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#Monsanto digs its heels in Pakistan
by kracktivist in Health Care, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law, Minority Rights Tags: Agriculture, Genetically modified food, Genetically modified maize, Genetically modified organism, Iqrar Ahmad Khan, Monsanto, Pakistan, United States
Coming from a politician or bureaucrat, it wouldn't have been surprising.
But it was unexpected from the Vice Chancellor of Faisalabad University of
Agriculture when he claimed that GMOs would "bring about a new green
revolution based on biotechnology, precision agriculture and climate
change." As if the first Green Revolution wasn't bad enough! If it was for
citizens' benefit, why wasn't Dr Iqrar Ahmad Khan addressing sustainable
farmers and concerned citizens, instead of briefing diplomats from 24
countries? That fit more into loaded trade and investment talks, not a
country's delicate agricultural security.
Dr Khan offers no evidence based on local research whatsoever to prove that
GMOs are "a great and safe invention that would enhance crop productivity".
He seems oblivious of the fact that even GM seed-producing corporations
don't make that claim.
"Where is the independent data which shows that GM Corn would increase
average yield?" demands Ijaz Ahmed Rao, professional farmer, graduated from
Australia, "Data from USDA clearly shows that despite GM technologies
(Insect-resistant (Bt), Herbicide-tolerant, Stacked gene varieties), yields
in USA have not increased since 1987!"
Rao sounds an alarm the government must note – that Pakistan's corn exports
to Europe and elsewhere would be seriously affected as they import non-GM
corn and corn products from Pakistan at premium rates and on bases of
certification. Far from boosting Pakistan's output and earnings, Bt corn
would be the ideal weapon to destroy our exports to Europe which recently
banned Monsanto and other GMOs, with ongoing plans to wipe them out
Similarly, sans evidence, Dr Khan claims that Bt (GM) cotton increased
productivity while pesticide-application was reduced in Pakistan. Strange
indeed, when in the rest of the world – including USA, the heaviest GM user
– it rapidly lost resistance to pests and required increasing amounts of
pesticides, now multiplied several-fold.
He disregards India's terrible 15-year experience with Monsanto's Bt cotton
that, with Monsanto's overpriced products and unfair practices, led to over
300,000 suicides since 1995, making India the world's farmers' suicide
centre. Should we be joining their ranks?
Indeed, Dr Khan ignores Monsanto's long and ignominious history around the
world – originally a chemical corporation that co-supplied 19 million
gallons of herbicide to defoliate Vietnam's forests and crops on 4.5
million acres over 11 years, killing or maiming 400,000, causing half a
million deformed children born, helpless and dependant for life, and two
million cancer cases. After diverse other ventures, Monsanto got into GM
seeds which are 'successful' only if Monsanto's accompanying poisonous
chemicals are heavily sprayed.
While appearing to promote Monsanto's planned launch of 'Herbicide
Resistance Corn', Dr Khan was blind to the dangerous ground he was treading
on. Chemically-grown food crops have already lost nutritive value and led
to malnutrition, in both South countries and USA.
Because it wasn't reported here, the VC probably doesn't know that on May
25, over two million participants in 436 cities across 52 countries,
protested against Monsanto, demanding it gets out from everywhere. This,
apart from the long-standing, ongoing "Millions against Monsanto" campaign
that informs and brings together concerned citizens and activists globally.
Or that the Carnival of Corn in Mexico City coincided with and joined the
global protest. Mexico was the cradle of corn boasting thousands of corn
varieties; it needed no more, let alone GM corn, from outside. But their
own president sold his country out to Monsanto and other GM corporations,
just as Bush and Obama did the same to their people. In country after
country, it was not the merit of the product but officials that succumbed
to tempting lures.
And last week Japan and South Korea cancelled huge contracts for US wheat
when it was revealed Monsanto's unapproved GM seeds had contaminated vast
farmlands in USA.
Monsanto dug in its heels in Pakistan over a decade ago since Musharraf's
time. The General probably didn't understand agriculture which may have
made it easy to sway him. His regime unilaterally sanctioned corporate
farming, which is increasingly pursued with GM seeds. The timing was
significant.
When Musharraf's rule ended, the PPP government dealt an unexpected shock
when Mr. Gilani's very first speech as prime minister ended with the
incongruous announcement – having nothing to do with his political
statements – that they had decided to let Monsanto in. Clearly, political
changes did not undo special interests. Since then, ceaseless crises in
Pakistan have kept attention diverted from Monsanto activities in Pakistan.
Dr Khan should remember the 'Precautionary Principle' – unless he's
excluded ecology from agriculture – and investigate the extent of unchecked
contamination in Pakistan. GM monoculture threatens to wipe out what's left
of our biodiversity without which even GM can't continue, will further
chemical-drench and kill our deteriorating farmlands, while he risks being
remembered among the short-sighted responsible for near-extinction of
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2013/06/12/comment/columns/genetically-modified-threats/
Alarming New Study of Monsanto feed on Pigs (stateofglobe.com)
Protest- Millions march against Monsanto and GM crops
by kracktivist in Advocacy, Announcements, Health Care, Human Rights, Justice, Law Tags: Associated Press, Food and Drug Administration, Genetically modified organism, GMO, Los Angeles, Monsanto, Seattle, United States
Organisers celebrate huge global turnout and say they will continue until Monsanto and other GM manufacturers listen
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 26 May 2013 01.26 BST
Protesters make their point to Monsanto in Los Angeles, California, May 25, 2013. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images
Organisers say that two million people marched in protest against seed giant Monsanto in hundreds of rallies across the US and in more than 50 other countries on Saturday.
"March Against Monsanto" protesters say they wanted to call attention to the dangers posed by genetically modified food and the food giants that produce it. Founder and organiser Tami Canal said protests were held in 436 cities across 52 countries.
Genetically modified plants are grown from seeds that are engineered to resist insecticides and herbicides, add nutritional benefits, or otherwise improve crop yields and increase the global food supply. Most corn, soybean and cotton crops grown in the United States today have been genetically modified. But some say genetically modified organisms can lead to serious health conditions and harm the environment.
The use of GMOs has been a growing issue of contention in recent years, with health advocates pushing for mandatory labelling of genetically modified products even though the federal government and many scientists say the technology is safe.
The "March Against Monsanto" movement began just a few months ago, when Canal created a Facebook page on 28 February calling for a rally against the company's practices. "If I had gotten 3,000 people to join me, I would have considered that a success," she said Saturday. Instead, she said, two million responded to her message.
Together with Seattle blogger and activist Emilie Rensink and Nick Bernabe of Anti-Media.org, Canal worked with A Revolt.org digital anarchy to promote international awareness of the event. She called the turnout "incredible" and credited social media for being a vehicle for furthering opportunities for activism.
Despite the size of the gatherings, Canal said she was grateful that the marches were uniformly peaceful and that no arrests had been reported.
"It was empowering and inspiring to see so many people, from different walks of life, put aside their differences and come together today," she said. The group plans to harness the success of the event to continue its anti-GMO cause.
"We will continue until Monsanto complies with consumer demand. They are poisoning our children, poisoning our planet," she said. "If we don't act, who's going to?"
Monsanto, based in St Louis, said on Saturday that it respects people's rights to express their opinions, but maintained that its seeds improve agriculture by helping farmers produce more from their land while conserving resources such as water and energy.
The US Food and Drug Administration does not require genetically modified foods to carry a label, but organic food companies and some consumer groups have intensified their push for labels, arguing that the modified seeds are floating from field to field and contaminating traditional crops. The groups have been bolstered by a growing network of consumers who are wary of processed and modified foods.
The Senate this week overwhelmingly rejected a bill that would allow states to require the labelling of genetically modified foods.
The Biotechnology Industry Organisation, a lobbying group that represents Monsanto, DuPont & Co and other makers of genetically modified seeds, has said that it supports voluntary labelling for people who seek out such products. But it says that mandatory labelling would only mislead or confuse consumers into thinking products weren't safe, even though the FDA has said there is no difference between GMO and organic, non-GMO foods.
However, state legislatures in Vermont and Connecticut moved ahead this month with votes to make food companies declare genetically modified ingredients on their packages. And supermarket retailer Whole Foods Markets Inc has said that all products in its North American stores containing genetically modified ingredients will be labeled as such by 2018.
Whole Foods says there is growing demand for products that don't use GMOs, with sales of products with a "Non-GMO" verification label spiking between 15% and 30%.
Activists Prepare to March Against Monsanto
by kracktivist in Advocacy, Announcements, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law Tags: Food Marketing Institute, Genetically modified organism, Monsanto, New Mexico, Senate, United States, Vermont, Vermont House of Representatives
By Rebekah Wilce, PR Watch
See Also: March Against Monsanto Planned for Over 30 Countries
n an advance that makes history, Vermont's House of Representatives passed a bill on May 10 requiring foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to be labeled. This is the furthest any such legislation has made it through the legislative process in the United States.
Vermont's legislative session was due to end already, but negotiations over a tax bill have kept lawmakers in the capitol this week. With the Senate's attention focused fiscally rather than on food, however, H.112 to label GMOs will have to wait to be taken up by the Senate in January 2014.
The bill would exempt animal products, including meat and dairy, even though livestock are often fed genetically engineered (GE) feed.
State Faces Threat of Monsanto Lawsuit
GMO labeling legislation has been stalled in the Vermont legislature for three years, in part because of a concern that biotechnology companies would sue the state if it passed. The concern seems justified, as Monsanto — the world's largest GE seed company — reportedly threatened to do so last year.
According to Organic Consumers Association Executive Director Ronnie Cummins and Vermont farmer Will Allen, "Monsanto has used lawsuits or threats of lawsuits for 20 years to force unlabeled genetically engineered foods on the public, and to intimidate farmers into buying their genetically engineered seeds and hormones."
GMO Labeling Bills Across the Country
California's Prop 37 to label GMOs was narrowly defeated in 2012, as the Center for Media and Democracy reported. Afterwards, Jennifer Hatcher, senior vice president of government and public affairs for the Food Marketing Institute, who had previously said that Prop 37 "scared us to death," said in an official statement, "This gives us hope that you can, with a well-funded, well-organized, well-executed campaign, defeat a ballot initiative and go directly to the voters. We hope we don't have too many of them, because you can't keep doing that over and over again . . ."
Contrary to industry hopes, however, similar bills have been introduced in Connecticut, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, New Mexico, Arizona, Illinois, and Iowa in 2013. Food and Water Watch and other organizations are encouraging supporters to petition for a national GE labeling law. The passage in the Vermont House of Representatives of that state's long-sought labeling bill marks an important and historic step towards realizing eaters' right to know whether or not foods contain GMOs.
