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UC ANR is the Divisions primary Facebook page, for news of general interest about agriculture, natural resources and health. This account also links to other ANR-related Facebook pages, including:

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CropManage is an online database-driven tool that assists growers and farm managers in determining water and nitrogen fertilizer applications on a field-by-field basis.

IPMinfois an app for iOSdevices to identify and manage strawberry pests.

OakMapper - To report a tree with sudden oak death symptoms, contributors may enter an address, coordinates, or mark a point on the map. For iPhone

SoilWeb - Get information about the properties of soil while standing in the field. For iPhone and Android OS

Soil Agricultural Groundwater Banking Index (SAGBI) - Determine the suitability of agricultural landfor groundwater recharge. The SAGBI is based on five major factors that are critical to successful agricultural groundwater banking: deep percolation, root zone residence time, topography, chemical limitations and soil surface condition.

Agricultural Water Quality Self-assessment - ThisiPad apphelps growersassess the potential impactof their growing practices on water quality. It also provides suggestions for Best Management Practices that can help to solve water quality problems. Available from iTunes for iPad.

Weedy Rice Reporter - This app helps growersidentify weeds and manage weedy rice in California. App now available for download on Google Playand iTunes.

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UC Cooperative Extension, San Diego County

Servicio de Informacion UC ANR

UC Cooperative Extension Sonoma County

Blog Showcase - A page that highlights all UC ANR blogs, displaying photos and links to the most recent posts. The site's other features include links to the most popular posts and the top blogs.

Salinas Valley Agriculture - Highlighting agricultural developments, problems, research and issues for the Central Coast Written by UC Cooperative Extension staff in Monterey County. Coordinated by Steven Koike, plant pathology farm advisor

ANR News Blog - Summaries and commentaries on current coverage of ANR in the news media. Written by Jeannette Warnert, ANR Communication Services.

The Almond Doctor - Addresses problems found within the almond orchard and the associated processes of problem correction/prevention.Written by David Doll, Merced County farm advisor

Bug Squad Blog - Happenings in the insect world and high-quality photos of insects. Written by Kathy Keatley Garvey, UC Davis Department of Entomology.

Merced 4-H Blog - Merced County 4-H Youth Development Program updates. Written by Russell Hill, Merced County 4-H program representative.

UC Cooperative Extension Ventura County Blog - News and information related to agriculture, nutrition, family and consumer sciences and 4-H in Ventura County. Written by Chris Webb, UC Cooperative Extension in Ventura County.

UC Food Blog - Practical and interesting information on food policy, production, safety and consumption. Written by a collaborative of UC writers, editors and information officers. Coordinated by Jeannette Warnert.

Mendocino & Lake County Livestock & Range Topics Blog - Educational information for range livestock producers and managers. Written by John Harper, director of UC Cooperative Extension in Mendocino Counties.

Strawberries and Caneberries Blog - Current issues and topics of general interest in strawberries and caneberries. Written by Mark Bolda, Santa Cruz County farm advisor.

The California Practical Gardener - Practical and useful gardening advice for California Gardeners.Written by Missy Gable, academic coordinator of the UC Statewide Master Gardener Program.

Dispatches from the Orchard - News on pistachios, figs, prunes, almonds, and other tree fruit cropsWritten by Phoebe Gordon,Madera County farm advisor.

UC Green Blog - UC work in natural resources, pest management, climate change and sustainable agriculture.Written by a collaborative of UC writers, editors and information officers. Coordinated by Jeannette Warnert.Forest Research and Outreach - Highlighting information related to current issues and research in forest management, as well as announcements of special events, resources, and workshops. Written by UC Cooperative Extension forest specialists.

Oak Conservation Blog - Focusing on information related to the conservation and management of Oak Woodlands. Written by UC Cooperative Extension forest experts specializing in oak woodlands.

UC Rice Blog - Featuring pictures and comments on rice production issues that farm advisors encounter in the field.Written by UC Cooperative Extension farm advisors Luis Espino in Colusa, Glenn and Yolo counties; Chris Greer in Sutter/Yuba, Sacramento and Placer-Nevada counties; and Cass Mutters in Butte County.

