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The TBS Vendetta Full carbon fiber monocoque, quick swap arms, solder-free repairs, ready to fly as 240 size fpv racer, for 5" props.

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  • Motors: CP2205/2300kV
  • Propellers: HQ 5x4x3 V1S Durable PC
  • VTx / OSD: TBS FPVision replaces CORE PRO/Unify Pro
  • Camera: ZeroZero V2
  • Weight: 30g weight loss, despite more powerful motors

  • Internal plastic tray has been re-done. Cleaning up the wiring and shedding a lot of weight
  • The outer carbon fiber shell has been strengthened
  • Accessibility of TBS FPVision USB connector as well as FC connector

Full carbon fiber monocoque, quick swap arms, solder-free repairs, ready to fly as 240 size fpv racer, for 5" props. But it doesn't stop there! Sporting the brand new TBS Triumph in combination with the TBS CORE Pro and TBS Unify Pro, the TBS Vendetta allows you to configure every parameter of your FPV racer via R/C stick commands! Each drone comes tuned and test-flown by our professional tuning expert, Magnus. Install a receiver, strap on a 4S battery and the TBS VENDETTA will tear a hole into the sky, and you're coming along for the ride!

Carbon fiber all the way

All structural parts on the TBS VENDETTA 2are made out of custom-made carbon fiber layup. The arms are made from flat 3.5mm thick carbon fiber plates, machined to precise standards on a 4-axis CNC machine, fully chamfered to prevent delamination. The body is a pure work of art, which starts its life as a hand molded tubular 2mm carbon fiber master. It is trimmed down by a 4-axis CNC machine to save weight. Smooth and rounded edges in the CNC cuts are our way of showing off. The matte finish is sand blasted, because attention to detail requires it.

Tight integration, modular design

The entire FPV racer is built around the idea of countless self-contained parts working together hand in hand for a unified user experience. Starting from the TBS ZeroZero FPV camera, to the TBS POWERCUBE and TBS CORE PRO, everything is repairable without a soldering iron, and with just two tools. This does not prevent you from configuring all tuning parameters via the built-in OSD, to changing VTx channels or power levels.

From box to air: 5 minutes

The TBS VENDETTA 2 comes pre-tuned, and the R/C Calibration Wizard takes you through the setup steps. Just strap in a R/C receiver, tune your goggles to BOSCAM A CH1, and start setting up your controls (both R/C receiver, goggles and FPV video receivers are sold separately). The arms arrive in detached state to allow quick access to the R/C receiver bay the first time.

Built to grow

From the structural rigidity to the over-powered ESCs, everything has been developed with your progress as a pilot in mind. A step to 6S with bigger motors to gain ridiculous power-to-weight ratios, custom arms for higher efficiency motors and props, or simply a different motor setup to suit your tastes are easily possible, thanks to the MT30 connectors and the quick swap arms. You can even carry different pairs of arms with unique motor and props combos installed for every occasion, and mount what you fancy!

  • 240-sized RTF FPV Racer
  • Quick-replace 3.5mm carbon fiber arms, MT30 connectors
  • Cobra CP2205/2300kV MotorHQ 5x4x3 V1S Durable PC
  • TBS PowerCube with fastest F3 board available, 2-6S capable Bulletproof 30/50A ESCs
  • Compatible with PPM, SBUS, XBUS, Spektrum R/C systems
  • TBS FPVision- Fully configurable via OSD, no PC required
  • GoPro 3/4 and Mobius / Runcam mount included, both 10 and 30 degree variations
  • Lost model alarm
  • 380g weight without Battery or HD camera

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Manufacturer Team BlackSheep

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Ten years ago a private Learjet attempting to land at RAF Northolt overshot the runway and ploughed into traffic on the A40, and Gazette reporters and photographers swung into action.

Despite fears at the time similar accidents would happen, the borough has not seen another air crash, despite constant overflying both from aircraft using RAF Northolt and being home to one of the world’s busiest airports at

Heathrow. Here The Gazette’s CHRIS LONGHURST, BARBARA FISHER and CHRIS BERRY look back on the events of August 14, 1996.

It was a perfect summer’s morning when a privately chartered Learjet on final approach to RAF Northolt, in Ruislip Gardens, overshot the runway and tore through the perimeter fence.

Careering out on to the busy A40, the aeroplane, which was carrying Irish actress and model Lisa Hogan, then 27, hit a van, before breaking into pieces and starting to leak fuel on to the ground.

If the accident had happened an hour earlier, during the rush hour, the casualties could have been catastrophic.

Luckily the road had been fairly clear.

Tipper truck driver, Phil Gutcher of Yeading, had a narrow escape, as he saw the Learjet coming and was able o swerve, but the van behind him was not so fortunate.

Mr Gutcher radioed for help and soon the area was swarming with police, fire and ambulance staff – as well as reporters and news crews from across the country.

The A40 was closed between the Swakeleys and Target roundabouts, and traffic jams built as drivers tried to find alternative routes into London.

The van which the plane hit was driven by Gary Jewell, who was trapped for 40 minutes before being taken to Ealing hospital, where he was found to have non-life-threatening injuries.

Pilot Captain Santiago Morin, 53, and co-pilot José Rosal were taken to Hillingdon Hospital, as was Ms Hogan. None was seriously hurt.

The company which owned the van, Clive Waldron Upholstery of Reading, changed its name to Waldron Office Furniture three years ago and is still operating.

Managing director, Dave Jackson, said: “I joined the company after this incident but I remember it was the talk of the town for months afterwards.

“We were not able to use the phones because they were constantly jammed by reporters ringing us up, and there were news crews camped outside the office for two whole weeks.

“Even today, every so often when we get a new customer they say: ‘Wasn’t your company involved in a plane crash a few years ago?’.

“People still remember it because it was in every paper.

“I can’t believe it’s been 10 years, but at least no-one was killed and I’m glad nothing like it has happened again since.”

At the time, RAF Northolt was planning to expand the number of commercial fights it offered, but following the accident, calls from local residents and MPs were made to stop this.

David Horne, a former Labour councillor on Hillingdon Council, represented what was Deansfield ward at the time of the accident.

He said: “I was chairman of the Ruisip/Northwood planning committee and it was our task to look at the application for more flights.

“We went and saw the base two weeks after the accident and got shown the crash site.

“We all agreed we could not believe no-one was killed.

“It was certainly a big event in the history of the borough.

“At the time I was very against expanding the number of flights, but a lot of work was done to make the runways safer and nowadays I think the amount of planes using the base is about right.”

Wreckage from the crash was taken to Farnborough in Hampshire by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau for a full inquiry.

The Gazette contacted RAF Northolt about the air crash anniversary but no-one was available for comment.


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In the 1930's the Palazon family, residing in an apartment complex on the "Gascon Gotor" street, encountered a frightening ordeal when they started to hear maniacal laughter and voice coming from inside their home.

