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Warning: General Mills Destroys Rainforests
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My alarm went off at 6:15am this morning and the excitement of butterflies in my stomach reminded me that the launch date had finally arrived! After four hours of sleep and months of preparations, I met up with 41 local Twin Cities community members concerned about
palm oil's contribution to tropical deforestation, global climate change, the rights of indigenous communities, and the survival of threatened species like the orangutan
. Specifically in question: the corporate ethics of one of the most trusted American food giants based right here in Minneapolis, MN -
General Mills
. Why is the maker of such powerful brands as Cheerios, Haagen Dazs, Progresso soups, Betty Crocker and Pillsbury - that cater mostly to parents and kids across the U.S. - stalling on taking action to protect our world's forests increasingly threatened by big Agribusiness' industrial palm oil plantations? What will it take to get them to listen? I know of one thing that got their attention-
a massive, bright yellow 30 x 70 ft. banner getting unfurled in the snowy, wintery morning light at their Headquarters in Golden Valley, MN
! At 11:11am 42 people inspired by the prospect of getting General Mills to wake up and be a leader in the food industry held the huge message: "Warning: General Mills Destroys Rainforests" up high in the air for General Mills executives watching from their desks above to see. And that they did! [caption id="attachment_5330" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="General Mills: Take Action!"]
[/caption] Our campaign launch was an effective way to inform General Mills that we don't have any time to waste –
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as a company with a unique ability to affect the palm oil marketplace, both by changing its own consumption habits and by publicly taking a stand against rainforest destruction from palm oil.
So why General Mills
, you may be asking? General Mills has a very close relationship with Wayzata based Cargill, Inc. and purchases all of their palm oil from them, among other commodities. Cargill is the most powerful agribusiness and commodity trading group in the world, and as the largest privately owned corporation in the U.S., it's also among the most secretive companies on earth. It owns plantations in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, where it grows oil palm on freshly cleared rainforest land. It is also a major global trader of palm oil and the biggest importer of palm oil into the United States. Over 100 of General Mills' products in total contain palm oil. By purchasing from Cargill, General Mills is directly contributing to the destruction of Indonesian rainforests. We're asking General Mills to stop buying palm oil from Cargill and we need your help – please
take action by sending an email to General Mills CEO Ken Powell!
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Check out Mongabay's article highlighting our action!
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On September 22, 2010, eight months after the launch of this campaign, RAN welcomed the release of General Mills' new palm oil policy, one of the strongest palm oil policies to date. The food company pledged to "help ensure our purchases are not associated in any way with deforestation of the world's rainforests." General Mills committed to source 100 percent of its palm oil from responsible and sustainable sources by 2015, to support the call for a moratorium on peat forest conversion, to require Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) from impacted communities, and to cancel contracts with controversial suppliers deemed such during an audit.
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It's a rock & roll truism that "it's better to burn out than to fade away".
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While I'm thinking about, here are my thoughts on the stupid question supporters of the Bush regime throw at those critical of the war in Iraq, the old, "Do you wish Saddam was still in power?" saw.
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And, on top of that, it hasn't even been a success in the altruistic, "we're going to liberate the Iraqis" sense, because while we liberated them from one form of terror and oppression, it's been replaced with a worse one. Fewer Iraqis have electricity and other services than before the war. The average Iraqi is far worse off now than before. We haven't done them any favors.
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"Do you wish Saddam was back in power? Huh? Do you?"
I don't accept the premise of the question. Neither should you. How would I answer it, then? I would say something like, "No. I wish the US, the Iraqis, and the world were safer now than before we invaded."
The argument implicit in that question is like if someone has a mosquito on their arm, so you cut their arm off, and then, when he or she sues you, you say indignantly, "Do you wish you still had the mosquito on your arm? Huh? Do you?"
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On November 2, 2015, the artwork titled "Kokoromo" by students at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Science and Engineering, was awarded the grand prix "School of Asia" from among the participating schools from around the world at Tokyo Design Week's Asia Awards – School Exhibition.
Tokyo Design Week, a renowned festival for "creatives," which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, provides companies, brands, designers, and schools with the opportunity to exhibit their works in four genres: design, art, music, and fashion. Asia Awards – School Exhibition, for the third time this year, is an international creative competition across genres, and the work receiving the grand-prix will also be exhibited at the Milano Salone, one of the world's largest design trade fairs held in Italy.
