix.
His non-seafood French toast was not a success. The bread was wheat bread that was not coated enough with egg. He also thought it should have been fried a little more. It was pretty, but I agree with him. French toast should be thick and sweet. Minus one for this place.
My side of the egg-I held in my urge to order from the scruptious sounding and expensive selection of Bendicts. Instead, I ordered the Floridian, an omelete featuring crabmeat, a butter sauce, and cheese. My breakfast was a success to say the least. The omelet was light and the cheese was not overpowering. The crabmeat-I had plenty. I had a bite of crab and cheese for every bite of omelet. Delish. Score two.
I looked so forward to eating at Another Broken Egg Cafe after seeing it in Fodor's. Most of my family loved it. I hope that someday someone will franchise this cafe all the way to my neck of the country so I can have seafood for breakfast more often. Maybe even my husband will try it if they do.
I looked forward to eating at The Back Porch. It sounded to me like a place my parents would like, and I mean that it a good way. I pictured old seafood restaurant style with boat furniture, old menus stained with butter, and nets everywhere. I anticipated an old-fashioned seafood place.
It wasn't exactly old-school seafood like that, but that was fine with me. It was a bright place outside featuring a large Adirondack chair for the kids to sit in for a quick picture. It also had cats in the yard and a slightly weird smell not related to the cats. After the chair pics and cat hunting, we were in. We had no wait even though we were told to expect up to a ninety minute wait. Once inside, The Smell continued, and it was a little dark in the middle of the afternoon. We ate at an open window overlooking a beach full of people sunning and playing in the sand. Several people walked right up and walked right in dressed in bikinis. I am nowhere near that brave. I eat too much butter for that.
We started off with the Back Porch Oysters, an appetizer of oysters covered with a creamy sauce and cheese. The cheese and sauce together were delicious, but the oysters were hidden in the mix. They were so small and smothered by the sauce and cheese that they could have been left out and the dish would not have been affected that much. Not that I am complaining, I liked the dish a lot. I think the oysters on the half shell would have been a better choice.
My husband ordered the crab legs. I don't get why crab legs are so popular in the South when they are from Alaska. They were good, but run of the mill. You can get crab legs of equal quality on any seafood bar anywhere. He liked them.
I ordered the lobster stuffed mahi-mahi. Why did I order lobster in the South when they are from Maine? Because I could.
It was devine. The fish was fresh, and the lobster was plentiful. The sauce-my word, my mouth is watering just thinking about it. It was creamy and buttery and smooth. The corn on both of our dishes was unreal.
The weird thing on my plate is a twice-baked potato. I took a few bites and then ignored it. At first, I thought it was a weird loaf of bread. Luckily, I wasn't there to eat potatoes.
The Back Porch was good. I would only change a few things for my next visit. I may even bring my parents along.


