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Month: March 2020
Directed by Jon Turteltaub. With Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha, Sean Bean. A historian races to find the legendary Templar Treasure before a team of mercenaries.
Rating: ★★★★½
Watching in the background while I tinker on the web.
Follow Pew Research Center: Newsletters, RSS feeds, Social Media
This follow page is well laid out with a variety and number of ways to get information from the site. I wish more websites would put this sort of thought into their subscription options.
There were more than 14,000 certified organic farms in the United States in 2016, a 56% increase from 2011.
Still, organic farming makes up a small share of U.S. farmland overall. There were 5 million certified organic acres of farmland in 2016, representing less than 1% of the 911 million acres of total farmland nationwide. Some states, however, had relatively large shares of organic farmland. Vermont’s 134,000 certified organic acres accounted for 11% of its total 1.25 million farm acres. California, Maine and New York followed in largest shares of organic acreage – in each, certified organic acres made up 4% of total farmland. ❧
Annotated on March 07, 2020 at 12:09PM
Certified organic food, according to the Agriculture Department’s definition, must be produced without the use of conventional pesticides, petroleum- or sewage-based fertilizers, herbicides, genetic engineering, antibiotics, growth hormones or irradiation. Certified organic farms must also adhere to certain animal health and welfare standards, not treat land with any prohibited substances for at least three years prior to harvest, and reach a certain threshold for gross annual organic sales. U.S. organic farms that are not certified organic are not included in this analysis. ❧
Annotated on March 07, 2020 at 12:15PM
Thread Reader App (Twitter)We have been receiving requests to allow embedding of unrolled threads automatically to blogs and other publications, including @ChrisAldrich's proposal below. Curious, how many folks are interested in this? And if so, what blogging platforms (eg Wordpress?) should be supported? https://t.co/1TozKKjpFY
— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) March 6, 2020
I’m happy to see the response so far. I hope it rises above the threshold for wanting to build it into ThreadReaderApp as a feature.
I’ll note, hopefully for ease of implementation, that a Micropub solution will already allow you to post to WordPress, Drupal, WithKnown, Craft, Jekyll, Kirby, Hugo, Blot, Micro.blog and others.
There is also an open source project called Silo.pub that provides a micropub endpoint for services like Tumblr, WordPress.com, Blogger, and Twitter (among others). Aaron Parecki has a public version I’m sure he wouldn’t mind if you tried.
Other platforms could quickly allow the functionality and so much more by building their own micropub servers, which would be a major boon to the social media space and the open web.
If you have questions about implementation while building, feel free to pop into the IndieWeb #dev chat (where prior implementers and others) are available for help. (Alternate chat modalities including Slack and IRC are available if you prefer.)
Directed by Matthew Morrison. When the Glee Club is asked to perform at two different events, on the same day, at the same time, they have a difficult decision to make.
The cheese-ball 50’s Christmas special was a bit too over the top.
Directed by Bradley Buecker. In an attempt to recruit a few more members, Finn tracks down former teammate Sam Evans and convinces him to come back to the Glee Club.
Directed by Tate Donovan. As the race for McKinley High president comes to an end, someone is caught trying to fix the results.
One of the world’s oldest artworks has been discovered inside a working Indonesian mine. It survived this long – Krithika Varagur ventures to Sulawesi to find out if it has a future
This painting was discovered in the Bulu Sipong cave on Sulawesi in 2016 and recent analysis has shown that it is the “oldest pictorial record of storytelling” and the “earliest figurative artwork in the world”, and is at least 43,900 years old. (The oldest known drawing in the world, a 73,000-year-old abstract scribble, was found in South Africa in 2018.) ❧
Annotated on March 06, 2020 at 10:25PM
Directed by Eric Stoltz. Sue starts a smear campaign to take down her biggest competitor for the congressional seat.
Possibly coincidence, but I help thinking that Donald John Trump took his entire campaign strategy from Sue Sylvester in this episode of Glee.
Friday on the NewsHour, President Trump signs a bipartisan emergency spending deal to fund the government’s novel coronavirus response, as the global number of cases approaches 100,000. Plus: Questions about how to handle sick leave and medical bills amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, a conversation about women in politics, political analysis with Shields and Brooks and a music documentary.
Yasmeen Abutaleb, The Washington Post; Jonathan Martin, The New York Times; Abby Phillip, CNN; Beth LeBlanc, The Detroit News.
I always feel like this show should be a full hour…
The overall goal of the Joint Mission was to rapidly inform national (China) and international planning on next steps in the response to the ongoing outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and on next steps in readiness and preparedness for geographic areas not yet affected.