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Emma Woods State Beach, Aug 2012

Thought for the Minute

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Punishment

Experts say the cost of funerals have risen by 50%, they blame it on the cost of living.

Q&A

How many hardware folks does it take to change a light bulb?
None. That's a software problem.

Not Really That Old News

The FDA Is Out to Lunch

The Food and Drug Administration, the federal agency charged with protecting our health, is a miserable failure—OnEarth.org

Low wages and high unemployment are paralyzing the global economy

The race to become "competitive" by lowering wages is killing us—The Real News

Fact check: Mitt Romney's convention speech

We're not calling him a liar, but...—CBS News

Your networth has tanked. Thank a Republican

Their "Get Obama at any cost" tactics have made our economic position far worse—AFL-CIO

Pennsylvania's Voter Suppression Laws

ACLU, others argue Pennsylvania's new photo ID law could thwart a million potential voters—McClatchy

Americans know squat about military spending

Americans are consistently misinformed about the amount we spend on the military--and many don't like the truth when they hear it.—Alternet

New Media - but Familiar Lack of Diversity

Women, people of color still marginalized online—FAIR

It's the Inequality, Stupid

Eleven charts that explain what's wrong with America.—Mother Jones

Whistling Past the Wreckage of Civil Liberties

Watchdogs slept through a decade of civil rights rollbacks—FAIR

Americans Don't Realize Just How Badly We're Getting Screwed by the Top 0.1 Percent Hoarding the Country's Wealth

With an unprecedented sum of wealth held within the top one-tenth of one percent of the US population, we now have the most severe inequality of wealth in US history.—Amped Status

People We Know

imamanga

Ima to Eien ni - Now and Forever: the comic

OblivionInk

Anime-style art from Ryan Bunter

Spage Age Polymers

The Facebook page

Always Thinking

Ted Talks

Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world

Health, Nutrition, Environment

Health Insurance

Concerned about your health insurance?—http://californiaonecare.org/

Global Warming: Really?

Complete with colorful graphs—InformationIsBeautiful.net

Start a Farmer's Market!

Can't find a farmers market near you? Here's a gude from the USDA

Nutrition Wonderland

An In-Depth Gudie to the World of Nutrition

Center for Food Safety

Promoting sustainable agriculture for health and envronment

eFoodAlert Blog

A daily digest of international outbreaks, alerts and food safety news

Food Safety News

Web-based newspaper dedicated to reporting on issues surrounding food safety

Union of Concerned Scientists

Citizens and Scientists for Environmental Solutions

Visit the Links Archive

Upcoming Events (click here)

http://www.venturacountyfair.org/pages/3441/ Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 through Sunday, August 11th, 2013

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Glossaries

Communication is all about shared sets of signals. If you want to say what you mean and mean what you say, you must defne your terms, and use them consistently.

Water

Water is both precious and much taken for granted. This glossary contains information about water, chemistry, purification and technology and social issues.


Transit

While the world has gotten smaller, the need to get around somehow has grown. Our transit glossary includes terms from project manatement, rail, bus, bike and exotic technologies, as well as public transportation and transportation policy information.

Here's a different presentation of the transit glossary.


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