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We were given varieties of seeds that were grown from the 1940s era along with a list of plants we could try to resource. John Clowes and Jane Hartley visited the school on Wednesday and were totally thrilled with the garden and al the plants we have grown. Several of our props, including the utility shelving unit which we designed, have been chosen to go on display at Chelsea. Judging of the plants takes place next week. We have our fingers crossed!!
The gardening club decided they wanted to develop their own 1940s garden. It is split into four sections, a herb garden, a display area with containers from the era, a vegetable patch with Doris the Land Army scarecrow and a bomb site with an unexploded bomb!
We have included lots of work from the curriculum too with the Lest We Forget topic, with the children dressing up as evacuees, holding our own WW2 museum, cooking activities and a trip to RAF Digby's wartime control room. It has been a fantastic project the children have totally enjoyed being part of.
Mrs Stearn
15 October 2018, Rome, Italy - Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General and Pawan Chamling, Honourable Chief Minister of the Indian State of Sikkim. Committee on World Food Security CFS 45 - Event: ‘’Future Policy Award’’ ceremony on Agroecology, FAO headquarters (Sheikh Zayed Centre).
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Shimmering color arched against grey sky,
Painted by dancing light on air-borne mist.
Wide flung by a sacred hand...
The Hand that formed of dust nothingness
The solid Earth below.
Beauty and promise together blended,
Beauty ethereal, promise divine.
Given to grace the clouds and the rain,
Given to bless the world-weary heart...
Shimmers... fades... brightens...
To vanish in brilliance...
Shines through the dark in my soul.
Red Unicorn
Areruya Joseph and the Boys Given another classic reception at the Kanombe Airport for the second time in two weeks / February 5, 2018
Jungle Babbler
The jungle babbler (Turdoides striata) is a member of the family Leiothrichidae found in the Indian subcontinent. They are gregarious birds that forage in small groups of six to ten birds, a habit that has given them the popular name of "Seven Sisters" in urban Northern India, and Saath bhai (seven brothers) in Bengali with cognates in other regional languages which also mean "seven brothers".
The jungle babbler is a common resident breeding bird in most parts of the Indian subcontinent and is often seen in gardens within large cities as well as in forested areas. In the past, the orange-billed babbler, Turdoides rufescens, of Sri Lanka was considered to be a subspecies of jungle babbler, but has now been elevated to a species.
The jungle babbler's habitat is forest and cultivation. This species, like most babblers, is non-migratory, and has short rounded wings and a weak flight. The sexes are identical, drably coloured in brownish grey with a yellow-bill making them confusable only with the endemic yellow-billed babblers of peninsular India and Sri Lanka. The upperparts are usually slightly darker in shade and there is some mottling on the throat and breast. The race T. s. somervillei of Maharashtra has a very rufous tail and dark primary flight feathers.The jungle babbler can be separated from the white-headed babbler by the dark loreal zone between the bill and the eye as well as the lack of a contrasting light crown. The calls of the two species are however distinct and unmistakable. The jungle babbler has harsh nasal calls while the white-headed babbler has high pitched calls. Another babbler that is similarly found in urban areas is the large grey babbler, however that species has a distinctive long tail with white outer tail feathers.
The jungle babbler lives in flocks of seven to ten or more. It is a noisy bird, and the presence of a flock may generally be known at some distance by the harsh mewing calls, continual chattering, squeaking and chirping produced by its members.
My best friend gave me the best advice
He said each day's a gift and not a given right
Leave no stone unturned, leave your fears behind
And try to take the path less traveled by
That first step you take is the longest stride
If today was your last day and tomorrow was too late
Could you say goodbye to yesterday?
Would you live each moment like your last
Leave old pictures in the past?
Donate every dime you had, if today was your last day?
What if, what if, if today was your last day?
Against the grain should be a way of life
What's worth the price is always worth the fight
Every second counts 'cause there's no second try
So live like you're never living twice
Don't take the free ride in your own life
If today was your last day and tomorrow was too late
Could you say goodbye to yesterday?
Would you live each moment like your last?
Leave old pictures in the past?
Donate every dime you had?
And would you call those friends you never see?
Reminisce old memories?
Would you forgive your enemies?
And would you find that one you're dreaming of?
Swear up and down to God above
That you'd finally fall in love if today was your last day?
If today was your last day
Would you make your mark by mending a broken heart?
You know it's never too late to shoot for the stars
Regardless of who you are
So do whatever it takes
'Cause you can't rewind a moment in this life
Let nothing stand in your way
'Cause the hands of time are never on your side
If today was your last day and tomorrow was too late
Could you say goodbye to yesterday?
Would you live each moment like your last?
Leave old pictures in the past?
Donate every dime you had?
And would you call those friends you never see?
Reminisce old memories?
Would you forgive your enemies?
And would you find that one you're dreaming of
Swear up and down to God above
That you'd finally fall in love if today was your last day?
30/05/2021. Ladies European Tour 2021. Ladies Italian Open, Golf Club Margara, Piemont. Italy. May 28 - 30 2021. Eleanor Givens of England during the final round. Credit: Tristan Jones.
Given the incredible work they do, the name of this "road" at Maldon is very appropriate.
In Melbourne for an event, I took advantage of the opportunity and once again used Vline to travel to Castlemaine, and then spent a very enjoyable few hours on the Victorian Goldfields Railway. Bright early afternoon sun is hardly the best lighting but I'm not going to complain. 8 December 2024.
Given the weather, I wasn't planning to hang around after 60019, but no sooner had the Fiskerton crossing keeper opened his gates than he was closing them again, for the passage of 156415 on the 16:34 Lincoln to Leicester service. It is seen here speeding past Fiskerton's home signal (combined with Fiskerton Junction's distant) on the 12th June 2013. I'm trying to get photos of all the signals on this line, which are due to be removed by Network Rail in the next couple of years.
27/08/2021. Ladies European Tour 2021. Didriksons Skafto Open - Skafto Golf Club, Fiskebäckskil, Sweden. August 27-29 2021. Ellie Givens of England during the first round. Credit: Tristan Jones
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I think I was given this by the attendant at Horseshoe Garage at Gwalchmai on Anglesey www.flickr.com/photos/danlockton/16076661878 in 1990.
It's noticeable how the blue is darker than on the pole sign. This is the same format of sticker as seen on the 4-star pumps at Central Garage, Cark-in-Cartmel, in Soft Top, Hard Shoulder (1991) — see below. The cut-off corners of the diamond, as if it were trying to 'break out' of the square, were an interesting design choice—previous Power logos had always shown the whole diamond (as the Unleaded and Diesel stickers continued to do) and the later logo took a different approach to the diamond itself.
This Power logo (replacing an earlier one as seen here in Reeth), was introduced in the mid-1980s by Hargreaves Fuel Services, who themselves had a diamond-shaped 'HG' (Hargreaves Group) logo. I've put Hargreaves Petroleum / Hargreaves Fuel Services' address, The Pygmalion, 2-4 Market Street, Cleckheaton, as the location.
The story between Hargreaves and Charringtons is complex because of previous joint ventures, but as far I have been able to work out, Hargreaves were bought by the Coalite Group in 1986, who then merged Hargreaves' mostly northern fuel business with the mostly southern Charringtons business. Power, along with Freedom whom Hargreaves had bought in 1985, and then John Hudson's fuels business in about 1990, supplied about 130 sites in 1990 around the time I got the sticker, across Northern England, the Midlands, East Anglia, and North Wales, but this was the first time (as a 7-year old) I'd ever seen a "modern" Power garage that was actually open.