The poltergeist phenomenon quickly turned its attention to the young maid, Pascuala Alcocer. She had reported that the voice was tormenting her and that it came from the wood stove.

The Zaragoza Poltergeist

As the news of this poltergeist spread, thousands, of people started to visit the building. The spectators all came interested in hearing the so-called "duende of Zaragoza". The word spread so fast and so wildly that the London Times had made a report on the case. Taking it upon themselves to "put an end to the circus", local police and judges personally investigated the home and brought with them a few psychiatrists to analyze Pascuala Alcocer, informally putting the blame on her from the beginning.

While investigating, the officials found more and more evidence to prove that this was not a hoax. The entity was reported to not only speak, but also to be able to see what was going on around the home. It would accurately state the number of people that were in a room at a time.

With no real answers to the strange events, the judges, police and psychiatrists assumed that Pascuala was using ventriloquism to create this hoax. They were in extreme pressure to come up with a solution to this hysteria, blaming the girl was the best way they could think of quieting the situation.

All the tenants in the building were evacuated, and the whole block was quarantined and Pascuala was removed from the premise. An architect was called to examine the whole building, corner to corner. Even the army was called in to investigate the case; all communications (radio/telephone) were cut from the outside. The maniacal voice continued emanating from the wood stove, but now with a different attitude. It started yelling and insulting everyone in the room, telling them that it would kill them all!

When the architect called a skilled mason in order to take some measurements of the kitchen, something else happened. The voice showed them it had knowledge of the building. While the man was measuring a certain part of the kitchen the voice said: "Don't worry, it measures 75 centimetres." Of course when he measured, it was exactly 75 centimeters. The mason was so scared he left the building never to come back leaving his tools behind.

Arturo Grijalba was only a kid when the entity spoke to him. He was the building owner's son and the only remaining witness alive to this case. While the investigation was taking place, he had wondered into the kitchen to take a look at the kitchen for himself. When Arturo turned to his dad and said: "Let's go dad, this thing is crazy" a voice replied: "Not crazy little one." in a guttural response everyone in the room heard it and were visibly shaken.

After two months of insults and threats, the maniacal voice suddenly stopped. Like in all poltergeist cases, it manifested quickly and without warning and vanished the same way.

Pascuala was stigmatized with being the hoaxer, the police blamed the girl and her ability to "throw her voice", even though skeptics had retorted with the argument that Pascuala was not even near the neighborhood when these voices occurred during some of the investigations, the police and judges closed the case blaming Pascuala.

She lived a very reclusive life after this whole ordeal had ended. Never fully recovering from the blame what was put on her, she refused to socialize with the people of the city. In old age, she gave an interview about this incident. When asked where the voice was coming from, Pascuala answered: "From the wall."

Today, the building no longer stands it was demolished and in its place, stands a modern building with many residents, none of these have reported any strange occurrences.

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[Alyca and Miriah's Car - Four Fathers?!]

Geeze! Justin had four fathers? Is that normal for people back in his homeworld?

"A week? So you had just enough time to sleep off the hangover from the afterparty, eh?"

Miriah chuckles from the backseat, snapping a picture of Alyca and Justin with her phone then sending it to someone.

"I've a better hangover cure than sleep. You just take an IV and hook it up to yourself and you're done. I don't drink, but the more you know! And living with Miriah, you do have to know all this trivia because if you don't she'll whinge at you all day. Do you drink, Justin?"

"My friend says you guys are a cute couple. What should I text back?"

Alyca herself places the order for fries and cheeseburgers! And when that's finished, she drives up to the pay/pick-up window and automatically fishes around in her purse for her wallet! But Justin already has it covered!

"I know it is in here somewhere..."

Justin will have to lean over Alyca to pass his money to the guy in the window before Alyca locates her wallet!


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McDonald’s facing class action lawsuits

It is not uncommon for a class action lawsuit to become one of the biggest stories in a particular industry. For the company that is targeted, this can lead to bad publicity.

McDonald's, as well as some of its many franchisees, has been hit with a variety of class action lawsuits filed by workers alleging that the restaurant is stealing their wages.

The lawsuits were recently filed in California, New York, and Michigan. In each one, it is alleged that the fast food giant has engaged in a wage theft plan that entails forcing employees to work off the clock. Along with this, the lawsuit claims that overtime is not being paid and hours are being removed from time cards.

Although this is bad news for McDonald's, the company is not alone. This is just the latest in a number of class action lawsuits filed by fast food workers who are protesting how much they earn.

The other side of the story is being told by Heidi Barker Sa Shekhem, McDonald's Vice President of Global External Communications. She noted in an email, "We are currently reviewing the allegations in the lawsuits. McDonald's and our independent franchisees are committed to undertaking a comprehensive investigation of the allegations and will take any necessary actions as they apply to our respective organizations."

This story is a big deal, whether you work in the fast food industry or eat at McDonald's from time to time. If you feel you are not being paid fairly, hiring an attorney or joining a class action lawsuit is often the next step.

Source: CNBC, "McDonald's slapped with fast-food worker class action lawsuits" Katie Little, Mar. 13, 2014

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Guys, if you're on a first date with a woman who is going through a divorce, what's the least awkward way for her to let you know?

Haven't dated in about 9 years, no clue what I am doing, let alone how to handle the awkward waiting for the court to finish the paperwork conversation. I am literally starting over- how awkward is it that I am having to live with my parents? Need some insight into the man's pov on first dates and what is too much or not enough information. How much of this can be a turn off?
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  • Doesn't matter how long you haven't dated but it does matter how long you've been separated. I know from personal experience that going through a divorce is a real blow and you want to see if you're still attractive to the opposite sex. This is a rebound and is just covering up your feelings. You can't hide them forever. I recommend you go through the grieving process and live on your own for awhile. The living on your own is very important because it proves to yourself that you don't need a man and can do just fine on your own. That's how you don't get desperate and jump into another relationship that's bad. Good luck

    • Amen to that. The grieving process is rough but I need to figure out who I am too. Thanks!

    • You're welcome and I've been where you are but I did the rebound thing and regretted it

  • I would prefer if you just told it straight away, no need to wrap the shit up and try to put it out nicely. You living with your parents aren't that big of a deal, we all go through tough times, and sometimes are in need of our parents help. You just got to stay strong, and be happy about the future. its not a turn off if you tell your story and what you are going through... but it is a turn off if you keep digging in it. Like "ohhh i hate staying at my parents i can't seem to get moving" Just quickly let your date know your situation and move on to the fun part like flirting, laughing and so on. Keep your date focused on the good things and the future instead of the past and all the problems :). Hope i could help, and im glad you finally came out to date again, good luck with everything!


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Well this really isn't a story i'd be expecting to write at any point of my career, but NFL wide receiver Wes Welker has been pictured on holiday casually hanging out with a sex doll.

As you can see in the picture above - courtesy of @KevinKarlson on Twitter - the Denver Broncos wideout, his wife, and the blow up doll are relaxing on a couple of deck chairs catching a tan.