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Once again I have had the chance to attend a Time Out For Women weekend. This is going to become my new habit I think. So much of my life is chaotic and this last week has been one I could have lived a million lifetimes without ever having had to endure but endure it I did. After the horrible start to the week, followed by an even worse midweek I was ready for it to come to an end. What I wasn't quite ready for though is for it to come to an end quite the way it did. I attended TOFW last year too so I thought I was prepared…guess that's what I get for thinking cuzum…yeah sorry so wasn't prepared.
Where was I headed next…lemme think…sorry my thoughts are still a little scattered right now. Oh yeah so Friday afternoon just moments before needing to walk out the door to join the girliesfor TOFW 2010 I discover something that just leaves me feeling violated and angry all over again and I told Verizon I didn't even want to go. Go I did and I am so glad.
The drive up, or is it over? Over and up maybe? The drive to ourTOFW venue taught me a couple of lessons. Adult women, when away from kids and husbands and crazy neighbors are really just teenagers in bigger bodies. We laughed and giggled and screamed in surround sound! It was so much fun. We arrive in the heart of the city and proceed to find our hotel but instead drive around and around and around and around and around and maybe around again. Finally we decide to just park and get our get our hind parts over to the convention center. As luck would have it, I wound up with FRONT ROW seats WOOT!
I need to back up a little bit though…back to that around and around thing. We couldn't find that dang hotel anywhere no matter how what we did. Being women we even stopped and asked for directions, but still couldn't find the hotel. As we left the parking garage and headed to the convention center we were forced to look up..or maybe we just naturally looked up…and right there in front of us just one block away was the hotel.
That experience kept coming to me over and over throughout the event but I didn't quite get it until Mercy River performed their closing song and after the last lyric was sung, they all stood there so beautifully heads lifted to the heavens. They looked up and then, at that precise moment in time, I knew where the prompting came from…
Had we have just looked up, we would have known the hotel was on our right and not our left. Had we have just looked up, we'd have known exactly how to get to where we wanted and needed to be, but it never occurred to us I guess and we remained off course. I'm sure I'm the only one that this happens to, but when I'm down and discouraged the muscles in the my neck forget their function and my head drops. I find I look down way more than I do up. The plus side of this though is I do get to see a lot of fabulous shoes! I have always thought it was because maybe I wanted to hide the emotion in my face from those around me or because it is easier to pretend nothing's wrong when you don't make eye contact with people or the strange medical phenomenon that happens in my neck or a million other things. Or maybe, I look down to hide from the one person ready and willing and fully capable of helping me. It didn't occur to me that perhaps this was a the exact opposite of what I should be doing…looking up. Look up I say, look up.
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Look up I say, look up no matter how dark the day
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It needs some work I know….but how many times in our lives do we drift a bit off course and look down or sideways instead of up? How many times do our struggles seem to difficult to bear and we lose our hope and our courage and our strength for no other reason than we fail to look up? How many times do we need answers and look to our friends, neighbors, family, the Internet, food, addiction, shopping, education, music, etc for the answers; answers that are often incorrect?
What if, instead of circling over and over in the wrong direction we'd have just pulled over and looked up to our Heavenly Father for his wisdom and guidance? Do you think He could have told us we were just a block off course and shown us exactly how to get where we needed to be? Do you really think He cares about us enough to help in all the little things? Of course, but then I wouldn't have had the inspiration to write this blog now would I?


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Britney Spears recently made a few revelations during her interview with Scott Mills of BBC Radio 1, such as her rumored collaboration with Justin Bieber on her upcoming album Glory, her possible Super Bowl performance and her near-death experience while vacationing in Hawaii.
In the 10-minute interview, the pop star clarified that she did not work with Bieber on a track on her new album. This rumor emerged after The Britney Army AUS tweeted that Spears' single "Just Luv Me" from Glory features the "Love Yourself" singer.
"There's no truth to that at all," Spears told Mills after he asked about her alleged collaboration with Bieber.
Aside from the rumors involving Bieber, Spears also discussed the reports regarding her possible performance at the Super Bowl. Originally, Adele was supposed to perform at the halftime show for the NFL event but opted out due to personal reasons.
After the "Hello" singer backed out of the event, rumors about Spears doing the show started to emerge. Unlike Adele, Spears told Mills that she's very open to performing at the Super Bowl.