Given to me by a good friend. Its in good shape and came with a Takumar 55mmf/2 lens. I gotta put a roll through it yet. My first Penatx camera, yay!
LAKELAND, FL. 3/10/2013. Photos of a bike tour given by BeFly Bike Tours in Lakeland, Florida. Tour shown was a lake tour, biking to several lakes in the area. Prior to leaving on the tour, Tamara Lee gets comfortable on one of the bikes. Photo by Bill Serne
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The Pill Awards honor queer filmmakers and talent in the LGBT community.
Awards given in categories such as
Best Short Film , Documentary Film , Activism , Music Video dance alternative electro , editing , art direction, lighting. The show
ADD-TV Attention Deficit TV was created as an alternative, edgy platform for queer filmmakers and talent.
The Pill Awards 2010 Season 6 Arena Event Space Times Square New York City 01-24-2010
Photo by
Ryan Janek Wolowski
A Brief History of the Castle
After the Norman Conquest, in 1069, the land around Middleham was given to Alan Rufus or Alan The Red, a nephew of William the Conqueror. Rufus built a wooden motte-and-bailey castle, 500 yards to the south-west of where the present castle stands, on a site known as William's Hill. It was built to guard Coverdale and to protect the road from Richmond to Skipton. Alan Rufus was also the builder of nearby Richmond Castle. By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 Middleham had been granted to Alan Rufuss brother Ribald. This early castle was abandoned in the 12th century when a new castle was built centered around a massive stone keep . The construction of the present castle began around 1170 by Robert Fitzrandolph (grandson of Ribald) during the reign of Henry II when he built the keep and original bailey. The keep, one of the largest in England, had twelve foot thick walls and three floors; for its time, this would have provided palatial accommodation. It contained a great chamber, large kitchen, chapel, dovecot, cellars and the living rooms of the lord of Middleham.
At each end of the keep's vaulted basement there were two wells (which can still be seen today). The thirteenth century curtain walls formed an enclosure around 250 feet on each side. In the fourteenth and fifteenth century the garrison quarters, stables and stores were housed within these walls.
Original entry was via a gatehouse on the East side of the castle across a wooden bridge (possibly having a drawbridge over a now dry moat). The huge wooden gates and probable portcullis must have presented an awesome first impression! The present day entrance to the castle is through the Northern gatehouse, known as the Neville Gate.
Middleham Castle became home to some of the most powerful lords of the 15th century, including Salisbury, Warwick and Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later King Richard III, he was particularly fond of Middleham. The round tower at the south-west corner of the curtain wall, traditionally known as the Prince's Tower, is said to be where Richard's son Prince Edward was born and died.
After Richard was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 Henry VII became king, and Middleham Castle became his. Under the Tudors the castle was left to fall into disrepair.
In 1604 James I granted the castle to Sir Henry Linley, who made some repairs and lived there until his death in 1610 when his daughter Jane Linley then inherited the castle. In 1613 Jane married Edward, 2nd Viscount Loftus, who occupied it until 1644. During the Civil War it was to be used as a prison.
In 1646 Parliament ordered the east range wall be destroyed along with most of the wall-walks, thus leaving the castle the shell it is today.
In 1662 it was sold to Edward Wood, his family owning the castle until 1889. It was then sold to Samuel Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Lord Masham, and was inherited by the second Lord Masham in 1906. In 1925 the Office of Works, later to become English Heritage, acquired the castle and it is now in their keeping and open to the public.
If only people everywhere could be as nice as these 2.
Yes, Willie Dick is his real name. (A bit repetitive I agree.)
- (The following's only of interest to close family or relatives on my Mom's Mom's side.)
- I took some time to explore Clunie and to network with local history buffs in my search for the legendary 'Miller of Clunie', a McLaren, who, according to my great uncle Mac, had been my great x 3 or 4 grandfather (Mom's Mom's Dad's Dad's Dad or his Dad). The church (1840) was locked, but the local vicar, a woman I met at her home after I was given her phone number and address, guided me in her car to the home of these two who were very helpful and informative with a wealth of local records and maps that we pored over around their dining room table. I then visited the home of a family who were living in what had been the renovated Free Church dating from the mid 19th cent., and which I thought might have been the church of the Miller and his family. (Nope, the 'Free Church' formed in 1843.) The current owners and their daughter, originally from northern England, were as welcoming and as nice as people you'll ever meet anywhere. The husband/father told me that he'd found a 'horse brass' there with the alleged Miller's surname on it, McLaren (my grandmother, Mom's Mom, was a McLaren). I then drove to Caputh where members of Clunie's Free Church congregation buried their dead in the cemetery there after they'd walked the 4 miles to that town on a road known as 'coffin way', and found several old tombstones with the McLaren name. They didn't have any apparent connection with a Miller, but I wondered if they had some connection to my tree. I didn't find any McLarens in the churchyard at Clunie.
- I might have been prone to confirmation bias that day for Mac had only part of the history right. I've learned since that my great x 3 granddad, George McLaren Sr., wasn't living in Clunie but in or near Logierait, a town at a distance of half an hr.'s drive away (a little closer as the crow flies) when he and his wife begat great great granddad but in the Clunie area and in a town where there had been an old mill in the early to mid-19th cent., and it's certainly possible that the family moved over to Clunie after great great granddad was born. George Sr. had been a farm-hand however, or an 'agricultural labourer', not a less lowly miller, at least not when his son was born. Maybe his residence in a mill-town or on a farm near a town (a hamlet really) with a mill became conflated with his being the miller in the retelling of family history. (Update: The best candidate for great x 3 grandad George Sr.'s Dad was a farmer from Chapelton in 'the Parish of Moulin' [French for mill], which appears to be at the site of an old dam, a great spot for a mill, currently that of the modern hydro-development [1950] where the Clunie Memorial arch stands today, a coincidence as I stopped to tour it en route to the town of Clunie.) George McLaren Sr. and his folks lived in tough times, following the toughest in the mid to late 18th cent. The McLarens had been Jacobites (nominally, or at least a faction were) and fought for the pretty prince at Prestonpans, Falkirk, and at Culloden in 1746, and were made to suffer for it after their defeat, just as members of so many other highland clans would suffer for a generation or 2 or 3. We might refer to the fate of Jacobite Highlanders today as a 'genocide', with so many murdered by the British army following Culloden, shipped and sold into slavery in the West Indies and generally extirpated, @ 20,000 of their livestock rounded up and sold with proceeds to the Hanoverian troops, their women raped, houses burnt, etc., etc. Of course the vast majority of Highlanders in the early to mid-18th cent. were just trying to keep their heads down and mind their own business, but collective punishment's always been a thing. That said, I have to question the impulse for my great x 4 grandparents to name their son the rather Hanoverian name 'George' McLaren 40 to 65 years after Culloden. (The name's Greek in origin, deriving from Georgios, but the Highland Scots' oppressors at that time were ruled by a succession of men named George.) And no clue could've been had as he went on to compound the submission by naming his son George Jr. I get that nothing succeeds like success and nothing bombs like defeat, but Stockholm syndrome is over-rated. Or am I being insensitive? Were the members of Jacobite clans or Highlanders, or Scots in general, so oppressed in the late 18th cent. that they perceived some respite or a benefit to be gained in naming their sons George? I have at least 5 Georges in my family tree, the only ones I know of: 1 great great grandfather (George McLaren Jr.), 3 great x 3 and 1 great x 4. 3 were Scots, 1 was 1/2 Scots and 1 was Scots-Irish. Does that say something? (This is much less likely to be significant if George was a popular name in Scotland before the arrival of the Hanoverians, as clannish Scots would tend to name their children after their forebears. Something else to research.)