The couple are currently on vacation in the British Virgin Islands and seem to have brought an extra friend for company.

Well, whatever helps Welker recover and forget about the absolute humiliation he, and the Broncos, suffered at the hands of the Seattle Seahawks on the way to a 43-8 loss in New Jersey earlier this month.

Welker was dominated by the Seattle defense and he and his wife Anna - a former model and Miss Hooters International - have taken to the beach and the Soggy Dollar Bar with friends to get their minds off football and apparently on to weirder things (presumably) that we won't divulge.

More pictures of the couple and the doll can be found over here on BustedCoverage.

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Roger Federer & Novak Djokovic impress AC MIlan legends

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Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic remain on-course to triumph at the Shanghai Masters this week, and their respective campaigns have been boosted by stars from another sport who certainly know what it's like to win big.

Celebrities from around the world are often attracted by the glitz and glamour of the most prestigious ATP World Tour events, and that is certainly the case in China as former members of the AC Milan football team showed their faces.

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Famous faces

Former Chelsea flop Andrei Shevchenko - perhaps more fondly know as a legend for Milan and his native Ukraine - was in attendance alongside his former captain Paolo Maldini, the Italian who made just shy of 800 appearances for club and country.

The duo were spotted in the crowd for Federer's third round domination of Spanish player Roberto Bautista Agu and were left to applaud one particular moment of sheer brilliance from tennis' most successful-ever patron.

The 33-year-old was already a set to the good, and a break-up in the second when he nonchalantly sliced and lobbed the 14th seed from his backhand, seemingly without even looking, before going on to win the point and, eventually, the match.

Shevchenko and Maldini were caught on camera appreciating Federer's mastery. They themselves would be proud of that in the same way they would with a sweet-struck volley or goal-line clearance.

Fresh from seeing the 17-time Grand Slam champion strut his stuff, Shevchenko, Maldini and co then paid a visit to one of Federer's great rivals. With Rafael Nadal eliminated after suffering from appendicitis, Djokovic is expected to continue his great form - and he took some time to meet the footballing legends too.

In a series of tweets, the current world no.1 showed himself in pictures with the footballers. Franco Baresi, another World Cup winner, was also thanked for coming down to see the Serbian.

Shanghai domination

Djokovic is just two wins away from winning his third consecutive Shanghai title second trophy in as many weeks following the China Open in Beijing. The 27-year-old has just completed the straight sets victory of David Ferrer in the quarter-finals, the beaten Spaniard was responsible for Andy Murray's exit in round three.

Aside from meeting AC Milan's high-profile alumni, Djokovic and Federer were both dwarfed by former Chinese basketball player Yao Ming. The 7'6" was pictured with the two tennis champions as he watched the action in Shanghai (from a bird's eye perspective no doubt).

Expect more famous names to take their place if Federer and Djokovic meet in Sunday's final. You wouldn't want to bet against it happening.

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Tom Huddlestone deserves an England call-up

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Tom Huddlestone has been around the scene for years and now is the time for Roy Hodgson to give the 28-year-old just his fifth appearance for the English national team.

In the summer of 2013 he signed for Hull City from Tottenham for a reported £5.25 million which seemed a bargain at the time. England appear to be struggling at the moment with a poor performance during the World Cup in which they didn't even make it out of the group stage; however they have showed slight improvement with recent wins over Estonia, San Marino and Switzerland.

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There is undoubted potential within the England side but at times they look like they lack experience and composure. The recent retirements of Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard have meant that much younger midfielders have had to take over their duties with little experience. The three central midfielders that started against Estonia during the recent international break, Delph, Henderson and Wilshere are just 24, 24 and 22-years-old respectively.

What Huddlestone brings to the team are precise long and short passes, good protection for the defence, powerful long shots, accurate set-pieces, strength, composure and experience. He has made a total of 367 appearances for Derby County, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Tottenham and is currently playing for Hull.

In that time he has only scored 20 goals which may be the reason he has been hardly noticed by the English selectors but his role of defensive-mid/centre-mid isn't all about goals.

Huddlestone could be Hodgson's wildcard

He has been praised throughout his career for his composure on the ball and particularly his long balls which the English team could really do with. He's also quite a defensive-minded midfielder so he gives good protection for the defence unlike Delph and Wilshere who love to go forward and don't always come back; however Huddlestone has been known to have scored some world-class goals when he has pushed forward.

The only area that he has come under fire from is his work rate and stamina having been caught out in bad positions at key times which may be due to the fact that he hasn't got the speed of other central-midfielders.

There have been many calls over the years from football fans and journalists to give the Englishman a call up but he has not made an international appearance since November 14, 2012 and now is the time for the English manager to give him another chance.

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Didier Deschamps might want to load up on the aspirin after France released their 23-man squad for Euro 2016.

The national team boss faces a number of headache selections; France’s team is packed full of stars from Raphael Varane in defence to Antoine Griezmann up front.

France host the tournament, which gets underway on June 10, and they will be many people’s favourites to topple reigning champions Spain and World Cup winners Germany.

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Deschamps’ team enter the tournament as an unknown quantity having not competed in the qualification process but there’s no doubt they should be around for the semi-finals and maybe even the final on July 10.

Fans of Premier League teams will identify the names of Hugo Lloris, Laurent Koscielny, Eliaquim Mangala, Bacary Sagna, Yohan Cabaye, Moussa Sissoko N’Golo Kante, Olivier Giroud, Dimitri Payet and Anthony Martial in the squad.

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One notable absence, though, is that of Nice’s Hatem Ben Arfa. The trickster has had a great season in Ligue 1, even attracting reported interest from Barcelona, but has to settle for a spot on the standby list.

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There is no spot for centre-back Mamadou Sakho, but that really isn’t much of a surprise. The 26-year-old is currently serving a 30-day ban for an anti-doping violation but he remains a big loss given his fine form for Liverpool.

Karim Benzema and Mathieu Valbuena are also omitted due to their involvement in Valbuena’s ongoing blackmail case.

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Kante and Payet's deserved inclusions

It’s nice to see Kante and Payet included after having nightly impressive seasons for Leicester City and West Ham respectively.

Both were included in the PFA Premier League Team of the Year and have been rewarded for their heroic efforts.

Deschamps has plenty of options to choose from in attack. He decided against selecting Borussia Dortmund’s new signing Ousmane Dembele but that might have been due to an inability to find a spot more than the 18-year-old’s inexperience on the big stage.

It’ll be interesting to see how Manchester United’s Anthony Martial fares in the tournament. The hype surrounding the 20-year-old when he arrived at Old Trafford last summer has only increased this season and he could play a pivotal role in France’s attempt to win their first major trophy since the 2000 European Championship.

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Western Coloradans are snickering a bit about the description of the sometimes Wild, sometimes Mild, West that appeared in the pages of a Philadelphia arts publication.

