"There is a simple method to check upon your progress. Despite what appears to being going on in the world around you, how loving and harmonious are your personal relationships? Remember that the world is your mirror. It casts back at you the reflection of that which you have projected into it. Do you look at others and think about how you would like to change them? Or do you love them and accept them as they are?"
The goal of the game is to enter into these further divisions of creation, and then seek to harmonize the polarities in order to once again know oneself as the creator of them. Without polarity (derived from free will), there is only the unity of love and light, and no choice to experience "other than" that.
Off stage and between lives as incarnated human beings (zero-point time/antimatter universe), we – all of us and all of you as souls – are great friends, brothers and sisters in the One. Between lives we all have a good laugh about the parts we have performed in the "play" and look forward to and have great fun preparing the next chapters to act out. You are divine souls. You are sparks or seeds of the One Infinite Creator. You are life itself, remembering and learning who you really are.
Negativity is still an important tool in your learning process. It teaches you "other than". Do you respond to negativity with more negativity? Or do you choose to see the negativity as the tool that it is, and recognize that it is offering you an opportunity? All souls eventually learn that positive is the pathway which leads Home.
Never take what another says to you as "Truth". Your purpose here is to find your own truth. Sometimes others can help you to do so by offering guidance, but for their truth to become your truth, it must pass through the test of your discernment. Sit quietly in meditation and ask the Infinite Creator to guide your path.
There is no "wrong" or "right" seen from a higher density, but there are still consequences for every action. Such is the law of karmic effect.
Note: The above quotes for a better life are taken from a most intriguing essay by someone who calls himself "Hidden Hand." And for another profound essay with three simple principles for a better life, see this webpage.


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Evolution is often thought of as a constant, gradual change in the characteristics of a species based on how well those traits are adapted to a static environment. A more nuanced understanding of evolution, however, discards this linear and rigid concept in favor of a much more dynamic (and interesting) process. Environments are generally recognized to be anything but constant, resulting in an ever changing fitness landscape, the relationship between the characteristics of organisms and their reproductive success.
Even the most commonly used examples of evolution demonstrate the impact of ecology: think of the adaptation of Darwin's finches to the fluctuating availability of seeds, or the peppered moth, which increased its pigmentation, maintaining its camouflage after soot from the industrial revolution changed the color of the moth's habitat. Ecology clearly influences evolution.
What is less obvious, and has only recently become apparent, is the reverse: the potential for evolution to impact ecology. The bi-directional interaction of the two, called eco-evolutionary dynamics, was long considered unlikely because of the assumption that evolutionary changes occur on much larger time scales than ecological ones. Among others, a landmark study by Takehito Yoshida et al. (2003) demonstrated that microscopic communities of algae and rotifers (a predator of algae) show different predator-prey dynamics when natural selection is given genetic variation to act on.
It is legitimate to point out that this system benefits from an increased rate of evolution due to the short generation time and large population sizes of the microorganisms studied. These characteristics suggest that eco-evolutionary dynamics play a larger role in microbial systems than slower evolving animal/plant dominated ecosystems. Understanding these phenomena will likely be an important part of the current revolution in microbial ecology.
Many simple, real world evolutionary games, especially those in microbial systems, are great examples of a feedback between the environment and evolution. A common example of an evolutionary game is the group production of iron scavenging machines called siderophores. Since iron, a vital nutrient, is found outside of the cell, siderophores are released by an entire population of needy microbes. After a siderophore grabs a molecule of iron it is collected by a bacterial cell to be used in important cellular processes. Since everyone is doing their part and producing the costly collecting machines, everyone benefits from the increased iron availability.
What happens, however, when a few of these bacteria mutate to not produce siderophores, but continue to collect them from the environment? Since the freeloaders don't pay the cost of production, its fitness is larger, and its population grows. At some point, however, the number producing bacteria drops too low and iron collection becomes nearly impossible. The ecology of iron scavenging in bacteria is at the whim of evolution.
That is not to say, however, that eco-evolutionary feedbacks are limited to microbes. Among others, Eric Palkovacs et al. (2009) demonstrated that evolution of native guppies in Trinidadian streams influenced a variety of ecosystem properties, including algal and invertebrate biomass.


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GARY, IN – The Kansas City T-Bones got off to a great start on Sunday then things turned quickly in favor of Gary SouthShore, who would go on to win the final game of the series 10-5 at US Steel Yard.
In the top of the second Niko Vasquez took Alex Gunn deep off the scoreboard in left to give Kansas City a 1-0 lead. The good vibes ended in the bottom of the second, when Billy Waltrip could not get out of the inning. The lefty walked Jose Gonzalez and gave up a single to Ryan Fitzgerald to put runners at first and second. Cole Fabio followed with a single to load the bases. Waltrip then walked Chase Harris to tie the game at one.
Colin Willis then hit a sacrifice fly to center to give the RailCats the lead at 2-1. Joey Havrilak doubled home two more runs part of a five RBI day for the outfielder. Cameron Newell then hit a single to center to make it a 5-0 lead for Gary. Waltrip was relieved by Rich Mascheri, who got the final two outs of the second.
In the home half of the third Havrilak and Newell each had an RBI single to make it 7-1 Gary off reliever Gabe Perez. Perez would surrender another three runs only two earned in the fifth on three hits by Gary for a 10-1 lead.
Kansas City fought back with a two run homer for Nike Vasquez his second on the game and a pair of RBI singles from Cedric Hunter but they could get any closer in the 10-5 final.
The loss dropped both Kansas City and Gary a half game behind Fargo-Moorhead in the American Association Wild Card race. The T-Bones final road trip moves on to Sioux City Monday for the first of a four-game series against the Sioux City Explorers at 7:05 pm. The game can be heard on the T-Bones Broadcast Network with the pregame at 6:45 pm. In the Wild Card race for a post season spot, Gary will travel to Sioux Falls for four while Fargo will host Lincoln for five games including a double header Monday.
The T-Bones will send out RHP Alex Blackford (1-1, 2.25) in the series opener and newly acquired righty Jared Mortensen (8-1, 2.57) on Tuesday in the second game of the series.
For additional information or interview requests, members of the media may contact the T-Bones Media Relations Department at (817) 739-3693. Tickets are available online, by calling (913) 328-5618 or by visiting in person the Providence Medical Center Box Office.

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Former Derry HE boss passes away
The late Paddy McIntyre pictured here in 2006 when he was Chief Executive of the Housing Executive.
Brendan McDaid
Tributes have been paid to a former Housing Executive Derry District Manager who went on to become Chief Executive after he passed away recently.
Paddy McIntyre was involved in developing and allocating social housing in the Carnhill and Galliagh areas during the early days of the Housing Executive back in the 1970s.
Former Sinn Fein Councillor for the area, Tony Hassan, said yesterday: "I would like to send my condolences to his family circle.
"Paddy was well known in this areas because he was District Manager and allocating officer in this area. He was involved in allocating the 550 houses in Carnhill and parts of Galliagh, which were badly needed housing.
"He will always be remembered for the way he handled the public and was a great asset to the Housing Executive, working his way up to Chief Executive, retiring in 2010.
"He would have visited council while I was there over the last 20 years and attended meetings and he was always very courteous and never forgot his roots here."
Clark Bailie, current HE Chief Executive said Paddy McIntyre "will be a great loss to everyone who knew him."
"Paddy will be recognised as a central figure in the success of the Housing Executive and in helping improve lives of so many people.
"From a trainee with the Northern Ireland Housing Trust in 1971 to Chief Executive of the Housing Executive in 1999, Paddy McIntyre had a long and distinguished career in housing.
"By 1974 he was a District Manager in Derry in the newly formed Housing Executive before moving to Headquarters as a Senior Principal Officer. He was appointed Chief Executive in 1999, a post he held until his retirement in 2010."


