"Agricultural biotechnology company Monsanto is now at the receiving end of a lawsuit from representatives of anyone who lived in the small town of Nitro, WV from 1949 on. This suit alleges that Monsanto spread chemical toxins all over town — most notably the carcinogenic dioxins. The plant in question produced herbicide 2,4,5-T, which was used in Vietnam as an ingredient for ‘Agent Orange.’ [Note: link contains some disturbing images; click cautiously.] From the article: ‘Originally the suit called for Monsanto to both monitor people’s health and clean up polluted property. The court rejected the property claims last year, leaving just the medical monitoring.’ Strange that the suit is only allowed to address the symptom and not the root cause"
In the 30-second video, you can see Moon’s heavily cratered, rough surface; notable sights include Moon’s north pole, the 560-mile-wide Mare Orientale impact basin and, near the bottom of the screen, the 93-mile-wide Drygalski crater. (via See a Video of the Dark Side of the Moon for the First Time)
The market at Hillside Park Barn will have 23 vendors mostly from Warren and Sussex counties. The vendors will sell cheese, meat, soap, breads, honey, raw fibers, garlic, cider, preserves and other seasonal goods.
"Paternostro captured 20 state championships, 19 SCIL titles and two NJAC crowns during his magnificent career, amassing a final record of 373-68-5. But his legacy cannot be captured in numbers alone. He was an educator first who impacted the lives of so many."
"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls."
"In any organization, you rarely receive power. You take power. You wield power. The most powerful people will things to be done they don’t order them to be done. That is real power."
So I created a room in the middle of the cafeteria, where everybody could see them in a glass-enclosed conference room. There are four standup positions, and when a vendor came in with a PowerPoint presentation, they plugged in this clock that starts at 30 minutes. When it counts down to zero, the green light flashes red, letting everyone know you’re wasting their time. (via Theodore S. Hammer - NYTimes.com)
"Unplugged from media’s live wires, however, our originality and rigour can come into play in a different, older sense that’s found in our capacity to make decisions, to act on our own initiative, to think freely, without fear of pre-emption. Much as we hunger for connection, we need to keep some sense of ourselves separate from the constant capacity to broadcast. We need tenses other than the present."
"So Apple, which claims to use the ePub format exclusively, has now created an incompatible, proprietary version of that format. And with iBooks Author they’ve added licensing terms that restrict what an author can do with the generated content."
