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| − | <div id="article-body-blocks"> <p>The safety of the world's most widely used insecticide has been questioned by a parliamentary inquiry, with MPs accusing regulators of "turning a blind eye" to the risk for .</p><p></p><p>A growing body of has linked the widespread use of neonicotinoid on crops to a serious decline in the bees and other pollinators, which are vital in producing a third of all food. The has uncovered evidence,ghd sale, apparently ignored by regulators, that the toxic insecticide can build up in soil to levels likely to be lethal to most , including the bees that overwinter in soil.</p><p></p><p>"European regulators seem to have turned a blind eye to data on the danger that one of the world's biggest selling pesticides could pose to bees and other pollinators," said Joan Walley MP, chair of the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC). "Evidence seen by the committee raises serious questions about the integrity, transparency and effectiveness of EU pesticides regulation. Data available in the regulators' own assessment report shows it could be 10 times more persistent in soils than the European safety limit."</p><p></p><p>The insecticide in question is called imidacloprid and is manufactured by Bayer. Prof Dave Goulson, an ecologist at the University of Stirling, said: "The data show unequivocally that imidacloprid breaks down very slowly in soil,longchamp handbags, so that concentrations increase significantly year after year with repeated use, accumulating to concentrations very likely to cause mass mortality in most soil-dwelling animal life."</p><p></p><p>The decline of bees has previously been blamed on starvation as meadows and other habitats are ploughed up, and from diseases and parasites, such as the varroa mite. But a flurry of peer-reviewed studies in 2012 have singled out the harmful effects of neonicotinoids, from making ,longchamp handbags. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which assesses the risks of pesticides accepted earlier in 2012 that . But the countries including France, Germany, Italy and Slovenia in suspending the use of some neonicotinoids, although it has accelerated its research on the issue.</p><p></p><p>The environment minister Lord De Mauley told the EAC on Wednesday: "The advice to government has been and remains that there are no unacceptable effects. If new work gives rise to a change in advice, we will take it." He added: "At the moment, I am satisfied that [European regulatory system] is working properly."</p><p></p><p>Imidacloprid was first approved for use in the EU in 1991 but was re-evaluated in 2006 with Germany, where Bayer is based, selected to carry out the assessment,christian louboutin uk. Based on six-year trials in the UK done in the 1990s,Mulberry outlet, it concluded that imidacloprid concentrations in the soil built up but reached a plateau. However, as part of the approval process, this report was then assessed by the EFSA, which reached a contradictory conclusion stating that "experts considered a plateau had not been reached".</p><p></p><p>Furthermore, EFSA calculated the half-life of the insecticide �C the time for half to degrade �C in the soil at 1,333 and 1,268 days in the UK trials, performed on winter barley. A half-life of more than a year means annual application of the insecticide can lead to a dangerous build-up in the soil. The EFSA failed to highlight the issue of soil accumulation as an action point or a cause for concern in its report and imidacloprid was re-approved by member states in December 2008.</p><p></p><p>Julian Little, communications manager at Bayer, said: "The UK study used relatively high levels of treatment and involved six successive years of barley growing; something that is not by any means considered 'normal' in the UK. The data derived would be expected to be right at the extreme end of the spectrum of possibilities." He pointed out other studies conducted at the same time in Germany found a half-life of 182-288 days.</p><p></p><p>However, other national regulators have reported a very long half-life for imidacloprid, with Canada's authority recording a half-life "on the order of one to two years" and the US environmental protection agency once extrapolating a half life of 7,000 days. In Australia, the pesticide authority identified a half life of up to 1,400 days,longchamp. In 2009, the EU introduced a new regulation requiring any plant protection substance approved for use to have a half life of less that 120 days.</p><p></p><p>Referring to the 2006 report written by German officials,louboutin shoes, Walley said: "EU rules allowing member states to give the green light to pesticides manufactured in their own countries may now need to be changed."</p><p></p><p>Evidence submitted to parliament cites a long list of failings in current regulations,longchamp online. They include that it is only the effects on honeybees that are considered, despite 90% of pollination being performed by different species, such as solitary or bumblebees, hoverflies, butterflies,christian louboutin, moths and others. Another is that the regime was set up for pesticide sprays, not systemic chemicals like neonicitinoids that are used to treat seeds. Even the National Farmers Union (NFU), which argues that there is no need for a change of approach to neonicitinoids,ghd straighteners, : "It is very well known that the current pesticide risk assessment systems for bees were not developed to assess systemic pesticides."</p> </div>
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| − | <div id="article-body-blocks"> ,Mulberry handbags<p> went out of his way to be misunderstood. He wore shocking wigs, posed behind dark glasses and made laconic statements that to this day get him caricatured as a vacant, heartless worshipper of money and fame. Yet in the French seaside resort of Deauville in 1981,Mulberry handbags, British photographer Steve Wood saw the truth about Andy Warhol. He photographed a sensitive,longchamp, shy man whose secret was that he had a soul.</p><p>Wood's intimate pictures have been hidden away for more than 30 years. They were not published at the time and Wood simply filed them away under W. One day he found them again, and they are being shown for the first time in an exhibition in called Lost Then Found.</p><p>There is something very moving and tender about these images. Their sudden appearance is like meeting Warhol himself,ghd hair straighteners, away from the sleaze and glamour of his New York life, away from the need to pose.</p><p>Here is Andy Warhol with his mask off,longchamp selfridges.</p><p>He conducts a kind of slow private dance with a sunflower,ghd straighteners, in the soft, lyrical light that is typical of Deauville,louboutin shoes, in cool Normandy. This was where the Impressionists came to paint,longchamp handbags. Warhol's sunflower is a sweet homage to an art hero of that age �C Vincent van Gogh.