Some western Colorado transplants now living in the Philadelphia area were thrilled to see Colorado National Monument get some Brotherly Love.

Thom Nickels wrote in the “The Broad Street Review” of his visit to western Colorado, asking, “Where have all the hippies gone? A journey to the New West.”

“Funny stuff,” was Terri Chappell’s reaction to Nickels’ recounting of his visit to western Colorado.

Chappell, a former television reporter now working on park status for the monument, wasn’t on Nickels’ trip.

Nickels’ first stop on his visit to Grand Junction was “Colorado National Monument Park, where my guide, who is also a local TV celebrity, has planned a picnic breakfast for me.”

Bad idea, Nickels learned.

“I know about the gnats,” Chappell said. “Who on earth would take a picnic to the monument?”

“You can be certain it wasn’t me because he would have written about an annoying woman going on endlessly about an effort to make the NM a national park,” Chappell wrote.

Not even the gnats, however, could take the sheen off the monument for Nickels, who called his drive up Rimrock Drive a “momentous climb” on “a treacherous mountain road where one careless move means going off a cliff.”

The payoff was a ride through lands that conjured “a theme park by Jacques Lipchitz or Giacometti. The jaw-dropping scenery keeps getting better and better.”

Lipchitz was a Cubist sculptor and Alberto Giacometti a Surrealist who was inspired by Etruscan art.

Once atop the monument, Nickels wrote, he was floored.

“Later, as we head off toward the first lookout, a cliff precipice with a Grand Canyon sweep, I encounter one of those ‘Oh God’ moments that demand nothing less than a full prostration before the grandeur of it all.”

Seeing references to the monument in a Philadelphia
publication “kind of tickled me,” said Daniel Webster, a Grand Junction High School graduate who was for 35 years the music critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Now a Delaware resident, Webster said Nickels’ description of turbulence aboard the plane “struck a chord.”

The photo of the monument, though, “reminded me of all the things I did as a kid,” Webster said.

Nickels’ discovery that Montrose was a den of iniquity, however, was one Webster said he had to wonder about.

Nickels found “the infamous trapdoor inside the men’s room in the old Montrose train station.

Discretion sometimes, is everything, even in the Old West, where men with reputations to protect would enter the men’s room, but rather than flush and exit, they’d open the trapdoor and descend into a tunnel that took them to a whorehouse not far away.”

Yes, said Richard Fike, founder of the Museum of the Mountain West, Nickels’ description of the men’s room in the depot built in 1912 is accurate.

It might be that Nickels slathered on the cream cheese for a Philly audience, said Richard Brown of Delta, who sat for 22 years on the district bench hearing criminal cases for Montrose and Delta counties in the 7th Judicial District.

“I never heard of anything like that but it wouldn’t surprise me,” Brown said.

“I know that towns do elaborate on some things. They take little facts and make them into big deals.”

Montrose had nothing on Grand Junction, said Webster, whose recollections sparked by the story included one as a young newspaper carrier of collecting for The Daily Sentinel from the house of ill repute on Fourth Street.

“They were always very decorous,” Webster said of his visits. “Of course I hadn’t the slightest idea what it was all about. I never asked who was reading the paper.”

Nickels wrote also of Mennonites, Hotchkiss, hippies, wine, coyotes and pit bulls as he rounded out his account of western Colorado.

If Nickels’ search of the Old West demonstrates anything, said Martha Hitchins, another Grand Junction High graduate who lives and works in Philadelphia, it’s that western Colorado is full of “warm, friendly people and jaded Easterners appreciate them. That was very touching.”

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Dorothy A. Brown is a professor of law at Emory University and teaches several tax classes and a critical race theory seminar.  A nationally recognized scholar in the area of race, class, and tax policy, she has authored dozens of articles, including Race and Class Matters in Tax Policy, published in the Columbia Law Review.

Who inspired you to do the work you are doing?

The late Jerome Culp wrote an article that asked the question: “How do you know if there isn’t a race and tax problem if you never aked it?”

I read it; called him; and told him that I was going to ask the question. The article set my research agenda for the forseeable future.

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I am a tax law professor and I see taxes everywhere. So, I think the growing inequality is one of the biggest policy challenges facing the Unites States and I think our current tax code increases the inequality. Taxing income from stocks differently than income from wages disadvantages most Anericans and rewards the richest among us.

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Stay informed. You are never too young to read the newspaper. Listen with a critical ear. Not everything you hear is right. Arm yourself with facts and argue back. Write a letter to the editor if somehting gets you angry!

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A new study suggesting a Monsanto GM maize and the company’s Roundup herbicide may pose serious health risks has been widely attacked, not just by scientists and commentators but also by scientific bodies and regulators. This article by Jonathan Matthews of GMWatch looks at the role of industry-linked scientists and lobbyists in a campaign aimed at getting the paper retracted. This article is also available to download as a PDF.
At the end of November Reuters ran the headline “Science journal urged to retract Monsanto GM study” and New Scientist also reported the growing pressure for retraction. These articles marked the latest stage in a campaign that kicked off the moment the study was published in mid-September, when researchers led by Prof. Gilles-Eric Seralini at the University of Caen in France announced their findings of serious health problems in rats that had been fed a Monsanto maize genetically engineered to be resistant to the company’s herbicide Roundup, as well as in rats just fed low doses of the herbicide itself. In both cases the rats fed with the GM maize and/or minute amounts of the herbicide in water were several times more likely to develop lethal tumours and suffer severe liver and kidney damage when compared to the controls.

Science Media Centre spearheads the attack

Although the publication of the results of the long-term feeding trial in Food and Chemical Toxicology made front page news in France, it got a very different reception in the English-speaking world. This was thanks to the rapid rebuttal efforts of the London-based Science Media Centre (SMC), which almost as soon as the study was published began spoon-feeding journalists with ready-made quotes from scientists savaging the study.

The SMC’s director Fiona Fox was subsequently reported as saying that she took pride in the fact that the SMC’s “emphatic thumbs down had largely been acknowledged throughout UK newsrooms: apart from the Mail, only the Daily Telegraph and the Financial Times covered the story in their print editions – and both used quotes supplied by the Science Media Centre.” She added that several television news programmes had also rejected the story after reading the quotes

The SMC’s quotes were pumped out internationally via its clones, like the Australian Science Media Centre, with like-minded local experts layered on the top. The quotes were also circulated to the media by Monsanto and other GM lobby groups. As a result, the quotes ended up in a lot of media coverage worldwide. One even popped up in the New York Times along with the scathing comments of Bruce M. Chassy, professor emeritus of food science at the University of Illinois.

Retraction campaign kicks in

Another key player in whipping up hostility to the paper was the American business magazine Forbes. In the ten days following the study’s release, Forbes published no less than six separate attack pieces targeting not just the research but also the researchers. The first two pieces drew extensively on the quotes from the Science Media Centre and ran with them, but the Forbes piece that grabbed the most attention, particularly on social media, was one that kicked off with a headline that labelled the paper a fraud. The article went on to accuse Prof. Seralini not just of “gross scientific misconduct” but also of having “a long and sordid history” of “activism”. The article concluded by bluntly telling the editors of Food and Chemical Toxicology that the only “honorable course of action for the journal would be to retract the paper immediately”.