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You are at:Home»National»RUGA: Presidency tells Nigerians to Disregard Northern Group's Threat
RUGA: Presidency tells Nigerians to Disregard Northern Group's Threat
By GidiPoint.com on	 July 12, 2019 National
Last week, the spokesperson for the Coalition of Northern Groups, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, had in a video, threatened the peace of the nation if the Federal Government of Nigeria did not bring back the establishment of the RUGA settlement projects within 30 days.
Nigerians had reacted to it saying that the Northern group had no right to threaten the nation and had called for the spokesman's immediate arrest.
However, according to Punch, the Federal government has told Nigerians to 'disregard their threat' and not worry about the 30 days ultimatum given over the Ruga settlement project.
The Coalition of Northern Groups was also advised to respect the Office of the President which, it said, took the decision in the national interest.
During a training session organised for the executives of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, the Senior Policy Adviser (Agriculture Interventions Coordination) in the Office of the Vice President, Dr. Andrew Kwasari, said that he had no regard for the threats and the group should 'listen to the majority of the country if they were true citizens'.
"I think the President has overwhelming support and his decision has resonated with the majority. I think we should not worry about the threats. They don't earn my respect in any way, I can't support them. My support is for the President and the people of Nigeria.
"Their threat is divisive, I think these people should listen to the majority of this country and above all, accord respect to the office of the President if they are true citizens of this country.
"The President took the decision to suspend the Ruga policy in the interest and common good of all Nigerians. Are we supposed to be concerned about rallying around the President who has taken a decision or a portion of society that feels otherwise for whatsoever reason? I don't know whatever evidence that they have." He said.
On whether or not they will be arrested, Kwasari said "I'm sure that the appropriate agencies are considering whatever action they will take. What is within my power is to make sure that the President's directive is obeyed."
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Union Minister of State for Finance Arjun Ram Meghwal climbs a tree to get proper network connectivity for a phone call in Bikaner.
A senior official said Ashish Joshi was suspended "for misusing his official position and creating confusion in the public and for violation of conduct rules" by lodging a complaint against Mishra on his official letterhead.
The telecom equipment industry is also witnessing strong growth because of rising data demand and the growing need for investments in technology.
The proposed amendment allows banks and phone companies to seed Aadhaar number with bank accounts and mobile phone numbers.
Nokia's Chennai facility recently crossed the four-million unit production milestone in its 10th year of operation. BSNL is already working with Nokia and Chinese player ZTE on a 5G technology roadmap.
UIDAI had asked telecom companies to submit, by October 15, a plan to stop using Aadhaar for customer authentication after the Supreme Court imposed curbs on the use of the 12-digit unique ID number.
The apex court while holding Aadhaar scheme as constitutionally valid struck down section 57 of the Aadhaar Act, permitting private entities to avail Aadhaar data.
The proposed new telecom policy seeks to provide broadband access to all with 50 megabit per second speed and 5G services.
It proposes to adopt "optimal pricing of spectrum" to ensure sustainable and affordable access to digital communications.
The apex court had in March given the ED a six-month deadline to complete the probe in the case.
Telecom providers gasp for breath under Jio's onslaught, TRAI rules. As losses mount, the future holds more hurt.
The three-month-old Reliance SIM has hit the telecom market hard. How long will the free run last?


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The plaintiff highway worker in the employ of the Department of Transportation (D.O.T.) contended that the defendant driver negligently failed to observe a work truck containing a flashing arrow to alert drivers of a road construction site, and struck the truck as the plaintiff was sitting in it. The plaintiff, who was a heavy-set individual who had formerly played semi-pro football, and who was a weightlifter, contended that despite prior back problems and treatment, he had been able to work as a laborer for the D.O.T. for an approximate 20 year period. The plaintiff asserted that the accident caused a severe aggravation of the degenerative disc disease and necessitated an initial laminectomy and subsequent fusion surgery, which will permanently prevent the plaintiff from working.
The evidence disclosed that the plaintiff had a relatively significant history of prior lower back complaints, had required intermittent conservative treatment, and had missed some time from work because of episodes of lower back pain. The plaintiff contended, however, that he was able to work at heavy physical labor and otherwise lead a very active lifestyle until the subject accident occurred. The plaintiff maintained that the accident was severe, that the property damage was extensive, and that he was removed on a backboard.
The plaintiff further maintained that after it became apparent that continued conservative therapy was not sufficient, he underwent a laminectomy. The evidence revealed that after the plaintiff's recuperation from this initial surgery, the plaintiff returned to work. The plaintiff related that he attempted to work despite the pain until approximately six to eight months later when he suffered an aggravation when using a jackhammer. The plaintiff asserted that after the incident, it became apparent that he required additional surgery and the plaintiff's orthopedic surgeon performed fusion surgery. The plaintiff's orthopedist would have maintained that the plaintiff is permanently unemployable. The plaintiff also maintained that he has been forced to lead a much more sedentary lifestyle and that such impediments are permanent in nature.
The defendant would have argued that in view of the history of significant degenerative disc disease, the need for a substantial amount of prior medical care, and the history of missing some time from work because of lower back difficulties, the plaintiff's claims that his current condition was caused by the subject accident should be significantly questioned. The plaintiff would have countered that since he had been able to work in heavy labor for many years and had been able to otherwise engage in physically rigorous activities until the subject accident occurred, it was clear that the injuries sustained in the accident were causally related to his current condition.
The case settled prior to trial for $1,000,000.
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Attorney for plaintiff, Charles Cerussi of Red Bank and Manhattan and John Marshall of Red Bank.
The plaintiff was able to command a very significant recovery notwithstanding a very significant history of lower back complaints associated with degenerative disc disease. The plaintiff stressed during settlement negotiations, that despite this history, he had been able to continue working at heavy physical labor. Additionally, the evidence that the plaintiff made an attempt to return to work after the initial surgery, but could not continue, and required the fusion surgery after he suffered an aggravation upon working with a jackhammer, clearly would have rendered the plaintiff's arguments that he was a very determined and hard working individual who would not permit the injuries to have a greater impact on him than absolutely necessary.
The evidence that the work truck containing the warning arrow on the back was struck with great force during daylight hours, and that the plaintiff was subjected to an extensive amount of force in the impact, would have also impacted significantly on the jury if the case had been tried. Finally, in his report, the defendant's orthopedist "asked" a rhetorical question if it could be reasonable to believe that in the face of the prior extensive pathology, that the accident could cause an aggravation which was sufficiently severe to prompt the surgical interventions. In the report, the expert answered this rhetorical question in the affirmative.


Do you spend your afternoons trying to not do a face-plant into your computer screen?
Take heart, sleepyhead—you can find the energy you need to get through your day.
Let the following tips show you how.
Standing and sitting correctly not only helps prevent repetitive strain injuries but also helps keep up your energy stores by increasing your oxygen supply (slouching can cut oxygen intake by more than 30%). What's more, it appears that poor posture "also influences the way you feel, think and act," says energy coach Jon Gordon in Energy Addict (Perigee). "Posture can affect your attitude, just as attitude affects your posture." So try to keep your spine as straight as possible, especially when you're feeling frazzled.
Finding extra energy without getting the proper nutrients is like trying to run a car without gas—you aren't going to get very far. The B vitamins—particularly vitamin B1 (thiamin)—are at the top of the list. But magnesium isn't all that far behind; this crucial mineral aids in the production of adenosine triphosphate, the body's main energy molecule.
Stress can trash your energy stores by smacking around your hormones, especially the adrenal homone cortisol. That's where adaptogens—herbal therapies that help your body deal with stress—come in. Natural health guru Andrew Weil, MD, has several favorites, including Korean (red) and American ginsengs, both prized for centuries, along with rhodiola and eleuthero.
Erika Schwartz, MD, author of Natural Energy (Putnam), uses coenzyme Q10 and the amino acid carnitine together in what she calls an "Energy Pack"—she says that when they are combined "the effect is pure magic." Schwartz recommends taking 500 mg of carnitine and 30 mg of CoQ10 with a glass of water at both breakfast and lunch.
A daily stroll is good, but you can make it even better by practicing what meditation teacher Lee Holden calls tai chi walking: Set an invigorating pace, pumping your arms and breathing through your nose. Focus on your surroundings, first using your eyes, then your ears and finally by sensing movement, such as the wind on your face. Finally, experience all your senses at once.
Shakes are great for getting a distilled dosage of all the energizing nutrients you need. They let you reduce some of your daily produce ration into an easy-to-take form—and lend themselves to supplementation with liquid multivitamins, whole-food concentrates and protein-powder mixes. Shakes also make it easier to eat breakfast, a high-energy necessity, on the go.
The best way to avoid energy-zapping fast food is by cooking at home. To speed things along try these suggestions from dietician Pamela Smith: Plan your meals, choosing recipes with limited ingredient lists; use such time-savers as precut veggies; keep a well-stocked pantry; cook extra food and freeze the remainder; and use quick-cook methods such as broiling and steaming.
Ask any computer expert—cutting-edge, well-maintained hardware is useless without the proper software. Same thing with you: A well-fed, toned body without a spiritual connection just isn't going to be very energetic. Prayer, worship and meditation can all help put you in touch with the divine, which in turn can provide your life with direction and purpose. And don't forget gratitude; learning to be grateful in good times and bad allows you to leave a lot of energy-draining baggage behind.
Here comes the sun: Sunlight entering your eyes triggers production of natural feel-good chemicals. So try to walk out of doors during the day by making seasonal adjustments: In hot weather go in the morning or the evening, carrying a water bottle for hydration; when it's cold, bundle up and walk at midday. Is it cloudy outside? No matter—you're still getting that good natural light. If going out isn't an option, try to maximize light levels by employing full-spectrum lighting to mimic the sun's rays.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and for a reason you probably hadn't thought of: "One of the simple keys to increased energy is to eat a majority of your calories earlier in the day," says Jon Gordon. He cites a study in which all the participants ate an equal 2,000 calories a day; those who ate earlier had more energy and lost a little over two pounds a week. In addition, Gordon suggests that you exercise in the morning if possible to give your metabolism a boost.


