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I'm only 7 weeks but can't help to think about setting the baby shower up!
The Baby Shower Is The Best Part ! Can't Wait To Celebrate The Coming Of My 1st Born With Family & Friends!
We had 3.
I was suppose to have a rock star theme baby shower for my son but due to the location and timing of his arrival, I decided it was too much stress. I'm definitely decided to have a baby shower for my daughter hopefully things go as planned
This is my third, I've never had a shower before and don't really plan on having one this time around either as I have everything for baby. I was thinking about doing a diaper shower though since you can never have too many of those!
Free is awesome…
I had a (forced) shower with my first, wasn't allowed to have one with my second. Now expecting twins and my family having disowned me, I don't know if I can have one or not. All of my friends live in other states and are busy living their own lives.
Awww, I would have definitely thrown you a surprise baby shower, and if you family disowned you for whatever reason, that's their lost focus on you, your other half and your children, your children loves you no matter what.
This is my 3rd child. I was told that you don't have a shower after your 2nd child. Well, I might could see this if you have start steppers, but my babies are so far apart (my oldest is 18 and my 2nd is 8). So, my friends are giving me a shower in October, apposed to family.
I'm not very close with my family and the couple of friends that I have now are too broke and busy.
It's pretty disappointing because I'm convinced that a baby shower would help with my depression.
Hi Ami – Maybe your friends would be willing to meet you at a park for a picnic shower, no presents needed! Let them know that you don't want any gifts, just want to spend time with them and hopefully they'll be willing and able to take the time to be with you. Best wishes!
Mine is this weekend
we had 3 of them
Of coarse!! Baby showers= less you have to buy for baby and they are a fun time to share with friends and family the expectant mother!!
Well, this is baby number 2, so I'm not having a shower. My son is almost 7, but we had planned on another child, so we kept everything. We're just going to tell people that ask if they can get us anything that diapers would be appreciated.
We had 3 of them and they all were pretty awesome
I want one, but don't want to throw it myself. My biggest problem is living 2 days away from my hometown with no current plans for a visit
I really want one and definitely plan on having one. I never had any parties, during my life, and I feel this can be my first! <3
Grandma said we're definitely going to have one, though. She's going to throw it haha (:
I'm planning to have one, don't know yet!!
I believe if you want something done right, then do it yourself. So this is my second child and I am throwing my own baby shower. My friends and family will help chip in and help decorate. I planned my own with the first child as well, turned out wonderful. All i did was pick 2 hosts for the games and gifts etc. I'm excited because i get to plan for another girl shower but this time during the summer season.
I agree lesson learned after the first baby shower didn't happen, so I have everything in order, my boyfriend wants to help and participate, and the family I communicate with is helping out
I am so curious as to what people would think if I planned my own baby shower. The reason being I had family and friends help with my wedding and it turned out horrible.Any Ideas to if this is a good idea or not?
We just had a friend that threw her own baby shower party for guys and gals. We couldn't make it, but I hear it was great! Maybe if you just had one friend or family member co-host with you it wouldn't turn out as badly? Sometimes "too many cooks in the kitchen" can lead to disaster. Have fun!
We are driving to our home town 16 hrs away (snow area) to be with family and have our shower. I can't wait… 2 weeks it will be great!
Can't stop thinking about a theme just waiting to find out what I am having
I cant stop thinking about ideas for my baby shower I want one now but ima wait until feb march to have mine
I will be moving soon and I plan to come back for my baby shower.
we had 3
She wants to but her friend and family aren't here
Hi Dario. I wish her friends and family lived closer, that must be difficult at times, to be far away from them during such an exciting time. Perhaps you could suggest to them, that they have a baby shower in a box for her — just have loved ones send their well wishes and gifts in one big package. It could be a wonderful surprise
I don't have any friends or family here so I doubt I will have anything unless his family does something. It kinda sucks because this is my first and I have always wanted that part. Oh well.
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All six of Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim graphic novels, published by Oni Press, made the top ten in Nielsen's BookScan list of the bestselling graphic novels in bookstores in July. The final volume in the series, Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour, which wasn't released until July 20th, topped the charts followed by Dark Horse's Troublemaker by Janet and Alex Evanovich, which also didn't hit stores until the 20th, but whose appearance on this list was expected given the popularity of the authors and news about the number of copies ordered (see "Troublemaker Over 80K").
Geoff Johns' flagship Blackest Night hardcover debuted on at number 3 for July and four other Blackest Night hardcovers all made the "Top 20" in a very impressive mainstream showing for a comic book crossover event.
Predictably Naruto Vol. 48, which topped the list last month, was the highest ranking manga for July, but the fact that it was the only manga in the top ten was unprecedented as was the fact that only six manga titles made the "Top 20" for the month. Viz Media had four titles including the perennially strong Full Metal Alchemist (Vol. 23), and two popular shojo series, Vampire Knight (Vol.10) and the Ouran High School Host Club. Yen Press's popular new series Black Butler remained in the "Top 20" for the third straight month and Del Rey popular harem comedy Negima! (Vol. 27) made its usual appearance on the list. Del Rey also had two tie-in volumes for The Last Airbender movie make the "Top 20," proving once again that a film doesn't necessarily have to be a critical and box office success to spur graphic novel sales.
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The More Nature Mod for Minecraft, developed by "Click_Me", introduces a variety of new items, mobs and blocks to add a little more life into the Minecraft universe. This mod adds more life to the mountains, plains, valleys and oceans that you find in Minecraft.