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18 pessimistic opinions on the next 10 years of fake news (and 5 optimistic ones)
Devin Coldewey	@techcrunch / 2 years
A topic like fake news, or more broadly the question of trust and verification on the internet, is a complex one — a land of contrasts. Sometimes you just have to poll the room and get a feel for what people are thinking before drawing any conclusions. That's what Pew Internet did, contacting thousands of experts in tech, internet and social policy and asking how they thought things would go over the next decade. They were not optimistic!
Well actually, 49 percent were "optimistic" in that they filled in the bubble saying the information environment will improve in the next 10 years; 51 percent filled the other one. So in that way it's split right down the middle. But the hundreds of comments they sent back seem to lean a lot harder on the pessimistic side of things. Their optimism is better described as a distant hope.
For reference, one of the themes identified by the study organizers is "Humans are by nature selfish, tribal, gullible convenience seekers who put the most trust in that which seems familiar." Wonderful!
There are lots (and I mean lots) of interesting opinions in this 92-page collection (PDF), but I sorted through many of them to find the best. Honestly, I didn't deliberately exclude the ones from the "optimistic" side; most of them were just pretty hand-wavy. So without further ado, here is the cream of this dismal crop. (They really are worth reading, though.)
The Pessimists
(Authors' titles are as stated in the survey)
An institute director and university professor:
The internet is the 21st century's threat of a 'nuclear winter,' and there's no equivalent international framework for nonproliferation or disarmament. The public can grasp the destructive power of nuclear weapons in a way they will never understand the utterly corrosive power of the internet to civilized society, when there is no reliable mechanism for sorting out what people can believe to be true or false.
Clay Shirky, vice provost for educational technology at New York University:
'News' is not a stable category – it is a social bargain. There's no technical solution for designing a system that prevents people from asserting that Obama is a Muslim but allows them to assert that Jesus loves you.
A respondent affiliated with Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society:
The democratization of publication and consumption that the networked sphere represents is too expansive for there to be any meaningful improvement possible in terms of controlling or labeling information. People will continue to cosset their own cognitive biases.
Mike DeVito, graduate researcher at Northwestern University:
These are not technical problems; they are human problems that technology has simply helped scale, yet we keep attempting purely technological solutions. We can't machine-learn our way out of this disaster, which is actually a perfect storm of poor civics knowledge and poor information literacy.
Tom Rosenstiel, author, director of the American Press Institute and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution:
Whatever changes platform companies make, and whatever innovations fact checkers and other journalists put in place, those who want to deceive will adapt to them. Misinformation is not like a plumbing problem you fix. It is a social condition, like crime, that you must constantly monitor and adjust to.
Philip J. Nickel, lecturer at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands:
"The decline of traditional news media and the persistence of closed social networks will not change in the next 10 years. These are the main causes of the deterioration of a public domain of shared facts as the basis for discourse and political debate.
Zbigniew Łukasiak, a business leader based in Europe:
Big political players have just learned how to play this game. I don't think they will put much effort into eliminating it.
An internet pioneer and longtime leader at ICANN:
There is little prospect of a forcing factor that will emerge that will improve the 'truthfulness' of information in the internet.
Willie Currie, a longtime expert in global communications diffusion:
The apparent success of fake news on platforms like Facebook will have to be dealt with on a regulatory basis as it is clear that technically minded people will only look for technical fixes and may have incentives not to look very hard, so self-regulation is unlikely to succeed.
Dean Willis, consultant for Softarmor Systems:
Governments and political groups have now discovered the power of targeted misinformation coupled to personalized understanding of the targets. Messages can now be tailored with devastating accuracy. We're doomed to living in targeted information bubbles.
A retired university professor:
Increased censorship and mass surveillance will tend to create official 'truths' in various parts of the world. In the United States, corporate filtering of information will impose the views of the economic elite.
Bill Woodcock, executive director of the Packet Clearing House:
There's a fundamental conflict between anonymity and control of public speech, and the countries that don't value anonymous speech domestically are still free to weaponize it internationally, whereas the countries that do value anonymous speech must make it available to all, [or] else fail to uphold their own principle.
A vice president for public policy at one of the world's foremost entertainment and media companies:
The small number of dominant online platforms do not have the skills or ethical center in place to build responsible systems, technical or procedural. They eschew accountability for the impact of their inventions on society and have not developed any of the principles or practices that can deal with the complex issues. They are like biomedical or nuclear technology firms absent any ethics rules or ethics training or philosophy. Worse, their active philosophy is that assessing and responding to likely or potential negative impacts of their inventions is both not theirs to do and even shouldn't be done.
An executive consultant based in North America:
It comes down to motivation: There is no market for the truth. The public isn't motivated to seek out verified, vetted information. They are happy hearing what confirms their views. And people can gain more creating fake information (both monetary and in notoriety) than they can keeping it from occurring.
A vice president for stakeholder engagement:
Trust networks are best established with physical and unstructured interaction, discussion and observation. Technology is reducing opportunities for such interactions and disrupting human discourse, while giving the 'feeling' that we are communicating more than ever.
Karen Mossberger, professor and director of the School of Public Affairs at Arizona State University:
The spread of fake news is not merely a problem of bots, but part of a larger problem of whether or not people exercise critical thinking and information-literacy skills. Perhaps the surge of fake news in the recent past will serve as a wake-up call to address these aspects of online skills in the media and to address these as fundamental educational competencies in our education system. Online information more generally has an almost limitless diversity of sources, with varied credibility. Technology is driving this issue, but the fix isn't a technical one alone.
Sally Wentworth, vice president of global policy development at the Internet Society:
It's encouraging to see some of the big platforms beginning to deploy internet solutions to some of the issues around online extremism, violence and fake news. And yet, it feels like as a society, we are outsourcing this function to private entities that exist, ultimately, to make a profit and not necessarily for a social good. How much power are we turning over to them to govern our social discourse? Do we know where that might eventually lead? On the one hand, it's good that the big players are finally stepping up and taking responsibility. But governments, users and society are being too quick to turn all of the responsibility over to internet platforms. Who holds them accountable for the decisions they make on behalf of all of us? Do we even know what those decisions are?
A research scientist for the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT:
Problems will get worse faster than solutions can address, but that only means solutions are more needed than ever.
The Optimists
Adam Lella, senior analyst for marketing insights at comScore Inc.:
There have been numerous other industry-related issues in the past (e.g., viewability, invalid traffic detection, cross-platform measurement) that were seemingly impossible to solve, and yet major progress was made in the past few years. If there is a great amount of pressure from the industry to solve this problem (which there is), then methodologies will be developed and progress will be made to help mitigate this issue in the long run. In other words, if there's a will, there's way.
Irene Wu, adjunct professor of communications, culture and technology at Georgetown University:
Information will improve because people will learn better how to deal with masses of digital information. Right now, many people naively believe what they read on social media. When the television became popular, people also believed everything on TV was true. It's how people choose to react and access to information and news that's important, not the mechanisms that distribute them.
A longtime director for Google:
Companies like Google and Facebook are investing heavily in coming up with usable solutions. Like email spam, this problem can never entirely be eliminated, but it can be managed.
A sociologist doing research on technology and civic engagement at MIT:
Though likely to get worse before it gets better, the 2016-2017 information ecosystem problems represent a watershed moment and call to action for citizens, policymakers, journalists, designers and philanthropists who must work together to address the issues at the heart of misinformation.
Frank Kaufmann, founder and director of several international projects for peace activism and media and information:
The quality of news will improve, because things always improve.
That last one may count as the only real optimist of the bunch.