Tens of Thousands to "March Against Monsanto" Worldwide Frustrated with Monsanto's bullying of governments and farmers in the United States and abroad, tens of thousands of activists around the world will "March Against Monsanto" on Saturday, May 25, according to organizers.
Marches on six continents, in 36 countries, and in 47 U.S. states — totaling events in over 250 cities — are coordinated to occur simultaneously at 11am Pacific time. A Facebook page founded in February has been instrumental in organizing the events.
Goals of the march's organizers include:
"Voting with your dollar by buying organic and boycotting Monsanto-owned companies that use GMOs in their products.
"Labeling of GMOs so that consumers can make those informed decisions easier.
"Repealing relevant provisions of the US's 'Monsanto Protection Act.'
"Calling for further scientific research on the health effects of GMOs.
"Holding Monsanto executives and Monsanto-supporting politicians accountable through direct communication, grassroots journalism, social media, etc.
"Continuing to inform the public about Monsanto's secrets.
"Taking to the streets to show the world and Monsanto that we won't take these injustices quietly."
In Madison, Wisconsin, where the Center for Media and Democracy is based, activists will march on the state capitol at 1pm Central time on Saturday, May 25.
How Monsanto Is Using Cronies in Congress to Take Away States' Rights to Label Genetically Modified Foods (alternet.org)
Breaking: Vermont House Passes GMO Labeling Bill (2012thebigpicture.wordpress.com)
Illegal GM cotton spreads across India
by kracktivist in Advocacy, Health Care, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law Tags: Cotton, Genetic engineering, Gujarat, India, Maharashtra, Monsanto, Roundup, United States
Latha Jishnu
In a replay of Bt cotton saga, Monsanto's Roundup Ready Flex is being grown in at least three states without clearance
GM cotton has proved to be a grim experience for farmers as erratic rains and high costs of cultivation have resulted in poor returns. This appears to be a prime cause of the wave of farmer suicides that have touched nearly 9,000 since 2005 (Photo by Amit Shanker)
In the sweltering cotton fields of northern and western India, a special cotton seed that is tolerant to herbicides is spreading fast, making a mockery of the country's ability to regulate the use of genetically modified (GM) technology. The seeds, according to reports from Gujarat, Punjab and Maharashtra, are those of biotech giant Monsanto which have been genetically engineered to withstand glyphosate, the active ingredient of its herbicide Roundup. India has yet to approve herbicide-tolerant seeds.
This is a replay of how GM technology took root in the country 12 years ago.
In 2001, reports were rife of the widespread use of Bt cotton, the GM cottonseed, in Gujarat where thousands of farmers had started illegal cultivation before the regulators could approve its commercial use. Following a campaign by the industry and leading media organisations, Bt cotton was cleared without some essential safeguards. Regulators did little to check how Bt cotton was being grown, whether the mandatory refugia or buffer zones were being maintained to prevent the contamination of non-Bt fields that would also help to slow down the resistance to Bt.
In 2013, history is repeating itself as herbicide-tolerant GM cotton known as Roundup Ready Flex (RRF) spreads illegally in at least three states. Roundup Ready Flex, first reported to be in use in Gujarat last season, has since spread to Punjab and Maharashtra although the regulator, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee, has not cleared the technology. This is being field-tested by Monsanto's Indian partner, the Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company better known as Mahyco.
Mahyco, incidentally, was the first Indian company to get approval for the commercial release of Bt cotton that was marketed as Bollgard in 2002.
Farmers' organisations in Maharashtra, particularly those in Vidarbha, have become alarmed by the spread of the illegal Roundup Ready Flex. The region is notorious for the huge numbers of suicides by primarily cotton farmers in the past 15 years and farmers' lobbies have been blaming the use of GM technology or Bt cotton as it is known for the spate of suicides. Glyphosate kills only the weeds and leaves the crop, reducing labour for farmers. However, a significant concern with the heavy use of glyphosate is that it leads to the growth of superweeds that are resistant to glyphosate.
A recent report from Manitoba, Canada, says more than one million acres (404,686 hectares, one acre equals 0.4 ha) of Canadian farmland have glyphosate-resistant weeds growing on them. This estimate is based on a survey of 2,028 farmers, conducted by Stratus Agri-Marketing Inc. This is an extremely high figure which has been disputed but in the US, the biggest user of GM, pesticide use has gone up dramatically due GM herbicide-resistant weeds, warns Doug Gurian-Sherman of the Union of Concerned Scientists. "Millions of acres of glyphosate-resistant weeds are causing real harm, such as increased tillage that increases soil erosion," he points out.
In India, the spread of Roundup Ready GM cotton is matter of serious concern since GEAC had called for additional tests by Mahyco. Kishore Tiwari of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti (VJAS), a farmers' advocacy group that is fighting to safeguard the sustainability of agriculture in drought-prone Vidarbha, says herbicide-tolerant Bt cotton is being openly sold at Rs1,500/ per packet of RRF (450 gm) "which is highly objectionable because RRF is yet to receive approval".
GEAC sources say Mahyco has been asked to provide detailed data on the use of RRF and its impact on the environment and approval for its commercial release is some way off.
Source URL: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/illegal-gm-cotton-spreads-across-india
Study: Monsanto's Roundup Herbicide Linked to Cancer, Autism, Parkinson's
by kracktivist in Advocacy, Announcements, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law Tags: Alzheimer's disease, Glyphosate, Herbicide, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Monsanto, Parkinson, Parkinsons disease, Roundup, Toxicity
Study: Monsanto's Roundup Herbicide Linked to Cancer, Autism, Parkinson's
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, may be "the most biologically disruptive chemical in our environment," say authors
– Andrea Germanos, staff writer, commondreams
The active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicide may be "the most biologically disruptive chemical in our environment," being responsible for a litany of health disorders and diseases including Parkinson's, cancer and autism, according to a new study.
"Negative impact on the body" from glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup, "is insidious and manifests slowly over time as inflammation damages cellular systems throughout the body," according to a new study. (Photo: astridmn/flickr)
It's "the most popular herbicide on the planet," widely used on crops like corn and soy genetically engineered to be "Roundup Ready," and sprayed on weeds in lawns across the US. But in the peer-reviewed study published last Thursday in the journal Entropy, authors Anthony Samsel, an independent scientist and consultant, and Stephanie Seneff, a senior research scientist at MIT, crush the industry's claims that the herbicide glyphosate is non-toxic and as safe as aspirin.
Looking at the impacts of glyphosate on gut bacteria, Samsel and Seneff found that the herbicide "enhances the damaging effects of other food borne chemical residues and environmental toxins," and is a "textbook example" of "the disruption of homeostasis by environmental toxins."
The researchers point to a potential long list of disorders that glyphosate, in combination with other environmental toxins, could contribute to, including inflammatory bowel disease, obesity, depression, ADHD, autism, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, ALS, multiple sclerosis, cancer, cachexia, infertility, and developmental malformations.
The herbicide's "Negative impact on the body is insidious and manifests slowly over time as inflammation damages cellular systems throughout the body," they write.
Given the known toxic effects of glyphosate reviewed here and the plausibility that they are negatively impacting health worldwide, it is imperative for more independent research to take place to validate the ideas presented here, and to take immediate action, if they are verified, to drastically curtail the use of glyphosate in agriculture. Glyphosate is likely to be pervasive in our food supply, and, contrary to being essentially nontoxic, it may in fact be the most biologically disruptive chemical in our environment.
The new findings may add further momentum to concerns from food safety and food sovereignty advocates who have challenged Monsanto's grip on corporate agriculture and its genetically engineered crops.
In a "March Against Monsanto" in cities in the US and beyond, activists plan to gather on May 25 to highlight environmental and health concerns from genetically engineered crops and call out the corporatism that allows "Organic and small farmers [to] suffer losses while Monsanto continues to forge its monopoly over the world's food supply, including exclusive patenting rights over seeds and genetic makeup.
To see more about the march, go to the action's Facebook page here.https://www.facebook.com/MarchAgainstMonstanto
The full article in Entropy is viewable here .http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/15/4/1416
Monsanto's Dark History
08 Apr 2013 1 Comment
by kracktivist in Advocacy, Announcements, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law, Minority Rights, Political Prisoners, Prison Tags: Agent Orange, Center for Food Safety, Chemical industry, Food & Water Watch, Food Democracy Now, Genetically modified food, Monsanto, Organic Consumers Association
By EcoWatch
rom its beginnings as a small chemical company in 1901, Monsanto has grown into the largest biotechnology seed company in the world with net sales of $11.8 billion, 404 facilities in 66 countries across six continents and products grown on more than 282 million acres worldwide. Today, the consumer advocacy nonprofit Food & Water Watch released its report, Monsanto: A Corporate Profile.
"There is a growing movement of people around the country who want to take on Monsanto's undue influence over lawmakers, regulators and the food supply," said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch and author of the book Foodopoly. "People need to know about Monsanto's history as a heavy industrial chemical manufacturer; a reality at odds with the environmentally friendly, feed-the-world image that the company spends millions trying to convey."
"At the end of March, the American public saw first hand the unjustifiable power that Monsanto holds over our elected officials when an unprecedented rider, dubbed the 'Monsanto Protection Act,' was tacked onto the spending bill to fund the federal government," said Dave Murphy, founder and executive director of Food Democracy Now! "This is an outrageous interference with our courts and separation of powers and we cannot sit back and allow our elected officials to continue to take orders from Monsanto at the expense of family farmers and consumers."
The report offers a timeline of milestones in the company's history including chemical disasters, mergers and acquisitions, and the first genetically modified plant cell.
"Despite its various marketing incarnations over the years, Monsanto is a chemical company that got its start selling saccharin to Coca-Cola, then Agent Orange to the U.S. military, and, in recent years, seeds genetically engineered to contain and withstand massive amounts of Monsanto herbicides and pesticides," said Ronnie Cummins, executive director of Organic Consumers Association. "Monsanto has become synonymous with the corporatization and industrialization of our food supply."
The report concludes with recommended actions for the federal government to take to temper Monsanto's anti-competitive practices and control over agricultural research and government policies. It also suggests steps that regulators should take to better protect consumers and the environment from the potentially harmful effects of genetically engineered (GE) crops.
"Even though you won't find the Monsanto brand on a food or beverage container at your local grocery store, the company holds vast power over our food supply," said Rebecca Spector, west coast director of Center for Food Safety. "This power is largely responsible for something else we cannot find on our grocery store shelves-labels on genetically engineered food. Not only has Monsanto's and other agribusinesses' efforts prevented the labeling of GE foods, but they spend millions to block grassroots efforts like California's Prop 37 in order to keep consumers in the dark."