The new mobs included in this mod, to name a few, are crickets, centipedes, butterflies, goats, stingrays and seagulls. The butterflies populate in the grasslands while the centipedes slither through the shadows of the swamps. The goats will drop goat meat that can be prepared and eaten, and the stingrays find themselves gliding through the corals and kelp forests in the ocean. The seagulls will drop feathers and fish.
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Posted January 10, 2014 by Karen Hansen-Kuhn
The U.S. trade debate shifted into high gear yesterday with the introduction of Congressional bills to fast track trade deals. If approved, this would give the administration the authority to negotiate trade deals behind closed doors and then submit the resulting agreements to Congress for an up or down vote, with very limited debate and no possibility of amendments. Unions, environmental organizations and many other civil society groups immediately denounced the bill as undemocratic and out of date. Some 151 Democrats issued a letter last week expressing opposition to the bill, so its passage is far from assured.
Even beyond the undemocratic nature of the fast-track mechanism, the bill includes negotiating objectives that should raise alarms for advocates of food sovereignty and international development. It would direct the office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to eliminate "localization barriers to trade." Rather than celebrating the emergence of strong local economies, that provision would direct USTR to "eliminate and prevent measures that require United States producers and service providers to locate facilities, intellectual property, or other assets in a country as a market access or investment condition, including indigenous innovation measures." That kind of measure, if enacted in a trade agreement, could easily boomerang back to the U.S. to undermine local content requirements for job creation or even perhaps local foods programs.
The legislation also calls on USTR to make food safety and other Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures "fully enforceable" in trade deals. That could mean that corporate complaints over restrictions on GMOs or dubious food additives become subject to the loathsome Investor-State Dispute Resolution mechanism, which gives corporations the right to sue governments over public laws or regulations that undermine their expected profits. Using that mechanism, Phillip Morris has brought suits against the governments of Uruguay and Australia over new rules on cigarette labels. Could GMO or country-of-origin labels be next?
These issues are all subject to heated debate in negotiations for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Those talks, like the debate on fast track itself, need to emerge from the shadows. As AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says, "Rather than focusing on empowering multinational corporations, we should be working to support domestic manufacturing jobs, fix our crumbling infrastructure, and rebuild a strong middle class. This fast track bill will do the opposite."
Take action to call on Congress to reject fast track at citizenstrade.org.
Posted January 9, 2014 by Shefali Sharma
One of Berlin's big newspapers, the Berlin Zeitung, flashed images of little piglets today and of mass produced turkeys. This is part of a bigger build up towards a major demonstration on January 18 in which over 20,000 citizens are expected in Berlin to protest against industrial farming in the country—mass meat production being the vivid centerpiece for why it is so bad for people and the environment.
I have been in Germany for the last few weeks and am struck by how hot this topic is becoming—capturing media attention and putting the Green Party into elected positions in different states where animal factory farms have become a major problem. A slow movement is building, garnering ever increasing consumer support towards direct farmer-to-consumer marketing of organic, small-scale, locally produced, humane agriculture products.
The campaign that is organizing events and the demonstration during Germany's "Green Week" is called "Meine Landwirtschaft" or "My Agriculture," building a message to put back agriculture into the hands of better stewards who can respect soil, water and integrate human and animal health into good food for the people and the planet. This year's theme for the campaign demonstration is "Wir Haben Agrarindustrie Satt!" or "We're fed up with industrial agriculture!" The poster child: a big pig face.
Speaking of pigs, just after the New Year I visited a sow-raising industrial pig farm near Muenster (about a 4-hour train ride Southwest of Berlin)—the farmer had started out with 400 sows and is now in the business of feeding and impregnating over 1,200 of them. He has them delivered by a company when they have just come of age and hands them off to another contract farmer just as they are about to give birth. The delivery of piglets is more risky.
Many of the people actively working on problems with industrial meat production were surprised that I managed to get access to such a farm—and it's true, without connections of a friend of a friend, I would not have been able to see such an operation. It is also nearly impossible to visit such operations in the U.S. I got lucky, I guess.
The visit shocked my senses; The extreme smell of ammonia and methane saturated my pores and clothes and the extremely cruel conditions these poor animals are in made me anxious to get out within minutes of entering. We were made to wear boots and these astronaut-like suits/coveralls that would keep our clothes from smelling and would hopefully prevent infection (both human to pig and pig to human).
The producer spoke at length about his operations—his mechanized feeding process, the breeds, the way that each sow is inseminated. The details he failed to mention are just as important, like the excessive use of hormones in the industry so that sows are fertile and give birth to piglets at the same time. This is efficient for producers so that no gestation crate is empty at any given time during the year. The faster the turnover, the more uniform the sows and piglets, the greater the number of piglets born, the more profitable the business.
These crates are so narrow that these poor animals can only stand and face their feeding troughs, unable even to turn around. German rules mandate that after 35 days of being pregnant, these sows must be able to have more space for some hours during the day until they give birth. I saw these more "spacious" stalls where about 5–6 sows sit, indoors with cement floors and gaps that allow for urine and manure to pass through (which generate all the smell and pollution).
Incidentally, the headlines in today's paper are also about hormone use in sows and how the danger to human health. BUND, Friends of the Earth Germany, released a high-profile report yesterday on the excessive use of hormones with sows in the German pork industry. This is likely no different than sow rearing in the U.S.