Maddy Loves Her Classic Films is the blogging site for Maddy, a classic movie fan. When I saw she was hosting a blogathon set for today, I asked to participate and she kindly accepted my request. Maddy was wanting to honor an actress who also directed for tv shows and movies, Ida Lupino. Be sure to visit Maddy's blog site to read more excellent posts about Ida Lupino and her career.
I didn't pay much attention to old movies when I was a kid. Sure I enjoyed watching reruns of The Three Stooges, The Little Rascals on tv afterschool, and late on Saturday nights one of the tv stations I could access would air the old Flash Gordon serial. When I was a college student, one summer, the PBS station out of Toledo, OH (Channel 30, I think?) would air old movies beginning at 1:00, M-F. I began tuning in and that is where I first met Ida Lupino, in a drama that whet my appetite for more of these old movies. I credit Lupino's performance in this film with giving me a reason to begin to try and find more old movies, turning me into a classic film fan. The Ida Lupino movie was Deep Valley made at Warner Brothers Studio hitting American movie theaters in 1947.
Deep Valley was based on a novel written by Dan Totheroh. The novel sold well enough with the reading public for Warner Brothers to take notice and acquire the rights to turn the novel into a film. Jean Negulescu was hired to direct, Salka Viertel, Stephen Morehouse Avery, and William Faulkner(yes, that William Faulkner!), were the screenwriters. The soaring music was by none other than Max Steiner. Cast: Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Wayne Morris, Fay Bainter, Henry Hull, Willard Robertson.
Lupino plays Libby Saul, a young woman who lives with her parents north of Big Sur, California. Libbie and her parents(Fay Bainter, Henry Hull) are pretty isolated, working their small farm to make a living. We assume Libbie is a high school graduate but she doesn't leave the farm for a job in any town that may be nearby, and she's certainly not enrolled in any college. She is the "wall" between her parents. For some reason, her parents won't communicate with each other and use Libbie as their communication method. Married, but in name only, it's a miserable home to live in and to get away from this choking, negative environment, Libbie often likes to roam the nearby woods and a deep valley with her dog.
A highway construction engineer and his crew of workers, prisoners from San Quentin, come to the area near the Saul's farm, to continue working on a state road project. Libbie can watch the men working from the woods, and she notices one convict, Barry Burnette(Dane Clark). The engineer, Jed Barker(Wayne Morris) and the convicts come to the Saul's farm one day to ask for water. Libbie's father, at first seeing a chance to make some money, agrees to sell the men water. As Barker decides to walk away from this ridiculous offer, Saul changes his mind and lets them have the water for free. Noticing how Barker notices Libbie, Saul invites the engineer to their home for dinner. It is soon obvious that the Sauls want Libbie to strike up a relationship with Barker that will lead to marriage. Libbie is very shy, but does notice Barker's kindness towards her. However, at the dinner, she asks Barker questions about the convict Barry. As the story picks up some speed, Libbie does meet Barry, they fall in love, and to find out the rest of this film, you'll have to seek it out!
Some questions for you to ponder though: Will Libbie and Barry be able to be together? Barry does escape from the work gang(spoiler) so will Libbie help him? What of Barker, will he be able to convince Libbie to give up on Barry? Will the Saul's find a way to renew their marriage? Will Libbie ever find a happier existance?
Ida Lupino's performance is what held me entranced as I watched this movie for the first time in the mid-1980s. She absolutely makes one care about Libbie; sad, shy, simple Libbie. You root for her in her search for love, search for a better life than the one she has on that farm. Her performance touched me deeply and I still remember that aspect of her acting to this day. I truly feel I owe it to Ida Lupino for my becoming a fan of classic films.
Deep Valley is available to purchase via Amazon or TCM's Shop. If your local library offers dvds to rent, or if your community's local movie rental store has a decent classic film area, it may be there.
I was shocked to see how much Ida Lupino directed. I just discovered "Have Gun Will Travel" in the last year or so and I saw that she directed quite a few episodes and many other TV Shows. I only knew her as an actress…very talented person.
Yes, Ida Lupino was quite talented, even directed several movies.
I'm so pleased to see you became a fan of classic films via Ida Lupino. I bet she's "converted" many a person.
As for this film, I can't believe you left us hanging with so many questions!! 😉 Ah well, guess I'll have to rent the movie to find out the answers. I'm looking forward to it.
I think it is lovely that you can find the roots of your love for classic film through a performance from Ida Lupino. I have not seen this film, but will definitely watch it the next time we cross paths.
This film has eluded me too so far, but your review will certainly make me seek it out. Lupino was an actress of great range, shy and sad here or a completely rotten dame. It's great that Lupino made you a classic film fan.
Yes, Lupino could play bad too. Recently saw her in The Hard Way. Man! Was she evil in that film!
I loved reading your post, Jennie. I especially loved reading that Ida and this film made you a fan of classic era films. I have never seen this film, but am so eager to do so now. It sounds like a lovely film centered around Ida's moving performance. Thank you so much for taking part to help me celebrate Ida.


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Like so many things in life, Red Engine Design started out by accident. Being long time college friends, we both found ourselves several years later working in national newspapers and the music industry respectively. When redundancy struck, Dave found himself freelancing and with more work than he could handle he asked Chris to join him. We both thought it would fill a useful gap until a proper job came along and 23 years later we're still waiting for that proper job! And the name? Well, we're named after the sit in steam engine Chris's Dad made for him as a boy. So now you know!
After starting at Northbrook College of Art, Dave's initial ambition was to be a painter. That was until his lecturer pointed out the difference in salaries between painting and graphic design, so decided his next step would be a course in Visual Communication at Ravensbourne College rather than endless life drawing. Although he was meant to be studying Swiss typography, he spent most of the last two years learning photography, but did manage to graduate with a degree! Following graduation he worked three years as an in-house designer at EMI Classics and two years as an Art Director at Decca Records. His design connection with Chris, goes back as far back as Ravensbourne College, so it was inevitable a partnership would one day come to fruition.
Chris Allanson
Born and breed in the Shires of Dartford, Chris has had an interest in graphic design from an early age, doodling on school exercise books and desks. After spending a few formative years working in picture libraries, an opportunity arose to study at London College of Printing for a Diploma in Graphic Design. Having found his true vocation, studies continued at Ravensbourne College where he met a young and fresh faced Dave Chase. After three years of trying to upset the system, he finally graduated with a degree in Visual Communication Design. Following a two year spell in publishing, he moved to the Evening Standard as a designer on ES Magazine. Then in a rash move he left and formed Red Engine and the rest is history! Married now to the long suffering Judy, any spare time is spent minding number one son Robert and continuing his lifelong and obsessive love of all things two wheeled.


Can be gathered when three or four leaves have formed, or given protection from frost with straw or bracken. Grows well in pots, keeping lower leaves clean.
Tastes like tender young lettuce - invaluable for summer or winter salads.


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Israel rejects Russian offer to keep Iranian forces in Syria 60 miles away
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia, January 29, 2018. (Office of the President of Russia)
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel rejected a Russian offer to keep Iranian forces in Syria some 60 miles from the border with Israel.
Instead, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that Iran leave the country completely, an unnamed senior Israeli official told reporters on Monday following a meeting in Jerusalem between Netanyahu and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Netanyahu also demanded that all long-range missiles that could reach Israeli territory be removed from Syria, the Israeli official said during a briefing, according to Israeli reports.
Israel is concerned that Iran will stockpile "hundreds and thousands of missiles" in Syria. "Iran wants to turn Syria into a second Lebanon. And we're determined to prevent that," the official said.
"The removal of Iran must include the removal of long-range weapons, halting the production of precision weapons as well as the air defenses that protect the missiles, and the closure of border crossing that permit smuggling of this weaponry to Lebanon and to Syria," said the official, according to Haaretz. "Russia has a certain ability to prevent this. They are a significant factor in Syria."
The official said that the two-hour discussion "was a very important meeting at a significant time, during which we delved into many details, produced maps and shared intelligence, and explained in great detail our policy."
The Russian delegation that came to Jerusalem on Monday also included Russian Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov. Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting on Monday that the Russia delegation was in Israel "at the request of President Putin, in a conversation he had with me a few days ago."
Also at the meeting were Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat and IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot.
Prior to the meeting, Netanyahu said, according to a statement from his office: "The link between us is extraordinarily important and it exists, as you have seen, in the direct meetings between myself and President Putin and between our staffs. I appreciated the words that were spoken by President Putin together with President Trump regarding the security of Israel during the recent summit."