- Update April '25: In contrast, a pair of great x 4 grandparents (John Menzies and Margaret Urquhart) might have named their son Archibald, baptized in the 'Gaelic chapel' in Perth 220-odd yr.s ago, after Archibald Menzies, a famous Jacobite, the son of a chieftain who marched on London with the Bonnie Prince, fought the Duke of Cumberland at Clifton and was executed at Carlisle, and who features as a hero in Sir Walter Scott's 'Waverley' (although that novel, a big hit and "one of the first historical novels in the Western tradition" [THE first?], was a post-natal publication). He was born @ 65 yr.s after Culloden. It's at least a possibility.
- Let this be a lesson to me. Always do the research in the records first if you can before heading into the country to conduct genealogical inquiries. I'll add that the time spent that day was almost worth it as the people I met in and @ Clunie were so engaging and intrigued and eager to help, and which I found remarkable (although I lost the time to visit nearby Dunkeld and the famous cathedral there, or Menzies castle which is fantastic in itself, and as my great great grandmother, Mom's Mom's Mom's Mom, was a Menzies. The castle is home to the Clan Gregor museum, a coincidence as my great great grandmother Christina Menzies married a Greig, said to be a sept surname derived from MacGregor.)
- Update June '24: I didn't find or learn about any trace of a mill in the town of Clunie proper, nor in the Dicks' maps and records, but it seems that a good candidate for my great x 3 grandfather, George McLaren Sr. (but quite young, married in his mid-teens [too young?]), was born and raised in that town; another for his wife was born in Stirlingshire; and one for his mother, whose surname was Elder, was also born and raised in Clunie (if not his father [see the next para. below]), and who wed his father there, likely in the medieval or Reformation-era church which is no longer extant but bits of which were repurposed to build what appears to have been a 'Watch house', incl. a medieval arched portal arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/corpusofscottishchurches/site.php?i... (I'll upload a photo) near the church that replaced it in 1840, just up from the famous lake in the last shot and surrounded by an ancient cemetery (where again I couldn't find any McLarens). youtu.be/sT_ygdTLfpg?si=BNyBLQYVG8mszgPH youtu.be/rPwUx27p_e0?si=Pgh4p5uUBzfea8UJ My great great grandfather might have told his son that his father was from Clunie (if he hadn't been raised there himself) which was then communicated to my great uncle Mac.
- Further update: The best candidate for that great x 3 grand-dad's Dad (Mom's Mom's Dad's Dad's Dad's Dad, IF the young candidate for great x 3 grand-dad is a match) was a farmer from Chapelton in 'the Parish of Moulin' (French for mill), which appears to be at the site of an old dam, a great spot for a mill, currently that of the modern hydro-development (1950) where the Clunie Memorial arch stands today highland-discovery.com/point-of-interest/clunie-memorial-... , a coincidence as I stopped to tour it en route south to the town of Clunie in my search for the 'Miller of Clunie', my great x 3 grandfather according to my Uncle Mac.
- "During the Jacobite rising of 1745 the Clan MacLaren fought in support of the Jacobite cause at the Battle of Prestonpans and at the Battle of Falkirk Muir where they were victorious on both occasions. However they were also present at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 where they were defeated." (Wikipedia) "At Culloden [the MacLarens] fought with the Stewarts of Appin and took part in the fatal Highland charge and terrible hand-to-hand fighting with the men of Barrell’s and Munro’s regiments. One source states that 13 MacLarens were killed and 14 wounded before they were driven back. One of their leaders, Donald MacLaren [of East Invernenty] was captured after the battle but managed to escape by flinging himself into the abyss of the Devil’s Beef Tub near Moffat [yes, the devil does have his own beef tub] as he was being marched past. He lived as a fugitive in Balquhidder, disguising himself as a woman until the amnesty of 1757." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Beef_Tub
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIQkg8IshNs
- Scott wrote about the 'Beef-tub' in his novel Redgauntlet although he refers to it as the 'Marquis’s Beef-stand', and the Jacobite who recounts the tale in the first person is one Laird Peter Maxwell of Summertrees, not a McLaren.:
"Then did I find myself on foot in a misty morning, with my hand, just for fear of going astray, linked into a handcuff, as they call it, with poor Harry Redgauntlet’s fastened into the other; and there we were, trudging along, with about a score more that had thrust their horns ower deep in the bog, just like ourselves, and a sergeant’s guard of redcoats, with twa file of dragoons, to keep all quiet, and give us heart to the road. ... In the meanwhile, I had been trying and trying to make my hand as fine as a lady’s, to see if I could slip it out of my iron wristband. You may think,” he said, laying his broad bony hand on the table, “ I had work enough with such a shoulder-of-mutton fist; but if you observe, the shackle-bones are of the largest, and so they were obliged to keep the handcuff wide; at length I got my hand slipped out, and slipped in again; and poor Harry was sae deep in his ain thoughts, I could not make him sensible what I was doing ... [b]ecause there was an unchancy beast of a dragoon riding close beside us on the other side; and if I had let him into my confidence as well as Harry, it would not have been long before a pistol-ball slapped through my bonnet. Well, I had little for it but to do the best I could for myself; and, by my conscience, it was time, when the gallows was staring me in the face. We were to halt for breakfast at Moffat. Well did I know the moors we were marching over, having hunted and hawked on every acre of ground in very different times. So I waited, you see, till I was on the edge of Errickstane brae - Ye ken the place they call the Marquis’s Beef-stand, because the Annandale loons used to put their stolen cattle in there? ... Ye must have seen it as ye cam this way; it looks as if 4 hills were laying their heads together, to shut out daylight from the dark hollow space between them. A d — d deep, black, blackguard-looking abyss of a hole it is, and goes straight down from the road-side, as perpendicular as it can do, to be a heathery brae. At the bottom, there is a small bit of a brook, that you would think could hardly find its way out from the hills that are so closely jammed round it."
"A bad pass indeed," said Alan.