I spoke at length last evening with Reinhild Benning, BUND's agriculture expert, and she told me that Germany's data on hormone use in the animal industry is ten years old. The evidence they have gathered based on this old data indicates that these hormones contaminate groundwater and end up in drinking water sources. Excessive hormones, such as steroids that are used in industrial pork production, can be carcinogenic, leading to higher rates of prostate and breast cancer, infertility and even early puberty in youth. She told me that she did 12 radio interviews yesterday on the subject. Their press conference was also well-attended followed by interviews by several newspapers. Several other colleagues across Berlin were interviewed on their take of the issue.
This is perhaps the most exciting aspect of these developments: German media and its readers are interested in knowing about these issues and are beginning to demand change. I would love to see such an interest in the U.S. For instance, wouldn't it be great to imagine 20,000 Americans demonstrating against this industrial production model after news broke out in October that antibiotic-resistant salmonella was found in several Foster Farm poultry products, sickening over 16,000 people.
The Henrich Boell Foundation in Berlin is launching its second annual "Meat Atlas: Facts and Figures about the animals we eat" with another press conference. IATP is one of the 26 contributors to this atlas. Stay tuned for more blogs on these issues and on IATP's own upcoming publications on industrial meat production in China. Sign up to receive IATP's latest work in this area, including the forthcoming reports, at www.iatp.org/industrial-meat.
Posted January 8, 2014 by Dr. M. Jahi Chappell
The illusion of choice takes away from our ability to get to a just, sustainable food system, meaning we'll have to "Vote with our Vote." We can't afford to just "Vote with our Fork."
We've been told that we in the U.S. have the best, safest food system in the world. Without getting bogged down in endless debate, let's get some context: the U.S. has 6 percent of households with very low food security and almost 9 percent more who are not sure they'll have enough money or resources for food (at the same time, our average food availability is equal to 3,800 calories per person per day, much more than the recommended 1900 to 2500 calories/person/day); we throw away and waste 30 to 50 percent of our food; our food system is rated as fourth in food safety; we're first (among industrialized countries) in overweight and obesity and tied with Greece for second in terms of the number of people who can't reliably afford adequate food. That's right: despite having some of the world's cheapest food, we have one of the highest levels among wealthy countries of people not being able to reliably afford it.
The Economist Magazine does rank the U.S. #1 in its Global Food Security Index, but given the above, all I'm saying is that being #1 leaves a lot to be desired. So let's not get too comfortable, whatever our ranking.
So, how is one of the most politically and economically powerful countries on earth also the second worst among its peers in terms of food security? There are many ways to answer that question, but one way I'd answer it is to say that we've been focusing too much on "voting with our fork," when what we should be doing is "voting with our vote." That is to say, the U.S. food system has become incredibly concentrated, with most of the control in the hands of very few firms:
(Figures are from Food Rebellions! by Holt-Gimémenz and Patel, and sources therein, particularly researchers Mary Hendrickson and William Heffernan.)
And on and on it goes. Things aren't much better in the organic food industry. Why does it matter? Well, if we were voting with our forks, it means we're doing so with three tines behind our back—it'd be like a U.S. Senate where the top three senators got a total of 70 votes, and 97 other senators would have share the other 30 between them. (And you thought things in the legislature were bad now!)
We're in a system like the old saw by Henry Ford, "You can have any color car, as long as that color is black." When I was in the bodywash business, the saying went "we want to sell consumers as much water [as part of the bodywash] as possible"—because water is cheap. Well, salt, fat, and sugar are cheap too, and even better than water, they're hard to resist! All of these firms want to sell us more, more, more of everything, and the fact that some people can't afford enough doesn't matter as long as others can afford too much! "By concentrating fat, salt and sugar in products formulated for maximum 'bliss,' Big Food has spent almost a century distorting the American diet in favor of calorie-dense products," Scott Mowbray summarized in his New York Times review of the book Salt Sugar Fat. What's more, it's more profitable for companies to sell us heavily processed foods rather than the whole and healthy ones we know we should eat. To make matters even worse yet, processed foods may have more calories than the whole foods they came from, meaning we might get less full while getting more calories from processed forms of the same foods.
It is just not as profitable or to the advantage of major food companies to sell us food that is healthier and less processed (indeed, processing is part of "adding value" in industry-speak). Most supermarket food is designed to trigger our pleasure centers to want even more, while it bypasses the triggers in our bodies making us feel "full." The big food companies spend millions on advertising to make sure their food is "what we crave" (and like it or not, advertising works—why else would they pay for it?). They do this knowing that if we change our minds, our choices are the nearly identical products from their one or two major competitors. Echoing Henry Ford: we can have any kind of food we want in the U.S., for some of the lowest prices in the world, as long as we don't mind choosing from only a couple companies, don't mind it being unhealthy, and don't mind the profits going to food processors and retailers, not farmers.
This is the way it goes when we vote only with our fork. 60,000—that's the number of products supposedly found in the U.S.'s largest supermarkets. But when these 60,000 come from a handful of companies, how much choice do we really have? 57 kinds of processed, sugary breakfast cereals are still all processed, sugary breakfast cereals.
One of the things I'll be doing here at IATP as the new director for agroecology and agriculture policy is continuing our long-standing work to build a new narrative of the food system. That is, the story we tell ourselves around our food system, what it does and what's possible. This piece is the first of many that my colleagues and I will be writing around this theme over the next year. Tune in to IATP's Think Forward blog and BeyondtheFarmBill.org in the coming weeks and months to see!