The Jersey Journal's Jarrett Renshaw reports that the state's criminal investigation of Hoboken's top construction code official has now expanded to at least one neighboring municipality.
The Attorney General's Office issued a subpoena for records from Weehawken's Building Department earlier this week, Renshaw reports. The Attorney General's Office ordered Weehawken's Building Department to turn over documents by Sept. 17 related to its oversight of construction projects in neighboring Hoboken, according to Weehawken township attorney Rick Venino. Read more about the investigation into Arezzo here.
The Jersey Journal's Jarrett Renshaw is reporting that State Troopers from the Organized Crime Unit went to City Hall yesterday and seized documents from Construction Code Official Al Arezzo's office.
In addition, sources have told Renshaw that a grand jury has been convened in connection with the probe.
Yesterday's scheduled Puerto Rican Festival parade was delayed, then cancelled, and organizers and cops are each blaming the other.
The parade was supposed to kick off at noon in front of City Hall and march up Washington Street to 10th Street, then over to the festival, which also had been held Friday and Saturday on Sinatra Drive.
By 1 p.m., the assembled marchers were told they couldn't have the parade because there weren't enough police available.
Although parade organizers had a permit from the city, police officials said the organizers did not request additional cops be assigned to work that day.
Organizers said they followed the same procedures as they had in previous years - and held meetings with police to discuss how the parade would be managed - and blamed the last-minute cancellation on politics.


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package dbx_conn_impl

import (
	"github.com/watermint/toolbox/domain/dropbox/api/dbx_auth"
	"github.com/watermint/toolbox/domain/dropbox/api/dbx_client"
	"github.com/watermint/toolbox/domain/dropbox/api/dbx_conn"
	"github.com/watermint/toolbox/essentials/api/api_conn"
	"github.com/watermint/toolbox/infra/app"
	"github.com/watermint/toolbox/infra/control/app_control"
	"sort"
)

func NewConnScopedTeam(name string) dbx_conn.ConnScopedTeam {
	return &connScopedTeam{
		name:   name,
		scopes: []string{},
		ctx:    nil,
	}
}

type connScopedTeam struct {
	name   string
	scopes []string
	ctx    dbx_client.Client
}

func (z *connScopedTeam) Connect(ctl app_control.Control) (err error) {
	currentScope := z.Scopes()
	if ctl.Feature().Experiment(app.ExperimentDbxAuthCourseGrainedScope) {
		currentScope = []string{}
	}
	z.ctx, err = connect(currentScope, z.name, ctl, dbx_auth.DropboxTeam)
	return err
}

func (z *connScopedTeam) PeerName() string {
	return z.name
}

func (z *connScopedTeam) SetPeerName(name string) {
	z.name = name
}

func (z *connScopedTeam) ScopeLabel() string {
	return app.ServiceDropboxTeam
}

func (z *connScopedTeam) ServiceName() string {
	return api_conn.ServiceDropboxBusiness
}

func (z *connScopedTeam) Client() dbx_client.Client {
	return z.ctx
}

func (z *connScopedTeam) SetScopes(scopes ...string) {
	ss := make([]string, len(scopes))
	copy(ss[:], scopes[:])
	if !dbx_auth.HasTeamInfoRead(scopes) {
		ss = append(ss, dbx_auth.ScopeTeamInfoRead)
	}
	sort.Strings(ss)
	z.scopes = ss
}

func (z *connScopedTeam) Scopes() []string {
	return z.scopes
}

func (z *connScopedTeam) IsTeam() bool {
	return true
}

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Generally, you can only avoid testifying in court in a limited set of circumstances, especially when you receive a subpoena. Even if you have legally allowable reasons for not testifying, you must first notify the court and other parties of those reasons. Ignoring a subpoena or simply failing to show up in court without the judge's approval may lead to you being arrested for failure to appear. The precise procedures for addressing requests to testify vary between states and federal courts, however, so it may be helpful to consult an attorney.
If a party to a case issues you a subpoena asking you to appear in court and testify, in some instances, you may be able to quash the subpoena, or object to it. To formally object to a subpoena asking you to testify, you will generally need to file a "motion to quash" with the court. In this motion, you will need to outline your specific reasons for not wanting to testify, backed up by either your state laws or federal laws, depending on which court is hearing the case. After you file your motion with the court, the judge will review the order and decide whether you have legitimate legal reasons for not wanting to testify. The judge will then enter a written decision approving or denying your motion. If the judge denies your motion or you do not hear from the court prior to the date stated on your subpoena, you will need to appear in court and prepare to testify.
One reason you may object to testifying is on ethical grounds. For instance, if you are a mental health professional, you may have codes of ethics or laws governing your profession that require you to preserve confidentiality. If you are objecting to preserve confidentiality or comply with professional ethical guidelines, your motion must specifically reference the law or ethical standard under which you are objecting. Discuss the exact reasons that testifying would compromise your professional obligations.
If you have received a request to testify but it would cause significant hardship to do so, the court may agree to quash the subpoena. For example, if you live in California and a court in New York asks you to testify, you may have a valid objection based on distance alone. In this situation, you may be asked to make a sworn statement in your place of residence and submit it to the court. Likewise, if you receive a subpoena close to the court date and do not have enough time to prepare your testimony, the court may quash your subpoena or agree to modify the request to testify in order to give you adequate time to get ready for court.
The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects individuals against testifying against themselves in court. For example, if the court asks you to testify in a criminal case and you believe the court may ask questions that could implicate you in a crime, you may be able to assert your Fifth Amendment rights on the stand. In such circumstances, it may be best to consult an attorney before appearing in court so that you understand what types of questions qualify as self-incrimination and how to properly assert your Fifth Amendment rights.
Green, Anna. "How to Avoid Testifying in Court." , https://legalbeagle.com/5100988-avoid-testifying-court.html. 15 June 2017.