“You may say that,” continued the Laird. “ Bad as it was, sir, it was my only chance; and though my very flesh creeped when I thought what a rumble I was going to get, yet I kept my heart up all the same. And so, just when we came on the edge of this Beef-stand of the Johnstones, I slipped out my hand from the handcuff, cried to Harry Gauntlet, ‘Follow me!’ - whisked under the belly of the dragoon horse - flung my plaid round me with the speed of lightning - threw myself on my side, for there was no keeping my feet, and down the brae hurled I, over heather and fern, and blackberries, like a barrel down Chalmers’ Close in Auld Reekie. G — , sir, I never could help laughing when I think how the scoundrel redcoats must have been bumbazed; for the mist being, as I said, thick, they had little notion, I take it, that they were on the verge of such a dilemma. I was half way down - for rowing is faster wark than rinning - ere they could get at their arms; and then it was flash, flash, flash - rap, rap, rap - from the edge of the road; but my head was too jumbled to think any thing either of that or the hard knocks I got among the stones. I kept my senses thegither, whilk has been thought wonderful by all that ever saw the place; and I helped myself with my hands as gallantly as I could, and to the bottom I came. There I lay for half a moment; but the thoughts of a gallows is worth all the salts and scent-bottles in the world, for bringing a man to himself. Up I sprung, like a 4-yr.-auld colt. All the hills were spinning round with me, like so many great big humming-tops. But there was nae time to think of that neither; more especially as the mist had risen a little with the firing. I could see the villains, like sae mony craws on the edge of the brae; and I reckon that they saw me; for some of the loons were beginning to crawl down the hill, but liker auld wives in their redcloaks, coming frae a field-preaching, than such a sou pie lad as I was. Accordingly, they soon began to stop and load their pieces. Good-e’en to you, gentlemen, thought I, if that is to be the gate of it. If you have any farther word with me, you maun come as far as Carriefraw-gauns. And so off I set, and never buck went faster ower the braes than I did; and I never stopped till I had put three waters, reasonably deep, as the season was rainy, half-a-dozen mountains, and a few thousand acres of the worst moss and ling in Scotland, betwixt me and my friends the redcoats.” (pp.s 266-268)
- There's info in this link re the names and origins of those McLarens who fought at Culloden.: houseoflabhran.com/blog/2017/08/09/culloden-drumossie-moo... Btw, Alan Breck Stewart of the Stewarts of Appin, in whose Appin regiment many McLarens served and fought in the Highland charge at Culloden, is a principal character in Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure novel 'Shipwrecked'. Michael Caine plays the swashbuckling Stewart in the 1971 film.: youtu.be/-Y7YqGdFCko?si=y-wmPc18DbNDXN-R
- Another clan in my tree (of a number) that fought for the Bonnie Prince was the McKenzie clan. (It was split; the chief supported the Brits while his relative, George MacKenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie, supported the Jacobites. Most McKenzie men were prevented from taking part at Culloden, but they played a leading role at the Battle of Falkirk in 1746.) A great x 3 grandmother was one Margaret McKenzie (her maiden surname) who married a Menzies (the name of another Jacobite clan at Culloden), and then bore his daughter, my great great grandmother, in Edinburgh in the early 1830s. I know less about this Margaret than any of my grandmother's other great grandparents, not where she was from, who her parents were, where she was married, how she died, although it seems likely she died young. Her husband was baptized in 'the Gaelic chapel' in Perth and was raised in a gaelophone household (it's fair to assume), and with a maiden surname like McKenzie which hails from Ross-shire in the far NW, it's not unlikely she was a gaelophone herself in lowland Scots-speaking territory, a Highlander or the offspring of tenants evicted from the Highlands in the 'Clearances' (like several in my Dad's tree [his great grandmother's, his Mom's Mom's Mom's branch]) who emigrated to the lowlands. That would make sense for in that case, her Highland heritage and her mother tongue (although a different dialect) would've been things she had in common with her husband. Whatever befell her (or her husband) or where-ever she wound up, her daughter was raised in the home of her in-laws from at least the age of 7.
- It might be worth noting that although all 4 of my grandmother's grandparents had died young before her parents were married (those were hard times on the High st. and in Canongate), my grandmother knew that the maiden surname of her great grandmother, her mother's mother's mother, was McKenzie, which Mom had recorded in our 'family bible' (which I haven't seen since before 2018) and which I confirmed at the Scottish Records Office in Edinburgh in 2013. But she didn't know or had forgotten the maiden surnames of her other 3 great grandmothers (all of which I've learned in the last 10 years), which doesn't surprise. Her mother's mother, Christina Menzies, died of a stroke ('Cerebral Apoplexy' per her death record, but at the age of 46, a bit young to die of a stroke, although I was told as a youth that she died of a tape-worm infection. I've learned that neurocystecerosis, "a parasitic infection of the central nervous system caused by the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, can lead to various neurological complications, including strokes." [Medscape]) Christina died when my grandmother's mother was only 11, and her father would die of pneumonia seven yr.s later when my great grandmother was only 18. But my great grandmother (whose M.S. was Greig), was one of 13 siblings who remained close. Evidently their mother Christina had spoken often enough of her own mother, whom she might not have known (again, Christina was raised from at least the age of 7 by her paternal grandparents), that my great grandmother or more likely one of her older siblings remembered that she was a McKenzie, which was communicated to my grandmother. While Margaret McKenzie is the most mysterious of my grandmother's great grandparents, she might've been the one my grandmother knew the most about (which might not be saying much). Again, the inference is that my grandmother's grandmother Christina, who might've been or seems to have been an only child, must have spoken often enough of her own mother Margaret McKenzie, before Christina died so young at 46, that her children remembered the surname, and my point (after all that) is that I think it's less likely or unlikely that Christina would've done so if Margaret had abandoned Christina to the care of her in-laws, or had been unable to care for her, or had been arrested and imprisoned, etc. Rather, the correct listing of her surname in the family bible might be a clue (if you follow me) that Margaret had died young, just as so many of my mother's ancestors had done, quite possibly in childbirth. (I haven't found her death record.) Another possible factor is that my grandmother and her mother and her mother's sisters might have had a natural interest in the maternal line of their tree (Margaret was my grandmother's Mom's Mom's Mom).
- There's a candidate for Margaret's husband, Christina's father Archibald Menzies, in the death records, listed as one year younger than he (it wasn't uncommon for a death record from that period to understate the age of the deceased by a year), who died young in the Royal Infirmary in the early 1840s (by which time his daughter was already living in the home of his parents) of "Fever", likely Borrelia recurrentis aka 'Louse-born Relapsing Fever'. 'LBRF' is "associated with poverty, crowding, and warfare". An epidemic of LBRF was raging on the High street at the time of his death. Here's a sobering account from Isabella Bird re the quality of life for many of my grandmother's ancestors in the slums of 19th cent. Edinburgh. Listen from the 16:07 to the 16:40 min. pt. and from 22:09 to 22:33 re the insects and lice that likely killed the man who might've been my great x 3 grandfather.: youtu.be/nGVIHIT1NkU?si=GqxZMfOaP6zEjlH0
- youtu.be/xPLMnTU9Hs8?si=kLPChCSOv8oChi1T
- Margaret's daughter Christina worked as a "house servant" in her teens while living in an apt. on 'the Pleasance' with her widowed paternal grandmother, then in her late 60s, who had raised her from at least the age of 7 with her own older kids. Only the 2 were living together shortly before the old lady died. Following her grandmother's death, Christina moved into a flat in a close off the High st. which would later be condemned as a slum and demolished.
- Margaret's a bit more interesting to me as she was my Mom's Mom's Mom's Mom's Mom, and as she's as far back as our records take me (although not far at all really) up the matrilineal branch of my tree. Some cultures have a special focus or emphasis on that line; many North American first nations inherit from, and their tribal or clan membership derives from, the female line, and are often matrilocal www.flickr.com/photos/97924400@N00/4288828562/in/photostr... and Jewish heritage is famously matrilineal. Mitochondrial DNA has passed almost exclusively from mother to child from time immemorial. (But we have more insight as to the Y chromosome that passes from father to son what with the surnames that have passed down with it since the Middle Ages. Mine passed through some generations of Danish Vikings named 'Bert Raven' ['Bright Raven'] via Normandy and then England [or Scotland?] and then Ireland [I think], or from Normandy and then France to Ireland in the 'Post-Cromwellian' Huguenot exodus. I've read that while every child inherits an X chromosome from his or her mother, only daughters inherit a 2nd X chromosome from their father, who in turn inherits it from his mother, who could have inherited that particular chromosome from either of her parents, and so on. So while I inherited the Y chromosome from my Dad's Dad, and all 3 of us inherited an X chromosome from our Mom, my sisters inherited an X chromosome from my Dad's Mom, which I didn't.) Of course, if I knew Margaret McKenzie's mother's maiden name, or her maternal grandmother's, etc., that name would take on a certain interest.