Posted December 31, 2013 by Dale Wiehoff
The New Year came in on the heels of an explosion in the small prairie town of Casselton, North Dakota, when two BNSF Railway trains collided, one carrying crude oil. The residents of Casselton were told to evacuate as the thick clouds of black smoke filled the sky. The only comfort in this latest of crude oil transportation disasters was that no people lost their lives. That wasn't the case in Lac-Megantic, Quebec where 47 people lost their lives when a Montreal Maine & Atlantic Railway Ltd train carrying tar sand oil derailed and exploded. Small rural communities and First Nations lands have suffered the most from this steady flow of oil spills. When it isn't train tankers careening off the tracks, it is crude oil pipeline leaks flowing out on to wheat fields and into rivers. When it isn't crude oil, it is natural gas explosions such as the one in West, Texas last April, when a fertilizer plant blew up, killing 15 innocent people. Repeatedly, the oil and gas industry has shown criminal disregard for the lives and property of people and communities.
So, what can citizens do? We could and we must say that the nation's infrastructure for oil and gas development is not up to the threat posed by the headlong drive to squeeze every last drop of petroleum out of the earth. We could and we must say that federal, state and local governments have failed to protect us, and have fallen far short of establishing and enforcing effective regulatory standards for the oil and gas industry. These measures are critical and it is up to us to hold our governments accountable.
But monitoring, regulating and preparing for disasters is not enough. All the spills, train derailments, explosions, and pollution, as horrific as they are, pale next to the disaster of climate chaos, caused in large part by the overuse of petroleum.
It is past time to stand up to this reckless and dangerous form of energy production. Citizens and communities must act to protect themselves. In Minnesota, the Public Utility Commission has agreed to hearings on the proposed expansion of the Alberta Clipper pipeline. It is time to join together and tell the PUC that we don't need and we don't want 800,000 barrels per day of tar sand oil traveling across northern Minnesota and approaching Lake Superior. In fact, we don't want it to come out of the ground. Stopping the Alberta Clipper in 2014 is our New Year's resolution.
Posted December 19, 2013 by Dr. Steve Suppan
Is it possible or necessary to regulate Automated Trading Systems (ATSs) on commodity futures markets that transact business electronically without direct human intervention at the speed of light (high-frequency Trading (HFT))? The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) sought answers to that question in a September 2013 Concept Release with 132, often multi-part, questions. As CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler remarked in an appendix to the release, ATSs account for 91 percent of all trading, and farmers and ranchers are affected by ATS-generated price volatility. IATP responded to a few of the 132 questions in a comment filed last week with the CFTC.
The failings of ATSs, characterized popularly as "computer glitches," came to the public's attention on May 6, 2010, when U.S. stock markets lost 5–6 percent of their total value in a matter of minutes, before recovering later in the day, due to human intervention. The CFTC and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an analysis of the "flash crash" in September 2010. The CFTC's Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) held hearings over more than a two year period to exchange information about financial industry HFT practices and to recommend rules and definitions that were featured in the Concept Release.
Most TAC members represented HFT traders, HFT technology providers and exchanges that benefit from the huge fees generated by HFT orders placed, even if those orders do not result in completed trades. Indeed, according to one article, "order stuffing" is built into the design of some HFT algorithms (mathematical expressions of trading instructions and strategies), which "harvest" rebates from trading exchanges based on the sheer volume of HFT orders placed.
IATP recommended that the CFTC apply a fee to each cancelled order to make "order stuffing" and "rebate harvesting" economically unviable. One exchange reported to the TAC that it levied such a fee already, though it did not report how much nor with what results. Standardizing a cancellation fee across all trading venues by rulemaking would prevent trade migration to venues that did not levy the fee.
We noted that several of the Concept Release questions, concerning both normative and technological issues, implied that the CFTC would delegate to exchanges and market participants its authority to regulate ATSs and HFT. There were many more questions about the costs to industry of contemplated regulatory measures than about the benefits of those measures to market integrity and transparent price formation, as required by the Commodity Exchange Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Financial Protection Act.
Even in the face of relentless attacks on Dodd-Frank and the CFTC's budget, allowing self-regulatory organizations, such as the International Swaps and Derivatives Organization, to dominate HFT regulation is a bad idea. As long as trading venues are for-profit entities, and not public utilities, they have no financial reason to reduce the speed and volume of trading, until and unless flash crashes pose a reputational risk that momentarily reduces trading fees and volume. Short-term savings might result for the CFTC through delegation of its authority, but at the long-term cost of having to patch together a techno-fix for each future flash crash. Furthermore, a weak CFTC HFT rule might be in conflict with the HFT articles in the European Union's revision of its Market in Financial Instruments Direct (MiFID2), currently under debate.
According to a study referenced in the Concept Release, "at least 60 to 70 percent of commodity price changes" are not the result of trader response to new information about market supply/demand information, regulatory news, logistical news or commodity finance news. Rather they are the result of ATS algorithms responding to other algorithms. IATP concluded its comment to the CFTC by noting that grain and oilseed prices are expected to decline over the next four years, while the cost of production is expected to remain its current record high. Farmers caught in this price-cost squeeze might be tempted to try to hedge the price of their future production, unaware that their commodity derivatives contracts are likely dominated by HFT algorithms. We urged the CFTC to initiate an HFT rulemaking to regulate an unregulated market practice before mini-flash crashes become accepted as the new market normal.