Hopland Research & Extension Center - Featuring research being conducted at the facility and photos of plants, animals and other items of interest found on the grounds. Written by Robert J. Keiffer, center superintendent.

Sierra Foothill Research & Extension Center - Featuring research being conducted at the facility and photos of plants and animals at the center. Written by Jeremy James, center director

Veterinary Entomology - This blog written by UC Cooperative Extension specialist Alec Gerry.

UC Agriculture & Natural Resources series - Half-hour shows about invasive species, genetic engineering, tomato and blueberry research, sudden oak death, weeds, watersheds and many other topics.

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Enlarge / These Miis look remarkably happy about the destruction of their gathering place...

On November 7, another piece of Nintendo's short online history will go away forever. That's when Miiverse, the artwork and message sharing service embedded into many Wii U games, will be shutting down because, as Nintendo puts it, "among other reasons, many users are shifting to social networking services." While users can request an archive of their own Miiverse posts and drawings, the millions of memes, bad jokes, incisive game criticism, and more currently hosted on Miiverse will be removed from Nintendo's public servers in a few months (some features of certain Wii U games will also be impacted, as detailed in this FAQ).

That massive purge of player-created data wasn't acceptable to professional Web developer Tim Miller. Shortly after Nintendo announced the Miiverse shutdown last week, Miller started up an effort to permanently archive the network's public contents, complete with a GitHub page and the support of the Web preservationists at Archive Team.

"Any time a social network goes down, we lose a ton of data," Miller told Ars in an IRC chat. "Part of history, our culture, is lost. In Miiverse, especially in the art section, you can see people really investing a lot of their time and energy in it. And being able to save that for others to see and experience is extremely important.

"Just look at the people still making Splatoon art, right now, even though it's going away in a few months," he continued. "It's clear some people out there care about it, and preserving this data would be [a] great thing for all. It's important to remember that, when you give your data to companies like this, they can just as easily throw it away. And with that, so goes years of history."

While Miller says he understands why Nintendo is shutting down Miiverse in the face of other, broader social networks, he's not happy with the way the company is handling all the user-created data it has accumulated in the last few years. "Right now, Nintendo is going 'Remember to click this button, and we'll give you a zip at some point, now it's your problem,'" he told Ars. "To me, that's a giant 'fuckyou.' At least it's better than other companies that just close up shop and don't announce it, but they could do better."

Enlarge / Wonderful dot-art like this is part of what the Miiverse preservation effort is trying to save.The Miiverse archiving effort is still in its early days. Because Miiverse has no public API, the team is still figuring out how to parse Miiverse URLs to get at all the network's public data through HTML scraping. Once that's done, Miller and other volunteers will set up VM scripts that can crowdsource the downloading and processing effort through Archive Team's Warrior tool.

So far, the team has identified more than 2 million distinct Miiverse users by following the trail of friends lists. While some of those users hide part of their profiles behind privacy settings, the vast majority of the posts themselves are public, Miller says.

It'll be a bit of a race to scrape the millions of published Miiverse posts and drawings from all those users before the November 7 shutdown, but Miller is confident that it's possible with Archive Team's resources. After that, Miller says he wants to organize it all into a database and maybe build a public website so people can search through the Miiverse archive at their leisure.

It's not the first time Nintendo has relied on the public to maintain shuttered portions of its online legacy. After Nintendo shut down its Wii and DS multiplayer servers in 2014, hackers started work on their own tools that can replicate that gameplay on private servers.

Around the industry, though, publishers without much care for preservation are dooming to extinction many games that exist solely as digital downloads. Earlier this year Nintendo shut down the DSiWare shop on original DS hardware (though most of those games continue to be available through the 3DS line). Last year, Sony shut down PlayStation Mobile, cutting off access to plenty of great Vita titles from smaller indie publishers.

Xbox Live's Indie Games program will fully shut down later this year, leavingquite a few hidden gemswithout an online home. And Apple has begun the process of culling "problematic and abandoned" older games from the App Store, continuing a process of game removalalready started by many iOS game publishers themselves.