- McKenzie clan history: youtu.be/F-Sy-BxF1PU?si=HIi5rOutqDHeCnA-
- youtu.be/FMlxQdWfuRU?si=Bw6h6RNmzgBcjtoI
Title: A photo of Meyer London is given to a ship captain in front of an audience at the time of the USS Meyer London christening.
Date: 1943
Photographer: Unknown
Photo ID: 5780pb46f6bp400g
Collection: International Ladies Garment Workers Union Photographs (1885-1985)
Repository: The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in the ILR School at Cornell University is the Catherwood Library unit that collects, preserves, and makes accessible special collections documenting the history of the workplace and labor relations. www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel
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Given the size of the yews near the house they must have been planted when it was built. The time and money to maintain them must be absurd.
This is a photograph from the annual Ardagh Moydow Glen Community Games 5KM and 10 Mile road races, fun runs, walks and challenges which were held in the heritage village of Ardagh, Co. Longford, Ireland on Monday 28th December 2015 at 13:00. In an opposite turn to last year's frosty icy weather participants today were given a very very windy day with heavy rain at the finish of both races. The 10 mile race takes in the local 'Ardagh Mountain' which is a 1 mile continuous climb starting at the 2.5 mile mark of the 10 mile race. The 5KM race takes a loop around the heritage village of Ardagh. Overall this is a very well organised race with accurate courses, good marshalling and traffic control and excellent after race refreshments.
The bad weather made photography particularly difficult but we did manage to get the start of both races and the first handful of finishers from the 10 mile race. They are available on Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157662725299342]The 10 mile race is one of the longest road races held during the Christmas period anywhere in Ireland and has appeal to runners who want to add a longer distance race to their festive calendar of running.
The GPS traces of both routes can be found at these links:
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Given the fact that this dog attended nearly every single meeting of the BIENE advisory board and toured the european web conference circuit, it must be one of the foremost experts on web accessibility in the canine world.
George Rupp being given the cloth and accessories of a Turkana elder on a February 2009 visit to International Rescue Committee programs in Kenya. Photo: Joanne Offer
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Pátio do Colégio (in Portuguese School Yard, written in the archaic orthography Pateo do Collegio) is the name given to the historical Jesuit church and school in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The name is also used to refer to the square in front of the church. The Pátio do Colégio marks the site where the city was founded in 1554.[1]
O Pátio do Colégio é o nome dado à histórica igreja e escola jesuíta na cidade de São Paulo, Brasil. O nome também é usado para se referir à praça em frente à igreja. O Pátio do Colégio marca o local onde a cidade foi fundada em 1554. [1]
The Battle of Orgreave is the name given to a confrontation between police and picketing miners at a British Steel coking plant in Orgreave, South Yorkshire, in 1984, during the UK miners' strike. In 2001 it was the subject of a historical reenactment. In 1991, South Yorkshire police were forced to pay out half a million pounds to thirty-nine miners who were arrested in the events at the Battle of Orgreave.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) organised a mass picket of Orgreave for June 18, 1984, with the intention of blockading the plant, and ideally forcing its temporary closure. Aware of the plans by means of MI5 infiltration, the police organised counter-measures.
The NUM was represented by 5-6000 pickets from across the UK. The police deployed between 4000 to 8000 officers, and were deployed from ten counties. Of these a small number had been trained in new riot tactics following the Toxteth and Brixton riots, while most had little or no experience in dealing with such events. There were between 40-50 mounted police, and 58 police dogs. There were no women officers and only a handful of female picketers.
Unlike most of the strikes of the time, where picketers were kept well away from their intended positions, the strikers were escorted to a field to the north of the Orgreave plant. The field was flanked by police on all sides except the south, where the Sheffield to Worksop railway line runs. Opinion is divided as to whether this was a deliberate arrangement.
Queen bee marked as No. 84 in hive surrounded by workers, CNE © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.com 2010, Toronto, Canada
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Thursday March 27th, 2008 informationliberation.com
Death of the Bees: GMO Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America (Global Research)
Commercial beehives pollinate over a third of [North}Americas crops and that web of nourishment encompasses everything from fruits like peaches, apples, cherries, strawberries and more, to nuts like California almonds, 90 percent of which are helped along by the honeybees. Without this pollination, you could kiss those crops goodbye, to say nothing of the honey bees produce or the flowers they also fertilize.[1]
This essay will discuss the arguments and seriousness pertaining to the massive deaths and the decline of Bee colonies in North America. As well, it will shed light on a worldwide hunger issue that will have an economical and ecological impact in the very near future.
There are many reasons given to the decline in Bees, but one argument that matters most is the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) and "Terminator Seeds" that are presently being endorsed by governments and forcefully utilized as our primary agricultural needs of survival. I will argue what is publicized and covered by the media is in actuality masking the real forces at work, namely the impact of genetically modified seeds on the reproduction of bee colonies across North America
Genetically modified seeds are produced and distributed by powerful biotech conglomerates. The latter manipulate government agricultural policy with a view to supporting their agenda of dominance in the agricultural industry. American conglomerates such as Monsanto, Pioneer HiBred and others, have created seeds that reproduce only under certain conditions, often linked to the use of their own brands of fertilizer and/or insecticide.
The genetic modification of the plant leads to the concurrent genetic modification of the flower pollen. When the flower pollen becomes genetically modified or sterile, the bees will potentially go malnourished and die of illness due to the lack of nutrients and the interruption of the digestive capacity of what they feed on through the summer and over the winter hibernation process.
I will argue that the media reports tend to distract public opinion from the true cause which underlies the destruction of bee colonies. As such, outlined are four major arguments which the biotech conglomerates (which produce and market GMO seeds) have used to mislead the public regarding the demise of the bees. These arguments include Varroa mites, parasites, cell phones, and terminator seeds
Argument 1: Varroa mites[2]
Firstly, while there are some people who want to pin the blame on these mites, such views are unconvincing in that the argument does not make any sense because the main source of disease for these bees is intestinal disease. In fact, many bee experts assumed Varroa mites were a major cause of the severe die-off in the winter of 2005. Yet when researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, traveled to Oakdale, California, where Anderson and a number of his fellow beekeepers spend winter and spring, they could find no correlation between the level of Varroa mite infestation and the health of bee colonies. We couldnt pin the blame for the die-off on any single cause, says Jeff Pettis, a research entomologist from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Bee Research Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland,[3] However, treatments against mites may be leaving hives open to the onslaught of powerful pathogens, much in the same way the overuse of antibiotics lead to super bugs in society today. What does that say about our future? We have learned that in the 1960s and 1970s, among other human ailments, DDT was a major cause of cancer in humans and animals; however, the substitution of such pesticides was a closely guarded secret. Unfortunately, the long term effects on the human population has yet to be understood as the compromise of the immune system may be happening quicker than we are ready to accept, even regarding the advent of super bugs. One can see that even this medical implication has severe economical implications.