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Thought Garage: India test fires Agni-III nuclear missile - Why and What for?
India test fires Agni-III nuclear missile - Why and What for?
On sunday, the 9th July, 2006 India test fired Agni-III, a long range 3500 KM ballistic missile that can carry nuclear war heads.
I don't understand why India is still going strong on missiles with nuclear war heads. One reason, it can not afford, it is still one of the poor countries with limited infrastructure. If India has to prove its tech merits, building a nuclear war head is definitely not the way to go. It is definitely brutal intention for India or any other nation preparing nuclear war heads that it is preparing to kill people. More people in a single shot.
Forbes news item point out that recently New Delhi and Washington reached a landmark deal in March to lift sanctions on nuclear technology.
New Delhi and Washington reached a landmark deal in March that will lift sanctions on India's access to civilian nuclear technology.
The question that baffles me is what part of Agni-III is civilian? For sure, it can kill civilians of some other country who intend to attack with similar malicious thoughts. I can not discount having strong security measures, particularly in the wake of militants across the world. But building and firing a nuclear missile, without any doubt, will kill far more civilians than militants.
In that aspect, US is the country with most brutal intentions. It has the largest supply of nuclear arms, and any other kind of sophisticated armery. And it is the most hypocritic country whose ideals are defined by opportunity and desperation. A few years ago, despite the fact that it had largest supply of nuclear war heads, it put economic sanctions on India to test nuclear war heads. Now US needs India as its strategic economic partner, so it lifts the sanctions. Is there any principle that US has acted upon? I don't understand if there is any. In my naive world, it is pure greed and opportunity that is driving this part of the world. If it likes, you are free to go. If not, you have all kinds of economic sanctions.
I can't appreciate indigenous indian R&D efforts in making this missile. They are great efforts spent in an evil and lousy mission. With that amount of money spent on this missile, India would have given lives to millions of poor children for sure. With this missile, it can never a save a child, but take lives of children on the other side of the border.


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Submarine Channel Launches Interactive Documentary Unspeak – Words are Weapons
8 July 2013 •
Unspeak is a brand-new interactive documentary by Submarine Channel investigating the manipulative power of language. It is based on British journalist Steven Poole's intriguing book of the same name.
Oil Spill. Climate Change. File Sharing. Erectile Dysfunction. Clean Coal. Unspeak is language that deliberately manipulates public opinion. Erectile dysfunction used to be called impotence, which was felt to be too insulting, as it might imply that the afflicted were flaccid and powerless in all areas of life. Erectile dysfunction, by contrast, sounds soothingly neutral: a mere mechanical fault, fixable by a little blue pill.
Blending filmmaking, data, technology, and design, the story of Unspeak unfolds across a series of short films, data visualizations, and a participatory dictionary. Unspeak exposes how language is manipulated to suit political agendas and the changing role and responsibility of the media. With its demand for sound-bytes and attention grabbing quotes, the media creates Unspeak. Rather than critically investigating term coined by politicians, the media engines often indiscriminately hijack them.
Through a radical collage of archival footage, quotes, and Steven Poole's own enlightening analyses, Unspeak critically and satirically reveals the unspoken messages and obscured meanings behind loaded catchphrases. The short films are directed by Jennifer Abbott (The Corporation) and Rob Schröder (Meet the Fokkens), to name just a few.
The participatory dictionary, which already consists of more than 100 words, aims to crowd source new words from the public into a collective database. The data visualizations illustrate the prevalence of Unspeak in the media – and the context in which it is used – by tracking Twitter, Wikipedia, and many news articles worldwide.
Steven Poole: "Submarine Channel's interest in adapting the book Unspeak was an unexpected gift, and the chance to write a series of new scripts on current themes was a wonderful opportunity. I am hugely impressed by what all the directors have done with the films. To enrich (and not merely illustrate) arguments about language through moving images is a terrific achievement. The films, along with the brilliant data-visualization work on the website, have made Unspeak come alive in a way I could never have imagined when I first wrote the book. Forward with the Unspeak Liberation Front!"
Steven Poole is a British author and journalist who writes for the Guardian, the New Statesman, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He is the author of Unspeak, Trigger Happy, and You Aren't What You Eat, and a broadcaster and composer. He lives in London.
www.submarineChannel.com is an international distribution and production platform for fresh content that exploits new technologies to tell stories in visually exciting, multiple format-friendly ways – including motion comics, online games, web documentaries and transmedia productions such as Collapsus.com (2010), which was nominated for a Digital Emmy Award. Submarine Channel is part of the multiple award-winning production outfit Submarine, founded by 2000 by Bruno Felix and Femke Wolting.
This project is made possible with the financial support of Ministry of Culture, Education and Science, The Creative Industries Fund NL, and The City of Amsterdam. The introduction episode was supported by the Dutch Cultural Media Fund, The Netherlands Film Fund and VPRO.
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SAITAMA - Mao Asada set a new world record of 78.66 points with a superb short program at the world championships on Thursday night.
Mao, seeking her third world title, skated to "Nocturne" and was boosted by a boisterous crowd of more than 18,000 at Super Saitama Arena. She opened with a booming triple axel, followed by a triple flip and also executed a triple loop/double loop combination jump flawlessly.
Mao, who finished sixth at the Sochi Olympics last month, broke the mark of 78.50 established by Yuna Kim at the 2010 Vancouver Games.
Coming off a disappointing showing in Sochi, where she was 16th after the short program, Mao was clearly at the top of her game on this night and appeared poised throughout her performance while displaying superior technical and presentation skills.
It must be noted, however, that both Kim, the defending world champion and silver medalist in Sochi, and Olympic gold medalist Adelina Sotnikova of Russia are not participating in the worlds.
Italy's Carolina Kostner, the bronze medalist in Sochi, is in second place with 77.24.
Kostner was exquisite in a beautiful white outfit while competing to "Ave Maria." The 2012 world champion began with a triple flip/triple toe loop combo, followed by a triple loop, and landed a double axel in another graceful effort.
The veteran Kostner, now 27, said no matter how many times she takes the ice at the worlds, the feeling of anxiety is similar.
"This is my 13th championship in a row and I kept on saying to myself, 'You have so much experience, you shouldn't be that nervous, but each time it's the same,' " she commented.
Julia Lipnitskaia, who placed fifth in Sochi, stands third on 74.54.
Lipnitskaia skated to "You Don't Give Up on Love" and was impressive. The limber 15-year-old hit all four of her jumps and wowed the audience with her spins and step sequence.
"I am just so excited, because it was the best program of the season," said Lipnitskaia. "I was able to show my level after the disappointing performance (in the individual event) in Sochi.
Mao, who was the world champion in both 2008 and 2010, expressed confidence looking toward the free skate.
Akiko Suzuki, participating in her final event before retiring, is in fourth place on 71.02.
She performed to "Hymne a l'amour" and started with a triple toe loop/triple toe loop combo, then hit a triple lutz, before landing a double axel.
Suzuki, who will turn 29 on Friday, is hoping to earn her second worlds medal here after taking the bronze in 2012.
American Gracie Gold (70.31) is in fifth place.
Kanako Murakami (60.86) competed to "Violin Muse" and is 10th after struggling. She underrotated the back end of her opening triple toe loop/triple toe loop combo, before doing the same on a triple flip.
Murakami tried to look at the bright side despite her miscues.
Germany's Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy captured their fifth world pairs title in decisive fashion.
The Germans, who earned their second consecutive Olympic bronze medal in Sochi, scored 224.88 to beat Russia's Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov (215.92) by nearly nine points.
The competition was the final one for Savchenko and Szolkowy, who are splitting up after a partnership that has lasted nearly 11 years.
Canada's Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford took the bronze with 210.84.
The men's free skate and short dance will be held on Friday.
Tatsuki Machida leads following the men's short program, while Sochi gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu is in third place.


