‘Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia’ Review: A Fine Tribute to a Brilliant Intellectual A fine memorial to one of 20th-century America’s most brilliant, original — and cranky — thinkers, “Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia” duly charts the late scribe’s artistic achievements and often glittering celebrity social life. But the emphasis is on his parallel persona as a harsh scold of U.S. social injustices and political corruptions, his remarks about which invariably got attention even while delivered from his longtime expatriate home in Italy. Primarily shot with Vidal’s full cooperation before his death a year ago at age 86, Nicholas Wrathall’s highly entertaining documentary — though it will also infuriate some — should attract healthy niche sales, especially to broadcasters. Aptly introduced by one TV interviewer as “a thorn in the American establishment, of which he is by birth a charter member,” Vidal was raised in a family with high social and political connections. Assembly is rock-solid. Reviewed on DVD, San Francisco, June 12, 2013. Production Crew Cast
Falling Fruit - Iceweasel Practical Plants Polycultures, Guilds & Companions... In addition to each plant being able to record interactions with other individual plants, users can also create polycultures or guilds of known plant combinations that work well together. We are at the very start of our collection of polycultures with The Three Sisters set up as a quick example. You can create your own favourite polycultures here: An open encyclopedia of plant information There are plenty of sources of plant information online. It belongs to all of us Everything is editable by anybody, and licensed under a Creative Commons license to be used by anybody. A specific focus for a broad audience It's simple: if a plant has practical uses, inform how to propagate, cultivate, and use it. It's practical Covering edible, material and medicinal uses, design functions, propagation, cultivation, environmental preferences, interactions, polycultures (and so on...) The flexibility and strength of a wiki-base Curious about getting involved?
Robert Draper By Claire and Alex Purvis Posted We knew him as Robert. That's how he introduced himself the first time I met him, about 20 years ago. He ended up with a permanent spot on the police station veranda, safe enough to leave his blanket. In the mornings, he'd sit in the main street making his living. "Hey digger," he'd say, "Could you spare a couple of dollars for a cup of coffee?" He was always friendly. We invited him to our wedding but he didn't come. At his funeral, Grafton Cathedral was full. What would he have thought? The priest talked of a divine imperative. A few years ago he disappeared. The divine imperative: yes, he made a town willing to care about a damaged man with bright blue eyes, rotten teeth and a dignified bearing. He said his home town was Melbourne. Like a tree-changer, he left the city and settled on the North Coast. What a poignant story. Topics: homelessness, grafton-2460
Jobs Available at Food Tank Duration: PART-TIME (20 hours/week) Start Date: Immediate. CHICAGO based applicants only please. Position Summary: This internship with Food Tank is a unique and exciting opportunity to support and participate in research that drives health, nutrition, and environmental policy. The intern will work closely with Food Tank staff on the following: writing articles for major blogs, newspapers, websites, and magazines, researching and developing content for projects and the Food Tank website; research and fact-checking; and assisting in writing and outreach that will contribute to and help to promote the ongoing mission of Food Tank. The ideal candidate will have: Excellent writing and communication skills, preferably experience reporting on issues for newspapers, journals, and other publications. To apply, please send a resume, cover letter and writing sample to Danielle Nierenberg at danielle@foodtank.com with “Food Tank Paid Internship” in the subject line.
Coast To Coast AM - July 16 2013 - Tesla's Inventions C2CAM, Radio, DisclosureRadio Frank Addante's Founder Blog - a sharing of experiences from a serial entrepreneur - Iceweasel Five of our favourite Plant Databases Choosing the right plant for the right spot, working with its behaviours and getting it to cooperate with others can be a little difficult at times. Before you go getting yourself a little too lost in the world of plants (actually that sounds pretty darn good) take a look at these five plant databases… Tatiana’s TOMATObase This beauty of a site has to be one of the largest collection of heirloom tomato seeds we’ve seen in one place. Aside from the extensive seed catalog that includes over 750 varieties of open-pollinated GMO free tomatoes for sale – along with a select group of fruits and vegetables including squash, peppers, lettuce and onions among others – Tatiana and her crew, based in Canada, endeavour to share the historical information of each plant. The site also includes a complete database of growing information, pictures and descriptions for over 4,700 tomato varieties. www.tatianastomatobase.com Apios Institute www.apiosinstitute.org Plants for a Future www.pfaf.org Oaks of the World
Kennisland launches Embedr | Kennisland 8 december 2015 Over the past year Kennisland has worked on a new service called Embedr, which allows everyone to embed cultural heritage images across the Internet, while maintaining provenance information. It allows zooming, panning and cropping of images. Kennisland developed Embedr to address the gap between the emergence of high-quality cultural heritage images on the Internet and the lack of widely available tools1Embedr is fully open source. All images on Embedr have at least 4 megapixels. Try it yourself The image below is embedded from Embedr. Reusable ImagesEmbedr – image embedding done right! On your platform With its embedding standards and our infrastructure, Embedr is good candidate to display high-resolution images on your site. Embedr is developed as part of Europeana Creative and funded by the European Union. Are you interested in having your collection on Embedr, or do you have a question for us?
Gardeners Sharing Their Harvest With A Community Food Pantry