Argument 2: Parasites
Secondly; Crops and even hedges, verges, and woodlands, and even where bees remain are sprayed with pesticides or herbicides. These chemicals are the practical extension of an exasperating belief that nature is our enemy. Pouring poison on our food is a very simplistic way of dealing with our problems however it ignores the root causes. New genetically modified crops, designed to be immune to certain pesticides and herbicides, have resulted in the increased usage of these chemicals. Pesticides, particularly Bayers imidacloprid, a nicotine-based product marketed under the names Admire, Provado, Merit, Marathon, and Gaucho have been concretely implicated[4] in the destruction of bee populations before (see also)[5]. The fact that other bees and insects are not raiding deserted hives to feed on the honey as they normally would lends some credence to the theory of a toxic overload. The toxic overload is certainly a concern, but wouldnt it also need to be considered that this is systematic in the degeneration of the digestive process, such as in humans inability to digest preservatives and not absorb the enzymes to break down the foods eaten for survival?
Argument 3: cell phones
Thirdly, there was also a misconstrued study on cell phone radiation [6] and its effects on the bees ability to navigate which turned out to be an over-zealous unthinking reaction by an article in the Independent news. Some have also mentioned other navigational hindrances such as UV radiation, shifting magnetic fields and even quantum physics[7] as a reason to the destruction of the bees.
There is certain implications to this theory, and it has been proven that electromagnetic radio wave lengths to affect the navigation of the bees. However the sun emits radiation spurts all the time, yet this has not offered a hindrance to the bees.
Argument 4: Terminator Seeds
Lastly, Leaked documents seen by the Guardian show that Canada wants all governments to accept the testing and commercialization of Terminator crop varieties. These seeds are genetically engineered to produce only infertile seeds, which farmers cannot replant, also to mention that the bees that are trying to collect pollen, found to have their digestive tract diseases, such as amoeba and nosema disease[8]. These diseases are mainly located in the digestive tract system. After studies of the autopsy, the most alarming trait is that the lower intestine and stinger have discolored to black vs. the normal opaque color, Synominus with colon cancer in humans.
Figure 1: Extreme discoloration of intestinal tracts of bees.
When thoracic discs were cut from sample Georgia A-2 the musculature of bees was notably soft and discolored (A) when compared to healthy thoracic cuts (B).
This discoloration suggests that the bees were dead upon collection. When questioned the beekeeper confirmed that the bees were alive at the time of collection. Further, the tracheal system of these bees did not show signs of desiccation usually associated
with the collection of dead bees. Thoracic discs from this sample, after being placed in KOH for 24 hours, revealed peculiar white nodules[9]
As seen above, it is certain that the digestive shutdown is due to hard material in the digestive tract that compromises the immune system. Circulatory problems would without doubt. Could it be that humans are going through the same process with the rise of Colon Cancer? As seen below in the comparison of the healthy Bee and the unhealthy bee, it is obvious that the bees that are ingesting GMO pollen are having severe digestive problems, so severe that the disease is terminal.
Figure 2: Digestive shutdown of the Honey Bee
The rectal contents of Georgia bees (A) were distinctly different then the contents of Pasadena bees (B). The rectal walls of GA bees were notably transparent revealing contents that looked like small stone packets (C). While Fyg (1964) describes similar stone like contents in poorly laying queens, the stones observed in the GA bees were not attached to the epithelium layer as Fyg (1964) describes. When these packets were ground and mounted, some unidentified floating objects (UFOs) were observed. A cubic particle that resembles the cubic bodies of polyhedrios viruses (this viruses attacks wax moths) excepting that the cube observed was ~10x too big for a virus particle. There were fragments of pollen grains husks in all samples examined. All PA samples were found to have nosema spores in their rectal contents while none of the GA samples did. In two samples, epithelial cells were packed with spores.[10]
The North American reliance on bees for pollination is at minimum from 30 to 40%. Does it not seem obvious that the digestion of foreign genetic agriculture directly affects the digestive process of the bees. Could it also be that there are similarities in the human population digestive process? It must also be noted that this increased epidemic of the bee colony collapse has risen significantly since the use of GMO agriculture in our foods. It is also suspect in the rise of new cases of medical ailments in humans such as colon cancer, obesity, heart disease, etc... In the writers opinion, the inability of the bees to pass matter digestively is quite similar to the present problems in the human digestive system
Conclusion:
The proof is obvious that one of the major reasons of the bees decline is by the ingestion of GMO proteins. This is problematic, as there is such an increase of indigestible foods in humans and bees. The situation of colon cancer in humans is somewhat similar in occurrence. This is only a theory but leaves one to wonder what are we eating en mass. The external or complementary good of the bee is obviously a rise for a global concern. The long-term economical and environmental impact has yet to be completely understood.
The Ecological Impact of horizontal gene transfer and increase of rampant disease is not fully examined and if so, is kept silent by these Conglomerates. The Economic Impact of the Colony collapse would mean higher inflation, scarcity of agricultural goods, and ultimately the collapse of North America Agriculture Business.
The Environmental Impact of scarcity and increased demand for resources, will beyond doubt have severe repercussions for our long-term food security. The bio-diversity of the bees causes positive economic and ecological externalities. The negative externalities have yet to be fully grasped or understood.
Organic crops: still relatively untouched
The truth is that organic farming is relatively untouched as the bee crisis is concerned. Organic farming maintains the diversity of the eco-system and preserves the quality of the foods produced. The economic impact that the scarcity of bees will potentially have on our society as a whole is very worrisome. In the end, only our children will fully realize; that it was greed that destroyed our beautiful blue planet.
References:
Thill, John. Colony Collapse: Do Massive Bee Die-Off Mean an End to Our Food System as We Know it? AlterNet
www.alternet.org/module (Accessed 7/9/2007 10:06 PM)
Colony Collapse Disorder. Wikkapedia Encyclopedia Online
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(Accessed July 12, 2007)
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)
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(Accessed June 30, 2007)
CROP PROTECTION. Monthly 28 February 2001 Issue No 135
Market Scope Europe Ltd.
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HONEY BEE Research Program. RIRDIC Honeybee Research Program Home Page. rirdic. gov.au/program/hb.html#top, (Accessed July 7, 2007)
Ho, Dr. Mae-Wan. Recent Evidence Confirms Risks of Horizontal Gene Transfer. ISIS Contribution to ACNFP/Food Standards Agency Open Meeting 13 November 2002, Institute of Science in Society, PO Box 32097, London NW1 0XR (Accessed July 16, 2007)
ISIS Contribution. Recent Evidence Confirms Risks of Horizontal Gene Transfer. ISIS Contribution to ACNFP/Food Standards Agency Open Meeting 13 November 2002 (Accessed July 17, 2007)
Vidal, John. Canada backs terminator seeds, The Guardian. Wednesday, February 9, 2005.
www.guardian.co.uk/gmdebate/Story/ (Accessed July 17, 2007)
Wilson, Dan. Lost colonies: Where have the bees gone? Appelton Post-Crescent, 5/18/2007 (Accessed July 19, 2007)
Whats Causing the Mass Disappearance of Honeybees? What is causing the Dramatic decline in Honeybee Populations in the U.S and Elsewhere in Recent years? HealthNewsDigest.com New York, NY, June 2, 2007
http:/www.emagazine.com/earthtalk/archives.php (Accessed July 10, 2007)
Notes
1 Hill, Scott. AlterNet, Posted on June 11, 2007, Printed on July 9, 2007
2 www.nrdc.org/onearth/06sum/bees2.asp
3 The Vanishing
www.nrdc.org/onearth/06sum/bees2.asp
4 www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/11/26/millions_of_bees...