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Back to Vandana Shiva and the Hubris of Manipulating Nature
Vandana Shiva and the Hubris of Manipulating Nature
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What are the limits on how much humans should meddle with the natural world?
Vandana Shiva is an eco-feminist, activist, editor, and author who has spent much of her career opposing corporate-led globalization, particularly in agriculture. She is the founder of Navdanya, a movement for biodiversity conservation and farmers' rights.
Her activism began in college, when she volunteered with the nonviolent grassroots Chipko movement led by women aimed at stopping deforestation in Northern India.
"And the women said these forests are not timber mines. These forests are sources of solar water and oxygen and every day we realize how that is the basis of life," Shiva says.
She studied physics as an undergraduate, and holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario focusing on the philosophy of physics. She's received numerous awards for her work and has also been called "anti-science" by her detractors, which include prominent scientists.
Shiva is highly critical of how humans have changed our relationship with the land through industrial monocrop agriculture. She fiercely opposes the use of genetically modified crops, and has called seed patents "bio-piracy."
"Because what nature created you claim as your creation, and GMO in that worldview means God Move Over, GMO," she says. But it's not just the technology she's critical of.
"I'm critical of the world view of arrogance. The worldview that came with colonialism, the mechanistic mindset of the conquering man being the creator of the earth and creator of the wealth," Shiva says.
She argues for a renewed focus on biodiversity and regenerative agriculture to help solve the climate crisis, as well as improve our nutritional health.
"Small farms produce more, biodiversity produces small because it works in cooperation...the more you intensify the flows of nutrition in the system, the soil regenerates, the plants regenerate, the pollinators come back and you actually have more nutrition per acre rather than yields per acre," she says.
"So, this debate that's been created 'oh, you'll need more land' is a false debate. It's chemical farming that needs more land. It's commodity farming that needs more land. Otherwise why would the soil lobby have invaded into the Amazon [rainforest] just to grow GMO soya? Most of it for animal feed and biofuel? The expansionism of GMO soya I should tell anyone that this is not about feeding the world, but it is feeding profits."
Despite her criticism of the global power structures, she believes we have the power to change for the better.
"And if we are able to make that leap from monocultures to diversity, from superiority to equality, from destruction as creation to co-creation in nonviolence, then humanity has a hope," Shiva says.
Director of the Foundation for Science, Technology & Ecology
Greg Dalton: This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. Today, Indian eco-feminist Dr. Vandana Shiva talks about her opposition to industrial agriculture and genetically modified crops. She's called seed patents "bio-piracy":
Vandana Shiva: So, why do I call this biopiracy? Because what nature created you claim as your creation and GMO in that worldview means God Move Over, GMO.
Greg Dalton: But it's not just the technology she's critical of.
Vandana Shiva: I'm critical of the world view of arrogance. The worldview that came with colonialism, the mechanistic mindset of the conquering man being the creator of the earth and creator of the wealth, that they basically stole.
Greg Dalton: Vandana Shiva on tapping biodiversity to counter the hubris of corporations manipulating nature. Up next on Climate One.
Greg Dalton: What are the limits on how much humans should meddle with the natural world? Climate One's empowering conversations connect all aspects of the climate emergency. I'm Greg Dalton.
Greg Dalton: My guest this week is Dr. Vandana Shiva. She's an eco-feminist who has spent much of her career opposing corporate-led globalization, particularly in agriculture. She holds some controversial opinions, and has been called "anti-science" by her detractors, which include prominent scientists. Although she studied physics as an undergraduate, she holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario focusing on the philosophy of physics. In fact checking this interview, I found some of her numbers to be problematic. We edited the show to focus on her larger themes rather than specific figures, which lacked precision. At the same time, I found Dr. Shiva to be provocative, controversial and insightful, especially when she was questioning my own linear and western-centric thinking. During the 1970s Vandana Shiva was active in the grassroots Chipko movement led by women aimed at stopping deforestation in Northern India. I asked what drew her to that cause.
Vandana Shiva: Greg, I've grown up in the forests of the Himalaya. I was born in the forests of the Himalaya. My father was a forest conservator. And before leaving for Canada for my PhD in the foundations of quantum theory, I just wanted to carry a bit of my home with me so I went for a short trek. And this oak forest that I used to walk in had disappeared. And the stream that came from it, was a trickle. I was of course taking a flight the next day to Canada so I continued. But while talking to, you know, waiting on the road for the bus, chaiwala started to talk of how Chipko had started and now there's hope. And I asked more and he knew a little bit about women's action. But I took a pledge in my mind that every vacation I'll come back and I'll meet the people and volunteer for this movement. So, that's what I did. Every summer, every winter I would come back from Canada and volunteered for the Chipko Movement. So, it's the disappearance of a forest that led me to it. And now while the forests are burning in California, in Canada, I'm thinking of the slogans of the women who never went to school. They defended the oak tree and they sang songs and said the oak gives us water. The oak leaves become the streams and they were talking about humus and they were fighting against monocultures. And the women said these forests are not timber mines. These forests are sources of solar water and oxygen and every day we realize how that is the basis of life. People died during COVID for lack of oxygen. People are dying for lack of water. A billion people and more are dying for lack of food. This is exactly the message that women simple women from the Himalaya would give me and I say they gave me; they became my professors of ecology and biodiversity. I did a PhD in Canada but a non-PhD learning that has lasted me my life from the Chipko university.
Greg Dalton: So, I wanna get back to Chipko. But you said a billion people dying from lack of food that sounds like bit of an exaggeration, a billion people dying?
Vandana Shiva: Oh, a billion, sorry, a billion people are hungry. And not just undernourished really denied. If you take the undernourishment figure, you know, there are two sources of undernourishment. One is you don't have access to food. And this is happening also to the farmers who are growing food. Half of the hungry people of the world are agricultural people who are growing rice with chemicals for which they had to borrow money so when they grow the rice they have to pay back the agent of the chemical fertilizer and the pesticide and the seed agent. So, they grew the rice but they can't eat it. And when they sell it, it sells for very low. When they buy the same rice it's four times more. This is the polarization of prices that globalization has created. And that means the same farmers who grow the rice starve. The second is the food itself is now nutritionally empty because the soils are depleted of nutrition. And the nutrition in our food comes from two sources. The seeds we are not breeding for nutrition we are breeding for weight. It's the ultimate Cartesian victory, you know, how big is the apple, how heavy is your soya bean, not how much nutrition is in. That's why I shifted to nutrition per acre and we can feed two times the world if we conserve biodiversity. The third reason why people are hungry we are not eating food anymore. It's empty food. You know this junk food like stuff. So a billion people are hungry, but 2 billion are sick because of these food-like substances where the industry is growing and stuffing it down, and the American diet is now being spread and everybody have diabetes you have cancer you got metabolic disorders.
Greg Dalton: Yeah, sometimes I think about yeah there's a food industry that gets us sick and then there's a medical industry that wants to sell us drugs after we get sick from the food that is sold to us. Much of your work has been to promote biodiversity and agriculture, just as you articulated, specifically fighting against corporate patents on seeds and the use of GMOs. You've called seed patents biopiracy how much of your objections of the technologies themselves versus who controls it the consolidation of power so much power in few hands.
Vandana Shiva: The technology and patenting are wedded from birth. The patenting was the aim, the technology was the means to achieve that aim. The false claim was made that by tweaking one gene or shooting one toxic gene, a bt toxin, a Roundup Ready, we are the inventors and creators of life and therefore we own the seed, this seed and its 20 generations to come. And these are cases that have gone to the Supreme Court there's a very famous case of Monsanto versus a farmer in US where they actually ruled that the seed is a self-replicating machine. And even if you didn't buy the seed from Monsanto you bought the grain in an elevator, it is still intellectual property. Having done my doctorate work on nonseparation. Having done my doctorate work on potential. I said, but the seed is self-organized autopoiesis in making billions of years of evolutionary history in it. The farmers have bred these seeds, the qualities of the seed, the true qualities outside the toxic qualities. The aroma of our basmati, the known gluten properties of our wheats. These weren't created by Monsanto or genetic engineering. They were bred by the farmers. So, why do I call this biopiracy? Because what nature created you claim as your creation and GMO in that worldview means God Move Over, GMO. God Move Over. Creation is us. The second is all indigenous people, the minimum we can claim is 10,000 years. 10,000 years we farmed we have bred seeds, one grass, oryza sativa became 200,000 rice varieties with the brilliance of Indian peasants. Maize, one teosinte became the thousands of maize varieties in Mexico and in Peru and in the first nations of America. That brilliance of breeding is denied and the corporations here when I shoot a gene, I create a seed. It is so ontologically wrong, but it's also ethically wrong and epistemologically wrong. So, when you asked me what I'm critical of, I'm critical of the worldview of arrogance, the worldview that came with colonialism. The mechanistic mindset of the conquering man being the creator of the earth and creator of the wealth that they basically stole. So, you know, there's a way in which in our age, the religion that was the colonizing mission. The first colonization, oh I got to be a Christian all those little kids from the indigenous peoples the first nations thrown into boarding schools. Thousands died; the graves are just being found. That is all to make them civilized through Christianity. Today's civilizing mission use the mysterious word technology. But technology is merely a tool at any point humanity is brilliant enough to have 5, 10, 20 tools to choose from. That is technological democracy. And the minute you put technology at the level of religion with a capital T in the hands of five men, then that's when hubris substitutes democracy.