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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916) – D.W. Griffith
Posted by TD Rideout on January 18, 2015 January 9, 2015
The next section of the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book is Historical, with the first one being this epic-sized film, running three hours, that interweaves four stories through the ages. This is a lavishly produced, but lumbering film that was one of the first films that seemed like a real trial to get through.
Interweaving four different tales, all of intolerance, the film slips backwards and forwards through time, as in the present, a young woman, the Dear One (Mae Marsh) finds love with The Boy (Robert Harron), but events conspire to cause them grief, caused by the intolerance of others, resulting in prison, a death sentence, loss of a child because of an unfit mother, all because of a group known as the Uplifters.
Surrounding this tale is the assault on Babylon, caused by warring religious beliefs, and jealousy. This ended up being my favorite of the four tales, as one of the characters, The Mountain Girl (Constance Talmadge), joins in the fight to defend her city from the attackers, all because she harbors a love for the city's leader, Belshazzar (Alfred Paget). The sets are expansive, the amount of extras, and sheer lavishness are stunning. Something like this had never been seen on film before. And honestly, there was enough in this part of the story for it to stand on its own; which was what was apparently done with it, when the original film failed to generate revenue. There is also some very nice stunt work!
There is a story set in Jerusalem, which follows the life of Christ (Howard Gaye) and his teachings against intolerance, culminating, of course in his crucifixion. This one played it safe, and didn't really try to do anything exciting or new.
The third story featured the Catholics against the Huguenots, and ends tragically for a lovestruck couple on opposite sides of the religious conflagration.
This is by no means a boring film, it's just a little overlong, but from a cinematic viewpoint, seeing how everything was crafted and put together, shot, and created, it's incredibly impressive. The sheer production of this film is staggering, such a thing would never be done nowadays, it would all be computer generated set extensions, and computer generated crowds. The Babylon sequences are simply stunning, and for the most part were the bits that kept me watching.
This film is incredible to watch, standing as a fantastic cinematic achievement, Griffith does a brilliant job with his material, it just wasn't as completely engaging as I would have liked.
The attack sequences in Babylon however are top-notch, there are some great camera tricks, including a beheading, as well as impalement, it's a brilliantly executed bit of film.
The modern story, alongside the occasional Christ segment, are the least entertaining of the four threads, and almost all of the things that happen in the modern story seem to hinge on contrivances and coincidence.
Still, it's a fascinating introduction to the genre of historical film, and there are a number of classics coming up that I've heard of but never seen… until now!!
Have you seen this one?
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Preheat oven to 180 deg C.Line a baking tray with parchment paper.In a mixing bowl,mix together peanut butter,sugar and egg until combined.
Roll it into 1 or 1.5" balls.Place on the prepared baking sheet 1" apart.Gently press with a fork to flatten.Bake until golden around the edges for about 10 minutes.Let it cool for 5 minutes before placing them on a cooling rack,as it may crumble easily while warm.
I used homemade peanut butter.If you are using store bought peanut butter(with added sugar),adjust the quantity of sugar,according to your taste.
You can also add 1/2 tsp vanilla extract ,if desired.
If you like chewy cookies,do not flatten the dough too much and bake for exactly 10 minutes.
If you prefer crunchy cookies,flatten the dough a bit more and bake for about 11 to 12 minutes.


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How to Find the Answers You Need
Alyssa Luboff, Ph.D.
Philosopher & Meditation Guide
When you are feeling lost or hopeless, how do you find answers? How do you tap into love and support when you feel alone or unlucky? Listen to find out.
Jamie Keller
It's OK to not be OK sometimes
Working through emotions is the only way to the other side. It's possible, and it's going to be challenging. But it's worth it.
Two Secrets to Letting Go
How to Meditate When You Can't Focus
Will Your Dreams Come True?
The Truth about Feeling Unloved
You Don't Have to Believe in Yourself
How to Get Along with Difficult People
What to Do When Life Is Really Hard
The Truth about Anger
Two Secrets to Hope


I adjusted the car's rearview mirror for the hundredth time. There had been no cars for miles and I know where I have been. I shifted, peeling my leg from the red vinyl seat, my sweat pooling underneath me. I realized why granddad draped a towel on the seat whenever he wasn't showing someone his baby with chest-thumping pride. The Goat, Grandfather of Muscle Cars, Grandad's pride and prized possession. He bought the car, brand new, for $3,500, a lot of money in those days, all the money he had.
The Goat was a red convertible with a black ragtop and a big block V8 engine. In the blistering sun with no AC, I left the top on as I sped down the highway, watching the white lines streaming by, turning solid.
I stole the Goat from Grandad's garage last night. Well, it wasn't really stealing. The car would be mine someday he said, and I left a note. Grandad wouldn't call the cops. I grew up listening to his stories. Stories of him evading the law, hiding out when he was my age.
By now they've told him what Hannah did, what I did. I pulled the chain around my neck working it free from my tee-shirt. The ring raked across my heart as I pulled, scratching my chest. When it popped loose, I pushed it onto my index finger to the first knuckle. A small diamond winked at me. I thought it would be enough. A promise. A place to start. I bought it using all my money.
I'm like Grandad. You don't throw away the things you worked hard for, the things you love. I hold on to promises and the trinkets, thinking they are treasures. Like the weather, life changes. I kiss yesterday goodbye, and I drive.


Rhipsalis is a genus of the Cactaceae of over 60 South American species, mostly of epiphytic cacti. Some species are commonly found in tropical Africa, Madagascar and Sri Lanka, but it is probable that they have been introduced. The genus name comes from the Greek for 'wicker', in reference to the flexible branches of some species. Many have hanging stems, sometimes over 6 feet long. In nature they are hanging from trees, climbing up them, and sometimes sprawling over rocks. The genus Rhipsalis is being cultivated as a potted plant.
The stems are tube-like or flat and leaf-like, and most of the time carry aerial roots. They have small, occasionally fairly long-lasting flowers which can be followed by decorative berrylike fruits. The flowers appear in the stems, opening only at night.