"The chemical pesticide industry, with Monsanto leading the way, took over U.S. seed industry and engineered bacterial genes into food crops with the primary purpose of selling more weed killer that contaminates our food, water and bodies," said David Bronner, the CEO of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps and leader in GE food labeling campaigns across the country." Just like the citizens of Europe, Japan and China, Americans deserve the right to opt out of the genetically engineered food science experiment."
Chemical Disasters, Agent Orange, and GMOs: Monsanto's Legacy Traced in Exposé (kractivist.wordpress.com)
Monsanto Protection Act Proves Corporations More Powerful Than US Government (kractivist.wordpress.com)
Meet the GOPer Who Worked With Monsanto to Sneak the "Monsanto Protection Act" into Law (kractivist.wordpress.com)
Meet the GOPer Who Worked With Monsanto to Sneak the "Monsanto Protection Act" into Law
by kracktivist in Advocacy, Announcements, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law Tags: Blunt, Missouri, Monsanto, Public Citizen, Roy Blunt, Senate, Tom DeLay, White House
Salon / By Natasha Lennard
Big Ag friend Sen. Roy Blunt has said he introduced the biotech rider and "worked with" Monsanto to do it.
April 5, 2013 |
Anger at the so-called "Monsanto Protection Act" — a biotech rider which protects genetically modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks — has been directed at numerous parties in Congress and the White House for allowing the provision to be voted and signed into law. But the party responsible for anonymously introducing the rider into the broad, unrelated spending bill had not been identified until now.
As Mother Jones' Tom Philpott notes, the Senator responsible is Missouri Republican Roy Blunt — famed friend of Big Agrigulture on Capitol Hill. Blunt even told Politico's David Rogers that he "worked with" Monsanto to craft the rider (rendering the moniker "Monsanto Protection Act" all the more appropriate). Philpott notes:
The admission shines a light on Blunt's ties to Monsanto, whose office is located in the senator's home state. According to OpenSecrets, Monsanto first started contributing to Blunt back in 2008, when it handed him $10,000. At that point, Blunt was serving in the House of Representatives. In 2010, when Blunt successfully ran for the Senate, Monsanto upped its contribution to $44,250. And in 2012, the GMO seed/pesticide giant enriched Blunt's campaign war chest by $64,250.
… The senator's blunt, so to speak, admission that he stuck a rider into an unrelated bill at the behest of a major campaign donor is consistent with the tenor of his political career. While serving as House whip under the famously lobbyist-friendly former House Majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) during the Bush II administration, Blunt built a formidable political machine by transforming lobbying cash into industry-accomodating legislation. In a blistering 2006 report, Public Citizen declared Blunt "a legislative leader who not only has surrendered his office to the imperative of moneyed interests, but who has also done so with disturbing zeal and efficiency."
Chemical Disasters, Agent Orange, and GMOs: Monsanto's Legacy Traced in Exposé
by kracktivist in Advocacy, Announcements, Health Care, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law Tags: Agent Orange, California, Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, Food Democracy Now, Genetically modified organism, Monsanto, Organic Consumers Association
Published on Wednesday, April 3, 2013 by Common Dreams
Food & Water Watch highlights toxic 'corporatization and industrialization of our food supply'
– Jacob Chamberlain, staff writer
Chemical disasters, Agent Orange, and the first genetically modified plant cell are among just some of the dark milestones belonging to the history of the biotech giant Monsanto highlighted in a new report released Wednesday by consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch.
The in-depth historical analysis Monsanto: A Corporate Profile presents a corporation "steeped in heavy industrial chemical production," who only recently began marketing itself through an "environmentally friendly, feed-the-world image"—an image that is contradictory to a century of toxic chemical production and a food supply saturated with un-labeled GE crops, herbicides, and artificial growth hormones.
Monsanto, as FWW shows, now holds vast "undue influence over lawmakers, regulators, and our food supply," and has caused great devastation to farmers around the world through its global seed monopoly.
"Despite its various marketing incarnations over the years, Monsanto is a chemical company that got its start selling saccharin to Coca-Cola, then Agent Orange to the U.S. military, and, in recent years, seeds genetically engineered to contain and withstand massive amounts of Monsanto herbicides and pesticides," said Ronnie Cummins, executive director of Organic Consumers Association in response to the report. "Monsanto has become synonymous with the corporatization and industrialization of our food supply."
"Even though you won't find the Monsanto brand on a food or beverage container at your local grocery store, the company holds vast power over our food supply," said Rebecca Spector, West Coast Director for the Center for Food Safety. "This power is largely responsible for something else we cannot find on our grocery store shelves — labels on genetically engineered food. Not only has Monsanto's and other agribusinesses' efforts prevented the labeling of GE foods, but they spend millions to block grassroots efforts like California's Prop 37 in order to keep consumers in the dark."
The report arrives after President Obama signed last week what has been dubbed the "Monsanto Protection Act"—legislation critics say amounts to "corporate welfare" for biotechnology corporations like Monsanto that puts both farmers and the environment in jeopardy.
The law will essentially "bar US federal courts from being able to halt the sale or planting of genetically engineered (GE) crops even if they failed to be approved by the government's own weak approval process and no matter what the health or environmental consequences might be," Greenpeace wrote last week.
"At the end of March, the American public saw first hand the unjustifiable power that Monsanto holds over our elected officials when an unprecedented budget rider, dubbed the 'Monsanto Protection Act,' was tacked onto the spending bill to fund the federal government," Dave Murphy, founder and executive director of Food Democracy Now! stated following the release of Food & Water Watches new report. "This is an outrageous interference with our courts and separation of powers and we cannot sit back and allow our elected officials to continue to take orders from Monsanto at the expense of family farmers and consumers."
Monsanto's legacy continues… Read more here.
Monsanto: A Corporate Profile Sheds Light on GE Seed Giant's Dark History (ecowatch.com)
Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America from Monsanto to Wal-Mart + The Monsanto Protection Act (dandelionsalad.wordpress.com)
Monsanto Bullies Small Farmers Over Planting Harvested GMO Seeds
by kracktivist in Advocacy, Announcements, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law, Minority Rights Tags: Bowman, Center for Food Safety, Monsanto, New York Times, Roundup, Roundup Ready, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington DC
by Puck Lo, CorpWatch Blog
"Seed Giants vs. U.S. Farmers." New report by Center for Food Safety.
Does Monsanto own all future generations of genetically modified seeds that it sells? The Missouri-based agribusiness giant wants farmers to pay a royalty to plant any seed that descended from a patented original. The legal decision has ramifications for other patented "inventions" that reproduce themselves like strands of DNA.
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared to side with Monsanto in oral arguments heard this past February in a lawsuit that the world's largest seed company has brought against Vernon Hugh Bowman, a 75 year old farmer in Indiana, who grows corn, soybeans and wheat on a small farm of 600 acres (242 hectares).
The impending court decision, which will probably come this June, has sparked alarm among consumer advocates.
"Judges don't understand agriculture," says Bill Freese, science policy analyst for the Center for Food Safety, a Washington DC based watchdog group. "The Monsantos of the world have everyone convinced through a massive misinformation campaigns that biotech crops are essential to feed the world, and patents are necessary for biotech crops. So there's this patina of virtuous innovation when in fact what biotechnology is really used for primarily is to develop pesticide-promoting crops."
The crop in question is Roundup Ready soybeans, which are genetically-altered to be resistant to glyphosate, the main chemical in Roundup, a pesticide also manufactured by Monsanto.
Bowman first fought back when Monsanto sued him in 2007 for patent infringement. At the time, Bowman was a regular Monsanto customer. Like the 275,000 other U.S. farmers who buy "Roundup Ready" seeds, Bowman bought his seeds from Monsanto and signed a contract stating that he would not save Roundup seeds to replant. He didn't.
But from 1999 to 2007, in addition to his usual order of Roundup Ready soybeans for seed, Bowman purchased commodity-grade soybeans, called "commodity grain," from a local grain elevator where farmers like himself sell their crops. Typically, commodity grain is used for animal feed. Bowman, however, decided to use the commodity grain – a mix comprising of many different varieties of soybeans including some Roundup Ready seeds – to plant a second, lower yield soybean harvest later in the season.
"What I wanted was a cheap source of seed," Bowman told National Public Radio, a U.S. network.
Roundup Ready was first marketed in 1996, and it was a hit with farmers in the U.S., the largest producer of genetically modified food in the world. These days, more than 90 percent of U.S.-grown soybeans are Roundup Ready, Monsanto said in court documents. As a result, organic farmers say, it's getting harder to find diverse strains of traditional, heirloom soybeans.
Therefore, it's no surprise that some of the soybeans Bowman took home from the grain elevator contained Monsanto's patented soybeans. For eight years, Bowman planted the commodity-grade soybeans for his second harvest, sprayed Roundup on them, harvested the plants that grew and kept the seeds they produced to plant later. It's these "third generation" seeds that are at the heart of the Supreme Court case now.
Bowman saw nothing wrong with what he was doing. "All through history we have always been allowed to go to an elevator and buy commodity grain and plant it," he told the New York Times.
Not any more, if companies like Monsanto who control most of the global commercial seed market, have their way. The big seed companies use a strategy to attack seed savers that consists of three stages: "investigations; coerced settlements; and, if that fails, litigation," says the Center for Food Safety.
To date, in the U.S., Monsanto has sued 410 farmers and 56 small farm businesses for alleged seed patent violation. Monsanto has won every single case. The company was awarded nearly $24 million from just 72 of those judgments, the Center for Food Safety found.
Additionally, Freese estimates that as many as 4,500 small farmers who could not afford legal representation have been forced to accept out-of-court settlements. He estimates, based on Monsanto's documents, that those farmers paid Monsanto between $85 and $160 million in out-of-court settlements.
"As early as 2003, Monsanto had a department of 75 employees with a budget of $10 million for the sole purpose of pursuing farmers for patent infringement," the Center for Food Safety stated in a new report, "Seed Giants vs. U.S. Farmers." "Agrichemical companies earn billions of dollars each year, and farmers cannot possibly compete against such resources."
"Patents are necessary to ensure that we are paid for our products and for all the investments we put into developing these products," the company states on its website in its defense. "Monsanto invests more than $2.6 million per day in research and development that ultimately benefits farmers and consumers. Without the protection of patents, this would not be possible."
The Center for Food Safety wants federal, state and local governments to work together to regulate the biotechnology industry, using a law passed by the U.S. Congress in 1970 as a guideline. The 42 year old Plant Variety Protection Act allowed intellectual property laws to be applied to new and distinct plants.