Greg Dalton: And one of the biggest seed controversies has been over golden rice, a variety genetically engineered to provide vitamin A. According to the WHO vitamin A deficiency is responsible for 1 to 2 million deaths a year plus another half million cases of blindness. This sounds like a pretty good idea to fortify rice with vitamin A.
Vandana Shiva: Well, it would be a good idea, Greg, if there was no other source of vitamin A. One, when you need vitamin A what do you eat? You eat curkman. Why is vitamin A the precursor called Beta carotene? Carrot is there --
Greg Dalton: Yeah, leafy greens, right. But if it's so readily available then there wouldn't be such a vitamin A deficiency.
Vandana Shiva: So, why is there a vitamin A deficiency? Let's go back to the green revolution Norman Borlaug who took mixed farming with lots of vegetables, lots of greens, lots of pulses, and lots of oilseeds. And then said, no, I want to sell my fertilizers the leftovers of the war and therefore we must have monocultures. When you have an external input system you have to have a monoculture.
Greg Dalton: Those fertilizers based on fossil fuels partly, right?
Vandana Shiva: They are based on fossil fuels 1 kg of urea fertilizer requires 2 L equivalent of diesel. The same companies made the explosives and ammunition and made the fertilizers. And, you know, it's the same buyers and you talked earlier about some of them make us sick and then others make a profit it's the same people who make us sick. But coming back to the issue of vitamin A deficiency. So, you create monocultures and what is Roundup, Roundup as the debates in the biodiversity convention used to show Monsanto would get up and say we prevent the weeds from stealing the sunshine. Well, the sun is so generous and it grows biodiversity. The beautiful amaranth, which is being made a superweed with Roundup resistant soy and Roundup resistant corn in the fields of America and now they're using dicamba and more and more virulent herbicides. What was called weeds are sources of food, are sources of vitamin A. The second big reason is that when you do so-called high-yielding varieties with chemical fertilizers. First, your high-yielding variety is merely taking more out of the farm destroying the straw which would go back to the soil to make the nutrition. You've destroyed the nutrition cycle of the earth, you've destroyed the nutrients in the soil, the zinc, the iron, everything else that makes us healthy. So, you're having nutritionally empty food. So, you have a monoculture, you have nutritionally empty food then you do milling, industrial milling is a way to take nutrition out but they're so clever then they sell the bran as a separate product. They sell rice bran oil as another product. So, they dismember a product which you would eat in wholesome ways. So, it's a dysfunctional system to make more and more money for a few people, and we have watched how to dump GMO soy on India. The industry just ganged up and banned our edible oils. They banned our local cold pressed virgin mills, 5 million just made illegal overnight. And there's a woman who came to me and said bring back our mustard. We cannot eat food cooked in GMO soya. And we have to do a satyagraha, satyagraha is Gandhi's word of noncooperation. Satya, truth. Agraha, force. He told us how to throw the British out.
Greg Dalton: On GMOs. I hear your points about control and the mindset and the worldview. Though the World Health Organization, the American Medical Association, the US National Academy of Sciences, the British Royal Society have all examined the evidence and concluded that consuming foods containing ingredients derived from GM crops are no riskier than consuming the same foods containing ingredient from plants modified by conventional improvement techniques. So, acknowledging all the things you said about GMOs and control and power. Will you acknowledge that as a scientist GMOs are safe for humans to eat?
Vandana Shiva: But we never even started talking about it as food. We were talking about it in the field as a crop. And the reason I played a big role in writing, working with governments to write Article 19.3 of the Convention on Biological Diversity which led to the biosafety protocol on which I was appointed as an expert. Biosafety is about the impact on biodiversity. What does it do what does Bt toxin do to the bees and the butterflies? What does Bt toxin do to the soil organisms? So, the impact on biodiversity, the impact on public health and now added to it is the social economic impact on farmers. In India, we've lost 400,000 farmers to suicide. 85% of them this is from government data, you just have to do the Bt cotton map the GMO map and map the suicides. 85% are in the cotton area 95% of it Monsanto so --
Greg Dalton: I did read a Brookings Institution report that said that per capita kind of questioning with some of the trends of the Indian farmer suicide. So, there is some debate there, tragic, there are some debate about whether it's out of proportion to other countries, etc. but that is certainly something that's very serious.
Vandana Shiva: Yeah. But let me come back to the GMO question. To talk about food means it's all right if you do lose your biodiversity. I think the biosafety question is about the relationship of the crops we grow and the evidence is now so clear that GMO crops have failed to do what they were claimed to do Roundup Ready crops were introduced in order to control weeds, American farmlands are overtaken by superweeds. A plant is a self-organize complex system. And the weeds they evolved resistance just like antibiotics, resistance is growing. The more antibiotics used in the animal farms in your factory farming you're gonna have antibiotic resistance. So, we come back again to the signs of living systems, the technology where it was applied has failed. I don't think big scientific institutions should be looking at the wrong place. We're talking about crops and biodiversity. No one talked about food safety and in the early days of course no one died of DDT immediately. Rachel Carson was attacked because she pointed out the harm. Today we know. So, I mean neither GMOs nor chemicals have instant impact. The impact builds up over time. But on life on earth it does have impact. Poisons kill immediately and are the basis of the extinction crisis. So, anyone who cares about diversity of species should be looking at the tools that are driving species to extinction. So again, we have to think in systems ways we have to think in interconnections.
Greg Dalton: You're listening to a Climate One conversation about the hubris of manipulating nature with Indian ecofeminist Dr. Vandana Shiva. If you missed a previous episode, or want to hear more of Climate One's empowering conversations, subscribe to our podcast wherever you get your pods. Coming up, Shiva shares more about how she sees industrial, globalized agriculture hurting our natural systems, including those like the Amazon rainforest that are essential to the planet's resilience:
Vandana Shiva: It's commodity farming that needs more land otherwise why would the soil lobby have invaded into the Amazon just to grow GMO soy. Most of it for animal feed and biofuel. The expansionism of GMO soya I should tell anyone that this is not about feeding the world, but it is feeding profits.
Greg Dalton: That's up next, when Climate One continues.
Greg Dalton: This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton, and we're talking with Indian ecofeminist Vandana Shiva. We pick up our discussion on industrial monocrop agriculture.
Greg Dalton: So, I certainly see the capitalism is about creating revenue streams and intellectual property helps lock up technology that secures revenue streams and therefore profits for the capitalistic system. But the system you're describing are so entrenched and complex how do we change them? Some people would say organics are more nutritious and counter many of the things you're talking about. Others would say organics require too much land, that organics cannot scale and feed the world.
Vandana Shiva: So, you know, that was the word when Europe was the center of the world. We used to talk about the Eurocentric worldview. And I think now that the US thinks it's the center of the world that's a very American centric worldview. But most of the farms of the world are not like what has been made of the American farmlands. Agribusiness has destroyed farming in America. Small farms produce more, biodiversity produces small because it works in cooperation. So, the more you intensify chemicals, you intensify commodity production which doesn't feed you. But the more you intensify biodiversity, the more you intensify the flows of nutrition in the system the soil regenerates the plants regenerate the pollinators come back and you actually have more nutrition per acre rather than yields per acre. So, this debate that's been created oh, you'll need more land is a false debate. It's chemical farming that needs more land. It's commodity farming that needs more land otherwise why would the soil lobby have invaded into the Amazon just to grow GMO soy. Most of it for animal feed and biofuel. The expansionism of GMO soya I should tell anyone that this is not about feeding the world, but it is feeding profits.
Greg Dalton: And climate is disrupting agriculture small-scale agriculture large-scale agriculture. Lot of small-scale agriculture as you know is done by women. Is there a technology that can help provide food security and help women farmers isn't some of that positive? What kind of technology can you see helping?
Vandana Shiva: So, Greg, I think the first issue is it's not just that agriculture is being impacted by climate change. Industrial, globalized agriculture based on fossil fuels and fossil fuel-based chemicals is 50% of the climate problem. The figures are there it just usually they look at only agricultural production. But in agriculture production itself when you see those giant machines moving, they're all fossil fueled driven. When you see the urea applied to the fields it's emitting nitrous oxide which is 300 times more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide and it is the planetary boundary more structured. I do not know why nitrogen is not in the discussion on climate change.
Greg Dalton: In this part of our conversation, Dr. Shiva cited several figures that I thought to myself, we better check that. And we did. It is true that nitrous oxide is 300 times more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide and nitrogen is not a big part of the climate discussion. Her claim that agriculture is half of the climate problem is problematic.
Agricultural emissions have been hotly debated since a 2006 report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization called Livestock's Long Shadow. That report pegged agriculture at 18 percent of global emissions, and the FAO later lowered the number to 14- percent. But direct emissions from growing food and harvesting it with machinery burning fossil fuels is only part of the story. Indirect impacts - such as clearing forests to grow corn and soy to feed to cows to make burgers - is also a significant part of the equation. The math gets complicated fast. A recent Mckinsey study based on IPCC data pegs agriculture emissions at 20 percent and land use changes and forestry at 7 percent. That means the total for ag, forests and land use change is 27 percent - almost as big a source of emissions as industry.
Vandana Shiva: I think that's where people need to become a little more thinking. The third is processing why are we taking good healthy food and turning it into junk that makes us sick and destroys the planet. Ultra-processed food is the single biggest cause of chronic diseases which are making us more vulnerable to infections like COVID. So, processing we could do with much less, and more. Transport, we don't have to move food miles we call it food miles. This shipping containers of green and vegetables across the world we need to localize more. And then retail, Mr. Jeff Bezos just went for 10 minutes into space all over the place comes down and says two things that everyone should be outraged with, all listeners of Climate One should be outraged with. The first he says, oh, now after my 10-minute ride we can put all the polluting industry into other planets. Are you crazy? Are you crazy? You've destroyed this planet and you with your shipping a one parcel for one hairpin are big polluter. No one has done the ecological footprint of Amazon distribution. But more importantly he sits there arrogantly and says, while people are fighting for day wages, workers compensation. He sits there and says; I want to thank all the customers and workers of Amazon who sent me for a 10-minute flight. That irresponsibility is the hubris.