The retraction campaign was by then well under way. An online petition was up and running, demanding in the name of “the scientific community” that Seralini hand over all his raw data. The petition was aggressively promoted via social media, often with the implication that the researchers had something to hide. The assertion that the study was “fraudulent” obviously played well into this campaign, which culminated in the Reuters and New Scientist pieces reporting the retraction calls. Both these articles reported on the petition, as well as containing lacerating comments from two UK scientists – comments once again provided by the Science Media Centre.

One of the published comments – from Prof. Maurice Moloney – said it was “appalling” that such a study should ever have been published in a respected journal. And a researcher from the UK’s John Innes Centre demanded to know whether it was not “time for Food and Chemical Toxicology to retract the manuscript?” The only other scientist quoted claimed the publication of the paper was more than just “a dangerous case of failure of the peer-review system.” It represented a threat to not just the credibility of the journal but “the scientific method overall”. This apocalyptic claim was backed up by the news that hundreds of outraged scientists had signed the online petition.

Who’s behind the retraction petition?

Writing in The Guardian at the end of September, John Vidal described the attacks already raining down on Seralini and his team as “a triumph for the scientific and corporate establishment which has used similar tactics to crush other scientists”. These included, Vidal said, “Arpad Pusztai of the Rowett Institute in Scotland, who was sacked after his research suggested GM potatoes damaged the stomach lining and immune system of rats, and David Quist and Ignacio Chapela”, who studied the flow of genes from illegally planted GM maize to Mexican indigenous maize.

The vociferous attacks on Quist and Chapela resulted in the apparent retraction of their paper by the journal Nature, even though such a move was not supported by the majority of its reviewers and subsequent research confirmed the paper’s main finding. But, as the French journalist Benjamin Sourice has pointed out, the simplest way to definitively discredit a study and nullify its impact is to pressurise the journal that published it to retract it from its list of publications.

In the case of Quist and Chapela, an investigation that I undertook with the journalist and author Andy Rowell of Spinwatch revealed how the campaign of retraction had been carefully orchestrated from the start by Monsanto’s PR people. It used proxies to whip up feeling against the lead author by branding Dr Chapela an “activist” rather than a scientist and by maintaining his findings were bogus and arrived at through collusion with environmental NGOs. Our research, which was widely reported in both print and broadcast media, suggested that at the heart of that retraction campaign sat Monsanto’s former chief internet strategist and director of corporate communications. Jay Byrne had gone on to found his own internet PR company v-Fluence, based like Monsanto in the corporation’s home town of St Louis.

Although Byrne appeared to be the campaign’s chief architect, its principal conduit was the lobby group AgBioWorld, overseen by the GM scientist CS Prakash.  The“ipetition” on Seralini contains no information as to who sponsored it, but its first signatory is CS Prakash. Prakash also seems to have set up an earlier more primitive version of the petition, which clearly identifies him as its sponsor.

Some time after GMWatch flagged up the likely role of Prakash and AgBioWorld in the ipetition, the organisation acknowledged its authorship in a press releasewhich asserted that “the petitioning scientists are calling on the publishing journal editors to retract the Seralini study” if he failed to give in to their demand that he hand over all his data.

The AgBioWorld press release contained a quote by Bruce Chassy, who was alsothe first signatory of the earlier Seralini petition. Chassy was also the co-author of the Forbes piece accusing Seralini of fraud.

The article’s other author was Henry Miller, a darling of the rightwing press who operates out of the Hoover Institution, among other industry backed lobby groups. Miller, like Chassy, has long been associated with Prakash’s AgBioWorld. Miller recently co-authored another vitriolic piece on GM for Forbes, denouncing the “fear profiteers” of the anti-GM “protest industry”. Miller’s co-author on that occasion was none other than former Monsanto PR boss Jay Byrne of v-Fluence. Tellingly, Michael Pollan, the renowned New York Times food writer and professor of journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, described the piece by Byrne and Miller as a breathtaking example of “the Big Lie”.

Byrne hasn’t published any media pieces on Seralini. But it is apparent from Byrne’s Twitter account that he was almost solely preoccupied with discrediting the Seralini study from the day of its publication for about the next month. Byrne describes himself on Twitter as v-Fluence CEO and  as “Contributing author, Let Them Eat Precaution”, a book on GM edited by Jon Entine. Entine, as it happens, is the author of probably more articles to date attacking Seralini than any other commentator.

Agribiz apologist

Entine’s book emerged out of an American Enterprise Institute conference overseen by Entine at which Byrne was an invited speaker. And Byrne’s v-Fluence turns up again in company with Entine at another AEI conference he oversaw – this one attacking corporate social responsibility (CSR). According to Business Ethics: “A second AEI conference featured AEI fellow Jon Entine – a long-time critic of SRI [socially responsible investing] – and Sarah Fuhrmann of v-Fluence Interactive Public Relations. Several v-Fluence employees are ex-public affairs staffers for Monsanto – where they honed skills fighting CSR initiatives that targeted genetically modified foods.”

Entine hasn’t just worked with Byrne and v-Fluence, but has also done paid work for Byrne’s company. In a piece about Entine by the food and farming commentator Tom Philpott, The Making of an Agribusiness Apologist, Entine denies being a hired gun for Syngenta in his work defending pesticides and downplays the fact that his company (ESG MediaMetrics) lists Monsanto as a client. This is how he explains it: “Nine years ago, I did a $2000 research project for v-Fluence, a social media company formed by former Monsanto executives. That’s the entirety of my Monsanto relationship.” Presumably Entine lists Monsanto and not Jay Byrne’s firm as his company’s paymaster because he recognises that what he does for v-Fluence he’s really doing for Monsanto.

Entine’s first attack on Seralini came out on Forbes within 24 hours of the paper’s publication. His second piece a few days later contained further attacks, not just on Seralini, whom he accused of steadfastly refusing to share his raw data, but on almost anyone who attempted to defend the study.  Entine also published a third more recent article which focuses particularly on letters to Food and Chemical Toxicology requesting Seralini’s paper be retracted. In this he notes, “More than two dozen scientists from around the world co-signed a stinging rebuke of the Seralini study, concluding: ‘We appeal to you to subject the paper to rigorous re-review by appropriate experts and promptly retract it if it fails to meet widely held scientific standards of design and analysis, as we believe it fails to do.’”

The letter Entine is referring to was signed by, among others, CS Prakash, Henry Miller and Bruce Chassy. Several of the other signatories also have connections to AgBioWorld. Entine’s book on GM, incidentally, also has contributions from CS Prakash and his AgBioWorld co-founder, Greg Conko of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Cancer-prone rat

Another signatory of this joint letter to Food and Chemical Toxicology is Prof. Anthony Trewavas. Trewavas was also one of the experts quoted by the SMC in their media release that had such an impact on the reporting of the Seralini study.