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The Time Has Arrived For a New Family
'Truck Drivers' Keeping Our Households Moving
'Veganizing' Omaha in One Week
Health group pushes farmers to reduce antibiotic use
By Harvest Public Media
Des Moines, IA – Though the FDA recently backed away from a proposal that would ban the use of some antibiotics in livestock feed, health advocacy groups are campaigning to eliminate the practice – and they're taking their message directly to farmers.
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Even though the use of antibiotics in livestock feed has been linked to an increase in drug-resistant bacteria, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently backed away from a 30-year-old proposal that would ban the use of antibiotics tetracycline and penicillin in livestock feed.
Gail Hansen, a veterinarian with the Pew Research Center, says the feed Jeremy Gustafson feeds to his hogs contains antibiotics. (Photo by Kathleen Masterson, Harvest Public Media)
All the same, health advocacy groups are campaigning to eliminate the practice – and they're taking their message directly to farmers.
Jeremy Gustafson, a hog farmer in outside Boone, Iowa, agreed to talk with the advocates from the Pew Research Center's Human Health and Industrial Farming Campaign and give them a tour of his farm. They brought along their shining example, a Danish farmer they flew in to talk about his experience transitioning his large-scale hog operation. Denmark banned the use of antibiotics in healthy hogs in 1998.
The first thing Danish farmer Kaj Munck noticed when he stepped inside is that Gustafson's piglets were tiny – about one-third the size of the pigs he starts out with.
"Normally in Denmark we are not weaning before 6.5, 7 kilos [about 14 or 15 pounds], because you have less problems," Munck said. "They're not missing the mother, they just (start) eating immediately, so that's a big, big difference. I'm not used to (seeing) small pigs like this."
Any hog farmer will tell you that getting pigs through the first few weeks of their lives after being separated from their mother and transitioned to a new pen with other pigs is a critical time. In Denmark, they take longer to wean the pigs, so they're stronger by the time they get to farmers. In the U.S., the hog industry instead leans heavily on using low-level antibiotics at that stage in their life.
Munck asked Gustafson if he'd prefer to receive older pigs.
"It would be great, in this situation," Gustafson said. But "we're just a contract grower so we follow their protocol."
The majority of hog farmers in the U.S. raise hogs through a contract, which means a livestock company or packing house owns the pigs. The company provides food, water and veterinary care and the farmer raises them in his barn for a set fee.
Gustafson likes the system because it gives him a guaranteed income, but he doesn't know much about what's in the feed he's required to use. Gail Hansen, a veterinarian with the Pew Research Center, said there's more than might initially meet the eye.
"There's an antibiotic in this creep feed that's given to the baby pigs," Hansen said. "That's just in the feed for all the pigs. In Denmark they don't do this at all."
It's this low-level use that's the real concern. The Food and Drug Administration has expressed particular concern over the use of tetracycline and penicillin, because these drugs are also used to treat humans. Using small doses of the medicine in livestock feed can breed bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. Studies have found these bacteria in farms and on meat.
While cooking the meat properly will kill that specific bacteria, Hansen says that won't stop the bigger problem of growing drug-resistance.
"There's cross-contamination, that contamination that gets into the environment," Hansen said. "It's not just the bacteria that are making you sick, but it's all bacteria around us and they're sharing all of that knowledge of resistance, if you will."
What she means by "sharing knowledge" is really sharing DNA. Bacteria mix and multiply all the time, so when one develops a drug-resistance, it can easily be shared with other kinds of bacteria, including bacteria that affect humans.
In 2003, an expert global panel looked into the issue and concluded that human health is endangered by the use of antibiotics in livestock.
The livestock industry says it has reduced its use of antibiotics over the years.
"If you talk to the old-time veterinarians, they would say we use less antibiotics now than they did when we had all the animals on one site, when you were mixing source of pigs," said Liz Wagstrom, the chief veterinarian for the National Pork Producers Council.
There's no real way of determining if livestock antibiotic use has gone up or down, for years, the government didn't keep track. In 2009, the FDA started tracking the overall sales of different antibiotics for livestock feed, but doesn't follow how the medicine is used, in what dose or on which animals. And many feed formulas are proprietary, so much of that information is confidential.
Still, Hansen says you can do some rough math knowing that 29 million pounds of antibiotics were sold for livestock use each year in 2009 and 2010.
"It's a very broad-brush stroke, but if you look at that as milligrams of antibiotic per kilogram or per pound of meat produced, we're about six times higher than they are in Denmark," Hansen said.
With the FDA's decision not to enforce the ban on specific treatments, the regulatory outlook is murky at best.
For now, it's up to the industry to decide what judicious use of antibiotics looks like – and that use is neither regulated nor tracked by the government.
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Despite Google's recent dissolution of its artificial intelligence (AI) ethics board, IT vendors (including Google) are increasingly defining principles to guide the development of AI applications and solutions. And it's worth taking a look at what these principles actually say. Appended to the end of this post are the principles from Google and Microsoft, thoughts from Salesforce.org (closely aligned with Salesforce), and AI principles from three groups not aligned with specific companies.
How can the US plan for and build resilience for catastrophic natural disasters?
Futurist and author Amy Webb talks about her book, The Big Nine, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts.


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The mountainous range of Serra de São Mamede provides a scenery which surprises the visitor at every bend of the road: the silent and fresh atmosphere of the slopes with chestnut trees and holm oaks, the valleys with trim white villages and quaint chapels surrounded by orchards and vegetable plots, the abundant streams.
The pretty town of Castelo de Vide, dating from Roman times and sprawling on one of these green slopes, has preserved within its walls a remarkable patrimony: churches, fountains, mansions, Gothic doorways and the characteristic maze-like Judiaria (Jewish quarter), with its small white houses, cobbled alleys and a synagogue dating from the 13th century.
Also worth visiting are the Baroque Church of Saint Mary, the 18th-century Town Hall and pillory, the carved stone fountain of Fonte da Vila or the 13th-century Chapel of São Salvador do Mundo.
Within the walls of the castle (now in ruins) which gave the town its name, the small chapel of Our Lady of Joy exhibits splendid polychrome floral tiles from the 17th century.
Castelo de Vide is proud of its traditional and popular festivities, namely during Easter and Carnival, counting with the enthusiastic participation of all the local population.
The gastronomy is rich, with specialities such as sarapatel (haggis), ensopado de cabrito (kid stew with bread and gravy), migas com entrecosto (pork ribs with a kind of bread-soup) and splendid liqueurs.