But it had an exemption for farmers to save seeds of such plants and replant them so long as they do not resell the seed. Plant breeders are also allowed to use protected seed for further breeding work. The law was designed to protect one seed company – say Monsanto – from another – like DuPont. This law did not view farmers as competitors to companies.
In 2001, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that non-hybrid plants could be patented. The final decision was written by Justice Clarence Thomas, who incidentally worked as an attorney for Monsanto in the 1970s. Since then, courts have tended to side with seed companies suing for patent infringement.
"This (Plant Variety Protection Act) has been largely sidelined now by the patent system," says Freese. "Now companies with patents have this inordinate control over seeds, and they can criminalize seed saving.
Bowman spent $31,000 of his own money on legal fees before a law firm agreed to defend him for free. If Monsanto wins the case against him, he'll have to pay almost $85,000 to the corporation, which made $7 billion in profits in fiscal year 2012.
Bowman's legal argument rests on a 150-year old Supreme Court common law known as the "patent exhaustion doctrine." His lawyer, Mark P. Walters, argued that Monsanto's patent did not apply to seeds descended from Roundup Ready soybeans that were then sold to a grain elevator and mixed with other soybeans.
Monsanto contended that Bowman, by growing and saving seeds from the commodity soybeans he bought from the grain elevator, was making "copies" of the original, patented Monsanto product.
Two lower courts agreed with Monsanto. In 2009, district court in Indiana awarded the company more than $84,000. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which specializes in patent law, upheld the decision in 2011.
In October 2012, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, despite objections made by the Obama administration, which said the judges should let the previous rulings stand. The U.S. government filed a friend of the court brief in support of Monsanto, stating that "the Court's decision could also affect the enforcement of patents for man-made cell lines, DNA molecules, some nanotechnologies and other technologies that involve self-replicating features."
Not surprisingly, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, the Business Software Alliance, Intellectual Property Owners Association and other industry and research groups also filed friend of the court briefs on Monsanto's side.
On February 19, Supreme Court justices heard both sides of the case.
"Without the ability to limit reproduction of soybeans containing this patented trait, Monsanto could not have commercialized its invention, and never would have produced what is, by now, the most popular agricultural technology in America," Monsanto's lawyer and former U.S. solicitor general, Seth P. Waxman, told the court.
Waxman was allowed to talk uninterrupted at length, "which is usually a sign of impending victory," the New York Times reported.
In contrast, the justices fired a volley of skeptical questions at Bowman's attorney, Mark P. Walters. When Walters argued that Monsanto's patent didn't apply to subsequent generations of seeds after the initial sale, Antonin Scalia, another judge, interrupted him.
"Why in the world would anybody spend any money to try to improve the seed if, as soon as they sold the first one, anybody could grow more and have as many of those seeds as they want?" Scalia asked.
Later, Walters argued that Bowman was "making use" of the commodity grain that he bought on the open market when he planted it, not making a copy of an original Monsanto seed. He was rebuked by Stephen Breyer, another of the judges.
"You can feed it to animals, you can feed it to your family, make tofu turkeys," Breyer interjected. "But… you can't pick up those seeds that you've just bought and throw them in a child's face. You can't do that because there's a law that says you can't do it. Now, there's another law that says you cannot make copies of a patented invention."
"If the concept is the sale of a parent plant exhausts the patentholder's rights… we would have to go all the way back to the very first Roundup Ready plant that was created," said Melissa Arbus Sherry, the lawyer representing the Obama administration. "Every single Roundup Ready seed in existence today is the progeny of that one parent plant and… that would eviscerate patent protections. There would be no incentive to invest, not just in Roundup Ready soybeans or not even agricultural technology."
Walters believes there is still a possibility that the Supreme Court could reverse the decision or send the case back to the lower courts for retrial. He said three of the justices appeared to sympathize with the idea that a farmer ought to be able to sell, plant or grow new seeds from ones he buys on the open market.
"There are many interests: biotech, seed companies, large and small farmers. They're not aligned," Walters told CorpWatch. "Small farmers are not very well organized. They're not a strong voice in Congress. Right now one company with a particular stake is trying to make a case based on a set of particular facts."
Both Walters and Freese agree that in today's political climate, it would be an uphill battle to pass legislation that would regulate the powerful biotech industry. Last year, Monsanto, other agribusiness and food companies spent more than $45 million to defeat a proposition in California that would have required labels on some genetically modified foods sold at stores.
Meanwhile, Bowman has to drive out of the state of Illinois – to Ohio – in order to find cheap, non-GMO commodity soybeans he can plant without the threat of a patent infringement suit. Every time, he does this, he passes numerous grain elevators, all of which brim with soybeans.
#India- Monsanto and the Seeds of Suicide (kractivist.wordpress.com)
What it Means that Monsanto Holds the Patents on Life (alternet.org)
Supreme Court to hear Monsanto seed patent case today (sott.net)
#India- Monsanto and the Seeds of Suicide
by kracktivist in Advocacy, Announcements, Health Care, Human Rights, Justice, Kractivism, Law, Minority Rights Tags: Convention on Biological Diversity, Genetically modified organism, GMO, India, Maharashtra, Monsanto, Percy Schmeiser, Supreme Court of India
By Vandana Shiva, The Asian Age
Monsanto's talk of 'technology' tries to hide its real objectives of control over seed where genetic engineering is a means to control seed
hese are the promises Monsanto India's website makes, alongside pictures of smiling, prosperous farmers from the state of Maharashtra. This is a desperate attempt by Monsanto and its PR machinery to delink the epidemic of farmers' suicides in India from the company's growing control over cotton seed supply – 95 per cent of India's cotton seed is now controlled by Monsanto.
Control over seed is the first link in the food chain because seed is the source of life. When a corporation controls seed, it controls life, especially the life of farmers.
Monsanto's concentrated control over the seed sector in India as well as across the world is very worrying. This is what connects farmers' suicides in India to Monsanto vs Percy Schmeiser in Canada, to Monsanto vs Bowman in the US, and to farmers in Brazil suing Monsanto for $2.2 billion for unfair collection of royalty.
Through patents on seed, Monsanto has become the "Life Lord" of our planet, collecting rents for life's renewal from farmers, the original breeders.
Patents on seed are illegitimate because putting a toxic gene into a plant cell is not "creating" or "inventing" a plant. These are seeds of deception – the deception that Monsanto is the creator of seeds and life; the deception that while Monsanto sues farmers and traps them in debt, it pretends to be working for farmers' welfare, and the deception that GMOs feed the world. GMOs are failing to control pests and weeds, and have instead led to the emergence of superpests and superweeds.
The entry of Monsanto in the Indian seed sector was made possible with a 1988 Seed Policy imposed by the World Bank, requiring the Government of India to deregulate the seed sector. Five things changed with Monsanto's entry: First, Indian companies were locked into joint-ventures and licensing arrangements, and concentration over the seed sector increased. Second, seed which had been the farmers' common resource became the "intellectual property" of Monsanto, for which it started collecting royalties, thus raising the costs of seed. Third, open pollinated cotton seeds were displaced by hybrids, including GMO hybrids. A renewable resource became a non-renewable, patented commodity. Fourth, cotton which had earlier been grown as a mixture with food crops now had to be grown as a monoculture, with higher vulnerability to pests, disease, drought and crop failure. Fifth, Monsanto started to subvert India's regulatory processes and, in fact, started to use public resources to push its non-renewable hybrids and GMOs through so-called public-private partnerships (PPP).
In 1995, Monsanto introduced its Bt technology in India through a joint-venture with the Indian company Mahyco. In 1997-98, Monsanto started open field trials of its GMO Bt cotton illegally and announced that it would be selling the seeds commercially the following year. India has rules for regulating GMOs since 1989, under the Environment Protection Act. It is mandatory to get approval from the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee under the ministry of environment for GMO trials. The Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology sued Monsanto in the Supreme Court of India and Monsanto could not start the commercial sales of its Bt cotton seeds until 2002.
And, after the damning report of India's parliamentary committee on Bt crops in August 2012, the panel of technical experts appointed by the Supreme Court recommended a 10-year moratorium on field trials of all GM food and termination of all ongoing trials of transgenic crops.
But it had changed Indian agriculture already.
Monsanto's seed monopolies, the destruction of alternatives, the collection of superprofits in the form of royalties, and the increasing vulnerability of monocultures has created a context for debt, suicides and agrarian distress which is driving the farmers' suicide epidemic in India. This systemic control has been intensified with Bt cotton. That is why most suicides are in the cotton belt.
An internal advisory by the agricultural ministry of India in January 2012 had this to say to the cotton-growing states in India – "Cotton farmers are in a deep crisis since shifting to Bt cotton. The spate of farmer suicides in 2011-12 has been particularly severe among Bt cotton farmers."
The highest acreage of Bt cotton is in Maharashtra and this is also where the highest farmer suicides are. Suicides increased after Bt cotton was introduced – Monsanto's royalty extraction, and the high costs of seed and chemicals have created a debt trap. According to Government of India data, nearly 75 per cent rural debt is due to purchase inputs. As Monsanto's profits grow, farmers' debt grows. It is in this systemic sense that Monsanto's seeds are seeds of suicide.
The ultimate seeds of suicide is Monsanto's patented technology to create sterile seeds. (Called "Terminator technology" by the media, sterile seed technology is a type of Gene Use Restriction Technology, GRUT, in which seed produced by a crop will not grow – crops will not produce viable offspring seeds or will produce viable seeds with specific genes switched off.) The Convention on Biological Diversity has banned its use, otherwise Monsanto would be collecting even higher profits from seed.
Monsanto's talk of "technology" tries to hide its real objectives of ownership and control over seed where genetic engineering is just a means to control seed and the food system through patents and intellectual property rights.
A Monsanto representative admitted that they were "the patient's diagnostician, and physician all in one" in writing the patents on life-forms, from micro-organisms to plants, in the TRIPS' agreement of WTO. Stopping farmers from saving seeds and exercising their seed sovereignty was the main objective. Monsanto is now extending its patents to conventionally bred seed, as in the case of broccoli and capsicum, or the low gluten wheat it had pirated from India which we challenged as a biopiracy case in the European Patent office.
That is why we have started Fibres of Freedom in the heart of Monsanto's Bt cotton/suicide belt in Vidharba. We have created community seed banks with indigenous seeds and helped farmers go organic. No GMO seeds, no debt, no suicides.
Death By Cotton (sacratomatovillepost.com)