Saving all of those titles (or even a worthwhile subset) will be a gargantuan job for current and future gaming historians. For now, though, it's nice to see a coordinated effort to save the public history of Nintendo's first social network.

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Some investors and CEOs are choosing to fight a powerful target in their quest to make Silicon Valley more friendly to women: The Young Presidents Organization.

As the tech industry grapples with a spate of sexual harassment allegations, prominent voices are quietly organizing behind a new rival to YPO, a networking league of executives that is largely male, Recode has learned.

The YPO rival called Leaders in Tech has in recent weeks been pitching top venture capitalists on its effort, and the organization is a topic at a Thursday evening dinner of female general partners at VC firms.

The new organization shifts the broader battle over gender discrimination to untrodden turf: While firms have been evaluating their own culpability after women entrepreneurs emerged this year to name their accusers, the conversation has largely avoided the heavily male social networks that can route deals and connections to other men.

YPO admits members who are CEOs under the age of 45 that have met certain thresholds, such as having 50 full-time employees or lead companies valued at over $20 million. While YPO is more prominent on the East Coast than on the West Coast, these networking organizations can make it difficult for women to find deals.

The push at LIT, described by sources familiar with its behind-the-scenes moves, has not yet been publicly announced. The leader of the organization, Sue Khim, the co-founder of the startup Brilliant, declined to comment.

But the nonprofit has been gauging the temperature of Silicon Valley heavyweights, and its central ideas are spelled out on its once-public website, which was taken down after contact from Recode. (The website is a few months old, according to a person with knowledge of the effort.) Backers include Chamath Palihapitiya of Social Capital and David Hornik of August Capital.

In tech and venture capital, the preponderance of gatekeepers and people in power are men, who preferentially socialize with, recruit, promote, fund, and make introductions for other men. Male voices are powerfully amplified in such an ecosystem, the organization writes.

The current environment offers only self-perpetuating mens clubs, in which existing male members refer and vet prospective new members, or womens clubs, through which the female members are unable to forge relationships with the large number of men in their industry. It is time for these networks to start to merge.

LIT draws many lessons from existing social and professional leagues such as Young Presidents Organization (YPO), which are incredibly valuable for members, empowering them to connect with talent, funding, and customers. But such organizations typically have an overwhelmingly male membership, and are only open to the CEOs of large companies a position that few women ever attain.

YPO did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The goals of LIT include providing a safe community to come forward with stories of harassment without fear of negative repercussions from a tightly networked male establishment.

LIT will have similar membership requirements to YPO; it will admit people who are senior executives at startups and perhaps those leading a company with at least $2 million in annual revenue. Candidates must be signed off on by LITs vetting committee.

LIT invites startup CEOs to peer group meetings and dinners and gives them access to luminary tech entrepreneurs and top venture capitalists, according to the website. The initiation fee for the organization is $3,375, along with annual dues of the same amount. Fees are waived for the first year, and membership fees could still change, according to the person with knowledge.

Sponsors who give money to LIT will earn early access to deals and board observer seats, the website says.

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Facebook told congressional investigators on Wednesday that it sold political ads during the 2016 U.S. presidential election to a so-calledRussian troll farmthat was looking to target American voters.

In reviewing the ads buys, we have found approximately $100,000 in ad spending from June of 2015 to May of 2017 associated with roughly 3,000 ads that was connected to about 470 inauthentic accounts and Pages in violation of our policies, Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos saidin a statement.

Our analysis suggests these accounts and Pages were affiliated with one another and likely operated out of Russia, Stamos said.

The revelation,first reported by the Washington Post, comes amid ongoing investigations into Russias interference in the U.S. election, including the use of social media to spread fake news and propaganda.

The ads both traditional advertisements and sponsored posts were intended to sow discord among the American electorate by amplifying divisive social and political messages, Stamos said. These ranged from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights.

Roughly one quarter of the ads were geographically targeted, Stamos said, though a Facebook spokesperson declined to specify the locations where those ads were targeted.