5 www.valleyvoicenewspaper.com/vv/stories/beedeaths.htm
6 independent.co.uk/environment/news/article2449968
7 www.synchronizm.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/29/the-bees-wh...
8 Vidal, John. Canada backs terminator seeds Wednesday February 9, 2005. The Gaurdian
www.guardian.co.uk/gmdebate/Story/
9 Fall Dwindle Disease: A preliminary report
www.ento.psu.edu/MAAREC/pressReleases/FallDwindleUpdate01...
December 15, 2006
10 Fall Dwindle Disease: A preliminary report
www.ento.psu.edu/MAAREC/pressReleases/FallDwindleUpdate01...
December 15, 2006
This is why the bee hives are dying throughout every region in the world where GM crops are being grown. Genetically modified contamination = dead bee hives
www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_4682.cfm
Catastrophic Bee Population Decline May Be Related to Bt-Spliced GMO Crops
* Genetic Scientist Warns of Risks of GE
Pesticide Action Network, Mar 28, 2007
Straight to the Source
Dear Readers, This issue is so catastrophic and it looks more and more related to GE crops. Be sure to see the article at www.celsias.com/blog/2007/03/15/bee-colony-collaps... in addition to the information below. Peace, Thomas
GENETIC SCIENTIST WARNS OF RISKS OF GE
28 March 2007 - Seoul ÂÂ- "Genetic engineering is far from precise", warns Dr Ricarda Steinbrecher, consultant genetic scientist of Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific and also director of EcoNexus, a public-interest research organization based in the UK. "There are a number of steps in the genetic engineering process and most of them are subject to various uncertainties. A single gene mutation can have serious effects ..yet genetic engineering is all about creating mutations. the outcome can be tremendous, and totally unpredictable and unexpected."
Speaking on "Genetically Engineered Food and Crops: Issues and Concerns from a Scientific Perspective" at the WORA Seminar entitled "How to Secure the Safety of Rice" in Seoul today, Dr Steinbrecher expressed her disbelief that agri-business corporations could guarantee that genetically engineered (GE) food or crops are stable and safe when there are so many indications to show they are not.
"Besides negative ecological, social and economic effects of the genetic engineering of crops, from a scientific perspective, there are health impacts, contamination effects and many scientific uncertainties associated with genetic engineering," continued Dr Steinbrecher.
She cited a disturbing development about honey bees in the US. "Millions of these insects have disappeared over the last half year, their hives are empty. Bees are used as pollinators for various crops and the value that they generate in the US is estimated at over USD14 billion per year". The problem is so severe that it has been called the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). "Nobody knows why the bees are dying. There is evidence though that GE crops contribute to this, in particular insect resistant crops producing the Bt-toxin. Though healthy bees do not seem to be affected by Bt pollen, a scientist called Hans-Hinrich Kaatz in Germany has found that bees infested with parasites and fed with Bt pollen were affected and died at a high rate. Beekeepers have for years reported that honeybees suffer from high rates of parasites and diseases. As reported last week in a German journal [Der Spiegel], this resembles new evidence that Bt pollen is a contributing factor in the death of the bees. The areas where the bees have disappeared have a lot of Bt crops being grown there. We don' t think this is a coincidence. No one would ever have thought that this could have been an outcome of Bt and yet here we are. Not only do we not know exactly how this interaction happened, we don't know how to deal with it or stop it or even if we can."
Dr Steinbrecher also cited experiments with rats and mice fed with a particular GE tomato and GE potato. Results showed damage to the musocal cell lining of the gut in both cases and abnormal development of body organs in the latter case. Other experiments on rats fed with GE peas that contained a gene from beans showed heightened allergenicity and immunogenicity.
"Allergic reactions can be anything from rashes, sneezing and asthma to fatal shocks in some cases," warns Dr Steinbrecher.
Other possible impacts are gene silencing ie the plant that is being genetically engineered may 'silence' (turn off) that particular gene permanently. Dr Steinbrecher explains, "In 1992, a study was published about GE petunias in Germany. One summer, these GE petunias started to produce white and pink flowers instead of the characteristic red ones. Investigations revealed that the plant had somehow shut off the gene producing red flowers. Again, this was a totally unexpected effect. Gene silencing in GE plants has been repeatedly observed. We now know that environmental factors as well as homologies of the GE gene and the plant's own genes can trigger gene silencing."
She goes on to cite another disturbing case in the US. "In the US, a case reported in 1999, GE soya (resistant to the Roundup Ready herbicide) was found to have inexplicably produced 20% more lignin. This caused the stems to become harder than normal. During one exceptionally hot summer, the stems cracked because they were too brittle and tough to expand in the heat. Fungus penetrated the cracks and this greatly affected the yield that summer."
The final word from Dr Steinbrecher is one of extreme caution: "The moral of all these cases is that from the scientific angle, genetic engineering of crops is still a technology full of risks. Any number of totally unexpected things can happen. Worse, once grown, GE crops can contaminate the food supplies as just seen for two varieties of herbicide resistant rice (LL601 & LL). Worse still, GE plants can and will contaminate natural varieties and this contamination is irrevocable. The only fact we can be sure of is that we simply don't know enough to risk the consequences."
The delegates at the seminar were relieved to finally get such evidence of the risks of GE food. Their feelings were well articulated by Jung Woo Sick from the Buddhist Environment Association, "Before this, we were aware of a debate over the safety and stability of GE but we were never really sure. Now that we know the facts, we can have one clear message for our consumers here: that GE rice and GE food is a real risk, one that we should not take."
The Week of Rice Action (WORA) 2007 brings together farmers, rural communities, and other sectors of society to celebrate and protect rice culture. To be officially launched on March 13 in Bangladesh, the main WORA events will take place in 13 countries across Asia from March 29 to April 4. Culminating in India and the Philippines, WORA will be an unprecedented mobilization of Asians "Celebrating and Protecting Rice Culture"! A key feature of WORA will be its one-million signature campaign calling on policy-makers to take immediate steps to save the rice of Asia.
WORA is organised by Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) and its partner organisations in thirteen countries in the region. Anyone interested in being a part of WORA 2007 can log on to the WORA page at www.panap.net (www.panap.net)
Contact at PAN AP:
Ms Anne Haslam, PAN AP at wora2007@panap.net
GM crop taints honey two miles away, test reveals
The Sunday Times, September 15, 2002
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-416027,00.html [you have to register for Times' sites]
EVIDENCE that genetically modified (GM) crops can contaminate food supplies for miles around has been revealed in independent tests commissioned by The Sunday Times.
The tests found alien GM material in honey from beehives two miles from a site where GM crops were being grown under government supervision. It is believed to have been carried there by bees gathering pollen in the GM test sites.
The disclosure, showing that GM organisms can enter the food chain without consumers — or even farmers — knowing they are present, will undermine assurances by Tony Blair and ministers that such crops can be tested in Britain without contaminating the food chain.
The test results come as ministers, under pressure from the American agrochemical lobby, mount a huge consultation exercise to persuade the public of the virtues of GM foods. They have previously given assurances that consumers “are not being used as guinea pigs”.
The GM material was found in honey sold from farmer David Rolfe’s hives at Newport-on-Tay in Fife, almost two miles from one of 18 sites holding trials of GM oil-seed rape.