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Dark Was the Night (film)
Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
Dark Was the Night is the twentieth compilation release benefiting the Red Hot Organization, an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS. Featuring exclusive recordings by a number of independent artists and production by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National, the compilation was released on 16 February 2009 (UK) and 17 February (US) as a double CD, three vinyl LPs, or as a digital download. John Carlin, the founder of the Red Hot Organization, was the executive producer for the album. The title is derived from the Blind Willie Johnson song "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground", which is covered on this collection by the Kronos Quartet.
John Carlin and Aaron Dessner approached Martin Mills and Richard Russell of Beggars Group with the idea for the album. Their selection of artists to include was an attempt to "capture this musical renaissance, which may not have the cultural impact of grunge or punk, but is equally significant from a cultural and creative standpoint…these artists are not fringe or marginal." The American folk roots of the compilation are acknowledged in the title and exemplified by tracks such as the cover of Bob Dylan's "I Was Young When I Left Home." Production of the album was focused on supporting the Red Hot Organization, as Dessner says "a lot of the artists wouldn't take the money…Beggars agreed to be really transparent about how it's done, so as much money flows to the charity side as possible."
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Dark Was the Night is a 2014 thriller film directed and produced by Jack Heller, and written by Tyler Hisel. It stars Kevin Durand, Lukas Haas and Bianca Kajlich.
A never-before-seen evil is unleashed on the small, isolated town of Maiden Woods when a logging company sets up shop in the neighboring woods, and the town's only hope is their local sheriff (Durand) and his trusted deputy (Haas).
Kevin Durand as Sheriff Paul Shields
Lukas Haas as Deputy Donny Saunders
Bianca Kajlich as Susan Shields
Ethan Khusidman as Adam Shields
Nick Damici as Earl Lerner
Steve Agee as The Foreman
Heath Freeman
Minerva Scelza as Mrs. Poplar
Joseph Pallister as The Hunter
Charles Parshley as Kyle
Tyler Hisel's screenplay for The Trees (later to become Dark Was the Night) was included in the 2009 Hollywood Blacklist (the annual list of the top 100 screenplays). The film is loosely based on the real-life events that unfolded in Topsham, England in 1855, known as The Devil's Footprints. The small town woke to find freshly fallen snow and biped hoof prints tracing the landscape. Dark Was the Night is said to tell the story of a present-day community's reaction to a similar event.
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"Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" is a gospel blues song written and performed by American musician Blind Willie Johnson and recorded in 1927. The song is primarily an instrumental featuring Johnson's self-taught bottleneck slide guitar and picking style accompanied by his vocalizations of humming and moaning. It has the distinction of being one of 27 samples of music included on the Voyager Golden Record, launched into space in 1977 to represent the diversity of life on Earth. The song has been highly praised and covered by numerous musicians and is featured on the soundtracks of several films.
Born in 1897, Johnson taught himself how to play guitar and dedicated his life to blues and gospel music, playing for people on street corners and in mission halls. Columbia Records had a field unit that traveled to smaller towns to record local talent. Johnson recorded 30 songs for them at five sessions between 1927 and 1930. Among the first of these was "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground".
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package org.n52.sos.ogc.filter;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.SortedMap;
import java.util.SortedSet;
import java.util.TreeMap;
import java.util.TreeSet;

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;

import org.n52.sos.ogc.filter.FilterConstants.ComparisonOperator;
import org.n52.sos.ogc.filter.FilterConstants.SpatialOperator;
import org.n52.sos.ogc.filter.FilterConstants.TimeOperator;
import org.n52.sos.util.QNameComparator;

/**
 * SOS filter capabilities
 *
 * @since 4.0.0
 */
public class FilterCapabilities {
    /**
     * Spatial operands list
     */
    private SortedSet<QName> spatialOperands = new TreeSet<QName>(QNameComparator.INSTANCE);

    /**
     * Spatial operators map
     */
    private SortedMap<SpatialOperator, SortedSet<QName>> spatialOperators =
            new TreeMap<SpatialOperator, SortedSet<QName>>();

    /**
     * Temporal operands list
     */
    private SortedSet<QName> temporalOperands = new TreeSet<QName>(QNameComparator.INSTANCE);

    /**
     * Temporal operators map
     */
    private SortedMap<TimeOperator, SortedSet<QName>> temporalOperators =
            new TreeMap<TimeOperator, SortedSet<QName>>();

    /**
     * Comparison operators list
     */
    private SortedSet<ComparisonOperator> comparisonOperators = new TreeSet<ComparisonOperator>();

    /**
     * Get spatial operands
     *
     * @return spatial operands
     */
    public SortedSet<QName> getSpatialOperands() {
        return Collections.unmodifiableSortedSet(spatialOperands);
    }

    /**
     * Set spatial operands
     *
     * @param spatialOperands
     *            spatial operands
     */
    public void setSpatialOperands(Collection<QName> spatialOperands) {
        this.spatialOperands.clear();
        if (spatialOperands != null) {
            this.spatialOperands.addAll(spatialOperands);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Get spatial operators
     *
     * @return spatial operators
     */
    public SortedMap<SpatialOperator, SortedSet<QName>> getSpatialOperators() {
        return Collections.unmodifiableSortedMap(spatialOperators);
    }

    /**
     * Set spatial operators
     *
     * @param spatialOperators
     *            spatial operators
     */
    public void setSpatialOperators(Map<SpatialOperator, ? extends Collection<QName>> spatialOperators) {
        this.spatialOperators.clear();
        if (spatialOperators != null) {
            for (SpatialOperator spatialOperator : spatialOperators.keySet()) {
                final TreeSet<QName> set = new TreeSet<QName>(QNameComparator.INSTANCE);
                if (spatialOperators.get(spatialOperator) != null) {
                    set.addAll(spatialOperators.get(spatialOperator));
                }
                this.spatialOperators.put(spatialOperator, set);
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Get temporal operands
     *
     * @return temporal operands
     */
    public SortedSet<QName> getTemporalOperands() {
        return Collections.unmodifiableSortedSet(temporalOperands);
    }

    /**
     * Set temporal operands
     *
     * @param temporalOperands
     *            temporal operands
     */
    public void setTemporalOperands(Collection<QName> temporalOperands) {
        this.temporalOperands.clear();
        if (temporalOperands != null) {
            this.temporalOperands.addAll(temporalOperands);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Get temporal operators
     *
     * @return temporal operators
     */
    public SortedMap<TimeOperator, SortedSet<QName>> getTempporalOperators() {
        return Collections.unmodifiableSortedMap(temporalOperators);
    }

    /**
     * Set temporal operators
     *
     * @param temporalOperators
     *            temporal operators
     */
    public void setTempporalOperators(Map<TimeOperator, ? extends Collection<QName>> temporalOperators) {
        this.temporalOperators.clear();
        if (temporalOperators != null) {
            for (TimeOperator timeOperator : temporalOperators.keySet()) {
                final TreeSet<QName> set = new TreeSet<QName>(QNameComparator.INSTANCE);
                if (temporalOperators.get(timeOperator) != null) {
                    set.addAll(temporalOperators.get(timeOperator));
                }
                this.temporalOperators.put(timeOperator, set);
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Get comparison operators
     *
     * @return comparison operators
     */
    public SortedSet<ComparisonOperator> getComparisonOperators() {
        return Collections.unmodifiableSortedSet(comparisonOperators);
    }