Greg Dalton: Right. Stephen Colbert just said he wants Jeff Bezos to pay some taxes.
Vandana Shiva: But let me complete the figures of the emissions from industrial, globalized agriculture, not agriculture, but industrial globalized agriculture. 20% from turning food into rubbish that is destroying the planet and our health. And then because you're privileging long-distance movement and uniformity you have waste. If I'm growing food locally there's no waste. I can feed my cow. I can compost it. No food goes waste. But long-distance transport makes waste. Now, when you asked me is there a technology that's where I think for the Western industrial civilization the big quantum leap in their minds has to be technology is any transformation. So, when a person breed seeds they are involved in breeding technology. Breeding doesn't begin with Monsanto poisoning the seed. When a leaf, a beautiful leaf takes the sunlight and the carbon dioxide and through photosynthesis transforms this into the oxygen that we breathe and keeps us alive, and the carbohydrates that are the basis of all the food and fiber of the world that is the most sophisticated technology for taking common dioxide out of the atmosphere, putting it into plants turning it into food, putting it back into soil, turning it into fertile soils. Our assessments the community that created the regeneration movement. We have the regeneration international all the scientists were working on the link between the biosphere and the atmosphere are showing that if we stop fossil fuels today and don't lead to new emissions and I do believe polluter should pay and not make tricks through like net zero, we can talk about that later, but we basically can if we stop the pollution in agriculture, if we stop the chemicals in a 10-year timeframe, we can feed the world, regenerate more wilderness. We can have more nourishment and the bees can come back and have the habitats, but most importantly we can do this all in 10 years, 10 tons is the amount we can add every year. The research is showing this. And on our farm at Navdanya we do these studies on how with biodiversity intensification intensifying photosynthesis biomass, biodiversity you can actually heal the cycle and regenerate rather than degenerate the planet.
Greg Dalton: Dr. Vandana Shiva is ecologist, activist, author and director of the Foundation for Science Technology and Ecology. We're talking about the hubris of manipulating nature. I'd like to ask you Dr. Shiva, you know, I was quite relieved when I received my first and second COVID-19 vaccine. Have you been vaccinated? I know that it was quite bad in India.
Vandana Shiva: I've been vaccinated, but the data is not very reassuring. In England more people have died, who were vaccinated than those of who are not.
Greg Dalton: Well, that could confusing causation and correlation because someone vaccinated and died, they could've died from a heart attack or cancer or something else. It doesn't mean that the and this is I think the kind of statement that sometimes causes people to say you're anti-science.
Vandana Shiva: But there's multi causation in any system, and therefore we need to look at the system as a whole. And that's why people like Fritjof Capra who was also a physicist and has written amazing books and is in the Bay Area. We talk of system science and system science means all relationships must be taken into account, and Cartesian logic is what is the block to understanding both the causes of climate change and the impacts. Understanding disease multi factoral and therefore we talk of all dimensionality. The three dimensions of space, not just the two-dimension of Cartesian space and time unfolding. You know, 400 years later we're still stuck with a linear one-dimensional mechanistic paradigm, which says the nature is dead. One thing has one impact. And we are making our body sick. We are making the planet's body sick because of the wrong paradigm that suited colonization.
Greg Dalton: And we're not taught that in school. But back to the COVID vaccine. The COVID vaccines are mRNA vaccines they teach our cells how to make a protein that triggers an immune response inside our bodies. You received it. I received it. Is that manipulation of cellular protein?
Vandana Shiva: No, no, no, no. Again, you are Americanizing the world. America has some vaccines. India has others. We have Covishield and we have Covaxin. So, I don't think, you know, like the Eurocentric obsession that the whole world would be shaped by a European mind. I do think you have to learn to be earth citizens in America. There are indigenous cultures all over the world. There are sovereign countries making decisions on seed, food, agriculture, medicine, vaccines, most of the countries don't have patents on seed, I help my Parliament write laws. Seeds are not human inventions therefore they cannot be patented. So, countries like India have sovereign laws, and we are the biggest vaccine makers of the world. But we also have sovereign decisions about which vaccines we will choose.
Greg Dalton: Fair enough. And India is now the world's third largest emitter of carbon dioxide after the US and China. Granted India still living in the shadow of colonialism. There's also a rising middle class in India and China that is aspiring to higher levels of consumption material comforts. What responsibility does India have with regard to its own emissions?
Vandana Shiva: Well, I think the first thing is we need to remember that while we are politically sovereign. Globalization made the economic system one integrated corporate production machine. Which outsourced everything at that time to China --
Greg Dalton: Emissions were exported. Manufacturing and emissions were exported.
Vandana Shiva: So, that is why it's wrong to talk merely about consumers. We got to look at the production system. We got to look at the corporate role. It's the industrialized countries. If you take the shared production into account. Not the geography, you know, if you followed Lawrence Summers at the Earth Summit where he said, oh, the Third World doesn't have enough pollution and we must export pollution to them and shift our polluting industry like Jeff Bezos wants to shift polluting industry to other planets. So, this idea of exporting toxics exporting pollution exporting waste is based on basically a racist divide an apartheid that you take the sickness and this is the debate of environmental justice and climate justice all over the world.
Greg Dalton: Sure. That definitely happened, exporting manufacturing, exporting the emissions and there are still rising middle class that have their own domestic emissions and that is part of it. There's 300 million people who've come out of poverty, into the middle class in China. I don't know how many in India and that is a real force for growing emissions. Most of the historic emissions are red, white and blue which means they're French and British and Russian and American. But there is I'm trying to get to the point of some, there's a lot can be blamed on colonialism. A lot can be blamed on exportation and globalization, which may be driven by the forces you cite. But what responsibility do emerging economies have, they have some don't they?
Vandana Shiva: Yeah, Greg, so if I have a vegetable vendor outside my door and I just go step out and buy my fresh tomatoes and my fresh cucumbers. And that option is destroyed because Mr. Jeff Bezos comes and shifts everything so that during the lock down the vegetable vendor is not able to sell but Mr. Bezos continues to sell and these are debates, they are ongoing debates right now on retail, yeah, on retail issue. So, when you talk consumption, Greg, is extremely important to think about forced consumption. Forced consumption in food it is always forced. The second is, you know, we're a land of clothing, India was colonized for its spices and textiles. But you think changing in the clothing system is not part of the fast fashion industries big propaganda machine. You know, consumers are not little atoms by themselves, they are when they are made unthinking consumers of advertising signals and options that are closed for them. They will make choices that suit the profits of the corporate world. When they are free citizens who are able to think culturally in the civilization, able to think about the footprint of their actions. That's why I talk about earth democracy. That's why I talk about earth citizenship rather than consumerism. Again, we come back to Mr. Descartes. We separate consumers from production but it's one system. We separate corporate profits from the choices consumers make. Why are the young people of the world rebelling? They're seeing the links the fact that young people on the streets and striking is they are seeing the links.
Greg Dalton: You're listening to a conversation with Indian ecofeminist Dr. Vandana Shiva about how far we should go in manipulating nature to suit our needs--agricultural, climate, or otherwise. This is Climate One. Coming up, her belief that we can all change, for the better:
Vandana Shiva: Everyone has potential. You know it's not the fact that you're born white and you're stuck in white superiority. The potential to be earth citizens is in you.
Greg Dalton: This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. I'm talking with Dr. Vandana Shiva about the concentration of power by corporations. Some criticized the Trans-Pacific Partnership supported by President Barack Obama for being too all-encompassing--in one example, local regulations restricting the sale of tobacco to young people could be seen as an obstruction to trade. President Donald Trump did away with the TPP. I asked Dr. Shiva if she agreed with that move.
Vandana Shiva: Well, I basically think that globalization and free trade whether it is the World Trade Organization or the TPP or The Atlantic Treaty or the bilaterals being worked out are really corporate rule, that's how we call it in the international forum on globalization. Now when corporations write the rules, they will write rules against democracy. They will write rules against constitutions. They will write rules against the environment. They will write rules against worker's rights and these are rules of deregulation. So, what you've just cited is part of all the new free-trade agreements. Interstate dispute settlement mechanism and this is wonderful right just like Columbus got a charter or East India company got a charter saying go take those lands. They write their treaties and then say all of this is ours for profit. And if a government makes a decision according to its Constitution and according to its people's will. Then we will sue them for stealing our markets that don't exist, but they are our right. And I'll give you just two examples. You gave the example of tobacco. But remember after Fukushima the Germans were out on the street and they insisted that all the nuclear plants be phase out. And Germany had to take that decision under huge democratic pressure. So, the nuclear plant was shut and a Swedish company, which had a nuclear plant sued Germany billions of dollars that we have lost so much profits now you pay us. So, this industry dispute settlement clauses are basically been set at home. We write a treaty, the violation of the treaty because the Constitution doesn't allow it or the people don't allow it will be, we will have so I'll give you one example. I've been part of the movement for water as a commons and against water privatization. And we stopped the privatizing of the Gangla by Suez, the World Bank was trying to push it. Again, we did civil disobedience we marched the streets I brought water pots to the World Bank. But Bolivia, its water was privatized by the World Bank and it is given to Bechtel, which the American company. And Bechtel of course increase the price six times but when people started to harvest on their rooftops, they said even the rain you cannot harvest. When people started to dig wells so they wouldn't have to pay huge price they said even the groundwater is ours.