In an interview with CNNs Wolf Blitzer Wednesday afternoon, Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat who is the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, said the committee would be looking into the nature of the advertisements, and whether they were at a level of sophistication where [the ad buyers] would have needed help or assistance from the campaign.

I think we already knew that the Russians were using paid social media trolls to try to influence the election, try to sow discord, this certainly confirms that finding, Schiff said. What we want to explore, not only with Facebook, with other social media platforms as well, [is] what evidence, to what degree.

It is possible that there are more shadowy ad buys that Facebook has yet to identify.

In the review presented to Congressional investigators, Facebook said it had found an additional $50,000 in political ad spending during the election from other accounts connected to Russia.

Facebook sells its advertising through a self-service ad model, through which buyers can choose demographic, geographic and interest-based targets, the Facebook spokesperson said. Due to the volume of these ad buys, Facebook said it was unable to identify the inauthentic nature of these ad buys at the time.

In his statement, Stamos said Facebook had shut down accounts involved that were still active. But the company is facing criticism over its decision not to release the ads or explain what role it played in the targeting of these ads.

It is completely unacceptable that Facebook says it will not release the actual ads it showed to its users, Pierre Omidyar, the entrepreneur and eBay founder, wrote on Twitter.

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Indorse, a blockchain-powered decentralized social network for professionals, today announced anairdropof 65,000 IND tokens to holders of TenX (PAY), Digix (DGD), Coindash (CDT) and 0x ZeroX (ZRX) tokens.

Indorse Co-Founder and CEO, David Moskowitz said:

The Indorse network presents a revolutionary approach to professional networking by providing a platform on which users can use crowd-verified endorsements to further their reputations. As such, our ecosystem flourishes as active and engaged participants, receive financial rewards from engaging on the network, in the form of IND tokens.

In choosing to airdrop our tokens to these communities, we ensure not only wide distribution, but also that our tokens will be placed in the hands and wallets of some of the most active and engaged token holders in the Ethereum network, Moskowitz added.

A snapshot of PAY, DGD, CDT and ZRX token holders was taken on August 18, 2017. Accounts with the equivalent of 3,000 ether or more, and less than .01 ether, will be scrubbed to prevent sending tokens to exchange accounts and dust accounts.

Speaking on the announcement, Adam Efrima COO of Coindash said, The IND token will be added to CoinDash ecosystem soon, following the airdrop our users will be able to manage one more asset in their Coindash portfolio.

We are thrilled that our PAY holders will receive IND tokens in this airdrop, as while Indorse provides a way for people to earn tokens, TenX gives them a way to spend them, added Airdrop partner and Tenx Co-founder, Dr. Julian Hosp.

The team at Indorse have been long time supporters of the ethereum and Digix communities. We are very happy to support them in their efforts to expand the universe of IND holders, noted Shaun Djie, Co-founder of Digix Global.

The Indorse token sale will run until September 7, 2017 where the Indorse Tokens (IND) will be distributed to token sale participants, representing approximately 35% of the total supply created. The IND token is a tradeable token, and participants will also receive Indorse Score (SCR) tokens, which are a non-tradeable reputation token required to post updates to the member profile or indorse and flag claims, once the platform is released on the main network.

In addition, following a successful engagement with WINGS, the Ethereum-based price discovery and social promotion DAO, in their presale, Indorse is again integrating with the DAO that has forecasted and promoted several funding campaigns which have raised in excess of $150 million.

We aim to tackle the fundamental flaws associated with social networks such as data ownership and privacy leak by putting the power into the hands of the user, as opposed to the owners and advertisers. The significant interest in our project to date paired with the extensive community support of our Airdrop partners has positioned Indorse as a truly revolutionary undertaking, Moskowitz concluded.

While holders of the aforementioned tokens, as of August 18, 2017 will automatically receive IND tokens during the Airdrop, holders can register for this Airdrop athttps://indorse.io/air-dropuntilSeptember 4, 2017to receive double the amount of IND.Please take note, any site claiming to be Indorse and asking for your private key is a scam.

For more information on the token sale, visitwww.indorse.io.

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