Posted December 12, 2013 by Dale Wiehoff
It's common to make biblical references when we want to underscore how ancient something is, but in the case of apples, we know they've been around for a very long time. Originating in Central Asia, hybrid varieties propagated through grafting were well established over 6,000 years ago. Today there are over 7,500 cultivars world-wide. Despite the range, diversity and quantity of apples produced in the world, however, Malus domestica apparently isn't measuring up to the modern consumer's expectations. At least that's what Neal Carter, president of Okanagan Specialty Fruits thinks. He has developed genetically engineered Granny Smith and Golden Delicious apples that won't turn brown when the flesh is exposed to air. Carter isn't alone in searching for technological improvements to the apple. Nanotech coatings to keep fruits like apples, pears and mangos firm are already in use.
On December 16, the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will close the final public comment period on the application for Neal Carter's apples. In November, APHIS released a report saying his "Arctic" apples don't pose any risks. Given the Obama Administration's love of all things genetically engineered, it would be surprising if the USDA doesn't approve genetically engineered apples. The USDA has decided that the issue of genetically engineered food is a matter to be determined by the "market." Forget that every poll taken finds that consumers don't want to eat genetically engineered apples, that the major apple producer associations say they don't want them, and that the fast food industry which Neal Carter claims is the market for his apples say they won't use them. It's not too late to comment. Let APHIS know what you think about genetically modified apples.
Something isn't adding up about the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but evil does seem to have its eye on our forests. The Arctic apple debate is rightly focused on the fruit of the apple tree, but looked at from a slightly broader perspective, this is part of a corporate campaign to introduce and expand the genetically engineered trees into our forests.
One of the more absurd examples of the drive for GMO trees is The American Chestnut Foundation's (TACF) partnership with the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) in Syracuse to develop a genetically engineered (GE) blight-resistant American chestnut. With the financial backing of major biotech and chemical companies, SUNY's GE chestnut project is supplanting TACF's 30-year, citizen science–driven plant breeding project that has made significant advances in bringing back the American chestnut through hybrid crosses. The return of an icon of American forestry that was decimated by a virus in the early 1900s has been reduced to a foot in the door for the genetically engineered forest industries.
TACF invites us to "[i]magine a future in which the native range of the American chestnut is reforested with the 4 billion trees that once stood in our eastern forests." This image would, by any conservation standard, be an amazing achievement, except for the fact that these would be genetically engineered trees.
Genetically engineered American chestnuts might not by themselves be the greatest threat to biological diversity in our forests, but given the chestnut's historical stature and the significance of bringing it back into our forests, it is not unreasonable to imagine that the biotech companies and their academic retainers view the approval of the genetically engineered chestnut for release into the wild as an important step in gaining public acceptance of GMO trees. Apples and chestnuts are Trojan horses for the biotech, energy and paper companies that want to introduce a wide range of GMO trees to meet their industrial needs.
Plant diversity begins in the forest, not in the garden and not in the farmer's fields. The introduction of four billion genetically engineered chestnuts, bruise-free apples, invasive eucalyptus, highly flammable pines and other varieties of genetically engineered trees might provide companies like Okanagan Specialty Fruits, ArborGen and Monsanto with trees for industrial uses, but in return we will be making a serious error that will inevitably lead to the loss of plant biodiversity. We need only look at what happened when this same technology was set loose in our farmer's fields. In 1995 Monsanto received permission to market GMO corn and soy beans. According to the USDA, today 90 percent of corn and soybeans grown in the U.S. are genetically modified. What happened to all the varieties of corn that we grew before 1995?
Before genetically engineered apples become the real forbidden fruit and our native forests and heritage trees are lost to make money for investors, we need to tell the USDA we don't want or need genetically engineered apples.
Posted December 12, 2013 by Anna Claussen
A growing number of hospitals are shifting the way they think about protecting and improving health, and taking a closer look at how and where the food they serve is grown. This is great news for the people who receive treatment, work at and visit the hospitals, but it's also great news for local, sustainable farmers, and could become an important infrastructure pillar in building stronger local food systems.
We've just put the finishing touches on a two-year assessment (funded by a North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education grant) of the current and potential health care food markets for North Central region sustainable farmers. We collaborated with three health systems (Fairview Health Services, Hudson Hospital and Clinics, and the VA Medical Center in St. Cloud, Minnesota) and an advisory committee of farmers, hospital representatives and food systems experts to gather and analyze data to provide insights into opportunities for and roadblocks to hospital sourcing of more local, sustainably produced food.
Farm to Hospital is more complicated than it might sound at first. Limited hospital resources and the complexity of food purchase contracts and agreements at many hospitals have prevented farmers from accessing this market in any significant way to date. To help hospitals and farmers navigate some of these roadblocks, we've just released two region-specific reports—one aimed at hospitals and one aimed at farmers—detailing our project findings. We've also published a collection of Farm-to-Hospital toolkits and appendices containing resources designed to help North Central region hospitals maximize purchase of produce, meat and other products from sustainable farmers and producers, especially those in nearby communities. Likewise, there are tools to help sustainable farmers and producers to sell their products to hospitals. Find all of these resources on www.iatp.org/farm-to-hospital. Further, we've provided each of our hospital partners with customized "road maps" to aid their efforts in procuring local, sustainable food.