In his SMC comments, which ended up being quoted in well over 20 different publications worldwide, Trewavas accuses the researchers of using a cancer-prone rat and claims: “[A] line [of rats] which is very susceptible to tumours can easily bias any result.” This line of argument was also developed for the SMC by another expert, Maurice Moloney who says Sprague-Dawley rats frequently develop mammary tumours

It is this cancer-prone rat claim, which Trewavas and Moloney first set running, that more than any other underpins the Chassy-Miller allegation of fraud. The suggestion is that the study was deliberately designed to generate tumours, i.e. that Seralini and his team intentionally chose the Sprague-Dawley rat for their research in order to produce exactly the result they wanted – cancer!

But although variants on this claim have been widely reported, there are a number of problems with it. Not only is this line of rats the same one that Monsanto used for the study that underlies the regulatory approval of this GM maize (NK603), but Sprague-Dawley rats have also been used repeatedly in toxicology and carcinogenesis trials, including long-term ones. They were even used in industry’s own two-year research studies submitted to regulators to support the regulatory approval of glyphosate – the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, one of the two substances that Seralini’s team were researching.

And the fact that this strain of rat has a 30%-plus tendency to “spontaneous” cancers across its lifetime actually means it’s a good model for humans, who have a similar susceptibility to the disease. What’s more, even allowing for the Sprague-Dawley rats having a tendency to spontaneous tumours, Seralini’s team found the rats fed on either the GM maize or the herbicide suffered an increase in the number of tumours and they had an earlier onset when compared to those in the control group. The researchers also took account of the spontaneous tumour issue by comparing their results to the rates of similar types of tumour in other published studies using the same strain of rat.

This is not to say that the Seralini study does not have its shortcomings. It’s true that the study had fewer rats than are recommended for cancer studies, but Seralini did not set out to look for tumours. His study was a chronic toxicity one that unexpectedly found striking evidence of increased tumours in the treated rats. Given this finding, the onus should now be on Monsanto to fund a full-scale carcinogenicity study using larger groups of rats to prove that its products are safe – something it has so far failed to do.

Angelika Hilbeck of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) describes the “wrong rat” argument first put forward by Trewavas and Moloney as “absurd”. Hilbeck says, “Seralini chose the same strain of rat as Monsanto. Do we really think that a substance should be tested on an animal that is not sensitive to it? With these defamations they wanted to distract us from the fact that Seralini used the same methodology as Monsanto. Because if you take Seralini seriously as a researcher, you have to take seriously his study and the comparison with Monsanto’s study. That would put into question Monsanto’s study and hence the approval of GM maize.”

Double standards used to condemn studies showing risk

In fact, many of the charges that have been made against the Seralini study could be levelled against the studies that have been used to approve GM crops, which are less detailed than Seralini’s and typically shorter-term. This is why a report by the European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER) concluded that a careful comparison of the Seralini rat feeding trial with Monsanto trials shows that if the Seralini experiments are considered insufficient to demonstrate harm, then those carried out by Monsanto cannot prove safety. This is because, whatever its limitations, Seralini’s study was conducted to generally higher scientific standards than the studies underlying GM food approvals.

ENSSER highlights the double standards whereby studies on GM crops like Seralini’s that show adverse effects are subjected to obsessive yet often poorly justified criticism of their experimental and statistical methods, while those like Monsanto’s that claim safety are taken at face value. In this way risk is assessed in an asymmetrical fashion so that the burden of proof is not on the biotech industry to provide adequate evidence of the safety of its products, but is on public researchers like Seralini to prove harm beyond any doubt. Other experts have echoed the charge of double standards, including around 140 French scientists who, in a public statement published in Le Monde, declared that it was contrary to scientific ethics to damn an experimental protocol when it gave results that were not wanted, while accepting it when it gave results that were.

These double standards can also be seen in the ipetition demanding that Seralini hand over all of his raw data to his critics. Those championing the petition have no history of demanding from Monsanto full public disclosure of all the raw data underlying its studies supporting safety (the industry studies on glyphosate, for example, are kept secret under ‘commercial confidentiality’ agreements between industry and regulators). This is why Seralini has said he will undertake full disclosure when the same level of disclosure takes place for all the studies underlying GM food approvals, so that like can be compared with like.

Public science and private interests

One of the early UK signatories of the ipetition, as well as a co-signatory, like Prof. Trewavas, of the letter to Food and Chemical Toxicology from Prakash, Chassy and Miller, is Prof. Chris Leaver. Leaver, like Trewavas,  is a GM scientist. He is also a former advisor to the Science Media Centre and a former consultant to the GM/agrochemical giant Syngenta. Since 1984 Prof. Leaver has also been on the Governing Council of the UK’s leading public plant biotech institute, the John Innes Centre – something else he has in common with Prof. Trewavas, who was also for several years on the JIC’s Governing Council.

The JIC has been a key player in the criticism of Seralini. This is apparent as soon as you look at the SMC’s three media releases on the study. The first quoted eight experts including a senior scientist at the JIC and a former member of its Governing Council (Trewavas). The second quoted just one expert, Cathie Martin of the JIC. The third quoted five experts, of which three, including Cathie Martin, were from the JIC.

What makes this predominance particularly revealing is that the scientists in question are not experts on toxicology or animal studies. Their expertise is in plant genetics and GM. What’s more, the JIC and its Sainsbury Laboratory have had tens of millions of pounds in investment from GM giants like Syngenta. In fact, they are so dependent on the public acceptance of GM that a previous acting director of the JIC confided to his local paper that any major slowdown or halt in the development of GM crops “would be very, very serious for us”.

These vested interests are personal as well as institutional. Cathie Martin, for instance, says in her JIC profile, “I am inventor on seven patents and I recently co-founded a spin-out company (Norfolk Plant Sciences) with Professor Jonathan Jones FRS, to bring the benefits of plant biotechnology to Europe and the US.”Jones, who is quoted along with Martin in one of the SMC releases, co-founded another biotech firm, Mendel Biotechnology, which has Monsanto as its “most important customer and collaborator”.

The failure of Jones, who is also an advisor to Mendel Biotechnology, to be more explicit about his industry links, has generated controversy.  Yet journalists are given no indication of these kind of conflicts of interest by the SMC’s releases, asthe journalist Joanna Blythman has noted: “The SMC introduced these experts to the media solely by listing the universities and public institutions that employ them, failing to give the full flavour of their interests.” And the problem goes much wider than the JIC, as Blythman notes with regard to the experts quoted in the SMC’s first media release: “seven out of eight are either evangelical advocates of GM food, or have received funding from, or worked with, prominent biotech corporations.”