Greg Dalton: Yeah, I think there's a movie made about that one, yeah.
Vandana Shiva: And the fact that indigenous people then came into governance is because of that movement of people in Bolivia. When Bechtel was thrown out, but Bechtel is still demanding compensation. So, you know, corporate rule is the problem. Corporate rule is the problem.
Greg Dalton: They have contracts. And I may agree with you about how corporations have assumed an unhealthy amount of power or international system legal system having the rights of individuals and yet the climate emergency is urgent. It is severe. It is affecting everyone. And there are some corporations that are moving using their power to move away from fossil fuels toward cleaner energy. We may not like the system but isn't it good that some large corporations are moving toward cleaner energy isn't that a positive force? Are corporations always bad is everything big bad?
Vandana Shiva: Well, everything big where there is a small as an alternative is not the most desirable option. So, you know, again, sadly the energy question has been reduced to an external input system. Just like in agriculture where you give organic matter to the soil and then the soil organisms make your fertility, the soil is living, they forgot the soil is living. They forgot that the plants are living. They forgot that the earth as a whole Gaia is living.
Greg Dalton: So, you're challenging the way I'm asking the question. Because I asked a question about shouldn't we change the energy inputs and you're saying that that's the simplistic linear Cartesian way to look at the system. I should be looking more holistically, systemically, that you're challenging my narrow question.
Vandana Shiva: No, I'm talking about we've been given because of corporate rule and a fossil fuel civilization, a highly centralized external input system for everything we do. We can shift to a fossil fuel free and a poison free agriculture. This is what I've done 37 years of my life. We produce more food we regenerate soil health we brought back biodiversity we have six times more pollinators in our farm than in the forest next door. Our water level has come up 70 feet. We don't do one thing we do many things.
Greg Dalton: And is that economically viable?
Vandana Shiva: Of course, it is. Our farmers, I'll tell you a title of a book. We've done a true cost accounting book called Wealth Per Acre because we were always told farmers make more in a chemical system. We did the true cost accounting. What is a farmer growing Bt cotton earn? What is a farmer growing organic cotton earn? What is a farmer growing millets earn, what is a former growing soya bean earn? And on an average, if the farmers have their own seed if the farmers have their own ecological agriculture production with internal input systems. If the farmers have economic sovereignty to shape the market where we need the bigness of the global market to step out of this way because we have local markets. Farmers have to eat. When you shift that the farmers are earning 10 times more than those participating in the production of chemical commodities for a global supply chain. So yes, farmers earn more but you have to do a true cost accounting and you have to change your measures because the problem with globalization is it only measures trade. It doesn't measure production. The problem with the economy anyway that came out of commerce of colonial commerce is it basically says if you produce what you consume, you don't produce. And this is how nature's production was wiped out. This is how women's production was turned to zero, and this is how peasant production, which is what feeds the world was reduced to zero. So, we have too many false assumptions in our systems. And once we shift out of them and you can only shift out of them by looking at the big picture. What we find is the inevitability that the bigness of the problem requires big corporate control as a solution when the solution lies in decentralized democratization of the food system, the energy system, the mobility system, urban systems. And those are the initiatives taking place all over the world. All I'm saying is let's not assume bigness as an inevitability. The only thing where bigness where you don't know when to stop growing that bigness the only entity that has that property outside corporations is the cancer cell. Every other cell knows how much to grow and when to die off and be replaced. So, bigness is not a virtue. Schumacher, brilliant thinker, co-worked a lot in India. Schumacher said and wrote a book called Small Is Beautiful.
Greg Dalton: Certainly, small businesses are the backbone of the US economy. And speaking of small, you said that individual should never give up their power in the face of climate change. Many people, even those with institutional power feel inadequate. So, what do you say to regular people who think they have no power to affect something so colossal as these systems you're talking about?
Vandana Shiva: Well, I would basically say to ordinary people, but the havoc, I've never called it climate change because climate change makes you think in a comfortable way, you know, temperature will rise in this way. No, look at the floods in Europe.
Greg Dalton: Climate disruption, climate chaos, sure.
Vandana Shiva: I call it climate chaos from the beginning when I wrote my book, Soil Not Oil I called it climate chaos. You don't know when the next extreme event will take place and what its form will be. There is no model, no matter how big your supercomputers be.
Greg Dalton: We're certainly seeing that this summer with floods and fires. Yeah, it's devastating.
Vandana Shiva: Well, the three things are I think all of us should have a deeper understanding that the disruption of the earth's climate systems comes from not just the use of fossilized material which the earth buried over 600 million years and should have been left underground. But the way it fossilized our mind to me that's the serious question. It fossilized our mind to imagine that this is the only way things can work. But once we get out of the fossil carbon idea.
Greg Dalton: How do we retrain our minds?
Vandana Shiva: We retrain our minds by moving from the mechanistic mind and the monoculture of the mind to the ecological mind and the diversity of the mind. And that is available in the science it's available in cutting edge science and it's available all indigenous cultures. All indigenous culture and it's available in the will of women to sustain community in the earth in spite of patriarchy. That's why I always say, you know, women will show the way, and if there is a future it's because women are showing the way. So, women, indigenous people and Gaia herself, the earth. We've got to learn much more to listen to them to learn from them. The second is if you look at the images of Germany, what is happening? The floods came, and if you look at the pictures where was the worst flooding where American-style agriculture has created barren large fields and the storm and then the soil erosion takes place, we are turning the planet into a dustbowl. And when you have extreme rain events a dustbowl creates flats. When a dustbowl is dry, it creates dust storms, but it creates the kind of floods that we are seeing with mudslides. People were helping each other so we need much more solidarity, we need much more community building. And third, we need much more multilayered governance. We need to reclaim the power of community; we need to reclaim the power of the local. We need to reclaim the power of the regional governments. We definitely need to reclaim both the responsibility and the rights of our sovereign governments who cannot be prevented and should not be prevented from doing the right thing. There are false solutions coming from global corporations who say only we have the money. Only we have the money, only we can solve the problem. And they just floated this idea of net zero and Bill Gates has it in his book net zero. And they say it so clearly, we'll continue to pollute, net zero doesn't mean zero pollution. It doesn't mean we'll end pollution which is the principle. Polluters should stop polluting and should pay for the damages caused by past pollution. But most importantly, this net zero is on the one hand they're saying we won't reduce our pollution we still have our private jets. We still fly around. We still do global production and when I want to go into space I'm still going to space. But you will adjust to be our offsets.
Greg Dalton: Do you still fly yourself?
Vandana Shiva: Well, we can't fly anyway but I don't think -- I think the time is over I'm anyway a very senior citizen, Greg. And I think at some point, you know, I mean it's a good moment to make a shift and I'm talking to you . And then, you know, I'm able to give much more attention to the conservation work the biodiversity work on Navdanya farm or to our colleagues I just spent a week with our colleagues from across India on how not only will we continue our biodiverse conservation we'll continue organic farming, we'll continue building local markets. But we are working with farmers becoming the climate gods so that the reports on the impact of the damages and the reports on the experience of resilience which seeds are resilient what organic practices are resilient that people emerge from the ground as climate experts that's our next decade of work.
Greg Dalton: And speaking of god, do you see environmental destruction as inherently patriarchal. I was a little surprised to see you praise Laudato si' the encyclical from Pope Francis on care for our common home that urged a move away from consumerism. The Catholic Church is the pinnacle of patriarchy, so are there powerful white men you think are positive forces on climate and perhaps even have feminine sensibilities?
Vandana Shiva: I've written so much about the fact that Pope Alexander wrote the papal bull to conquer the lands. Well, the Pope before him wrote the bull to burn 9 million people as witches just because they believe we are part of nature. And, you know, being part of nature was made illegal, you are engaged in witchcraft if you thought you're a part of nature. You had to separate yourself. So, the burning of witches, colonialism all goes hand-in-hand. I do believe very sincerely and again, I come back to my quantum training. Everyone has potential. You know it's not the fact that you're born white and you're stuck in white superiority. The potential to be earth citizens is in you. The fact that Popes and the church has been part of the crimes against humanity over history doesn't mean a current Pope doesn't have a potential to realize that he can correct the church and the encyclical is a correction. So, potential, potential, potential means all of us can be earth citizens equal but diverse. All of us can be feminist men and women, all of us can be indigenous and that's the major, major shift we need to make. And if we are able to make that leap from monocultures to diversity from superiority to equality from destruction as creation to co-creation in nonviolence then humanity has a hope.
Greg Dalton: Thank you, Dr. Shiva.
Vandana Shiva: Thank you, Greg.
Greg Dalton: On this Climate One... We've been talking about the hubris of manipulating nature with Indian ecofeminist and activist Dr. Vandana Shiva.
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using Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Graphics;