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André Tiraqueau (en latin Andreas Tiraquellus), né à Fontenay-le-Comte vers l'an 1488 et mort en 1558, est un jurisconsulte français du , qui a accueilli dans son cercle érudit les jeunes moines François Rabelais et Pierre Lamy. Il suscita un renouveau d'intérêt pour la question de la condition féminine, aussi connue sous le nom de querelle des femmes.

Dans l'ancienne commune de Saint-Philbert-du-Pont-Charrault, une rue du village se nomme Rue Tiraqueau en référence au personnage d'André Tiraqueau qui résidait au lieu-dit de la Barbinière.

Biographie
André Tiraqueau exerça comme juge prévôtal et lieutenant-général du Sénéchal du Poitou à Fontenay-le-Comte. Il prit activement part au Cénacle de Fontenay-le-Comte, un cercle d'érudits composé principalement de juristes et de grands humanistes, philosophes, connaisseurs de littérature antique, philologues, historiens et médecins. Tiraqueau y fréquenta entre autres Pierre Lamy, Guillaume Budé et François Rabelais, dont il devint l'ami, et qui lui témoigna maintes marques d'estime - le Tiers Livre de François Rabelais est en grande partie inspiré du De legibus (« Traité des lois ») de Tiraqueau. Il entretint des rapports amicaux avec Christofle de Thou, Michel de l'Hospital et Charles Dumoulin. En 1541, il fut appelé par le roi à siéger au Parlement de Paris, après avoir refusé, quelques années auparavant, un siège au Parlement de Bordeaux. Ses connaissances encyclopédiques et sa finesse d'esprit lui valurent d'être appelé par Théodore de Bèze « le Varron de son siècle ».