Take, for instance, the very first expert quoted by the SMC, Prof. Maurice Moloney. This year, the SMC has featured Moloney in no fewer than four different media releases on GM. They typically identify him only as “Institute Director and Chief Executive, Rothamsted Research”, which is an independent charitable agricultural research centre. What journalists aren’t told is that Moloney is so enamoured of GM that he drives around in a Porsche with a GMO number plate, and has a CV to match. He is the inventor on more than 300 patents and his GM research underpins one of Monsanto’s main GM crops. He has also founded his own GM company in which the GM giant Dow AgroScience was an investor. The fact that Prof. Moloney’s career and business interests have long been centered around GM is not something the SMC seems to think journalists need to know.

Letters to journal fail to disclose conflicts of interest

This pattern of significant but undisclosed conflicts of interest is relevant to not only the majority of the SMC’s experts but also to many of Seralini’s other critics, including those responsible for the twenty or so letters published by Food and Chemical Toxicology in response to Seralini’s paper. Some of the letter writers are, in fact, exactly the same people that the SMC quotes. They are also often to be found amongst the earliest signatories of the AgBioWorld ipetition. Maurice Moloney, for example, not only turns up twice in the SMC’s media rebuttals of Seralini, but comes in at no. 11 on the list of ipetition signatories, and he wrote a letter to the journal.

Another letter writer demanding retraction is Prof. Mark Tester. Like Moloney and the JIC, Tester is a firm favourite with the SMC, featuring in three of this year’s SMC’s media releases and in many more over the years. He was already a favoured expert a decade ago when the SMC was accused of orchestrating a spin campaignto discredit a BBC drama on GM crops. The University of Adelaide staff directorybroadens out Prof. Tester’s academic profile in a way the SMC never has: “His commercial acumen is clear from his establishment of private companies and successful interactions with multinational companies such as Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer and Pioneer-DuPont.”

Many other letter writers also have undisclosed industry links. Take, for instance, Martina Newell-McGloughlin. She identifies herself as the director of the International Biotechnology Program at the University of California/Davis, but fails to mention that the Program is funded by the likes of Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont and Bayer. Another letter writer and a colleague at UC Davis, Kent Bradford, has consulted for Monsanto. Lucia de Souza wrote to the journal with Leila Macedo Oda on behalf of ANBio – the Brazilian Biosafety Association, without mentioning that ANBio’s funders include Monsanto, Bayer, and DuPont.

Then there are the letter writers who fail to mention their previous employers, like Andrew Cockburn, Monsanto’s former director of scientific affairs (Europe and Africa); L. Val Giddings, former Vice President of the Biotechnology Industry Organisation; and Sivramiah (Shanthu) Shantharam, former Syngenta man and until recently head of the biotech industry’s main lobby group in India.

Even letter writers who at first glance seem like they must be entirely independent of the biotech industry can turn out to have links. Take, for instance, Erio Barale-Thomas, one of the few toxicologists to criticize the Seralini paper in the journal. Barale-Thomas, who says he writes on behalf of the Administrative Council of the French Society of Toxicological Pathology, takes Seralini to task for his failure to declare a conflict of interest in his paper, namely that Seralini is president of CRIIGEN, an independent research group with concerns about GM, which contributed funding to the research. Yet CRIIGEN’s contribution to funding the study was declared in the paper, while Barale-Thomas does not disclose in his letter his own biotech interests. He is not only principal scientist at Janssen Biotech, but immediately prior to that he worked for the GM crop and agrochemical giant Bayer CropScience.

Another French scientist among the letter writers is Prof. Marc Fellous, whose declared connections are academic posts in the sphere of human genetics. What he doesn’t mention is that he heads up the French Association of Plant Biotechnology, which lobbies for GM crops and has been so aggressive in its attacks on Seralini that last year he successfully sued Fellous for defamation.

Science or ideology?

Another letter writer is the pathologist Sir Colin Berry. Like Trewavas, Berry is an advisor to the Scientific Alliance, an organization which campaigns on environmental issues, particularly climate change, energy policy and agriculture. It is pro-GM, pro-nuclear and sceptical about climate change. Its director, Martin Livermore, runs an agri-food PR consultancy, prior to which he did PR for the GM giant DuPont. The Alliance was established by the lobby firm Foresight Communication with money from right-wing business interests.

Trewavas is one of only a couple of scientists who not only signed onto the Prakash, Chassy, Miller letter but also sent their own letter of complaint to the journal. Trewavas concludes it like this: “this paper and this journal have dealt the value of evidence-based knowledge a serious blow and it can only be rectified if the paper is withdrawn by the authors with an apology for misleading the public and the scientific community alike… Ideology and politics must be kept out of scientific study or we all suffer.”

It is revealing that critics like Berry and Trewavas claim to champion an evidence-based approach while operating out of lobby groups that attack the scientific consensus on issues like climate change. Berry, incidentally, is also a shareholder in the company that owns the aggressively libertarian online magazine Spiked, which also promotes climate scepticism. Fiona Fox, the director of the Science Media Centre, was a long-time affiliate of the anti-environmental LM network that are behind Spiked.

The network around AgBioWorld also contains people with similar attitudes on environmental issues. These include Henry Miller, who co-wrote the article accusing Seralini of fraud, and AgBioWorld’s co-founder Greg Conko of the Exxon-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute, which specializes in denialist “straight talk on global warming.”

Given this, it is ironic that AgBioWorld’s Seralini petition was set up in the name of “the scientific community.” Similarly, Maurice Moloney says in his letter to Food and Chemical Toxicology that he thinks he can speak “for the vast majority of the biological sciences community.” But as we have seen, Moloney and many of the other letter writers link to a narrow and heavily commercialised sector of the biological sciences, albeit one with powerful backers. And some in this community have links to extremist lobby groups more concerned with ideology than evidence.

Peeling the GM onion

Identifying the real forces behind the front-men and carefully selected experts of “the scientific community” can be like peeling back the layers of an onion. Take Anthony Trewavas, the scientist who first helped get the cancer-prone rat claim into circulation. In 2001 Prof. Trewavas was named in the High Court in London as the source of a letter published in a Scottish newspaper that made libelous claims against GM critics (Greenpeace wins damages over professor’s “unfounded” allegations). Trewavas subsequently denied being the author of the libel letter published under his name, though he did admit circulating the material, which he said he had got from AgBioWorld. He said it had been written by a “lady in London” but “she” later turned out to be a front for the same Monsanto PR people whocovertly directed the campaign that resulted in Nature’s apparent retraction of Chapela’s GM maize paper.

Trewavas, a long-time associate of Prakash and AgBioWorld, also played a notable role in that campaign. In that case, Trewavas encouraged people to demandChapela be fired by the University of California, Berkeley, unless he handed over his maize samples for checking: “We should be asking Berkeley to request Chapela to release his samples so that they at least can be checked… Refusal to do so should then be used to request Berkeley to relinquish Chapella’s [sic] position.” Such calls to arms against Chapela were mostly posted on the AgBioWorld listserv. This use of the listserv eventually enabled Monsanto’s covert orchestration of the campaign to be exposed.