    /**
     * Set comparison operators
     *
     * @param comparisonOperators
     *            comparison operators
     */
    public void setComparisonOperators(Collection<ComparisonOperator> comparisonOperators) {
        this.comparisonOperators.clear();
        if (comparisonOperators != null) {
            this.comparisonOperators.addAll(comparisonOperators);
        }
    }
}


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Q: Node Express specific timeout value per route I'm developing a Node v4.2.4 application using Express v4.13.4. Now I would like to increase the timeout time for a specific upload route.
From what I've read and experienced:

*

*the default Node server timeout is 2 minutes

*a Node socket has no timeout by default

*there's middleware from Express to handle timeouts
However, I'm lost when trying to implement the connect-timeout middleware for the upload route.
Application setup
const app = express();
app.use(cors());
app.use(bodyParser.json({ limit: '50mb' }));
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ limit: '50mb', extended: false }));
app.use(passport.initialize());

app.use('/uploads', uploadRoutes);
app.use(errorHandler);

function errorHandler(err, req, res, next) {
  if (err.code && err.code === 'ETIMEDOUT') {
    if (!res.headersSent) {
      res
        .status(408)
        .send({
          success: true,
          message: 'Timeout error'
        });
    }
  }

  next(err);
}

const server = app.listen(config.port);

Upload route definition
router.route('/:uploadId/upload-files')
  .post(timeout('3m'),
    require('./actions/upload-files').prepareHandler,
    require('./actions/upload-files').uploadHandler(),
    require('./actions/upload-files').responseHandler);

However, when uploading the files I do see the error from express-timeout after 3 minutes ONLY in the command line's console. The request is still in progress and no status code of 408 is returned.
After 4 minutes I finally see the 408 status and 'Timeout error' as part of the response object.
For requests to other routes I get the net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE error after  4 minutes.
If I log the value for server.timeout, the value is 120000 (2 minutes).
My questions

*

*where can the 4 minutes possible come from? Is it because there's a preceding OPTIONS request maybe?

*what's the difference between server & socket timeouts and how to set them properly for a specific route?

A: Easy way to increase timeout on a route:
app.post('/some_route', (req, res) => {
   req.setTimeout(60 * 1000); //use req. this sets timeout to 60 seconds
});

OR
If you wanted to increase the timeout on the server for all routes, you can edit your app.js:
var serverApp = app.listen();
serverApp.setTimeout(60 * 1000); //use sets timeout to 60 seconds

Obviously, use the server setting sparingly. You don't want to tie up your server with long requests, so most of the time using the route specific timeouts is better architecture..

A: I've solved it using the following route configuration:
'use strict';

const ms = require('ms');
const express = require('express');
const router = express.Router();

router.route('/upload-files')
  .post(
    setConnectionTimeout('12h'),
    require('./actions/upload-files').responseHandler
  );

function setConnectionTimeout(time) {
  var delay = typeof time === 'string'
    ? ms(time)
    : Number(time || 5000);

  return function (req, res, next) {
    res.connection.setTimeout(delay);
    next();
  }
}

exports.router = router;

Where the key logic is the following middleware:
  function (req, res, next) {
    res.connection.setTimeout(delay);
    next();
  }

I hope this reference will come in handy for others.

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Kitten Smack is a super neon bright and colorful game where the star is little white kitten however you don't play as the kitten you can move the kitten using sound blasts but if you are feeling a bit more nihilistic or need to move the kitten along the level faster you can use a giant hand to literally smack the kitten!
Although the game is fairly simple the main difficulty (at least at first) is to try and guide the kitten through platforms which may look easy but can be quite complicated as you will have to use the angles of sound blasts to try to get through quite some difficult platforms and obstacles, but after a short time things get even more difficult as a giant neon monster head type-thing starts to chase you and if you cannot move or smack the kitten fast enough then it will be game over.
Although there is no real substance to Kitten Smack, which maybe to do with it being made in a short space of time for a Game Jam, it is a whole lot of bright neon lit fun with a soundtrack that is just as overwhelming this is certainly worth checking out.
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Planes Mistaken For Stars reissue and tourdates
On July 14th, Deathwish will reissue Mercy from legendary post-hardcore band Planes Mistaken For Stars. Mercy is their much-beloved and highly influential 2006 album. Along with newly revamped packaging, this definitive version has also been remastered from the original 1/2" tapes by Brad Boatwright at Audiosiege (Sunn O))), Modern Life Is War), sonically making it more powerful and textural than ever before.
Since 2012 the band has secretly been working on new music. The band, formed in 1997 and split up in 2007. After a few reunions they found the spark again. The result should be available by the end of 2015 or early 2016.
Planes Mistaken For Stars will tour the US this summer. Here are the dates.
7/15: Detroit, MI @ The Sanctuary
7/16: Pittsburgh, PA @ Howlers
7/17: Philadelphia, PA @ Boot & Saddle
7/18: Asbury Park , NJ Asbury Lanes
7/19: Brooklyn, NY @ St. Vitus
7/21: Cambridge, MA @ Middle East upstairs
7/22: Washington D.C. @ DC9
7/23: Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter
7/24: Help? (email: g_planes@hotmail.com)
7/26: Gainesville, FL @ the Atlantic
7/27: St. Augustine, FL @ Nobbys
7/28: Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
7/30: Cincinnati, OH @ North Side Yacht Club
7/31: Chicago, IL @ Fizz
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Ranking Taylor Swift Albums from "All Too Well" to "ME!"
"reputation" (4/7)
Submitted to "Ranking Taylor Swift Albums from "All Too Well" to "ME!""
by Abby Sacks May 29, 2020, 9:36 pm
Rank: "Love Story"
"Love Story" was revolutionary for the time. It took Taylor to mainstream radio and was regarded as her best work at the time. "reputation" was a similar milestone for the singer. She shed her good girl image and reinvented herself for this album. And though I appreciate the consistent branding of "reputation," I think the sentiment of some of the revenge songs ("I Did Something Bad," "This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things") can lack maturity. "Love Story" is also childish, but in a hopeless romantic, never-been-heartbroken way. Both the album and the song are good, but not great.
Written by Abby Sacks
Student at the University of Virginia studying Psychology and Media Studies. When not writing or hanging out with my cat, can be found watching too much bad TV and being too old for TikTok but enjoying it anyway.
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