L'œuvre écrite
L'œuvre d'André Tiraqueau fut de première importance pour le développement de la culture juridique française et connut un très grand succès. Il a écrit de nombreux traités, dont les plus fameux sont le De nobilitate (« Traité de la noblesse ») et le De poenis temperandis (« Traité de la modération des peines »), traité qui expose 64 causes de diminution des peines.
La valeur de ses écrits, inspirés des auteurs grecs et latins (Platon, Aristote, Galien et Cicéron) ne réside pas tant dans l'apport de solutions neuves que dans la contribution qu'il apporta, en temps de troubles, à la réorganisation des diverses institutions juridiques, à la frontière du droit commun et du droit coutumier.

Tiraqueau réactiva la Querelle des femmes en affirmant, dans son traité De legibus connubialibus le rôle protecteur du mari et, partant, la supériorité de l'homme sur la femme. Le Tiers livre de Rabelais se fait écho de certaines de ses idées par l'intermédiaire de Panurge.

Œuvres

 De legibus connubialibus et de jure mariti (« Des Lois du mariage »), traité en latin (1513).

Divers traités :

De nobilitate et jure primigeniorum 1549
 Cessante causa, cessat effectus ;
 « Le mort saisit le vif » chez Jacob Kerver, Paris 1554 ; à propos de la loi romaine Romaine des successions.
 De Jure constituti possessorii ;
 L. Boves § hoc sermone de verborum significatione ;
 De Poenis legum temperandis aut remittendis ;
 De Privilegiis piae causae ;
 De Praescriptionibus ;
 In tit. De Judicio in rebus exiguis ferendo ;
 In tit. Res inter alios actas aliis non praejudicare.

Bibliographie
Didier Veillon, Le De Legibus Connubialibus d'André Tiraqueau, dans Études rabelaisiennes, T. XLIII, Les Grands Jours de Rabelais en Poitou. Actes du colloque international de Poitiers,  -, Droz, 2001
 Jacques Brejon, Un jurisconsulte de la Renaissance André Tiraqueau, Paris, Librairie du Recueil Sirey, 1937.
 G. Rossi, Incunaboli della modernità. Scienza giuridica e cultura umanistica in André Tiraqueau (1488-1558), Torino, Giappichelli, 2007, pp. XX-575.
 André Tiraqueau, Le de poenis temperandis de Tiraqueau, 1559, introduction, traduction et notes par André Laingui, préface de Jean Imbert, Paris, Economica, 1986.