Lastly, Spears also spoke about her personal life during her interview with BBC Radio 1. Specifically, she shared how she almost drowned while she was in Hawaii with her family.
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"I went to Hawaii a couple of weeks ago," she said. "It was beautiful. The waves were like 6 feet tall. I completely embarrassed myself. I went out and I thought it was like a wave pool, and I thought, 'This is so nice and refreshing and beautiful.'"
"But the thing I didn't think about is when you come back the waves really come in hard and I got sucked under for like 5 minutes," Spears continued. "Literally I almost drowned, and I'm like, 'Where is my security? They're just going to let me die here,' you know?"


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This weekend was all about the chit-chat. No- I take that back. This weekend was truly all about me sleeping half of Saturday away and then speeding directly into jogging-five-miles/nesting/cleaning/space-clearing mode Sunday. Zero energy Saturday; all sorts of frenetic élan Sunday. Ironically, Miss Maya's activity was the exact opposite of mine both days.
But back to dialogue. One of my tasks was to basically spy on people. Listen to their conversations. Note how real life chatter is broken- choppy, almost- and how people tend to recycle language. They use the same vocabulary, phrases, expressions. Honestly, most of the conversations I listened to were full of ignorance and composed of junior-high vocabulary spurred by elementary mentality. Or the chit-chat was about back pain and bowel movements. (No wonder I was exhausted on Saturday- exercised far too much restraint on Friday…)
Moving on. I went through about two dozen pages of my story and examined the dialogue. Thankfully, not my pages did not resemble the examples of what not to do, but I did see specific areas in which I can improve. Nix a bit of commonplace dialogue I came across at the beginning of a few scenes. I found some areas that could use more (or altered) conversation. The only semi-melodramatic chatter gurgled up from Sigmund's jowls– and once you meet Siggi, you'll understand.
The dialogue in my story is not majorly jacked-up, which is a blessing. It just needs tweaking. And deleting. Altering. However, there's nothing that can't be fixed.
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The Eugene Water & Electric Board will be awarding two grants of up to $100,000 each to local renewable energy and education projects, as chosen by EWEB customers who are signed up for the Greenpower program. The two winners (the finalists are chosen from organizations that are either tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organizations or academic institutions) will be announced on the main stage at 1:50 p.m. Also on the main stage this year, at 11:00 a.m. Mayor Kitty Piercy will award the bi-monthly Bold Steps Sustainability Award, given to businesses that have incorporated the triple bottom line thinking into their daily business practices.
LTD will provide free bus shuttle service from the downtown station to EWEB's River Edge Plaza during event hours, with special stops at Saturday Market.
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SOCCER: Beckham says goodbye
Manchester United turned David Beckham into an international star, and yesterday he bid an emotional farewell to Old Trafford before he leaves European soccer for the United States.
"The time I spent at this club was the best time in my whole football career," Beckham told the 74,000-sellout crowd at halftime of a charity match. "I've waited four years to actually come back and to actually say thank you to the fans and the people of the club."
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In Indian Wells, Calif., defending champion Maria Sharapova was knocked out of the Pacific Life Open, suffering a 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 loss to Vera Zvonareva that will cost her the No. 1 ranking.
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The Patriots signed free agent Kelley Washington, another deal in an offseason overhaul of their receiving corps. The deal, with a $300,000 signing bonus and a $4 million bonus due in the 2008, could be worth as much as $22 million over five years.
* Pro Bowl linebacker Lance Briggs reiterated yesterday that he will not play another down for the Bears.
* Seahawks tight end Jerramy Stevens, an unrestricted free agent, was accused of driving under the influence and possession of marijuana after police stopped his car in downtown Scottsdale early yesterday.
BOXING: More Tapia tragedy
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Mumbai, December 26, 2015 :
The Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Mumbai Mr Zheng Xiyuan today called on the Governor of Maharashtra Ch Vidyasagar Rao at Raj Bhavan, Mumbai. This was a courtesy call. The wife of the Consul General, Mrs Li Fanghui, who is also a Consul was also present.