A test carried out by GeneScan, a respected independent laboratory in Bremen, Germany, checked for traces of an NOS terminator, one of four modified genes which make the crop resistant to pesticides. This proved positive.
A second test confirmed that GM material in the honey could have come only from oil- seed rape grown at Wester Friarton, in Newport-on-Tay, by Aventis, one of the world’s biggest biotechnology firms. The fact that the GM material travelled such a distance makes a mockery of the government’s 50m-200m crop-free “buffer” zones that were created around GM sites to protect neighbouring farms. Critics have claimed that the GM crop trial sites are too close to other farms. America has buffer zones of up to 400m, Canada up to 800m, and the European Union recommends a 5km (three-mile) zone for GM oilseed rape.
When Rolfe first raised his concerns, government officials said that although it was not possible to rule out cross-pollination, they did not believe it should be “a source of concern”.
“I’m very angry and disappointed,” Rolfe said last week. “I feel I’ve been denied the right and freedom to eat my own GM-free produce. Now we can’t eat the honey or sell it.”
This weekend Defra, the ministry responsible for the crop trials, said: “We have not seen the results of the study but will treat any such findings extremely seriously.”
In the case of GM rape, like most GM products, there is no evidence that contamination poses a health risk. Concern centres on maintaining the integrity of traditionally produced products.
Tim Lang, professor of food policy at Thames Valley University, said: “The early assurances from the industry and the government that a buffer zone would allow safety and choice for consumers are falling apart. It raises environmental health worries, and what we don’t yet know is whether these warnings will translate into a risk to human health.”
Britain has imposed a moratorium on the widespread planting of GM crops until it has analysed the impact of GM crop trials at 18 farm-scale sites around Britain.
However, The Sunday Times’s tests confirm earlier work that was carried by Friends of the Earth, the environmental group, and will increase pressure on the government to scale down its support for the GM industry.
It will also come as a personal setback to Blair, who is determined that British companies will win a share of the potentially lucrative bioscience industry. In May the prime minister attacked GM protesters as part of an “anti-science fashion” in Britain.
The tests will bring pressure on Aventis, which was accused of a “serious breach” of regulations earlier this year after GM trials in 12 sites were contaminated with antibiotic genes. These are controversial because of the danger of gene transfer to bacteria in animals and humans, who could become immune to common life- saving antibiotics.
While the government tends to support the GM lobby, food retailers have been more cautious. The big supermarkets insist that such products are properly labelled and refuse to take honey from within six miles of UK test sites.
In Canada, a leading cultivator of GM crops, sales of honey have plummeted by 50% amid concern that the integrity of the product has been compromised.
A spokesmen for Aventis said: “We would be very interested in looking at both the origin of the honey sample and how the tests were carried out. We would like to look at this further
Source: Norfolk Genetic Information Network (ngin),
SEE ALSO worldvisionportal.org/wvpforum/viewtopic.php?t=643
www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_14192.cfm
EPA is Hiding Colony Collapse Disorder Information
* EPA Buzz Kill: Is the Agency Hiding Colony Collapse Disorder Information?
Natural Resources Defense Council, via Common Dreams, August 18, 2008
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NRDC Forced to Sue to Get Public Records on Bee Mystery
WASHINGTON - August 18 - The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today to uncover critical information that the US government is withholding about the risks posed by pesticides to honey bees. NRDC legal experts and a leading bee researcher are convinced that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has evidence of connections between pesticides and the mysterious honey bee die-offs reported across the country. The phenomenon has come to be called "colony collapse disorder," or CCD, and it is already proving to have disastrous consequences for American agriculture and the $15 billion worth of crops pollinated by bees every year.
EPA has failed to respond to NRDC's Freedom of Information Act request for agency records concerning the toxicity of pesticides to bees, forcing the legal action.
"Recently approved pesticides have been implicated in massive bee die-offs and are the focus of increasing scientific scrutiny," said NRDC Senior Attorney Aaron Colangelo. "EPA should be evaluating the risks to bees before approving new pesticides, but now refuses to tell the public what it knows. Pesticide restrictions might be at the heart of the solution to this growing crisis, so why hide the information they should be using to make those decisions?"
In 2003, EPA granted a registration to a new pesticide manufactured by Bayer CropScience under the condition that Bayer submit studies about its product's impact on bees. EPA has refused to disclose the results of these studies, or if the studies have even been submitted. The pesticide in question, clothianidin, recently was banned in Germany due to concerns about its impact on bees. A similar insecticide was banned in France for the same reason a couple of years before. In the United States, these chemicals still are in use despite a growing consensus among bee specialists that pesticides, including clothianidin and its chemical cousins, may contribute to CCD.
In the past two years, some American beekeepers have reported unexplained losses of 30-90% of the bees in their hives. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), bees pollinate $15 billion worth of crops grown in America. USDA also claims that one out of every three mouthfuls of food in the typical American diet has a connection to bee pollination. As the die-offs worsen, Americans will see their food costs increase.
Despite bees' critical role for farmers, consumers, and the environment, the federal government has been slow to address the die-off since the alarm bells started in 2006. In recent Congressional hearings, USDA was unable to account for the $20 million that Congress has allocated to the department for fighting CCD in the last two years.
"This is a real mystery right now," said Dr. Gabriela Chavarria, director of NRDC's Science Center. "EPA needs to help shed some light so that researchers can get to work on this problem. This isn't just an issue for farmers -- this is an issue that concerns us all. Just try to imagine a pizza without the contribution of bees! No tomatoes. No cheese. No peppers. If you eat apples, cucumbers, broccoli, onions, squash, carrots, avocados, or cherries, you need to be concerned."
Chavarria has spent more than 20 years studying bees, and has published a number of academic papers on the taxonomy, behavior and distribution of native bees.
NRDC filed the lawsuit today in federal court in Washington DC. In documents to be filed next month, NRDC will ask for a court order directing EPA to disclose its information about pesticides and bee toxicity.
More information on CCD can be found at NRDC's www.BeeSafe.org web site.
The Natural Resources Defense Council is a national, nonprofit organization of scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public health and the environment. Founded in 1970, NRDC has 1.2 million members and online activists, served from offices in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Beijing.
CONTACT: Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Josh Mogerman at 312/780-7424 jmogerman@nrdc.org
UPDATE:
CATASTROPHIC BEE COLONY COLLAPSE IS NOT AFFECTING ORGANIC HIVES
As previously reported in Organic Bytes (Issue #104), beekeepers in 24 states are experiencing record losses of honeybees. Some states have reported up to 70% disappearances of commercial bee populations. Researchers are struggling to find the causes of this mysterious collapse. A crucial element of this story, missing from reports in the mainstream media, is the fact that organic beekeepers across North America are not experiencing colony collapses. The millions of dying bees are hyper-bred varieties whose hives are regularly fumigated with toxic pesticides by conventional beekeepers attempting to ward off mites. In contrast, organic beekeepers avoid pesticides and toxic chemicals and strive to use techniques that closely emulate the ecology of bees in the wild. Researchers are beginning to link the mass deaths of non-organic bees to pesticide exposure, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and the common practice of moving conventional bee hives over long distances.
Learn more: www.organicconsumers.org/bees.cfm
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www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/save-ontario-s-bees-ban-th...
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A scientific study that identified serious health impacts on rats fed on 'Roundup ready' GMO maize has been republished following its controversial retraction under strong commercial pressure. Now regulators must respond and review GMO and agro-chemical licenses, and licensing procedures
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