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Juriste français
Écrivain français du XVIe siècle
Écrivain français de langue latine
Naissance en 1488
Naissance à Fontenay-le-Comte
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Q: Fetch contact who has birthday today I want to fetch information of contact who has birthday today(i.e current day). Below is my program.
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You can add even more logic to handle this case but this is really not the right way to do these things.
Try this:
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Festival Review: The Falls Music & Arts Festival Day 3 @ North Byron Parklands, 02.01.2016
Written by Braydon Ritson
We made it! Day three of this beautiful musical marathon has arrived upon us. The third day is always the most interesting and testing. Rising from tents-turned-saunas, the strong are separated from the weak, as everyone has a mini-existential crisis while digging deep to find the last ounces of energy to make it to the finish line.
The festival programmers deserve a great deal of credit for their clever late morning programming of the shady oasis that is the Forest Stage. The diverse arts selection see-sawed between hip-hip yoga, music from the dreamy Jesse Davidson, to a film screening and then comedy; the perfect way to help alleviate all the sore heads before the partying begins again.
Having left the hip-hop yoga to my fellow AAA Backstage reviewer, I made my way from the media tent to the Forest Stage to catch Jesse Davidson where I strolled past the misting tunnel to find 30-odd people having their morning showers. Anyone that has been to Falls or Splendour In The Grass knows that the showering situation in the camp grounds isn't overly fun thanks to the lengthy lines once the sun rises; so seeing this humourous innovation by some punters brought a smile to many faces.
Jesse Davidson has been kicking around for a while now since being featured in the 2012 selection of Triple J Unearthed High acts. His melancholy indie jams are infectious and insist a head bop and foot tap. His banter between each song was comical and confusing. Continually thanking everyone for coming, before introducing himself and his band as "Jesse Davidson and the Bois", and finishing up by saying "RIP Eminem". This obviously confused the 'off the grid' and tired crowd, with one punter yelling out in a distressed voice "is Eminem really dead?". Nonetheless the superb musical performance showed us that this won't be the last time we see Jesse Davidson on a festival bill.
Following a lunch break it was time to migrate to the Valley Stage for its pleasant afternoon start. Irish prodigy, Soak, kicked things off with her delicate voice and ethereal folk sounds, much to the delight of the slowly filling amphitheater. She's definitely one to watch!
Next up were Gang Of Youths who were arguably one of the biggest highlights of the festival. Wow…just WOW! At the time I couldn't conjure the words to describe what had just happened. Euphoria levels were at an all time high. The Sydney lads have quickly, and deservingly, become known as one of the best live acts in Australia. The set may not have started out as planned with frontman David Leaupepe having guitar tech troubles, though professionalism ensued and there was no noticeable difference in sound without the extra guitar.
The sun soaked crowd was dancing up a dust storm and chanting the lyrics at the top of their lungs. There was crowd surfing, circle pits, beach balls, sweat (a lot!) and a hell of a lot of love being thrown around. Gang Of Youths were notably humble and looked as though they were seriously enjoying themselves, with Leaupepe thanking everyone for "giving a flying fuck" about them. Closing their set with their anthem (and strong Triple J Hottest 100 contender) Magnolia, Gang of Youths taught us how to not be afraid.
As the afternoon progressed we were treated to some smooth soul from Leon Bridges. My god, where has he been hiding? (more importantly, where have I been hiding?) We were transported back to the early 60's from the moment he opened his mouth. There were 12 bar blues, there was an astounding sax solo, and there was even a romantic slow dance… the set had everything you could imagine from a 1960's American soul act. The boogie game at Leon Bridges was strong.
Climbing that dreaded hill for the last time (you know the one I'm talking about), we encountered the Fiesta Parade, which saw hundreds dancing through the festival arena with dragons, drums, some fresh newlyweds (seriously, a couple got married at Falls!) and obscure costumes… an interesting and nice spectacle to witness.
Up next was Gary Clark Jnr, who warmed up the crowd with his draw dropping guitar solos and groovin' blues. Opening with Bright Lights, Gary Clark Jnr had the crowd in awe of his guitar prowess. It's not everyday you get to see one of the greatest guitarists alive!
The crowd were getting a bit impatient as the wait for Foals to take to the stage felt like an eternity. The crowd, squashed together like sardines, threw up a massive roar when frontman Yannis Philippakis and the band finally made their way on to stage. The crows lost their collective shit as the Brits dove straight into their set with Snake Oil from their latest album "What Went Down". Deafening crowd sing-alongs and hectic moshing followed to fan favourites Mountain At My Gates and My Number. By now, everyone's sweat levels were high, as if we all just walked into the shower with our clothes on.
There was no slowing down as Foals continued to smash their way through the set with impeccable delivery, mixing the old with the new. Every line, every note, every beat had the utmost energy, meaning, and sincerity. Foals are one of the hottest live bands in the world right now and they completely lived up to their headliner status.
We somehow found the strength to pull through the three days and forget about the tiredness, pain and sunburn, and had the time of our lives! Theres something special about spending new years eve at a festival, with a bunch of friends and thousands of strangers, making incredible memories and having the time of our lives. We saw out one year, we saw in another, we danced, we laughed, we sang, we got dirty, we got sunburned, we got drunk, we made new friends, and we made memories. We fucking love you Falls!
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...as i walked on the gravel road through the southern heath something brought my thoughts to Shakespeare... i realised that he writes of all things as if marvellous (i wrote momentous) and all things are both inconsequential and momentous, even kings, and even their least important subjects... (that is a paraphrase of the thought that came to me)... all is momentous, all is inconsequent... the point of the thought was that this is anyone's way to write well: to think of the greatest and the least that can be said or written of each person, thing, or incident... the poetic awareness of the world.
As i walked away i paused to listen to a single bird (was it a blackbird?) perched in a leafless tree a few metres from me, singing for several minutes... and as i wrote that it flew away.


As the first meeting for the ICERM Semester Program on "Automorphic Forms, Combinatorial Representation Theory and Multiple Dirichlet Series", this workshop will focus on Sage training and on the design and planning of new computational features of central interest for the semester, around Weyl groups, Hecke algebras and their representations, crystals, posets, combinatorial data visualization, etc.
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Picture of the J-preorder of the biHecke monoid of the symmetric group S_3. This combinatorial data, strongly tied to Bruhat order, governs the representation theory of this monoid.
L-functions—vast generalizations of the Riemann zeta function— are fundamental objects of study in number theory. In the 1980's the idea emerged that it could be useful to tie together a family of related L-functions in one variable to create a "double Dirichlet series," which could be used to study the average behavior of the original family of L-functions. Double Dirichlet series soon became multiple Dirichlet series. It has gradually emerged that the local structure of these multiple Dirichlet series shows a rich connection to combinatorial representation theory.
Lie group methods and related combinatorics in Sage.


"Baking Millie could not do enough for us as my (now) husband and I were planning our wedding. We chatted back and forth about our likes and dislikes with Emily (founder of Baking Millie), and sampled different options during our tasting session. We decided on a Victoria Sponge and a Chocolate Sponge, as well as Rocky Road bites and Gingerbread People to share between us and our 90+ guests!