Zheng Xiyuan was born in Sichuan, China. He is fascinated by Mumbai. He loves the festivals, old buildings of Colonial era and old trees of Mumbai. It reminds him of his childhood days. Before his Mumbai posting he held several important positions. He started his career in the Department of International Laws and Agreements, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has served in Chinese Consulate General in New York, Second Secretary, Department of Management for Foreign Affairs, Director, Department of Policy Planning, Counselor, Chinese Embassy in Greece and Counselor, Department of Policy Research, MFA. In a candid talk with Senior Journalist Sachin Murdeshwar…
Q.Tell us about the Indo-China Trade Collaboration…
A.China is recognized worldwide as a world's manufacturing factory while India as a world's office. China-India business cooperation is growing upstream with stronger momentum and higher speed. China and India as the second and ninth largest economies respectively have a combined GDP of over US$ 12 trillion and a huge market with one third of the world's population. The Chinese economy has been steadily upgraded while the Indian economy has entered a phase of fast growth. We are ready to synergize our development strategy with that of India, expand win-win cooperation, take forward our respective national development, and facilitate regional and world development and prosperity with our own development.
Q.How have the relations between the two countries shaped up in recent years?
A.As the Indian poet Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore put it, "China and India are very old and beloved brothers". China-India friendship dates back over 2,000 years ago. Over the past 20 centuries, there have been numerous tales and legends about the friendly exchanges between two countries. It includes the white horse carrying Buddhist scriptures from India to China, Monk Xuanzang's pilgrimage to the west, and expedition of the Chinese navigator Zheng He. These all are testament to our friendships good neighbours. The ancient Silk Road bustling with merchants and coaches brought such Chinese and Indian inventions as papermaking, sugar making, fishnet and numbers to across the world. We have seized the opportunities of economic globalization and technological revolution and embarked on the fast track of development, which not only greatly improved the livelihood of 2.5 billion people, but also become twin engines for world's economic growth. China and India have learned from each other, and together driven Asia's progress. This year marks the 65th anniversary of establishment of China-India diplomatic relations, and also 70th anniversary of anti-fascist war. The Consulate General held reception and pictorial exhibition focused on the above themes. In addition, during the visit by the Chairman of China National People's Congress, we help a special photo exhibition on Indian Medical Mission to China 77years ago. We also managed to bridge the sister-city-relations between Dunhuang and Aurangabad during Indian PM Modi's visit last May. As Indian government rolls out ambitious programs such as smart city and Make in India, and introduces opening-up and pro-business policy measure, it spells great opportunities for two countries to align our strategies, complement each other and substantiate cooperation.
Q.What is the consulate doing to promote trade between the two countries?
A.The Chinese consulate has taken several measures to promote the bilateral trade. Firstly, we are devoting our efforts in helping foster closer relations between states (or provinces) of our countries. Secondly, we helped to establish a bridge between business circles in both sides. Thirdly, we have encouraged private Chinese investors to study Indian market, and helped those Indian private companies to invest in China. Personally, I have visited Nagpur, Pune, Nashik, Bangalore, with aim of exploring the investment possibilities. We had several meetings with MIDC, mayors, commissioners to discuss business opportunities for Chinese companies. Lenovo has started local manufacturing of its smart phones in Chennai. Alibaba, Foton, Sany Heavy Industry, Shandong Heavy Industries, Taiyuan Heavy Industries, and Higher Group have already established their Industrial bases here in Maharashtra. Huawei R&D centre in Bangalore could create several-thousand job opportunities for the local youth. Alibaba has 4.5 million on-line vendors in India, more than one tenth of its global total of 40 million. Furthermore it plans to increase its presence in Indian to 10 million vendors in a few years. The Consulate General is now taking an initiative to attract more Chinese Investors to Maharashtra. We are also helping Bank of China to re-enter Indian market at earlier date. All these point to the huge potential in our cooperation as the stream of investment and trade keeps flowing.
Q.How do you find the Chinese manufacturing industry in sync with Indian PM's "Make in India" campaign?
A.'Make in Maharashtra,' pushed by Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister of Maharashtra, is a part of 'Make in India' campaign. When PM Modi visited China last May, I personally accompanied the CM to promote 'Make in Maharashtra' in China. During his short stay in China, he met with almost 100 Chinese business leaders, and introduced the investment environment and opportunities in Maharashtra. In Qingdao, Shandong Province, he ran a road show along with MIDC delegation, pushing Maharashtra as an ideal investment destination for Chinese traders. I really like to salute to his hard work during that tight and hectic schedule. I would do my best to support him in this regard. During PM Modi's visit to China, the first China-India Local Leaders Forum was held in Beijing, and since then Local cooperation is booming, and many bilateral visits have been undertaken by Chief Ministers, governors and local leaders of both countries, including the reciprocate visits by the CM of Maharashtra and the governors or vice governors from such provinces as Guangdong, Shandong, Shanghai, Gansu, Shandong, Fujian, Guizhou. I would like to highlight the natural local partnership between Shandong Province and Maharashtra.