We'll also be hosting two webinars, one designed for farmers, the other for hospitals to share our results as well, on December 17 and 19.
To help build stronger local food systems that work for farmers and the community, we're going to need institutions with significant purchasing power to step up. Hospitals and schools that already serve local communities can be an important first step of building a healthier, more sustainable and resilient local food system!
See both our Hospital- and Farmer-Focused Farm to Hospital reports, and all associated toolkits on www.iatp.org/farm-to-hospital.
Sign up for one or both of our upcoming webinars to learn more:
December 17: Farmer-focused presentation on Connecting Sustainable Farmers to Emerging Health Care Markets
December 19: Hospital-Focused presentation on Connecting Sustainable Farmers to Emerging Health Care Markets
Posted December 11, 2013 by Shiney Varghese
On November 21, the U.N. General Assembly's Third Committee (The Committee) adopted a resolution on "The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation." All U.N. member states agreed that the rights to water and sanitation are derived from the right to an adequate standard of living. As a result, these rights are now implicitly recognized as being part of International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
This means that for the very first time, all U.N. member States affirm that the rights to water and sanitation are legally binding in international law. This is indeed a moment for all of us to celebrate.
Yet this agreement is marred by the reluctance of the United States to join all other nations in a universal agreement on the definition of these rights (as defined in a resolution of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted by consensus in September 2013).
Writing about this, an Amnesty International press release says: "At the time [of the unanimous adoption of the UNHRC resolution] the United States was the only country that disassociated itself from the definition of these rights and stated that it did not agree 'with the expansive way this right has been articulated.' However, it has not explained what aspects of this definition it does not accept." The press release continues: "Such rights are only 'expansive' if one adopts a 19th century understanding of hygiene and of government duties to ensure the provision of public services."
At the behest of the United States, the main sponsors of the draft resolution—Germany and Spain—tried to reach a consensus by removing the following paragraph, which contained a critical affirmation of the contents of these rights, from the resolution that was unanimously passed at the General Assembly this November.
...the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation entitles everyone, without discrimination, to have access to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic use and to have physical and affordable access to sanitation, in all spheres of life, that is safe, hygienic, secure, and acceptable and that provides privacy and ensures dignity.
Given that this was the only reference in the draft resolution to the content of the rights to water and sanitation, the final resolution adopted is stripped of essential elements related to these rights. Amnesty International is right that it is "incumbent upon the U.S. government to explain which of these aspects of the rights it cannot accept and why." The removal of that text from the resolution would seem to indicate that some aspects of our rights to water and sanitation are not guaranteed by the Federal government. Which ones?
Quite apart from the domestic implications, such a position by the U.S. government also works against the interests of the billions of people who lack adequate access to water and sanitation.
The debate isn't over yet. Even though the references to the content of the rights to water and were removed from the November resolution, UNGA's Third Committee endorsed the UNHRC resolution of September 2013, which elaborates the underlying essential elements of these rights. Thus, reintroducing the content of these rights in future texts on rights to water and sanitation should be quite straightforward.
The issue will likely come up again at the U.N. General Assembly (GA) next year. For the supporters of the draft resolution this offers an opportunity to reintroduce the removed language. For the United States, it will provide a chance to stand on the right side of history, rather than holding back progress.
If and when a U.N. GA resolution is adopted with these amendments, it will indeed be a big step forward in advancing rights-based approaches to development. Yet, we need to be mindful that this will only be a baby step toward ensuring adequate access to water and sanitation for world's poor. It will require sustained work at multiple levels and spaces, including rethinking our water-intensive development trajectory, to make it a reality for all.
Posted December 10, 2013 by Dale Wiehoff
Tell the Brazilian embassy in Washington, DC to Stop Terminator Seeds
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After years of global opposition and prohibitions against the production and distribution of terminator seeds, the biotech industry's final solution (seeds that are genetically engineered to not reproduce), the Brazilian government has taken steps to legalize them before the end of the year.
According the ETC Group, an international bio- and agrotechnology watchdog organization, the Brazilian Judicial Commission will entertain a motion on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 to accept Terminator seeds, making Brazil the first country in the world to defy a 13-year-old UN moratorium on the use of the technology.
Terminator technology represents a fundamental threat to the rights of farmers and biodiversity and must be permanently banned.
We urge you to call the Brazilian embassy in your country and send the government a message that the world rejects technology that makes plants produce sterile seeds.
In the U.S., call the Brazilian embassy in Washington, DC: +1 (202) 238-2700.
Learn more from the ETC Group.
Posted December 9, 2013 by Dr. M. Jahi Chappell
The comment period recently closed on the USDA's Research, Education, and Economics (REE) Action Plan Draft, which responded to informal and formal consultations with internal and external advisors and stakeholders, and "lessons learned from implementation of Farm Bill provisions." It refines the initial REE Action Plan, which was released in February of 2012.
Why should we care? Well, the action plan is meant to identify and outline the core organizing efforts of the USDA's science agenda, including how the USDA delivers on its the scientific discovery mission through The Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Agricultural Statistics Service. In other words, it is setting the priorities for the work of 1,200 research projects and thousands of staff within the USDA, the priorities for over $1.2 million in projects and research funds distributed to Land-Grant universities and other partners, and the priorities around what kinds of data the USDA works to collect and how it disseminates it. This document will strongly influence what kind of science is supported, what kinds of things we can find out about our own food system and what possibilities and alternatives are explored. As a former academic, I can say the USDA is a very important funder for academic work on the food system and their statistics are vital to allowing us to figure out what's going on in our own food system.
