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  • Honoring Abdullah Comert

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    Abdullah Comert is now the second confirmed casualty of the uprising in Turkey. The 22 year-old was pronounced dead last night from wounds to the head sustained by “unidentified gunmen,” but eyewitness accounts are placing the blame on police, whose brutal tactics have been well-documented by protesters.  His final Facebook post is up on reddit.  If  you want to…

  • Literary Quote for the Day

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    “The great artist looks beneath the flux of everyday reality and sees eternal, unchanging symbols…he takes ephemeral events and relocates them in an undying atmosphere…This is why not only the sculptors but all the great artists of classical Greece, wishing to ensure the perpetuation of every contemporary memorial to victory, relocated history in the elevated…

  • Attack Of The Patent Trolls

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    Originally posted on The Dish: Litigation by patent trolls, often called Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), has exploded in recent years: Felix Salmon explains why this is a major problem: Go to any technology conference these days, and you’re likely to find VCs who say that there are entire sectors they refuse to invest in, just because the waters…

  • The Show-Stopping Fashion of Namibia’s Herero Tribe

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    I just love how the boys are imitating the stiffness of the Germans. I also love that they have appropriated this dress and made it their own. The two-pronged hats represent the horns of the Herero’s cows. The women even adopt the loose gait of the cows as they walk. Even in a continent rich…

  • 19th Century Technology Fuels 21st Century Sustainability Project

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    By: Chris Vedelago It’s a bold 21st century sustainability project that will be fueled, ironically, by 19th century technology. Excess energy from the powerful boilers that run the CUB Brewery in Abbotsford are being retasked to meet the energy needs of a nearby office building, turning it into a hub of environmental sustainability and design. ”We…

  • Connecticut Passes First State GMO Labeling Legislation in US

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    It turns out CT is a still a revolutionary state on a number of fronts. That includes passage of the first state legislation in the county to require labeling genetically modified organisms (GMO) as ingredients, a monumental victory for the organic and pure food community. The bill, passed by the Senate on Saturday and Monday…

  • Goi, Rode, Goi

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    Arkona is a Russian pagan metal band. Their lyrics are heavily influenced by Russian folklore and Slavic mythology, and their music incorporates several traditional Russian musical instruments.

  • Photo of the Day

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    The Critic, 1943 Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig (June 12, 1899 – December 26, 1968), a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography. Weegee worked in the Lower East Side of New York City as a press photographer during the 1930s and ’40s, and he developed his signature style by following the city’s emergency services and documenting…

  • Welikandagama, Welimada Organic Farm – Sri Lanka

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    People all over the world are becoming aware of the deleterious effect of pesticides on human health.  The following article is about a local peoples’ fight to restore  their natural watershed in  Uma Oya, Welikandagama in Sri Lanka and the agricultural specialist Athula Priyantha’s efforts to further rejuvenate it through farming without chemicals.  (Dr. Prasanna Cooray’s…

  • Chicago Urban Farm Receives USDA Organic Certification

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    The FarmedHere urban farming company, which has been successfully conducting urban farming work in the Chicago area since 2011, has received USDA organic certification. The organic vertical farming practice makes use of derelict warehouses to produce food for the community. The company recently expanded with a new 90,000 square foot post-industrial building in Bedford Park,…