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import _ from 'lodash';
import $ from 'jquery';
import Webiny from 'webiny';
import styles from './styles.css';

class TooltipContent extends Webiny.Ui.Component {
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            document.addEventListener('click', this.onClick)
        }
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    unregisterEventListeners() {
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TooltipContent.defaultProps = {
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    content: null,
    placement: 'right',
    trigger: 'hover',
    onOutsideClick: _.noop,
    onMouseEnter: _.noop,
    onMouseLeave: _.noop,
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            </div>
        );

    }
};

export default TooltipContent;

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So, your friends are slackers and YOU need to be the one to pull this baby off! Where to start? What to do?
I was recently invited to join my friends group of scrapbook buddies for their twice annual girls weekend. These gals have been partying since its 1999 together since, um, 1997 and have the festivities down pat. It all began as a weekly scrapbook night, and then as they moved further away from each other a weekend event to ensure quality time was spent!
First of all, they started a yahoo group just for them so be able to email back and forth easily amongst the group and organize things. Each of them takes it in turns to host the weekend at their house, kicking husband and kids out for the weekend (no distractions!). Everyone brings their own bedding (slumber party style), and the hostess for the weekend buys snacks, drinks and simple sandwich stuff for lunches. Dinner is go out or order in!
Space is a priority at one of these shin-digs if you plan to scrapbook or craft throughout the weekend. Personal or card tables may be needed to add onto the dining table or maybe big trestle tables in the family room/basement. In some cases of extreme space hogging masking tape will be required to mark off allocated spots (you know who you are, table huggers!). Good lighting is also important so you may need to gather extra lamps and things to have available. It's always fun to have some good old fashioned girlie music and movies to play while you chat, eat and create!
The hardest part for me was deciding what to bring! Of course I needed ALL of my supplies, didn't I? I have learnt from experience that I bring everything I possibly can, only to shuffle it around all weekend and not know what to do with it all. This time, I had a plan. I picked out photos and a project that I wanted to work on and brought basic supplies to get these done. I packed everything into a small suitcase that lay open behind my chair so that I could easily get to everything.
I also took a basket with all my favorite 'goodies' in, random supplies etc to sit in front of me and allow me to rummage whenever I needed something to add to my project.
The best part about scrapbooking or crafting with a group is that you get to share ideas, get inspired and borrow everyone else's tools and things! A couple of gals were making Christmas cards, factory line style, and there was even a digital scrapbooker happily working away on her laptop (guess who created the most pages this weekend? AND hogged the least amount of space!).
One of my favorite parts of the weekend was the 'white mans trash' tradition, where everyone brings boxes of bags of old, unwanted supplies or outgrown clothing for another woman's treasure! It was almost like throwing raw meat at a pack of wild and starving mountain lions!
Another highlight was the hiring of a masseuse to come in on our last night and be available for anyone who wanted to ease that girls weekend tension our of their backs! (all that hunching over a table working, laughing till it hurts from late night jokes and sleeping on a yoga mat can cause some aches and pains!).
Pajamas were the dress code for the weekend, chocolate our staple, and farting no longer something done in the privacy of a bathroom...yep, it was a girls weekend alright, and I am still coming down from the high of it! Do yourself and your family a favor, grab yourself some girly friends and start planning a retreat – it may turn into a regular and much needed event!


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"Casa de Mi Padre": Tastefully Parodies Spanish Telenovelas
Nick Pinkerton • 03/14/2012 4:00 am
Rogue comic Will Ferrell recently turned up on an Old Milwaukee commercial exclusively for the Davenport, Iowa, local market; the obvious next career move, then, is Casa de Mi Padre, a modern-day tortilla western/telenovela spoof entirely in Spanish. Squinting into the middle distance with "the eyes of a small chicken" and expressively mangling hand-rolled cigarettes, Ferrell plays Armando Alvarez, dull-witted son of a widowed rancher (Pedro Armendariz Jr.) whose preferred heir, brother Raul (Diego Luna), has turned to drug trafficking, sparking a violent turf war with rival dealer Onza (Gael Garcia Bernal). There has always been a flamboyant, sartorial element to Ferrell's comedy, and it's clear that he and director Matt Piedmont, a former SNL writer, love the melodrama they're parodying: The protracted death scenes and abrupt musical numbers, the streaming golden light, Catholic-Mayan iconography, and blood-splattered white roses. Casa de Mi Padre riffs freely on impoverished production values—phony painted backdrops and the reflection of the camera crew in a DEA agent's sunglasses—but the humor doesn't only target south of the border. Like any good genre product, Casa also smuggles in rude social criticism, as when Armando memorably describes drug-addicted Americans as "shit-eating crazy monster babies."
Tags: Casa de Mi Padre, Davenport (Iowa), Film, Milwaukee, Will Ferrell
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This is Faith, who is staying with us at the Austin Animal Center until we can find her a family of her own. She is a special pup and has a special person. She came in as a stray and no one came to claim her. Faith was so afraid and fearful, initially, and wouldn't let anyone get close to her. Most shelters would have euthanized her.
But time was asked for and it was granted. With the patience and love from staff and volunteers, she finally allowed herself to trust. The moment she let staffer Dena Dixon walk her out of her kennel will be a memory she will always hold priceless. Just look at her now! Faith gives kisses! She plays…she's silly…she hops around in the play yards with delight! We've never seen a dog learn new commands with so little effort! All these things we know about her. The only thing we don't know is her future. We don't know who is that amazing family yet, that will be fortunate to receive all the love she has to give. If you know who they are…please tell them Faith would LOVE to meet them!


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My dad wouldn't have wanted me to give up, so on we plod...the service was wonderful,the flowers beautiful,Dad would have thought it was a good tribute,I hope we did him proud.Never will forget him or the memories I have.It was wonderful to see so many people respecting him and to know so many people cared.My own kids did me proud,Alex said goodbye to his granddad,and Emma too, also being my rock.
I have had a slow day today after a bad night,tossing and turning,high blood sugar followed by low blood sugar again,I suppose only to be expected, I have a slight cold and all the stresses of events.
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DEATH: CARMEN B. BANGERTER
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Carmen Beatrice Bird Bangerter, age 75, died of cancer Saturday, February 16, 1991 at her home in Bountiful, Utah.
She began life July 2, 1915 in a log cabin on a homestead in Junction Precinct, Box Elder County, Utah, the first child of Rolen Veron Bird and Beatrice McKendrick, who have both preceded her in death. She graduated from Logan High School where she received literary honors. She married Vernon A. Bangerter in the Logan LDS Temple on December 19, 1933. They were the parents of four sons.An active member of the LDS Church, she served in numerous Sunday School, Relief Society and Primary callings. Together with her husband she filled a mission to the Tennessee, Nashville Mission at age 67. Her great love and caring for others were felt by each member of her family as well as all who knew her. She found pleasure in raising prize-winning dogs, collecting antiques, doing fine needlework, flower gardening and her show horse.
Survived by: Vernon, her husband of 57 years; sons, V. Brent, Bountiful; L. Thad, West Valley City; Ken, West Bountiful; and Jay, Blackfoot, Idaho; brother, Rolen Lloyd Bird; 21 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, February 21, at 12 noon in the Bountiful 26th Ward Chapel, 200 North 200 West. Friends may call at the Russon Brothers Bountiful Mortuary, 295 North Main, from 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday at the church from 10:45-11:45 a.m. prior to the services.
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Rear Adm. Danelle M. Barrett assigned as director, Navy Cyber Security Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
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Acting Secretary of the Navy Sean Stackley and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John M. Richardson announced March 1 the following assignment:
Rear Adm. Danelle M. Barrett will be assigned as director, Navy Cyber Security Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Washington, District of Columbia. Barrett is currently serving as deputy director, Operations, J3, U.S. Cyber Command, Fort Meade, Maryland.
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Investigation report details death at Scott
by adriennek • May 5, 2016 11:59 pm - Updated May 5, 2016 12:55 pm
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. — Air Mobility Command officials released the ground accident investigation board report regarding the Oct. 29, 2015, death of an Airmen who collapsed during his physical fitness assessment at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.
Tech. Sgt. Nicholas Kruse-Wright, assigned to the 375th Force Support Squadron at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, died due to complications from an identified pre-existing medical condition, which manifested while he was participating in the 1.5-mile run portion of his Oct. 26, 2015, fitness assessment. Kruse-Wright was on his final lap when he collapsed and complained of his legs hurting. He transported to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Belleville, Illinois, and passed away three days later.
"The 375th Air Mobility Wing lost a valued member of our Air Force family, and we are deeply saddened," said Col. Laura Lenderman, 375th Air Mobility Wing commander. "Tech. Sgt. Kruse-Wright is missed by the entire wing and all who had the opportunity to serve with him. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends."
The Ground Accident Investigation Board's report is available on the Air Mobility Command Freedom of Information Act site: http://www.amc.af.mil/mediacenter.asp.
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