</p><p>In their public images Warhol and Van Gogh are direct opposites. Where Andy is supposed to be remote, Vincent is the painter of passion. But here is Warhol, pensive with a sunflower, meditating on Van Gogh.</p><p>It is in his face that all posing vanishes and we see the true, delicate inner person. His eyes in these pictures are like those of a young deer �C no wonder he so often hid his vulnerability behind dark glasses. Here he is at the height of his fame,Mulberry outlet, and supposedly the height of his cynicism in the Reaganite 80s, and he has the eyes of a gentle teenager,Mulberry sale. No wonder he got on so well with young artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat in these last years of his life.</p><p>Warhol died during an operation in 1987. That death seems somehow to be gliding towards him in these pictures. They get us very close to the real living man �C his pale skin, his thinness, his smart tie. It is impossible to resist seeing them through the lens of his own art. In his silkscreen paintings, Warhol took photographs and turned them into stark images of loss and death �C as in his Tate masterpiece that shows the fading face of Marilyn Monroe. These pictures bring a dead man momentarily to life. It's as if he, not just his image, has been lost then found.</p><p>Warhol is back from the shadows, and he is wearing his heart on his crisply ironed white sleeve.</p> </div>
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| − | <div id="article-body-blocks"> ,Mulberry uk<p>Protesters clashed with riot police in Moscow on Sunday in the most violent demonstration yet against 's rule, on the eve of his return to the presidency.</p><p>At least six protesters and three police officers needed hospital treatment, and dozens more were slightly injured. Protesters pelted officers with beer bottles and rocks. Riot police responded with an overwhelming use of force, beating the crowd with batons and dragging people into waiting arrest vans, sometimes by the hair.</p><p>More than 250 people were detained, including some of the movement's main leaders – the anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny, the leftist activist Sergei Udaltsov, and the former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov.</p><p>Prosecutors said they would investigate whether the men had provoked the violence at the protest, a charge that carries up to 10 years in prison.</p><p>The protest began peacefully as more than 20,000 Russians took to the streets in Moscow in a planned "March of Millions" designed to express anger at Putin's inauguration on Monday. Shouts of "Putin is a thief" were heard through the streets. Many people came from other cities in , where the protest movement is less strong.</p><p>They marched towards Bolotnaya Square, one of Moscow's main protest sites,longchamp online. As the square began to fill, riot police four rows deep blocked their path, causing anger among protesters who shouted "This is our city" and "Police,Mulberry uk, be with the people, not with the freaks"</p><p>"Look how scared Putin is of us," said Nigina, a 40-year-old accountant standing off with the riot police.</p><p>Police blocked off the city centre and shut metro stations, and military vehicles were stationed around the Kremlin and along the river banks. At the same time, protesters at Bolotnaya began marching towards the Kremlin, while riot police moved in to block them.</p><p>Demonstrators, some carrying anarchist flags and wearing balaclavas, threw flares, and glass and plastic bottles at a phalanx of riot police clad in black helmets and fatigues. Protesters, including pensioners and disabled people, moved forward and shouted at police with cries of "For shame".</p><p>Riot police rushed the crowd and flung protesters to the ground before dragging them away. At least two men had bloodied heads after being beaten by baton-wielding officers,longchamp le pliage. Police also fired pepper spray into the crowd. Protesters grabbed officers' headgear, dubbed "cosmonaut helmets" because of their shape, and tossed them into the river or hung them from trees as trophies. One man stood in the middle of the tussle and shouted: "Tomorrow, our state journalists will tell us how correctly the police behaved." Two officers moved in and carted him away.</p><p>After riot police dispersed protesters, Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told Dozhd, a Russian television channel: "From my point of view, the police acted softly. I'd rather they behave more harshly." An interior ministry spokesman told Interfax that police behaved "professionally" and "adequately".</p><p>It was the largest clash between riot police and protesters since Putin's presidential win in 1999,christian louboutin. Security has been boosted around the capital in preparation for his inauguration, which will usher in his third term as president after his four years as prime minister.</p><p>One member of a dozen-strong group in Moscow that had set up two tents in the middle of the showdown on Sunday said he did not "want to live under Putin for the next 12 years". The 39-year-old, giving his name as Denis, added: "I want my children to live without Putin." Dozens more protesters sat on the ground, threatening to occupy the square, until riot police moved in. "It's scary," Denis said, "but I don't see any other way to act."</p><p>Smaller protests were held throughout Russia on Sunday, but many were dispersed by police, who also detained some participants.</p><p>Vadim, 24, an IT specialist, came to the protest from St Petersburg along with 200 others. Dozens more had been detained as they left Russia's second city in buses, he said. "He lies,ghd straighteners, he steals – how can he be president?" he said of Putin.</p><p>Protesters have vowed to keep up the pressure on Putin, who has failed to seriously address the challenge to his rule that emerged after disputed parliamentary elections in December,christian louboutin sale. He has continued to anger many by teasing the protest movement, referring to their symbol, a white ribbon,longchamp, as a condom.</p><p>Many protesters tried to argue with riot police to get them to switch sides. "My parents were out on the streets in 1991 fighting for freedom and they didn't get it," Anastasia, 24,longchamp outlet, shouted at an armed phalanx of police. "You don't need to do this, life can be better, it doesn't have to be corrupt,ghd sale." An officer responded: "Let's put you on the throne, then you'll steal too."</p><p>One person was reported to have died on Sunday. A photographer fell from a sixth floor fire exit while filming the protest.</p> </div>
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