namespace CocosSharp
{
    public class CCClippingNode : CCNode
    {
        CCNode stencil;

        public bool Inverted { get; set; }
        public float AlphaThreshold { get; set; }
        public CCNode Stencil
        {
            get { return stencil; }
            set
            {
                stencil = value;
                if (stencil != null && Layer != null)
                {
                    stencil.Layer = Layer;
                }
            }
        }

        public override CCScene Scene
        {
            get { return base.Scene; }
            internal set
            {
                base.Scene = value;

                if (stencil != null)
                {
                    stencil.Scene = value;
                }
            }
        }

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        public CCClippingNode() : this(null)
        {
        }

        public CCClippingNode(CCNode stencil)
        {
            Stencil = stencil;
            AlphaThreshold = 1;
            Inverted = false;
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        #endregion Constructors

        public override void OnEnter()
        {
            base.OnEnter();

            if (Stencil != null)
            {
                Stencil.OnEnter();
            }
        }

        public override void OnExit()
        {
            if (Stencil != null)
            {
                Stencil.OnExit();
            }
            base.OnExit();
        }

        public override void OnExitTransitionDidStart()
        {
            if (Stencil != null)
            {
                Stencil.OnExitTransitionDidStart();
            }

            base.OnExitTransitionDidStart();
        }

        public override void OnEnterTransitionDidFinish()
        {
            base.OnEnterTransitionDidFinish();

            if (Stencil != null)
            {
                Stencil.OnEnterTransitionDidFinish();
            }
        }

        public override void Visit()
        {
            if (Stencil == null || !Stencil.Visible)
            {
                if (Inverted)
                {
                    // draw everything
                    base.Visit();
                }
                return;
            }

            if (Window.DrawManager.BeginDrawMask(Viewport.ViewportInPixels, Inverted, AlphaThreshold))
            {
                Window.DrawManager.PushMatrix();

                Transform();

                Stencil.Visit();

                Window.DrawManager.PopMatrix();

                Window.DrawManager.EndDrawMask();

                base.Visit();

                Window.DrawManager.EndMask();
            }
            else
            {
                base.Visit();
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describe command('C:/opscode/chef/embedded/bin/ohai virtualization -c C:/chef/client.rb') do
  its('exit_status') { should eq 0 }
end

describe file('C:/chef/client.rb') do
  its('content') { should match(/ohai.disabled_plugins = \["Mdadm"\]/) }
  its('content') { should match(%r{ohai.plugin_path << "/tmp/kitchen/ohai/plugins"}) }
end

# the inspec resource requires PS 3.0+ and 2k8r2 only has PS 2.0 by default
unless os.release.to_f == 6.1
  describe windows_task('chef-client') do
    it { should be_enabled }
    its('run_as_user') { should eq 'SYSTEM' }
    its('task_to_run') { should match 'cmd.exe /c C:/opscode/chef/bin/chef-client -L C:/chef/log/client.log -c C:/chef/client.rb -s 300' }
  end

  describe windows_task('chef-client-onstart') do
    it { should be_enabled }
  end
end