So I was displeased to read the 45-page draft document and see no mention of agroecology. Agroecology, which most fundamentally is about dealing with agriculture as a system that is inescapably both ecological and social, would seem almost wholly congruent with the USDA REE Action Plan's stated goals. This is why I was happy to see the Ecological Society of America address this in a letter to Dr. Catherine Woteki, Chief Scientist of the USDA and Under-Secretary for REE (I contributed to the letter as the chair of the Agroecology Section of the Society):
The Ecological Society of America is grateful for the opportunity to submit comments on the USDA's draft revised Research, Education, and Economics (REE) Mission Area Action Plan […] We are glad to see the priorities placed on studying natural resources, sustainable agricultural systems, and the environment more broadly. ESA shares these priorities […] [but] the current REE Mission Area Action Plan draft document includes only two mentions of ecology (both in reference specifically to microbial ecology) […] Yet the field of agroecology would appear logically foundational to achieving practically all of the primary goals and subgoals laid out in the Draft document, which emphasizes "a comprehensive approach to agriculture and working lands," and in taking "an assertive and progressive approach to transforming USDA REE into a high-profile research organization."
ESA goes on to propose three changes: "(1) The incorporation of ecology into the REE plan […] (2) A dedicated budget line within USDA REE for agroecological research […] (3) An annual high-level Conference on Agroecology, under the auspices of the USDA." The letter also highlights several examples of exciting, cutting-edge and very timely work currently being undertaken by agroecologists.
For a primer on agroecology, you can also see IATP's recent report, Scaling Up Agroecology.
Read the letter from the Ecological Society of America to Dr. Catherine Woteki, Chief Scientist of the USDA and Under-Secretary for Research, Education and Economics.
Read the USDA Draft Action Plan (2013 revision).
See the letter's appendix, which shows that over the past 20 years, agroecology has had the highest percentage of well-cited peer-reviewed papers (7 percent) when compared to organic agriculture (5.1 percent), agronomy (4.5 percent), and soil science (4.8 percent).


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How to make Thin Mints with 3 Ingredients
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This is a spot on, super easy Girl Scout cookie copy cat recipe! Today I'm showing you How to make Thin Mints with 3 Ingredients...and they're no bake too! Who doesn't love Girl Scout cookies? They aren't available year round though, so I love creating copy cat recipe...Read More and Get the Recipe!
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Today I am showing you How to Make Thick, Soft, Chewy Snickerdoodles! These are a must make for your Christmas cookie trays! Snickerdoodles are one of our favorite cookies, and I make them every year at Christmas time. My goodie tray just isn't complete without these ...Read More and Get the Recipe!
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December 18, 2012
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December 13, 2012
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.
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Human skin is rich with millions of eccrine sweat glands that help your body cool down after a trip to the gym or on a warm day. These same glands, new University of Michigan Health System research shows, also happen to play a key role in providing cells for recovering skin wounds – such as scrapes, burns and ulcers.
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I also liked the Kushina backstory, it was more emotional and meaningful than the brief encounter with Minato, and further develops the characters pretty well (I actually don't like Naruto very much as the main character, but this was one of the moments that made me more sympathise with him and root for the character).
Regarding the bad moments, the fights were too brief and far too many ended offscreen - as you said, Dan has yet to encounter Tsunade and we barely saw him fight; I was also looking forward to Kakuzu and Kimimaro... I also really grew tired of the brofists and ridiculous age difference between Raikage and Bee in the flashbacks
As far as Sasuke is concerned, I'd say he's past the point of no return. Even if there is still the possibility of internal or emotional redemption for the character, he has directly attacked all the kages of the five nations and contributed to the war - that cannot go unpunished and erased with a simple twist. I would like to see a more raw and realistic ending for him, like dying at the hands of Naruto and making him acknowledge that he can't save everyone, but this is still a flagship shonen jump title so I wouldn't really expect it...
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I agree totally..I got so excited about "Kakashi's rampage" but it was ignored, biggest "F-YOU" in the manga. The Kinkaku and Ginkaku story was terrible on too many levels to mention and a waste of time. I want Sasuke to be killed. I just feel like he is beyond being helped and I understand but can't relate to wanting to help a friend thats so deep into the darkness. Maybe this Itachi meeting will humanize him and give us a reason to care about saving him.
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Since this manga doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon (as in a two to three months time), I guess we've plenty to discuss =D
About Chapter 591: spoiler[I should have seen that coming. A completely new power coming out of nowhere that allows Madara to stay for a while longer. I knew they wouldn't let him go just like that, without an extended fight against the Kages.
I predict the Kages will end up winning (after losing one or two guys), but that's 4 or 5 chapters away now.
What annoys me at this point is, that all I want to see it's Naruto Vs Tobi (and of course, Tobi's identity revealed). Itachi and Sasuke vs Kabuto was necessary, or the Edo Tensei would last forever. While I didn't enjoy that battle very much, what happened was very important, it even left Sasuke as one of the good guys again.
But I don't need more of Madara. =/
What about you, guys?
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spoiler[The real Madara VS the Kages is the fight I have been enjoying the most in this whole arc so I'm happy to see that it wouldn't end so fast - I actually thought it would end there to serve as a tease to show off the possibilities of the "other" Madara's power, which must be around the same level; however, the plot twist is late and came out of nowhere, if someone so proud as Madara had that incredible ability from the start why would he allow to be controlled by someone else even for a moment?
