Two Victories in One Week for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers – Are More Needed?
October 22, 2010 No Comment
Image: Institute for Southern Studies Pacific Tomato Growers, one of the largest tomato producers in the U.S., agreed last week to a penny-per-pound wage increase for the people who work the tomato fields. Some of the country’s biggest tomato buyers, including McDonald’s and Whole Foods, are on board, in a major victory for the Florida-based
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Image: The Mesh, by Lisa Gansky One of my favorite ideas to crop up at Poptech — a conference that’s full of them — is Lisa Gansky’s concept of the Mesh : Or, how business is moving away from models of ownership and towards that of access. The rise of product service systems (things like Netflix, Etsy, your public library, etc) has been a phenomenon we’ve covered for years at Treehugger: it promotes efficiency and lowers consumption through plain ol’ sharing. Gansky’s illuminating talk touched on all of… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The 24-year-old troubled actress avoided additional jail time Friday for failing a drug test while on parole, but the judge ordered her to continue attending rehab until Jan. 3, 2011. (Oct. 22)
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There’s precisely zero doubt that AT&T will be supporting LTE waves in the not-too-distant future, but it looks as if ” the future ” may be drawing closer than anyone had ever imagined. Or else the carrier’s just really, really proactive. Based on the leaked slide above, it looks as if AT&T is already beginning to transition its current crop of SIM cards to “those that will also support LTE devices.” Naturally, the iPhone 4 is omitted from all of this due to it using a micro SIM , but it looks as if employees will need to keep a careful eye on the SKU (and front graphics) in order to make sure customers are well equipped for another blend of 4G. Now, how’s about a rollout schedule, Ma Bell? AT&T transitioning to LTE-friendly SIM cards originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Rush Limbaugh to Unhappy Dems and Hillary Supporters: Stay Home on Election Day
October 22, 2010 No CommentRush just made a pitch to Democrats, if they think Hillary Clinton would be a better president the best thing they can do is stay home this election. He calls it Reverse Operation Chaos, his October Surprise. The original Operation Chaos occurred during the latter days of the Dem primaries in 2008. The GOP nominee was already set but Hillary and Obama were battling in state after state. Operation Chaos encouraged Republicans to reregister as Dems in order to vote for Hillary and prolong the primary battle. It worked pretty well since the Dem nomination wasn’t secured until June. If Hillary supporter take Rush up on this idea it could play very well into my theory about Hillary’s 2012 plans . Of course, disenchanted Hillary supporters could really help her 2012 campaign by voting for Republicans this cycle. UPDATE:
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The French government made a major push Friday to restore fuel supplies drying up because of protests over pension reforms. (Oct. 22)
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In quite unsurprising “news”, the Pentagon has once again articulated their oft-cited trope that “the release of classified documents on the Wikileaks website could endanger U.S. and allied troops and Iraqi civilians” as the whistle-blower site prepares to publish even more classified files on the Iraq war. Interestingly enough, the U.S. Department of Defense is very concerned with the safety of its troops despite the fact that the U.S. officially ended combat operations there months ago. —JCL The BBC: The US military says the expected release of classified documents on the Wikileaks website could endanger US and allied troops and Iraqi civilians. The whistleblower website is thought to be about to post hundreds of thousands of US military files on the Iraq war. Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the leak could have “very negative security implications”. Read more Read more Related Entries October 20, 2010 Government Moves to Block ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Injunction October 19, 2010 Pentagon Approves Openly Gay Recruits
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If you’re anything like us, you’re both smart and incredibly good looking. Also, you’re sarcastic. And in addition to all that, you spend much of your downtime enjoying streaming media on your computer, or your Internet-enabled TV, or perhaps even your fancy-pants cellphone. And it looks like, indeed, much of the country is “anything like us” — at least according to Sandvine, Inc., of Waterloo, Ontario. The bandwidth manufacturer has released a report that concludes that over twenty percent of stateside peak time downstream Internet traffic is gobbled up by Netflix streams, with the heaviest use going down in the primetime hours between 8 to 10 pm. We’re sure that this is no surprise to Netflix itself, whose CEO recently stated that the company is primarily a streaming company that just happens to mail out DVDs to some customers; but still, the figure is pretty staggering. You can draw your own conclusions, but we’re just happy to no longer live in a place where the only thing to watch on a Thursday night is The World According To Jim . Report: Twenty percent of peak downstream Internet used for Netflix? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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photo: James Jordan / Creative Commons Let’s just take it as a given that plants are awesome in many practical and inherent ways and go from there: New research, led by scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research , shows that plants clean out air pollution to a much greater extent than previously thought. In fact, some… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Image Courtesy of Onya Cycles Saul Griffith’s latest project is an electric tricycle designed to take the place of cars for short, local trips. Griffith started Onya Cycles , an internal project of OtherLab , and the result is the Front End Ladder, the tricycle that does 20 mph (the legal limit for this type of vehicle) and can carry you plus up to 150 pounds. It’s got a basket in front that can hold groceries as well as your children, and a custom steering mechanism that keeps the trike (and you) from tipping over on tight t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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