The attack dog in the night-time

Interestingly, as the attacks on Prof. Seralini and his paper spread across both mainstream and social media, AgBioWorld’s listserv went missing. In the two months following the publication of Seralini’s paper, not a single bulletin went out on the listserv that played such a pivotal role in achieving retraction of the Mexican maize paper.

AgBioWorld’s sudden silence calls to mind a famous exchange in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes:

Detective: “Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?”

Holmes: “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.”

Detective: “The dog did nothing in the night-time.”

Holmes: “That was the curious incident.”

With Seralini, it’s the curious silence of Monsanto’s attack dog that suggests that this time the covert PR war is being conducted by other means.

If the silence of AgBioWorld’s listserv is suggestive, so too is the attempt to silence GMWatch. Within days of the publication of the Seralini paper, our website came under major DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks. The contours of the attacks followed the peaks of the controversy, with the two biggest and most debilitating attacks coinciding with days on which the major rebuttals of Seralini’s paper were published. The GMWatch website had by then become a clearing house for rapid responses in English to the attacks on Seralini. We have no proof as to who was behind the attacks – that’s hard to establish with DDOS. But oddly enough, an article in the Guardian about the retraction campaign against Quist and Chapela noted, “Just before the [Mexican maize] paper in Nature was publicly challenged, the server hosting the accounts used by its authors was disabled by a particularly effective attack which crippled their capacity to fight back.”

More than a decade later history seems to be repeating itself in the covert war over GM crops.

Jonathan Matthews is the founder and director of GMWatch and has written numerous articles on the politics and spin around GM crops. He’s a contributing author to Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy, eds Dinan and Miller (Pluto Press). Additional research: Claire Robinson, co-editor, GMWatch.


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    About once a month my truck will refuse to shift into first gear when taking off. When sitting a stop light, then taking off the truck will start to take off in 2nd gear then shift hard back down into first. Is this a computer problem or what?
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    What year truck? and do you know what trans is in it?
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    Sounds like a computer problem in the tranny. That's just weird.
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    I had this problem in a 1989 S-10 blazer I had. I had the transmission rebuilt because of this, the repair tech told me it was the synchro mesh in the transmission that was causing the problem. I am not a transmission guy myself so i really don't know if they lied to me or not but once it was rebuilt I never had that problem again. Just for good measure once the transmisson was rebuilt I put in a new clutch, pressure plate and throw out bearing too so it was like a new truck again once we were both done with our individual parts of that repair. saved me having to go back and tear everything out again at a later time when the old clutch went out. that transmission was heavy in that truck even though it was a 2wd and i really didn't care to have to take that thing apart again if i didn't have to

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– Almost as good as SVH: Shakespeare. Or, if you’d rather, Romeo and Juliet in Twitter form, courtesy of The Royal Shakespeare company. CLASSY. Also, the title is genius. (Such Tweet Sorrow)

– In honor of the Ugly Betty finale (sob. I will miss you Mark and Amanda! And Wili) a look at TV’s many fictional publications. Also, a helpful reminder that Richard Alpert once worked his guyliner on Suddenly Susan. (Movieline)

Teen Vogue has an exclusive excerpt from Candace Bushnell’s new book, The Carrie Diaries. Interesting that she’s taking a YA slant on it. OBVIOUSLY I will read it. Oh my god, do you think they’re going to make a TV show out of this? That could be an amazing idea or one that goes down in history as possibly the worst thing ever. But if they can make it solely out of reaction shots culled from SJP’s stint in Square Pegs? BACK TO AWESOME. (Teen Vogue)

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Crowded House were formed in Melbourne in 1985 as The Mullanes (Neil Finn's mother's maiden name). Their first live gig featured Led Zeppelin's Dancing Days as part of the set list.

Original member Craig Hooper formerly of The Reels left the band in 1986 shortly before their trip to Los Angeles to record their first album.  This is when they changed their name to Crowded House consisting of Neil Finn on lead vocals and guitar, Nick Seymour (brother of Mark) on bass….. and the late Paul Hester on drums, percussion and comedy thanks to his on stage antics.

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2008 U.S. AmateurPINEHURST, N.C. ' Adam Mitchell and Patrick Reed are giving the Georgia Bulldogs something to cheer besides football.
The Georgia teammates advanced to the U.S. Amateur semifinals Friday and kept alive the possibility of an all-Bulldog championship round.
Mitchell rallied to defeat Charlie Holland 2 and 1 in one quarterfinal, and Patrick Reed defeated Graham Hill 4 and 3 to reach a Saturday semifinal matchup against perhaps the fields hottest player: fellow 18-year-old Danny Lee.
I like our odds' were 50 percent right now over here. We have four people playing, two Bulldogs, Reed said. Adams playing really well, and if I can get by Danny Lee, its going to get interesting.
Lee, who hasnt needed more than 15 holes to win any of his four match-play rounds, beat Morgan Hoffmann 4 and 3.
Mitchell will face Florida States Drew Kittleson, who defeated former Louisville player Derek Fathauer 3 and 2.
The semifinal winners will square off in a 36-hole final on Sunday at Pinehursts renowned No. 2 course, which is playing at par 70. And just like Georgias top-ranked football squad, Mitchell and Reed each are looking to bringing a championship to Athens.
Its fun to have your football team win, but it would be really cool to have a Georgia Bulldog win the U.S. Am, Mitchell said.
Mitchell, a senior at Georgia, trailed Holland by two before winning three straight on Nos. 7-9 to take the lead for good. His 40-yard chip-in on the seventh started the decisive string.
I told my dad I was going to land it just short, and it was going to take one hop and roll right to it, Mitchell said. It did it just like I planned.
Mitchell eagled the par-4 11th, then closed out his victory with a gimme par putt on 17 that put the pressure on Holland, a Texas player who missed a roughly 20-foot par putt to end the match.
Now he advances to face Kittleston, his playing partner when Mitchell shot a 62 last month during the first round of the Porter Cup.
Nothing will surprise me out there, Kittleston said of Mitchell.
Reed is an 18-year-old Georgia freshman who barely advanced out of stroke play with a 4-over 144 and needed 23 holes to escape the third round. This time, he trailed Hill after one before overtaking him for good with a birdie on the par-5 fourth.
I started hitting my irons a little better, had chances to make birdie putts and kept having to make him beat me with birdie putts, rather than always having to scramble to get up and down, Reed said.
Lees latest dominant performance came despite an injury. His left shoulder was sore for the first five holes after he clicked it while practicing his driver roughly 2 hours before his tee time, but said he felt fine after treating it with ice, ibuprofen and a massage.
But that strong play might comes with one drawback'he might not know how to approach holes Nos. 16-18 because he hasnt played them since his stroke-play round Tuesday.
Maybe (Ive) just got to keep playing well and dont play those holes, he quipped.
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