If someone from the kages dies I would place my bet on old man tsuchikage, they are all exhausted, and although he is one of the most powerful characters, his death would be symbolic to entrust the future to the new generation of shinobi, something that is recurrent in Naruto.
With Itachi's final words, I believe that Sasuke may even show up to help the kages, but I wouldn't be too sure... They desperately need someone else's help though, and seeing how the edo tensei has ended and everyone on the battlefield is rushing to fight both "Madaras" the kages right hands are bound to appear soon.]
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|Some further exposure of Dan was nice considering he really was practically a nobody as far as every character in the series was concerned. He got his due as a character that had been only just introduced, however clichéd that exposure ended up being.
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everything is going out proportion in that manga but yet i keep on reading
spoiler[so Sasuke says he's going to meet Orochimaru who's been killed like 2 times at least, correct? is Sasuke able to summon Orochimaru through Anko's Curse Seal? the same way Orochi came out of Sasuke's seal during the fight with Itachi?]
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spoiler[Although this chapter was a complete mindf***, I'm guessing Orochimaru is still alive but trapped in the alternate dimension contained within the sword of Itachi's Susanoo; he came out of Sasuke's seal during the fight with Itachi because at that time he had been absorbed by Sasuke while trying to switch bodies, he wasn't just there because of the seal itself. Also, I wonder if the scroll is referring to a new character ("the one who knows everything", or is that Orochimaru either way?). If he is indeed brough back anyway, I believe Anko will play a role, but I'm still not sure exactly how, the panel does seem to point out the curse mark...
Resurrecting the 10 tail bijuu while Tobi only has a fragment of the eight and nine tails is also way too convenient ]
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To believe that Orochimaru is dead, in every possible way, shape, idea, or form, is naïve. He's been the most consistent antagonist of the series, one that Kishimoto probably would never kill off completely if he were smart. Kishimoto has made him one of those characters that you just never see the door shut on.
EDIT 07/10: And I amend by utilizing the now-released chapter 593 Orochimaru certainly is a complex character...
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|HA. I is winner. I'm predicting your every move Kishimoto! (Look back on my previous comment in this thread to see why)
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Am I the only one that thinks Naruto fighting style is kinda lame? One Rasengan variety after another. Ohh "spiral rasengan", "Giant rasengan", "Black rasengan"...blah. He uses little ninjustu, zero genjutsu, and his tiajutsu is average. The whole clone thing isn't that cool to me...especially when anyone can use it. The sage thing is cool but its confusing. This new 9 tails mode or whatever is the modern day super saiyan 3. Its like..he must be stronger becuz he looks diffirent. lol
Versus..someone like Kakashi or Sasuke that has diffirent jutsu and has a tactical mind. Hell, even Shikamuru (spelling might be off) make for a more epic fight.s
Im just wondering if im the only one that feels this way?
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To be completely honest, Kiba probably has the most interesting fighting style for me because of the whole beastman and fight along side his dog aspect. It has a sort of barbarian dynamic that I always thought was interesting. Temari's fan techniques are somewhat very loosely based on a few real fan arts, so I always thought that was pretty cool. There is, however, definitely something lacking in the particular style that Naruto uses.
Even Jiraiya's toads are a lot more interesting than when Naruto summons them.
By the way, just so you know, I believe "Nara Shikamaru" is the preferred romanization of his name, or "Shikamaru Nara" in Given-Family name order.
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|its all but solidified..spoiler[tobi is obito!!! Kakashi found that the secret to his tech is that he moves any body part attacked to another dimension and back. This is the same dimension used in kakashis kamui (special sharingan tech where he sends stuff to another demension). Why do their eyes use the same dimension?...because they have the same eyes. So of course...it has to be obito. They also so a clip of kakashi looking at obito's grave..but when he asked where he got that eye Obito said he got it from the same war that obito died in. So either someone stole the eye from obito's body or it is in fact obito himself.]
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|I wouldn't put it past Kishi to do that in the end. However, even though I do agree with you they will probably have Sasuke on that path until the end of the series, I just don't know if the message he's trying to send would require Sasuke to be lost to it forever. Of course, unless he want's to show how that much dedication to it can lead to your ultimate demise. Either way, I think it's all about "what needs to be done" and "how" it's going to happen rather than being about "what's" going to happen, so I don't really care if it's too predictable or not.
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Tobi is Obito Uchiha, at this point he just has to be... Unless Kishimoto were to insert a randomly new character as the enemy, where now'd be the only other time to. Kishimoto left himself some time to play with fans as to who, or what, Tobi is. The dialogue is not further clarified in the chapter about where Tobi obtained his Sharingan:
Kakashi: "WHERE DID YOU GET THAT EYE!?"
Tobi: "...Where, you ask...? Hm, if I dare say, it was during the previous Great War. ...The Battle of Kannabi Bridge... You participated in that War, hailed as 'The Sharingan Hero.'"
Kakashi: "...YOU'RE..."
Although here, in the second panel, in conjunction with the third... A bit of a particular thing for him to say about his ideals.
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|But if Tobi was Obito, then who attacked the village with Nine Tails and helped Itachi with the Uchiha massacre? If he was even alive, Obito would be around the same age as Kakashi - at that time, he wouldn't be much older than a child...
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