Q.How is the tourism industry between the two countries?
A.The opening of Nathula Pass early this year is another milestone that helps more Indian Yatra to realize their life-long dream of pilgrim to Kailash Manasarovar. India started e-visa for Chinese tourists at middle of this year, a move that significantly boost tourism and people-to-people exchanges. Over 300,000 Chinese tourists have visited India due to the promotion campaign of "India Tourism Year" in China By the end of this November. The Home Minister of Maharashtra Shriram Shinde, led a delegation that included ten eminent persons from different fields in Maharashtra. The holy water taken from Kailas-Manasarovar was ceremonially poured into River Godavari by CM Devendra Fadnavis at the Simhastha Kumbha in Tryambakeshwar. This "holy water diplomacy" has creatively contributed to the implementation of the consensus reached by H.E. Mr. Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China, and PM Narendra Modi, in a sense of enhancing heart to heart touch and link between our people of both countries.
Q.How many consulates are functional in India? Any plans for more consulates in India?
A.Currently there are two Consulates functioning, one in Mumbai and the other in Kolkata. The next one is set to open in Chennai.


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Today the market opened in negative territory primarily due to a drop in Housing Starts report (read more at http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/17/real_estate/housing_starts/index.htm?iid=HP_River ) and HP's forecast on its earnings.
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Significance Statement
Owing to the rising global concerns of energy problems, efficient harvesting of renewable energy resources is being pursued with much zeal. Dye sensitized solar cells are environmentally friendly, have a subsidized cost of production and have been observed to be one of the most promising energy harvesting devises. Unfortunately, most of the sensitizers used are chemical metal dyes which are rather expensive, environmentally non-friendly and tedious to fabricate. Therefore, with such realization of the higher photovoltaic performance and durability in dye sensitized solar cells, the development of the sensitizing dyes is one of the most important approaches. In a bid to enhance the photovoltaic performance in dye sensitized solar cells, considerable efforts have been devoted to optimize the structure of the organic dyes, such as by increasing the amount of anchoring groups and extending π-conjugation to increase the molar extinction coefficient of the absorption band, which can improve the light harvesting ability of the dyes.
Researchers led by professor Vytautas Getautis at Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania, proposed a structural study of Troger's base scaffold-based dyes for dye sensitized solar cells applications. They hoped to investigate the influence of the polymethine chain length and number of the anchoring groups on the photo-physical, electrochemical, and photovoltaic properties of the V-shape sensitizers. Their work is now published in the research journal, Dyes and Pigments.
The study was conducted in initially by carrying out cyclic-voltammetry measurements on the acquired solvents and reagents to be used in their study. The team then measured the ionization potentials of the layers of the synthesized compounds by electron photoemission in air technique. Sensitizer series were then designed so as to investigate the influence of the poly[n]enic (from n=0 to 2) backbones and their anchoring effect in dye sensitized solar cells. Optical, electrochemical and photovoltaic properties were compared with analogues dyes D1-D3 possessing one anchoring group.
The research team observed that the extended polymethine chains displayed excellent flexibility of the V-shape sensitizers units and inspired the interaction between two chromophores promoting aggregate formation in the Troger's base-based dyes. In return, the best result of dye sensitized solar cells, showed an overall conversion efficiency of 2.36%, and was obtained using dye D1, which possessed the shortest polymethine chain length and one anchoring group.
Vytautas Getautis and colleagues successfully presented the design and synthesis of a series of novel metal-free di-anchoring organic dyes based on a Troger's base scaffold. The Troger's base used possessed triphenylamine donor and rhodanine-3-acetic acid as the anchoring group being linked by the polymethine chain. Their work will help prove that the extended polymethine chains ensure flexibility of the units and inspire the interaction between two chromophores thereby promoting aggregate formation in the Troger's base-based dyes.
Simona Urnikaite, Titas Braukyla, Artiom Magomedov, Egidijus Kamarauskas, Tadas Malinauskas, Vytautas Getautis. A structural study of Troger's base scaffold-based dyes for DSSC applications. Dyes and Pigments volume 143 (2017) pages 48-61.
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